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Narcissism Requires Lies

31 Saturday Aug 2024

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        More than four and a half years ago I wrote that Trump has said over 7,000 lies during his political career. I can’t even guess how many more since then. Hundreds if not thousands involve his not inciting hundreds of people to try to overthrow the government on January 6, 2021. He knew he lost the election that night and it was tearing him apart so a couple of his closest advisors said it was probably a fraud. He latched on to the idea since he couldn’t have lost. His ego could not accept millions more people voted against him than he had conned into voting for him.

            Based on public appearance, tweets, diatribes on social media and in social meetings a group of psychologists in both political parties have evaluated Trump and found him to have
several mental problems. The two most obvious are his habitual lying and his narcissistic behavior. His inability to accept any criticism and lashing out at anyone who dares to do so indicates mental instability.

            Demanding absolute loyalty and admiration as demonstrated by requiring his secretaries and advisors to state “How great I am” during a special news event at the White House shortly after taking office is an indication of his great narcissism. If his brittle personality confronted the situation where he couldn’t lie or had to confront the truth, or his admirers were deserting him, he would fall apart and lash back in any way he could.

            The psychologists did not believe his mental condition should allow him to ever be in a position of authority. Their opinions were made before he started his latest campaign.

            His 2025 playbook indicates if he is reelected he will never leave the Oval Office because he will have total control.   

Harris Wins the Popular Vote

22 Thursday Aug 2024

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	I predict Kamala Harris will get six million more votes than Trump but I don’t know if the Electoral College allows her to win. The prediction is because the Democratic nominee for the last seven of eight Presidential Elections got the most votes. Bush II got three million more than Kerry. Now we all know getting more votes doesn’t mean winning as long as the ancient idea of 538 people deciding who wins.
	
        Here’s who won popular vote and by how many millions: Biden by 4, Hillary Clinton by 3, Obama by 5, Obama by 10, Gore by 8, and Bill Clinton by 8 and by 5.

	See, it is a dead bang certainty that Harris will get more votes but she needs to pick up most of the so called battleground states. Those are Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, and North Carolina. Poll averages as of August 21 has Trump leading in Arizona by 0.2%, Nevada by 1.2%, Pennsylvania 0.2%, North Carolina 1.2% , and Georgia by 1.8%. Harris leads by 1.8% in Georgia and 2.0% in Michigan. All are well inside the statistical error. The pressure is really on in those states because the winner will probably win with a majority of less than 10,000 in each state.

	Currently the reliable states give Harris 208 votes and Trump 219 with toss-ups having 111. The winner needs 270 no matter how many millions more popular votes Harris will get.

	A real democracy means the majority of the people decide their leader but not here. We really are no different than many other countries with the majority party picking the country’s leader. We need to make elections fair and honest by getting rid of the Electoral College!


Loss of Any Trust

15 Thursday Aug 2024

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        I don’t know when I first knew the importance of the United States Supreme Court but I aced my high school Constitution Test in 1965. It was a revered part of our Democracy. Not everyone always agreed with their verdicts but they were the last interpreters of the Constitution.

            Nine people comprising the court have agreed to be unbiased in their opinions and leave previous decision alone. They were expected to remain completely above reproach. In return they will be well paid and have a lifetime job and great pension. They and their spouse get great above average health insurance; and are treated with extreme deference.

            Most decisions were close to unanimous in spite of what the President that appointed them hoped. In order to be a Supreme Court Judge, the President has one or more people check out a group of people. They would get lots of input from many people, especially politicians. The Committee would then forward their top picks to the President who would then interview each one. From that list the President would select one. Then the person goes through the discussions with the Senators on the judicial committee. If they approve, the appointment is sent to the full Senate for approval. If the majority of Senators agree, then the candidate is sworn into the revered office.

            I should say once revered office since today their standing is single digit in some polls. Why? First is their testimony before the committee is under oath and the three appointed by former President Donald Trump and Supreme Court Judge Clarence Thomas appointed by former President George W. Bush lies repeatedly. Thomas has been treated to millions in gifts. Samuel A. Alito Jr supports the people who tried to overthrow the government on January 6.

            On yes, one very interesting point is the Court sets the ethics rules for all the Federal Court Judges. However the Supreme Court has no ethics rules for themselves. Their conscious is supposed to be their ethics boundary. At least three on this court have shown their ethics is far outside of the rules they have set forth for lower court judges; hence there is little respect for them or their opinions.

Flip Phone

15 Thursday Aug 2024

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                I have a flip phone with Consumer Cellular. I have asked them to eliminate texting and voice mail on it because I think people should want to converse with me directly and not send a few words hoping I will respond sometime. Unfortunately this phone has a ton of features which just make using it more irritating than the previous ones.

I just saw a commercial where a woman was watching her dog in her home while she was at the office. I assume that one camera saw the dog out of all the other cameras in the house. She made a voice comment to the dog. Some of the TV shows have shown people in their homes being watched by bad people on cameras they put in or cameras the occupants installed. These cameras operate on Bluetooth which means people can buy a device on the internet that will allow them to hack into that Bluetooth system. That reminds me of driving through a subdivision with a garage door opener raising garage doors. The Wi-Fi can reach the street in front of your home so people can get into your computer and phones that are tied into your system. Not my flip phone!

People keep their financial records on their computer and phones which are hack-able.  My stockbroker, banker, and insurance agent know they must not do anything without a personal phone call or face-to-face authorization from us.

If you did get to this point without wondering how you are getting these scary words from me. My wife has a computer, laptop, tablet and phone. We keep no financial information on it and instantly erase any sent by a company we do business with. Even then she keeps getting fraudulent e-mails which have penetrated her security programs.

Good luck, because technology only gets better at crime.

Status of Journalism

08 Thursday Aug 2024

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        We subscribe to the Chicago Tribune and the Joliet Herald. We used to subscribe to the local paper until it was bought by the owners of the Joliet Herald and the paper went from reporting a lot of local news and sports to a few pages identical to the Joliet paper. Both the Tribune and the Herald are shadows of their former selves and have many times more advertising than thirty years ago.

            The articles are often less than excellently written by the local reporters. Too often the articles seem like they come off a politicians publicist’s release. Some of those reporters replaced reporters who were downsized and thus losing experience, contacts, and skills. Even the comics have been reduced along with the size of the actual paper.

            On the bright side the Herald replaced news with some good puzzles. The puzzles must cost a fortune because both papers keep raising their prices for less and less news.

            The publishers of newspapers have always made money but today they must make huge amounts. Journalism used to be a respected and honorable profession and feared by those politicians that did wrong. Remember ‘Watergate’ was brought to light because of two hard working professionals.

            Today Americans have become so inured to actual news that the shysters and hucksters are getting away with destroying our Democracy, The lack of any morality is amplified by the lack of professional journalism today. This article was about newspapers but the quality of talking heads on news programs has deteriorated too. How sad!