Big Roll-out of Governor Mike Spence

Donald Trump delayed his big roll out of Mike Spence from Friday morning to Saturday morning because of the Nice, France thing.  He isn't the youngest man in the world but at least he's not as far over the hill as Newt Gingrich would have been, as far as being a presidential successor.  It's generally agreed that Spence's presence on the ticket will only exaserbate the troubles Trump is already having with women and minorities.  Spence is conservative right down the line.  He's supported all the government shut-downs.  He's anti Planned Parenthood.  He voted to cut funding.  He's anti gay because he got the Indiana legislature to pass the "Religious liberties" bill where now you can refuse to serve a customer if he so much as looks gay, apparently.  Pence is a strong advocate for the tobacco companies and has frequently made statements denying that tobacco products cause lung cancer.  Pence is also a strident anti global warming advocate.  He's a total science denier.  He's made statements in the past supporting the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement.  Of course he has a son who joined the Marines.  In 2002 he made numerous statements supporting President Bush and the Iraq War.  But then again so did Hillary.  Trump and Pence shared the state mutually building each other up.  Trump regards Pence as some kind of financial genious because he cut taxes in Indiana, but cut the rate of unemployment, but still had money for infrastructure and education, and now is running a surplus.  What person in America could resist a candidate like this?  Is he going to get black people in the ghetto all jobs?  My hunch is that there is a strong bullshit factor to all of these economic statistics.  It's just a matter of pecking around a little and discovering what the catch is.  According to Norman Goldman he "did nothing in congress" and didn't sponsor any bills.  Part of it of course is that Republican's job these days is to STOP bills from passing rather than propose any real bill that would actually serve a useful legislative function.  

The coup in Turkey yesterday was always announced as an "attempted coup".  Most military coups succeed and it bears looking into why this one didn't.  It could well be the libertine origens of this coup.  This scholar guy named Gulan lives in Pennsylvania and is the one “held responsible” for the military coup in Turkey.  He was once an ally but now is viewed as suspect, even by Sec of State John Kerry.  The US has become so fundamentalist Islamic that we are siding against more libertine intellectuals who want to see a loosening of the fundamentalist grip in Turkey.  This bit about “the people” being told to liberate “their elected government” is a bunch of bullshit.  ABC network news wasn’t sure the military coup in Turkey had failed but later they said it did fail and the leader of Turkey is now going to round up all of the rebels.  The coverage of almost all the media is wrong on this.  In Egypt they had a successful military coup a few years ago which was hailed as a liberating action by the people at large.  They gathered in masses in the town square shouting their support and recording it on their cell phones.  In this case "the people" aren't really for this increasingly repressive present leader of Turkey any more than they were for the Islamic Brotherhood guy in Egypt that President Obama made the mistake of selling weapons to.  I'll never figure that out.  Washington's blog goes so far as to claim this current leader of Turkey is secretly supporting ISIS, which the military opposes.  If this is the case we might infer that Sec of State John Kerry is a secret supporter of ISIS.

The death toll in Nice, France is now up to 84 people.  This includes many children there to watch the fireworks.  But it's not just some deranged nut deciding to kill as many people as he can.  This is another terrorist attack of ISIS we can add to all the other recent attacks.  The attacker in Nice, France is said to have “radicalized very rapidly”.  He’s from Tunisia and his name is Mohamed, and to top it off ISIS has claimed responsibility for this truck-driven terrorism on Thursday night.  So Donald Trump is declaring Monday night at the Republican convention as "security" night.  So we should all prepare to be scared shitless from all the stuff Trump's henchmen are going to spew forth on Monday.  A vote for Donald Trump will be a vote for fear.  Trump will do ISIS's job for them by bring terrorism into the mainstream, if you will, of Moslem theology as though if you're Islamic then you're a terrorist, and visa versa.  I guess it was Gingrich who says that anyone who goes to an Islamic web site or any web host who runs a site that mentions ISIS ought to be arrested and charged with a felony.  It won't take much imagination to see how the entire Moslem faith could be declared against the law in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave.

I thought of doing another Steve Johnson scene in that Nebraska corn field in early July of 2006.  This would be where Yours Truely was transported to that corn field right after the "time machine revelations" were made known.  So I appear on the scene thinking I've just stepped into a Stephen King novel.  Of course I am among the many who depart the scene when talk turns of mass suicide.  But then I get curious and return and Steve notes, "You are the only one who came back" after everyone else is dead.  And I just say "Curiosity, I guess".  So I then learned we'd have a Kenyan for President who would be completely ineffective in nearly eight years of Presidential rule.  I told him I thought those ten years into the future were fiction and my proof is asking Steve, "Have you seen the movie, The Candidate, with Robert Redford".  I also suggested other democrats who it would be much more logical to pick beginning with Hillary, and then John Edwards, Dick Derbin, Chuck Schumer, Ted Kennedy, Barbra Boxer, or Russ Feingold.  I would also learn that (in one of two scenes left out of the movie transcript) that there was a right wing coup in this country the turn of the year 2013 and 2014 involving progressive radio call in programs such as Ed Schultz, Randy Rhodes, Thom Hartman, Stephanie Miller and all the rest of them- - even Norman Goldman.  They were all kicked off the over the air radio stations they were on and "driven underground" to the internet, and right wing show-masters such as Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck took over those same airwaves.  The other scene from the movie that needs to be edited back in is where Mittens Romney gets the revelation from looking at his father's picture that Donald Trump is no good for America but is a fraud and all the rest of that stuff Romney accused Trump of being.  And let's throw in the following joke while we're at it.  Steve Johnson asks me "Do you know why Michael Jackson loves twenty-eight year olds?" and I say "No" and Steve says "Because there are Twenty of them", and I say something like "Oh gees- - that's really Bad".