Rep Gianforte Should Work With Democrats to Install Wall and 5G Wireless

Representative Gianforte should compromise with Democrats and help pass a Democratic plan with just 2.5 billion for the wall instead of 5 billion if and only if Democrats implement some sort of measure to assure that Montana's major cities get 5G wireless before August 2019. Fast Internet speed is part of state security too.

Montana cannot just be a state with flowers and cattle, spent mines and a little oil. It needs 5G wireless as much as the states that get preferential treatment from Verizon and AT &T. In order for technology to advance Montana cannot be left in the dark ages of 3 and 4 G wireless. President Trump should make sure that every red state has 5G service before the end of 2019. What good is a President if he can't get 5G in states that voted for him and some progress on national security?

How can Nancy Pelosi be so useless in her nitch as Speaker? Any Speaker of the past besides Paul Ryan would have found some way to compromise and make government function. Not Speaker Pelosi though. She says she gets a tingling feeling all over her body on blocking 'Trump's' wall. Apparently she is so brain dead she needs to use old Chris Matthews verbiage.

Speaker O'Neal might have signed off on 5 billion for the wall so long as California got 5 billion for a mag-lev train system. Speaker need to think and get things done rather than acting like sit-down donkey's proud of not moving at all.

Beto O'Rourke - Elizabeth Warren Demo Choices in 2020

My early pick for the 2020 Democrat Presidential campaign winning ticket is Beto O'Rourke and Elizabeth Warren. Democrats don't want the tired old white Uncle Tom former Vice President for the White House. They want someone who looks like Robert Kennedy, is young and vital and has former President Obama's eye upon him.

Sure their are other potential candidates, yet Democrats want a woman in the White House yet they also want a young gun who will glamour schlep with the Hollywood Stars. It would be wrong to think that Democrats care about substance or ideas; they don't. Gender, age, photogenicity; those are things that count materially.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/beto-obama-763042/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2018/12/31/elizabeth-warren-forms-exploratory-committee-2020-white-house-run/2448810002/

Democrat candidates need only read the teleprompter with the basic party planks on it, and that's it for experience, new ideas, reform or anything worth changing. Yes, there will be also rans. Senator Corey Booker looks like he is running to be secretary of State. Senator Socialism will run. Bernie Sanders has character and the right idea that the most rich should pay very high taxes. Unfortunately socialism is not democracy. It is the half-sister of corporatism and each repress free enterprise democracy (though Democrats have completely forgotten what that is or how it is works when healthy.

Silence is an Artform Itself, for some Writers

I prefer silence for writing in order not be distracted or influenced by irrelevant sound. Actually I've spent a lot of time in rural Alaska where I can hear an engine two miles distant or a rifle shot five miles away. In a quiet ecosystem one can listen to nature much better. Silence allows one to listen for danger; .e.g. a brown bear approaching quietly or of other interesting life. One may awaken with a whale snoring or in the morning with an exhalation. The raven's intelligent sounds in a tree above a tent. When one has a writing tool for writing words it seems good to imagine the distant places and cities where humans dwell, and the sounds of their machines, as strange phenomenalities temporally on the Earth. Eventually the time for writing ends and one must rejoin the world of Golden Arches and carbon monoxide.

Time for a Study How to Keep Government Closed Regularly

The U.S. Government has been partially closed none days so far and it is kind of a relief. President Trump should commission a study on how the government might be partially closed regularly in order to reduce the cost of government.

It is probable that a good systems analyst might discover ways to consolidate government services and agencies creatively and actually get more bang for the buck. If government could be closed 30% of the time, in theory it would cost 30% less.

With the military industrial complex dominating the federal budget and with the complete unwillingness of Democrats to fund security on a practical level like spending five billion to build some more miles of solid fencing on the Mexican border, closing the government might be the best way to prevent the federal deficit from getting worse and to stop Democrats from inventing more inefficient and less-than-optimal ways to spend federal dollars ostensibly to help middle class and poor people while the economics facts speak for themselves; wealth is being concentrated in the 1%.

The market has gone up from 850 to 23,000 since 1972 while the minimum wage has only gone up 5 dollars. Democrats are just enriching their party leaders.

Why People Think Armed Revolution that Works isn't Possible

The basic paradigm for why a successful revolution is thought to be impossible today goes something like this…Americans haven’t got enough weapons to defeat the military, so a conventional armed revolution isn’t likely unless the US military becomes so decayed and dopey that its quality drops to rotten door status. Corrupt political leaders working wickedness upon the cadres with homosexual drill sergeants who could abuse trainees might be tolerated, yet there might arise something that would offend the soldiers or citizens enough that revolt was deemed useful. If the nation allows in a near majority of Muslims to become radicalized they just might have the capacity to revolt for sundry reasons. Changes can historically occur to nations that ripen the moment for revolution. Under the despotic power of corporatism that can define an enthralled entertainment society or even socialism as democracy, few would jeopardize their comfort and peace.

A thousand soldiers of the 101st Airborne took charge of the Arkansas National Guard in defense of the order for Little Rock Schools to integrate. The local Guard where themselves recalcitrant about staying on the job. A number of political circumstances could arrive to influence the military about taking sides in a civil conflict. Perhaps a successful revolt would require that a large number of US military personnel side with the rebellion.

Nations Today Can Survive the Loss of a National Capital in Conflict

Maybe one must look to Iran and/or Iraq for understanding. In public political demonstrations fanatics sometimes bite the head off snakes. Perhaps that informs us of the theory of destroying a capital and the political leaders in it; without the head the body dies.

The paradigm may be old. It is possible that in modern general wars, should they occur- and general war is still rather improbable concerning the larger powers, discrete and detached, decentralized leadership with ad hoc organizations will survive the loss of a national capital. Smaller nations alternatively, that engage in war, may have much invested demographically and materially in a capital city and could not survive the loss.

China’s civil wars and the Japanese invasion show the adaptability of some economies and polities to reorganization beyond a traditional capital city with mobile leadership. Moscow is generally regarded as the heart of Russia since Kiev was lost to the Germans twice in the 20th century. Russia might nor survive the loss of Moscow as readily as the U.S. would survive possibly with repressed though sorrowful mirth the destruction of Washington D.C. (since the politicians seem inept starting with Bill Clinton).

In ancient times a capital was the real seat of power of royalty or undemocratic ruler. His or her weapons and wealth were concentrated in the capital city whereas today wealth and capital stock is dispersed globally. If a ruler wasn’t able to defend his or her capital it was a test of strength that was lost. If London had fallen, to the Romans or whomever, then the former Celtic tribes were truly cooked.

Consider what would occur if a nation suddenly had a capital conquered by some modern telecommunications firm that infects every phone it sold with bugs that forward information to a foreign government, or if the political leadership communicates on unsecured email servers that let foreign governments ditto every action the slaved government takes; that could be nearly as effective as a physical conquest of a capital though covert.

China Allows US Rice In Yet Skips Protein Rich Soy Beans

If China had dropped the tariff on soy beans that would have been a positive development. Although fried rice is very good, the Chinese might regard it as a useful import. Pragmatism might not count for evaluating the thought of politicians. Soy is vegetable protein and a useful ingredient for a well balanced die, while rice is starch with just 8% protein versus 30–40% for soy beans.

China allows first-ever U.S. rice imports ahead of trade talks