A Donald Trump Presidency is an Imminent Threat Now

Well now National Ruin is knocking right at the door.  Trump and Hillary are tied for who is the most popular.  This is the first time Trump has been so high in the polls since May.  So how do you persuade those sitting on the fence still to vote for Hillary.  It could be you may not like Trump being overtly supported by the KKK.  This is the most open support of any presidential candidate, ever.   Trump is going on trial for two things next month.  He’s being tried for the rape of a thirteen year old girl.  And he’s being tried for fraud coming from his failed Trump University.  There are at least two areas where Trump could be impeached his first day in office, and I’m not even talking about giving Nuclear weapons to Saudi Arabia or Oman or Yemen.  James Comey and the FBI may be all upset about a new batch of E mails but he chooses to ignore Trump's collusion with Putin to sabotage an US election with compuer hacking.  James Comey is like a republican plant in a democratic administration and he's proving that with his action last Friday.  This is an overtly political act and many argue it violates the Hatch Act of 1939.  But we’ll let that pass for the moment.  Trump has this alliance with Putin and Russia to sabotage the Clinton campaign by computer hacking and the FBI doesn’t want to look into that.  This Putin connection will be no small concern of any new Congress be they democratic or republican.  Also there is the matter of Trump saying he knows more than the Generals on topics such as torture of terrorism suspects.  If he “orders” the military to torture suspects and they refuse, this will instantly set up a constitutional crisis.  Judy told me last March or so that she thought Trump had the makings of a dictator.  Obviously she has since changed her mind.  Now having a dictator isn’t so bad if he upholds ‘Christian values’ such as unrestricted firearms.  Judy has made no secret she’s all for her platform of guns, pollution, and cutting taxes for the rich.  Trump wants to balloon the national budget by a trillion dollars (which experts say will happen) when he slashes taxes for the rich and has drastic new spending on the military.  The stock market is really nervous around Trump.  We learned that last week when stocks dropped on the latest news of Hillary’s E mails.  But the dangers of the Neo Cons is that they go way beyond classic conservatism, such as the libertarian party espouses.  It seems to me Judy is not at all adverse to the program for eliminating domestic programs espoused by Gary Johnson.  She just doesn’t want even a single potential vote being taken away from Trump.   Neo Cons are not constitutional origionalists.  They don’t believe in judicial restraint because they’re all for Citizen’s United, as Judy plainly told me five years ago.  Corporations were considered a privilege and not as right in those early days.  A privilege which could either be extended or withdrawn if said corporations did not meet a bunch of stringent guidelines.  The founding fathers did not pass the second amendment as a blank check for any gun nut who wants to go out wasting people.  The senate filibuster used to be a rare thing in congress.  There was a “tradition” against using it except in dire circumstances.  Now it’s envoked in almost every piece of legislation.  The founding fathers believed in terriffs.  Judy told me years ago she’s against terrifs because “it’s just another tax”.  Judy is not averse apparently to tax loopholes either like Trump not paying a billion dollars in past taxes.  There is a “tradition” of reveling your income taxes Trump is violating.  There is a tradition of the government paying its bills and not defaulting.  The republicans have no problem with these defaults.  There is a “tradition” of - - - free markets in trade in this sense.  If there are trade deficets of one nation or another than the currency values would adjust themselves to take care of the imbalance.  Now this “tradition” is shot to hell.  China manipulates currencies regularly.  There is a “tradition” of US Sovreignty as far as Court Systems here being sovereign.  The Trans Pacific Partnership would pre-empt our nation’s courts in favor of an international court tailor made for business interests, from which there is no appeal.  Even the idea of “fast tracking’ a bill is not “traditional”.  Computer espianage by China is not traditional.  It’s not “traditional” to idolize the Communist system.  Yet Michelle Bachman in 2012 admired the system they have in China because the workers have no rights to pensions and other things, and Bachman says we ought to adopt their system.  Using eminent domain for the benefit of corporate interests is not “traditional”.   Nothing Trump has done including attacking women the way he has could be considered a “traditional” campaign.  And changing the libel and slander laws as Trump wants to do goes against two hundred years of tradition and legal precedent.  The bottom line is that Trump is not a “traditional” American, and he will tank the economy if he gets in office. 

 Cliven Bundy got off charges; he was acquitted for taking over government property with guns aimed at government officials.  Meanwhile at Standing Rock they are being prosecuted to the hilt and those people are unarmed.   Judy doesn’t consider it averice when rich people want to bully and oppress the poor but she considers it an infringement of the rights of the rich if their taxes stay high so schools can be funded.  I’m come up with a new doctrine of Paul and Judy of the doctrine of absolution by merit of wealth.  Donald Trump’s sins are all set aside or otherwise ignored by Judy because he says the right buzz phrases sticking up for gun owners and heterosexual marriage and putting anti abortion people on the court.  It dawned on me when Justice Allito was being confirmed in 2005 that the price of getting court justices to overturn Roe vs Wade would be to enact a whole raft of rulings in areas such as civil liberties and corporate abuses - - which would lead toward a Police state, the way Bush was headed at the time.   If they overturned gay marriage laws it would cause a major crisis and chaos in this country.

Today Gary and Shannon did propositions 65 and 57.  I’m more confused after listening to their explanations now than before the program began.  Personally I don’t think we need a statewide blanked restrictions on all one use plastic bags. I think the individual shoppers and the “free market” should decide questions like this.  They said that the “True environmentalists” are against proposition 65 and don’t want stores being mandated to give to environmental groups because it’s some kind of a trick, a trap that will somehow weaken the plastic bag law.  Of course sometimes there are things in propositions I’m not privy to because I don’t have all the literature I should have.  For instance, proposition 57 allows violent criminals to be released.  I saw a list from “somewhere” of all the violent crimes this propositions gives thumbs up to for releasing early.  It’s said that soon there will be more plastic bags in the ocean than fish.  I’m not entirely insensitive to arguments like this.  But I balance it out.  I think there are ways people get a lot of use out of plastic bags that can’t be easily replaced.  It doesn’t take a genious to know that plastic bags are a lot easier to carry than are paper bags. 

Then it was Days of our Lives.  Orphius tried to turn Kayla and Marlena alive in wooden crates using gasoline.  But Andre tipped off the authorities, notably Patch and John, because he has a lot of phone contacts even in the Kiriacus empire.  In terms of Hope, Andre cut a deal with her to plead guilty as the price of not prosecuting Roman and Raphael for their extensive role in the cover-up of this crime of murder.  I’d go with Justin’s advice.  I’d plead either PTSD or else “diminished capacity”.  It’s only second degree to begin with because Hope didn’t go there that night with any intent to shoot and kill Stephano.  It was more of a last minute impulsive “reflex”.  So I’d let her off with ten years in prison, and I guess time off with good behavior.  

Rhapsody in Black didn’t have Halloween stuff this year; they had songs from October of 1957.   There were the usual expected hits such as “You Send Me”,  “Rock and Roll Music”, “Keep a Knocking But You Can’t Come In” and “Peanuts”.  They also featured “Buz, Buz, Buz” by the Hollywood Flames, a Detroit Romulan song.  They played “Swanee River Rock” by Ray Charles, and two unknown songs from the “Platters” and Fats Domino.  They also played a bizarre version of “Deep Purple” by Bill Ward and the Doninoes.  They played early cover songs such as “Further On - - Down the Road” which Eric Claptin later did, and “Honest I Do” later done by the Rolling Stones, and of course “Cillauette” later done by Herman’s Hermets.  They played “Down in the Alley” by the Clovers later done by Elvis.  They did “A Big Golden Idol” by the Coasters.  They played “Cool, Daddy, Cool” and other interesting but unknown songs.  There were numerous breaks for pledge drive, and they wrapped up seven minutes early.

 Breakfast with the Beatles had a good show with their Halloween show.  They played “Snookeroo” both as the first song and as the last song of the day.  Then there was “Mr Hyde is Gone”, which is a John Lennon demo song.  Then it was “Scared”, which is a song I heard a few seconds of a few years ago and now I got to hear the entire song, from Walls and Bridges.  Then they finally got into Beatle songs.  They played “Devil in her Heart” and “Baby’s in Black” and “I’m Looking Through You” and then they played “Run, Devil, Run” by Mc Cartney.  They also played “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” and “Run For Your Life”.  Then they played Helter Skelter and Savory Truffle, for the candy part of it.  Then they played “Ain’t that so like Candy” by Elvis Costello and Paul Mc Cartney.  Then they played “From Behind the Locked Door” from All Things Must pass.