My kids were teenagers in the late 90s, so I got exposure to “reality TV” with garbage like MTV’s Real World. I hated it! There were others they watched too and I was a harsh critic, even back then. I rarely watch TV these days and if I do, I don’t watch reality TV shows. I never watched Donald Trump’s reality TV show, but now, as a political news junkie, here I am stuck watching The President Trump Reality Show. It is disgusting, demeaning to the Office of the President, a national embarrassment and exhausting. President Trump is as disgusting, perhaps even more so, than the Democrat partisans, who will do or say anything to advance their political agenda, that I’ve harshly criticized for years.
Frankly, if he gets impeached, I’ll probably breathe a sigh of relief, even though another impeachment drama would be very damaging to the country. At this point, I don’t know which would be more damaging – a full-term of this President Trump Reality Show or impeachment. It seems to me we are headed toward a constitutional crisis either way.
Yesterday was Jeff Sessions turn to be thrown to the wolves or under the bus, depending who was behind the leak of the Russian ambassador’s accounting to his superiors in Moscow, that Sessions discussed campaign-related matters in their conversations. This is high-level, national U.S. intelligence intercepts being leaked to the media.
When Trump’s tax return from long ago, showing he paid a lot in taxes, was leaked, I suspect that Trump was behind that leak. He played it for all it was worth, extrapolating that one tax return as indicative of all his tax returns. It was a self-serving leak, I suspect.
With the intel being leaked, it doesn’t matter who leaked it or why they leaked it, it’s completely illegal and beyond that this scorched earth partisan use of national security intel is completely corrupting the national security system. If high level officials, based on their own whims, can use intelligence for partisan political objectives, then what good are any of the rules?
Trump’s leaked tax return, well, if someone else leaked that without his consent, the law was broken, but even if he leaked it himself, while perfectly legal, lying and acting like someone else leaked it is very unethical and a corrupting influence on the country’s moral fiber. Yeah, yeah, I know – we don’t have much moral fiber left or the two major political parties wouldn’t have chosen Trump and Hillary.
During the election many conservatives, who should have known better, fell sway to Trumpthink, espousing morally bankrupt talking points to keep the Trump GOP insurgency ruthlessly laying waste to all rules and decorum, with a cutthroat scorched earth information war against, not only Hillary, but also the mainstream media. Hillary and much of the mainstream media were definitely colluding to wage a scorched earth campaign to dump anything and everything on Trump in an information war too. Here we are 6 months into Trump’s presidency and this scorched earth information war is still raging, showing no signs of slowing down anytime soon.
Yesterday I had to go to the vet to pick up some dog medication refills and on the way home I decided to stop by the Goodwill to look for cheap books that I wouldn’t mind cutting up for this “junk journal” hobby. The picture at the top is a 1995 perpetual calendar book, I found. There are lots of great quotes in it and my first thought was, I can cut a lot of these out and put them in my new quote junk journal. I think the lady at the Goodwill charged me 39 cents for this calendar, but many of these quotes are priceless. I also found a few other books, like this 1941, A Treasury of Gilbert and Sullivan, filled with music for 50 cents:
Later in the evening, I sat flipping through the pages of The Little Book of Virtues and I realized that I didn’t want to cut this little calendar book apart. In fact, I doubt that I will cut the music book apart either, since it’s very difficult for me to tear any book apart. So, I spent some time thinking about books that matter to me and then I watched a few videos on how to repair old children’s board books. Yes, I want to repair my little, Prayers For Little Children book. I also have the old, large dictionary that came with our set of World Book Encyclopedias, when I was a kid, which is in need of repair too:
Instead of buying anymore books for “junk journaling”, I think my next purchase will be a Speedy Stitcher sewing awl, so I can properly repair my little prayer book….
I decided to set that virtues calendar book on a shelf here on my hutch and enjoy a new quote on virtue every day:
Since endlessly writing about how corrupt and unfit President Trump is for the presidency won’t help anyone or add anything to the political debate, I might share some of these quotes on virtue instead.
Of course, I also wish President Trump would have this book on his desk in the Oval Office, but I doubt he would read it.
He prefers tweeting…
I can hardly stand so much “winning”…
