A Convention of Angry White Men

This is Tuesday July 19, 2016 and the big news is the fear and hate mongering of this convention.  It should be called ‘Making America Insecure Again” or perhaps “Making America even More Agitated”.  The media coverage was horrible.  I even tried CNN and their stuff didn’t appear to be live.  They just played a liberal redneck who lives near Bowling Green, Kentucky, where “We’re still racist down here; we just hide it better now”.  This convention was a convention of Angry White Men.  It may not even be fair to use the word “white” in that sentence.  Who tar a whole race like that?  Donald Trump’s wife was a body without a brain.  Her teleprompter speech did nothing to dispel the notion that she has nothing upstairs.  Maybe she should have delivered the speech in her native Slavenian.  She and Donald have a nine year old son together.  The media talked over everybody else.  I looked to KCET but first they had national news and then had something involving ice cream cones.  The Federation didn’t take at all kindly to the convention.  The newspaper editorials were flooded with raging against this farse of a convention.  Stu Baby took particular note of the Donald’s immigration policy, alias his plan t make Mexico pay for the Wall.  He’s going to conthiscate the hard earner money with the sweat of their brow that immigrants earned at minimum wage (or lower) that they set aside to send back to their relatives in Mexico.  Trump wants to intercept these funds and use it toward building The Wall.  That’s declaring a virtual state of War with the Mexican People.  I mean it’s not as if these immigrants were shipping his money back to Mexico.  But if there’s still not enough money to pay for the ten billion dollar wall, then he’s going to hike the price of visas so that people coming here legally will have a more difficult time at it.  A lot of the speakers I just heard about ticked me off.  There was some victim of “Fast and Furious” speaking.  Then there was the Duck Dynesty guy who opened the convention, Phil Robertson.  “Donald Trump will always tell you the truth as he sees it”.  Maybe he better get his eyes checked.  Then there was a relative of someone who died in Bengazi.  Then there was Julie, Julie, Julie, Giuliani.  This speech was one hysterical, over-blown collection of tired rhetoric.  He just threw every tired event of the past he could think of like blowing up the Iranian nuclear treaty- - and threw it into the speech.  This could be the first party convention where the party throwing the convention actually sees their poll numbers going down for this week!   I don’t know what they were talking about when they said it was the “Kinder, gentler side of Donald Trump”.  I went for medication at twenty to eight and even at that hour there was a line.  Then though it wasn’t yet eight o clock they were having commercials or media commentary.  I never tried to get coffee from Glen.  I saw him out on the benches earlier and he wouldn’t even let me have a butt.  Then there was that Ninja Warrior thing on KNBC.  I watched that for an hour and then made ready for bed, though I wasn’t really tired.  I guess I war bored.  Nobody made it through “the final four” obsticles, as far as I saw,  unless I was distracted at the time.  Basically it was a lost evening.  I’d like to see a complete schedule of speakers at the convention and a way you can hear and see them.  Ohio’s governor, John Kasich, refused to set foot in the convention hall, and won’t be doing so.  Also the Romneys, the Bushes, and the Mc Cains won’t be speaking or even present at this convention.  It’s not a good sign that the three last Republican nominees are disgusted by this convention.  It least I’m not the only one who was utterly repelled by this convention. 

They say the evening session of the Republican Convention is just getting underway but they’re just having the regular EWN news.  In the day session the anti Trump delegates attempted to force a vote but even though there were enough states to legally entitle them to do that, the Party leadership “twisted some arms” and got them to “voluntarily” retract their request because it would interfere with the TV schedule or something.  Maybe they'll break your kneecaps like the mafia or else they've got your wife bound and gagged somewhere ready to drop the cyanide capsules lioke the old Superman episodes.  We won’t hear about the protests outside unless someone gets beaten up or killed.  If I were the media I'd interview these protestors just to give them a little media time in the "public interest" of making their views known.  I turned on CNN at three and there was live music and they showed a street corner so I turned it back to Norman Goldman.  Ohio is an open carry state so there is a probability of some gun incident.  They’ve changed their slogan from “Make America Great Again” to “Make America Safe Again”.  Trumps wife will be speaking.  I think it’ll be the first case of a foreign born first lady since Van Buren or something.   Hillary is speaking in Cincinatti today.  Another officer in the Freddy Gray “rough ride” incident was acquitted by that same judge.  Norman reminds that that sometimes the Jimmy Buffet adage is true.  Sometimes it really is “Nobody’s fault” and if you engage in enough passing the buck you can get away with anything if you’re a police officer.  I think common sense is being bypassed here.  Clearly if it were you or me being charged with a death there would be a little thing like “assuming responsibility for what you did”.   That marine who shot those six Baton Rouge police officers was from Kansas City.  We don’t have any hard facts as to the motive.  All we know is once again the man is Black.  But I didn’t assume that before I knew for sure.  After all why couldn’t a conscientious white man decide “He was the one who needed to purge society”?  

Last night I dreamed that I went to a Sunday school class at three in the afternoon on Sunday and Patty Hayes was in this class.  At one point she and I were hanging drapes that were there as kind of a patrician to the room.  I kept making notes for things I intended to bring up in class but I kept moving them around and forgetting where I put them.  Bill took a shower before I did in the morning.  He gave me a pack of cigarettes with three short butts in it.  I got my medication from Ida.  I had Stephanie on before breakfast and she is on now.  Ron gave me a white rollie before breakfast.  Now I owe him two.  We had plain Cheerios for breakfast followed by a fried egg, toast, butter and jelly.  I got a cup of black coffee filled to the brim from Rico and then he gave me a “regular” with cream and sugar.  Extras are good.  Now it’s eight thirty and there are about six hours to go before I get paid.   This is Roger Ailes for Motel Fox and we’ll leave the right wing on for you.  Nine investigations have cleared Hillary Clinton so to bring up this death and sadness at the convention is over the top.  There was no vision for the future in this convention.  They were rooted in the past.  There was no “uplift”.  

Newt Gingrich made his last ditch effort to be chosen as Vice President by saying that people who so much as look at Islamic internet sites or those who run these sites oughta be charged with a Felony.  It's not against the law to use the word "ISIS" in an internet site.  When you talk about "extreme vetting" of people coming here from the Mideast- - I'm wondering whether they waterboard them.  But now Newt is giving his full endorsement of Mike Pence.  "We only need one pirate on the ticket".  It's a strange thing that the head of the ticket would be considered a "Pirate".    Maybe he should start saying "Arrrhrr".  

[Sunday] night they did a rerun of that “Eye on LA” segment about that Northern Buffalo indoor water park where they wanted kind of a northwest mountain cabin theme, and the Tweens and Teens have this magic wond they use to play games and open treasure troves.  I was out smoking.  America’s Funniest Home Videos wasn’t on.  They had Family Feud.  I think a Sunday evening is too valuable a time slot for “game night”.   I watched the Trump and Pence interview on Sixty Minutes with Dianne Sawyer or whoever.  Trump dominated Pence almost “giving him permission to speak” like a husband dominating a wife and speaking for her.  I learned amazingly nothing else.  I went to the med line which was quite short from Tom.  Then Sixty Minutes had a thing on Southern California wildlife including mountain lions, coyotes and bears- - and how they need to build a bridge over the Venture Freeway.  Because right now males are having sex with their own offspring- - and sometimes they even kill their mates.  Before seven I went to Glen’s room for instant coffee for three cigarettes.