Technically, it's tomorrow
Jan. 11th, 2017 01:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mousmeI have insomnia tonight, for whatever reason. It's not anxiety, I just can't seem to sleep. I managed to sleep lightly from about 22:10 to 23:10, but then was awoken by a Dog Emergency™, and then couldn't get back to sleep to save my life. So I guess tomorrow will be managed on an hour of broken sleep. Super.
I don't have much to report, on the personal front. I got my errands done, except for one, which I totally forgot about and which I will try to get to after work tomorrow, since it's right next door. I even got *shudder* new clothes. I hate clothes shopping, which is probably not news to any of you. I also came in way under budget due to a surprise sale and my own birthday discount, so yay for that!
Therapy was interesting. We broached the subject of my former relationship, and the fallout from that. I'm still kind of bitter about how it all went down, but the feelings have faded over time. It'll be informative to explore that, I guess, and see if some of my current behaviours stem from what I "learned" from that experience.
In other news, the US has gone more insane than usual. My Twitter timeline has been alternating between President Obama's farewell speech, discussions of outright treason by the President-elect, and urination jokes. It's surreal.
Although the pee jokes are pretty funny, I'm mostly skeeved because he appears to have paid sex workers to urinate on the bed where Obama and his wife once slept, in order to "defile" it. It's not about a sexual fetish, or at least the fetish would have been a secondary aim in this case. Apart from the fact that Trump is a flaming dumpster of human excrement, I don't particularly care what politicians do in the privacy of their (various) bedrooms, so long as it's between consenting adults and causes no harm (adultery causes harm in my view, in case you were wondering, so this counts). It's not the possible fetish, it's everything else.
Far more concerning are the allegations of treason. Sure, many journalists (who otherwise gleefully reported the unsubstantiated claims about Clinton's emails) have been stressing the fact that they're unverified, but there are too many "coincidences" not to take this seriously. Trump has for a long time associated with or hired known Russian sympathizers, or people who outright worked for the Russian government/Putin. To name a few: Paul Manafort (his campaign manager for a while, who worked in the Ukraine to help elect a pro-Putin government), Roger Stone (who owns or owned a lobby company with Paul Manafort), Steve Bannon (another of Manafort's friends), Michael Flynn, and Carter Page. Not to mention Rex Tillerson, the Secretary of State-elect, who received the Order of Friendship from Putin, due to his work with Rosneft whose chief is said to be one of Putin's loyal lieutenants. The report also alleges that Russia may have started to cultivate Trump as an asset as early as 2011.
It might turn out to be nothing, of course. These things do happen. But often enough, where there's smoke, there's fire.
I am curious to see what the fallout from this is, so close to the inauguration. If it is true, the US can't possibly put an actual traitor in power, can they? Does the presidency revert to Pence? I have no idea what the law says about this, so I'm keeping one eye on the news until such time as all the various intelligence agencies get their ducks in a row and verify whether this report is true or false.
By contrast, the current President's final address was a fine example of statesmanship. I am a fan of Obama, it's true, though his policies lean too much to the right for me to be comfortable with them. Sure, he's to the left of Republicans, but there is no left-wing in America, as far as I can tell, apart from a minority who don't ever seem to be able to contend with the two big parties anyway. There's the extreme right and the moderate right, and the moderate right seems to have a better grasp of human rights than their opponents. I digress.
The speech moved a lot of people to tears. It was eloquent and promised hope, while underlining all the progress that was made over the past eight years. All my reservations aside, Obama did a lot to turn the US around after the disastrous eight years of the Bush administration. He delivered a touching tribute to his wife, and generally was a class act. It was a pleasure to watch.
It's now 02:00, and I have to be "up" in about two hours. I still don't think sleep is going to happen, but I might attempt a power nap or something. You never know.
I don't have much to report, on the personal front. I got my errands done, except for one, which I totally forgot about and which I will try to get to after work tomorrow, since it's right next door. I even got *shudder* new clothes. I hate clothes shopping, which is probably not news to any of you. I also came in way under budget due to a surprise sale and my own birthday discount, so yay for that!
Therapy was interesting. We broached the subject of my former relationship, and the fallout from that. I'm still kind of bitter about how it all went down, but the feelings have faded over time. It'll be informative to explore that, I guess, and see if some of my current behaviours stem from what I "learned" from that experience.
In other news, the US has gone more insane than usual. My Twitter timeline has been alternating between President Obama's farewell speech, discussions of outright treason by the President-elect, and urination jokes. It's surreal.
Although the pee jokes are pretty funny, I'm mostly skeeved because he appears to have paid sex workers to urinate on the bed where Obama and his wife once slept, in order to "defile" it. It's not about a sexual fetish, or at least the fetish would have been a secondary aim in this case. Apart from the fact that Trump is a flaming dumpster of human excrement, I don't particularly care what politicians do in the privacy of their (various) bedrooms, so long as it's between consenting adults and causes no harm (adultery causes harm in my view, in case you were wondering, so this counts). It's not the possible fetish, it's everything else.
Far more concerning are the allegations of treason. Sure, many journalists (who otherwise gleefully reported the unsubstantiated claims about Clinton's emails) have been stressing the fact that they're unverified, but there are too many "coincidences" not to take this seriously. Trump has for a long time associated with or hired known Russian sympathizers, or people who outright worked for the Russian government/Putin. To name a few: Paul Manafort (his campaign manager for a while, who worked in the Ukraine to help elect a pro-Putin government), Roger Stone (who owns or owned a lobby company with Paul Manafort), Steve Bannon (another of Manafort's friends), Michael Flynn, and Carter Page. Not to mention Rex Tillerson, the Secretary of State-elect, who received the Order of Friendship from Putin, due to his work with Rosneft whose chief is said to be one of Putin's loyal lieutenants. The report also alleges that Russia may have started to cultivate Trump as an asset as early as 2011.
It might turn out to be nothing, of course. These things do happen. But often enough, where there's smoke, there's fire.
I am curious to see what the fallout from this is, so close to the inauguration. If it is true, the US can't possibly put an actual traitor in power, can they? Does the presidency revert to Pence? I have no idea what the law says about this, so I'm keeping one eye on the news until such time as all the various intelligence agencies get their ducks in a row and verify whether this report is true or false.
By contrast, the current President's final address was a fine example of statesmanship. I am a fan of Obama, it's true, though his policies lean too much to the right for me to be comfortable with them. Sure, he's to the left of Republicans, but there is no left-wing in America, as far as I can tell, apart from a minority who don't ever seem to be able to contend with the two big parties anyway. There's the extreme right and the moderate right, and the moderate right seems to have a better grasp of human rights than their opponents. I digress.
The speech moved a lot of people to tears. It was eloquent and promised hope, while underlining all the progress that was made over the past eight years. All my reservations aside, Obama did a lot to turn the US around after the disastrous eight years of the Bush administration. He delivered a touching tribute to his wife, and generally was a class act. It was a pleasure to watch.
It's now 02:00, and I have to be "up" in about two hours. I still don't think sleep is going to happen, but I might attempt a power nap or something. You never know.
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Date: 2017-01-13 01:51 am (UTC)The problem is that if they don't install Trump as the President, we'll be left with Pence and he's much worse (which is sad and scary). But maybe not as bad as a President in league with Russia? I can't believe we're in this mess.
I am going to miss President Obama. You're right that he didn't seem too far left of most Republicans but I feel like he was holding back so he could make the changes he was able to make. I think if he came out completely in your face socialist he wouldn't have gotten nearly as far as he did with turning things around. I just hope it doesn't all come undone in the next four years.
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Date: 2017-01-13 03:20 am (UTC)Absolutely. Obama, in terms of domestic policy, was a realist first and foremost. My main objections to his administration were more about foreign policy than anything else. But then, I've never been a fan of US foreign policy no matter who was in power.
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Date: 2017-01-18 02:26 am (UTC)