Tuesday - Hummingbirds in my yard, Carolina wrens all around. Due to a lack of substance, Trump attacks are strictly personal

I spent some time this afternoon sitting behind my home watching pollinators at work among the flowers. The garden my wife has created is a veritable pollinators paradise and bird sanctuary. Flowers shiver and sway even when there is no breeze from the motions of the bees, butterflies and bird flitting through them gathering their food and moving pollen between the flowers . It is wonderful.

One question that is bothering me and many other people is how are the Repulsives planning on stealing the election? The first steps, taken by sTrump'et going back to his victory in 2016, is that the process has been corrupted his opposition. This is somewhat illogical since he did win and was inaugurated. He has made it a drumbeat issue that the process is stacked against him, and the principal reason for this seems to be undermining the belief in fair elections by his diehard supporters. This is not about facts, especially since most of his statements don't hold up to fact checking, sometimes they are misrepresentations of facts, sometimes they are simply false, and others seem to be conscious lies along the lines of the Nazi German propagandist, Joseph Goebbels, "Big Lie." What Goebbels said was "“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." Not necessarily everybody, it turns out, but sTrump'et hopes enough people to get him through this election.

sTrump'et is also adept at evasion. If he is asked a question he doesn't want to answer he just doesn't and moves on to another question. This is especially true when he is confronted with contradictory things he's said. He just acts as if he never said the thing he now is being confronted with, or worse, he accuses his inquirer of creating a false narrative or pushing "fake news." It doesn't matter whether or not there is audio and video of what sTrump'et said. 

 It is possible that his memory is very bad, but more likely it is very selective. He remembers what he wants to remember, and only that which he thinks serves his purposes now.

I am still livid at how he belittles people. His use of the ad hominem attack (for those who don't know what that is, an argument " directed against a person rather than the position they are maintaining."), is an indicator of the logical and moral weakness of the man. I believe that sTrump'et gets schoolyard pleasure from insulting his betters, and is afraid they are smarter than he is. 

Well, the Democrats are in convention, and they began last night with a parade of Republicans who wish to reject the Repulsive label, and are supporting the moderate Democrat candidate, Joe Biden. That is interesting. One person in particular, a former member of Homeland Security, whom sTrump'et claims he never knew, despite photographic evidence to the contrary, has attacked Doofus Donald's abilities from close at hand and the inside. The Right Wing press is hard at work striving to discredit the man. It's a dilemma. If he is discreditable, than that reflects poorly on the person who he was hired by, which happens to be sTrump'et.  So what do they do? More ad hominem attacks, of course. 

A final somewhat ironic note. the Secretary of the Treasury Mnuchin said the Democrats didn't want to make a deal. I believe that the administration has dug into a position from which they are refusing to move. Facts, gentlefolk, facts please.

We have 77 days until Election Day. Let's bust our guts doing everything we can to get the a-hole-in-chief out. Unelect Trump.

We have a hummingbird feeder and this afternoon I was able to capture a few photos of the hummingbirds eating their afternoon snack.

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