Welcome friends!
I know I was supposed to stop talking about the clown now he’s elected at least until he actually has a chance to do something unfortunate so I suppose the week of January 20, which is alarmingly close so let’s enjoy the last few weeks of stability and sanity while it lasts. However, I did want to just report on one positive turn of events because believe me right now any positive turn of events is something to be savored. If you remember last time I was saying how much we all stand to lose if Trump actually delivers on any of his many and varied campaign promises. We could see the elimination of a great deal of the progress we’ve made these past several years and in some cases decades on a great number of different fronts: global warming, the environment more generally, nuclear proliferation, women’s reproductive rights, equal rights for gay people, race relations, distributive concerns, the minimum wage, unions, the national debt, Wall Street regulations, attempts to reduce the influence of big money in politics, freedom of the press, etc. I said if we’re lucky the man may have been just talking out of his ass during the campaign and now he’s gotten what he wanted, a platform to look after his own financial interests as well as the financial interests of his relatives and buddies in the one percent, perhaps he’ll conveniently forget all the ignorant and destructive bullshit he’s been peddling these past months. (By looking after the financial interests of the one percent I’m talking about things like reducing their tax bill, doing away with the estate tax to facilitate the creation of family dynasties most likely consisting in the not so distant future of the usual spoiled and feckless layabouts no doubt in line from birth to become Republican presidents themselves, removing regulations designed to prevent them from dominating the political process, eliminating social programs designed for people who are not them, etc.) I suggested that might be our one ray of hope because the man did mention at one point during the campaign if he were elected president he intended to act more “presidential” and presumably not carry on the offensive and ignorant jackass persona he found so politically rewarding during the campaign. I remarked on it at the time. The signals are mixed but we may be getting some indication that yes, President Trump may be at least marginally saner than Candidate Clown.
Not sure what I’m talking about? Maybe a few examples might help. I saw an article a week or two ago that involved a meeting between the clown and Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe... Sorry but only selected archived (previous year) posts are currently available full text on this website. All posts including this one are available in my annual anthology ebook series available at the Amazon Kindle Bookstore for a nominal fee. Hey, we all need to make a buck somehow, right? If you find my timeless jewels of wisdom amusing or perhaps even amusingly irritating throw me a bone now and then. Thank you my friends!
