my thoughts

why am i getting pictures in my head of the autobahn?

why is he using infrastructure as a redirect?  has he not watched how redirect is done?

why does every expect that he will seriously denounce the alt right when they are his base?

does he live in the same dimension as the rest of the country?  i mean, clearly he's pretty clueless about a lot of stuff, like that all non-whites do not live in the inner-cities, and like how retail is dying, and jobs don't eliminate race issues of any kind and there are more than one kind.


however, it could be a natural progression in this country to take down statues of slave-holding founding fathers.  he says it like:  well, if you take down a statue of robert e. lee or stonewall jackson then the next step is washington-- which is an inflammatory over-simplification--  but it's not completely wrong.


this country was founded, or more accurately, our foundational governmental structure was founded in a racist compromise.  the southern states wanted representation which would put them on a more even footing with the more densely populated north and they hammered out that 3/5ths of a person deal.  now remember that only property holders could vote at all--  we weren't talking about voting or rights--  this was a population thing.  so slaves, who were classified as property, not people, could count as 3/5ths a population unit each.

the founding fathers were flawed.  some of them were slave owners.  we've talked about this.  but what needs to happen, i guess is some big cracking the past wide open thing.  i mean, michelle obama talked about how hard it was to think about this stuff, living in the white house.

i had hoped, since we've had a generation of kid's growing up where the majority of their idols are african american-- i grew up saying black, talking to my black friends saying black and i feel self-conscious and just weird saying african american;  it's is political correctness, to which i am not opposed, but it feels contrived--  that the zeitgeist would have changed more.



that he doesn't seem to see that bringing the country together is in his job description is sad, but hardly startling.  but even if he tried, i do not believe he has the skill set.  he could try though, and he should.

i don't know why police violence against african americans broke through to media attention during obama's watch.  i don't know if the violence got worse through some sort of game theory equilibrium, or backlash, or whether white america was just having a moment where they could hear it.  i mean, maybe the people just said black lives matter enough louder, ya know.  i'm never sure of the reason that things coming to the surface when they do.  i'm just sad that there still has to be argument about it.

i have a facebook friend (who i work with, so i actually know her)  every time someone would say something about black lives matter she would say:  no, all lives matter.  and they would try to explain to her:  yeah yeah, right, but the point is that there are all these things happening and we need to like actually stand up and say black lives matter.  and her response was that it is racist to say black lives matter--  against non-black people presumably.  and i always try to see other people's point of view--  like to a fault, apparently, because i'm thinking about the commercials in the 70s saying so and so says i'm prejudiced daddy, oh really and who is so and so, oh he's my jewish friend, oh well then timmy you are prejudiced.  like any differentiation means prejudice, well, no, that's not what that means at all, but that's where my mind goes trying to make a case for her until i just say NO to myself.  she is either too ignorant to be redeemed, or she is a racist.

and that's where you have to go with him too.  do i think he's a white supremacist?  no, i don't.  do i think he would support or look the other way if it suited his causes?  yes, yes i do.  fundamentally he doesn't think black lives matter.  but i don't think he thinks much more about anyone, except himself.

he is out of touch in the extreme.

he has such wildly inflated beliefs about his own value and abilities that he might block out the sun with his swollen orange head.

he can dish it out,  but he can't even marginally take it.

and he just seems petty and stupid.

it's a pretty low point for the presidency--  enough to make you reconsider nixon.

i find it all extremely depressing.