Trump Has Two Issues to Worry About

I continue to be amazed that people like Thom Hartman think there is going to come a magic moment when the tide will turn against President Trump and “somehow we’ll know” that it’s time for Nancy Pelosi to start impeachment hearings.  But Hartman says we dare not begin an inquiry one minute before this magic moment happens.   And yet there is this one analyst with his “thirteen keys” to winning the presidency who says that UNLESS we get the impeachment ball rolling that Trump will be reelected.  It’s kind of a chicken and egg problem and nobody wants to budge.  According to this “thirteen keys” guy, the status quo can only help Trump.  I find this conclusion discouraging but perhaps true.  Two things in my book will dislodge that this guy hasn’t counted on.  One is the terriffs.   We have this new five percent terriff on products from Mexico and that’s everything from crops to parts for cars.  We consumers will pay five percent more for it all and that figure will gradually rise till it reaches 25%.  Trump is kind of adal headed when it comes to reasoning.  He believes that if you slap a terriff on Mexican goods, this will somehow get Mexico to stop the flow of immigrants from Guatemala.  The other issue is of course the abortion issue.  Now things have gotten really bad for the pro choice people.  In Missouri they are on the verge of closing down the last abortion clinic in the state.  But just today a court stay of execution kept this clinic open.  Now Louisiana has joined the ranks of states with a virtual ban on abortions.  These measures are passed in these mainly “heartland” states by large margins.  The districts are gerrymandered and Republicans have big majorities in these states even though the party affiliation of the people may be equally divided.  Of course the Supreme Court rules on these cases just as the supreme court with Kavanaugh and Gorsuch will end up passing qualifications on Roe vs Wade itself.  From the way the court ruled in Indiana where you have to have a funeral for the dead fetus or something- - - it looks from here as though the High Court stands an excellent chance on overturning Roe vs Wade.  If that happens the people, who don’t want an abortion ban, will turn against President Trump and vote him out of office.  Don’t underestimate the women’s vote.  Women could be the difference in this election.  Even if a particular woman wouldn’t get an abortion herself it’s a right she fiercely defends for others.

Trump referred to impeachment as a dirty, rotten, sticking thing.  He seemed genuinely inverse to undergoing it.  President Trump remarked, “Of course I won’t be impeached because the Supreme Court would never allow it”.  Others have remarked of Trump’s overall state of ignorance. The Democrats don’t seem that much closer to impeachment now despite the fact that Muller’s report probably informed a lot of FOX viewers that offences were committed by the President.  Stephanie was reading from some report that said there were at least 29 meetings between the Russians and people from the Trump campaign and they were closely coordinating which bombshells to drop to create what effect for the Trump campaign.  Yesterday said “I had nothing to do with the Russians helping me in the 2016 campaign”.  An hour and a half he deleted this tweet.   Then there is the incident with the battleship S S John Mc Cain in Japan the other day.  If Trump didn’t order the name covered up then someone at the White House staff did, and in many ways that’s even worse.  Trump said “I knew they were acting on my behalf”.   According to Thom Hartman the government agencies in charge of tracking climate change and global warming have been instructed not to forecast out beyond 2040 because that’s when the figures get really bad.  Hartman described it as a quilt on your bed that doesn’t get “too hot” the minute you put it on the bed but your body heat has to warm it up and the earth then says “I’m really hot now”.  I didn’t know that Monsanto was bought out by Bayer.  That kind of means Monsanto is out of business and the new people could discontinue all of their genetic engineering programs.   Their products get into our bodies and kill off beneficial stomach bacteria and interfere with digestion.  Some states like Colorado want to legalize magic mushrooms and Peyote.   Today is the first day of Galaxy’s Edge, the fourteen acre addition of Disneyland based on that Star Wars planet.  Not to be a downer or anything but do you think the Star Wars bubble could burst?   It won’t be today or tomorrow but what if the economy does south a year from now?  All of the stuff at Disney-land is so overpriced.   Right now it’s after ten.  I haven’t heard from Bill in weeks and he’s been gone almost a month.  He could well be back here unannounced at any time.  I hope he finds everything in order.