Fighting for the Future

The house is quiet this afternoon so I thought I’d sit down to write for a while.  This is kind of a stream of consciousness post.

In news from the internet this week.

1.     The Democratic Party is seeking to change the time for the next State of the Union address from the evening to the afternoon so RBG won’t miss her bedtime.

2.    Speaking of Justice Ginsberg – she says she is good for 5 more years.  I guess she has already decided the DNC doesn’t have a prayer in 2018 or 2020 elections. 

3.    All the experts who predicted HRC had a 99% chance of being President are now certain the Democrats will sweep the mid-terms.  Personally, I’m feeling just a little better about the Republicans chances now.

4.    I guess someone has run up the government cost estimate for Bernie Sander’s proposal for “Medicare for All.”  If I read it right, it comes in at about $33,000,000,000,000.68.  This is without assuming allowances for graft, corruption, and greed.  Since we are about to bust the bank on Social Security and it is the kids who want it I say “Let’s do this thing!”  So what if we turn into another Venezuela?  On the bright side, it should end that whole legal versus illegal immigration problem as the attractiveness of coming to America disappears.

5.    Speaking of Venezuela – the rising star for the DNC is avowed Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the first-time

candidate for New York’s 14^th District, widely supported by other first-time candidates, who seems to have benefited from all that a quality education at Boston University can offer.  Like most candidates, big on ideas, a little short on reality.

6.    People who view themselves as comedians continue to believe their political opinions are important and have expressed them in some interesting ways.  For the record, I didn’t find Carrot Top’s brand of entertainment all that appealing, but to each his own.  Pissing in public kind of falls into that same category.

7.     Trump Derangement Syndrome has now been classified by mental health professionals (and I use that term loosely) as Trump Anxiety Disorder.  They suggest counseling, group hugs, and binge watching of the historical documentary “Frozen.”

8.    John Brennen, former closet communist and former head of the CIA has voiced concern that President Trump is a Putin Puppet.  The communists (Lenin) had a term for sympathizers of their doctrine who lived in capitalist

societies like America, I think the term was “Useful Idiots.”  I think this works well to describe John Brennen.  I could describe President Trump in a number of ways, but a puppet for someone else?  Never.

In the words of Mel Blanc… “That’s all folks!”