Walkabout Throughts #41

My thoughts, Stream of consciousness, rough and ready, while walking off long Covid and listening to podcasts…from Tuesday, June 13, 2023.

Weather for the day… 58 and overcast and although I can’t see it, I can feel I’m walking through a very sparse mist. It has 20 or so percent chance of rain in the afternoon so I’m hoping I don’t get rained on and want to finish 5 miles today like I did two days ago.

Podcast for the day podcast “Pod Save America“ episode, "Re-Indicted And It Feels So Good (with Hillary Clinton!)".

Interesting about January 6 in the 1930s in France, today known as "January 6" as it is here in America now, because of a similar occurrence. Interesting how damaging binary thinking is. It forces non-gender specific people painfully into a mold they don’t fit. It leads to religious abuses. It leads to, as we see today, toxic conservatism and overtaking of the Republican Party by whatever group is able to subvert it. The Tea Party, MAGA, whatever the hell they've got available in some whiny autocratic abusive cruel criminal. As we all know this time, it’s Donald Trump. 

I’m not saying we need to dive into absolute non-binary thinking. Myself I am a confusing mixture of ideologies founded in the concept of right and wrong, but as a guideline only. As heterosexual, cisgendered, somewhat old-fashioned in many ways in my fundamentals. I was raised out of the 1950s and having moved to autocratic Franco, Spain in 1958 with a stop from Tacoma in Philadelphia where the bulk of our family lived. Perhaps also being born ADHD with a mother who had a very interesting character herself, but very accepting of others. I've tried all my life to see outside of standard, black and white, binary thinking. Some of that came from my solid foundation in my nuclear family being repeatedly broken up in various ways, moving at three years of age to another country, which alone was interesting I suppose. 

After a couple of years with our family in Philadelphia, in 1960 we traveled back to where I was born in Tacoma, Washington with our mom’s new husband (whom at 4, I begged not to marry), with a new baby. Have you ever been introduced to the marvels of a modern city and then taken back a backward town and told this is your new (old) home (again)? That was Tacoma, Washington, in 1960. The Seattle Worlds Fair in 1963 was a saving grace.

Before we moved back to Tacoma in Philadelphia, mom and her new guy took my sister and I to see a museum. We actually walked through the giant heart and saw an exhibition where you could literally get into a rig and feel like you’re walking on the moon, with a moonscape as background. Then we move to  Tacoma and we go to the town museum. It had various standalone wood and glass displays around an empty wooden room. To me at the time, at 5, it was horrific. 

I learned (and acquired) my mom’s love of vampire movies in the late 50s when I entered the world of horror, films, and science-fiction via late night movies on TV when I woke up one night and watched a film with her in her room (alone, no new husband yet). Later in Tacoma, as soon as I could get someone to teach me to read, so I could read the Sunday newspaper comic section to myself without having to wait for everyone else to read the newspaper first… I dove into learning to read better as fast as I could. Eventually, in my grandmother reading me sci fi fiction novels, I got into reading some of the greatest science-fiction writers of all time. 

These were mostly men who presented advanced concepts, not well established in the human society of  America in the 1950s or 60s. But they also did their best to explore the world and the potential universe at large taking us beyond our petty beliefs and mores. Offering us insight through alien encounters, and venturing into other dimensions. As a parent. when my youngest declared they were gay and then trans, through difficult and at times scary, high school years, these were all things not in my experience as a kid, or an adult. 

As miserable as my childhood could be at times with a stepfather who really didn’t like me much, and could be a scary SOB, I refused ever to even think about suicide. Self harm? Just never came to mind. And I never knew anyone who did that as a kid. I never heard about it until a couple of decades ago. Though I have to say, one of my kids did point out I seemed to have had suicidal tendencies growing up. However, I pointed out back to them that what I did back then in my risk seeking behaviors, was to do it professionally. 

An adult once told me when I was a child, when I said I was scared of going in our basement… "Face your fears or you will forever be running from them". Well, I wasn’t gonna put up with that! So I faced my fears, which eventually led to thrill seeking behaviors. Or “dangerous behaviors“ as some saw them. But I also saw it, as my grandmother taught both my mother and I, to find the best and most professional teachers and instructors you can to learn from. 

So I learned from some of the best. My risks were calculated and thought out, while others may have seen them as, dangerous behaviors. I don’t see how that’s being “suicidal“. While to the outsiders, it may have appeared suicidal. This has a parallel to our non-binary thinkers today. I was different because of ADHD. As in my failing math in grade school. I could calculate math in my head, but I couldn’t do it on paper. So we in our binary, cookie cutter, 18th or 19th century, anachronistic, factory oriented school system to feed industry, I was told I had to show my work. They couldn’t correct my math if I didn’t show it. If you don’t show your work, you can’t see where your mistakes are. 

That’s great and everything. But it caused me great misery over a long time. I have to wonder, had they not thought in a binary fashion, had they taken what I had intrinsically and built upon those skills, what could I have done in my head and would I have succeeded in math/ Rather than failing math all through K through 12? Recently, I read in my DNA analysis that I have exceptional mathematical skills. If that’s true, then they were squashed as a child. Because I couldn’t do in it the way other kids did. I thought, differently...and that was "wrong". Why?

But they needed me to be the same as everyone else. Back in the 60s, the deficient or seemingly deficient, and the exceptional, had to bring themselves into the center of their class as an average to make it through that cookie cutter style of education. It happens when you don't have enough money in a school system to deal with all involved and that was the model and today still is in many ways, in many places and from how many thing. It's very American Republican. 

I learned recently through Temple Grandin in a talk she gave recently that in my spectrum of autism being ADHD, I’m a visual thinker. Which I actually tried to explain to others when I was younger, but it made no sense to anyone. She said in her talk that when you’re like that, you’re a bottom/up thinker and you need a lot of information up front. Which is exactly what I’ve seen. When I would share that with others, I would typically lose them. 

So yeah back around to the beginning… I get what non-binary thinkers are saying, in many ways. I understand where the LGBTQ+ people are coming from. I was long an advocate of alternate lifestyles, at least for a heterosexual cisgendered orientation, my orientation. Well, I don’t understand many of their provocations and insistence on being overly focused in sexuality, eroticism and performance but it's a choice, to be sure. The older I get, the less I find that interesting or fascinating. 

Though I get what They're doing, pushing back against the tidle wave of everything against him. And they’re doing everything they can to explore and exemplify their differences. Doesn’t mean anyone needs to hate them, doesn’t mean anyone needs to pass thousands of anti-trans bills, some of which can kill them. Or the tide of ignorance that literally has killed them and still does. Or in not even thinking outside the box just allowing women to have their rights over their own bodies, rather than oppression if not death, in anti-abortion laws. Taking something fundamental to females and skewing that into abuse through religious, nonsense, which we should’ve matured through hundreds if not thousands of years ago, is ridiculous. And many of them know that, but they do this for power and political purposes, disregarding our citizens and their rights.

If you wonder why non-binary people can be so extremist or hypersensitive? Let me kick you hard any place you prefer and then let me kick you repeatedly until you can’t take it anymore, then let me walk away and sneak up on you and kick you there again, and see then if your version, your reaction, isn’t extremist and hypersensitive. That’s what we're seeing with these people, these non-binary thinkers, these LGBTQ+ people, who go through this abuse every day of their life, making them ever wary and more frightened, literally because their friends have been beaten to death. It all becomes much more understandable under those considerations, doesn’t it?

So while I don’t live their orientation, I don’t get all of their world? I get my own, and there's room for others in it. Since childhood, I have not just tried to think outside the box as they say, but wonder why we’re thinking in or around a box in the first place? I never saw that a glass is half full or half empty. Rather completely full and always, unless it’s out in space somewhere, in a cold vacuum. In which case it’s half full of frozen water and half full of a vacuum. (I should say here, as some don't get this concept, the original question is, "is the half glass of water half full or half empty?", which is another question altogether but people take advantage of being asked the question incorrectly, so... what I'm saying here is relevant)

But, can you see where I’m going here? One could argue that’s non-binary, but in our binary thinking society, it’s non-binary to them. And that’s the point. Much of non-binary thinking really is binary. You just have to be seeing it through the filter or a paradigm, that isn’t anachronistic and preferred by the majority.

Wow, if that wasn’t a brain dump…

From the new Rachel Maddow, MSNBC data and news podcast talking about the French, January 6, 1934. Apparently flyers went out that said things like "you should show up it will be “wild“." Echoing from our past with Donald Trump's, January 6 insurrection, and today with his indictment of the tweets that went out saying to "show up and be wild!" Seriously. Fuck these people and their corrupt idea of America and their anti-democracy ideology, fetishizing violence, autocracy and theocracy. Those are in no way, American. But they are indeed, concepts of our enemies. Both foreign AND domestic.

We have thought since our reason for creating this country in the first place, and in seeking independence, and fighting a war, and breaking away from what was once our great Britain...then fighting a Civil War for similar reasons, against an oppressive south (who saw the north as oppressive), whose entire economy was built on slave labor. To be fair, the south saw the north as oppressor as they wanted to change the status quo. While the north was evolving into the understanding that slavery was indeed, bullshit. Things needed to change. We were America. Past time to act like it.

Slave labor, which the country profited from, but finally through grassroots efforts, people started to see how slavery didn’t fit what we saw as our country based on our US constitution and our civil rights, granted by God? An anachronistic concept that was used since the birth of humankind, in order to wrest power from unruly groups, to establish some kind of order, so as to allow for evolution in farming and cities and  society. Why would we now be going against all that for a populous belief in a politically fetishized desire for one narcissistic criminal, from a damaged (Trump) family, whose patriarch (Fred) once worked with Hitler?

Understand, these "Walkabout Thoughts" blogs are done through voice to text, as I walk, fighting off long Covid, while listening to podcasts and just ruminating about things they’re talking about and, things in my life. Some things from my past and some about my creative endeavors. Do not in anyway think though, that what's contained in these blogs are in any way indicative of the quality or substance of my other non-fiction, fiction, or any of my professional works. These random stream of consciousness, are my sharing my thoughts with you, and not to be any kind of a academic, or well-formed or presented set of considerations. Easiest way to read them is to just zip on through them, maybe reread something if you don't get it right off, and then move onto the next item. 

If you can get by that, I think you’ll find some interesting things in these. Cheers!

From Rachel’s podcast: All my life I thought, probably because of old movies about the French WWII Vichy government in France, they they were a bunch of cowards who surrendered to the Nazis. Now I know better, because of this podcast, that it was a bunch of French wannabe Nazis before Nazis existed, who signed up with invading Germany to become that notorious Vichy government in France. Which might explain the strength and endurance of the French Resistance during that time. How would we feel if Trump’s MAGA took over and turned us into their Handmaid‘s Tale version of "Gilead" or Hitler’s Germany? I wouldn’t doubt we'd form a resistance, and eventually we'd end that nonsense?

This is cool. I mentioned in a previous blog that I put my latest non-fiction book, "Suffering. Long Covid" in a little free library that’s on the road that I walk here on my street. Last week somebody put a book out so you could see the face of the book from the street. A big bigger book about houses and remodeling or something. The next time I passed it, I put it away, replaced it with my book. Later on that walk, someone had already reset my book, side-by-side with the rest so you could only see the spine of the books. I thought, I’ll just put my book back out front. But then maybe that’s not cool? So I just left it. 

Today when I started my walk, I saw it still there. No one had picked it up yet. On starting my 3rd mile I noticed someone had pulled it out a little bit, which was what I had been thinking of doing. Not setting it out front, just pulling it out from the crowd a bit to make a little more noticeable. But somebody else did that. My feelings on that were that it either showed others had looked at, or had looked but not taken it. So, which is worse? Make it look like it’s repeatedly not being taken? Or make it more obvious than the others to be seen? 

I didn’t touch it, but left it pulled out a more noticeable by a couple inches than the others. So I’m good. Also, there’s some important new information about long Covid that’s recently come out that I was thinking of putting out in a second edition. Or leave it? Not sure yet. One could be doing this all the time and that's not really cool. But, maybe I will. I mean… they have discovered that Covid makes nerve cells conjoin, which might explain things like a loss of smell. Until the brain pathway/route is replaced to go around that or that they are somehow re-separated, which is something else they’re working on being able to do. Pretty important as information. And a little terrifying.

On January 6… It’s interesting to note in 2021 that there were journalists in France who were gearing up to report on the reoccurring 1934 French January 6 insurrection date and celebration, when suddenly in America... our nonsense happened. When they noticed what was going on in America lit completely blew the French version out of the water, as far as news to be covered at that time. Sad, but interesting.

Just to add a caveat to all my blogs going back to about 2010 and now at around 1500 of them so far, I’m always saying what I believe in. Frequently, I’m saying what I believed in all my life and applying it to current issues today and insights about today or pointing out growth I have made intellectually or emotionally. But I’m also a writer. A nonfiction and fiction author. A screenwriter. And a filmmaker. With a university degree in psychology and phenomenology. And I understand communications. So while you may be able to pick apart some of my blogs to point out where I'm being problematic, I would argue that you may well be right. You may find I’ve changed my mind in later blogs. But also that I may be showing a window or a filter, or shading in somethings in such a way so as to communicate what I’m trying to get across to people. 

Especially when I know sometimes that it won’t get across and I have to frame something in a way that people will understand in order to see or accept, the rest of what I’m saying in the light of that, and maybe it will click in their minds in how I state it. But if you were to grill me about that, I might say that in my actual belief, I would say it a different way. I’m just pointing out that one should understand that what I’m publishing here is, communication. And no matter who does that, when you later question them? You’re going to get at least a slightly different insight into what they actually believe. Although I doubt it would change in substance, if they’re honest and have any kind of a craft in writing.

To be clear about the French national front movement, it is basically the dark ugly underbelly of French society, showing its diseased genitals to the world and yet... some praise them for that. Pretty much an exemplification of what we see with Donald Trump's MAGA in America.

More January 6 news about France in 1834... Between the fascists taking over in 1940 when the Nazis invaded France, those who were not fascist, all came together across the country and decided that this is just nuts! They started pushing back. Had Nazi Germany not invaded? Well, you get it. So the hope there is that with what we’ve seen here in America, we will go through the same kind of thing which... we’re already starting to see. Trump and MAGA are decreasing. Barring an invasion by a massive force like Nazi Germany against France in World War II, we may well just put this down and evolve beyond it. MAGA is an evolution into less than we are. That’s what autocracy is. It’s an ant hill society, and as power corrupts, absolute power in an autocracy, always eventually corrupts completely and utterly.

I’m on mile four now walking. I just switched podcasts as the Rachel podcast ended. Excellent podcast and I look forward to the next one about Florida and how they’ve seen this nonsense they’re going through, before. 

I’m switching now over to Pod Save America a show from last night which is a live version probably on stage and with an amazing guest cast, including Hillary Clinton. So I guess what this podcast episode is about? Trumps indictment today. So on this indictment, not the previous one he lost, or the next few coming up, he could either go to prison for the rest of his life for 100 years, which ever comes first, or become president. Or potentially be president within prison. What a country.

Jon Lovett on the podcast said he sides with Trump on one thing, that he’s more willing to go to prison than to clean out his closet.

About that one box at Mar-a-Lago, displayed out across the floor with at least one classified document visible, which in the photo they redacted a line on it indicating it’s important. One wonders who knocked it over? Agent of Trump? Would they have picked it up? Or agent of a foreign enemy? If they were caught or if they had to leave quickly and didn’t have time to fix it because they sure wouldn’t want to leave evidence and would only if they had to. So the possibility of agents of foreign enemies of America haven’t gotten in of their being there in having filmed at least some of the documents. This is so close a bet to have already been done that it's nearly at 100%. It’s almost not worth discussing or debating. I mean to disagree with Donald Trump‘s contention by so many of his supporters, some in Congress, who shouldn’t even be in Congress, the risk assessment of a foreign agent accessing these documents at Mar-a-Lago is so close to 100% that one might just as well just except it as having being done.

So if you remember, they did arrest one woman at Mar-a-Lago for trespassing. They checked her room and found basically spy equipment, your basic spy equipment. And as you know, it’s spies if you find evidence of one there’s more. And if you find evidence of an attempt you have to except out of operational procedures that somebody got in and got what they were looking for. As for that woman’s accoutrements, they found nine jump drives, a Sim card, etc., I mean, come on. From the article:

"When she was picked up at Mar-a-Lago, Zhang was carrying four cellphones, a laptop, an external hard drive and a thumb drive later found to carry malware. In her hotel room, investigators found nine USB drives, five SIM cards and a “signal detector” device, which could possibly be used to detect hidden cameras."

According to John Brennan, the CIA assessment may never be concluded about the danger of these documents at Mar-a-Lago. Because the only way to prove it was compromised (other than to just accept it must have been, Occam's Razor...) is to have someone tell what happened. Which could happen with an eventual agent/defector, etc. It’s happened before. The only time someone takes a physical document is if they can’t make a copy. And if these were originals that Trump had box after box after box of, there is your person that couldn’t make copies and just took the originals. There is your national traitor. There is the crime. There is the damage to America and our agents across the world. We have to wonder of those who have died since Trump left office, how many deaths are on his head? And how many on our head? And on our government's excuses for a criminal former POTUS, offering him the respect only a POTUS deserves. But he was never a real and actual POTUS in understanding that title and procedures he refused to follow like a petulant child. He was in essence, a foreign agent of industrial espionage.

Jon Lovett has a good point for those who think Donald Trump has evidence of extraterrestrials. No he doesn’t. Because if he did, he would’ve tweeted it out or told everyone even if he was warned that he might destroy the planet.

Totally off-topic… You know psychics always seem to be reborn from someone famous or a famous person speaks through them, or they were once a Napoleon, or something? I did my family tree years ago on ancestry.com and believe it or not, it was traced back to a once king of England, which in a way, is that so unusual over this much time? As a kid, I felt there was something weird about my life and that would explain it. When I got my DNA done by them and another group, the new lab (CRI Genetics) had some very interesting things to say on that, regarding my mtDNA Haplogroup (Mother Lineage) which linked me to some very interesting people. Who? 

Ötzi the Iceman, Mike Nichols, Craig Venter, Meryl Streep, Katie Couric, Stephen Colbert, Harry Connick Jr., Maggie & Jake Gyllenhaal, Ramesses III, Nelson Mandela, Sir David Attenborough, Lyndon strong. Johnson, Caravaggio, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Napoleon Bonaparte (I know, I KNOW!), The
Wright Brothers, William Harvey, Albert Einstein, Steven Pinker, Nicolas Cage, Larry Page, Zinedine Zidane.

Weird, right? Not to mention my lineage tracing led back to Alfred the Great (848/849 – 26 October 899). Good grief.

Jon Lovett has a good point on the podcast, don’t bother talking to any MAGA friends and family you have about this stuff. Talk to those who are MAGA curious or somehow on the fence about it. And obviously reinforce the support for those who believe in reality and democracy. Oh yeah, and that other thing what is it? Oh yeah, the rule of law.

Wow, a newer Chevy Impala just drove by me. Looks a little different than my first car in 1972, a 1967 Impala.

OK! I am at mile 4.5. That means I’ve done 10 miles this week so, far walking. I think I can say that without finishing the last half a mile yet because I still have to walk home and it’s actually after this last, half a mile, then another 2/10 of a mile from the stop sign down to my house :-)

Oh, so Pod Save America is in New York, because they say they’re bringing out "your attorney general Tish James", now. To thunderous applause! She takes Trump to trial on October 2, 2023 in New York.

What’s so funny about Trump's defense of his crimes is they’re all based on lies and ad homonyms. While those prosecuting him are basing their indictments on facts and evidence. Gee, I wonder who has a better chance of winning in an actual court?

MAGA lone wolves are no longer 100% Lonewolves, nor have they ever really been, when they’re being inflamed by lies and propaganda online and in media. But now there’s also unconstitutional private militias involved with their own lies and propaganda, and in some cases, even equipping people.

Wow, that's enough for this time...

Cheers! Sláinte!

Walkabout Thoughts #40

My thoughts, Stream of consciousness, rough and ready, while walking off long Covid and listening to podcasts…6/11/23 Sunday

Weather for the day… 65 and haze and very light clouds lots of blue sky

Podcast for the day podcast “The Mary Trump Show“ June 9, 2023 episode, “Donald Trump Indicted - EMERGENCY EPISODE"

The True Crime/Biopic screenplay, "The Teenage Bodyguard", has been misrepresented by those covering the topic and  misperceived by a few directors looking to shoot the film. The true life protagonist who this film is about refuses to have it done in what has been so far, a sensationalist orientation. This film was first proposed, and pitched to a London producer who said not to change the title, and asked if I write it, please send it to me first. That was his selection among my finished screenplays and several pitches I had sent to him to review.

Nineteen days later, I submitted my first draft to him. Sadly, he had simply disappeared  I never heard from him again. In searching for him online I couldn’t find him. I don’t know what happened there. The screenplay has since been rewritten multiple times. Including once with input from known producer, Robert Mitas, who has also produced films with Michael Douglas. Several directors he got interested had showed interest and took phone calls. But their vision didn’t match with the person who lived through this story. Or that of the original London producer's comments who had said it reminded him of the film, "The Place Beyond the Pines". A 2012 film with actors Ryan Gosling and Bradly Cooper, produced for $15 million and directed by Derek Cianfrance. 

That concept stuck and was in my mind when I wrote the screenplay. While others saw it merely as a typical teenage boy who was merely caught up in an usual situation. But this was a singular teenage boy, a  young man really, who is not a typical teenager. For a variety of reasons. From a stressful, broken home, a family that moved every year from Tacoma to Spain, to Philadelphia, then back to Tacoma and around that city through multiple homes, and his living his life skirting around a dismissive and at times abusive stepfather. This was a kid with ADHD, who had a doting older sister, and a loving mother who herself had her own personality issues. A woman who had recognized quickly that this was a kid who had far too much energy and trouble getting to sleep at night as a young child. She had quickly learned that he always needed to be involved in some kind of after-school activities. 

He bounced through various social programs through elementary school until getting into martial arts in fifth grade and fighting tournaments around the Pacific Northwest in Washington state in the 1960s. He joined the USAF auxiliary search and rescue organization, Civil Air Patrol, in junior high where he learned search and rescue, and taught drill and discipline to cadets under his command as a flight commander. From his first after school job in ninth grade, until graduating high school when he moved out at 17 into his own apartment. Then through a drug culture connection he was pushed into meeting a murder witness and waitress at Tacoma’s first topless venue, "The Tiki", run by the local mafia crime family. Pleading with him to stay with her for a week, armed, to keep her safe until she could leave town, he agreed. He agreed for variety of reasons. Boredom among them. He gave it careful thought, considered that he was capable of protecting her and in the end he did successfully accomplish that. "The Teenage Bodyguard", is that story.

Changing topics into the silly Trump world of his seditionist wizards and fools...tweets such as this one in this limply disguised, Mil-speak (military lingo/lexicon) in speaking to unconstitutional private militias, who in their small minds, have abridged themselves through social media to fantasize and fetishize that Civil War is afoot, or that they should invoke it, or that it's already been invoked against them in disallowing Donald Trump, their “r“ POTUS, as in “real“ POTUS, as if he'd been kicked out of office, bizarrely in an undemocratic fashion (thought he lost the 2020 election), all while they’re against democracy, for their autocratic or theocratic desires (only because they lose democratically). These are not stupid people, but are forcing themselves into the "idiotic " column of the great spreadsheet of humanity. Something weaponized by Donald Trump (their, shall we just call it, "foolishness"?), and by large by that kind of talk to the conservative movement, enhanced whenever possible by Russian active measures or anyone who wishes to for the Donald Trump they bizarrely love so much, fetishizing his sedition and insurrection, in order to bring chaos to America and western democracies.

Donald Trump is going down. While his Trumpism, as with any kind of populist mental illness such as this, will continue for sometime, until finally humanity has had enough of it, and through education and awareness, compassion, democracy, and perhaps the time may come when even religions will actually stand up for what they believe in, rather than gluing themselves to this vile populist bullshit. Many will be shown to be the cause of our pain, just plain old assholes who want to play the "tough guy", merely being the war performers they are. This is all really nothing but broken and bruised ego's, givien venue to self-actualize and inflame one another in an ever spiraling loop into insanity, the destruction of governments and the detriment of the human race.

Many of us prefer to call Donald Trump a traitor and in many ways he fits that description. However, that’s setting him up on a pedestal he doesn’t belong on. He’s just a criminal. A mob boss running street thugs. We allowed him to advance into the presidency, where he upgraded his street thugs, beyond lawyers and  accountants, to US Representatives and Senators and Governors and subsuming the GOP charter, which he shat all over onto their political platform, which he ended, tossed completely out, during their already spiraling downward ethics and morals, all of which he reconfigured into his criminal behaviors

America was fostered and grown on a healthy mix of fertilizer. Donald Trump however has spawned his MAGA and criminals in his typical, unhealthy, toxic MAGA mix of feces, blood, sputum, and human bodies.

Trump's valet, or body man, who attended him and who left the White House to stay with him, allegedly, drained the Mar-a-Lago pool, which flooded the server room, which contained security camera footage, which that body man had questioned IT about, for how long it’s retained, because of evidence they didn’t want the FBI to see, regarding their moving boxes of classified docs and anything Trump may have been involved in doing. There’s really only one question. Why would Trump's body man be draining any pool, even if it was Trump's actual home residence, even if it was not a public/private facility that he was living at? More on the body man below... Maintenance does all that. So? It’s interesting how Trump supporters claim actual legal issues are political when this much crap is going on, obviously needing to be investigated and charges brought.

We hear the right trying to scare the left and all of America with a question: can America handle Trump being indicted? Yeah, pretty much. They can. Tuesday 6/13/23, he will actually be fully indicted in court. The question is, can America, can American democracy, can western democracy stand Trump's NOT being indicted, tried and appropriately charged.? What's interesting in this scenario is how the right is using tools they use to frighten... the right... against the left. Who obviously aren’t frightened by such things or they would BE... on the right. The biggest element of conservatism today is as it always has been, only ever more so, in being based in fear, based in trying to prove negatives, based in excepting false positives, and overly utilizing selective ignorance...generally considered to be, stupidity. It’s not gonna work on the left. What’s even more confounding is that this fear evoking is not working on the left and that confounds the hell out of the right because hey, it works just fine on them and they ARE after all...everyone else, in their minds. That IS after all what narcissism does and does as a toxic culture.

People ask, how could someone like Trump have taken over the Republican Party? A Party based on fear and narcissism? How can you ask how a man whose life is steeped in fear and narcissism, could take over a Party dedicated to those primary characteristics, which are some of the worst humanity has to offer? Which religion has weaponized for millennia. Which has worked hand-in-hand with political endeavors by monarchies the world over through all time. Which are still in play today by autocracies, kleptocracies, theocracies and oligarchies, all of which are being attempted to be incorporated right here, right now, in America, today. Let's just not let that happen and hang on for a bit long to the US Constitution and our separation of church and state. The GOP seems to think getting rid of religion eliminates the GOP. OK, I could be good with that. They've demanded being put into that category that begs the question, do they have a place today in America? Oddly yes, but more oddly, they are indicating themselves a big fat, NO. They are if nothing else, a massive collection of contradictions because confusion and chaos have been working quite well for them for some time now.

Consider this. All this obfuscation and distraction that Trump supporters are throwing out about his being indicted for crimes that he  even admits to committing, that is all how actual functional democracy works, and our three branches of government, works. So essentially, these people are arguing against actual democracy and how the US Constitution has set up our government. All because of a populist idol they have. How does that make non-Trump supporters the enemy? Because it doesn’t. It makes these people in very least, our domestic stochastic terrorists, and violent insurrectionists, as we’ve already seen them do.

I stated repeatedly in 2020, begging for somebody to get an international election commission involved to monitor our election. The comeback to that was? No. What would that say about America? Well, we’ve already seen what it said about America in 2016. Had we done that, we would be further down the road back to democracy today. And maybe Trump would’ve been charged a lot sooner.

Donald Trump has written his own eulogy, politically and criminally. All America has to do now is trust that. Believe him. Accept the obvious evidence and let the trial go forward, the judgment to be adjudicated. It’s curious how Trump supporter support so many of his lies, but very few of the very few times he’s actually open and honest about things. Evidence proves his lies are lies. Evidence proves his very few truths are true. His admissions in public of crimes is, "Yes I did this, so what?" Once to the shock of Sean Hannity on camera. So what?! Indictments. That’s so what.

If Hillary were criminal or guilty, she’d have been indicted by the Trump administration, by the Bill Barr DOJ. She wasn’t because they could find no evidence. Trump has been indicted. Not by the Biden admin. Whereas Hillary would have been indicted by the Trump administration... if they could have. Trump is indicted not by the Biden DOJ. Or by the Attorney General Merrick Garland DOJ. And if you know anything about him, he’s not a Bill Barr who would "kow" to presidential pressure. I do believe Garland would quit first. Barr bent to Trump's will. His spoiled little shitheel will. AG Garland can only let Jack Smith continue, as legally he can only tell him to stop and only if he’s doing something wrong. There’s so many firewalls involved here, whereas under Trump he dismantled firewall after firewall. Which Joe Biden put back in place since beginning he re-entering the White House as POTUS46. Definitely points to one thing about Trump supporters. Selective ignorance is indeed stupidity. Supporting a criminal in legal parlance makes you a co-conspirator. If you and three people commit a crime and somebody’s murdered, you’re charged with murder, too. Right?

OK so apparently Trump's body man, who’s been indicted along with Trump, did not drain the swimming pool. He “drained the swimming pool“ by telling the maintenance guy to drain the swimming pool. One would suspect though that he would know how to do it correctly, so as not to flood the building proper. Also, I bet every person who is a minimum wage earner, or has worked at Mar-a-Lago for more than a couple days, quickly notice d what a lowlife Trump is, and how distrustful he is. So if you want to avoid prison time, you might go up to the Secret Service and ask them a few questions before draining that pool when he doesn’t need it. Or having drained the pool, you might now happily turn states evidence against Donald Trump, our first criminal.

One of the things that's so curious about Trump supporters is that everything he’s been claimed to have done, is so very within his wheelhouse. It’s all within his character. Many other things, are things he has done before. He’s the Roy Cohen self proclaimed king of the debt and has for decades. He's bullied contractors, taken people to court when he was 100% wrong. But because of his having way more money and so many attorneys and time, these are things always weighing against the small contractors especially, People would have to give up in court, or go bankrupt, even when they are in the right. And then sometimes they may have to go back into business again with Trump, because that’s how bullies are. And that’s a reoccurring situation he worked people into. Which he has done with personnel around him on his side, all his life. Work people into situations where they have to support you, so that when you fail, you forever will fail upward, leaving new others, who don’t yet know how you think, to believe you succeed on merit. Which regarding Trump, is laughable.

Remember always, Donald, Trump and his, are not saying he did not do these crimes he’s claimed to have done, but that he’s allowed to do those crimes which for any other person in America is indeed a crime. The presidency protects a POTUS from things when you do them in the national interest. None of the things Trump's done like this, had anything to do with anything other than Donald Trump’s personal self aggrandizement and wealth building. Which he will continue doing in anyway possible until someone stops him..

In the beginning of the Trump administration, people rationalized that it was OK, since there was nothing they could do about it, and besides, everyone was shocked that it happened. “But there’s adults in the room with him,” they'd say. Well, he got rid of all those. Now there’s just grifters in the room with him. And now the grifters are fleeing. Which needs to tell you everything. Pay attention to the digression of the Trump administration in The Donald Trump Criminal Endeavors and the violent seditionists and insurrectionists in that room now with him. And those out around in America, "hiding under rocks", waiting to stick their necks out for Trump's call to arms. We better be prepared to cut those necks when they shoot out from under those rocks, reading and willing to support a domestic terrorist, who at one point we had foolishly made POTUS and our first criminal though hopefully, our only "first criminal" ever again.

We need journalists who will interview Trump and his supporters, and when they are asked but avoid answering questions, will simply say, "I’ll await your answer. I’m still awaiting your answer to the question. Sir/ma’am/MAGA moron/stocastic terrorist/insurrectionist/criminal follower of first criminal Donald Trump, I'm still waiting for you to answer the question, which they won't. And every interview when they walk off we can hear that journalist say, "Thank you, we now have to conclude you refused to answer the question because that answer... is quite clear and obvious to all."

At CNN. Don’t get rid rid of people like Chris Licht, get rid rid of people like John Malone the problem is systemic and it comes from the top.

It is sad that it was the Lindbergh baby and could not have been the baby, Donald Trump, instead. America and so many would have had such better lives in his not being there. Much as with the Adolph Hitler baby. The difference therein lay only in a matter of degree.
According to Ari Melber, Donald Trump has been involved in over 4000 lawsuits. When you claim rich people go through that as businessman… Come up with another one like that. Then you can say that.

Speaking of Jeffrey Epstein… When you point to everyone who has a picture of them hanging out with him, you have to understand how many people hang out with wealthy people. But people who are accepted into his close association who are doing serious crimes are only a few who are allowed into an inner circle like that. That doesn't sound like a Bill Gates to me, or a Rob Reiner. But it sure as hell sounds like a Donald Trump.

When you’re a person of color, you see two rules of law in America. When you’re wealthy, especially a wealthy criminal, you see one and wonder why those who see two aren't judged more harshly. Something that leans more especially on wealthy criminal types such as Donald Trump, and oddly enough, those who support him, and at just about any economic level.

You have to ask yourself, if you’re a Donald Trump supporter… Why are you so titillated by cruelty? Because all the rest of us are asking that.

So for those who say Donald Trump won the 2020 election, how do you explain his losing the 2018 election? And the 2022 election? Everything he’s being indicted for follows his personality and his history. You can’t explain it all, rationalize it away, because it’s just who he is. A criminal and a loser. People become criminals because they are losers and want to be winners. And so they hate winners who get there honestly. How does that not clearly explain Donald Trump and what we’ve seen?

White Christian nationalist, white supremacists have chipped away at our democracy for decades we have to start chipping back. But we gotta start by knocking some big chips out first. And Donald Trump right now, is that biggest chip.

I read as many great books of wisdom as I could get my hands on decades ago. My older brother got me started on that in my late teens, to read books by great men, or compendiums of books about great men, or women. Though he said men. And there are indeed far more men in history than women, for obvious reasons. But then he is a chauvinist, too. Although I started doing that long before he told me that. When in fifth grade I started reading Aristotle, having found his book at the library and was fascinated by it. It altered my life. One of the books I read was, Machiavelli's, "The Prince" (instruction guide for new princes and royals). I have not heard that Trump read that book, but he seems to live his life by it. While I took it as a book full of wisdom to protect yourself around power, some take it as a how too guide for how to apply power in as illiberal and cruel a fashion as possible in order to become, power.

We have the numbers. In numbers of decent Americans. Voters and Republicans came together to denounce a school board in Florida about book bans. They succeeded. We have the numbers. We merely need to do what the vocal minority did for Trump. Come together, and then these illiberal and even criminal actions from our domestic enemies simply cannot succeed, if we just opened our eyes and act.

I’ve done this before, but to define that word “act“, to act as you can, and as often as you can, but as you can and are able to. Certain Christian groups did that as a fundamental. To go out and preach their beliefs. We don’t need to do that. We don’t need to preach or lecture. We don’t need to be aggressive. We need to live our lives in liberal democratic ways of decency and compassion, understanding, and wisdom. We need to go for quality over quantity. People like Trump are quantity over quality. He’s gauche. He’s gross. He’s a nouveau riche goofball. His homes are what a poor person thinks a wealthy person should live like. Where for many more educated and acculturated see less is more, those unlike that believe more is more, and evermore is better and they want ever more to allow their "id" to take over allowing their inner child to never mature into adulthood until one day they can become our first criminal president. Don't be that guy. Don't support that guy.

I wondered about this for many years. There is not a 50-50 split or Republicans and Democrats and yet how close are our elections anymore? They repeatedly come down to few votes either way. How? Voter suppression, gerrymandering, and a mostly fucked up electoral college.

How is anti-trans, anti-LGBQ+ not our latest form of eugenics while it’s not really any new form at all. Bigotry is bigotry.

 

Cheers! Sláinte!

Walkabout Thoughts #39

My thoughts, Stream of consciousness, rough and ready, while walking off long Covid and listening to podcasts… from June 8, 2023

Weather for the day… 65 and haze and very light clouds lots of blue sky

Podcast for the day podcast “Pod Save world “ episode, “

Instagram post for the day

Regarding Henry Kissinger’s 100th birthday, I think his celebration of being alive is worthy. I think his celebration for his position in history is worthy, but I also think rather than completely denigrate them. There should certainly be caveat to make us aware because of current and future issues. There’s many of his critics now as he points out weren’t even born when he was in the White House advising President Nixon about the Vietnam war, and the Cold War at large against USSR. I think they made many decisions based on global issues rather than Vietnamese Chinese regional ones. But I think a lot of humans died during that weren’t necessarily and that at some point American did go off the rails. That includes domestic central and south American political issues of America, disregarding our support of democracy for that of a cold war between us and another nuclear power. They were simply times when you see something that would be functional beneficial, but it’s so goes against who you are and report to be that you don’t do it or are you listen to her better angels and her best mine to do something possibly more effective and certainly less harmful I left destructive of humanity.

All this “cancel culture“ was a necessary evil to get us to a point of awareness. But now that it’s been in place for a while, we need to evolve beyond it to something better and less destructive. Even the best of things and intentions can be destructive when overused or taken to extremes points. we want to cancel the bad. I get that. But it goes along with the whole concept of free-speech that we should hear the evil and have counter steward in order to neutralize it rather than ignore it or push it underground working faster. As we found today with technology and social media and new political models of affecting change, typically destructive change, we need to find our own new models, so we don’t force things underground for it to faster, forth, cancellation, of what we need to hear encounter, and just allow or have new laws in order to support our democracy and free-speech. Free-speech is been weaponization against democracy and citizens worldwide. Democracy has been weaponization against citizens, worldwide in support of autocracy despotism, and in the theocratic the kleptocratic in the oligarchy. American Christian evangelicalism and toxic capitalism have affected humanity. What is our inoculation against that? It’s not Socialism. It’s not communism. It’s not even pure democracy. It’s a hybrid perfected balance of social structures and political ideologies, in order to support humanity and not the god capital. That is, the filthy lucre.

Thanks to Trump pulling out of the Iran nuclear treaty then I have 10 times to capabilities in our building under a mountain facility that are weapons designed to take out such facilities won’t be able to destroy. Still trying to figure out what it is people like about Trump that they would give him even a vote. I run is now going to reveal its new hypersonic missile.

It may well be time to let Ukraine into NATO. To tell Russia we’re going to bring Ukraine into NATO in 30 days. If we see any escalation by Russia, or anyone else in Ukraine, they will immediately be incorporated. We could also say stop now and leave Ukraine and we will not bring them in within 30 days. And leave it at that. Do not agree that they won’t be brought into NATO. And then bring them in the NATO at some point in the near future.

It’s like leave it, the physical attrition of resources, for either country won’t end. This war in Russia started that Putin started. Politics has obviously failed it. So this needs to be something in between. And decisive. And then Putin hast to leave office within the next six months in anyway possible. Most reasonably removed from office by Russia themselves in anyway possible. The more brutal for better. With all to prejudice.

I’ve been busy the past month or so I’m starting this streaming video channel. Many changes of came about to the beginning when we started in January and we’re in pre-planning Q4 of 2022. So I’ve done my long Covid health walk about after a rough winter and a bad long Covid flareup. I’m up to 4 miles every other day this week. Trying to get to 5 miles. Trying to walk early enough before it gets too hot. I haven’t released my last three blogs and whine about my screen play “the teenage bodyguard” I just won best crime screenplay at the lotus international film and screenplay contest. I’ll be working on releasing these which are already released by time. You read this the last of them so far.

I’m now listening to the last episode podcast of the Intercepted with Jeremy Scahill. I read his ratings before I have some of the books Siri good. But this is on things like the American dollar and comments like the power and singularity of the American dollar or waning. Which is why I have half my portfolio little more in stocks, a few of those international and the rest in cryptocurrencies. Regardless of the issues going on now crypto has got to get some regulations some laws. For all those who are trying to kill it I just don’t see it happening. With the current mass between finance and coinbase, with one guy in particular in the government bringing lawsuits, I’ve considered, dropping the bulk of my crypto into a hardware wallet. And continue with my small monthly automatic purchases. I’ve also got some money up on prospect.com which makes loans to people and you collect the interest and control that over and to make a new laws. It’s slow you can choose your risk. As always, you don’t invest money you can’t afford to lose. But we also can’t afford to not save for the future, and invest in something with acceptable risk to each one of us individually as we can bear.

Cheers! Sláinte!

Walkabout Thoughts #38

My thoughts, Stream of consciousness, rough and ready, while walking off long Covid and listening to podcasts… June 6, 2023

As I'm editing this Trump has been federally indicated. Finally!

United States of America vs Donald Trump

Weather for the day… 65 degrees and nice!


Navigator poll: 65% of all Americans believe Trump committed a crime 12% from just the most before. The greatest shift came from independence and Republicans. Especially Republicans who do not identify as very conservative.

Trump ran for POTUS45 in 2016 to sell a book and disingenuously with illiberal help from Russian special ops & active measures, he won. He now expects to be running as POTUS47 in 2024 in order to help protect him from the crimes he committed during and after being POTUS45, as well as using it all as a money making machine for international dark money and money in the light of day considering things like LIV, golf, etc., for those who see that. Should he become president again it would behoove them all to treat him well, now.

 NOT this...

We won’t see anything like this were he to become president again and after he’s no longer president. That is, if he doesn’t subvert our democracy and ferret apart an autocratically tyrannically applied autocratic playbook to destroy said democracy, and our country, and then, should he be president for life, Then later potentially who knows? Ivanka. or worse, Jared. or worse. Don Junior, or worse Eric Trump, or possibly nightmarishly worse, Barron Trump?

But this...

Florida's DeSantis', “Where woke goes to die“ translates clearly as “where democracy is nearly dead being pummeled to death.“

Here’s what’s funny about especially MAGA complaining about how Christian values have been removed from our schools and culture. They did that themselves. Years before Trump got on the scene. Conmen and evangelical churches did that. Evangelicalism entering our institutions of government did that in working to tear apart out culture of multinational, multicultural and multi-societal communities supported by our secular government built to support to the Constitution and those multi-theistic (or non-theistic) communities. 

A theocracy doesn’t do that, or allow for that. How does a Christian theocracy support other religions? Does it? We’ve benefited from people coming here, immigrating. being born here, and even taking key roles in our tech and society. How does a theocratic Christian government even support its own disparate branches of Christianity? Christianity which came from Judaism? What of fans of antisemitism among them? How long before they start cutting the fat off Christianity and out of government and country? How long before white, even more toxic forms of Christianity, overwhelm our government and the decent Christian community? How long before that turns into merely white Christian supremacists? How long before eugenics come back into play? How long before we are, “Nazi America“? 

How long before the powerful are merely MAGA, white Christian nationalism, white supremacy, and overwhelm all the rest? They said anti-abortion laws should be decided at the state level and then shifted to make it federal. They incrementally worked over decades to destroy our liberal democracy, which America is after all. Trying to destroy our democracy. They did it through subverting our freedom by calling for freedom, as regulated by big government, but disingenuously demanding small government. This is the new bigotry, the new fascism, new Nazism as clearly detailed in George Orwell's "1984", so many decades back. He didn’t necessarily see this coming. But he saw this as it had come to other countries. He saw this in the potential it allowed for, if we didn’t follow "our better Angels". Speculative fiction gives us warning, and should give us pause, where instead some have taken it as a roadmap to out destruction. Their "enemies". US. America. There is that toxic white Christian nationalist's "acceleration theory" that we need to bring on the end so that Jesus Christ will rise and rule for 1,000 years. Yeah people believe that bullshit.

What is what crap?

In the context of white Christian nationalism, the concept of acceleration theory is sometimes associated with the idea that societal and cultural decay is accelerating, and that it is necessary to hasten or provoke a societal collapse or confrontation in order to create conditions that would allow for the establishment of a desired white Christian nationalist order. This belief is rooted in a pessimistic view of society and a belief in the necessity of radical action to bring about a perceived restoration of power and dominance.

It's important to note that white Christian nationalism and its associated beliefs are considered fringe and extremist views held by a small minority. They are not representative of mainstream Christianity or its teachings, which emphasize love, inclusivity, and respect for all people. But MAGA doesn't care. Hate is more fun apparently.

Remember, if Trump is elected POTUS 47 he'll have only four years left, no fear of being careful for re-election, unless his previous plan is perfected and works next time around, so then he’s in for life. Even if he’s in for four years only, those are unrestrained years where he knows he can’t be elected again, again if he can’t pull off another coup. 

The Donald Trump as POTUS45 will look nothing like the Donald Trump POTUS47. Anyone who supported America against him will be in danger. Anyone, anyone at all, even those who support him now, even those who make him president again. will be dangerous and a risk. They can praise him like their religious leader, for a while, but this never ends well. And it’s incredibly easy to see how this won’t end well, following an autocratic narcissist like Donald Trump. Following a toxic defective ideology based in fascism, hate, greed and toxic capitalism. Best of luck to those who continue to support a criminal again into the presidency. You'd think the first go around would have made it all obvious. But such is the ignorance in populism.

Regardless, the fools who give support to Putin and Russia in their war against Ukraine, and having entered another country illegally, what it comes down to is there’s never ever reason to invade another country. If another country invades you, then there’s a reason to defend yourself. If they won’t stop, that may be a reason to invade them. But to just cold attack another country, there is no excuse and no argument to support that. Any who do support that are criminal, intentionally immoral and unethical in orientation, hateful by design. If not simply patently easy as a people to propagandize.

I am an "isthmus" on the island of Humanity. From time to time one of those who are an "isthmus" will break off and become an island into themself, and therein lay "The Cult of Fascism", of self-hatred turned against the Island of Humanity. A belief that follows the one or the single ideal… brittle, which is strong up to the point of breaking...by Humanity fighting back. Knowledge, experience and history, that is wisdom... applied with great effort, will win against the Grand Stupid. Against the cult of personality.

The same concept in that quote about how they came for this or that person, and yet I did nothing... until they finally came for me… The same theory Republicans are putting in place now in what their illiberal laws are doing. "We’re gonna just do this for now, and it’s harmless." And then suddenly? People are dying.

“Hate“ is a severely overused word. Much like “woke“, severely misused by the right to mean whatever they want it to mean. When you hate, it’s all encompassing and leads to a calling, it leads to ending what you hate. I never hated Donald Trump. I don’t hate anybody or anything. He can make you stupid because fear and stress make you stupid and that is what he/they feed to their mesmerized ones. 

When I started martial arts in fifth grade, I was taught when you get in a fight, and you only fight to defend, when you defend, you do it with a clear and rational mind. There’s no room for hate. There’s no room for anger. There’s only room for scientific calculation. That extends itself into the psycho-social and cultural. War is extremely complex, even on the two person level. The concept of “war” on others, politically speaking, has been dumbed down to where it has itself been weaponized.

I’ve had this blog here since about 2010. You can go back over this blog and see I am who I always have been. You can go back over my entire life and see that. What you see is what you get. Although I recognize people who read things into me may see who I am not. That’s a matter of circumstance and situation and having too little time to share. 

My older brother had his opinions over the decades. He knew a lot more about politics than me going back to the 60s, or 70s. But then he's seven years older than me. He got me thinking. Things he said kept moving around my mind over the years, though military service, through college. After I went and got a couple of degrees. after my Air Force service, University degree in psychology, and then for over ten years trying to get something going (and partying through the 80s), I finally started paying attention in the 90s. I’ve learned a lot through all that. And through all that my main focus had been the Soviet Union, their KGB and espionage tactics. What I learned through books about MI5/6, OSS/CIA, Military Intelligence and books written by retired heads of those institutions. 

I would refuse to say that I have "evolved". As I get new information, I apply it to current knowledge and increase my wisdom. For me "evolution" in that sense, indicates a lack of character, or effort. Those who that is not true for, use the word for political reasons because political discourse is simplified in so many cases. Those who digested simplified info who are simplistic themselves in their understanding remain as such. 

One has to take that kind of info and supplicate it along with other simple info to enhance it and synthesize it, into more a complex understanding. Kind of like unzipping a zipfile...informationwise, but needing to go to other files to complete the target file (info). yeah, it's problematic, even more so if you don't know how to fit the puzzle pieces together. That's how you get some fool with an assault rifle attacking a pizze shop with no basement because there's kidnapped kids in the...basement.

Regarding Nikki Haley‘s ridiculous comment that a third of teen girls have contemplated suicide over trans issues, is obviously utter right wing bullshit. She also said trans communities are pushing their beliefs on others. Right, and gays are "grooming" your kids. It's stupid.

You know what’s wrong with that statement? Others should be learning about those minorities who are being abused, going through a living hell, and find those things out for themselves rather than espousing blame and hate. They should be saying healing not hateful things, supporting those people who are living tough lives. Because that is being humane. Which clearly points out Nikki Haley being disingenuous if not simply massively ill informed. Republicans anti-LGBTQ+ are simply not humane people, or perhaps you can just say they’re not knowledgeable, ignorant for believing foolish information.

When you put that another way, if you’re not ever championing something that challenges your beliefs, you’re probably being bigoted, enjoying having low information. if not wallowing in low empathy. All my life, even as a little kid I supported what I saw was right. I pushed back against what I saw was wrong. It literally got my ass beat in grade school multiple times, even in junior high. Scared? Yeah. Many times, but that’s what courage is, right? Doing what's right no matter how scared you are. 

But if everything you believe is 100% correct and you’re not ever wrong about anything (and I agree, I always want to be right. but I also want to be correct, even more so), no one is always 100% right. Because we’re human. Dare to be wrong if it leans to the side of compassion against the group. When many are harming one, consider if you're on the side of what is right and not just what is Rightwing. Even if we’re a computer or an AI, we can be wrong. Even those at this time in history can “hallucinate“, when they don’t know the answer. Because they’re designed to please. And then they’re the problem. We’re a tribal species. And we will at times do for the group over ourselves, or the one. even when we should know what is right and stand against that group. That's evolution. Standing outside the cohesion to point out the better way.

Kevin McCarthy on the debt ceiling and threatening Biden and Democrats with it? He sees the Democrats desires as "rape". He saw the debt ceiling as a cocked gun. So his statement is something like "if you rape  my "wife" (America), I’ll blow MY brains out. When in reality, his “wife” (which again is America in his tiny brain) she left him a long time ago. And Biden and the Democrats are who she now wants to be with. Which is the majority of Americans. And his shooting himself in the head, that’s him thinking he’s America. Yeah I never made any sense to me either. But it's that illogical.

If Trump were to win the 2024 election that wouldn’t be historical, and it wouldn’t be unique. Maybe in American history in someways. But in the history of Trump, it’s exactly what he’s always done. Surround himself with smarter people, although not what we’re seeing in a long time now. His committing crimes  they’re attached to, forcing them, when he fails once again… to do everything in their power, even if some of them go to prison, or even die off, all forcing him once again into failing upward... again and again and again through his (and our?) entire lifetime.

Also...Mega MAGA trickle down?

Cheers! Sláinte!