Ranting About Trump

Disassembling Their Narrative

The disdain for Trump is unnatural and weird. There is this assumption of once Trump is gone, all politics will go back to “normal”, but it will not. Candidates can no longer read scripted speeches where every other word is designed to appeal to a special interest group or lobbyist, and expect most voters to like them. The voters will only become more cynical.

Dan Osborn is supposedly running for US Senate as an “independent”. Here is my advice to him: in front of every audience, he should only blow bubbles, craft balloon animals, and do simple magic tricks, and avoid saying any words. If he dares speak, he will automatically be guilty of two-faced duplicity, a high craft of putrid hypocrisy of saying one thing to one group and a completely different thing to another group. Any political expert of value knows a US Senator Osborn would be a masochistic slave to the Democrat leadership in the US Senate.

This is the reality Trump has exposed. He will see a group of people opposing him and call them something negative, such as a bunch of communists. This breaks the group in two, with one group saying they are not communists and the other saying, “What is wrong with communism?” When attacked, such people can only unite in hating Trump and end up being Trump’s useful idiots. Who wants to join such anti-Trumpers? I will not. Trump listens, makes a decision, and refuses to be shamed for deciding. This is what leadership looks like.

By now, Trump has exposed just how dysfunctional Congress has become. I am stunned by how few have taken notice. When Trump advocated to change the classification of marijuana, elected Nebraska officials freaked out, when a simple statement of concern would have sufficed. Nebraska officials should have made a more strident point of emphasizing the negative impacts of marijuana in the past, but such concerns were apparently lost. Marijuana should never been listed as a Schedule 1 drug. Since the bureaucracy and Congress failed to act, Trump wrote an Executive Order to change it. The change is mostly a tax and research change, and nothing more. While Nebraska US Senator Pete Ricketts and Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers rightly expressed concerns, the timing was off. Today’s marijuana is not what Baby Boomers did in college. I hate telling Boomers, they likely smoked a lot of lawn clippings in their “marijuana”. There is a reason it was called “weed” and “grass”. Today, marijuana is a powerful drug and can have negative interactions with other drugs yet the health professions have yet to figure this out.

John Cavanaugh uses raw polemic rhetoric to try to convince the public to vote for him, but he misses the dangers of the policies he embraces. The debate about healthcare and Federal funding of it has caused catastrophic problems of dependency and lack of accountability, as have other Federal programs. The fact that over 40 million Americans are dependent on SNAP when many Americans are suffering from obesity is a dystopian nightmare and a substantial flaw in the American character.

I hate the divide between generations, but I feel the anxiety of the youngest generation trying to prosper. Omaha used to be the best place for companies to have a call center for customers. This is no longer true. Nebraska’s minimum wage law is flawed and has broken the career ladder, and expanding Medicaid and sick leave requirements did not help. Call any 800 number of any company and ask the person who answers your call, “Where are you located?” They most likely will not be in the United States. These jobs were easy to obtain for people to apply for, but have moved out to other countries.

The unions supporting these candidates are provincial, selfish, and lack a cosmopolitan view of the world. They do not understand the digital economy. Their greed is obvious in their envy of the wealth others have. They will complain about “trickle-down” economics, while many people would at least want the trickle as opposed to having nothing at all. Again, the call centers have vanished and the unions said absolutely nothing. What good are they?

There are other problems as well. Many in Omaha believe in “preferential treatment for the poor”, but the idea is flawed. There should be preferential aid to those who want to be as productive as they can be. Also, leftists insist on abortion and gay rights, but are negligent about the importance of posterity. If I ran a school, I would want every woman to be pregnant, not just once but permanently, and have them compete to be the best baby-making machine as possible. The more babies, the more kids, which means more teachers for me to hire.

Yet, the leftists are engaged in secular sterilization. John Cavanaugh’s sister, Machela, who is a Nebraska senator, ranted in the Unicameral about “transgender rights”. Would you feel comfortable having these type of people babysitting your child? And how many children does a transgender person have? This is not to suggest they would do anything criminal, but what ideas your child will be exposed to, and how you have to explain to your child why they are not correct.