What can I say other than well said…

Yes, narcissistic tendencies can lead to a powerful person believing in himself… and hopefully an agenda in helping others…

Didn’t want to make this all about my low opinion of Trump… but all he really did was to deregulate everything he could to keep the economy rolling which was to the determent of important safety standards that hurt the poor… so many of our immensely wealthy citizens only think of acquiring the fast cash of today and never about the future of others… it’s common to live among a capitalistic civilization whose God is money…

Trump played into the Putin playback with his plans to leave NATO if he won 2nd election. And, as well as, a shining star of America First nationalism… the same group in the late 1930s who supported Hitler, such as Lindberg who considered him a friend.

This was a dangerous group who Trump later rallied as his own supporters… anti anyone not white, or immigration for those who are trying to escape both death and tyranny…

I fully agree.

For me, it’s always a choice of the better of the two evils our rigged
election system forces us to choose from. Trump is a true narcissist
and a child who can’t control his impulses. I’ve stopped defending his
antics a long time ago. Yet to his credit, he did a lot to reduce oil
prices, prevent terrorism, reduce inflation, lowered unemployment,
pushed the vaccine, etc.

People focus too much on his narcissism but they forget narcissists can
still be very effective. Jobs, Gates — these narcissists changed the
world. Ali, the greatest, who also addressed himself in the 3rd person,
was a braggart but he had the skill to back it up.

It all boils down to who can get the job done. If you have a basement
infested with raccoons, who do you hire to get rid of them? Some sweet
smelling pest controller who will spend days and lots of money to get
rid of some of them? Or do you hire the dirtiest, smelliest handyman who
gets it done in an hour?

HI Hilda,

I agree the gas price is but one of the many things wrong. I’m amazed how many are still blind to the realities that stare them in the face. No matter what party, one should always call out a wrong when one sees it. Like I said, we do not need to defend nonsense.

TGIF, glad you’re part of this dialogue.

Great to hear from you Dick.

Yes, I’m getting some feedback from my email … which is actually good. It means people are thinking and I’m also learning.

I believe you when you say these oil giants are making a killing. Something should be done about that for sure. And these cowards in the news room bow too easily to protect their ad revenue. I’ve lost my respect for many of them.

But what’s the solution? Do we buy oil from our enemies? Or do we start drilling from our own soil? Sure, the environment might suffer. But what’s the lesser of the two evils at the moment? For sure we can’t survive with these gas prices. We need to act now before it escalates to other industries.

To say we won’t do either is wishing for a perfect solution that rarely exists in reality. I like your quote from Confucius. 😁 Yeah, we’re good at complicating the simple. But we’re facing a very complex problem. How do you simplify this? Sometimes nice sounding slogans don’t apply to all situations.

It’s easy to complain and criticize but to come up with the best solution (which many times is unpopular) given the circumstances and the time constraint requires leadership (the MLK quote I shared points this out).

I suggest we:

– open our eyes to what is so obvious (the wrong decisions and incompetencies)
– focus on the bleeding first (the other problems like price gauging we can tackle later)
– maybe when electric vehicles lower our dependency on oil, things will get better … of course, these politicians will always find ways to tax us
– have open discussions (like this one) and share ideas instead of demonizing each other

Hey, I really like your perspective. Please continue share.

R

I used to be a Democrat for several years. At this point anyone who thinks Democrats are doing anything right must have their money invested in them or are truly disconnected from politics. Democrat policies have not affected them financially or physically YET. They are good people that are clueless to our world events and base everything on feel good emotions because they don’t have anything bad to feel bad about. They don’t believe what they see because it don’t affect them. It’s not that they don’t care it’s just that they’re misled. It’s sad but I admit I was one of those people. I used to make good money so I never cared about gas prices or higher prices everywhere because I also new that I would get a raise too. I never thought of how many people actually get hurt by me having this attitude. It’s not that I was a bad person, I just didn’t know and believed that things where that bad. My own mother a self employed small business owner was struggling and I didn’t even know I was part of her problem by voting for Democrat policies because democrats always say they are for the lower class community’s ( my mother didn’t know either). I was fooled. My mother was barely making it and even though she wouldn’t tell me , I knew because in the past When I made money I have helped her out financially. It’s sad most minorities even if you’re American don’t know what’s really going on and we just vote for the party that says they’re for you , which WAS the Democrat party. Obviously the Democrats actions are showing to be different. Their policies would only work at Disney Land and only at Disney Land because at least Disney Land charges you to come in. Nothing is for free in life . The only thing that is free is salvation everlasting life from the Lord . 😊🙏🙏🙏