What does Trump Want?

He does not care about the economy.   He does not care about guns.  He does not care about Israel.  He does not care about immigration.   He doesn't care about the Democrats.  He doesn't care about the Supreme Court (though he doesn't want to look silly).  He doesn't care about Health Care

Of course, he doesn't want to go to jail.  What he really wants is to make a lot of money, eat a lot of KFC, attract a lot of attention, and win the election.  At his age,  there's not a lot that makes one excited.  He still does get a little excited when he sees a cute girl,  but it's not for long.

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Washington Post, and Non-Endorsement

The Washington Post (famous newspaper in the D.C. area) chose not to endorse either candidate, at the urging of its owner, Jeff Bezos (a millionaire, and former owner of Amazon).

I had no idea that it was usual for newspapers to endorse one candidate or another in most elections, and (in another forum) I wrote that it would not have been proper to do so.  I soon learned that endorsing a candidate is quite normal around here.

But this means that the entire newspaper endorsed someone, rather than one columnist endorsing him or her!  That seems so weird to me.  When I was a kid, noticing elections for the first time, in a galaxy far far away, many newspapers refrained from endorsing a particular party or person, leaving the columnists free to do so.  That may have been the right way to do it, but things have changed since then. 

It's extremely disconcerting as to how naïve most people are about politics.  Some people think it has to do with education.  Well, not exactly; but quite likely educated people might be just a little more sophisticated about seeing behind the façade of politics-speak.  But everywhere—even in other countries, it seems—people have lost the particular kind of cynicism that enables them to vote for the most useful candidate for an office.  They tend to take candidates at their word, a huge mistake.  I don't even take Kamala Harris at her word, though she's a lot more trustworthy (for a politician).

Husbands Voting one way, Wives Voting Another

In our family, we always talked over the political situation, and each of us might suspect how the other will vote, but we never expected them to vote the same way.  Now Fox News is making a fuss about how someone—I'm not sure who, it might be Trump, or it might be Tim Walz*—seems to be encouraging wives to vote differently from their husbands.  Oh, what a shame!  They're making it out to be positively un-American, if not downright immoral, or unChristian!! 

I never thought twice about it, but I guess these days, when those who lean one way—I guess lean is too mild a word for how it is—consider those who lean the other way as quite unhinged, spouses voting differently might be considered as betrayal.  I could be wrong, but I thought I read somewhere that during the Civil War, wives and husbands sometimes found themselves on different sides of thequestion. . 

There is a guy called Jesse Waters (or is it Watters?) on Fox, whose emphatic positions on things are quite incommensurate with his knowledge of facts.  He was waxing indignant about the whole issue of husbands and wives voting differently, and declared that if his wife were to do that 'behind his back' he would consider it the same as having an affair.   Of course, Fox News considers (like Trump) that hyperbole should be expected as a matter of course, many wives would feel uncomfortable about how their husbands might react to them voting for reproductive rights, for instance.  I wish I could tell you who—quite innocently, I'm sure—precipitated this crisis. 

*Actually, it was Megyn Kelly amplifying something that Liz Cheney implied.

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