I'm just a squirrel collecting my nuts

 Prepping for retirement.  Trying to get my financial house in order.  What I don't get is these long lines of yahoos getting the new I-Phone with the folding screen issues.  Got a Samsung Galaxy 5G phone at a Walmart at a reasonable price and I'm good.  People don't budget themselves.  Sure I'm no financial saint and have maxxed out on a couple of Visas myself but you learn.  We're a nation of compulsive shoppers.  Probably half the people who go to Target don't really need anything.  I'm on a budget but it's not overly strict.  My CB and pipe tobacco are still essentials.  I cut my own hair with a Wahl.  It ain't that hard.  I think some guys just want the girl's tit in their face while she washing their hair.

The older I get the more grouchy I get.

The most likely scenario

 The Dems will sweep the House because the Republicans didn't have the balls to remove the Asshole-In-Chief (hereinafter the AIC) and pretty much soon the Dems like maybe after lunch on the second day will present the official Articles of Impeachment. Even if the Dems also pick up the Senate most likely there won't be enough votes to convict so Trump will have been impeached three times in his two terms in office.  The GeeeZ crowd will of course get their knickers in a twist.  So then the surreal presidency continues on for two more years and I get a flood of anti-Trump stuff in my YouTube feed with the Young Turks chiming in.  Won't mean anything.  May as well watch toilet videos on This Old House.

Trump's diesel deal with Putin.  The Starlink slowdown.  Whose side is Trump on?  Imagine if we had made business dealings with Hitler during WW2.

Can't make this shit up.

The spiritual wing of YouTube

 Every night I go on YouTube for at least an hour.  Politics, wolverines, pipe smoking.  Everything.  Some guy has studied the four alien races besides the Grays.  I didn't know we already established one alien race.  Is there a field guide?  The algorithm might think I'm interested in dying folk in hospice.  Depressing.  Back to Rogan.  Gone down a few religious rabbit holes lately.  Fr. Chad Ripperger major exorcist for the Catholic Church silenced by his bishop for one year.  YouTube says HUGE story but I doubt the Mormons care.  Thing is when you go down these theological rabbit holes it goes off in all kinds of directions and tangents like a big sparkler.  Before you know it you see if you suck your big toe you're going to hell or too many donuts opened up the gateway to Satan.  Now I myself am theologically inclined but theology by its very nature is not established fact although many people talk about it as such.  Political bubbles, religious bubbles most everyone these days is in some kind of bubble.

Pipe smoking late afternoon then a quick bite then a shower.  Set up the coffee for the next day.  YouTube then the CB and then the News and maybe part of a movie and then to bed.  Some old folk go to bed right after Wheel of Fortune.  I ain't there yet.

Don't go there

 Vivek Ramaswamy just a weird dude.  The Ohio Governor's race and the controversial attack ad against Democratic opponent Amy Acton - complicated sordid family drama which lends itself to the natural political option of you can just stay out of it totally.  Don't comment on it, don't involve yourself in it just hash out the issues.  Just as an outside observer looking in why would you automatically believe the mother anyway?  You're not even an extended member of her family and have no insider's knowledge of anything that went down.  It's all in the court records anyway.  You can publicly express sympathy and empathy for Amy Acton OR staying neutral is a perfectly OK option.  Why go there?  Aa far as political ads go this is raw sewage and that's really saying something.  Kind of says to me he's not confident enough in his own political positions and feels he has to go that extra mile.

Trump is a dick.  Why embrace his style?

How 'bout we talk about Russell Brand today

 More murkiness.  Trial going on across the pond of one Russell Brand of whom you may have heard.  Six women have come forward accusing him of all forms and manner of rape.  However we're talking about allegations that are being made 25 or even 30 years after the fact as there is no statute of limitations in the UK the way we have here.  Also in Britain you don't need absolute unanimity to criminally convict someone.  10 out of 12 jurors will suffice.  Britain's legal system far inferior to ours as we go out of our way to be fair to defendants over here as it's their life we're talking about.  It has also been widely said the judge in the Brand case at one point explicitly took the side of one of the victims.  Wouldn't happen over here just sayin'.  Apparently these women only came forward after some TV documentary aired over there.  Trauma takes time but that's taking it to another level.  We have more of a structure to our legal system even if it ain't perfect. 

Brand was what you'd call a male nympho but has since made a rightward turn and publicly turned to God.  Back in the day we're not talking about classical stylized sex.  Anywhere anytime would do.  Mop room whatever.  The late Limbaugh once made a point with which I tend to agree.  He said if your whole life revolves around sex you're going to wind up in trouble someday and I paraphrase.  Once in a while I agreed with the man.  By Brand's own admission his sex life was what you'd call unsavory and I would add if you're in a perpetual state of horniness as Brand was you're practically inviting murkiness into your own life hence the court case least as I see it.

Of course we'll probably be talking about TRUMP in no time.  What else is there?

Batshit Crazy

 According to accounts President Trump asked Google CEO Sundar Pichai to rename the Atlantic Ocean the Trump Ocean.  Pichai reportedly said they can't do that because oceans border multiple countries.  I probably would've just said you belong in a nursing home in the Alzheimer's wing and hung up.

TWO MORE YEARS OF THIS?!?!

Some situations are just plain murky

 The Case of the Cornell 7 as it's come to be known.  The frat party from hell.  The "Trauma Takes Time" movement.  OK so after going down this rabbit hole a little bit here's where I come down as a conservative.  Even if a young woman goes to a party and agrees to use drugs and alcohol and consents to having sex with more than one guy things can cross the line in a hurry.  Consent may not be given every step of the way.  One version of the events makes the alleged victim Jane Doe look bad.  Another version makes the  Cornell 7 look bad.  Yet another version makes everyone look bad.  Murky at best.

Does anyone go to college or university to learn anymore?  Costs a pretty penny.