I'm really dreading this election year...
Mom keeps saying she is going to stop watching the news, because it causes her to worry so much, but the next thing I hear is the news. She has it on most of the day. She fights depression and it only makes her more depressed and have a bad attitude towards everything. If I go in sit in the same room with her she will let me change the channel, but she continues to talk about how bad everything is. Even though I live here and am her full-time care giver I can't sit and watch TV all day. Does anyone else have this issue?
Big, big buttons. No reading glasses necessary.
She may even be watching a station variant from her views although I wish you well in trying to find a programme that clearly interests her but doesn't depress her. Don't we all think it's about time there was a news slot called good news that recognised the worth of our black youth, that recognised the good things poor people do, that recognised that Muslims do fantastic things too. Now wouldn't that be a station she would love to see? And actually so would I
I almost want to revise my will and specify if my eldercare people sense my distress with trashy media when I'm old, I would like it minimized. Not banned, but minimized so as to allow me to age away peacefully.
We all need protection when we arrive in this world and when we leave this world. deleteaccount's mom needs protection and deserves to have the topic explored so she and her family may have some peace in their lifetimes.
Trump should be paying attention to what men are saying. When men laugh and criticize him, it bumps it to another level - especially if those men are in positions of power. He just doesn't get it.
I think the much much older American women don't process the Clilnton situation as well as the younger women. She's a younger female and therefore unworthy of respect according to Trump. I heard one man say he's been a devout Republican but believes Trump is making Hillary the next president. Trump attacks Rubio and the children of politicians. He attacks female news reporters. The elderly haven't been attacked so much because they've not stood up to him. The fact that he has no empathy for anybody means he is available to be criticized by everybody, here and abroad. The elders are too worried to fight the good fight, so the younger must step in to get us going in a better direction. Trump is maybe too old to be president. Not in terms of numerical age, but mindset. My parents and their elderly friends all had more sense than Trump did at the time of their deaths. And they were older than Trump. My mom used to say people get what they deserve in old age. In the case of Donald it may just be a dump.
Trump not even for hair restoration.
Angela Merkel has already had to deal with Yannis Varoufakis - the Finance Minister with the motor bike and the leather jacket and the red hot looks and hot red politics - and Silvio Berlusconi, who actually, on reflection, makes Donald Trump's personality look positively priest-like. So I feel sure she will cope.
If only the good were clever,
And if only the clever were good,
The world would be better than ever
We possibly thought it could.
OHMYGOD Donald Trump and Jeremy Corbyn on the phone about Da'esh..!!!! Oh all right I give in - I am now cackling hysterically. Jude will know what I mean, though she may not be laughing much - for American readers, Jeremy Corbyn is the newly(ish) elected Leader of Her Majesty's Loyal(ish, in his case) Opposition, and therefore to be taken seriously as the UK's potential next Prime Minister. Trust me, that's all you want to know.
What a shame that Hugo Chavez is no longer with us. International diplomacy could have had a real purple patch.
When Trump inflates racial hatred by calling Mexican immigrants rapists, drug runners and criminals that is really worrying for foreign nationals. When he denigrates gay rights and same sex marriage yet he himself was married three times, when he says he will be the 'jobs' president yet has owned 4 bankrupt companies I as a brit have to say ....erm really this man is suitable as a candidate for ANY party? Not in my book he isn't. Anyone who is thoughtless enough to criticise the black poor on the very day 9 African Americans were shot to death probably by a white supremacist in a church has no understanding of appropriate comments to make in his own country let alone on a world stage. Even a Saudi prince has stood up and said he is a disgrace following his comments on Muslims.
And that is why I feel I had the right to comment - not political but personal not the party, but the man (and the woman)
Remember the great relationship that Thatcher and Reagan had (not that I necessarily agreed with their politics)? Bush and Blair? Bush Sr. when he put together the coalition to challenge Iraq for Kuwait's "liberation?"
Can you imagine either of the two comic candidates attempting to create such a coalition?
The US government, for better or worse, does still believe it has the right to take the superpower role, and as such, needs to have a leader who understands diplomacy, international politics, foreign relations....something lacking by many of the candidates.
I think all the countries with which we have relationships have an interest in our elections, as do the Chinese, for their own reasons.
Hey! - this is your election, it's not for outsiders to back a candidate. But it is also the world's business, it does matter to everyone, and in that sense there is an additional responsibility for American voters. That's what comes of being the last superpower standing.