Opinions From the Bedside

I’ve been paying less and less attention to politics and world events the last few weeks but unfortunately have gotten enough daily updates to be frustrated, nonetheless. This White House administration has been the worst disappointment I’ve felt in my adult life. I can’t think of another one that made me feel sick for how this country is being portrayed to the world and destroyed from the inside. Donald Trump believes it is his America and everyone is expected to agree and kowtow to his self-indulgent nature. This silly childish man’s retribution tour is the worst travesty on our United States Justice System. He finally fired Pam Bondi but then the temporary replacement, Todd Blanche, went on national tv and embarrassed himself by finishing his speech telling Trump he loved him.  Could this entire administration be any more pathetic?

I’ve said this before, who gives a shit that he feels he was wronged for being a total douchebag citizen and thinking that the world owes him an apology and the people that tried to hold him to account should be prosecuted. But the man just can’t help himself and keeps fucking himself every day of his existence. A cheat, a con, abuser, damn near war crimes offender, still not sure he isn’t one using civilization annihilation threats, to give him a backdoor for his personal war on Iran. Maybe, the only ones that hate him more than sixty-six percent of Americans is the Iranians. Don’t get me wrong, I have no use for the Iranians and the way they’ve approached the world the last fiftyish years, but hell man, you don’t go kicking the hornets’ nest when it is quiet. So sad, he has to take all the rest of us down with his chickenshit personal war and need to create a legend of himself, good or bad. I feel nothing but disgust but also hope with all my heart he is sidelined this January. Between November and then he will be hell and frankly, I think he will spend the next two years self-absorbed in making himself richer and building golden statues of himself and stamping his name on as much as he can as a true false profit would. The joy will come when they are all taken down and melted to feed some program he cut last year, and please next mister or mis president, remove all the cheap-ass looking gold all over the White House. Thank goodness they stopped his ballroom and was told he is a caretaker and not his personally, although I heard this morning construction has resumed. His legacy will go down as the most corrupt and despicable presidency ever and for many years to come. Enough of that scumbag, I’ll dance when his time ends, and boy will that dance floor be full.

In my boredom of the past week and thinking ahead to the next five weeks, I’m trying to figure out how to consume a day as fast as I can with as many mindless activities as possible. I found a new streaming channel that’s full of classic movies and westerns, both movies and shows. Just the right thing to pass the days. I’ve got plenty books to read, but nothing so far is locking my interest into page turning fury. My wife is doing most of my chores, but I don’t think there is any bright idea lights coming on about them and how much time they take, she knew what I did daily, she just doesn’t want to do them any longer than necessary. Frankly, after a week stuck in bed, I look forward to doing my own chores again.

I’m missing my coffee mornings with my dad, but we are talking daily about things, but not as much about the morning coffee solution findings we normally engage in. Ever since my mom died in 2020, I’ve watched my dad work to change his financial situation that mostly my mom left him in. My mom was good at spending, but not so good at saving a dime or two. My dad has paid off every bit of what he owed and has been able to save a nest egg in the process. Like most of us seeking never to owe anyone, he has finally achieved that status and is super proud of himself in the process. I’m pretty proud of him too, it wasn’t easy, but he stuck with it and accomplished his goal in five years. My oldest son, going through a divorce right now, has vowed to use his grandfather as inspiration to get back to being financially sound. I know he can do it and once he is rid of the bad habit of never saying no or the time isn’t right, he’ll achieve financial strength as well. I have come to understand it’s a practice in constant need of training. After retiring, the adjustment to the loss of a portion of income, we finally fell in lockstep to achieving what we have wanted. If we can keep President Blunderbuss out of the way of all of us trying to get by, we might have a chance, but he does seem hellbent on trying to take a pittance of everyone’s pie.

It’s hard to imagine nine and half years ago. Pre-Trump anything except a low ratings gameshow host and multi-bankruptcy businessman and family. I expect all presidents have enriched themselves to some level during their presidency and more so after entering civilian life again. But what Trump has done off the backs of our money is beyond compare. Our congress should spend the next two years ensuring this nation a never-again promise by making laws that will protect this country, democracy, and constitution from being threatened to this level again. I don’t suspect many laws will be passed, but those type laws, even with being vetoed by him, will go back to the congressional floors to make them law regardless of his veto power. I’m pretty sure we’ll never feel that innocence of being oblivious to the government, and maybe that is good. It would feel good to have something good come from this abomination of a government we suffer from now. To have a nation more aware of the processes that affect us daily through politics has to be something that can be valued by us all. We didn’t ask for it, but we have the knowledge now and hopefully the use of our voting power will be used more thoughtfully in the future. This extremism in division of parties is no good and the constant drumming of how bad the other side is must stop. It is a fools laziness to lump it all into some kind of box. It allows people to not think, to stay locked into the ridiculous device of our phones and social media. We have to stop getting our adrenaline shot from likes on some post and teach our young how to feel good about themselves without wondering if they’ll be a super-influencer. I have a son-in-law that is in the business of social media. His posts reflect an obviously young target audience that astounds me of the simplemindedness that his audience demonstrates by seeing what they are concerned about. Over the last week, numerous posts in slightly different slants of whether it is better to read a book before seeing the movie or vice versa. I don’t say this to dig him, I know what he’s like away from the camera, and it’s a niche market he is taking advantage of to provide income to his family. But it points to a very superficial audience feeling some level of importance by commenting back on such a meaningless question. No wonder this country is the way it is. Intelligence seems to be shelved for the moment when it is meaningful to know whether it is better to read first and watch the movie to compare how well they followed the book. Ultimately, they must realize it doesn’t matter the order, the question will be the same and the opinion will come from the same knowledge.

I’m sure I’ll have a few more od these opinions from the bedside as my recovery has me laid up for six total weeks and another six weeks of limited movement. Plenty of opportunity to be disgusted at the current state of affairs locally to worldwide. For my sanity, I hope to find some more mindless things to comment on and maybe I’ll find my own mindless questions to ask of things that should be only relevant to a like-minded crowd of a few. But then again, maybe I’m the outsider looking in, but then again, maybe I’m in the glass cell and I’m the one under observation.