A MESSAGE TO BERNIE'S SUPPORTERS

You can't always get what you want

but if you try some time

you just might find

You get what you need.

the Ol'Buzzard

THANK GOODNESS FOR THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE

I never thought I would say this; but thank goddess for the Electoral College deciding the Presidency. 

Seeing the poles showing Donald Trump and Hillary within the margin of error reinforces what Bill Maher always says: that a large percentage of the American people are bone ignorant, uninformed and willing to vote against their own best interest. 

It is scary to think that the popular vote could elect Donald Trump as President of the United States – but the Electoral College count shows otherwise. 

the Ol’Buzzard

COMMANDER AND CHIEF FORUM

I watched the Commander and Chief forum tonight and was very disappointed. 

First of all, the choice of Matt Lauer, a man who has never served in the military, for moderator is like having Louie C K moderate a physics symposium. 

The format sucked; having the audience ask soft ball questions.   There was nothing of substance discussed.  There were no questions on military policies: 5000 military still in Iraq; arming the Kurds is weakening our relationship with Turkey; what is our end goal in Syria and how do we accomplish it; what is the greater threat to the U. S. - Isis or North Korea; how strong is our commitment to NATO; should we have a plan to limit deployments to war zones, should there be a draft in time of war; what are specific plans to improve the VA? .....   

We learned nothing new tonight, with the exception that Donald Trump thinks the President has the power to fire all the Generals and appoint new ones.  He obviously is totally ignorant of rank and advancement structure of the military; but then again, Trump’s total lack of knowledge on almost all subjects is not new.  

the Ol’Buzzard

IT'S ALIVE

 

For decades the Republican Party has placated Christian fundamentalist with platitudes and promises they had no intention of acting on.   The same can be said for the gun owners and militia obsessed – the Party found it easy to vote down gun restrictions and give them lip service.   They have also played to the racial prejudices of the white southerners. 

As a result, the Republican Party, the party of the wealthy and privileged, for years was able to manipulate these groups and lock in their vote.  

Then something happened in 2008 when a black democrat was elected President of the United States.   The Republican rank and file encouraged the hitherto silent majority of their party – the far right radicals and wingnuts – to organize and to become a vocal, visible, angry demonstration – the Tea Party – against what they viewed as liberalism gone too far.  

The thing that the GOP did not count on was their inability to put the genie back in the bottle.  

Once embolden, the inmates took over the asylum.    In 2012 the Tea Party Republicans fielded a clown car of wing nuts to run in that presidential election.   This year the leader of the Republican Party may end up being Donald You’re Fired Trump.

It is their Frankenstein monster and “It’s Alive.”

the Ol’Buzzard