another fine spring morning wasted

Trump is the anti politician.  The rest of those guys, you know they are a bunch of liars, it's what they do for a living.  There is that nanosecond before they speak when you can almost hear the whir as they are considering what to say, what will have the best effect.  There is no nanosecond with Trump.  He doesn't care what will have the best effect, more to the point he is sure, supremely confident, that whatever he says will have the best effect.  He is the greatest guy on the stage and the rest of them are all a bunch of losers.

I read somewhere lately that Sarah Palin was the beginning of Trumpism.  Here was a clearly ignorant woman who didn't know much about anything, whose words didn't even make any sense when you tried to put them together, and yet here she was one election and one heartbeat away from the presidency,  And she was wildly popular.  Not all that popular since her and Cap'n Fogey went down like a leaky garbage scow before Obama's sleek clipper ship. 

But she was still wildly popular among the reps, or among a certain reps of the insurgent variety.  The old school politicians were never loath to bend a truth, but the new school, the Palinists, never gave the slightest attention to the truth, like the early launched satellites of the sixties that broke the surly bonds of Earth, the Palinists broke the surly bonds of truth.  The old school politicians, when confronted with something they said that wasn't true did a little fancy two step, obfuscating and redirecting, you had to admire their skill, but it was a little awkward, the Palinists, when caught in a lie, simply repeated it only louder and with even more conviction.

And I can't quite trace it from Palin to Trump. but the tea partiers adopted Palinism.  What you say doesn't have to be true or make sense, just say it long and loud.  If your heart is true, if you believe what you are saying, then it can't possibly be wrong. 

Trumpists like Trump because they are sick of all the lying liars, so they are backing the biggest liar of them all. 

Another perfectly fine spring morning and I've wasted an hour of it ranting about Trump.  He has the power.

I wonder about these people who were really upset that Obama got elected.  You know there is a common thread amongst my ilk that a lot of this tea party, Trump, stuff is racist.  Myself I don't really go with that because I think my ilk is too prone to cry racism, and as I recall the reps were awfully hard on Bill too.  But there are some unsavory racist things coming out of Trump, and there is the fact that all these kkk guys are coming out for him.  Well I don't know.

I learned a little more about that open carry convention petition.  Apparently it was started by some of my ilk as a satire, but then it got like 45,000 signatures from your ilk.  The thing is Ohio is an open carry state, but the arena is a no firearm place and the secret service just stepped in and said no to open carry in the Quicken Loans, so I guess that's it.

I suppose they could still carry knives though, that would make it more like the Roman senate.

As a non driver i know as little about no fault insurance as I do about how much it costs to park or what a parking ticket costs, but the little comment i wanted to make about that was I think you are against people being forced to pay for health insurance, but aren't you for people being forced to buy car insurance?  Of course they are two different things.

As long as nothing particularly bad happens to you your self financing health care plan works, but if you had something like a heart attack, even if your health came back fine, you would be in debt the rest of your life.  i think that's the main reason people want health insurance, for the catastrophic stuff. 

We still have a county hospital.