Trump May Go to War with Iran

This is Saturday May 25th and now for the most important item.   I finally learned what the "H" in Jesus H Christ stands for.  It's "Herald" as in "Herald by thy name" in the Lord's Prayer.  It got started in the middle of the 1800's and Mark Twin was somehow involved.  In other news they'll be skiing in Mammoth Mountain into the month of July.  They have a lot of snow.  I guess people in the South are having their first hundred degree heat wave of the year.  Meanwhile we had rain on Thursday and are expecting rain tonight and into tomorrow.  Yesterday I went on a nature walk at the El Dorado nature center in eastern Long Beach near the San Gabriel River.  It's kind of an organic trail that even disappears a couple of times and you don't know which way to go.  I may have a separate blog post for that visit in a day or two.  Meanwhile there is the Rolling Thunder review of motorcycle vets on parade in Washington DC.  They began the event in 1988 and this is their 31st and final year at it due to "expences".  Meanwhile Nancy Pelosi is slurring her words if we believe a doctored tape of her that is circulating.  According to Trump, Nancy is losing it and doesn't remember how calm the president was during their meeting the other day.  Now here is older stuff.

Yesterday Thom Hartman was arguing that we had already crossed the threshold to a totalitarian state and Trump was the new dictator.  He argued that we have gone the way of Hungary, Poland, and Turkey.  Democratic elections may be a thing of the past because we have a man in the White House that basically does not respect the constitution.  If the Supreme Court or congress orders him to do something he’ll either defy or go around them, like Trump did when he funneled money from the military to build the border wall.  Even if Trump is impeached he may decide not to leave office, and who is going to make him?  The executive branch has the police powers.  President Andrew Jackson twice defied a supreme court decision handed down by John Marshal.  One time it was to end the “Trail of Tears” of the Cherokee people, and the other was ending the National Bank of the United States, which threw us into one of the worst recessions we’ve had in this country.   Lincoln refused to respect the Dread Scott decision by Justice Tawney when he issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1982.  Southerners thus formed a legal basis for defying this president.  That was yesterday.  Today Hartman is arguing in favor of high terrifs.  My position is like that caller.  It’s been too long and we are addicted to cheap foreign goods and our economy relies on free trade.  You can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube.  When Reagan took office the toothpaste was still in the tube and our terriffs were in place.  You can’t un-ring a bell.  If I were the democratic nominee I would say to the President “you can do what you feel like doing on trade but I am of a different opinion and this election will put our ideas to a vote.  To at this point try and run out ahead of the Republicans and take the lead on the fair trade issue, would be suicidal and would facilitate a Trump victory.  Our one bargaining, wedge issue is that the economy will tank next year and it’s all Trump’s fault. 

Stephanie has been good at summarizing Trump’s tantrums.   The biggest news of the past 24 hours is that Trump met with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer in the oval office.  He closed the drapes so you couldn’t see out into the rose garden or the podium and chairs and microphone that were already set up where Trump would next be headed to denounce the meeting.  Trump’s promises of cooperation in getting infra-structure weren’t worth a thing.  We already knew that.  Dorthey knew it at the time when that auspicious meeting a few weeks ago was held and we were all so optimistic about cooperation.   President Trump didn’t like Nancy accusing the president of a “cover-up”.  Trump said that all this talk by the Democrats of collu9sion with Russia over the past three years has “Done damage to the country”.  This is the most amazing case of blame shifting I’ve seen.  Meanwhile Stephanie says Trump has lost three major court decisions in the past few days.  But I wouldn’t get too optimistic about “the walls closing in” because we’ve heard that so many times before.  Trump still thinks he’ll win next year.   Of course the other big store is this declared war with Iran.   Yesterday afternoon during the three thirty news while there was thunder and lightning and a downpour around here,  we heard that ten thousand troops were being ordered to Iran on orders of the pentagon.  So we will have a full-fledged war next year during Trump’s reelection campaign.  The question is whether congress will go along with all of this escalation because they hold the purse strings.  That “American Talliban” guy will be released from an Indiana prison in a few days.  He has spent seventeen of his twenty year sentence behind bars and now various people are panicked that he’ll be free and presumably will continue to preach his pro Talliban propaganda. 

I had a dream I was in the Bosc bedroom at a quarter to three in the morning and I couldn’t sleep.  So I decided taking a shower would help.  It was a public shower and another guy was in there.  He soon left but then a nude high school girl came in.  And then another girl came in.  Obviously I was getting self conscious.  Then three females who knew me passed by the walk way and one of them said “Hi”.  But they couldn’t see me over the patrician.  I decided to leave.  I was apparently at some Michael Jackson museum or something and I was in kind of a shopping mall thing.  There was this boy and girl couple that both had Mohawk haircuts or something and someone joked they were brother and sister.  They were about ninth grade or something.  I ordered a Michael Jackson special of tuna and sliced red bell peppers.  The tuna was of higher quality but I remarked to someone that Jackson has strange favorites.   I don’t know what time of day this took place.  Maybe it was still the wee hours of the morning.