{"id":27264,"date":"2019-04-26T14:57:47","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T19:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=27264"},"modified":"2019-04-27T14:21:55","modified_gmt":"2019-04-27T19:21:55","slug":"i-want-to-write-my-own-damned-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=27264","title":{"rendered":"I want to write my own damned book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having told my whole town about how I was witness to a fizzled out train I&#8217;m just popping to speak my mind about a whole lotta stuff. Claudia just ordered a book for us to read and I am a little PO&#8217;ed that it covers a lot of what aggravates me &#8211; My last 50 years watching the Republican Party pulling train on America. Look it up in the &#8220;urban dictionary.&#8221; I want to write that book.<\/p>\n<p>The book is called &#8220;Fault lines&#8221; and I just took a couple of pictures of it but can&#8217;t manage to transfer them to the blog on my cell phone. I will attend to this post too, just like the previous one, later on. Probably before I go to bed tonight. <\/p>\n<p>I am going to get my daily French practice in first. OK done. Here&#8217;s the book on my lap.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/46791111075_df8c3c44d9.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I did read the first seventeen pages to Claudia. It starts just days before our wedding as Jerry Ford was settling in as our new President. Its a good recap even for someone like me who was glued to the television through much of the tumult. It was almost fifty years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s one of the pictures of Jerry Ford who I very much liked and appreciated for pardoning Nixon. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/47707246991_fa9a033bf5_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The picture below it shows how he caught a lot of blowback from kids who wanted to see Nixon in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Impeachments in our nation&#8217;s history have not been pretty. That&#8217;s a small part of why I would prefer to avoid one over Trump. It would only serve to make him a martyr and that is one pedestal I wish to deprive our Sleazebag-in-Chief from clambering up onto. <\/p>\n<p>When I started this post yesterday I had a few other things to say but 24 hours can distract a fellow. For instance today I was sent Bill Maher&#8217;s thoughts about how Robert Meuller let America down by not calling for Trump&#8217;s impeachment. Here was my reply to that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I understand but I don&#8217;t agree.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is a symptom of 40 years of Republican mismanagement of America, the world and the Earth. If this was 1974 we could do what Bill Maher wants but its 2018. <\/p>\n<p>Mueller, by being back-breakingly fair, has convinced a majority of Republicans, Democrats and Independents that his report was fair. That is a major accomplishment and something to build upon if we are going to knit the nation back together. <\/p>\n<p>Using Mueller&#8217;s work to impeach Trump will deprive America of what we desperately need. To defeat Trump in a fair election. <\/p>\n<p>To do otherwise will likely postpone any healing for a generation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We all, Republicans, Democrats and Independents have a lot of work ahead of us for the Nation, the world and the Earth. Leaving the air poisoned with payback is a lousy way to start in on this work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having told my whole town about how I was witness to a fizzled out train I&#8217;m just popping to speak my mind about a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,31,47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27264"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27276,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27264\/revisions\/27276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}