Master of Puppets

President Trump renigged on his statement that he was in favor of a compromise with democrats to preserve those health care subsedies for the poor who can’t afford the insurance premiums on their own.  There were these two senators who were praising the president for this deal coming to pass.  But later in the day he reverts to this line about “We can’t subsidize insurance companies because this only boosts their stock prices”.  Since when was this president opposed to higher stock prices for industry?   Trump has been dropping these little hints that he wants to compromise with democrats on health care to give us false hope.  But in the end he’s following the Shawn Hannity line about dismantling Obama Care once and for all.  This is what Bannon and all of his friends want, and we know that Trump can’t let them down.  Two years ago I’m not one of these people who had it in for Trump from the start.  My dislike of Trump was an acquired taste brought about by experience.  It’s almost like Trump is a puppet and the puppet masters of Shawn Hannity and Sheldon Addelson are pressing the buttons in his brain triggering their dark hypnotic spell.  They may be feeding off dark impulses Trump always had but his human side up to a couple of years ago was keeping these dark impulses in check.  Trump seems to have no cognitive reasoning at all.  He runs strictly on his subliminal “programming” that controls his every move.  Trump keeps talking about how he’s smarter than his cabinet officials and he’ll challenge them to an IQ test to prove it.  I think the president should take an IQ test.  I’d be interested in the results myself.  I don’t see how we can endure four years of this rhetorical nonsense from our President.  He lives by the tweet and imuendo and gossip.  This is very unpresidential.  He’s making a fool out of himself to every other nation in the world and somehow this doesn’t bother him.  But I don’t know you definitely “prove” to one and all that President Trump is unfit for office.  I hope that Muller files his charges soon.  

Today’s Days of our Lives episode might be called “Master of Puppets”.  Because Victor asked Maggie for a divorce and pretended to be in love with Adrian.  Naturally Maggie and Justin thought Victor had taken leave of his senses.  Another stroke, perhaps.  I am really surprised a hard-ass man like Victor folded so quickly.  It could be of course that the whole incident was a dream.  Is it really that easy for Adrian to pull Victor’s strings with one little threat and I don’t even think the phone call is on tape.  Then we have Nicole carrying through with her plans to break Eric’s heart by telling him she doesn’t want to see him anymore.  Here is a case where there are times when you will believe any silly explanation you know deep down isn’t right.  Nicole says “I’d hate to be a cause of dividing brother from brother”.  That ship sailed a long time ago.  I happened to think of Christianity.  A logical person might well ask the question of “How can imperfect human beings pass judgement or the lack of it on a perfect god?  Logically they couldn’t.  You can’t judge the perfect using the instrument of the imperfect.  Yet they come up with this innovation of the Holy Sprit that comes upon you and gives you temporary infallibility like the Pope- - qualified to set a standard of perfection on “Faith and Practice”, or however they word it.  Then you have that DEA contraversey we talked about in the last blog post.  All of a sudden all drug prosecutions are mysteriously blocked no matter how overwhelming the evidence.  And the “explanation” is “Well you know the law is a little vague on this point”, which it obviously was not.  People are easily led and will accept downright silly explanations for arbitrary or dictatory edicts, or blocking normal progress on a matter.  It’s as though some gigantic force is pulling strings and giving Trump a charmed political carrier. 

It’s time for a triple Trump paragraph.   As you know there were the deaths of these four servicemen in some African country and I don’t remember which one.  But if it had been democrats in the White House I’d have not only the country but the city indelibly etched in my brain because the media would never let us forget it like Bengazzi.  Anyhow this Johnson fellow died and Trump called his mother or whatever and said “Well he knew what he was signing up for when he enlisted”.  This is something we’re all thinking anyhow but nobody would dare day it to someone’s face.  Well some congresswoman was there listening to the call and they were outraged that the President would be so insensitive.  But chief of staff John Kelly chimed in saying that Trump made no such remark.  This seems to be just another of so many cases where the President says something and won’t admit it.  It's like when the President accuses predecessors Bush, Obama and Clinton that they didn't call up the spouses of the fallen troopers.  He had to sort of back off that statement.  First he does the dog whistle and then covers himself with a technicality.  First he runs his mouth and sometimes he thinks about it afterward, and sometimes not.  The NFL has come down with a ruling that they aren’t going to require all their players to stand during the National Anthem.  There will be no firings or penalties.  This is for the best.  I think this should be a matter of individual choice.  Certainly there are a majority of Blacks in the NFL and “Black lives matter” is uppermost in a lot of our minds these days.  Black lives do matter.  Then there was an article in Washington’s blog saying that the president has followed through with his campaign not only kill terrorists but the families of terrorists also.  The blog states that more civilians have been killed under Trump than under Obama.  I’m not sure I can believe everything Washington’s blog says.  This little statistic hasn’t been in the news but if more civilians are being killed now with drones or whatever I think it’s something that congress needs to look into, if they look into anything these days. 

I’m typing this paragraph just after six in the morning.  It’s easy to put Dr Messina’s words to the test.  I complained that at night I had trouble keeping my eyes open these days till nine and then like last night maybe I doze off and don’t even remember what program I was watching like last night where I don’t know what it was on KTLA.  Dr Messina had said it was a simple matter of waiting till ten to go to bed and in the morning I wouldn’t wake up at a quarter of five like I did this morning.  I told Dr Messina I awoke with restless thoughts.  The doctor forgot about this detail.  I should have elaborated.  How do you get rid of “restless thoughts” in the early morning?  I was partially afraid the doctor would give me some new untested medication.  I asked Dr Messina whether it was a matter of some post hypnotic suggestion making me wake up so early.  Of course when you’re psychologically depressed you have anxious thoughts and can’t concentrate.  I started running water for the shower and the towel was in the shower getting soaked.  Sometimes Nora throws them there just for the heck of it.  I made myself instant coffee thinking maybe that would help somehow.  Right now Stephanie Miller is coming on.  Bill is up and was out of the room some.  You know people are supposed to wake up in the morning renewed and refreshed.  I wish that were the case with me.