Today's Is a Fruitless Endeavor

Right now the impeachment  hearings are still going on.  I have been watching it since about twelve thirty and it’s approaching three now.  Some say the whole thing is a waste of time and will rob the democrats of their credibility in next year’s elections.  It doesn’t matter what I  believe, it’s what “The powers that be” alias God, WANTS us to believe that counts.  He is the Lord of this world.   I believe it was Rick Unger that expressed surprise that the charge has been leveled that the democrats will suffer if they go forth with impeachment.   But clearly it’s all over the media.  Even on the Today show on NBC this morning.  It isn’t just on FOX news.   In fact the BBC news last night stateddthis as a fact that the democrats will suffer in the elections next year.  As such I’m wondering the wisdom of even have a final vote at all.  What if we short circuit the whole process by having all the speeches but then just not having the final vote.  To quote from Judas as the Last Supper in Jesus Christ Superstar, “What if I just stay here and ruin your ambition.  Christ, you deserve it”.  We alluded to this phenominum before of the Trump Crucified idium.  This is how Trump will exercise power by playing the martyr and victim.  I am troubled by statements that Patty says about the president of Ukraine never complaining that he was pressured into a quid pro quo.   But it’s kind of like a rape victim who denies outright that she was raped and yet a close friend noticed her examining her genitals and she missed work and people seem to think she’s undergone some form of trauma.  The speeches went back and forth pro and con and there was such a dizzying number of them after a while you almost nod off.  If we don’t turn the case over to the Senate they can’t have their little farse of a non trial and there will be no acquittal.  That’s what I seek to do.  I seek to deny President Trump an acquittal that he will forever brag about.   I don’t like the media saying the impeachment of overshadowing the primary races next year.  Hopefully the impeachment stuff will be over and done with by then.  But Trump has undeniably risen in the polls.  Now from being nine or ten points down to all his democratic rivals, the latest USA Today poll says that Trump is LEADING all of his democratic opponents by three points.  We also have heard impeachment approval has dropped and is now back down below fifty percent.  We also are reminded that now Trump is outright leading in those key states of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan.  This didn’t use to be even a month ago.  I find it obserd the line that it’s the impeachment charges that are causing the division in this country.  Trump is the leader of all divisive people.  He thrives on division  like no other president.  It is his bread and butter.   He’s celebrating the house vote with a campaign rally tonight.  But then again, this president seems constantly in campaign mode.  

This morning I had on Gary and Shannon at ten.  I was waiting for housekeeping to come and clean the room.  There seemed to be a whole conclave of people outside in the hall speaking in Spanish including Augustine and Sarah.  She opened the door and I went in to look at my teeth because they felt dirty.  I looked at food particles on my teeth but I had no time to brush my teeth because the housekeeper came in.  I left and had a smoke and then went into the lobby.  Sarah greeted me and informed me that I had a dental appointment, a root canal in ten or fifteen minutes.  I expressed discomfort at this and Natale who was by the phone asked me if I wanted to reschedule and I said yes.  Brian had been informed of the appointment yesterday and he didn’t tell me.  I talked with the receptionist and was told the government had improved the root canal, but said nothing about the crown on the chipped tooth.  Soon it was lunch time.  I talked with Patty who informed me that there was a resident’s council meeting today at noon, but that never happened.  It turned out after lunch I went into the front room where the meeting was slated to take place and it was the eye doctor.  I told him that he had said I needed more elaborate equipment to properly examine my eyes.  I sat down but later he asked me if I was expecting to see him today and said “I think you better come back in February or March when I’m here.   I said Hi to Dr Messina, who was also here today.  I wouldn’t have minded seeing him today but I didn’t.   For lunch we had chicken parmazon and bow tie pasta and a spinach leaf salad with dressing.   We had chocolate chip ice cream for dessert that we all ate first because it was delivered so far in advance.   Days of our Lives wasn’t on.  Who else will we find mysteriously died in the past year? 

.   Rick Unger announced the government report that tht deficit is over two hundred billion dollars higher this year, and it’s because of the two hundred billion plus shortfall because of the cut in corporate taxes.  The technical rate was 35 percent but the effective rate the average corporation paid was 21%.   Rick Unger says it should be an honest 21%.  Now with the Trump tax cuts the effect rate corporations pay is 11%, which is the lowest since they’ve been keeping records on this.  The extra money goes not for new equipment and reinvestment but rather to buy back their own stock and jack up stock prices making common shares more expensive.  But with my trust fun partially based on stocks, I profit myself.  The democrats need to make this a campaign issue next year.  But people are lazy when it comes to economics and they don’t think things through. 

Thom Hartman continued to talk about global warming throughout the morning.  The problem is it’s so bad now with signs of getting much worse that nobody even wants to think about it, including me a lot of the time.   We’d like to continue to live our lives as if nothing was wrong, or else blame China for the whole thing.  It was a wait for lunch.  We had Swedish meatballs and gravy and mashed potatoes and gravy.   We had apple crisp for dessert, which was decidedly better than usual.   I was thinking of doing a post under my own name which goes “We need to hold a prayer meeting for the Lord to get rid of President Trump.  As the song goes, “God only knows; God makes his plans.  The information is unavailable to the mortal man”.   I had the Gary and Shannon show on including “Swamp Watch”.  I was fighting drowsiness some of the time.  I did have one coffee for lunch but you wouldn’t know it.