Bad Democrat

Have you ever noticed how Pandora repeats songs a lot? And if you change it to another station you have, it repeats those songs a lot? That type of thing can lock you in time, and indeed, lock you within yourself. I call for an end to all music services who give us that as a result. And that should never be the result of a service you are paying for (when the other results aren’t as well-known, or don’t have as much market clout). Apple is good for when I want to hear a song – less good when I want to hear a new artist play for a variety of songs in an order that makes me want to hear more, or hear them more often.

There’s hardly an hour of the night or morning where it would be weird to be up, according to what’s on television. And that’s what television has done for us.

The polls say that 63 percent of Americans disapprove of ICE’s tactics, but I don’t believe it for a second. I think that 50% of Americans, if not more, approve of what ICE is doing and that Democrats are being guided by the screaming minority. Most Americans don’t want illegal immigrants taking over the country by numbers. And the people who resist arrest or follow ICE agents are the ones in the videos.

There are benches on the Santa Monica Pier where you can walk to and sit and look out at the ocean, which is under you. I love it there. It strikes me that a lot of people in LA don’t think to do it when they’re bored. But you hear about the pier when people talk about Los Angeles’s (and Santa Monica’s) assets, and you think, for tourists. It strikes me that a lot of the main assets cities have, they are not thinking to advertise them to city residents who may have ruled them out. And then when they list what makes their city great they go “uh-huh…”

When I just heard about it on the news, I thought it meant that President Trump was calling for him and his own to determine the outcome of the election. He’s calling for the US government (instead of the states’ governments) to facilitate the elections. That would be bad, as we trust the states and it’s, you know, in the Constitution. But not the same as saying the national government should determine the election, which is how it’s being reported/implied when they say “nationalize the election”. It’s like saying that our laws don’t count because we are currently in a Trump presidency. Why are reporters this sure that he would rig the election? I would think they would go into the specific states he contests (he said Minnesota) and say, did they do anything wrong? What would be the way a state could do an election wrong? I want to stop here because someone could jump in and say that I’m posing that it’s no big deal for a presidential administration to run elections when that president has indicated that he’s not okay with losing (and has been likened to authoritarians by others). I’m not saying it’s not a big deal at all. I’m saying that the line of questioning in response doesn’t quite stack up. I’m starting to feel like journalists don’t think that Donald Trump is as enormous a threat to democracy as they are claiming. They’re skipping some steps on the line of questioning, and jumping straight to a conclusion that Trump is an illegal actor and of course he and others would actually go ahead and rig the election that the US government facilitated. Why don’t they want to prove it.

I get dinner with my parents about every two and a half weeks. My dad invites me to go out and I accept. He texts me in between that. What I really want to say to them is that I’m an adult and don’t need to be checked in on on a semi-routine basis. If I were to say this (again), he would reject my boundary and tell me he was doing nothing wrong. Then continue (which he already did, in the past). I don’t understand how being born makes you obligated to the same people for your adult life, whenever and wherever they want to check in on you.

I just saw something on the MS Now show I’m watching saying that President Trump is in charge of the raid of the Fulton County elections office that Tulsi Gabbard presided over. They are implying that Trump is deranged and butt hurt over losing the election in 2020. I am wondering if the FBI is that deranged, just because a Trump appointee was made head of the FBI when Trump assumed presidency. I don’t think it is that deranged. And I think that people claiming that it is are missing the point that a raid means that you have evidence of wrongdoing. We don’t know there wasn’t wrongdoing–they’re raiding the office–we just know Trump “lost it” on Twitter and in real life, and now people are saying he’s lying because he was that upset. And the claims that there was no wrongdoing from judges did not come from evidence in the office. Why do we know that there isn’t evidence in the office? Should the sign that the FBI is raiding it indicate that there might be probable cause to believe there was wrongdoing? The reporting/commentating I’m seeing is not accrediting that fact.

I’m not having robot problems anymore. I decided I’m not, and it will go away. I’m sure of it. One thing I wanted to comment on was the insidious need of congressmen to question Jack Smith like he’s in trouble when it’s the rioters on Jan. 6th who are.

I don’t have WordPress problems, I have robot problems. Every time I have ordered Starbucks since I wrote that post about DoorDash, my food orders (which are made in a microwave) have tasted worse. I don’t have that problem with other places, however. Wondering if anyone else has ever had this problem, or has ever feared it…

Was Dollywood. She’s doing a lot to help mankind. The Dolly Parton Stampede is a dinner show where you choose “North Pole” or “South Pole” and they talk about the differences between you. They had the best soup I have ever had in my life. And the Dollywood theme park is unbeatable. I loved it there, and rode the “Thunderhead” roller coaster along with others. I had potato soup and chicken and dumplings and looked at the rides embedded into the Smoky mountaintops in Pigeon Forge. I’m really glad I went.