A Sea of a Cradibility Gap

I can remember a time when we used to be up to two weeks ahead of the learning curve on the news but nowadays we’re running a day behind.   It’s a general sea of insanity when you talk about the Donald Trump administration.  Now the President is referring to the White House itself as “a real dump” and that’s why he doesn’t want to spend time there.  Then we have the defeat yesterday of Trump being forced to sign a sanctions bill against Russia that he strongly disliked but he had to sign it because it was passed with a bi-partisan majority.  But he let his dislike for the bill be known.  The word is that he warned Putin that this bill would be passed and he’d have to sign it.  Then there is the strange story about FOX news and how a democrat was accused of leaking information about Hillary to the Russians.  But further investigation has revealed that Trump and the FOX network colluded to put out this story and people like Shawn Hannity still believe it and repeat it. It gets stranger every day and it’s anybody’s guess what the news from the Trump administration will be six months from now.  Hopefully impeachment proceedings will be brought against Trump by then.  Even this congress must realize that there is only so much nonsense that will be put up with from the Trump administration, even if over a third of the American public is brainwashed by FOX news.  Still his overall favorable rating is just 36% and it seems that at that rate a successful campaign should be achieved by democratic opponents running against incumbents in both the House and the Senate. 

Donald Trump attacked Obama's birth cirtificate for years till renouncing that he'd ever said it during the campaign.  Tomorrow is President Obama's 56th birthday.  Trump said he wasn't going to recommend the prosecuting of Hillary Clinton right after he won but now he's changed his mind and wants to pursue the prosecution.  Trump is indecisive.  Now Steve Miller or some aid of his is criticizing the poem at the base of the Statue of Liberty as not what America really stands for.  But if Thom Hartman is right the very rich, especially those born rich, are exceptionally lacking in compassion and empathy.  They're much more likely not to listen in an engaged manner in a conversation but are too preoccupied with their cell phones.  They don't give sacrifically to charities like poor people do.  They don't value other human beings the way poor people do.  Thom Hartman's show seems to think there are white people out there would like the slogan of the Trump campaign to be "Make America White Again".   They want to go back to an America most of them never experianced to begin with but believe that "perfect America is out there- - within reach, if we just work hard enough to bring it about".  I've heard others who claim that liberals don't give as much as those on the Christian right because "They expect government to do that".  I don't know who is correct.  People like Richard Nixon and Barock Obama may be rich in their later years, but they were born poor, and as such remember what it was like to be poor and still have that sense of connectedness and compassion.  

This is Wednesday August 2, 2017 and the fiftieth anniversary of the first time I threatened to commit suicide in 1967.  But the weather then wasn’t as hot as today.  It’s been pea soup head about 95 degrees and about 85 percent humidity, like Houston or New Orleans must be,  not that I’ve visited either place.  This morning Thom Hartman was on about five minutes and they switched to some music and I turned the computer off and turned KFI on.  They were having a Bill Handel substitute.  Nora came in about ten to ten and said to open the shades.  I did and I left.  Then I got snacks of juice and a graham cracker.  Jennifer brought Gabby to work today for the first time in over a week.  I checked the room and was surprised at just after ten that Nora was done.  She’d changed the linens and mopped the floor.  Usually she takes the time to do a lot of other stuff.  Bill and I watched “The Price is Right”.  The air conditioning worked a lot better after I closed the window.  Bill wanted to keep it open claiming the AC wasn’t blowing but it obviously was because the room was kept cool.  I don’t know the names of the guys I sat at the table with today.  I’ve lost track.  We had teriyaki pork and vegetables and fluffy rice and I mixed the rice and the pork together.  They had seconds on the pork and rice and I took advantage of that.  We had a banana for dessert.  I had the Gary and Shannon show on.  I had Days of our Lives on.  Abigail still isn’t out of her coma but she’s in surgery now.  Paul has the theory that Victor organized Damos’s murder but he’s keeping his part secret. 

I don’t know if they ever had refreshments.  There was a resident’s council meeting in the back room.  We learned that Sarah has a son diagnosed with some horrible disease.  I thought she just had two daughters.  Patty didn’t have her notes from last time.  It was the first time I was in the back TV room since they remodeled the room.  They painted it a lighter color and put in new flooring.  There are some “airline seats”.   They were arranged rather inefficiently in part of a semi-circle.   Linda made the official announcement that anybody now can get milk with any meal just by asking for it.  You don’t need a doctor’s slip any more.  Augustine came in and told us all to keep our windows closed for maximum air conditioning.  There weren’t that many chairs in the room and people went in and out but there was never a time when we were short any chairs.   It was the timing.  Food came under discussion and I said desserts weren’t as frequent now, but I’m glad they’re finally serving waffles and things.  Linda has that mouse in her room that’s still running around- somewhere.  The clock in the room was slow and we ended at ten to three by that clock because Dr Messina was here and people’s names had been called, such as Ron Flowers.  Back here it was Eye Witness news on.  They are still getting a lot of rain out in the desert.  There is a dream called dyspraxia, which has to do with “clumbsy child sidrone”.  Now that has a name.  Trump news appears to be quiet today. 

We had BLT sandwiches for dinner, short on bacon.  We had French fries with that and chocolate chip cookies for dessert.  I didn’t note the guys sitting at my table.  They had two ocelating fans in the dining room but they didn’t seem to be doing much good.  The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed over 22,000 for the first time.  So far this prosperous economy is making president Trump look good, probably better than he deserves.   Barbra wanted me to lend her money but if she can panhandle and make money that way I guess she doesn’t need mine.