Day 1176 – It’s a Miracle! (No, no it isn’t)

Friday, July 19, 2024

There are any number of items to be addressed. First off I made a comment where I asked why Trump was wearing his ear patch on the wrong ear. Whether he was or not, I don’t know. I had it reported to me by a highly reliable source who said she read it on the internet or X. Maybe, it was a joke? Maybe, it was a reference to the fact that Mr. Trump got out of the draft because it was claimed he had bone spurs. Yet, he could not remember which foot had them. Some would say he dodged the draft by paying off a doctor to say he had bone spurs. This would be speculation and I withdraw the speculation. I think he should be honest with the American people and submit both feet for X-Ray examination. As far as I know bone spurs don’t go away unless you have surgery. If they find no bone spurs then Trump is a liar and a draft dodger. ( But we already knew he was a liar! – Shut up. Friggin’ whiners. )

Another item – when I went to find a factual source for what I had been told about the ear bandage I discovered lots of people at the Republican Convention sporting ear bandages. Big ones! Reporters say that these people are showing solidarity with their nominee. To which I say, “Poppycock. If they were really showing solidarity they’d graze their ear with an AR-15 shot and then bandage their ear.” I mean, come on. What kind of wimps are you? to be fair you should get a friend, neighbor or spouse to shot at the year from 140 yards away.

Now we get to the speeches of the RNC convention. After the shooting many known Republicans called for unity and toning down the rhetoric. Then they gave speeches that did just the opposite. It was said that Mr. Trump had torn away his speech and wrote on of a more conciliatory nature. From the reports I heard this morning (not from the wrong ear source I might add) his speech was slightly subdued but it was the same old stuff:

– Cut taxes

– Drill for oil

– Deport immigrants

I’d like some more honesty in these speeches. How about:

– I’m cutting taxes for my rich friends and you’ll get a few pennies too,

– Screw the environment. I’ll let oil and coal companies do what they want,

– Immigrant kids in cages! Yeah baby!

The most recent right wing stuff I’ve heard is – if we spend money on immigrants then there’s less spent on you. Immigrants are taking your money!

Why are so many people coming to this country? Because their countries suck. (How did donnie say it? Oh yeah, that’s right.) There is no mystery on how to really fix this problem. Make other countries suck less. Apparently, people don’t want to live where they are in fear for their lives. Weird huh? And they come to the land of mass shootings – really weird. However, that is preferable to being constantly under threat. The last Republican presidents to at least talk about the real problem were Nixon and Reagan. Nixon sent Kissinger to Central and South America. Henry reported back that we’d need to pour a lot of money into those countries to fix them. Nixon did not pour money into them. 

Then Reagan sent troops to Columbia to clean up the narcotics mess. Unfortunately, when you move an army, lots of people learn about it, thus giving ample time for the drug cartels to move out of danger.

Back to “Cut Taxes.” 

“A. It didn’t work before, let’s try it again. Go to A.”

This has been the mantra of the Republican Party since Reagan. It hasn’t worked. It’s increased the debt and folks are still struggling to get by. There have been tow huge economic transfers of wealth in this country: one) to the rich, and two) to the boomers.

Who has gotten screwed? The working poor, the middle class, Gen X, Y & Z.

In Donald’s speech last night it was reported that he promised the same old stuff without mentioning how he would do it. He also did explain how he was going to pay for any of the tax cuts, etc. Seeing as how last time he incurred the largest debt our nation has ever seen under one President, I’ll tell you how. – He won’t.

He’ll wait  until he’s out of office and then yell and scream about the debt.

As Bill Clinton said about Republicans, “Their only complaint is we don’t clean their mess up quick enough.”

Let’s recall, for example Afghanistan. What did he do there? he had the head of the Taliban released from jail. Told him when the U.S. was going to pull out. Then he drew the troop levels down so low just as he was leaving office that the incoming President had no choice but to pull out and it was a mess because their was no plan for how to do it. What did Trump do then? Complained that it was a mess. 

He also did this in Northern Syria, abandoning our allies and giving that region over to Putin and al-Assad.

He did this with Covid too. His team would not talk to the transition team about their plans for rolling out the Covid vaccine. It turns out there was a good reason for this. There was no plan.

Infrastructure? – same thing. No plan. Press conference? yes. Plan? No. Press conference? yes. Plan? No. Press conference? yes. Plan? No. Press conference? yes. Plan? No. Sorry I got stuck in a loop.

Where there were plans in place he destroyed them:

Iran Nuclear deal? Get out. Result – Iran is now free to build a bomb.

NATO – Get out. Fortunately he could do it. But he says he’ll do it this time.

And what about future plans?

Ukraine? Get out. (Why? well Zelensky didn’t find the dirt on Biden from that non-existent server. …)

Government organization? Get rid of civil service protection for the top levels of the civil service. Thus allowing him to appoint “his own people.” I mean who would you rather have running our epidemic disease department, Anthony Fauci or Ronnie Jackson or that witch doctor who Ron DeSantis appointed head of health services in Florida?

The Trump proposal via the Heritage Foundation is to get rid of top level civil servants and put in flunkies. This happened last time in places like the Commerce Department. A bunch of Jared’s buddies showed up, knew nothing, and went about throwing sand in the gears aimlessly. They did it aimlessly because they didn’t know any better. Imagine this time if they get someone in there who really knows how to screw things up?

Last time Trump appointed a guy to run the weather service who had a weather channel that competed with the weather service. What did this fellow want to co? Forbid the Weather Service from making public statements and give those statement to his channel that would in turn charge you to get their reports.. So only the folks who paid would know about the hurricanes and tornadoes. But then I’d imagine they’d replace the life long wether forecasters with their own team, and a team not necessarily knowledgeable about weather so, maybe no one would know?

BTW The Samurai Armor exhibit closed August 4th at VMFA. If you are in the area go see it. It is exquisite.