Thoughts on the News, March, 2024
I keep reading predictions of our economic future. Most of the forecasts ignore the fact that in a few decades we will be running out of fossil fuels and have nothing to replace them with. The predictions also do not consider the effects of climate change or changing demographics. Prediction’s should include and account for all know factors. Climate change and depletion of fossil fuels are known and foreseeable. These factors should be included when forecasts are being made. And plans should include these factors as well.
The administration and the democrats keep asking for legislation on the southern border. The fact is no new legislation is needed. The laws ard already in place It is illegal to cross the border. The administration is just not willing to enforce the laws and secure the border. And then they blame it on the other party.
The war in Ukraine goes on. It is a needless war that never should have happened. The parties should sign a ceasefire and negotiate a settlement. If is time to stop the waste. We are responsible for how our funds and weapons are used.
In Gaza the killing destruction of Gaza and the population continues. We should apply more pressure with the power we have to end the conflict. We are seeing a failure of our administration to do what has to be done. Since we are furnishing the support, funding and weapons used in the war, we are a party to what is being done. That gives us a right to voice our opinion and exert pressure.
The presidential election appears to be another contest between Biden and Trump, and a few other parties who will be on the ballots. Two candidates who seventy five per cent of voters do not want. It is going to an interesting year, followed by four more years of disunity. There may be a way for our country emerging from the division we are now in and form a unified consensus. We can hope for that but I don’t see it happening . Visions of what our country should be are split very wide. Neither side has any respect or tolerance for the other. Continuing bickering appears to be our foreseeable future. Climate change and other problems may turn our attention to some mutual problem for a while. But then it will turn back to conflict between our different regions and groups. We are composed of many different cultures and genetic groups trying to get along but having to deal with those ongoing conflicts and disagreements. Those differences may be resolved sometime in the distant future, but at this point that outcome is hard to see. We can hold it out as a distance hope.
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Fear Nothing! Trump has the answers to everything.
That’s good to know. I feel better already.
But he may be in jail in Georgia. But they say the food is good there. They grow a lot of their own.
An elected president can govern from anywhere. It is just that governing from prison has never been tried in America yet but if they do convict him of anything they can always put him on house arrest within the white house with special dispensations for ankle monitors or something when he is required to travel on official business. Besides which, he might actually be successful in pardoning himself.
True enough. There are a lot of mansions and buildings in Georgia that could be gated, walled off and isolated from which Trump could run the government. FDR ran the country for extended periods of time from the Little White House, a small two bedroom cottage in Warm Springs, Georgia. Some of his most important decisions and plans were formulated from that cottage. Ankle bracelets could be waived.
The trial is in a state court for violation of several state laws. The president can only pardon for violation of federal laws. But Georgia has a board which can issue pardons. They took that out of the governor’s hands years ago. But he could apply for a pardon and one could be granted. If the board thought he deserved one..
If there are enough republicans on that board, he will deserve one, we can count on that for sure.