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Apparently Trevor Noah and the Daily Show are opening up a “Presidential Twitter Library” in New York. What does it do? From the article it looks like it’s mocking memorializing all of Trump’s tweets for posterity.
I will admit I have a tendency to interrupt others… men, women, dogs, cats, birds. Not that I’m excusing this rude impolite behavior, but I think I interrupt people because I’m passionate about what I want to say. I find that if I don’t say something right away, I lose my chance and more importantly my train of thought. I recognize this problem and I’ve been taking slow steps to try to minimize my interruption of others. I wonder if people notice it.
But anyways, due to the recent Senate hearings, a number of interesting things are coming out… like the interruption of Kamala Harris when speaking. I find this fascinating because I recently heard about a study that women get interrupted by men more often as a sign of power. And yes, it even happens to the female Supreme Court Justices! Do you remember this? Interruption at it’s “finest.”
Trevor Noah’s recent commentary about the excuses Republican’s are using to explain Trump’s behavior is hilarious. #2 which starts at around the 4 min mark is hilarious.
I hope…
So Bernie Sanders made news that was surprisingly negative. Reading about it here and reading other articles got me thinking… Was Bernie wrong to pursue such line of questioning?
To me, more politicians need to hold other politicians accountable. The way I see it, if a nominee considers himself Christian first and doesn’t view other religions with “equal” respect, how do we as citizens know that the decisions this nominee makes are neither tainted with a religious view nor considered as religiously blind? In my mind, what Bernie wanted to do was to ensure that this nominee wouldn’t be using his religious convictions to implement policy in a “religiously blind” government.
On my opinion, it’s like abortion. The whole abortion issue boils down to the fact that a religious viewpoint is disguised as a political viewpoint of “every life is precious.” Yet the irony to me is, we have forgotten veterans, unwanted homeless, and even hungry families that are ignored by these religions. The life of these people are just as important as that of an embryo, yet religious leaders don’t make a big fuss out the forgotten.
I don’t know what to say. Reading this Wired article should leave EVERYONE confused at exactly what is going on politically. The same statements are interpreted in two widely different viewpoints based on political ideology. Seriously all this bullshit?
But the events from Comey remain clear…
That’s not hoping. That’s Trump performing a premeditated action with the intent to stop the investigation.
I found this fascinating recorded conversation of Jack Ma (the founder of Alibaba) at the World Economic Forum on Youtube.
An interesting note is his idea of what else we could do with a fraction of the money US spent on the past wars. I’ve always believed that the spending on US industrial military complex is much too big and far more benefits can be obtained if some of that money is spent on infrastructure, education or even healthcare. Specifically, certain unwanted programs that Congress passed but Pentagon doesn’t want. Read it here, here, here, and here.
If even just one of these wasteful programs gets redistributed to infrastructure, education or healthcare, how much better would the US citizens be? They would be JUST as safe with a better environment to live in.
This is great…
http://www.factcheck.org/2017/05/trump-fire-comey/
This is an interesting read. Clearly the facts behind the firing is very contradictory. This leads me to wonder, who in their right mind would want to take over as the head of the FBI amidst all this ambiguity and dubiousness.
Trevor Noah said it best… Republicans just wanted to pass a bill to repeal Obamacare not considering the effects of the bill on the general population. Feeling sick yet? You might not be covered soon…
Don’t worry… approximately 75% of American’s feel the same way too when it comes to the US government according to a Marketplace research poll. What fascinates me about this research poll is not only is it non-partisan (members from both party feel the same) but it comes on the heels of a “change election” where Donald Trump is now the President of the United States. Although Trump only garnered 62.985 million popular votes to Clinton’s 65.854 million popular votes, the Electoral College was what mattered the most on election night. I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the Clinton supporters believed the Electoral College is a form of voter suppression by the government where democracy and “the voice of the people” are not heard.
But I think the real cause of such deep rooted distrust comes from the lobbyists that directly contribute money to political campaigns.
Let’s do a thought experiment….
If a large sum of money from a particular interest group (say coffee lovers) donated to my campaign and that money helped me win an election into Congress, this interest group could very use the threat of future campaign contributions for the next election cycle to “encourage me” to vote favorably for this coffee interest group….
Is this not too hard to imagine? I hope not. Even at a small scale of high school elections, how many times did you vote for a class president on the basis of “what treats did the candidate give out instead of the issues they wanted to set?” I certainly did. The issues facing a class is secondary to what the future class president can offer me.
Going back to the lobbyist topic and the feeling of being forgotten, could it be possible to think that the government in it’s ever increasing need to get money to win elections that the government has focused their attention to satisfy the needs of the lobbyists instead of that of the people they represent?
I think so. I leave you with this Ted Talk.
A Guy and His Thoughts... 