Some Rays of Hope Against Trump-o-mania
There were some rays of sane hope that have appeared this week in the crazy world of Trump-o-mania.
First and foremost, Trump stated that we need have no fear of war with North Korea. I believe him. It became clear in the year of Trump threatening North Korea’s Kim Jung Un with some sort of raid or war, with the name-calling, and the Fire and Fury off-the-cuff threat, that Trump himself was the real danger for starting a limited war with nuclear consequences. While Trump’s Nobel Earning Photo Op day on 6/12/18 gained nothing from North Korea, Trump gave away the Farm on all of his possible negotiating points. The only thing the people of Korea, Japan, China, and the US gained is Trump’s backing down from the edge.
In Trump’s post-meeting news conference he even admitted that in six-months he could be proved wrong, but said he would never admit it or apologize, he would just cover it up, he joked. Finally, an honest statement from Trump.
I wrote a serious piece showing the Trump-Session policy of separating children at the border was analogous to the situations applied to the babies Moses and Jesus in the Bible. Jeff Sessions has now said that their policy has a biblical reference. I would agree, if the reference is to Trump acting like the dictatorial Pharaohs and Romans Prelates. Evangelist Franklin Graham, son of Billy Graham, has denounced the separation policy. Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo, President of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, has called the policy immoral.
Jim Bridenstine, the new NASA administrator, who was a climate science denier, has now converted to believing climate science, and backing NASA’s satellite projects to study earth system science. Bridenstine was the Representative from Oklahoma’s Tulsa district, of all places. EPA Administrator, Scott Pruitt, is also from Tulsa. Oklahoma is a prime oil state, and it’s richest oilman, Harold Hamm, is a key Trump backer.
The Russians have been detected already hacking this election. The good thing is that they have been detected this early, with still months to teach people how not to fall for phishing emails. We also need to start examining voting machines for any hacking software, which they may have picked up when running during the primaries. I assume Facebook is also trying to prevent social media manipulation.
The New York State Attorney General has filed a lawsuit against the charitable Trump Foundation, for mixing political payments and legal fine payments from their funds. With all of the crooked Trump behavior being investigated, it’s good to see at least one turning into charges.
James Inhofe, Senator from Oklahoma and the Senate’s leading climate science denier (the snowball incident) came at least as far as saying “If Scott Pruitt doesn’t stop. I will drop my support”.
Hillary Clinton was cleared yet again of prosecution for her independent email server, and, finally, Comey was called out by the Inspector General for redressing Clinton publicly, and publicizing the Weiner laptop reopening of her investigation.
A court has ordered EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt to show his scientific evidence against climate change, since he cannot state it as a justification for cancelling the Obama Clean Energy Program without revealing it.
The downer, is that Jeff Sessions has refused to defend the Obamacare requirement that Insurance Companies cannot discriminate against patients with pre-existing conditions. The only good thing is that Sessions said that he was following orders from Trump. Apparently, they are both unaware that the average voting age in Orange County is 59 years. Most of us don’t have doctors like Trump’s, who say that he is the healthiest President ever at the oldest age of 70, or will live to 200 years. Trump is 72 today. 128 years to go.
