They
held the sixth in a series of Democratic debates last evening starting at five
on KCET. I guess they ran for three
hours to eight but I dialed away at five to seven. There were seven candidates. Among those missing were Camile Harris, who
dropped out of the race, and Cory Booker of New Jersey, people of color. Also missing were Mike Bloomberg and also
that Weld guy from Massachusetts. The
others were there including that business guy who wants to be the Trump of the
democratic party. He wants to expose
Trump as an economic fraud and like Bloomberg has been the one running all of
the ads here. There were two big
conflicts. One was in Bernie Sanders not
getting off the global warming groove despite the topic being changed. Unlike the others, Sanders stated that it’s
worth paying an economic price if in the process we save the planet. The problem is worse than most of us
think. This morning before six as I was
sorting the laundry I was just thinking how few people probably saw the debate
because most people in addition to loving Trum hate all things Democrat. The tone of the debate like all of the others
is most likely too liberal for a lot of Americans to even tune in. I wondered “How do I pray to God for America
?” St Paul says “We don’t know how to pray
as we should”. And I was thinking “How
can I pray a prayer that will make God happy?”
The thought came to me to pray for something hopeful and positive. You don’t get this with a Trump rally. All you get is bottled hate of everyone who
doesn’t regard gun ownership as sacrosanct and who hates minorities and
foreighers and immigrants at the border and big cities in general. The only solice they find is that their taxes
are cut. But there comes a point where
you can’t continue to cut taxes because there’s nothing left to cut. My guess is the next recession will be a bad
one and it’s most likely going to come after the next president is sworn in in
2021, I found reassurance that all of the candidates on stage favored the recent impeachment of President Trump. Around my environs a definite majority in my world are avidly pro Trump and anti impeachment. i liked Joe Biden the best and thought he had a newfound energy tonight that I haven't seen in previous debates. I plan to vote for Joe Biden. Sanders talked about a two state solution for the Palestinians in Israel. I think that's a lost cause. May I say that both Great Britain and Israel have lowered their standards to the level of President Trump and that is not a good thing. I don't think it's a good thing to have a leader who has been criminally charged. The two state solution is a pipe dream. How much better wouldn't it be just to afford Palestinians the right of citizens with voting and other land rights and not to exist in some giant apartheid prison camp, which they are now. As to Guantanamo Bay, I see no reason to close it down personally. I think it's a handy place to stash prisoners. There were conflicts on the
stage. Pete Budajudge raised the issue
to Warren that he’s the only one on the stage that isn’t a millionaire. That gains credibility points with me. Comentators say that Pete Budajudge was the
most frequent target of the others. Actually I saw an amazing amount of concord (agreement) on most issues. Each one would just add in a specific detail. If there were closing statements given, I didn't hear them. After this I watched Jeopardy and then Wheel of Fortune. Mickey Mouse brings you - - - . Wheel of Fortune and Walt Disney are
hopelessly in bed together. Then it was
Law and Order Criminal Intent. I’m
afraid I dozed off and at ten to nine Joe suggested I turn the TV off and go to
bed.
You
have a contrast of two congressmen on the Trans-Canada-Mexico trade bill. I
don’t know if the bill is any good or not. My instinct tells me it’s a bunch of garbage
and we’d be better off without it. These
“agreements” always end up biting the United States in the ass. Yet this bill has bi-partisan support. Steny Hoyer gave a nice little one minute
speech in support of the bill. Kevin Mc
Carthy in contrast took over a minute to rage against the democrats and remind
us that we owe this great economy to Donald Trump. He also said our hand with China was weakened
because of democratic delay. I’ve heard
the China trade bill is a really bad one and only reveals what a poor
negotiator President Trump is. China
always seems to get the better of us.
The democratic debate is tonight and in the phone call with Paul I
mentioned the debate. I also said that
one topic that should be discussed is the income inequity between the rich and
the poor and we need to bolster the incomes of the middle and lower income
people. Paul’s response was “Well they
don’t contribute to the economy so they don’t desserve any of the money”. I was taken abak by this remark but it goes
along with his other remark a few years back about how worthless the 47% are
who don’t pay federal income taxes.
Patty at the lunch table attacked Nancy Pelosi for not immediately
turning over the impeachment material to the Senate and Mitch Mc Connell. This is where 256 or something bi-partisan
bills go to die an ignominius death there never to be taken up. Patty says that Nancy is just being obstinate
but adds “the democrats are never cooporative anyhow”. Maybe
Nancy should go ahead and submit the impeachment findings and let’s get the
whole nasty thing over with and we can all forget about the whole thing like it
never happened. This seems to me the
best the democrats could hope for. But I
would say this. President Trump hasn’t
committed his last offense because he can’t help himself. He couldn’t help himself with that July 25th
phone call last year and worse things may be in the offing where President
Trump embarrases himself. And for a
while longer his base will continue to rationalize that, too. We can
only hope that sooner or later light bulbs would go off in people’s minds.
I
looked up that “Starry Night” program Paul talked about. I brought it up in our phone conversation
earlier this afternoon. He said it was
too massive of a NASA program to fit on a hope computer. This isn’t true. All forms of
the program are available on either the MAC or PC. There is one over two hundred dollars and
one for one fifty, and then there is the $79.00 program I think I would get, and
then there is a $49.00 program. They all
contain a bunch of stuff. But I should
have mentioned to Paul that math isn’t something that takes up a lot of disc
space on computer, even complicated math.
Paul called to invite me for Christmas Eve dinner and we’re having baby
back ribs from Lucille’s. He wants to play two VCR’s that I’ve already
seen but I admitted I’d profit from viewing them again. Hopefully we can steer the conversation
clear of politics.
People
say “You’re innocent until proven guilty” and yet if there were one or more
witnesses that would clear me of a crime, wouldn’t I want to subpoena them to
testify? Not Trump. Trump has stonewalled all the way up and
down the line and there is no reason to believe Trump will change his mind
now. Senator Mitch Mc Connell once more
this morning has bragged about how biased he is. The shabbier the senate trial, the less
credibility they will have in the court of history. The democrats will also make it a political
issue. They will say the acquittal means
nothing because nothing was “tried”.
(Selah)
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