I find it absurd that the media spend so much time on Trump's extramarital affairs. The porn star and the Playboy playmate are being interviewed all over. Unlike victims of sexual abuse, who should be given time, these two had consensual sex with Trump. By having sex with a married man, they are not moral people themselves. So they shouldn't be given so much time. If having extramarital affairs disqualify someone from political office, then we probably need to replace over half of our politicians. (Which maybe not be so bad!) Trump voters have already made it known that they don't care if he is a moral man, so why are we wasting our time?
There was at least sometime given over the weekend in the news about the march against guns. Maybe when all these young people can vote, we can defeat the NRA and have real effective gun laws. In the meanwhile, we have to listen to stupid people like Rick Santorum who said that instead of marching, the young people should learn to do CPR! Does he know what the success rate of CPR is if someone had been shot and the heart is not beating. Less than 10%. The young people are asking the politician to help them. But Santorum thinks that people should help themselves. It is like saying doctors should not develop vaccine but patients should learn how to treat themselves after getting the infection. What kind of nonsense is that?
While the news is all about sex: See 60 Minutes tonight. We have greater problems that the media is spending way too little time. The trade war has started and the stock market is tanking. Trump has appointed John Bolton to be the national security advisor. Bolton helped Bush lied about the WMD that let to the Iraq war. He has been the advocate of regime change in Iran and North Korea. By having him working with Trump, chances of an unnecessary war has increased several folds. Basically, Trump has created a financial crisis with his tariffs and a military crisis by bringing in Bolton. These are the things about Trump we should be focused on, not extramarital affairs.
Sunday, March 25, 2018
2 comments:
Use the following html code to make a clickable link in your comment (instructions in the sidebar). You can test the link by previewing your comment.
<a href="http://angryyellowman.blogspot.com">Angry Yellow Man</a>
The above example will display as Angry Yellow Man
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Well, everyone loves a scandal, so that's what they're running with. I found it funny that people were so mad that the basketball game ran into overtime and they had to wait to see the 60 Minutes interview.
ReplyDeleteMaybe it's me, but I could care less if anyone or any politician has an affair anymore. I was shocked that the one female mayor stepped down a couple of weeks ago. Is it worse for a female to have an affair with one person, than a man have more than one? To me, as long as they do the job and are good at it, whatever they do in the bedroom is their business.
I was quite amazed at the turnout of the rallies this weekend. From all I've known about this generation is that they didn't care much about politics. Maybe this issue is beyond politics. To me, I've always wanted it to be something we can get beyond politics for. I have had my doubts and still do. It's a passionate debate by all sides involved. I know where you stand on guns and we've debated back and forth about it. But when you have guns ingrained in our society and quite possibly one of the most powerful lobbies in the NRA, change is difficult.
And I still don't know what the answer is. I don't know if anyone is willing to sacrifice and meet in the middle on this. I have teacher friends who are Republicans who are unwilling to carry guns. Another proposal I've seen is to treat our schools like airports and increase security. That's fine, but where does the money come from to do that? School systems are already suffering from budget cuts and funding is going to go down.
It's going to be interesting to see if the seeds planted by these kids this weekend will become something bigger or if it'll just be a fad and the movement will stall.
Any predictions on the Final Four? I am picking UM vs Villanova in the championship game and Villanova winning it all.
-LBOAYM
Well, sex does sell. Sixty Minutes got big time ratings so I guess you can't fault them for airing the Stormy Daniels interview. It is just that it takes way too much time from the things that are really important.
ReplyDeleteYoung people are frequently the ones who lead to big changes. The civil rights movement and the anti-Vietnam war movement are all sparked by young people. Slowly but surely gays are gaining rights because of young people. Even if these seeds they planted this weekend does not bring fruit to gun laws, eventually the tide will change because young people are the voters of tomorrow!
I think M will beat Loyola because the clock will strike 12 for the underdogs. I was rooting for Duke because I think M will have a better chance to beat a team that starts 4 freshmen who are talented but are erratic than a seasoned team like Villanova or Kansas. But I will take Kansas over M in the final.