My suspicion is that Donald J. Trump finds himself to be very, very
bright. It shows in his voice...and I'm sure that if I could see, on
his face, too. But just so long as Donald J. Trump comes out of the
next four years in better financial shape than he entered, he will
believe that he has truly made America Great Again!
I have known, over the many years that I have toiled here on this
planet, many people much like Donald J. Trump...certainly not as rich
as he, but just as slick and self focused. I can understand those who
found their way into the business world, but the ones who ended up in
Social Services?...how, and why?
Today is Cathy and my 35th wedding anniversary. It's time to head
into Sequim to have a quiet dinner, and to reflect upon the love that
has held us together for so many years and through some very hard
times.
Carl Jarvis
On 2/13/17, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yes, he certainly chose Bannon and Miller but according to Taibbi and Hedges
in a conversation on, On Contact, Trump may not have understood that he was
choosing people who are much smarter than he, who would basically take over.
He may not care, of course.
Miriam
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True enough, but to me it appears that Trump has chosen the team, and now he
will be the cheer leader, distracting us with his charm, wit and good
looks.
The team will do the bidding of their fellow Ghouls.
Remember Robin Hood and his Merry Men?
Well meet Donald Trump and his Scary Men...and woman.
But it's important that we remember these people, as independently wealthy
as most of them are, do not work for themselves. They serve a Ruling Class
that is itself in limbo.
You spoke of the wide variety of interests among the Working Class, which
does too often pit us against ourselves, but we tend to forget that the
Ruling Class has its own factions, and is never 100% united.
We could consider ways of using that division to our advantage, but they do
have one other advantage...lots and lots of money.
Carl Jarvis
On 2/13/17, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Trump's function was to mobilize enough people to put the far right
wing in power, which he did. And it is now to mobilize enough of them
to terrorize the rest of the population into submission, which he may
very well do. Don't sell him short. He has been able to foment
increased open attacks on mosques and black school children.
Miriam
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Garrison Keillor: too narrowly focused
While I don't disagree with Garrison Keillor, I do worry some over our
continuing to focus most of our attention on Donald J. Trump.
Frankly, I would relegate him to a Comic Book Character, The
Trumpster, and turn Batman loose on him.
The real threat to that which we have called, "Our American Way of
Life", will be under attack by those cabinet appointees, once
confirmed and turned loose to "Make America Great" again. This, by
the way, is code for, "Make America White".
Donald J. Trump, always the Showman, will continue to distract us with
his twitters and his outrageous contempt for anyone who dares to think
differently than President Trump, distracting us all from the carnage
and plunder taking place in this once beautiful Land.
Carl Jarvis
*****
Manchester Union Leader, Sunday, 2017_02_12 By GARRISON KEILLOR U.S.
President Donald Trump addresses a joint news conference with Japanese
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the White House in Washington, D.C., Feb.
10, 2017.
(REUTERS/Jim Bourg) THE CONSTITUTION does not allow13-year-olds to become President and now we can see why. The Boy
President proudly holding his latest executive order up for the
cameras, to show that he knows right-side-up from upside-down.
Bringing his Supreme Court nominee onstage ("So was that a surprise?
Was it?") Hanging up on the prime minister of Australia. His homage to
Frederick Douglass ("someone who's done an amazing job") for Black
History Month. Twittering about the "so-called judge" who stopped the
Muslim travel ban. Pictured in full smirk at the National Prayer
Breakfast, preening, bloviating ("In towns all across our land, it's
plain to see what we easily forget - so easily we forget this, that
the quality of our lives is not defined by our material success, but
by
our spiritual success") on a scale of bloviation equal to Warren G.and the great gasbags of the 19th century. You think, let the man be
Harding
President but please don't put him in charge of the Weather Service or
Amtrak or the TSA. His homage to the Navy SEAL killed in the botched
raid in Yemen showed off his style. He has only one, the Jerry Lewis
Telethon
style:
"Very, very sad, but very, very beautiful. Very, very beautiful. His
family was there. Incredible family, loved him so much. So devastated
- he was so devastated. But the ceremony was amazing."
Bill Murray destroyed this style,
so did Ray of Bob & Ray, Ring Lardner, H.L. Mencken, Sinclair Lewis,
Mark Twain and every satirist who ever lived, and here it is, still
walking around, and it will be the voice of our government for years to
come.
Senate
Republicans have been blessing his Cabinet appointees. They might have
balked at Ben Dover for secretary of defense or Hedda Hair for
secretary of state, but the nominees were fairly respectable, compared
with the man who nominated them. They showed dignity. They didn't sit
before a Senate committee and talk about their great TV ratings. They
tried to address the subject at hand. They didn't say, "What an honor.
So many great senators here this morning. So very very important to all of
us. Beautiful people.
You do incredible things. So very special."
The National Prayer Breakfast is
one of those deadly official pieties, like sand burrs that you can't
get rid of. Every elected official must now wear a flag pin; more and
more public meetings now begin with the Pledge of Allegiance, grown
people whose allegiance used to be assumed now required to stand and
salute the flag, like obedient grade-school pupils. Why not recite the
multiplication tables and the parts of speech? And then there is the
official Prayer Breakfast, which shows the reason for separation of
Church and State: because politicians corrupt the Church. Jesus was
rough on those who pray for show, but there was the Boy President
complimenting the Senate chaplain for his fine prayer, as if it were a
performance. He went on to gas about his agent and his TV show and to
say that as long as we have God, we are never alone and to say that he
grew up in a "churched home" and that it is faith that keeps us
strong. He also announced that we are not only flesh and blood: We each
have a soul.
I'd like to believe that he does have one and that we justhaven't seen it yet. I would've been moved if he had said a prayer at
the Prayer Breakfast. A classic Christian prayer, such as "Lord God,
You know that I am unworthy to be here as President. You know that I
have lied and worked hard to incite fear and intolerance and to
capitalize on it politically. I have seduced your believers and made
myself their Great White Hope, even though I am not one of them and
never was. You know that I am not capable of executing my duties as
the American people deserve. Lord, I come to You in my unworthiness
and shame and I ask You to take this 'cup' from me. I wish to go to
Iowa and join the Trappist monastery there and take vows of silence
and poverty and learn carpentry or some other useful trade and draw
nearer to You in poverty and prayer. This I pray in Your Name. Amen and
Amen."
Had he been in the Spirit, he would've said that. But there will bemore opportunities to come.
Garrison Keillor is an author and radiopersonality. .