Trump Screws Tax Payers In Blue States

Donald Trump really is a bit of an asshole.   There is recent news in the past couple of days that there are new details released about our spying on Russia last summer indicating Putin had a personal hand in sabotaging our campaign last year and was out to hurt Hillary and help Donald Trump.  Now Trump is saying “Well, It’s President Obama’s fault for not being on top of the situation and getting control of the situation before the campaign.  Trump didn’t say anything about all of this sabotage stuff before the election so it’s all on Obama.  But if Obama has been really proactive and gotten the juicy stuff out about our best spying information on Russia, Trump wouldn’t be President today.  On the news shows there is talk about the extreme polarization of the people.  Right now the American people are divided even worse than Congress and that’s an unusual situation.  Little old ladies and truck drivers alike say that the Democrats are all corrupt and despicable and how Trump is persecuted by the media and all.  They are like trained seals taught to bark on command spouting whatever line FOX news tells them to. 

 The Trump administration has found an ingenious way to screw the blue states and people who choose to live in those states and actually feed the economies of those states.  Moderately well off people in wealthy blue states who finance much of the rest of the nation, are being penalized by the Trump administration in not getting a deduction on their federal income taxes.  This is a factoid that had not gone unnoticed by me.  It’s a cleaver trick by Republicans to coax well to do people in blue states to move to red states.  I think it sucks because basically it amounts to wealthy people paying money on taxes they never see.  This was on KNBC at nine.  I’ve been looking for cigarettes but haven’t found any.  Glenda knocked on the door as I was getting dressed this morning asking Bill for cigarettes but Bill was asleep.  Glenda hinted she may be getting a visit from her brother today, which means she’s have coffee.

(Events of Wednesday June 21st are below)

I went to the store just after seven and bought a dollar coffee.   I came into the dining room.  I got one bowl of Rice Krispies with a full bowl.  The milk seemed to be going sour.  We had scrambled eggs and a big crescent and tater tots.  Kathy gave me her crescent and tater tots so I got filled up.  Then it was more Stephanie.  Paul called sometime in the morning and asked about my butt and said he’d call Mary Jane again if I wanted him to and I said that would be a pretty good idea.  I brought up the issue about my weight, which Mary Jane had also raised herself.   Paul didn’t say anything about his own life.  The conversation wasn’t that long.  Early in the morning I added the two lead paragraphs to last evening’s blog, which at the time consisted only of stuff about my personal life.  I guess Thom Hartman was on.  Nora seemed to be ahead of schedule being right in the next room.  I made ready the room for her.  It turned out I was correct because when I checked on something just after nine thirty Nora was already in the room.  For snacks we had an iced tea and a graham cracker.  Gabby was out and about looking for food favors.  Nora was done with the room and changed the linens and left me the nice bedspread still.  Then I decided to play yesterday’s episode of “Days of our Lives”.  They announced Dr Messina but I continued the episode till a little before eleven.  Then I went out and about.  The soup for lunch was lousy and I didn’t finish it.  We had two quesedas and salsa and sour cream.  We also had Spanish rice.  We had orange slices for dessert.  The coffee was good for both breakfast and lunch.  Sarah again announced Dr Messina wanted to see me so I got in line.  Judy had already gone to see him.  I was behind Roxanne.  I complained about needing coffee and cigarettes and being chronically short of money.  I complained about the three outlets that didn’t work.  Dr Messina said something like, “Things are going to get better”.   Then I resumed play of “Days of our Lives”.  In the final scene Clowie knocked on the Kiriacus mansion door with Holly.  This came as a surprise because Nicole thought she was seeing them for the last time earlier in the day.  It could be Clowie has had a change of heart but we don’t know yet.  Then it was Gary and Shannon.  We have just started page two.  We still don’t have air conditioning in here.  I think the last time it was on and working during the way was a week ago today.  Suddenly it wasn’t working.  This is the same day the outlets went on the fritz. 

This is Thursday June 22, 2017 and tomorrow is the day of the phone bill withdrawal.  We have another reason to call this file “normal” now.  Last night I was watching Eye Witness news on computer but I had to turn it off at five thirty because Augustine announced that the power would be turned off in ten minutes.  I went outside and then Augustine said the current would be off for an hour.  I hung outside till a few minutes past six and came in and lay down and then Bill came up a few minutes later after his pain pill kicked in.  On one of my trips to see Glen I came across this guy in a wheel chair stuck in the elevator door, wedged in and I’m not sure how he got that way.  But the elevator was making this loud buzzing sound and I didn’t know what to do to turn that off.  But I went down to try to get help and Ricardo was slow to come up but he eventually did and the situation was alleviated.  Then at six thirty I happened to notice that the radio screen was in game mode and I knew the power was back and that those outlets were working again.  But all of the radio stations were out and need to be reset.  Then I plugged in the TV and we watched the ABC network news on the TV.

I kept trying to track down Glen knocking on his door a couple of times when Kathy or someone said Glen had gone out.  Later on Ron said he was back but that he had gone downstairs and so I went with my cup all around the building.  Eventually Glen was back in his room and I came in and got a weaker cup of Nestcafe.  It’s the stronger brand but Glen gave me less this night.  Later during Wheel of Fortune I shaved and the bathroom outlet works, so that makes all three of them that were fixed.  I went for medication from Ricardo last night and got a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.  Jeopardy was on.  Then Bill turned it to “Arrow” and we watched that till nine and there was a little of “Legends of Tomorrow” and I went to bed.