Early voting has started for the caucuses in Nevada. (#4033)

     Some early voting sites had few lines while others had long lines. Either way the voting has begun in Nevada and it seems that there is good interest in the outcome. As each new state finishes their voting and the totals come about my main point of interest will be the turnout. Like I have said for years now I am not as concerned about who our nominee is but in the enthusiasm we are showing at the primary voting booths and general election. I have little to no doubt that our democratic party will turn out for the election and if we do it solidly behind whomever our nominee is then we will take back the White House, the Senate, while holding onto the House.
     This is the scenario I had envisioned for 2016 but we got ambushed by low turnout and trump lies. I don't see that happening again because trump is still lying and most of us can see it now. Plus the problem of low turnout is being addressed well before the general election. I want to see the fruits of the large turnout happen in our primaries so that we carry that enthusiasm over to the general election. There cannot be any rest from getting our voters and message out about our policies. The rest will come on November 3rd when the voting is done.
     Unlike in 2016 when rest was expected we got the reverse and for the last 4 years most of us democratic activists have been relentless in our advocacy for stopping trump from dismantling our democracy. It is tiring work and seems never ending yet it has to be done. There is no other recourse but to fight tooth and nail in order to defeat trump and retake the Senate and many more State houses. It is a big job and if all helped it would be easier, so make sure that your vote is a solidly democratic one and help get others to the voting booth. The beginning we hoped for in 2016 has been delayed and even set back but we can rectify that in 261 days.

Commonalities of slave owners and republicans (#4032)

     I was just sitting back in my chair thinking about voting rights and how hard we democrats have to work just to get an equal right to vote for too many American citizens. The republican party has put up so many barriers to voting that millions of otherwise eligible voters cannot "qualify" to vote. By qualify I mean overcome the obstacles republicans have enacted to keep voting out of reach for too many who would vote against them. You get that correct? The republican party is strategically denying voting rights to those who would vote against them. So instead of convincing those voters that the republican party is their best option, they instead deny them the right to vote.
     I could list the ways republicans deny voters, such as minimal voting stations in heavily democratic areas. The denial of absentee voting as a rule. The difficulty placed on many poor folks who don't have the ID required through republican laws. The difficulty of finding a motor vehicle station open that would supply necessary ID's near where heavily democratic areas are located. Denying out of state students their right to vote unless they have that state's strict ID requirement. No same day voter registrations to vote. No automatic Motor Vehicle update to include new voters. No state holiday to allow for free and unencumbered voting by their states' citizens. Using voting machines that have no paper trail. These are just a few ways republicans work to control who can vote.
     The reason republicans want to control who can and cannot vote is because they have an entitled viewpoint that the rest of us need their guidance. The old slave owners credo that they know what is best for us and they work damned hard to make sure we know it. They are the do as I say crowd not the do as I do crowd. Well we the rest of us are not in need of paternal guidance from the likes of them. The republican party is full of folks who cannot evolve into a future that is modern and enlightened. They are stuck in the old ways of people as property even though they don't call it that. We on the other hand are done with them trying to set our future based upon their past.

The waiting (#4031)

     I can't tell you how much I am tired of waiting for the election to get here. Today I actually celebrated almost half of February being gone. Just because I am not only ticking of the days and weeks but the half months now as well. lol. I have to laugh at myself because otherwise I instead would feel miserable. Nothing is going to ease this anxiety I feel about surviving trump until he is actually voted out. Even then he has a about 2 and a half months more of damage he will likely do before he is ousted either voluntarily or physically on January 20, 2021.
     So while waiting and staying informed as to political news I try to stay as busy as I can in order to while away the time. It is the damn waiting that is hard on me and although the activities I immerse myself in outside of politics are good for me they are still not my full focus. How I will survive this waiting time is hard to tell but suffice it to say the half caf coffee is helping. Anxiety is its own detriment without me helping it along with more anxiety. Doing physical projects around this fixer upper is helpful in that there is always something to do and time spent thinking about improvements is time spent away from my utter and deep disdain for all things trump and his enablers.
     Yet wait and wait is not only my cross to bear but others like me who are going mad because they cannot get rid of trump fast enough. I get that and it is such a burden to live with such a rotten evil disgusting human being as our appointed leader. I mollify myself with the thought that each day gets us closer to the day when he will be brought down from his imaginary thrown. As well the punishment he is deserving of will come on the days after his defeat to whomever is our democratic nominee. Even writing these daily blog posts has become somewhat a burden in that I have to face another 24 hours of harm the bigoted narcissist has unleashed upon us.
     

Dumbo donnie and the destroyers (#4030)

     Two very dangerous traits in a human are idiocy and uncaring. We have that now as our appointed president. The manchild has never had to be pushed to excel at anything so instead he pushes others with his anger and his threats. Because he cannot logically reason with anyone who has a basic understanding of logic. There are rules within logic and they are in constant violation when trump opens his mouth to spew his minimally activated mind into words. So what we have with him is not so bad as we normally would be able to shut him down through the procedures of government, normally. But we don't have normal government procedures anymore. The Senate and the Justice Department are headed by two close accomplices of trump who have put our nation in jeopardy rather than defend democracy.
     We had been able to defend ourselves against the slow witted trump up until now with his inability to understand how to manipulate government for his first 2 appointed years. Then with the 2018 election he lost control of the House and found he couldn't bulldoze his inappropriate policies without real obstruction. It has taken him all this time to finally consolidate his power within our government with only just a handful of months left in his appointed term. So he must win or be appointed again in the next election or he will face the consequences of his ulterior motivated illegal acts. With the election primaries now underway there is less chance for dumbo donnie to screw what he hasn't of our democracy so his strategy hinges on the outcome of November 3rd 2020.
     What we have as democrats, who have stood, marched, and voted to deny dumbo donnie any further power to destroy us is about to come to fruition. As we unite behind whomever is our nominee regardless of who it is the momentum we have to usurp from dumbo donnie any vestige of power he clings to is within our grasp. Dumbo donnie will try anything to hold onto power but we who are the butt end of his joke of an appointed presidency have had enough and now is our time to show it. The full arsenal of tricks and suppression will be hurled at us to keep the low IQ one in office but it won't be enough as we the heart and soul of America have no doubt as to dumbo donnie and his destroyers vision of making our citizenry peasants in his kingdom.
     

Turnout, turnout, turnout, Yes! (#4029)

     Yesterday in New Hampshire our democratic turnout for the primary election has done what I had hoped for it to do. It was attended by close to around 290,000 democratic voters which would be an all time high turnout ever in New Hampshire for any primary election. More than who won this early contest for me is how many would be ready to vote for our candidates. The reason being is that the enthusiasm for our democratic party is crucial in taking down not only the target of trump but his enablers in the House, Senate, and state houses. With a huge turnout we can expect a very large purge of republican politicians who deserve nothing less.
     I was disappointed about the Iowa turnout results but it is a small state with a quirky all night voting protocol which turns a lot of regular people off. So just discounting Iowa I was ready to accept the result that New Hampshire would provide. Given that New Hampshire has a regular voting process and uses paper ballots to record it's vote totals. Well I was more than optimistic as the results rolled in and was showing a heavy turnout for we democrats. The closer we got to deciding which of our many candidates was going to win, the greater the number of voters coming out was apparent. I spent the night not watching who was going to win but how many voters would vote.
     To me it is all about turnout, even more so than which of our candidates will get our nominee. I have already pledged my full support to whomever wins our nomination because like it has been noted by many of us I am a one issue voter this time around and it is to stop trump from any chance of a second term, appointed or otherwise. Restoring the dignity and respect of our nation to not only our own citizenry but to the world at large is critical. Our nation is being run by some of the most devious underhanded cruel republicans and their time must be made to end this coming November 3rd. Nothing and I mean nothing is more important right now than the salvation of our democracy and the deserves owed to the republican party and it's snake head.

All human life has equal value (#4028)

     How anyone can segregate or be biased against someone different than them based upon no logical rationale is absurdly inhuman. Racism is taught not a natural human instinct. Sexism is taught not a natural human instinct. These two nefarious paradigms are the product of fear and fear is the last thing we need to guide or lives with. Our innocence from birth is where value in living begins. Never surrendering our principles of fairness, justice, and equality is how the foundation of a proper life is built. No one is better than any other as a rule not an exception.
     Surely we distinguish ourselves from each other in the application of our grit and fortitude, in our drive to be curious about all things, in our effort to physically dominate our weaknesses. But these are endeavors while living, not the arbiters of worthiness above all else. The mere presence of our existence is miraculous and worthy of humbled respect. What we do with our lives as we live often merit considerations of approval or disapproval but are not in themselves more or less equivalent to the worthiness of our individual existence. Our divergent upbringings and other environmental factors are the cause of class status, not the fact of our birth or the fire we have within each of us.
     The idea that we cannot have a society that has the foundation of equality at its core is selfish and brutal thinking. The ancients never guessed how much alike we all are and back then their technology couldn't guide them properly. Whereas today we have the science and logic to prove our equalness and if ever we allow the intelligence of reason, analysis, and conclusion to be our guides we will have begun to build a society that reflects that. Otherwise unfortunately we are stuck with too many who find learning a chore unworthy of their time and space. Ultimately their confidence at being intelligent without doing their own mental work of attaining intelligence has them stuck in limbo with their too many fears surrounded by too many closer to ignorance than wisdom.

The day before New Hampshire democratic primary (#4027)

     Tomorrow there will be 38 weeks (266 days) left until we vote out trump and his acolytes in the 2020 general election. Until then we have our nominating contests filling the time between now and then. With tomorrow all about New Hampshire and the first real election, not a caucus run by the state party, we will have a better gauge on who is leading our party for now. I know that New Hampshire, like Iowa, is a small sample size but it is big enough to get at least a glimpse of what is to come with the next state election.
     There are two more nominating contests in Nevada and South Carolina still to come this month so as we get a glimpse from New Hampshire we are ready to add to that glimpse with the caucus in Nevada on February 22nd and the election in South Carolina on February 29th. So almost each week of this month gives we democrats an idea as to how this coming general election will play out. I say that because not only will we start to see separation between the remaining candidates but most important to me is the turnout. Will our base turn out and vote like our hair is on fire? Because this election on November 3rd is a hair on fire moment in time.
     Not only is our democracy at real risk but our planet that sustains our very lives is being turned into a furnace. So if the turnout does not meet or exceed the same amounts as the last many general election totals we as a species may find ourselves repeating the horrendous example set in 2016. Our base and fellow travelers in the independent and republican parties have to get out and vote in these primaries as a show of force to the powers that be that they are not the chosen amongst our citizenry. Much is on the line here and as I keep saying whomever we nominate gets all of me, no matter who because the greatest danger is the conman in the White House now and nothing short of ending his appointed presidency will suffice.

trump doesn't want disease preparedness (#4026)

     Okay, someone will have to tell me the logical reason for not wanting to be fighting deadly viruses. This is a public health issue so it's vitalness is inherent. So why does the mind numbing idiot trump want to see us less prepared for viruses like the emerging Coronavirus out of China? Anyone? So here is my logical attempt to explain this trumpian reversal of preparedness. It isn't the money per se since the budget for the CDC is dwarfed by the military budget. So it can't be fiscal restraint especially in the face of the massive tax cuts trump just gave the wealthy.
     It isn't that the staffing at the CDC was bloated and needed to be trimmed for reasons due to overlap of work or nothing to do. Every year trump has been in his appointed office he has tried to cut the CDC budget. Yet every year I have not seen any reason for it. How does he base his decision to make what cuts and why? We don't know and he is letting on that I can find. So either he is just ignorant to the problems that the CDC attempts to cure and/or track or he is being advised by others who are not in the loop as to why the CDC is a valued organization.
     I know that trump is for smaller government but the idea that we need less disease control and elimination is absurd! More so than some world war, an out of control deadly virus may do the job instead of ending the human race. I am grasping at straws here but given trump's penchant to put himself first I can theorize that a virus outbreak on our world is less concerning to him if he and his is personally prepared to survive it. I put nothing below what this soulless human wastoid is capable of. Regardless though the rest of us have a problem and we need to act as like Greta Thunberg says that our house is on fire now! Not only with the effects of climate change on our atmosphere and terrain, but in the releasing of deadly viruses from long locked frozen bodies of water.

Wannabe dictator trump (#4025)

     This is no surprise to those of us who know how trump operates. It is simple to understand. He cannot stand criticism when he is wrong nor truth telling when he lies. So the purge yesterday of those who provided witness testimony under oath and subpoena. There was at least one federal code broken when trump ousted Colonel Vindman. Yet as we have seen trump can break the law with impunity as the US Attorney General will do nothing to hold trump accountable nor prosecute him for violations of his oath and the rule of law. The attorney general's office is supposed to be non partisan but with trump it is nothing but partisan in his favor.
     Same with the Supreme Court, it is supposed to be a non partisan chamber yet we see once again that the trumps have only put on the bench those who have a loyalty to him, not our nation. So we are in precarious times with the wannabe dictator trump trying his best to shirk the wannabe and actually make himself a dictator. He has even begun the narrative of him staying in office for another 12 years in violation of our constitution. The audacity he projects with little care as to its effect is brash and cavalier. So the next 7 months before the election on November 3rd we all have a chance to make sure that trump is only a one term appointed president.
     I am already confident that our democratic blue wave onslaught is still riding high but that it will even be higher. It needs to be in order for our Congress to also fall to democrats. Then the process of refilling our Supreme Court with objective jurists will be available. There are many ways of dealing with obstruction that republicans have built into our political system once we have them out of power and the sooner we get at it the better for our society. The damage that has been done by republican carpetbaggers is immense but not so densely high that we cannot tear it apart and rebuild it with democratic principles. The sooner the better the wannabe dictator is ousted and subjected to his deserves the better our future in America and the world will be.

Voted today for the primary here in Cali (#4024)

     Talk about it officially beginning! Today I got to send in my mail in ballot with my choices for our democratic party. The beginning of the end for trump is how all of this feels for me. I have been waiting anxiously since the trump appointment to our presidency and today feels like we have finally reached the beginning of the end of his dream to be a lifelong king. I know it is just the primary that I voted in today but it is the momentum I feel from all the marches and advocacies for our policies that I have been part of since day one of the nightmare trump. Sending that ballot back to the election commission is a sacred high I will never tire of.
     Doing my duty to our democracy is a part of it but voting to correct a huge mistake made on November 8th, 2016 is my ultimate imperative. There is nothing more important in my life than to make sure that the trumps of the world and especially those who work overtime to enable him are grabbed by the short hairs and booted out of our political power houses. The disdain republicans have for human life that is not their color or gender is atrocious and is deserving of a much worse than civilized response. The audacity it takes to attend to psycho/sociopathic behaviors as a norm must never be allowed to happen again.
     I am older and surely not expected to survive for many more decades so the future of life on Earth is as prioritized for me as my next breath. We who can still fight like all get out must do so this election cycle so that the protection of our democracy is never to be assailed again by those who would rather spit on us than help us up. The insanity of this time is the narrative of the legacy trump has wrought upon us but on November 3rd., 270 days from now, we can end this black stain on our souls with a vote to elect whomever our democratic nominee becomes. Not only that but to vote for democrats on every ballot everywhere. It is time to settle the dust of trump beneath our feet as we move forward into our enlightened future.

5 days until New Hampshire democratic primary (#4023)

     It is a Thursday morning now and when next Tuesday rolls around we will again be watching a state elect it's majority choice for our democratic nomination. I love this time of year in that the general election is fully underway with our nominating processes. The trump appointed presidency is now being notified of it's challenge and eventual defeat. The beginning of the end for trump has begun although Iowa made a mess of it to kick off our blue wave. Even though historically the number of democratic voters was lower in Iowa I don't hold much weight to it because of the caucus format and the little populated state of Iowa.
     But next Tuesday is different. There it will be an actual first vote count that will determine our nominee which will mirror the general election process. The turnout to vote in a normal way should be much more intense and I expect the numbers to be on par with New Hampshire's turnout in 2016 or even actually higher for New Hampshire. The Granite Bay state is no haven for democrats nor republicans so it will be curious to me whom receives the largest amount of votes. There is more scrutiny on the democratic side of things given we actually let our candidates debate each other whereas on the republican side the ceding has been done to the appointed trump.
     Despite that gap in enthusiasm the difference in actual voters showing up and voting for their political party will be a gauge that we all will look to in order to see how our blue wave is performing. It is as much a critical criteria as whom ends up with the most votes. Our democratic enthusiasm to defeat the embarrassing man/child is and will remain throughout the primaries a priority. Getting our voters out to vote is our best offense in ending the current nightmare and next Tuesday for me is when it all begins.

Fake it until you make it is a trump trait (#4022)

     We know that trump is incapable of feeling the truth of things that are beyond his own acceptance. So instead of being embarrassed or ashamed about most things in his life he just pretends that he and those things are great. Much like with his appointed presidential campaign, he is faking his be best moments until the election. What the rest of us have to do is not to believe a word that he says. The facts and truths of things are where we need to look and do our research the old fashioned way by actually doing the research without taking anything as fact from sources that would or could fake us out.
     Given the information on the Internet it is almost impossible not to be able to research data and facts. So make it easy on yourself and spend some time finding out what the truth really is. I have heard and seen enough from trump to know that he cannot tell the truth at least 90% of the time. Which means that at least 90% of the time he is lying about or misrepresenting the truth. But everyone is not me and have spent less time verifying the incorrectness of trump. So find out for yourself and then ask yourself if the policies he has passed and the executive orders he has given and rescinded are your priorities and principles. First ask yourself if separating families at the border for long periods and then putting up for adoption children who have parents is your cherished principle.
     Then ask yourself if giving tax breaks to the wealthy at the expense of social programs designed to help average Americans is another policy or principle that you honor. As important ask yourself if denying climate change and it's deadly effects is something you can rally behind with trump. Does it make sense to you to keep old dirty energy policies subsidized with government funds is a position you would take when subsidizing clean and green energy makes more sense especially when clean and green energy will reduce the effects of climate change. Racism and sexism aside as trump prerogatives, wouldn't you rather have an American society that put all of it's citizens as a priority rather than what trump does with just his wealthy donors?

The pause (#4021)

     I was so excited yesterday to have finally reached the day when the first voting for our eventual democratic nominee would take place. All of us should have been informed of how the voting went in Iowa last evening but there was a glitch in the electronic reporting application. So as that is getting sorted out some 10 hours later we wait and wait. The pause as I like to think of it is just that, a pause so that we can make sure that the results from last evening are reported accurately. Personally I don't like the fact that the mechanism for reporting the results wasn't detected through a trial run and for that the head of this election process is to be held accountable and should be fired.
     If my one job was to report results from the caucus and that job was underperformed then I would expect to be let go. Nothing new here except that the job this election head didn't perform properly affects the whole of our democratic nation at the moment. No hiding from this error in judgment. Be that as it may, the wait now for the fix to the glitch is what the rest of us are faced with. So let the proper authorities work the glitch out or go to another reporting process that is accurate and then release the results so that there is no doubt as to the accuracy. Surely some will call for a recount if possible given the pause but if so even the recount should give the same result.
    It is almost like a silver lining in that our attention is now on all voting to be accurate going forward. Each and every state election head should be doubling up on making sure that their voting and reporting apparatus' are properly functionable. With all that has happened since 2016 and the questions that arose of foreign and domestic illegal influence the more vigilant we are the better for our votes being counted and reported correctly increase. So as this pause lingers on this morning look at it this way. Iowa and it's antiquated caucus system is a very small sample size for how our nation will vote so don't be overly angry at the error in the process but do be more vigilant in how our votes are counted everywhere else going forward.

The election starts today (#4020)

     With Iowa voting on their preferred democratic party candidates the election is underway. All elections start with primaries and Iowa is first up. This has been a long awaited day in that the voting is real and will determine in the long run whom our democratic candidate will be. Although the general election on November 3rd. is still 274 days away that time will fly now as we are all focused on whom to nominate to beat the idiot appointed president. Back when it was more than 1400 days until the next general election I thought it would take forever given his never ending daily attack on our society and our democracy but look at it now, just 274 days.
     What with the midterms in 2018 and our democratic wave that hit large and hard and the state elections in 2019 with some mighty fine results I feel that we are still in the wave era of democratic victories to come. What I really look forward to is surely the executive and senate chamber changing power but beneath that the state races where we democrats have a real shot at adding heavily to our wave totals of 2018. Because no election in the foreseeable future is as important as this coming one. Not only to end republican criminal activity and democracy busting policies but to control the establishing of the boundaries of the 435 districts that make up the House of Representatives.
     That every democrat that is registered to vote should vote but also vote straight party ticket. All democrats on every ballot should receive all votes from all democrats and even all independents who lean left. We the democratic party cannot afford to lose one vote in any race being challenged or defended by a democrat. This is now the time for our democratic party electorate to unequivocally come out and support the democratic party. As the results of Iowa today begin to show who has won there we can begin to get a picture of the totals that participate and measure those with totals in the past. We will know if our blue wave is still riding high by the sheer numbers of who vote for our nominees.

Defenders of the indefensible (#4019)

     When racism is defended we lose. When criminal acts are defended we lose. When women are treated as less than equal we all lose. When the ignorance of not seeing that no good comes from defending the wrongs in society is celebrated then we all lose. Defenders of the indefensible are currently in control of our nation and we are all losing because of it. What to me is most disappointing is that our elder statesmen for the most part refuse to recognize that our youth are going to inherit our existence and we are not listening to their pleas of change for the better.
     This is not the old people's existence, it is all of our existence, both young and old. So why do we as older people not allow our youth to have as much say in their future as we have in our limited present left? When Greta Thunberg says "Act as if you loved your children above all else" are we the older generation incapable of doing this? Most of us would tell anyone we love our children above all else but our words contradict our actions. Our youth have no negative labels of disparagement as arguments but we elders do. Our youth see no division in our racial makeup but we elders do. Our youth see no inequality between men and women but our elders do. So why would we elders be better suited to decide what the future will be for our youth?
     The short answer is that we elders are not better suited to decide what the future should be for our youth. Another answer to a question here is that we don't love our children above all else. What we elders do love more than our children is our own sense of entitlement and authority. We elders generally are more about ourselves than we are about anything outside our personal skin. We are selfish and greedy. A horrible legacy combination to lay on our deathbeds and the still living threads of our children. We the elders in this world would rather defend the indefensible than to admit we are not equipped to lead our species and planet into it's more natural evolution. I will admit it here and hopefully other elders will do the same wherever they are and give our children a much bigger say in how their future will survive them.

Elections have real consequences (#4018)

     It was no surprise to me that republicans would get into line in their utter disdainful treasonous protection of trumps. This is why I fight so hard to get democrats elected everywhere. Because we democrats although imperfect are still striving to be less imperfect. With republicans it is not the same. They are all about power and money and protecting that power and money. So when I see the progressive liberals within our democratic party fighting and threatening to not vote or vote for trump or some other unelectable party I get a bit frustrated. We have the most dishonest uncaring republican party in power right now and we democrats can't seem to recognize that it is the republicans who are our greatest threat to democracy. Instead we fight amongst ourselves.
     I know that some infighting must take place during the primaries and this time around I hope that the infighting ends when the nomination of our single candidate begins. I don't care who we nominate, progressive, liberal or moderate. It doesn't matter to me because whomever it is must win the election on November 3rd. The very idea of trump being appointed again is unconscionable to me. The disaster it would bring would not only be for the next 4 years but for decades to come. The trees had better not hide our view of the forest because the forest is on fire and we need every one of us voting to put this republican forest fire out.
     It doesn't end with trumps being kicked out of our White House. There are many senators, congresspeople, and state house republicans who also need the bottom of our boot on the rump of their public ass. Our society is in jeopardy of further sliding back into the survival of the fittest model. This is so unnecessary given that we are such an advanced modern society. Moving forward with little resistance while making sure our citizens are prepared for a hopeful existence is and should always be our most pressing priority. There are many ills in our society that need to be cured but they won't be cured as long as we avoid doing the hard work of ending republican rule and reinstalling democratic participation.

No expectations no let downs! (#4017)

     What others do is on them. Like the republican party in the senate. If they are chickenshits and can be easily threatened to act in a certain way then that is on them. We should be grateful in a way that these cowardly republicans have shown their lack of mettle. I think back about John McCain, who I was at odds with in most all his policy positions but at least one time he voted his conscience and then faced down those who would try to bully him. There is no one like that now since McCain's death in the republican party. All the rest of remaining republicans in the senate are weak and of no courage.
     To do what is objective and correct is sometimes a hard thing but it is a hard thing that must be done, however with these republican senators there is no principled honor with any of them. They are the cowering weaklings that no honest person would ever vote to have represent them. Yet we have a majority of them in now in this exposed corrupted political chamber. I never expected the republican party to hold trump accountable because they are like trump, power hungry and uncaring human hollow souls. They are actually doing what I expected of them to protect trump regardless of any malfeasance or crime he commits. Rest assured here, trump is a criminal.
     So as the majority republicans vote to acquit him in the senate it is just what we expected and now we get to do what we want. Call it for what it is and then hit them some more with the truth of things. The only way to get beyond a bully and his cowards is to stand up to them and hit them with the truth as many times as necessary for them to back down. We must hold them accountable and we will come November. There will be no time for dissent in the ranks as it relates to whomever is our nominee because we will have only one shared goal. To stop the trumps and republicans from having any further relevancy in our American politics!

11 years completed today (#4016)

     It was 11 years ago tomorrow that I started my first blog post. It was short and without direction but I was feeling upbeat because Barack Obama had just received his oath of office 10 days earlier in 2009. I had been looking forward to explaining the nature of what it is to be a human being and nothing in life over the last 11 years has changed on that front. However over the last 3 years since trump came into his appointed position as president I have seen not the best of who we are as a species but instead the worst we are as a species.
     The difference between Barack and trump is stark. If light was Barack then darkness is trump. Barack gave all of humanity the respect of its life whereas trump is nowhere to be found when it comes to all of us. So although this blog site started out with an upbeat optimistic tenor, it has found itself over the last many years as a protest to the worst of what humanity has become. My protestations will only get more amplified as this election cycle comes to a close on November 3rd. At that time the hope is that the trump reign of illegitimate power has come to an end the new beginning with majorities everywhere with democrats seize the next ruling paradigm.
     Because humanity is an amazing complexity of compassion and curiosity. We all are like separate space probes with whistles, buzzers and bells to announce our uniqueness. We have memory both long and short term. We have sensors that give us incredible understandings when we apply them. We have individual mobility and physicality that allows for our movement without much restriction. We have the mind of a calculator who can not only reason, analyze, and conclude but we can distinguish between cause and effect. If someone was to build a god like creature they would certainly do well with humans in our pure form as examples. We do bad things because we choose to not because we have to. With the trumps gone the good will come back as the primary motivation of human behavior.

Keep building on our blue wave (#4015)

     As republicans do their part in disgracing themselves we democrats need to do our part and highlight what we want to accomplish. Giving voters a clear and stark contrast between a civilized society and a out of control reckless one. Do not be surprised that republicans are immune to absurdity because they have power and are determined to maintain it, regardless of truth or fact. So it is the middle segment, the independents, that we must convince of our worthiness. We have to be able to show that our democratic policies are not wasteful nor inefficient.
     Modernity is the key and explaining how modernity improves and saves lives is our starting point. We are no longer the wild west days of yore we are beyond that evolution despite the republican pressure to return our nation to those lawless times. Our world has had enough of world wars and devastating policies that destroy lives instead of enhancing them. So we democrats must push the narrative of innovation and creativity in order to progress with our modern societies. While we are doing that we must scream at the top of our lungs about the horrible effects of climate change, income inequality, and racial discrimination.
     There is a simple path forward for we democrats to capture the majority of the vote coming in November but we have to be up front and clear about our intentions and coming actions. We can take back the White House and Senate, but we need to focus on the problems in our nation and our responses to them. We cannot be in fighting when the out fighting is key to making all the fighting go away. We have to be strong in our convictions and be ready for the extra judicial actions of trumps and republicans when we whup their asses in the fall. The republican party will not go quietly in their defeat and we have to be ready to remove them beyond their unwillingness to accept their coming reality.

Which stain? The big one or the littler one? (#4014)

     Senate republicans are going to be stained forever on the conviction vote regardless of which way they vote. However there is a choice as to the depth of the stain that they can consider. If they vote in lockstep with mcconnell and give trump a pass for his criminal acts then they will be stained widely and deeply. If however they allow for witnesses to be called in a fair way, then their stain is limited to a more superficial spotting. Because they have already voted to not allow for witnesses and for that they cannot undo. Yet they can change their minds and allow for witnesses if they so choose. It is up to them if they want the larger stain from trump to tarnish them for the rest of their lives and fall onto the heads of their families.
     Because make no doubt, history will not be kind to those who think and act as if they are immune to truth. The trump era will end and its narrative will be written with all those who allowed him the escape from justice he so absolutely deserves. Those who enabled him during this time will be called out not as patriots to democracy but as traitors to democracy like Benedict Arnold was during the Revolutionary War. I have come to know our nation over my lifetime and although we are a selfish uncaring lot at times we are also above all that fear and condescension. There is a rot here in America that has festered into a cancerous pustule. But we have the political cure for that cancer and its manifestation and over some time will remedy the underlying rot that caused it.
     So what will those republican senators do? It seems that the unknown today is any one's guess and I am not going to guess myself. But either way they go they are going to pay a price and given that they are capitalist republicans the presumption is that they would want pay the least price possible. The trump appointed presidency is coming to an end on November 3rd. so their allowing themselves to be stained in a deeper larger way for a few months and given that they will then be subjected to the greatest threat to their own reelection campaigns makes for a scary challenge for them. The worm has turned on republicans and they are the ones who are now desperate to maintain a tantrum laced presidency in the face of a fierce and punishing opposition.

We must all stop pretending (#4013)

     We are human and as such we are very capable of making mistakes aplenty. So when we do we need to fess up and then improve our condition from the ashes of the mistake. It isn't some "one off" it is what we do on a daily basis if we would just be honest with ourselves. The same with religion. Many of us in our early formative years were captivated by a supreme being and the afterlife religion promised. But as we get older and more aware to reality we see that the early pacifier of religion was just that, a pacifier to get us through our fears. So even with religion we must move on and then accept our role as an amazing living being in an objective world.
     It is okay in that the many of us realize this and are unmasking the shadows in our lives. Like the chapter "Allegory of the Cave" in Plato's Republic, the real world exists and the make believe shadows are the subjects that tie us to the pretending. I have learned to live by making mistakes. I often say that the school of hard knocks is my constant enemy/friend. I have learned over time as well that using logic can help me avoid many hard lessons just by rationalizing the past, present, and future. It is what a learned society should not be afraid to admit.
     I had to learn the hard way so as to know the preciousness of learning the easy way. A comparative narrative as a method to improve. So there is no more pretending in my life. I face the tough decisions with the same approach as I do the simple decision. I don't lie about myself to others nor do I lie to myself about who I am and what I had learned to become before I was in control of my own growth. So facing my inner troubled foundations is my responsibility and then fixing them with the correct foundation is my goal. I have not arrived at being the human I want to be but at least I know that I am trying and won't give up on becoming the person I always thought I would be.

Whomever the Dem nominee is will be my champion!!!!! (#4012)

     I know we are in the rabid battle for our nominee and the emotions are high over who should be our nominee. But I refrain from all the bullying and threats by simply saying I will vote for whom I think will serve us best and then when the votes are counted and the primaries are done we will have a nominee regardless of my own personal opinion. Whomever that candidate eventually becomes to be as our nominee will get all of me despite any misgivings I may have on a few or many policies. All policy differences with any democratic nominee will be dwarfed by the insanity and democracy crushing trump and his sheep.
     So you see how it is with me. I am just going to vote for my preferred candidate at the time of our primary and then let the chips fall where they may. I am not so much focused on destroying our democratic party over me personally not getting my preferred candidate. This is the wrong time in history to take our eye off the ball in making sure trump is only a one term appointed president. Given the fact that our democratic candidates are all decent caring human beings they automatically ascend miles above anything trump ever wished he could be given his despicable nature. Not only is our democracy at stake here but our planet is screaming for us to care for her.
     So when we go through the primary season maybe take the edge off of demanding or threatening an outcome or you will not participate in saving our planet. Such childish tantrums are really beneath our political party of caring concerned adults who take responsibility for our actions. Instead if you are going to wade into on interparty difference do it with dignity and a logical policy explanation that cannot be disputed in highlighting your candidate against someone else's candidate. No more threats or demands! Let us go about the business of dismantling the republican party and what it represents, with unity and then when we have this danger behind us we can focus on the more subtle differences we would all like to see prevail for the betterment of our society.

Are we too civilized? (#4011)

     We are being destroyed as a society and a nation by the trumps but we are doing very little to stop it. Even our protests are muted with restraint. It is as if the numbing of our sensibilities has left us frozen in time and space. It isn't from fear that we are numbed, it is from incredulity. So we must move on from our dumbfounding and act as if our society and our nation are precious to us. I know that being civilized is the first act before all acts but there comes a point where the loss of the very reality of civility is threatened and we must then move to a paradigm where civilized is only a suggested restraint not an unbreakable absolute.
     I know my breaking point was passed since early evening on November 8th 2016. I knew our nation and our liberties were in jeopardy. Yet even I was numbed to the actual reality of trump and his questionable agenda. Well it didn't take but a few days for that numbing of mine to turn into actual disgust and anger. I have restrained myself in order to let the process of karma and legal procedure to have it's way but it seems that the destructive depth of the trumps and their acolytes knows no floor. So instead of being civilized about my own protests and angers I am mobilizing my own counter to trump's with efforts beyond my normal dissent.
     I am trying mightily to keep my thoughts within the paradigm of civility but it is proving difficult. I am so spitting nails angry at the way our nation is being torn apart by the very factions that America should be instantly against that my need for a solution for an immediate ending of this outrage is growing. I am not promoting any extra judicial response to the trumps but I am seeking all ways of thoughts and actions that prove to be at least partially successful in ending the trumps destruction of our free and open society. Is there some way that we can end this wakeful nightmare and still hold our heads high with pride in succeeding in a political way to nullify trump and his boot licking followers?

The soulless republican party (#4010)

     This morning my younger cat was not among the others when I got up and it was a bit startling. He is always there with me as I get up and the other animals stay in their comfy sleepy spots. But no Arthur at all. So I went about my morning routine and then settled in at my desk and then realized again that Art was nowhere to be seen. Then I got a bit worried and went out back into my big backyard that borders the creek and called for him and searched with my flashlight. Still no (Art the Bartholomeow). Then I went our front and called for him in case he was up the street where he doesn't belong. Still nothing.
     Then as I was back in my seat in front of the computer thinking not so good thoughts about him being lost, he does have a chip, or worse. Nonchalantly he comes strolling in through the back doggie/cat door like no big deal. Well I wanted to hug him and scold him simultaneously and that is what I did. First off because the immense relief I felt at not having a missing loved one as well as making sure he knew I was not happy with him carousing. lol. This is what having a soul and a heart is. Worried for life regardless of its species and then actually feeling that worry when it is triggered. I cannot see this with the republican party.
     All I see with the republican party is a group of people who would harm without the effect of that harm penetrating them. Soulless is how I see it. Because if you are not an emotional being when appropriate then you are not a fully functioning human being. There is something off about you when your ability to empathize or care about others is lacking. These types of people are not what we the rest of us who are human in the most basic of ways need to be our leaders. They need to be led by others who can show them what a real human being is and does. The republican party is not only now showing it's lack of a soul but it is also showing it's inability to logically form intelligent thought. How on Earth do we survive these republican people?

The cult republican party is in the last gasps (#4009)

     What a display of outright creepiness. The republican party is so entwined by its lies that they cannot muster any rationale for why they are doing what they are doing in the face of what reality is telling us. What reality is telling us is that they are turning themselves into a petty group of criminals in order to protect a high crime criminal. It is just so obvious to those of us on the outside watching this unfold. The republican controlled senate is a mockery to the world right now with its lack of respectability and it's not so subtle ulterior motive of protecting trump from his proven crimes. This has to be one of the lowest points in American history, and not only that one of the most shameful periods of a total lack of honorable governance.
     I am here as an American and as such can see the republican party for who they are. They are the minority party here but they are the majority in our public administrations. How is this possible? The first answer of several is that they are not above doing dirty tricks and cheating when possible. They have a standing directive within their structure to turn away the voting public. They are consistent in denying the right to vote to those who would vote against them. Second is that they manipulate their message to disguise the fact of their cruel agenda. They trumpet their lies at all times in order to keep ahead of the fact checkers who cannot possibly stay abreast of their non-stop propaganda. Third, they have gerrymandered themselves into districts that make the minority, the majority in too many states.
     But the worst of all the nefarious reasons republicans are in power when they are the minority cult party is that they use outside influence and dark money from their donors to overwhelm honest and decent democratic candidates. The connection to foreign influence centers on the republican party. They are able to keep the smoking gun evidence from coming into the public square, so they just deny the accusations and continue to subvert our democracy. So do not, and I mean do not ever expect a republican to put America first when it conflicts with them putting the cult republican party first. Because there is one ideal within republicanism and that is to maintain power through any option, even to betray not only their oath to their constituents but to the oath they give to support and defend the democracy of our American Constitution.

No god exists but we humans do! (#4008)

     I began writing this blog because I wanted all of us to know that despite there being no god, we humans have within us the nature of powerful good. Actually twin natures of curiosity and compassion. Together they merge to create within us what it is to be human. We want to know what is around us and we care about who we are. The idea of family and community is a human one that is not only our trait but it is the trait shared by most all living beings. Our need to know is fueled by an insatiable desire to understand. Our curiosity is at the core of what it is to be human and no amount of disassembling will ever change that.
     So the idea that we would need a god in order for us to be human is a manufactured illogical premise. I don't need the idea of heaven or religious morality to be a good person. I am already a good person who works to stay that way. There are many temptations for me to deny that would take from my principled life and because I am a human being I can choose not to become susceptible to temptation. I have tried temptation on a smaller scale and the temptation had always left me hollow and discouraged. A short term advantage for a long term misery. Learning from my mistakes has been an invaluable lesson for me and although I wish I would avoid trial and error it does teach its lesson.
     So if compassion and curiosity are my two pillar human traits why is it that I am mean and angry at times? It is because I choose to be. I don't have to be but I obviously choose to be. It isn't who I am but it seems that as a human I forget what is best about me when I get outside my own nature. Surely others who have no moral or ethical compass trigger in me these "outside" attributes and it is understandable to become lesser than myself when faced with cruel and brutish behavior. I do have a survival instinct that requires me to fend off attacks of brute force or manipulated narratives that threaten my existence yet only as a survival mechanism is it natural to leave the state of my compassion and curiosity if it means I will no longer survive in the face of such anti life affirming destructions.
     

Every waking day it is the same, stop trump! (#4007)

     There is no long weekend nor day off in defending against what trump does to us next. He is a wrecking ball that is out of control and we who have to live in the path of his carnage can never take our eye of the ball. So anyone who thought that we could skate through the trump appointed presidency is only fooling themselves and trapping the rest of us. Because if we democrats and majority independents don't keep working to support each other while rebutting the trumps we may well end up with another four year term for the wannabe king. That scenario would be devastating for we Americans. There will be no telling what kind of horrible future awaits any of us.
     So as I drag my sorry ass out of bed and check the latest news I am reminded that there may well be no relief from trumps until the election on this coming November 3rd. Short of him retiring or expiring or being driven from office by the republican senate, none is a real possibility it seems. So we have what we have and for the next less than 288 days we have to keep putting up our dukes and slugging it out as best we can until that final bell rings. We can win this battle but only if we keep our heads up and protected with the facts and truths of our offense and defense. We must not under any circumstance self inflict wounds upon ourselves. We must inflict the wounds on the body politic of trump and make him hurt for the deserve.
     It isn't easy for me now being in my middle sixties with a lifetime of hard labor under my belt but the fight in me is still alive and the cause worthy of my efforts. So each day I rise with the single purpose of preparing myself and our society as best I can with the knowledge and effort to improve our destiny during and beyond the trump era. It is okay to make a mistake but the trump mistake will cost us dearly as it is and the idea he would be around another 4 years literally tears at the fabric of my existence. Which is why no matter whom wins our democratic nomination they will get everything I have to support them. I and many other like minded souls need a break from this daily fight to secure our democracy and a long weekend will be due when we end the trump/mcconnell traitorous cabal.

Post #4295 will be a delightful one on the next day after the election (#4006)

     Unlike last time when most of us were caught in a nightmare as trump manipulated his way into the presidency. This time we are ready to end his appointed reign with our eyes wide open. No more trickery or sneaking up on us as he will be defeated and we will celebrate like we should have in 2016. Post number 4295 will be an overwhelming mix of happiness and relief. We will have a new government being formed as the Senate will change back into democratic hands and the House will grow even more democratic. Of course I am optimistic but one thing I am not is caught out unawares.
     Yet as I see our nation moving away from the despot wanna be trump I also see his last gasp flailing to hold onto power. He will try to overrule the election and force himself on us as a lifetime putin example. But we are ready for that as well. Our mobilization if needed to help restore democracy is always an option and we who know the nasty nature of trump expect him to undermine the rule of law and the nature of our democratic politics. Nothing he can do though will surprise us so his utter disdain for democracy will be countered by our dearness for our democracy.
    What I will write on the momentous day will be both a reflection on our futures as well as our struggled lives of the past 4 years. The destiny of trump is uncertain at this moment but by then we will have a good idea as to his deserved fate. Never in the history of our nation has a stain on our way of life been so deep and painful. The trump era will be marked by the paradigm of what not to do. His total lack of intellect and care for the human experiment has wakened within us a resolve to never let such an experience happen again and new laws protecting our politics from the likes of trump and mcconnell will need to be enacted. 289 days from now post #4295 will be a culmination of the triumph of our reestablished American spirit.

Equal rights for women! (#4005)

     The passage of The Equal Rights For Women Amendment in Virginia this last January 15th makes for a total of 38 states that have ratified the Amendment to our Constitution over the last 47 years. Hawaii was the first state to ratify the amendment on March 22, 1972. Since then 37 other states have ratified the amendment, https://www.equalrightsamendment.org/era-ratification-map. Although this ratification map still does not include Virginia it is representative of who is left that has not ratified the amendment and when the other states did ratify the amendment.
     Curiously it is a majority of southern states that have not wanted to let our women be equal partners in our society. The trump and republican strongholds that work hard to deny rights to not only women but to people of color when it comes to voting. It should be obvious to all that the republican party and it's representatives are the ones who are undercutting democracy at every turn so long as their privilege and advantage system maintains the status quo. For the more than half of the American citizenry who reside in America this is unacceptable. Southern men and surprisingly too many southern women are against the idea that we are all created equal.
     This is just unacceptable to the many of us who live in the reality of modern and innovative thinking. So although it took 47 years for the ERA to pass the required 3/4 state minimum it was under a time limit then of 7 years to complete the required 3/4s. Yet as has been shown, Congress can adjust or wipe out the time limit if it chooses and is on firm legal ground to do so, https://www.equalrightsamendment.org/pathstoratification. The states part of the ERA ratification has now been attained. It is just the time limit question that needs to be addressed by Congress. Now is the time to act on this amendment and hopefully all congress persons who have a Mother, sister, daughter, aunt, cousin who are women will see the necessity of making it embedded in our constitution that women are of the same equality as we men!

Today's women march (#4004)

     I am not all that well yet but I am well enough to get out today and march for our women's rights. I can think of no better usage of my time on this day than to stand up with other like minded souls and say quit treating our women like they are not equal to we men. These women are our mothers, sisters, daughters etc.. so why wouldn't we want fr them at least what we men have? Why wouldn't we? We need more men to join the ranks of women protesting for their rights guaranteed by the very nature of being human. What the hell is wrong with us men that we are not able to defend those whom we hold most dear? It says a lot about who we are when we cannot find it within ourselves to demand justice when it involves our women!
     I am confounded by the idea that our women need to be seconded to we men when we men are an awful sorry lot. We cannot even find our hearts when it is in competition with our pocketbooks. Whereas our women are as fair to their hearts as they are to their own survivability. There is so much we men could learn from our women if we would just unstick our heads out of our asses! We men are so proud of our chest beating strength when alone but we are like the crying little boys in public and cower from fights of integrity. The time to invest our strengths and energies into promoting our women beyond the idea of them being only subservient to us is here and today once again we get to show it.
     When you stare at yourself in the mirror this morning you should be asking if this is the kind of world you thought you would be living in when you were a young person just starting out in life. I know it isn't the one I envisioned and in fact it is nowhere near that vision of mine. We went to the moon when I was nearly 14 and since then our lives have just about gone backwards. You know me and I lay most all the blame on republicans because they are the party of greed, division, and condescension. Today's Women's march is our chance to reverse the effects of republican dominion over our lives. If we care and love our women then this really is a no-brainer! Get out and march today and let your feet and your voices support our women!

What is left for trump, round up us dissidents? (#4003)

     My dreams last night were of trump attempting to take over our government with a coup. It felt so real because for one it would be something many of us would not be surprised if he tried. Second it is almost necessary for him now that all the Ukraine evidence is slowly but surely leaking out. There are not many scenarios left for trump in order to avoid becoming a one term appointed president. But to be able to pull off his coup he would need his people in place in his what is loosely called his administration. That he pretty much does have on the civilian side.
     However on the military side he is not so well placed. Most of the military likes that he is continuing a ballooning budget but they don't like what he stands for as a human being. Even at that the rank and file level of the military, they are not a bunch of gangsters ready to kill Americans. The state, local police, and guard forces may be of some help to him but my guess is that they as well would rebuff any overture by trump to destroy our democracy. That leaves some form of Marshall Law he may try as a way to start a campaign to usurp power and then find a way to consolidate it.
     But for now it seems that trump has no way to continue his ill gotten appointed presidency with extra judicial methods. He is either going to be convicted in the senate, which is unlikely given the collusion the majority there republicans have shown, or he will be disposed at election time when the vast majority of us will not let him bully his obnoxious brand of leadership any further. That trump is a criminal awaiting his due when he is thrown out of office is more the impetus for his desperation to hold onto the presidency than any sense of leading with the guise of integrity. We will survive the trump reign of despair and for what he has done to us he will be the one who is rounded up and given his well deserved due!

What do you do now republican senators after the Lev Parnas revelations? (#4002)

     Most likely the absurd head in the sand approach will be maintained but there will be a cost that too many of them will pay this close to the election. It is with some sense of foretelling that maybe the republican senators will realize that their jobs are more important to them than protecting a criminal appointed president who will be defeated this coming November. That is the calculus here with me and I suspect with many of we democrats. There are a lot of republican senators up for reelection in 9 months and they are the vulnerable ones.
     Even moscow mitch is up for reelection and if he doesn't quite grasp yet that his time as majority leader is coming to a close he will soon find out. I do think that the slimy mcconnell will come to the rationale that he cannot protect trump without losing his status. I also want to see justice here in what I hope isn't a sham trial in the senate but regardless the real conviction will come in November when democrats and a majority of independents will render our verdict of guilty and toss the Manchurian candidate posing as the appointed president out on his ass! The weight of the lies from the trumps is a mighty heavy load today for republicans so let's see if they stumble and drop the load of shit right on the steps of the White House.
     Not since the day before the election in 2016 have I felt this good about our future here in America and in the world. The end of trumps is now for me going to happen. All that remains is how it will actuate itself. If come November he is still the candidate then so be it and as such his days will be numbered by the lame duck period he has to try to pardon himself. Yet he cannot escape all justice nor can he alter our constitution to buy himself more time in the executive branch like his mentor putin. Today is a wonderful day for those of us who have been worn to the bone by the incredibly noxious trumps. Here is to a return to normalcy on the horizon.

The acceptance of trump's illegal acts (#4001)

     Already the trump by default doctrine of doing anything to get elected is infiltrating our American politics. The first republican in my era to play dirty with illegality was the republican nixon. He worked behind the scenes of his presidential run to thwart the Johnson peace initiative with North Vietnam so that he could use the continuing war as a campaign strategy to his eventual successful election, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/31/opinion/sunday/nixons-vietnam-treachery.html. Killing off our youth so that he could be president is as bad as it gets and now trump is trying the same tactics with the obvious assassination of the Iranian general.
     Trying to start a conflict with Iran is the impetus of putting our troops on the ground to be slaughtered for the political gain trump will get from it. He and his acolytes have made the calculation that a war footing is better strategically for the trump reappointment narrative. Like nixon, the betterment of our nation is not the purpose, having power to enrich themselves at the expense of the American people is. The problem here is that we the American electorate are the ones who are allowing this outcome of trump's presidency to become normal. We are not all out in the streets clamoring for his head because we are somehow numb or profiting from it.
     As we may be thinking that we are against trump we are not showing it in action. We like those whose words are as of chafe are no different. It isn't enough to gasp and say that trump is wrong, we need to make him stop with an overwhelming force of protest that cannot be ignored nor changed in narration. As time keeps going by and trump is still around to make the Earth tremble with trepidation, we Americans are digging further down our own graves. We are the worst of what it is to be a free and equal society. Soon that won't be the case either since we are about to lose our freedom and our equality because we could not muster the will needed to act to defend it.

4 thousandth post today (#4000)

     Well now, milestones are just markers in time but some have a more significant achievement. Not that anyone post by number is better or more important than another but it does give this writer and and any reader a sense of continuity for purpose. This is one of those times. Doing anything with intent over 4000 times, without doing damage to our sensibilities, is encouraging in that commitments matter even through tough times. Of which it has been both tough and easy to write in this forum. Lately tough, especially with trump and his ascendancy. Yet it is because of trump that I didn't stop in my own final analysis.
     There were times when I thought "what is the point of this" when we cannot find it within ourselves to be who we are destined to be instead of who we are not. But those of us who fight because we know that we will not be part of what is destructive to the overall good, is why we fight. I remember after trump was appointed that surely my blog post and others of more fame would come under attack and elimination by the ruthless and brutish nature of trump. But like other media we have not found ourselves at the sharp end of his stick and may likely avoid that grave consequence.
     Instead we muster our grit and write with the flourish of a Shakespeare, at least in our minds we do. Because to let go of our voices is to let go of our will. Not even the dastardly trump has that kind of power to take our will and spit on it. I know for me it will be with my own demise before I give the worst of who we are the reigns over who the best of who we are. So today as I enjoy a little milestone marker in time I also reflect back to all the other 3999 posts that got me here. There has been no major revelation coming from me except one. That our natures of dominance are our curiosity and our caring. These two impetus' are the foundation of humanity and for humanity to survive, the knowledge of our existentialism must always be at the forefront of our behavior.

Our collective numbing orchestrated by trump (#3999)

     The continual absurdity from the trumps has us all overwhelmed by the mind numbing despicableness it presents. It has been nearly 3 years since trump took his oath to defend our constitution as our appointed president. Yet his oath seems to have been like most decent things in his life, absent! The mountain of unencouraging actions and words he has forwarded has us at a point in most of our lives where we actually lose our feeling. A sort of collective numbing he has perpetrated on our vigor and hubris.
     Instead of being excited by the prospects of our nation sharing it's vision of equal opportunity, fairness and justice based upon democracy to the unimaginative world, we are faced inward toward defending our constitution from trump and fortifying our chances to actually survive him and his acolytes. Little time is being spent by trump to keep our current alliances while much time is being spent undermining them. The logic of trump and his policies has us questioning whether the sky is actually up. That nonsense is the rule of the day replacing the rule of law we are confounded so much that our heads ache from the illogic of it all.
     Yet when you think about it the sense of it all through trump's eyes, it is to dominate through the disassembling of our logical understandings. He has lied thousands of times and will continue to do so as he pushes his narrative of always being correct. The destruction of our democracy so that he can rule America as a king is always the motive and the vehicle to doing that is his tapping into the wealthy whose greed can be controlled by him. We the regular folks of America do not figure into his calculations except to steal or deny our votes. Otherwise we are just pawns on his game board of chess that is being played under his ever changing rules.

Nothing good to post today (#3998)

Nothing to see here. Well at least worthy of anything informative. I suppose I could write about my day. I went early this morning to pick up some odds and ends pieces of furniture from a friend who likes to give me her excessive furniture. Funny how life is that way and sometimes I actually keep some pieces she gives me but otherwise I just pass them along to anyone who can use something. I got back home from that little adventure, actually I always feel like the Beverly Hillbillies who have a truck loaded up with "belongings". I still need to pull half the items off my truck but that will be for tomorrow.
     I also found out today that my Mom who was in the hospital for falling and breaking a bone in her back that was not a spinal bone is being transferred to the nursing home so that she can do some rehabilitation before going home. And my Dad is in the Veterans Hospital with the real possibility of having some of his foot amputated as a result of diabetes. A very difficult week for my parents and by extension a very emotional week for me. I have some respiratory distress so I cannot go and see them without chancing them being susceptible to my contagion. So at home I stay except for this morning going out to get this furniture.
     I totally forgot to post a subject this morning so tonight as I get ready to go to bed I am writing this post so that I can keep my daily blog daily. I am almost done and that is good because I am so tired right now all I want to do is lay down. So that is the end of this and thankfully it won't be published in my usual forums. to weak a post to have it out there so in blogger it will stay. lol.

The junkie president (#3997)

     I am now wondering if trump will even make it through to the election. He seems to be addicted in a way where no intervention can help. He has removed any real check on his personal health and certainly he has removed any brave enough soul in his inner circle to call him out for his addiction. For our sake he had better back himself off his slide into an irrational state that may have limited opportunity for him to recover from. Not only on his own person but the fate of our nation is resting on a precarious precipice given his already delusional conclusions.
     He spends his time on ridiculous notions as it is and any further fall into the absurd may well prove fatal to the whole of our planet. Like with the Iranian assassination, his judgment is impaired given the press conference he gave the next day. If he is already too far gone then those around him are doing the propping up and are also a threat to our democracy for not following the correct protocol for such situations. It is clear to me that trump is already afflicted with some type of disease and is hiding it to maintain his status without interference.
    This whole trump era is beyond the normal in most all respects and though his followers love his attacks on the most vulnerable in our society their support is dwarfed by those of us who despise his petty vile nature that wishes to harm more than help. The junkie nature of trump is of no help and as he gets older by the day and keeps his nose to the mirror we all had better resign ourselves to being on guard for the last of the days until the election. His irrational and delusional behavior will no doubt become increasingly more apparent and as such it is incumbent upon us to put a stop to it at the earliest possible opportunity.

Every human being is unique (#3996)

     This didn't take me long to realize. I got to meet some very different types of folks growing up and each one was a revelation to me. I realized my own insignificance when measured with initially how great I thought I was. I have never forgotten this valuable lesson in life. Never assume to be able to walk in anyone else's shoes. I have enough of a hard time just trying to put my own shoes on! Then once I do it is always difficult to walk as I would want myself to walk. This is the force behind my own personal conviction that we need all of us at all times.
     It is impossible to know who just might be the next person to deliver to our society some life saving event or creation. We don't know the value each of us gives to society at any given moment. None of us is able to say who is better than whom so why do we still try? It isn't just prejudice that separates us there is also an ignorance to each of our own capabilities. We let our easily persuaded minds tell us that some are better than others based upon faulty data and incomplete information. It is typically those of us who fail to interact nor educate ourselves about life either generally or specifically that become the prejudice and ignorance that is presently dividing us.
     Ask each individual how valuable their own life is and they will command with defiance a narrative that there is no one on Earth like them self. Yet everyone else in their own defense says the same thing. Why do we believe our own self and not anyone else? Does the inculcating process of our own group not allow the same honor and principle for others? Apparently so since too many cannot move beyond their own inner societal differences. Let me be perfectly clear here. None of us is more perfect, beautiful nor intelligent than any other so stop highlighting the prejudices and ignorance of antiquity when the foundation of our morality didn't have a floor. Get with the firm fact of truth and treat each one the same as each one should be treated, measured by our own idea of how we should be treated.

299 days until the election (#3995)

     I have just only been mildly interested in who eventually ends up being our democratic nominee because all my focus has been on making sure that anyone but trump is elected. So there is no infighting coming from me about who will eventually claim our party's leadership. Simply put even tulsi gabbard is a better choice than trump and I have no good feelings for her that I can find. Yet if we were to somehow win our nomination I would be one of her most vociferous backers. Because although she is not in line with most of the policies that I see as necessary for our American electorate, she is not the traitor trump who is all about destroying American democracy and becoming a lifetime ruler.
     I have little doubt that tulsi will not be our nominee so it is even better as a probability that a candidate who is more in line with my own vision will be nominated making our lives after the election that much more happier and safe. What doesn't change though is my absolute determination to support our nominee with all that I have. Hell, I would even support a cactus plant if it were our nominee. That is the determination I have in my soul to make sure that trump is not reappointed to the presidency. It would be better for all we democrats if we got the most coveted candidate as our nominee and then ride those coattails through to taking the Senate and holding onto the House.
     The perfect candidate is not out there at this moment so it is unlikely some perfect candidate will come along and enter the race although I am still holding out for Jon Stewart. Regardless though, When the primaries are nearly finished come the first part of May we should be focused on our nominee. Then all of us, no matter which candidate we wanted, must support the chosen one. We must do this if we are to erase the national stain of trump and step away from the disgrace he unfolded on us. This is very important and cannot be stressed enough. We must unite behind whomever comes out on top of our primary season and then make damn sure that person is the next President of the United States.

300 days until the election (#3994)

     Well it seems that the bone spur appointed leader has found his moment to back down. Thanks to Iran for taking into consideration the overall welfare of our nation despite trump. I am liking the logic from the Iranians in this instance as they were able to save face and give the dolt trump a path to sanity. I wasn't sure trump would take it but apparently the cowardice is strong within him and we are all fortunate for that. Now that we have put the edge of this confrontation behind us, although not entirely off the edge, we can begin to work our minds toward the coming election and ousting this upsetting excuse for a human being.
     300 days is not very long as we get closer to the primaries beginning. By the end of march we will have had over 50% of our caucuses and primaries decided so the beginning of a very busy time beginning on February 3rd's Iowa caucus is approaching. Before you know it we will have our democratic candidate and nearly less than 150 days before the election. As long as trump doesn't kill us all playing at being a military man, remember the bone spurs? Anyway, hopefully this Iranian saga is done and we can get back to the impeachment of an idiot who is less a commander and chief and more a wannabe criminal mob boss.
     300 days until we can officially oust the worst president ever to have held office in our nations long history. Each president serves in office for 1,461 days per term, so in comparison the 300 days left are minimal. Yet the danger is still real especially since trump is not above causing a war in order to help his election chances. He has little empathy for those who are not him and although his base loves that about him we the majority of Americans do not. So when we get to November 3rd it is my hope that the damage to our nation is less than what it could be and he is ushered out of office through losing the election and then removed from our nation's White House.

Something has to break (#3993)

     Either we will find ourselves in the most precarious and dangerous war we have had since world war 2 or trump will be dealt with in a way that ends his reign. Something has to give and for now it seems that we Americans are going to be the pawns in trump's game of death. If somehow cooler heads prevail then we may survive this debacle but if not then trump will have set us all up for a colossal failure. He has been held in check for the last 3 years but he seems now fully intent on creating a disaster as a way to protect his appointed presidency.
     Our American experiment had been chugging along with some success until the last several decades. With nixon and reagan beginning the end for us; the bushes and trump are finishing us off with the annihilation of our democracy. All these presidents, elected and appointed, have been hammering nails in our coffin but it has been trump who is now setting fire to the coffin. His total lack of honorable conviction is just the latest effort on his part to burn the whole planet down if he can get away with it and survive. He has no allegiance to America nor to any country that would restrict his ambitions.
     If we actually make it to November it is my understanding that he will be voted out in record numbers but with him he may thwart any election if he wants to keep his appointed office. There is no doubt in my mind that he would institute Marshall law and discontinue our constitution as a lever to initiate his continued rule beyond the 2020 election. He is a megalomaniac when it comes to protecting himself from the rule of law so suspending it and giving himself sole power to decide the fate of the world is more expected than improbable. something has to break and hopefully it will be that trump is removed from office and our world can get back to the caring evolution of civility and modernization.

US arrogance will be our undoing (#3992)

     The worst type of appointed leader to be representing the United States is the arrogant appointed trump. Not only is he his own gift to the world he is as a god in his own mind. Such is our dilemma. With strategically positioned republicans protecting him the chance that we can just replace him is small. The republican party finds within itself that having him remain as the appointed president outweighs his arrogance and through that a cutting edge danger to all of our lives. The republican party apparently is fine living on the edge of insanity as long as they can maintain control over the executive branch.
     With republicans it is a right and a deserve that they are in power. It isn't based upon anything democratic, oh no. It is based upon their condescending natures and the advantage and privilege they hold dear for themselves. Which in many ways makes obvious that their arrogance is not only real but it is nondiscriminatory to whomever would challenge their presumptions. Yet the sample size of republicans is dwarfed by the rest of us who are trying mightily to remain within the rule of law and justice. That we have almost made it through the trump appointed presidency is a crowning achievement and a curse.
     With only a handful of months left until the next election we hopefully will survive until then as we go long and hard at replacing trump with an elected president. Taking all the lessons we have learned about how devious and corrupt an appointed president can be and safeguarding our executive branch from anything similar going forward. The crowning achievement is our forbearance in not losing our minds through this last term and the curse being the inhumane hardships and intentional denigration of our democracy that trump has actuated. With the finish line of trump right up front in our view now we can find the extra strength to close out this time with a flurry of energy to dismiss the appointed one and his most ardent republican enablers.

Clodhopping trump (#3991)

     The oaf in the White House is not capable of making complex decisions. Most of us know this so hopefully the Joint Chiefs are limiting his options for apocalyptic responses. At the risk of denying him information. It is indeed a mess and real possibility that trump will trip his way into making most of us targets because of his ineptitude. this is the scenario I had hoped we would escape but it seems that trump got desperate and decided to kick in his campaign strategy to get reappointed.
    Starting a war with Iran has got to be the most insane strategy since nixon continued the Vietnam war. Not only will trump's ill thought out strategy fail to achieve his stated objective but it will quagmire the world into an unnecessary death spiral. This isn't a world sanctioned necessity, it is the desperation of a fool who would sacrifice many of our lives for his own political ambition. Somehow it must not be allowed to continue and for the life of me the previously sycophant republican party must find it within themselves to cut ties with this embarrassment and deadly devolved inhumane entity.
     The writing is on the wall and no amount of pretzeling the narrative of a righteous assassination can be truthfully forwarded. This is a hapless time that is also the most grave in our recent history. trump has made enemies everywhere and the idea that America is on the right side of history in this debacle is ludicrous. Our allies will not support our rogue demand that they kneel to trump's ambitions. This mess is our mess and those who actually enabled trump to design this. How we get out of this without a world war emanating is still up in the air. Yet never before in my time on Earth has America's position in a world shaking event been so clearly wrong!

The trump brand is now a scourge (#3990)

     As trump continues to malign all that is sensible and reasonable his destiny is also being written. Fame is not what he will be remembered for, but for infamy. His acts and words have him alongside some of the most despicable human beings ever to have been afforded a soapbox. The deviousness of his mind is constantly showing us it has no bottom. If it can be thought into reality trump has the dark side covered. The fictional character Darth Vader looks similar in deeds yet by far with a greater mind than trump. That trump acts like he is ordained by himself to being infallible, the truth is that he is a bumbling oaf who cannot get past his own brutishly cruel nature.
     Yet he sees himself as a savior of sorts in his mind even though the only saving he is doing is to his own pocketbook. His debt to putin is obvious although we don't have the absolute truth of the nature of that debt, the effect of it is as clear as day. His allegiance to wealth over humanity is unquestioned and although he and his surrogates never stop lying about the truth of that they continue to act in accordance with it. I am not sure how history will remember me or if history will even bother, but I know that my life has been better than it has been worse yet there is no way trump can say the same.
     His story will be remembered regardless of how he tries to shape it as his days are lived. There are too many of us who know his story of debase and cruelty. His mark on time in the history of human life will not be one of admiration. It will be one of the dark moments in time and although he thinks he is above the reckoning that all of us are due, his will come with no less than a deserved footnote as how not to be like as a human. He has not only let down the American people but he has let down all of humanity. He will not be the cruel leader he is for long and when his time comes for his epitaph it will be written by those of us who were made to suffer his curse.

Another trump betrayal of his oath of office (#3989)

     Assassinating a foreign general from a country we are not at war with is beyond the pale. Much like the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor before a declaration of war by Japan against the United States, this is criminal. Why on Earth would trump sanction such a devious attack? Well his poll numbers are crap and he has said many times that President Obama would start a war with Iran to help his reelection. Well trump is in a bind on his reelection so starting a war with Iran seems to be his hole card to possibly get reelected. First trump scraps the US/Iran nuclear prohibition treaty and now he provokes a first strike against Iran in a brutish and illegal fashion.
     As this day plays out the Iranian position is clear. they need at least a proportional response as a measure to "save face". that is the minimum response we can expect. a more likely response will be an escalated attack by Iran to show their strength in the face of trump's illegal and dangerous gambit. I don't know how this day will play out but it is my hope that the diplomats who are in charge of explaining this fiasco can somehow convince Iran that this has more to do with the insecurities of trump than any anger we Americans have against the Iranian people. The trumps of this world don't really care about anyone but themselves so this attack by trump is wholly just an election ploy with vastly dangerous consequences to our world peace.
     A mediation is now needed very badly and hopefully cooler heads than the ones in the trump administration will take charge of this and ameliorate it as best as possible. The world now has shifted its sympathy to the Iranian people because a lawless act against them is a jolt to our world's sensibilities. That trump is proving to be a non law abiding world actor is now obvious for the world to see and I suspect he is getting an earful now from all ends of our planet. He should well be getting more than an earful from our own citizenry. We need to make sure that trump does nothing more to escalate what could be a world crushing war that would likely involve the nuclear capabilities of so many nations who have that option.

Once again, the media portraying a close election, don't believe it! (#3988)

     I saw something yesterday where the media has the presidency at too close to call. It about confirmed to me what the republican strategy is, to deflate the democratic wave coming in November. Like I have said numerous times before, do not buy into what the print or television media is saying about how this election is to be. We democrats are too wary of it by now given the ownership of media and the money republicans are spending to deny the democratic blue wave. We the democrats need to be mindful that our message is getting out as well and keep our momentum toward defeating the worst political party ever presented in American politics.
     When we democrats all vote there is no way republicans can win, and I mean no way. The avalanche of votes would deny republicans in most political races. There are a few safe havens for republicans but in the contested areas republicans will get beat if we democrats keep our eye on the ball of voting to defeat trump. I do not care who our nominee is and no matter whom it is I will be doing everything I can to get that person elected. So should all the rest of our democratic party. There will be no time left to lose on infighting over nuances when the other option is trump who will begin to destroy what is left of our social safety net while stacking the supreme court with his nefariously unqualified candidates.
     Why do I care about this? Because it is happening on my watch and nothing as politically rotten to the core as trump and his acolytes will be allowed to rule while I still breathe air. I may fail in my attempt to end the political reign of trump but it won't be because I didn't try with all my might. In the big picture it is the survivability of our democracy I am fighting for much like the forefathers and mothers of our past generations did in revolutionary, civil and world wars. This is a fight for the right to remain a democracy and if that isn't enough for all of us democrats to rally behind whomever is our nominee then we will not only lose this coming election but we will have been collaborators in our own defeat!

307 days until trump is thrown out! (#3987)

     I remember when it was over 500 days left until the next election and I was starting to feel like we might survive the trumps and their insanity. Well it is just over 300 days and I am feeling even more hopeful. In less than a year folks we will finally be relieved from the nightmare of November 8th 2016. Every day will be excruciating from here until then but we have shown the mettle to withstand him. Now we need to get through our own nominating contests without tearing each other apart and then finally unite behind the eventual candidate.
     At this point in our history it won't matter too much who our eventual candidate is as long as we can wrest control of the executive and senate from republicans while holding the house. The key here is to get control so that the retiring supreme court justices have honorable replacements. Second it is to get legislation through that actually makes our working middle class stronger and more vibrant. We need a healthy working middle poor class in order to generate the type of momentum needed to combat the worlds troubles and create exceptional opportunities. Our nation is still the most adept at being a leader of the world if we can get republicans out of the way.
     307 days until the trumps are kicked to the curb and for that I will celebrate with a fervor not seen in my last 3 years. Reversing the trumps executive orders will come quickly and then legislation aimed at revitalizing the we neglected working middle poor class will follow. Although the stock market did well under trump the only beneficiaries who saw real gains were the wealthy who have always been the full agenda of the republican party. The time after trump will be about the working middle poor class and that is long overdue. Getting back to some parity with the wealthy will seem almost like a welcome dream instead of the current wakeful nightmare we are currently experiencing.