Say Hello To President Trump

This is Wednesday November 9, 2016.  Last night Donald Trump was elected 45^th President of the United States.  This is a triangulation of the number nine.  Trump got 48% of the popular vote so did not exceed fifty.  Hillary also got 48% in fact she got a few more votes than did Trump making his a negative margin of popular victory just like Bush.  Gary Johnson got 3% and Jill Stein got one percent.  It was maybe a quarter after seven when I was getting my medication when I got the sinking feeling Trump might actually win.  Hillary won all the places she wanted to win at such as South Florida and the big cities of Pennsylvania.  But the WORMS were on the march- - white, old, rural, men.  It was the last gasp of the redneck generation.  Michigan and Arizona still haven’t been decided but are leaning Trump.  Trump has 278 electoral votes without these two states and apparently made his victory statement around midnight.  People on the East Coast wouldn’t have seen it.  Now Hillary has to realize that she will never be commander in chief, something she’s worked half her life for.  Protests have broken out all over the country like on the UCLA and Berkley college campuses.  If the economy tanks or we get into a major war we’ll have only the Trumpster to blame for it.  I imagine certain immigrant communities are greeting the news of a Trump presidency with fear.  Last night they were too obsessed with the Electoral College and also did endless interviews.  Their coverage of Congressional races, both of the House and the Senate- suffered.  I tried to look it up today and all I know is that Trump will be working with a Republican House and Senate both for the first time since before 2006 under Bush.  In other words they’ll have to take responsibility for every piece of legislation passed or not passed- and every Supreme Court justice appointed.  Since I didn’t have any coffee at night I grew drowsy and went to bed before nine thirty.  However I woke up at twenty to four and knew I wouldn’t be able to sleep.  I went out and had a cigarette and then listened to Donald Trump’s victory speech on TV and he says Hillary conceded to him personally.  I turned out the lights and tried to get more sleep at ten after four but a half hour later at twenty to five I knew that was useless.  I looked up the propositions on computer because TV was slow to get them out.  Propositions 51 and 52 and 55 and 58 passed.  57, the get out of prison for free if you’re a violent offender one also passed.  60, the condoms one failed.  Proposition 61 failed but not by that much.  I lot of people bought into the discounted drugs argument.  Proposition 62 failed because Californians still want the Death Penalty.  The anti gun and ammunition proposition passed, 63, as did the Marijuana initiative Prop 64.  You can grow up to six marijuana plants for your own use but you can’t sell it on the street.  You can’t smoke marijuana in public.  The trash bag initiative hasn’t been decided yet. 

In the end, Hillary Clinton became the face of a corrupt, arrogant and out-of-touch Establishment, while Donald Trump emerged as an almost perfectly imperfect vessel for a populist fury that had bubbled beneath the surface of America.  There is clearly much to fear from a Trump presidency, especially coupled with continued Republican control of  Congress. Trump and many Republicans have denied the reality of climate change; they favor more tax cuts for the rich; they want to deregulate Wall Street and other powerful industries – all policies that helped create the current mess that the United States and much of the world are now in.

This is Monday November 7, 2016 and Hillary Clinton had to defend that rapist she got off of charges, because she was assigned that case by a judge and she was a public defender working pro bono.  Thom Hartman reminds us that voter suppression is hot and heavy these days closing down long standing polling places in democratic areas.  It’s an all out power play by the republicans.  Yesterday about dinner time James Comey issued a letter to congress saying that he has no intention to file charges against Hillary Clinton.  The E mails are either copies of ones the FBI has already looked at, or they are not germain to the topic.   Trump and Gingrich are saying that Comey “backed down in the face of democratic pressure”.  Perhaps Comey had twinges of political conscience.  We have not yet seen new poll numbers after this event.   Dow Jones stock futures were up right after the announcement came out. 

We had soup for lunch followed by prepared pork pieces, scalloped potatoes and spinach.  We had some kind of yellow cake concoction with whipped cream on it.  I listened to Gary and Shannon.  The stock market closed up despite initial anxieties.  I was informed I had to leave for the dentist’s at one but I got to watch the first half of my soap opera.  Teresa’s plan to make Brady believe she’s gone back to booze and drugs is well under-way.  I went down to the lobby and soon met with my ride.  My old “friend” Arcadio from room 219 was there along with Mary Burnes.  Her doctor was practically across the street from mine so we went down Lampson.  I got there at a quartet to two and smoked a cigarette.  I was called into the dentist chair at ten to two and soon after this the procedure had started.  This crown went smoothly except there seemed to be more picking at various teeth.  It was the far upper left tooth and I remember someone told me that tooth needed a crown over thirty years ago.  There seemed to be less time getting the temporary to fit perfectly this outing.  I got done at seven after three, which was fast work.  I went out to the street to smoke a cigarette but soon the van appeared and I put the cigarette out.  He didn’t park in front of me but down the street, which confused me.  They played “Fade to Black” by Metallica.  Officially that’s supposed to be the Orion Federation’s favorite Metallica song, but mine is “The Thing That Should Not Be”.  We got home at three thirty and I had plenty of time to smoke the rest of my cigarette.