Month: September 2018

“Trump’s election” is an oxymoron. Trump was never elected. He lost the 2016 presidential election by almost three million votes. That is a big margin !. He was elevated to the presidency by an indescribably undemocratic process known as the “electoral college”. Presumably, this alternate to the popular vote was set up to prevent small-population states, mostly rural, from being overwhelmed by large-population states, mostly urban. It was a fluke, but it happened the way we have always feared it would. It put a racist bigot in the White House with almost three million fewer votes. So, please do not keep referring to Trump’s “election”. He was “selected”, and a large part of his own party is now trying to find a legitimate way to correct their massive, horrendous, mistake. Howard F. Sosbee 1400 Weston Ridge Road Scotts Valley CA, 95066 831, 335, 8401 hfs@sosbee.com <mailto:hfs@sosbee.com>

As if any further examples were needed, we now know from direct and relevant experience how the Republicans act when they have complete and total control of everything. If nothing else, we are continuously discovering that the Republicans know nothing about governing, nothing. Brett Kavanaugh is not merely an appeals court judge in line for a seat on the Supreme Court, going through the normal appeals court process (which, by now has become more like Kabuki theater). Kavanaugh is a conservative (right wing) ideologue and, as such, is exactly the kind of man (not woman) Republicans want in order to pack the court with sympathetic, or right-leaning, judges. Also, the way two senators, Grassley and McConnell are acting in their positions of power in this melodrama is giving new meaning to the word “villainy”.
Howard F. Sosbee 1400 Weston Ridge Road Scotts Valley CA, 95066 831, 335, 8401 hfs@sosbee.com <mailto:hfs@sosbee.com>

We have seen 28 mass shootings this year so far, 28! (
with 126 dead). So, how would it be if all murder weapons (handguns, military style rifles, etc.) were outlawed, AND anyone possessing such weapons would be facing serious jail time? The ex-Florida Governor, Rick Scott, said: “something’s got to change.”… Reality, on the other hand, says: “if we don’t get rid of the murder weapons, nothing will ever change. Nothing.” Background checks may prevent an occasional gun sale, but will do nothing to prevent future use of some of the millions of weapons already loose in the countryside; against which we have absolutely no defense. None!
Howard F. Sosbee 1400 Weston Ridge Road Scotts Valley CA, 95066 831, 335, 8401 hfs@sosbee.com <mailto:hfs@sosbee.com>