Sunday - afternoon
The federal government shutdown continues on. Otherwise known as the Schumer Shutdown, he is being consistently blamed by all members of the right that I have seen thus far for creating this shutdown and continuing on with it.
It's the same thing Pelosi did to Trump when Trump refused to sign off on a CR way back when he was President the first time around. She framed him as a lunatic and stupid, basically without actually saying that and he ended up losing that war. I doubt he'll lose this one, at all. This shut down will likely continue on until the communist left realize that they are hurting their political future by continuing on with this charade. This is a CR, which I despise but that's the way the government has been being operated for a long, long time now.
To defy it is to defy logic and the popular opinion of citizens. The left has to somehow "save face" on this one even as some of their own rank is beginning to question the validity of this move on their leadership' part. I think they only need 5 more democrats to defect and I suspect that will happen sooner or later. However, I also suspect the left is concocting some plan to end this checkmate while at the same time blaming Republicans and coming up with some "new" tactic to do so. It will be so absurd that even democrat moderates will reject it at it's face even if they don't openly say that.
Then we have the chaos in Portland and the state's top officials attempting to state that they somehow have control of the situation while ICE agents are blocked in by rioters - or whatever you want to call them, perhaps terrorists. A federal judge blocking Trump's attempt to send in national guard to help defend these agents and a basic deprivation of human rights, as far as I see it, for the general citizenry that lives there and are exposed to this violence and mayhem. Calling democrats that party of violence is really quite fitting looking back at their history starting when Trump came down the golden escalator. Earlier than that, yes, but the lunacy of their actions cannot be overstated.
I don't need anyone to tell me how to think about these situations, btw, I often draw my own conclusions long before I read or hear anything in the news about this stuff that ends up having the news and it's media faces concur with my thoughts. This is about facts, not emotion. Democrats engage in emotional outbursts all the time, the right more often engages in factual reasoning and rebuttal. I've seen some democrats trying to claim that they are using facts, but when you dig into their version of it, is a distorted truth at best.
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Onto my personal stuff. I woke up at 2:15 am this morning, 5 hours after i went to bed, tried to get abck to sleep for 30 minutes and ended up giving up on it. I got up, did my thing, went to the truck, turned it on and drove it to Arkansas in the night and was emptying it out at daybreak. I made it back in time to take the kids to church. I sat down in the main auditorium to hear the sermon, but I was so tired I decided that I would have to leave. I would have just fallen asleep during the sermon and that probably wouldn't have gone over too well.
I went out to my vehicle, turned it and the ac on, set my alarm and fell asleep. I felt much better after that and ended up at Applebee's, our weekly tradition before coming home aaaaand....falling asleep again. Today was the last of the 4-day-in-a-row wake up call so early that my sleep has been completely disrupted to the point I feel like I'm in a fog half the time.
Tomorrow is normal 5:20 am wake up call. It is almost 3:00 pm right now and highly likely I will take another half hour nap just to try and get to feeling normal again. 1 of these runs with 2 days of early wake up calls is ok, 2 runs with 4 consecutive days of getting up super early? No thank you. I fully expect after this next run to have at least a day off. That would put be on a run Thursday and Friday and then what? Work another entire weekend? I've got the next weekend after that off for the Tyler event.
That is up in the air however as well, as i have now found out the kids are going to grandma's for the week off. I made these plans long before they came to this decision and I made it known that I already paid for everything. They'll be back, said the mom which I fully believe, however, the grandma and I don't get along too well - fully on her side I don't start trouble with her, I am an imposition to her plans with "family" of which she doesn't consider me any part of. She made this glaringly clear a while back when the oldest kid called me and asked if i were going to the restaurant with them?
Well sure! Then I heard the grandma, snooping in the background as the child had it on speakerphone, say NO, I want this to be FAMILY only! I laughed at her out loud but I bit my tongue and I haven't spoken to her since. Whatever is up her crawl is her problem, not mine. I've been listening to her talking disparagingly about family members where she lives for many years, I'm sure she now feels that way about me for whatever reason of which I am completely ignorant of.
She also mentioned another time that "despite our differences" she would "allow" the kid to call me regardless. What differences, I thought? but didn't feel like getting into. I knew it wouldn't end well and she is the mother of that dad in this house and I will respect him enough to not start a war with her even tho her tongue has mouthed off enough to me to warrant me to say something back to her. I don't know that I'm taking any high roads, I just don't want to engage with her. I now ignore her completely when she comes here and she does the same to me.
Oh, yes, I remember now: she's jealous of my relationship with the kids. Tough shit, I live here, she doesn't and she lives 4 hours away. Even if she DID live her or near here, she wouldn't and couldn't have the same relationship, she smothers those kids to death. That will end up backfiring on her when they become teenagers and completely independent - or as much as a teenager can become that way. They don't like being smothered and they will openly show that to anyone that tries to do so. I just chill with them, if they want to hang out, cool, if they don't, I definitely relish peace and quiet.
They will be gone a week and I will love it. I love those kids, yes, they are like my own children, but I also love just not having people fighting with each other and screaming, kicking, crying, rambunctiousness, all the things that come with kids. You get a week off and you're like, yes!~!!
