Sorry folks, I give up on the blog for now, as my carefully crafted post has devolved into this. All the photos have vanished. Maybe they are no longer allowed? If I had anticipated this debacle, I would have copied the whole darn thing somewhere else to save it before posting. I cannot even go back. I am very discouraged now and don't know if I will even try to start over again. What follows is what remains.
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Here's hoping that my daughter in Hawaii, who recently won an appeal of her federal job layoff, is still on the job, but I don't dare interrupt her during the weekday to find out. I'll check later when she's home for the weekend.
The US economy is tanking, just as I had feared would happen when Trump took office once again. That man doesn't have common sense. Neither do many of the voters who put him in office.
I'd wanted to take my RMD in Jan before Trump came back into office, as who knows what that impulsive guy will do next? And I don't have faith in his sidekick Elon Musk either--and who appointed him anyway? Is DOGE even a legal entity? Of course, the Dow immediately plunged almost 700 points, so I was right. Because he had advised me to wait, which turned out to be terrible advice, my financial adviser (should I even keep him as my adviser?) is now advising patience, that the market will recover, but that usually takes 8 months or longer. I am not young, I don't have much time to left to wait. Nor is recovery even likely even then, since Trump has decided to embark on a trade war with Canada and Mexico, promising 25% tariffs on products from those countries. That man doesn't even have common sense.
Trump's speech on March 4 was overlong and full of falsehoods and contradictions. I listened to the whole thing. Republican lawmakers still kept on clapping, no matter what he said. Trump lied about many things, or was he perhaps only joking? He said that someone allegedly over age 360 appears on the Social Security rolls. Other blatantly untrue statements included that car companies have already opened up to produce cars in the US, that Canada is sending fentanyl across the border, that Haitian immigrants have eaten pets, and that vaccines cause autism. Surely Trump knew that he was lying. It kind of takes your breath away.
USA Today and MSNBC have pointed out many of Trump's falsehoods and contradictory statements, but not all, as there were just too many. Now we are stuck with this guy for 4 more years. Or could he possibly be impeached? Not by Republican lawmakers, of course, unless and until they start to worry about their own political survival.
There was one point in Trump's late-night speech on March 4, which lasted about an hour and a half, with which I would agree, namely with keeping biological men off girls' sports teams (even if they grow long hair and wear female attire). I also agree about delaying gender transitions until 18, if that's what Trump actually said. By age 18, many adolescent explorations and fantasies die down, so most gender transitions won't even take place.
Under pressure, Trump has now agreed to delay tariffs for a month. Maybe pressure from voters and others actually has an impact.
I would suspect, despite all his bluster and boasting and the puffing up of his chest, while claiming that he has a "mandate" to do whatever he pleases, that Donald Trump really wants the public to like him. So he is sensitive after all to the public mood. He wants to be liked, to be loved really. He wants to be popular.
NY Times, In Exacting Retribution, Trump Aims at the Future as Well as the Past
The president made good on promises to seek revenge against enemies during his first week back in power, signaling in the process that anyone who crosses him in the future could also suffer.. (More chest-puffing?)
The NY Times fact-checked many questionable assertions in Trump's speech, finding them to be either false or misleading.
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