It’s harder to come to
grips with the magnitude of the political loss last Tuesday than I thought it
would be a few days ago. First of all
the Supreme Court appoints President Trump makes will make the court ultra right
wing for a generation to come, especially after Justices Brier and Ginsburg
bite the dust. This will be the first
time since the 1920’s that the Republicans have had a hammer lock on so much of
America, except for California. I’d be
open to Washington, Oregon, and California deciding to secede from the
Union. We are an island of liberalism in
a sea of conservative insanity. All of
the worst fears of Americans, even on the right who didn’t like Trump, will now
be realized. I needn’t enumerate them;
you know what they are. But here are two new ones. Steve Bannon is a high officer now in the new Trump administration who used to work for Brite Bart, who attacks the main stream Republican "establishment", which is in my view a fiction of Shawn Hannity. Now we hear that Trump wants top security clearance for his adult kids. The governors of
Wisconsin and Michigan won’t be the only right wing dictators in town. Now all of the hell they have put labor
unions through will have no national court appeal. The conservatives will run the courts nationally,
statewide, and county-wide. The whole process is already rigged what with gerrymandering and rural state bias in the Senate chamber. Even the electoral college favors very small states slightly. California is such a big state with a plurality to Hillary that all of those extra votes for Clinton are basically wasted. But every vote in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin was needed to win.
Donald Trump appeared on Sixty Minutes last night for an hour for the first time since being President elect. It reminds me of that scene in the Stephen King movie "Cat's Eye" where this cat was trying to make it accross this busy road without getting run over and they were taking bets on it. Trump is like being in the real world of Washington for the first time caught in a giant game of "Wipe-out". How is he going to "drain the swamp". He has foreign policy to worry about and he can't just decide to "Take all of ISIS's oil just like that. He can't just fire a general because he thinks he's smarter than the general. On the other hand- -he's the president so he can. That's scarey. Then you have Iran. Trump said he was going to tear up the nuclear arms deal his first day in office. Paul just tells me he won't do that. Because this is a multi lateral agreement and it would be too complicated. Even Trump may not start WW III on a whim. Shawn says there are already new threats of assassination against Trump. I think the Secret Service and security is pretty good now. They know what they are doing. President Elect Trump did hold out a vague ray or two of hope though. He will keep the power of college age kids through their mid twenties to stay on their parents’ health plans. Some like Judy might say this is just a liberal plot to get the young people “into the system”, giving them a little taste of the “sugar”, which hopefully they’ll become addicted to, as Ted Cruz might say. Also you can’t be canceled if you have a terminal disease or a prior existing condition. This is good news, but he’ll have to sell these points to a Republican congress. Congress itself will be a just a shade less right wing since according to Stephanie, we picked up six house members and two Senators. Both Donald Trump and President Obama from the other side agreed they had a productive visit that Trump felt “at ease” attending. Certain things were never brought up, according to Trump. It seems on the immigration front President Obama an hour ago said that it’s his hope that “dreamers” won’t be sent back. These are the minor children of illegal immigrants. Also if you have joined the military and serving your country you won’t get sent back, hopefully. But trying to sell the Republicans on this will be a problem because you know they will be champing at the bit for promised action. Another area where congress will perhaps be the most difficult to deal with are these trade agreements we have either signed or are contemplating signing. President Obama is not saying these bad agreements can be fixed, for example, to protect worker’s rights. But as many have pointed out, the Democrats have had over twenty years to fix these problems and they haven’t dealt with it. Another area that may be a problem for President Trump is the whole dealing with Vladimir Putin thing. Congress may not be that amenable to cozying up to this particular despotic dictator. Now we hear that Turkey’s government has become even more extreme than it was. It looks to me like Turkey will have to drop out of NATO unless a major meeting of the minds occurs. Last night on Sixty Minutes Trump stated that he won’t urge the revisiting of the gay marriage issue. It’s seemed all along that the Neo Cons are now embracing the gay and lesbian movement. You hear even Shawn Hannity making nice to the gays and lesbians like when he talks about rights being denied by Islamic extremist governments. Trump came out and said that the gay marriage movement will not be visited but that Trump regards it as settled law. Personally one of my biggest fears about a Trump administration is that he will explode the deficit the way Presidents and Bush took the deficets to new heights. I’d like to make a bet with Judy about this. Conservatives are in major denial about ballooning deficets of Republican Presidents. Yet another area where Trump may have problems with congress is getting through what we might call jobs bills. Public works projects to rebuild our highways and bridges and water works and airports. Donald Trump has disparaged our airports as opposed to ones in major cities in the rest of the world. The Republicans have been so darned proud of how they have stymied Obama in anything involving public works to get the government in the business of being employer of last resort. Judy won’t like it. Her view is that government and taxes are no good and good for nothing. Expect roll backs of recent gun legislation, of which we haven’t had any to begin with. We will continue to have all of this “stand your ground” and open carry nonsense where sexually inadequate rural White men will be swaggering down the street going into bars and political rallies with their guns just aching for a fight. And they’ll eventually get one. Lives will be lost. And then there is the whole area of global warming and all of these conservation agreements we’ve already made with other nations. The republicans in congress and Trump himself will want to blow these up. He wants to “save” the coal industry when market forces are what’s shrinking the nationwide coal industry more than any so called Obama regulations. We always here about “regulatory interference” but they never cite any specific examples. Global Warming may already be past the crisis point. We were supposed to not go past 365 parts per million of carbon or whatever and a few months ago we passed the four hundred per million mark. So I don’t know what to tell you. It looks pretty bad from here. We can always pray to our respective gods of course. My fear is that God has already “answered” all these prayers that have gone up to Him, and so put Donald Trump in the highest office in the land. I don’t know any way of putting lipstick on a pig or being “philosophical” about it.
Donald Trump appeared on Sixty Minutes last night for an hour for the first time since being President elect. It reminds me of that scene in the Stephen King movie "Cat's Eye" where this cat was trying to make it accross this busy road without getting run over and they were taking bets on it. Trump is like being in the real world of Washington for the first time caught in a giant game of "Wipe-out". How is he going to "drain the swamp". He has foreign policy to worry about and he can't just decide to "Take all of ISIS's oil just like that. He can't just fire a general because he thinks he's smarter than the general. On the other hand- -he's the president so he can. That's scarey. Then you have Iran. Trump said he was going to tear up the nuclear arms deal his first day in office. Paul just tells me he won't do that. Because this is a multi lateral agreement and it would be too complicated. Even Trump may not start WW III on a whim. Shawn says there are already new threats of assassination against Trump. I think the Secret Service and security is pretty good now. They know what they are doing. President Elect Trump did hold out a vague ray or two of hope though. He will keep the power of college age kids through their mid twenties to stay on their parents’ health plans. Some like Judy might say this is just a liberal plot to get the young people “into the system”, giving them a little taste of the “sugar”, which hopefully they’ll become addicted to, as Ted Cruz might say. Also you can’t be canceled if you have a terminal disease or a prior existing condition. This is good news, but he’ll have to sell these points to a Republican congress. Congress itself will be a just a shade less right wing since according to Stephanie, we picked up six house members and two Senators. Both Donald Trump and President Obama from the other side agreed they had a productive visit that Trump felt “at ease” attending. Certain things were never brought up, according to Trump. It seems on the immigration front President Obama an hour ago said that it’s his hope that “dreamers” won’t be sent back. These are the minor children of illegal immigrants. Also if you have joined the military and serving your country you won’t get sent back, hopefully. But trying to sell the Republicans on this will be a problem because you know they will be champing at the bit for promised action. Another area where congress will perhaps be the most difficult to deal with are these trade agreements we have either signed or are contemplating signing. President Obama is not saying these bad agreements can be fixed, for example, to protect worker’s rights. But as many have pointed out, the Democrats have had over twenty years to fix these problems and they haven’t dealt with it. Another area that may be a problem for President Trump is the whole dealing with Vladimir Putin thing. Congress may not be that amenable to cozying up to this particular despotic dictator. Now we hear that Turkey’s government has become even more extreme than it was. It looks to me like Turkey will have to drop out of NATO unless a major meeting of the minds occurs. Last night on Sixty Minutes Trump stated that he won’t urge the revisiting of the gay marriage issue. It’s seemed all along that the Neo Cons are now embracing the gay and lesbian movement. You hear even Shawn Hannity making nice to the gays and lesbians like when he talks about rights being denied by Islamic extremist governments. Trump came out and said that the gay marriage movement will not be visited but that Trump regards it as settled law. Personally one of my biggest fears about a Trump administration is that he will explode the deficit the way Presidents and Bush took the deficets to new heights. I’d like to make a bet with Judy about this. Conservatives are in major denial about ballooning deficets of Republican Presidents. Yet another area where Trump may have problems with congress is getting through what we might call jobs bills. Public works projects to rebuild our highways and bridges and water works and airports. Donald Trump has disparaged our airports as opposed to ones in major cities in the rest of the world. The Republicans have been so darned proud of how they have stymied Obama in anything involving public works to get the government in the business of being employer of last resort. Judy won’t like it. Her view is that government and taxes are no good and good for nothing. Expect roll backs of recent gun legislation, of which we haven’t had any to begin with. We will continue to have all of this “stand your ground” and open carry nonsense where sexually inadequate rural White men will be swaggering down the street going into bars and political rallies with their guns just aching for a fight. And they’ll eventually get one. Lives will be lost. And then there is the whole area of global warming and all of these conservation agreements we’ve already made with other nations. The republicans in congress and Trump himself will want to blow these up. He wants to “save” the coal industry when market forces are what’s shrinking the nationwide coal industry more than any so called Obama regulations. We always here about “regulatory interference” but they never cite any specific examples. Global Warming may already be past the crisis point. We were supposed to not go past 365 parts per million of carbon or whatever and a few months ago we passed the four hundred per million mark. So I don’t know what to tell you. It looks pretty bad from here. We can always pray to our respective gods of course. My fear is that God has already “answered” all these prayers that have gone up to Him, and so put Donald Trump in the highest office in the land. I don’t know any way of putting lipstick on a pig or being “philosophical” about it.
This is Sunday November
13, 2016 after lunch and Leo Le Port is on.
I’ve just been reviewing some rock compilations. The Rams were playing the Jets on FOX in the
morning game before lunch. I had the
game on after lunch some but switched to Leo who had Chris Marquardt on. Chris is fundamentally missing the point as
far as wide angle photography. One thing
he completely ignored was straight line logic verses curved line logic the way
a camera and the human eye see it. This
would work fine is you viewed everything on a completely flat screen no matter
how wide the angle. Ideally any fish eye
or wide angle should be viewed on a spherical screen. Then just as in Sketch camera angle- - you
have to ask yourself how many degrees of field of view will this image be taking
up? No landscape will take up a hundred
and eighty degrees of field of view but a much smaller amount. For lunch we had baked ham and not much of
that. We had yams with that and mixed
vegetables somewhat overdone. We had
yellow cake with whipped cream on it for dessert. Afterwards on the benches Glenda gave me a
double-decker ham sandwich. Donald Trump
will be interviewed on Sixty Minutes tonight.
Rhapsody in Black
featured songs from November 1961 but they sounded more recent than that like
’63 or ’64. They played a lot of the
songs they’d played last year such as “Bristol Stomp”, “A Certain Girl”, “Hit
the Road, Jack”, “I Love You, Gypsey Woman” and “The Morning After” by the
Marquettes. They played “One Track Mind”
by Bobby Lewis and “Sweets for My Sweet” by the Drifters. They played mostly however songs I’d never
heard before or maybe just once like “Mind Your Own Business” and they played a
version of “Little Red Rooster”. It’s nice not to have money breaks. I finally went to the store for cigarettes at
two and then I had two cups of iced tea from Rico. Glen wanted me to plug in some Christmas
lights he couldn’t reach. I did that but
the lights still didn’t come on.
I need to supply you readers with a good time-coded index of all our varied rock anthologies. I would point out "Analog Ghost Chatter" for you out July 3rd of 2007. Elsewhere I think we’ve doubled
up on a couple of songs. “Beer Nuts”
appears both on “The Last Round-up” and “Demented Again”. And “Refrigerator Heaven” appears on
“Demented Again” and one other album I came across recently. The “Radio Ready” massive compilation occurs
in early June of 2007. That’s where I
found “Radio Radio” by Elvis Costello.
“Love or Confusion” goes back to March of 2007. This is just after nine. “Waiting for the End of the World” also
occurs on “Demented Again” and that preliminary album. This morning I got up before six. I’ve been smoking too much. I listened to “The Rude Pundit” and now
suddenly more pessimistic about a Donald Trump administration. When you think about it more than a
nano-second you realized that the Supreme Court is doomed for a generation. All of the people from FOX came right over
into the Trump administration. Reinz
Previs is Chief of Staff. I went to the
store just after seven and spent my last dollar on coffee. We had Cheerios for breakfast followed by
scrambled eggs and French toast. I got
more syrup. Then had the coffee in clear
plastic cups and I got two packets of creamer for it. “Before you open your mouth this week, make
sure your brain is fully engaged. The
approaching full moon will cause you to say things you regret”. This is some lady’s horoscope. Now let’s check Thom Hartman. This is later and it’s warming up
outside. I still had my red jacked on
for nutrition. I had two cups of grape
drink from Rico. Right now Thom Hartman
is having a call-in guest about foreign trade.
I observed the super
full moon rising in the east. Last
evening after five Glenda agreed I could get coffee from her for free. First I went to the liquor store while it was
still not quite dark to buy a pack of John Blacks. Then I went to her room and made myself a cup
of coffee with creamer. Seattle was
playing the Patriots on Sunday Night football.
Last night was the Donald Trump interview on Sixty Minutes. I caught the first long segment and the third
long segment. In the middle I was getting
medication from Tom and the smell of the tuna sandwiches was strong and I
declined. The line was rather slow. Then it was “Once Upon A Time”. Yadera is coming back here to work after Tom
leaves to rejoin the Army. Tonight is
Tom’s last day.
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