Day 1262 – Half Year Assessment – Wake Up, Kick A.. (something?)

Friday July 3, 2020

121 Days until the election on November 3^rd

201 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

“Have you ever thought of a new sin?”

That was a question a clergyman once posed.

The answer is, “No.” They’re the same ones they were in the Middle Ages, in Ancient Rome, in Babylon. Regardless of whether we consider certain behaviors sinful or not is a question (The Egyptian royalty believed in marrying their siblings, for instance.) What we take as an intoxicant may change from one civilization to another, but overall human behavior remains pretty much the same.

Also, it seems once a person gets to a certain age, they aren’t going to change their behaviors very much. Some say that age is eighteen, others twenty six. Regardless, of what that number is, by the time you get to your seventies most would agree, I think, that you won’t be changing much. 

Donald Trump is a one-trick pony. We’ve seen the trick over and over again. We are still stunned that he does it, and that he gets away with it. Some ask him to do something different. Despite, all evidence to the contrary some still plead and implore. I got news for you all – it ain’t happening. 

The most astonishing thing to me is how many in power are willingly going along with it. 

I went to The Virginia Museum of Fine Art (VMFA) yesterday to see the new exhibit on Egyptian treasures recently recovered from underwater near the mouth of the Nile. It is a stunning exhibit and it rivals much of what I saw on my recent trip to Cairo. In fact, some artifacts such as the small gold coins are, as far as I know, unique to this show. 

Whenever I look at Egyptian artifacts and I think of all the time and attention paid to their creation and I think about their beliefs and their elaborate burial rituals and belief in the afterlife I can’t help but think, “Didn’t anyone ever say, ‘Hey, wait a second. This isn’t working!’ ? “ You’d think in the thousands of years someone would have said something. But the same con was pulled over and over again.

Didn’t anyone say something? We can look to our own society for the answer. The gods have changed but the behavior remains the same.

In other news, the Trump administration continues its dismantling of the Justice Department. Bill Barr has now gotten rid of the head prosecutor in the Eastern District. He has now decapitated the three departments that are heading up investigations into Trump and Trump’s friends and associates. This is not by chance.

We are breaking new records everyday in the number of cases of Corona virus found. Hospitals in many areas of the country are at near capacity to over capacity. What is the administration doing? According to Steve Mnuchin they are watching the numbers very carefully. Why the Secretary of the Pillfery, I mean Treasury, is giving medical advise is hard to fathom other than to say, “Hey, that’s the way they roll.” 

Mr. Trump will be going to Mount Rushmore to take part in a shoulder to shoulder no mask spitting and infecting event to celebrate what our country has become – tomorrow.

New unemployment numbers are out and they are terrible.

States are running out of money.

People are not going to be getting anymore money from the government unless Congress acts.

This depends on Mitch McConnell, who currently says there’s no reason to do anything, other than to “assess the situation.” I guess he’s next door to Steve who is watching the numbers carefully.

But what do you want? This is exactly what the Republicans said they would do if elected. Nothing at best and at worst they’d rip down government. The Trump administration is in court to try and get rid of Obamacare thus throwing millions of people off health care. Many got on this program when they lost their health care because it was tied to their job. When they lost their job so went their health care. What is the Republican plan for health care? Well, it’s a little early for that don’t ya think? I mean they have to assess and watch. They haven’t had a health care plan in when? Nixon? And that was just a reshuffling of who got to rip us off. So it’s been forty or fifty years and even then what they proposed was shit. Yeah, let’s get rid of what we got and wait for them to do something.

You’ve seen this play out before. You know how it ends.

121 Days until the election on November 3^rd

201 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

PS A large statue of an Egyptian bull. The Egyptians used to pray to bulls and they buried each sacred bull in a large sarcophagus (as shown). This went on for thousands of years. It ended with the reign of Cleopatra. In those thousands of years there is not a report of all that reverence paying off.