Mild day for our President. But - comments from me, nonetheless!
1. Another reference to the record high Stock Market. What's he going to do if the Stock Market goes down on his watch?
Of course the Stock Market is higher...people who make their living moving money around (middlemen for middlemen) are getting a good deal from the Republican Tax Bill.
If you believe American ideals are best exemplified by financial services corporations making more money, then Donald J Trump is your kind of President.
Too bad for the rest of us.
To consider, though: many of us without wealth, make our living from people who have wealth. We serve them, sell to them, cater to them, get funding from them, try to be like them, dress like them, dream their dreams. We sell out to them without a second thought. It's ingrained in us.
It's one of the unconscious rules we live by.
Somehow, all our attention goes to the wealthy, our kings/lords/landowners.
We make that choice.
We don't have to serve the wealthy. There are many people without means we can choose to serve.
Here's a tweet I was copying for one reason, but it became something else as I read replies to the tweet and thought about it a little more.
That tweet was a shocking story about a family we love to hate.
I believe it and I bet it's true.
As noted in many replies - at that age, he's a reflection of his parents.
Okay.
Many of the comments, were in sympathy and support for having to deal with the arrogance and entitlement of wealthy people.
This was in the reply as well:
The thing that struck me was...Yeah - we're all in service roles to the rich and it takes a toll.
Many of us are serfs to aristocratic masters. We think we've evolved beyond that - especially in America - but clearly, our economy is geared toward service to the rich. Maybe that's why we relate to movies about medieval times so easily...economically that's still our way of life.
I read some more of the replies - especially the part about the friend quitting teaching forever. Now, the tweet is just a tweet so we don't know exactly why the person quit teaching forever. Was it because of this one experience? I don't think so - there were probably a lot of factors involved in the decision.
But, this being Twitter, the replies were based on the idea that the only reason she quit was because a three year old swore at her. So, there was some mocking thrown about.
Among the mockery, I found this:
Oh yeah - we CHOOSE to service the rich.
We CHOOSE to pay attention to them.
Why do we blame them when we give them all our attention and focus?
There are plenty of poor people we could focus on.
We give our attention to the things we value.
Many of us prove every day that we value wealth above many other things.
Thank goodness many of us DO make choices to pay attention to the things we value: compassion, service, kindness, collaboration, and community.
And, don't forget, there are plenty of wealthy people who use their money to make the world a better place. They aren't rude and entitled.
The bottom line is:
a. we create our own reality
b. some people can't maintain their sense of right and wrong when it comes to money and power.
c. we are often subconsciously/mindlessly following and railing against our own economic beliefs.
How's that for going down a rabbit hole?
Back to Trump Tweets.
I was introduced to Omarosa via her first foray into Trumpworld - The Apprentice. Let's just say she did not present a pleasing personality in that series.
Her life has been sad and strange ever since.
In her capacity at the White House she was some kind of community outreach person. She was supposed to prove to people that Donald Trump knew black people, or something like that.
And coincidentally she's "fired" the night after Black Women helped put Doug Jones over the top in the Alabama special election.
On the one hand, I'm glad Omarosa's not on the taxpayer payroll anymore.
On the other hand, this is another example of Trump's ridiculous view of racial politics.
Apparently, it's a reality show episode as well. She may have tried to get in the residence and the secret service kicked her out and took her to Chief of Staff Kelly who said get rid of her and she was escorted off the property.
That's Donald Trump's Administration.
3. This one is odd to me. Donald Trump is NOT a Republican and yet he ran as a Republican and he is considered (though it's not an official position) to be the leader of the Republican Party. But, he ran AGAINST the establishment Republican Party. And his former chief political strategist is AGAINST the establishment Republican Party.
If the Republicans were really going to get great Republican candidates they might not follow all of Trump's policies.
Trump's base call themselves Republicans but they're former Tea Party people and Freedom Caucus people who don't believe in Federal government to the point of being willing to shut it down.
Maybe that's the difference between establishment Republicans and Bannnon Republicans - neither of them like a large Federal Government, but establishment Republicans are willing to work within the system to change it. Unfortunately, they often BECOME part of the system and start to preserve their own sphere of influence rather than continue the work of shrinking the Federal government. And that's when the Bannon side of the Republicans come in to say they can't work within the system - it has to be blown up!
The Republican Party has to figure out who they are before committing to "GREAT" Republican candidates.
Same can be said of Democrats at this point. Except by the very nature of their end goal, even the most progressive of Democrats wants the federal government to stay viable. So, they're not going to blow it up. But, we do have our two sides: work within the system (Obama) and agitate the system (Sanders).
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So, this turned out longer than I anticipated given the fairly mild nature of Trump's tweets.
I wanted to note that Trump alone is not the problem with our current state of affairs - it's the Congress (ready to pass a HORRIBLE tax bill - for many reasons I'd like to review) and Trump's Administration (net neutrality, environment, regulations, etc).
It's also the appointment and congressional approval of unqualified candidates to the judiciary... that one's pretty huge.
It's all huge.
More on another day.
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