Not Disagreeing

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Art Informel / Eugene Brands/ Demon

Well, first “Zoom” conversation last night.

Not really that impressed, but others seem to like it so more will probably follow. Kinda Jetson’s-ey. I suppose that it will take some getting used to, but I can live with it.

Spent an hour yesterday working on the resume. Have come to the conclusions that provisions need to be made and they might not be able to be made here in Stumptown. I am in no means certain that I know the location where they could be made, that is what the period of time between now and the autumn equinox is being put aside for. I figure that things will have more clarity by then (or not) and a better decision might be made.

Joseph was in a fine fettle last night. I think that I anger him when I don’t join in the foaming mouth, spittle spewing hate fest of Trump that seems so much to be the rage among the educated professional elite of this country. I just think he is an asshat and a clown. I think that he is particularly unsuited for the role that we elected him to play. But truthfully, the poor sap doesn’t have and has never had a chance.

The problems that he faces are Greta’s problems. Greta’s problems really don’t have solutions that are palatable to the educated professional elite of this country (and other countries for that matter). Economic rape by the gentry, pollution, overpopulation, resource depletion, wildlife and wildland extinction, farmland abuse and soil depletion/salinization, aquifer depletion: All of these things have been gaining traction during the lifetimes of us boomers.

Trump was stupid enough to want the Presidency when these things have started coming to a head.
COVID was the point man for a lot of bad shit finally coming back to roost. Trump was the poor fool that sat in the Oval office when the rains began in earnest. Granted, he dithered and played and was a general buffoon in the run up, but the truth of the matter is that there were simply no good options available to him. Even if he would have played the cards perfectly, he was dealt a losing hand. Everyone seems to think that the methods used in homogenous countries with a history of authoritarian governments and a closed attitude toward “others” would have been effective in a large and fractious open democracy.

I still think that he is a fucking moron, but he never had a chance.