I thought the guy was a flake, so my first thought was, it is about time. Of course when the president fires the director of the FBI people will talk. Interestingly a couple of days ago Hillary Clinton was blaming James Comey for her loss. As I wrote here at the time I thought the Weiner laptop affair was inconsequential. I don’t think I wrote about it the time, however I wondered about the motivation for the revelations.

Those who are not blinded by partisan motivation will agree James Comey was involved in several odd activities. In honesty, if there was any partisanship, he seemed to favor the Republicans. That brings the remote possibility that he was employed by the Russians to help Donald J Trump in the election.

President Trump prides in having a team of winners. James Comey was not a winner. Sometimes big wheels turn slow, the firing was probably inevitable.

Of course the Democrats believe that Comey was sacked because he was about to reveal massive Russian Trump collusion effectively throwing the election. I believe that they believe that the election can be overturned if they just try hard enough. The investigation will get along just fine without James Comey.

My view, if there was collusion, it would have already have been leaked. But let’s just look at what would be the motivation of Vladimir Putin. Foremost, he would like the price of oil to go up. The economy of Russia, as many other countries is dependent on the price of oil. Then there are some border disputes, and sanctions. Russia, unlike many other countries are not dependent on American aid. Our major costs incurred because of Russia, is the arms race. If the costs of the arms race could be reduced, both countries would benefit.

My view on the motivation of the Democrat leadership, they would prefer war with Russia, or Korea, or anybody so they could blame Trump. They must blame someone, it’s in their DNA.

Nancy Pelosi had some kind words for Republicans that supported repeal and replace with something better. “The bill will be tattooed on your forehead and you will glow in the dark” are just a few of the gracious words she heaped on Republicans that care for healthcare.

Personally I would just prefer to wear my BUBBATRUMP hat with the golden bill. As for luminosity, I prefer my luminous words right here in Bubbatrump.

At times I think when it comes to advancing partisanship cooperation, the Democrat leadership is genetically incapable of anything other than fascist hatred. However the kind and understanding words of Nancy has proven me wrong. It is so admirable that Nancy cares about cooperating with the Republicans after the dastardly partisan tactics the Republicans have used in the past. What am I saying? They hate us!

Oh well, just a few more mindless unconstrained words from another hateful politician.

Just thought I would rate the major Trump campaign promises. In no particular order.

Build The Wall, then make Mexico pay for it: First I give the media a failing grade for failing to ask about the big beautiful gate. Trump however gets a just passing grade because illegal immigration is way down. As of right now it appears nobody is paying for the wall. It has been pointed out that Trump himself is the wall. However he can improve his passing grade if he manages an architecturally pleasing wall. Then if the wall is reasonably secure, at least a B grade would be in order. I would be happy to award the Trump administration with a Golden A if a big beautiful gate is part of the wall.

Temporary Ban of Muslims. Absolutely a A! President Trump used precedent created and outlined by the Obama administration to Impose his Ban On Muslim immigrants. Fulfilling a campaign promise of a ban on those who would want to kill us, A ban was crafted using logic provided by the previous administration. It proved to be very temporary. President Trump fulfilled his campaign promise rapidly and effectively demonstrating the reactionary tactics of his opponents. The only issue would be the lack of clarity in understanding of what is going on with those who want to kill us. I still don’t understand the religious motivations of those who think it is OK to kill innocents.

Of course the previous promises were made with a twinkle in the eye. I think most people biased with prejudice missed it. I sincerely believe that you can fool all the people some of the time, in politics it is a prerequisite. Sometimes you get what you need.

Finally I will mention the Big League promise, Repeal and Replace, with Something Better. In actuality this will be the keystone of the Trump Presidency. Obviously this is a work in progress, and I will not make a prediction on the results. So far with things like his appointment of  Judge Gorsuch President Trump has proved true to his word. So when he says “something better” I believe him.

So far, two out of three is not bad. Then about the third I will paraphrase the words of Don Jr. about his father. “Impossible is just the starting point, never bet against him”.

 

It was May Day yesterday. Once May Day was a celebration of spring, the fertility of nature. Some people would enjoy the Maypole dance. A ritual where ribbons were wrapped around a pole. Then about a hundred years ago the communist party claimed May Day as a day of workers rights. They replaced celebrating the beauty of spring with demonstrations for the workers. Yesterday the resistance called for a hundred thousand demonstrations against President Trump. Yet there were just a few violent anti Trump demonstrations.

There do seem to be fewer anti Trump demonstrations, it may be because the police have started to arrest the anonymous Black Bloc anarchists. Or it may be that the anti Trump people are just getting tired of protesting. To be sure, I am not celebrating the lack of demonstration. I instead morn the lack of celebrating the fertility of spring. Somehow the joy of celebrating the blooming of nature’s bounty has been replaced with the violence of anarchist hatred with a political motivation.

So I wonder when has demonstration been successful. Some say that the protest of the Vietnam War caused us to loose the war. At best it caused us to quit the war. Protest and demonstration did not reconcile the casualties of war.

There have been many demonstrations to bring awareness to the plight of the African American. Is their plight any better? If anything the demonstrations and protests have become more violent. I am not aware of any statistics that their plight is any better, or worse.

Well, there is one success. A man who organized peaceful protests has a national holiday. It is celebrated on a dark February day when most people have to go to work. In my state it replaced a holiday that was on a bright spring day that was at the time the nations oldest holiday. It was a day that celebrated the death of the state’s governor.

Let me explain the holiday celebration that was lost to protest. In pre revolutionary days the state was ruled by a governor appointed by the crown. For whatever reason the governor became ill. At the time it was believed that if one person did not eat, another person would get better. This was called fasting. So it was declared that a beautiful spring day was to be declared a day of fasting. I really do not know how pious the general population was at the time, or if people really fasted. There could be a possibility that the population feasted, as the governor died. The most peculiar thing is that the next year a day of fasting was once again declared. So I figure that they must have had a really good time. To be honest, I do not really know how or why people celebrated the day. What I do know that the day was celebrated on a really nice spring day. The old timers knew a nice day.

Thanks to the power of demonstration, what was once a nice spring holiday to celebrate the demise of a leader past has become a dreary day of work. This is simply an illustration of the failure of demonstration to improve our plight.

 

 

I was discussing with a friend what we listen to when we are driving. We were planning a prolonged road trip, and I was talking about music. He said that he listens to NPR as it is non controversial. I surprised myself by involuntary blurting out “But they advocate violence”. My friend was equally surprised by my reaction. I quickly composed myself and exited the conversation by saying “Wait Wait, don’t tell me”.

I do not talk politics unless someone else brings it up. With my views it keeps me safer. Because I have carried a Trump sign I have experienced multiple occasions of political violence. Plus many more occasions of political hate. I have listened to an editorializing NPR advocate for people to protest candidate Trump. Then somewhat unbelievably NPR also advocated that people should exceed their personal moral limits of restraint while protesting. This lack of restraint was justified because of the absolute moral righteousness of stopping Trump and his supporters. Personally I interpret that as an advocacy of violence. Violence against people like me.

After the conversation I realized that hate has become normalized in political media. When the advocacy of violence by media is considered normal, it because hate has become normalized. I then thought of the many political conversations I have had where the word hate is used as a descriptor. The word hate is used by otherwise normal people in their description of politicians and policies. Myself, I simply disagree, or have an opposing opinion.

Thankfully during the prolonged road trip we did not listen to the radio, we engaged in conversation. Nobody brought up politics, but the conversation was good. For an epilogue to this piece, I consider my involvement in politics as a bit of a social experiment. In the beginning I believed that Donald J Trump would be the next president. So I picked up his sign to see what would happen. This blog is about my experiences.

A snowflake is a beautiful and unique thing. A fragile hexagonal crystal composed of Hydrogen and Oxygen is arguably essential for life. With my less than adequate artistic skills I tried to replicate a picture of a snowflake on the blue tennis ball above. The blue tennis ball represents a drop of water that has turned into a snowflake. You probably have a better representation of a snowflake on the air conditioning button in your car.

Why should the billionaires have all the fun? The President has sixteen golf courses, I can barely play the game. So many people cannot afford to play golf, or have the talent to do so. So I have decided to invent a new game that can be played by all.

If there are too many snowflakes in the world, life grinds to a halt. Think a blizzard mucks things up? So it has become time time to move the snowflakes. People use shovels, plows and snowblowers. I am going to use the golf club, see it? It’s going to be a new game, called Bubbatrump.

So in the picture there is the snowflake ball, the golf club, and a hat. What is the hat for you may ask? Simple, the guy, or gal, wearing the hat makes the rules. I will say that the fewest strokes to the windmill wins. The winner then gets to wear the hat. Then a new set of rules! Of course the winner cannot make the game unplayable, can they?

Cheers

I drove past the local village green this last weekend and the usual protesters with their their homemade signs were there. Tired looking they seemed a rather discordant sight in an otherwise vibrant community. I wondered if they would be accepting of a guy with a factory printed Trump sign who just wanted to talk. I didn’t think too long, for I had places to go, things to do and people to meet. Most Trump supporters would like to do more to support the president, but standing around and holding a sign? There are more important things that need to be done. I did not need to incite confrontation.

Easter Sunday I turned on the news and saw a group of Trump supporters in Berkeley being beaten by men dressed in black. This is the third time in three months that this has happened in Berkley. It has also happened in other places. For those that say this is a rare and isolated event, I beg to differ. Although I have not been bloodied by political violence, I have experienced anti Trump violence and hate. I believe it has been both professional and amateur, and I was nowhere near Berkeley. So if I had decided to stop and have a simple political chat with the protesters, how long would it be before some more professional type protesters showed up? At least this time the police made some arrests in Berkeley. I think that is a first.

As a person that wants nothing to do with violence, why would I be a Trump supporter? Honestly, it’s much safer to be a Trump supporter than to be involved in the opioid crisis. It’s probably safer than a lot of things I could do. After careful consideration I believe President Trump is doing the right thing, so I like others want to support him. I just like doing other things more than protesting.

So bless the men and women who go out on the streets to support President Trump, I applaud you. I cannot blame you for defending yourselves. I pray for your safety. Finally I deplore all those who promote violence in the streets.

To say that I have been disappointed by my favorite media commentators would be a severe understatement. So for some time I have been searching for a new political commentator.

I will admit that there are external influences on the media. The right is influenced by the Koch brothers, the left is influenced Soros clan. Those are just a couple of the big players. There are so many others. Like most people I don’t have the time or inclination to truly understand them all. On occasion something will pique my interest, and I will dig deeper. It is from these excavations that I build the foundations that support the creations that are my opinions.

When it comes to political commentary I am open to opinion, then I would like to hear a reasonable supportive argument. In other words I am open to some bias to a point of view, in fact I enjoy it for the sake of dialogue. What I cannot cotton is blatant misinformation. When I have done my due diligence, built my point of view, and find it directly countered by blatant misinformation, I care no longer for the commentary.

So much political commentary is bound by the golden shackles of self serving fascism. The vast majority of commentators are elitist. Little did I realize, that all the commentators that I used to listen to were slaves. Slaves figuratively bound with what appears to be the highly adored diamond encrusted shackles of gold that represented their absolute fidelity to the fascism of the daily talking points of Alice Travis Germond. I have since opened up my eyes and encompass other views.

So today I enjoy the deeply cynical, and somewhat ambivalent political commentary of Greg Gutfeld. He may not represent my point of view, but he does not directly contradict it.

Said to be more powerful than 100 nuclear weapons Ryomyong Street is a futuristic and modern boulevard. Environmentally friendly skyscrapers with plenty of green spaces line the boulevard. The streets are clean, the architecture is beautifully done with graceful curving lines. The sky is unpolluted and blue. The entire multibuilding complex was reportedly built in 90 days. Any developer would have to be impressed by the audacity of this construction. Little Kim Un unveiled Ryomyong Street a couple days ago in North Korea.

The pictures I saw of Ryomyong Street were indeed impressive, what is even more impressive was the lack of an actual nuclear blast in the latest North Korean celebration. It could be that the North Koreans have taken up building communities instead of bombs.

Truly a Win Win!

Well, I am not really comfortable with lots of bling, but I gave it a try. Of course I have the completely over the top Bubbatrump Hat. Then to deflect all the liberal slings and arrows I have the Trump shield. It is vaguely gear like in shape. This is because I like machines, and like to define things with Science Technology Engineering and Math, or STEM. Something that I would like to see more of in education. Finally the weapon of choice, the golf club. I would be happy if the wars of the future are fought on the golf course. I selected the 4 and the 5 irons because Trump is the 45th president.