Some time ago I read that Donald Trump wanted to build a building in Moscow. He was not able to do so because he was unable to navigate through the labyrinth of Russian cronyism. He had even held a beauty contest to impress the Russians. A building in Moscow would have been a prize to Donald Trump because he was attempting to build a world wide brand. Donald Trump believed Russia is a world player.

With all the attempts to link President Trump to Russia, just remember that there were many more links to Russia with the Clintons. More importantly, any links to Russia by the Clintons were absolutely overshadowed by the links to the Saudis and other Arab nations to the Clintons.

Funny, the black clad resistance fighters of the left remind me of the secretive Russian provocateurs. Who are the Russians really supporting.

Last Sunday President Trump made what may have been his most infamous tweet yet. President Obama had bugged Trump Tower during the campaign. My first reaction was mythbusters like analysis of probable, but impossible to prove because of plausible deniability.

With extraordinary timing a couple of days later there is a massive CIA leak. Not much of really new information in the leak, it was just a reaffirmation that if the government wants surveillance, they have it. I must conclude that if the president wants to see the surveillance, he, or she, can.

Then a thought crossed my mind. For his own security, the president himself must be under continuous surveillance. I wonder if that surveillance would then be available to the next president.

Of course it would be very illegal to release any such surveillance if it were to exist. Back to plausible deniability.

Speaking about the few questions I have been asked about my support for Candidate Trump. After the election I was asked if I was to get a job in the new government. My answer has been Trump only hires winners. Me I am just average. I make other people look good.

That’s the way it should be. Trump should hire the best he can. He said that part of the problem with this country was political hacks mucking things up. He should get the right people and fire the rest. That is my view.

I have spent most of my life in manufacturing. I like tractors cars and planes. I like to promote electric cars and planes. I am happy Donald Trump gets along with Elon Musk. I would like to see a place in this world for small planes. Politics gives me a small platform to say these things. I benchmark my simple writing to other writers that I read, and at best I am average. However in manufacturing, I am very very good.

As I have mentioned before, I am a prime example of the demographic Trump supporter. They are very much underrepresented in the media. My personal thought is there are other supporters that write, but like myself they are censored.

I like to figure out how machines work, and explain them. With this blog I am dabbling in the view that politics is a machine. That and the human emotion of the loss of a dear friend.

Of course I have a job, with health insurance, and it’s not bad. Life is actually pretty good. But deep down, I would like to move around more.

How do you provide increasing government benefits with a shrinking workforce? You tax the people who work twice. Let me explain how this happens during tax time.

Back when I had a good job with good benefits, I put ten percent of my income into a 401k. Figuring that I would be working for a long time I put forty percent of the savings into tax deferred savings, the other sixty percent I paid taxes on.

My logic was to pay the taxes then and get it over with. Now that I am making less, and of age to collect, I took a disbursement. Unfortunately I had to pay taxes on the whole amount. It used to be that a 1099-R would record the the ratio of pretax and post tax savings were dispersed. Two years ago the government removed that record from the 1099-R.

To avoid having to pay taxes twice, I would essentially have to have all the records of my investments and sue the government. Of course I am still working, so I do not have the time, or money, or all the records to use the government.

The is the second time that I am not happy with the IRS. I am involved with a very small non profit, six years ago the IRS made many unnecessary demands for documentation with dire threats of incarceration. A complete waste of my time. I was not impressed.

Taxed twice for working, and trying to plan ahead. Not impressed at all.

Well the political news news these days is fast and furious. I am not really surprised. Events during a revolution are typically fast and furious.

If Donald J Trump was a drinker, he would probably have a few choice words after a few drinks. Since he doesn’t drink, he tweets. Probably not much different between the two content wise. The real difference is the instantaneous transmittal of the thought.

It would’ve been fascinating to hear what Winston Churchill would have said after a couple glasses of brandy.

Today we have a new healthcare proposal, a refugee plan, a massive Wiki Leaks dump on the CIA. This is truly a staggering amount of political change. So I gave Chris Matthews a chance to comment (Evidently I don’t follow my own advice). With all the real news, Chris obsessed on President Trump’s tweets. Chris is my favorite liberal commentator, with all that is going on he still suggests, with rather slim evidence that Russia put Donald Trump into the presidency.

I figure that if I work, I can have health insurance. It is something that effects most everyone. I would think that that would be the big story.

There are the Trump haters that know that I am a Trump supporter. They still say hateful things to me. I simply reply that “Trump is awesome!”. I still believe it.

I have had some reasonable and intelligent people tell me that they don’t understand the logic behind the tweets of President Donald Trump. I am no expert, but I do have my theories.

First, a tweet has no official meaning. It is not a proclamation or an indictment, it is simply a spontaneous thought. Of course a spontaneous thought from the president does carry meaning, and people will react. My thoughts are that is a good thing.

Not long ago, the random thoughts of the president would be leaked to the press, and published as some sort of propaganda. Folks would write letters to the editor or call their congressman. Results would be tabulated, and returned for the presidents amusement. Tweeting definitely reduces the feedback time for random thoughts. Things will happen faster.

I don’t follow tweets, or tweet. I consider it a waste of time. Typically people in the media tweet, and more often than not it is sophomoric in style. Official communications are much more polished. I think President Trump intends his tweets to be thought provoking and designed to encourage discussion.

Most people completely misunderstand the tweets. This misunderstanding is compounded by false news of the mainstream media. The only time I hear a tweet is when it is retransmitted by the mainstream media. Of course they try and tell me what the president ment by the tweet. Thankfully they included the original tweet. So I now have access to the particular random thought that they find important.

The president has a sense of humor. Let’s take tweet about taking the oil from Iraq. “Send in the troops and take the oil”. Honestly I don’t remember if it was a tweet or a campaign speech, but anyway. My very first thought was, isn’t that what President Obama is doing when he buys oil from ISIS? Then there was, “Kill the families of the terrorists”. Wasn’t that what President Obama was doing with his drone strikes? Profound statements about the current state of affairs.

The most famous, so far, has been. “An Immediate Temporary Ban on Muslim immigrants until our experts can figure out what is going on”. This was a simple and brilliant response to hearing out on the campaign trail why are Muslim terrorists trying to kill us. Candidate Trump, who gets along just fine with many Muslims is surprised to hear about the fears. So he calls for a pause, and also calls for experts to opine. He may not believe the ban is going to work, but he will be perceived as doing something about the problem. More importantly by asking for experts he has acknowledged that it is a problem. Any other politically correct candidate would have just brushed aside those fears.

For a revolutionary candidate, and president. Tweeting is a new revolutionary method of communication. Indeed it is informal, and thought provoking. You are most definitely allowed to disagree, or agree, and more importantly to respond. Like a good chef, the president may just be stirring the pot.

Even though I do not follow the presidents tweets, I enjoy people’s reactions to them. For some of them are profound, some of them are silly, some of them are revealing. More importantly, I find some of them to be hysterically funny.

 

In a homage to the power of unionism the Democrats staged a sit down strike during President Trump’s first address to Congress. Back in 1936 the UAW staged a sit down strike against General Motors. After 44 days the strike was over and the auto industry was soon to be fully unionized. Now days sit ins are of short duration over petty grievances.

During the address to Congress President Trump used words that could have come out of President Obama’s mouth. The Democrats sat in stony silence. I didn’t expect enthusiastic applause, but some political clapping would have been appropriate. When President Trump leans to the left you would think there would be at least a slight attempt at positive reinforcement. To be fair the Democrats did stand and applaud several times. It was rare enough that I was surprised when they did.

Personally I thought the speech was brilliant, many others also thought it was. So I was quite disappointed when the entirety of the New Hampshire delegation had only nasty things to say. As the Obama presidency progressed, I was still able to say nice things at the end. You would not have found a ringing endorsement, but I would have been polite. To be so disrespectful at the beginning?

It was noticed that the Democrats had shown up in white. At first I thought it was some sort of religious order, or Arab fraternity. Then a few people suggested that they had simply forgot their hoods. Another unfavorable homage to the roots of the Democrat party.

Finally I watched a portion of the Democrat rebuttal by Kentucky Governor. I could not watch the whole thing. I had to wonder if the governor had watched the speech. He started out with some rambling comments, then he switched to the Democrat party talking points. Talking points are so Clintonion. As we have moved past the Clintons, we should move past the talking points. They don’t work. I do not care how many times they call me a racist, I am not one.

Some people say that Donald Trump does not say nice things, and that is why they don’t like him. Honestly I can’t ever recall Donald Trump saying something bad about American Voters. Remember Donald never had the media and talking points to say nasty things for him. Many of his supporters like his boldness, for they, like myself are quiet and shy.

At the beginning of the speech I fully expected to fall asleep, it was late, and I was tired. I was surprised to find myself invigorated at the end. It was that good.

The UAW is attempting to unionize the Tesla factory in California. They have published a bunch of lies on why the Tesla factory needs to be unionized. Elon Musk was not very happy about the lies of the UAW. He then wrote a long letter to his employees explaining the lies of the UAW.

I really like Elon Musk, I think he has the second largest set of brass ones in the world. To be honest, I think he gets along well with the guy that has the largest set. I expect some really unique synergies.

If I had the great misfortune to live in California, I would work at the Tesla factory if I could. Elon made a rather unique promise for his factory after the launch of their upcoming Model 3 Tesla. He promised a rollercoaster, complete with loops in the factory. You could go from building to building, or to the parking lot by roller coaster! What a great way to start the day. If by chance you were a bit unsettled, the loops would be optional. Me I would be thrilled to start my day with a double loop.

Since I met my wife, I have purchased eight Union built vehicles. My dear, and beautiful wife has purchased three beautiful and unique non union built vehicles. Right now I really hope that my next vehicle is non union made. I used to buy union built vehicles with pride. Now, I would be seriously disappointed if I have to buy a union built vehicle.

Tesla currently has a net value of about two billion dollars, they will need almost that much to launch the Model 3 (a car I want to buy) They currently have a market valuation of about 35 billion. Unsurprisingly Wall Street hedge funds are shorting Tesla stock by nine billion dollars. There are many people who have a interest in the failure of Tesla.

It would be cool to have a rollercoaster at work. If you don’t have a rollercoaster at work, you could always get involved in politics.