I can’t afford Donald Trump’s America. Despite the historical significance of the event, $700 a night Hampton Inns are not registering in my mind as a reasonable solution to seeing a “YUGE” inauguration so I’m going to inform Congressman Graves’ office that I won’t be utilizing my ticket allotment for the inauguration next week, unless they offer to let me sleep on the couch in their office.
Beyond prisons, I’m fairly confident I don’t have the appropriate legal clearance to sleep in a federal building.
To be honest, the risk reward for me became too wide. I don’t like people much and the risk of having to be around that many people began to weigh on me, so I’ll just watch on the television, assuming the networks allow it to be televised.
What year will Barron Trump be president? I suppose he will run against Chelsea Clinton or one of those Obama girls.
The Missouri legislature is back on the clock and that always makes me a little queasy. This session is very likely to end badly. The Republicans have controlled state government for so long they’ve decided to just pick fights among themselves instead of bothering with the Democrats. It makes for “uglier” than usual politics and I don’t expect much different this year. Electing a speaker was the jump start to the ugly. The vote to install Jon Patterson was not close, but challenger Justin Sparks was very “blustery” in his campaign as some sort of “outsider” candidate and it has already ruffled feathers in the party, with nine rogue Republicans voting for him over Patterson.
Having Patterson in the position is good news for the Kansas City metro area. He represents Jackson County, is a doctor and is an Asian American, that stacks up pretty good for political purposes for the Kansas City region.
The Missouri Times reported Patterson as saying Sparks, who hails from the St. Louis area, as having an “oceanic ego,” which I assume is not a medical term.
If you’re keeping score at home, Missouri Republicans have ushered in the first female leader of the Missouri Senate and the first Asian American speaker of the house in the history of the state. Democrats are rapidly losing their dog whistle for the Republican party in Missouri.
Not going to lie, there are times I’ve probably had an “oceanic ego,” but life has slowly corrected this without the need for surgical intervention. Turns out this is kind of a medical term. Basically, it is born from “oceanic feeling,” which Freud believed was a “feeling that infants had before they learn that other people exist and something we typically outgrow.” Damn, that quote hits even harder when you know that.
The synonym for the coffee shop would be “selfish baby.”
I’m pretty selfish adult, cannot imagine how selfish I was as a baby. Probably try to keep that covered up until my inevitable demise from this earthly planet.
(Guy Speckman can be reached awash in his oceanic ego)
