What Was Once A Vague Fear Is Now Reality

One thing is evident.  What was once a distant fear is today’s here and now reality when it refers to the emerging Trump administration.  Now we know how Trump plans to handle his “building the infrastructure” campaign promise.  Not by actual government expenditure, but by giving income tax credits for private businesses to build the roads and bridges we need.  Only what it will end up doing is to syphen off money revenue from the government and put that money into the hands of private business.  Conservatives want to privatize everything they can.  That’s why we have prisons for profit and encourage police to just throw anybody and everybody in jail.  But in this case these private companies will make them toll roads and bridges in areas where they aren’t now.  Besides this, these private companies won’t pay their workers as government legislation requires.  Of course we have Reinz Previs as Chief of Staff.  Steve Bannon used to work for Britebart.  He spoke of waving the Confederate high and proud as a reflection of Southern culture.  Rather than just having the founder of a magazine die, it’s too bad the entire writing staff doesn’t croke!  This Mike Pompeo guy is into torture and they discussed this on the show.  Last night’s first paragraph blog entry from Washington’s blog covered the same topic.  Just from the people they’ve had on the media lately it seems that returning to waterboarding and other forms of torture is very much on the table.  When I wrote Tim about a possible impeachment charge on torture- - I hadn’t put the pieces together.  Trump has congress now and he’s going to push for elimination of anti torture regulation.  Rather than close Guantanamo down- - now there will be more preventative detention without charges and people held for questioning.  And we all know how Pontious Pilate “examines” prisoners.  It’s Pax Romana!  Mike Flynn is Trump’s national security advisor.  He is famous for saying that Islam as a whole was not an actual religion but just a disguise for a political idiology.  Jeff Sessions isn’t too much of a racist.  He’s prosecuted KKK cases and favored a Rosa Parks monument.  All the same I can’t picture much in the way of Civil Rights cases going through this AG’s office.  But you can expect reversals on drug prosecutions of marijuana cases with the legalized states in jeopardy.

Back a few years ago I came up with the “Tulip” creation of the Universe.  It isn’t my primary view of the origin of the Universe but I mused over it for a time.  Instead of having a straight line “starburst” phenomenon where the lines remain straight, in this case all of the outward reaching lines curve and reach upward like a Tulip or a goblet of some sort.  This means that in the very early moments after the Big Bang that started the universe,  you don’t have real “events” that mean anything.  One event does not build on another because the elements were too hot to have formed all the bozons and leptons and other stuff that makes up the vacuum of space with no matter.  As such time and gravity didn’t really exist back then.  You couldn’t measure “incidents” in terms of events that take time.  Nothing builds on anything else but it’s all free-associative.  The same rings true for a lot of human lives.  Even as a very young child- - learning is more problematic because the human brain does not record events.  Eventually the cells of the brain gain traction and learning takes place.  The whole goal of life is for this traction and momentum to gain force and life takes on an upward hyperbola.  You’ve heard of these boys that built up a business out of sawing skate boards in half so that they would fit in school lockers.  You hear about these flash in the pan businesses on TV all the time.  If only life could be that way for everybody.  But all of the actions of the rest of us are seemingly “lost to the universe”.  These actions go off into space and it’s almost as though they didn’t happen.  So it is with the democrats in the recent years.  We know there are pressing issues that are important in the polls.  None of us wants another war in the Mideast.  We all want campaign finance reform.  We all agree that there is too much firearms proliferation.  We would prefer an Attorney General who wasn’t a racist if we had the choice.  And yet only the Republican issues appear to gain tractions.  Presumably we’re all obsessed with terrorism and Muslims and the Latino invasion of our borders and drugs.  It’s always the drug and gang problem.  That’s how it is.  We all want “local control of the schools” when as Thom Hartman points out what we really seem to want is rich school districts not having to fund poor school districts.   In short everybody gets Screwed.  Screw the poor, screw women, screw gays, screw minorities. screw students, screw the elderly, and screw Planet Earth.  And we, collectively, voted this monster into office.