We're aiming for a Trump-free weekend on this blog and, more importantly, in my head. So I'll just say this here and then go work on Groo…
I'm not as confident as some people that Donald Trump will not be president much longer. Yeah, he's done many things that would have caused a Republican congress to insist President Hillary had to go but so what? We don't remove elected officials — presidents or their Congressional protectors — for hypocrisy. I guess I'm leery of predictions because one of the main complaints about Trump is he's too unpredictable; how he doesn't conform to past norms of presidential conduct. His popularity will continue to suffer from the slow drip-drip-drip of self-inflicted scandals and stupid statements but I'm not sure of much else about this guy. Like I said, too unpredictable. If there's one big misdeed that will knock him out of office, either it hasn't come out yet or he hasn't committed it yet.
Caught a few snippets of Jimmy Fallon trying to be rougher on Trump, presumably because that's what seems to be helping ratings in Late Night. Mr. Fallon has many talents but being rough on people is not among them. The same with James Corden. (I was about to type that Corden, being British, isn't all that convincing attacking American political figures but then I remembered how good John Oliver is at it.)
Every so often here, I have to remind some readers of this blog of the following: I do not post obits for everyone who dies. I feel like I do too many of them as it is. I post them for one or more of these reasons: (1) I knew the person really well, (2) I think I have something interesting to say about the person, and/or (3) I feel like if I don't post something about this person's passing, no one else on the 'net will. It does not mean I don't care about them. Most of the time when followers of this site write me and say "You must have some issues with this person since you didn't write about their death," the answer is that I didn't know the person and feel I have nothing to add to what others have written. No snub is ever intended.
The other day, I got one of those calls where from the room tone before the person even says anything, you know it's someone calling from a roomful of other people making calls. A woman who obviously learned English as a second (or third or fourth…) language told me she was from "Computer Technical Support" and there was a terrible virus on my computer. Since she was lying to me, I felt it was okay to lie to her and I told her I didn't own a computer. I said, "I don't want one because I heard there are really evil, criminal people in the world who call you and tell you they're from someplace like 'Computer Technical Support' and they try to get you to let them access your computer and then they steal data and plant viruses. Can you believe there are such sick, horrible human beings in the world?" She agreed with me that was pretty awful and then she hung up.
There may be more here later but I don't think you'll see me here until tomorrow. I have to go write Cheese Dip jokes…