Walkabout Thoughts #35

My thoughts, Stream of consciousness, rough and ready, while walking off long Covid and listening to podcasts… March 26, 2023, Sunday

Weather for the day… 60 and haze and very light clouds lots of blue sky

Podcast for the day podcast “Pod Save world “ episode, “Is prosecuting presidents a good idea?"


The podcast for the day is having a very good discussion on prosecuting presidency next president and they said there’s two kinds of countries who do prosecute. Like France or South Korea. Who is the healthy form of democracy and holding power accountable. Maybe had we held previous presidents accountable, Nixon, or like Reagan screwing Jimmy Carter on the 1980 election over hostages in Iran, and so on, maybe we wouldn’t be here today.

Now they’re talking about when you have a president that has so many charges against them... I’ve seen this before. It’s the old adage about, "Kill one person it's murder. Kill 1000 you get a medal." Perhaps because ""The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic." But as they say, support for Trump, as in the pro-Trump protest this past week were in the 10s of people. I think we have our ad. We're certainly approaching the point I said we'd get to years ago, that Trump supporters would stop supporting him in action and elections, but might still support him in their words...simply because they cannot face who they truly have become, and what they have done. I never expected to hear an apology from MAGA supporters because that’s who they are. And that’s how they got to where they got to. Because if they weren’t like that, Trump wouldn't be an issue. Myself, I admit when I'm wrong, I come out about it and try to be correct. When I’m wrong, I will admit it because as a culture we need that. As a person once needs that for one's own character. My character to me, is far more important than other's image of me. If everyone was like that, Trump would’ve never happened and this ridiculously bizzrre MAGA Republican Party would never have evolved into the insanity they have evolved into.

Now they’re talking about China and Russia and a Ukraine and Russia 12 point peace plan. How about they just end the damn war? Russia leaves and China and other countries agree to help Russia. And Ukraine, obviously. But Putin has to leave power. He could even have amnesty. Even though he really needs to die by polonium poisoning. Within a year would be reasonable. Though I'm sure we wouldn’t put that in a peace plan.

President Xi of China and Putin have met 39 times over their career?

Apparently in 2021, when the Indians and the Chinese were going at it, they're saying on the podcast, apparently they went at it with bats with nails driving int them. America gave India intelligence on Chinese troop movement, which pissed off the Chinese. Which isn’t apparently helping our current situation.

Maybe we need to find a way to cripple Chinese and Iranian (and obviously, Russian) economies, and then offer to help them? Or maybe not.

Cheers! Slainte!