Showing posts with label Democrats. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Democrats. Show all posts
3/27/22
8/13/20
I COULD HAVE WON A LOT OF MONEY BETTING ON BIDEN - HARRIS DEMOCRATIC TICKET
Yes, I could have made a lot of money. I predicted way back before the whole process started that, despite being for Bernie Sanders for President of the United States, in the end Joe Biden and Kamala Harris would be the ticket. I thought Harris would be asked not only because she wanted the Presidency, but because she's in California, a populous state that has a lot of electoral votes. Everyone wants California.
We Californians will probably still be part of the United States so long as we feel we have representation. Though it's improbably I sometimes wonder if we are so different that we might have to form our own country. If only we were not so dependent on Federal funds.
We Californians will probably still be part of the United States so long as we feel we have representation. Though it's improbably I sometimes wonder if we are so different that we might have to form our own country. If only we were not so dependent on Federal funds.
5/12/20
I PREDICTED JOE BIDEN and KAMALA HARRIS MONTHS AGO
Yes, even though I'm all for Bernie Sanders. Now that Biden is almost out of the news, and we continue the daily chaos of a horrid Republican administration, with the King and All the Kings Men (and some Women) embroiled in daily antics, all which have given the American people a collective anxiety.
How I wish that Bernie had not "Suspended" his campaign. Why do we use that language, "Suspended"? If a student got suspended from high school, it was temporary, meant to discipline the student, but then they came back. He did not Suspend. He gave up and quit.
We need to get back to the "conversation" about the election. Coronavirus-19 makes this especially so.
How I wish our government would go back to the WORKS PROJECT ADMINISTRATION and the CCC's - programs that helped people who wanted to work and earn some money during a Great Depression unemployment rate - survive.
We have always had to give some consideration to a Vice President candidate - a running mate - and the line of succession. Because of the virus we need to consider health issues more than ever. However, we have had DISABLED PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES and DISABLED PRESIDENTS - who had to hide their medical issues at the time - and who still did the job. Certainly their medical issues had effects on their world view and thinking, but we have no reason to think either was unable to do the job, the way President Trumps behaviors have.
These include President Franklin Roosevelt and President John F. Kennedy.
C 2020 Christine Trzyna
How I wish that Bernie had not "Suspended" his campaign. Why do we use that language, "Suspended"? If a student got suspended from high school, it was temporary, meant to discipline the student, but then they came back. He did not Suspend. He gave up and quit.
We need to get back to the "conversation" about the election. Coronavirus-19 makes this especially so.
How I wish our government would go back to the WORKS PROJECT ADMINISTRATION and the CCC's - programs that helped people who wanted to work and earn some money during a Great Depression unemployment rate - survive.
We have always had to give some consideration to a Vice President candidate - a running mate - and the line of succession. Because of the virus we need to consider health issues more than ever. However, we have had DISABLED PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES and DISABLED PRESIDENTS - who had to hide their medical issues at the time - and who still did the job. Certainly their medical issues had effects on their world view and thinking, but we have no reason to think either was unable to do the job, the way President Trumps behaviors have.
These include President Franklin Roosevelt and President John F. Kennedy.
C 2020 Christine Trzyna
2/20/19
FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT WAS NOT A SOCIALIST - WHY IS BERNIE SANDERS?
The news that Bernie Sanders, at 77, has decided to run for President of the United States, and that in a day he had $6 million in campaign funds donated - smaller donations - more voters - reached me this morning. I was cheered by the news and read around the subject via various news services.
Lots of Democrats are declaring themselves. Marianne Williamson, a New Age preacher, declared her self some weeks ago in an eloquent YouTube video I watched. There are so many candidates that televised debates might be limited to two nights and twenty. (How the twenty would be determined, I do not know.)
A criticism I heard is that he is "too old," (though probably in better health that Franklin Delano Roosevelt was during his campaigns and four terms of Presidency and though probably in better health than John Fitzgerald Kennedy ever was, though much younger.) The stigma of being a "cripple" /disabled was understood at the time and in both cases the press/media conspired to not show the President in a wheelchair or with a back brace and only in recent years have health revelations been made about JFK. For those who suffer from pain and dealing with pain management or some other health issue that make them partially or fully disabled, knowing someone struggling also made it to the highest office is inspiring. Who a Presidential candidate of age or ill health chooses to run as a Running Mate - Vice President is always a question. One thinks "What if they die? What if there is an assassination?"
Yet I know of a 98 year old who is still walking three miles a day and others who carry the age of 77 well, while several of my friends over the years have died - of AIDS, breast cancer, leukemia, brain tumor, brain stroke, and massive heart attack, so much younger.
I wish the term Socialist had never been applied to Bernie Sanders. Our only four term President, FDR, instituted so many governmental funded work programs and programs that many people have come to depend on ("The New Deal") including Social Security. Though he apparently offended members of his wealthy class, I suspect polio gave him new associations and new understanding. Socialist? No way.
Sanders seeks to expand some, invent others. Let's think New Deal Continued.
Joe Biden would also make a good Democratic candidate, and main stream, not suffering the Socialist stigma, but I'm not sure I could imagine a Sanders-Biden or Biden-Sanders ticket.
I flash upon the last campaign when I was on a bus with passengers that represented the full diversity of Southern California. When I stated I was for Bernie Sanders a Black woman jumped out of her seat and yelled, "You have to vote for Hillary Clinton! You can't let the Republican's win." Some people think the utter chaos of the current Presidency as a result of the election of President Donald Trump was caused by too many people running as Democrats or Sanders and Hillary Clinton splitting vote. This looks to be right doing the math. As much as I feel traumatized and confused by the current Presidency, I hope to hell Clinton stays out of this race.
Ultimately, people must ask themselves WHY THEY ARE OK with so very many people enduring poverty and limitation. People must ask themselves WHY SO MUCH SPIRITUAL SICKNESS in a so called country "Under God." I can't make them. But I hope this post will make YOU think!
Christine Trzyna
MILLER CENTER ORG on FDR READ THIS AND THINK ABOUT WHERE WE ARE NOW.
From the site: Faced with the Great Depression and World War II, Franklin D. Roosevelt, nicknamed “FDR,” guided America through its greatest domestic crisis, with the exception of the Civil War, and its greatest foreign crisis. His presidency—which spanned twelve years—was unparalleled, not only in length but in scope. FDR took office with the country mired in a horrible and debilitating economic depression that not only sapped its material wealth and spiritual strength, but cast a pall over its future. Roosevelt's combination of confidence, optimism, and political savvy—all of which came together in the experimental economic and social programs of the "New Deal"—helped bring about the beginnings of a national recovery.
Lots of Democrats are declaring themselves. Marianne Williamson, a New Age preacher, declared her self some weeks ago in an eloquent YouTube video I watched. There are so many candidates that televised debates might be limited to two nights and twenty. (How the twenty would be determined, I do not know.)
A criticism I heard is that he is "too old," (though probably in better health that Franklin Delano Roosevelt was during his campaigns and four terms of Presidency and though probably in better health than John Fitzgerald Kennedy ever was, though much younger.) The stigma of being a "cripple" /disabled was understood at the time and in both cases the press/media conspired to not show the President in a wheelchair or with a back brace and only in recent years have health revelations been made about JFK. For those who suffer from pain and dealing with pain management or some other health issue that make them partially or fully disabled, knowing someone struggling also made it to the highest office is inspiring. Who a Presidential candidate of age or ill health chooses to run as a Running Mate - Vice President is always a question. One thinks "What if they die? What if there is an assassination?"
Yet I know of a 98 year old who is still walking three miles a day and others who carry the age of 77 well, while several of my friends over the years have died - of AIDS, breast cancer, leukemia, brain tumor, brain stroke, and massive heart attack, so much younger.
I wish the term Socialist had never been applied to Bernie Sanders. Our only four term President, FDR, instituted so many governmental funded work programs and programs that many people have come to depend on ("The New Deal") including Social Security. Though he apparently offended members of his wealthy class, I suspect polio gave him new associations and new understanding. Socialist? No way.
Sanders seeks to expand some, invent others. Let's think New Deal Continued.
Joe Biden would also make a good Democratic candidate, and main stream, not suffering the Socialist stigma, but I'm not sure I could imagine a Sanders-Biden or Biden-Sanders ticket.
I flash upon the last campaign when I was on a bus with passengers that represented the full diversity of Southern California. When I stated I was for Bernie Sanders a Black woman jumped out of her seat and yelled, "You have to vote for Hillary Clinton! You can't let the Republican's win." Some people think the utter chaos of the current Presidency as a result of the election of President Donald Trump was caused by too many people running as Democrats or Sanders and Hillary Clinton splitting vote. This looks to be right doing the math. As much as I feel traumatized and confused by the current Presidency, I hope to hell Clinton stays out of this race.
Ultimately, people must ask themselves WHY THEY ARE OK with so very many people enduring poverty and limitation. People must ask themselves WHY SO MUCH SPIRITUAL SICKNESS in a so called country "Under God." I can't make them. But I hope this post will make YOU think!
Christine Trzyna
MILLER CENTER ORG on FDR READ THIS AND THINK ABOUT WHERE WE ARE NOW.
From the site: Faced with the Great Depression and World War II, Franklin D. Roosevelt, nicknamed “FDR,” guided America through its greatest domestic crisis, with the exception of the Civil War, and its greatest foreign crisis. His presidency—which spanned twelve years—was unparalleled, not only in length but in scope. FDR took office with the country mired in a horrible and debilitating economic depression that not only sapped its material wealth and spiritual strength, but cast a pall over its future. Roosevelt's combination of confidence, optimism, and political savvy—all of which came together in the experimental economic and social programs of the "New Deal"—helped bring about the beginnings of a national recovery.
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