Some time on my hands here

Well, it's Friday, and it is getting off to a slow start.  It is actually something else too.  But I won't go into that.

Just scanned the news.  It looks like wall-to-wall negativity on Trump.  He may get smothered with the negativity. 

You probably can't begin to understand the power of these people who are in charge of this country.  Both Bush presidencies enjoyed very high approval at some point, but were brought down.  The negativity in those instances was relentless and this instance reminds me of those times.  At this point, all you can ask is this: " Do you think things are fine the way they are?"  If you are okay with the way things are going, then do the same things you are doing.  In doing so, you are likely to get what you are getting now.  But if you don't think things are going all that well, they you may want to consider making a change.

As for me, I have made myself clear.  I don't things are going very well, and some changes need to be made.  Maybe a lot of changes.

[... interruption as business began to pick up, you might say...]

Now that I am back, by design, and not by accident:

The thing that prompted me to write this post was a story about Trump and Ivanka being named in his cabinet, or some such thing.  They are literally grasping at each and every thing and making it into something.  That is what I mean.  Besides, maybe Trump is tweaking them and not the other way around.  Trump doesn't talk about this kind of thing this early in the campaign, unless he is quite confident.

The so-called right and so-called conservatives are claiming that Trump doesn't pick his battles very well.  Maybe, maybe not.  But they don't fight at all themselves.  Something attributed to Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War comes to mind:  Lincoln was asked about General Grant's drinking, and Lincoln was said to have said that he couldn't spare this man--- he fights.  Besides, Grant's drinking was under control, and if that wasn't so, that Lincoln would find out what Grant was drinking and give all his generals a barrel of it.  If Trump does nothing else, perhaps he can encourage our timid political class to be a bit more assertive.  If it takes a barrel of whiskey, then give 'em a barrel.