was listening to this song on the short drive home from work....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5FCdx7Dn0o
was watching fox news morning show live a few moments ago there at the bus depot where they have cable tv (we don't have that at home) for about an hour.... sometimes I might watch Russia today channel as well as a counterbalance.....
so hemmer and mccallum were showing an interview from earlier with o'reilly and trump about what trump would do if he were president and the Russian fighter jet is buzzing a u.s. warship and Trump starts with his promises, promising the moon..... I would have said straightaway: pick up the phone, call Putin, or his successor, who i'd have an excellent working relationship with, and get them to stop doing that and maybe apologize............... then karl rove starts talking about it and I was about to start blogging about it right there but then he finally said, 'call vladimir' so I figured ok, nevermind
karl rove really knows what he's talking about......... also, if you recall when Boehner retired, w. bush called him a master of the legislative process.......... obviously, a lot of politicking in any democracy is 'sexy' p.r. stuff and kissing babies and a lot of tv appearances and stuff, but really, i'd be surprised if Trump could lucidly explain how the legislative process works exactly............. I probably couldn't myself........ all I know is that a bill is introduced, normally by the representatives who are voted in every two years and then it gets looked at by the lower house, voted on, sent to the senate, there are about three opportunities for the senate (who's voted in every six years) to send it back with amendments......... finally it can be sent to the president for ratification, the presidency in America has great power so the president can just veto anything........... there's an interesting episode of the brady bunch that explains all of that
obviously then too there are a lot of very old, working relationships in the congress (upper and lower houses), although in some cases, every two years, there are fresh faces............ there are many competing interest groups and lobbyists and what not, trying to influence individual representatives........ the laws are sometimes unclear as to what is legal in this regard or no.......... obviously Trump would know a lot more about it than I would as he has been donating money to all kinds of politicians for a long time and working with them and such......... on the other hand, it's hard to imagine a busy guy like that with time to watch c-span a lot, which is also incredibly boring.... some of these hearings they have where they drag some raggedy arse executive billionaire out there to testify and he just pleads the 5th and it just drags on and on --- so boring --- Nietzsche did say democracies are boring and authoritarian regimes are more interesting........ democracy is politics by committee so it's somewhat boring --- the media like to pretend that they're controlling public opinion and such but the public opinion on the tv is something amorphous and somewhat unreal, like a loch ness monster or something ---- most people don't have time to read long and intricate and well-researched and thoughtful articles in the online newspapers - that explain various issues in depth........... often the media are sidetracked by insignificant things like murders and minor terror attacks and don't see the big things coming like 9/11 or the water crisis in flint or whatever, even though there are warning signs building up.........
recently, around 9 days ago, a little mini-spiral current in the media in America was the notion that college educated government expert foreign policy wonks half the time don't know what they're talking about --- possibly as a result of Trump saying he'd consider getting advice from someone with a lousy cv --- I wouldn't go this far to say this myself, as a master or doctorate degree in foreign policy from a good American university does speak volumes.......... let's quickly talk about that now, obviously I don't have any kind of degree in foreign policy --- so I couldn't tell you even from memory how the u.n. can ratify something like the war in Iraq in 2003 with a veto from Russia or china........... I would say from memory, when bush went there requesting a war in Iraq, that Russia and china abstained..... I'm fairly certain if I googled it, that's what i'd find...... although I could be wrong, I couldn't even be bothered googling it, happy just to show my ignorance, seeing that i'm just a bus driver and all.............anyway, we're only mentioning this in light of having recently suggested on this blog, I can't understand why American policy doesn't seek to fortify the kurds in northern Iraq to the extent of declaring their own statehood.... possibly this may not be possibly with a chinese veto in the u.n. but I guess that didn't really stop Israel............ this would give the kurds in turkey an opportunity to mass migrate over to their own state if it were a bona fide nation......... of all the mainstream media, only Russia today has been covering the atrocities of the Turkish govt. against the kurds in turkey.......... obviously for msnbc and cnn, today show, etc, it's easier to talk about taylor swift --- a few days ago I was watching an nbc today interview with matt lauer and some guy that wrote a book on howard hughes or some such shut-in eccentric American billionaire --- it was at that time that a first jumbo jet flew into the world trade centre and really, you can tell by this example and basically everyday, that these tv journalists in America are not exactly rocket scientists, regardless of how smart they may be off camera
Trump seems the same way when it comes to legislative process........ his strong points seem to be he's very practical and has a willingness to get things done with a minimum of fuss......... Clinton on the other hand really knows how all the govt. stuff works..........she's been a senator -- frankly when I was living in nyc and hanging out with one of my buddies in manhattan who happened to be a gay fellow, and he showed me his entire building that was full of gay men with aids and told me the ny state govt. was picking up the tab for all their medications and rent, that's all I need to see to know I don't like Clinton's policies............. but i'll admit that she would know a lot more than trump would about legislative process, how things get done in Washington, etc...... probably trump is making a lot of people nervous there because he's coming across like happy Gilmore and they're all a bunch of shooter mcgavins........... Trump should get a crash course in all that stuff asap and then he can actually talk like he knows what he's talking about because he's always just making promises and other republicans just think he's unqualified/incompetent......... strange to say, he's actually fit to be president though, with some quick preparation which he has time for......... can you imagine how hard chris Christie's tail would be wagging if trump asked him to be his vp pick? I can see him blushing now and lifting one leg in the air like a woman being kissed and saying, 'moi? little old me?'....... ha ha ---- I wouldn't suggest anyone to trump myself but if I were him i'd start spending all kinds of money hiring people like karl rove that have contacts and understanding of how all that world works..........
it's funny how a CEO can just walk into a new corporation that deals with a product he has no experience with and just be the boss, but it's not clear that that's the case with politics in Washington......... I mean, putting aside all the tv interviews and media and late night talk show hosts and all that stuff, press conferences..... and just thinking about how those people go about their business every day, catching the little mini train or whatever they have in the capitol to go vote on something, or being too busy with something else to vote or going to dinners and talking politics all evening, all the stuff they actually do when they're in Washington --- Clinton sure has a lot of experience with that stuff........... it's looking pretty interesting though, even though democracies are boring
oh yeah, forgot to mention health care.... trump says he prefers the states to decide that stuff.... that means he's going to have to repeal Obamacare as that is a federal legislation and the supreme court has ratified the federal govt's ability to legislate on that superseding the state's rights (questionable decision) - so trump should take a position on that same as ted cruz and say it clearly, he can't just kind of mince around making promises and evading clearly defined positions and expect to win the presidency, it just won't cut the mustard......... if he's going to build a wall, deport people and then let them come back in legally, that's fine because at least he's saying something loud and clearly defined, people understand that and like it or not........ a lot of people are in shock with that stuff but screw their shock ---- trump needs to know exactly what he wants and state it clearly, understanding of course that that may or may not be possible depending on the outcome of senate and representative elections
see the senate vote in 2016 is due too:
Elections for the United States Senate will be held on November 8, 2016, with 34 of the 100 seats in the Senate being contested in regular elections whose winners will serve six-year terms from January 3, 2017 until January 3, 2023. All class 3 Senators are up for election; class 3 was last up for election in 2010, when Republicans won a net gain of six seats. Currently, Democrats are expected to have 10 seats up for election, and Republicans are expected to have 24 seats up for election. Special elections may also be held to fill vacancies that occur during the 114th United States Congress. Republicans, having taken control of the Senate in the 2014 election, currently hold the Senate majority with 54 seats.
see I don't know anywhere near as much as karl rove about all this stuff, but I'd bet my bottom dollar that the 24 republicans with seats up for re-election are just sweating right now, worried shitless about Donald trump and if he'll cause them to lose their seats............if I were trump i'd find out how many old school republicans with decades of experience in politics he can start building any kind of dialog with, like hiring them as advisors or something ...... it's just a cadre of old dudes out there that have been in politics for decades......... look at Donald Rumsfeld, the guy first started there in Washington 1963! that's a really long time ago -- he probably got voted in for two years at the time I guess and that's how he got started and he was secretary of defense as recently as 2006 so really, that's over 40 years in politics..... Washington is just full of old dudes like that just kind of waddling around with secretaries with their arms spilling over with files and policy wonks and advisors trailing them and briefing them on their way to their next meeting....... I mean, trump really has to cozy up with all this kind of establishment somehow, he can't just watch happy Gilmore in the plaza hotel and hope they'll call him up and bring popcorn, he has to make stuff happen for himself or he would totally lose -- that's my understanding
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCOFckFFgaQ
this documentary on trump (by history channel) is interesting -- didn't know he tried running an airline..... reminds me of my holiday to Fiji a few years ago before we had kids --- we were a happier couple in those days, the whiffy and I ---- what a great little resort we found on the south (coral coast) -- the library had a biography of Richard branson of virgin airlines --- very smart guy -- he started with only one airplane..... he banked everything on that and really killed it --- normally I wouldn't read random books like that but in the right setting, it was a really good read -- the guy did a lot of hot air ballooning, was lucky his balloon never got shot down..........
now they're talking about dan quayle in the trump documentary --- one of my ex girlfriend's dad was telling me how he played a hole at golf with dan quayle -- can you believe that? he was a u.s. air force guy this guy............. anyway, yeah, Richard branson, there's an Englishman you can really admire............ (they're few and far between! ha ha)
i'll tell you a few years ago, I started talking to a coffee provider for various cafes and he was saying there was a hole in the wall coffee place selling for 15k and available for purchase --- I would have liked to have bought it and had a go at running it -- I certainly had the means --- but with this wife -- I can't do anything half the time, it seems....... or probably could but didn't care --- as much as i'd like to be entrepreneurial, just don't care -- but it's interesting ..... my grandfather had a very entrepreneurial bent -- he made a lot of money selling concrete after the civil war in spain and then had a few little coal mines in Asturias -- I saw the remains of them once -- my father was telling me how he'd pay the workers on behalf of his dad (the coal miners) -- he also had shares in some company that produced sleeper carriages for the train lines and the 'urugallo' restaurant in madrid he owned, it's still there now near puerta del sol... both my parents worked behind the bar there for a while ----
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgc2qgKDr-I
if I were Trump i'd be drafting a letter to all the republican senators offering them to call on him to help them with their re-election campaigns, regardless of the outcome of the presidential election..... without offering specifics -- just sounding cordial and stuff.......... can't wait to see the debates with Hilary, ha ha ha!..... so many snooty republicans don't like him, it's really funny
can you imagine the responses??? a dead horse's head in bed next to Donald from senator so and so with a note pinned to its head: die bitch!
that's so funny, wanting to ban all the muslims, but any good muslim knows that it's perfectly kosher to tell lies in a certain situation, like about ted cruz's dad being a terrorist rapist or whatever...... and building a wall -- wow that's going to be interesting
here's a trump quote: 'Hilary Clinton created isis with Obama!'
that's exactly how the Russians feel!
hey and guess what, since Trump is banning muslims and Mexicans, why not ban meal breaks at the CIA!???? right? they could all wear a little chaff bag around their necks like horses and then just kind of eat granola and chew while they work --- that's so funny..... how about knock down their hq and build a golf course there! ha ha ha
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