{"id":904,"date":"2020-11-11T21:25:52","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T21:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nobodyretires.com\/?p=904"},"modified":"2020-11-11T21:25:55","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T21:25:55","slug":"a-bad-series-of-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nobodyretires.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/11\/a-bad-series-of-days\/","title":{"rendered":"When?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Will the sky turn blue?<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">It just gets worse.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I lost the temporary from my long visit to the dentist.  Because of Thanksgiving, it will be 4 weeks before I get my crown.  Makes for another quick visit to the dentist last Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump keeps on being Trump.  Obnoxious!  If he somehow manages to steal this election it will be scary.  Georgia deciding to count be hand?  Can they even count all the ballots in time to certify the election?  So Biden may no longer be in Biden&#8217;s column.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What will happen if Trump steals this election?  All faith will be lost in our democracy, around the world.  It will be the end of our ability to influence change toward democracy everywhere.  Of course the last four years of Donald Trump may have already accomplished that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Remember Murphy was an optimist<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve become a cynic.  Why am I so glum?  The weather here since Saturday has been windy and rainy.  It is time for a change.  The weather for the next couple of days remains the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Four years of Donald Trump is enough.  I remember being sad when he was elected in 2016.  But I hoped for the best, and got the worst.  He has been an unmitigated disaster.  Far from Making America Great Again, he has divided the country.  Weakened our alliances, while cozying up with dictators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">America is best when we as a people unite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I have said in the past, Donald Trump does not build, he tears down.  His tag line on TV was your fired.  As a President he still uses it, only now he doesn&#8217;t have the decency of telling people to their face that they no longer have a job.  He does it via Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why don&#8217;t 70,000,000+ Americans see the obvious.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We have a president who:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Is a bully.<\/li><li>Doesn&#8217;t believe in Democracy.<\/li><li>Loyalty to him is more important than adherence to the constitution.<\/li><li>Was a failure as a businessman?  His income from &#8220;The Apprentice&#8221; kept the Trump Realty empire afloat.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But still he got over 70,000,000 votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">I don&#8217;t understand.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I thought we were smarter than that.  Maybe I&#8217;ll feel better tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will the sky turn blue? It just gets worse. I lost the temporary from my long visit to the dentist. 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