Hillary Clinton Decisively Beats Donald Trump in Debate

I wasn't even sure I put out a post yesterday or not.  I was intending to but apparently didn't.  Now Trump is thinking of skipping the next two debates just because he was beaten so badly.  Trump was as downcast yesterday as Hillary was upbeat and jubelant.  I don't care how many imaginary polls Trump pulls out of his ass, Hillary won the thing, pure and simple.  Trump complained his microphone was sabotaged so that when he interrupted twenty-two times it wasn't as impressive.  Those many interruptions didn't play well with the public.  Often Trump appeared stunned and at a temporary loss for words.  Trump had to just sit there and take it when Hillary enumerated about four reasons why Donald Trump might not to release his taxes.  Of course he as much as admits to not paying taxes for some years because they have a few really old returns now.  Trump considers this just plain "smart" just as he considers taking advantage of people being thrown out of their homes in a financial crisis is just "smart" and "good business".  In this sense he's just like Romney.  He's just not a likable fellow.  Trump is kind of like Scientology in that it's best observed and "appreciated" a safe distance away, but never allow yourself to get inside it.  Trump also defended his not paying certain workers now claiming that he must have been dissatisfied with their work, but gave no real example someone could rely on as justification.   It's bad business to screw over your customers and I hope Trump doesn't do that.  Here are more remarks from yesterday.  

Hillary Clinton decisively won the debate last night over Donald Trump.  The debate was held on NBC.  They had NBC nightly news with Lester Holt not there because he was moderating the debate.  They austensively divided the time into six segments but Lester Holt lost control of the schedule pretty quickly as if by mutual conspiracy Trump and Hillary would talk about whatever they wanted to argue about.  Hillary made a good opening speech.  She laid out the ideas of raising the minimum wage, equal pay for equal work and infrastructure.  Trump followed with a convincing rant about fair trade verses tree trade.  Later on while discussing NATO and trade Trump also slipped in the need for government to build infrastructure.  A lot of the “Bernie issues” could have been spelled out more clearly by Bernie himself.  Trump though was much more forceful on the notion of being taken to the cleaners by China and foreign powers than was Hillary, who appeared not to want to talk about this so much.  So I agreed with both of their opening remarks.  Both of them had good points.  However Trump often appeared more on the defensive interrupting Hillary with questions giving the impression he might be “impatient” or something.  Hillary pummeled Trump pretty good on the “trickle down economics” issue citing the folly of massive tax cuts for the rich, which were a centerpiece of Trump’s policies.  Trump also seemed to go with the Shawn Hannity view of abolishing all pollution regulations as a way to get the economy going.  Hillary was pretty flawless in her delivery and Trump tried to be sedate, where he wasn’t in his element.  He appeared “low energy” and also didn’t have the background on issues Hillary did and she beat him in head to head arguments.  One area where Hillary fell short is acknowledging Black on Black crime.  Hillary was so hung up on civil liberties that she seemed to forget the fact that Chicago even had a crime problem.  I agreed with Trump on the necessity of “stop and frisk” and how well it worked in New York.  But Trump fell down badly on the national security stuff and Hillary appeared much more in control of the ISIS issue.  Trump would often ramble toward the end talking about “stamina” in office and General Mac Arthur and those damn strawberries.  ( )  He’d make references to things people were expected to know about what he was thinking.  Hillary accused Trump of living in his own reality.  Lester Holt piled on when it came to whether Trump was against the Iraq War early on calling it a “fact” that Trump was for that war.  Trump referenced arguments he’s had with Shawn Hannity on this subject.  Trump raised some interesting points about NATO and financing but then took credit for “giving NATO the idea” to go after ISIS and national security.  But Hillary countered with the phrase “An attack upon one nation is an attack upon all” and invoked 9 – 11 and Afghanistan.   At 7:28 I decided to leave and go get medication from Tom because he’s been finishing up quickly.  Only Nancy Bell and Glenda were in line ahead of me.  Then I looked for cigarettes.  When I got back to the debate Trump was just finishing up his final remarks at twenty to eight.  The media tried to make it seem like nobody on either side was persuaded.  However they neglected to mention the over-riding fact that Hillary was much more in control than Trump throughout the debate.  

This is Wednesday September 28, 2016.  Lets take up the narrative before lunch.  I brushed my teeth in the morning and before lunch and again after lunch making sure they were as clean as they could be.  Having chili on my breath wouldn’t do.  We had a bowl of decent chili plus a big piece of rather dry corn bread.  I ate rather slowly being apprehensive about the appointment.  We had grapes for dessert and I had Paul’s bowl also.  I missed out on coffee because the guy said to get ready.  We got to the dentist’s office early and I filled out their usual form about health questions.  I was escorted in and they took X rays right off.  My last visit six months ago they didn’t take X rays so you never know what they might have missed.  She did one of these gum measurements.  There were the usual 3’s and 4’s with the occasional two, but one of the teeth was a six in one spot.  She said it was infected and needed anti-biotic ointment that had to be done at the time of the cleaning.  The problem was it was fifty dollars I’d have to pay myself.  I was unable to call Mom (or something) so they rescheduled it for next week.  The male dentist examined my teeth and I have that crown I need on tooth 29 from a year ago that was never done.  Now I have a new crown in the upper left somewhere he first announced as “a big cavity”.  I can’t find it.  I negotiated the next two appointments and then went out for a smoke waiting for my ride to return.  As it turns out the guy was late and the office here was on their lunch break and weren’t answering.  Finally the guy returned, not with a van load of people as he implied, but it was empty.  By now it was a quarter after one and we went to pick up Mickey at West Anaheim Medical Center.  But he wasn’t ready and we parked in the lot to wait.  I listened to JACK radio with the AC on.  About ten till two they finally returned.  I got back here about five to two.

I have very few cigarettes left.  I got two cups of iced tea and they served that dry corn bread.  It’s the first solid food they’ve served in a week and a half.  After a while I called Mom, who acted like she was thinking of not paying for it.  Then she said Paul and Judy control her money.  There was talk about not smoking.  Tim stopped by to see her after his (second) vacation.  I went to the office to let Josie copy the appointment dates but then was called back down by Federico to the office and he changed the times, but not the days, of both the appointments but let me keep the cards.  I had the Norman Goldman program on at the usual time.  We had a liberal amount of pork chunks, and a lot of spinach, which was kind of cold, and French cut potatoes the way French cut green beans were cut.  They were good.  We had peaches for dessert.  Paul gave me a whole second plate with even colder spinach.  Apparently they were supposed to have banana pudding for dessert.  That’s the second time they’ve said banana pudding and ended up having something else.

Officer Indicted for Manslaughter in Tulsa Shooting

That lady officer in the Tulsa shooting has been indicted already for first degree manslaughter or something.  Shawn Hannity most certainly isn't happy about that but then Hannity lies about everything these days and continuing to even listen to him, even if only out of curiosity, does one more harm than good.  Shawn lies about economic statistics and he lies about stuff like Lester Holt is a biased democrat, when Ijust heard he's a registered Republican.  He lies about these other Black shooting cases such as Ferguson, MO or the Trayvon Martain case.  Now Shawn Hannity is doing ads for Donald Trump.   But I will say this about Shawn and that is he is everything Trump would like to be in terms of an average working class American pulling himself up by his boot straps.  If Hannity had stayed in ANY of those other lines of work he's done over the years he'd be a well respected citizen providing no cause for anyone to be dissatisfied with him.  

Mrs. Keith Scott, wife of the guy who was shot by cops in Chaolette where all of the rioting has been taking place, released a video to the press which featured of police shouting “drop your gun” and the wife shouting “He doesn’t have a gun” and adds, “He has a TBI”.  When I heard this I thought he had some electronic device on him such as a PDA or something.  (Personal Data Assistant)  But it turns out that TBI is a traumatic brain injury, and I’m not sure how that fact figures in.  And then we hear the gun shots and the wife says “Did you shoot him?” and “He better not be dead”.   It is said that since multiple officers believed him to have a weapon that it can’t be the prejudicial idea of just one officer.  First they said they weren’t going to have a curfew and then they said there is a curfew.   The football game between the Vikings and the Panthers this Sunday will be played with increased security.   Three times the number of Americans have died from firearms this year than were killed on 9 – 11.  We accept that gun deaths are just part of the “background noise” and accept them pretty much as normal. 

Yesterday I watched a video that stated that the MAJOR portion of bank profits, in some cases most or all of the profits, comes from out and out fraud.  That’s an eye opener.  It’s true in Britain and in America and perhaps other places.  Today I watched and read a transcript of Neil Young addressing a “Farm Aid” concert.   Actually there was some row of tables and an audience and the microphone was in the audience.   He was attacking President Obama and Monsanto and the stand on GMO’s in general. 

Here is a news flash.  Raphael Edwardo Cruz today endorsed Donald Trump.  Apparently Cruz doesn’t want us to vote our consciences any more.   Cruz was suppose to shmooz with Sheldon Adelson after his speech at the convention but now he was turned away from Adelson’s office.  They are saying that Cruz was virtually forced to endorse Trump or else Sheldon Adelson would make it clear that Cruz's political carrier was through because all of his campaign donations would dry up.  If it shows nothing else it shows all that show of political courage and "principles" at the Republican convention was pure showmanship and that when push comes to shove, Trump will fold like a cheap suit.  I think this has to say something about how Ted Cruz would have acted as president.  

There is good news for Hillary in terms of polling this week, as opposed to last.  She is up seven points in two national polls and up five in a third.  But there is a ceiling of 48% for Trump where he never rises higher in any poll.  Hillary has scored higher than that in nine polls but for Trump the figure is zero.  So I think we can all rest easy after the previous week’s “medical scare” reflected in those polls taken then for Hillary.   Strangely this Chris Matthews fill-in says that 53% of Americans believe Hillary is qualified to be President but the same polls show the Trump figure at 30%, which is strange.  It means people who vote for Trump don’t think he’s qualified.  I dispute the claim that 92% of Bernie Sanders supporters support Hillary because if that were true it would mean Hillary would inherit Bernie’s ten or twelve lead over Trump in the polls.   If the poll numbers show nothing else they show large numbers of defecting Bernie Sanders  supporters.  In still another poll sixty percent of people say Donald Trump does not respect “ordinary Americans” but Hillary’s figure here is “only” 48%.   There is another poll that says 56% of people believe that Trump is a racist, a figure way higher than Hillary's.  People are forgetting in all of this tit for tat name calling that the important thing is whether Democrats take congress, and I mean both houses.  You need both houses to get anything done, the Senate and the House, and even when you have the House too, if you don't have sixty percent there is no guarantee that you'll get all the things passed that the House would pass on its own with a democratic majority.