I know I haven't posted much on this blog recently, mostly because there's not enough good TV or radio to write about, e.g., I watched a couple of episodes of The Cool Kids -- the idea of a comedy about Shady Meadows retirement home sounded full of possibilities -- but the show, created by Charlie Day and Paul Fruchborn, spent more time on the inflated laugh track than on the dialogue.
Of course Donald Trump on TV last night was even more depressing: he looked like a turtle that was trying to sneak back into his shell as he dispensed his distortions in an attempt to get his wall, as though his manhood somehow depended on it. His most risible comments were how the wall would help African-Americans and Hispanics (unemployment is low now) and how it would stop drugs (most of which come in through airports or hidden in trucks and motorcars.) He even made a comparison with ex-Presidents living behind walls (not true) to protect their loved ones. I found myself waiting to hear about the virtues of Hadrian's Wall, The Great Wall of China and the Berlin Wall, until I remembered that Trump knows nothing about history and perhaps has never even heard of these walls.
Senators Pelosi and Schumer made brief responses to Trump's nonsense, suggesting (quite reasonably) that Trump open the government while talks continue and that we should not be governed by temper tantrums. Trump is certainly no friend of the working classes who are suffering without their next paycheck and has contradicted himself, suggesting that the furloughed workers are probably Democrats on the one hand (for which he has no evidence) and that, on the other hand, they support the shutdown!
