Now I will be perfectly honest with you here and admit that I think back on things that I have thought, done and said in my youth, and to be frank I still today can become embarrassed by them. I am much older now and I believe that I am the same person but very different all the same. And that difference is based on growing up and the effects that life's experiences of successes and failures in both personal and professional relationships have had. I accordingly developed a philosophy of personal honesty, remembering to be humble and promoting mutual respect with others. Treating others with mutual respect until they choose to change that equation anyway.
CONSEQUENCES, COMMENSERATE WITH CHOICES MADE. JGL 10/24
This morning, I was on my walk to the diner, and I ran into a female friend walking her dog. She is NOT a big Trump fan. I always make sure in our interactions at some point to ask: "Do you need to ask me any questions?". And she knows that I write my SIGMA3iOC blog and have a pretty well developed and strong perspective on things. I encourage her to ask me questions specifically related to politics. My perspective is that most all rational everyday Democrats who were forced to support the last un and anti-American totally unqualified Democrat candidate forced upon them need to ask me as many questions as they possibly can think up so that they can make some sense of the world and America today.
And in my conversation with her this morning she makes it a point and asks me: "So what do you think about the Matt Gaetz and RFK jr. nominations for Trumps cabinet?".
And I answered that IMO it is where they might land if they were not confirmed or installed through a recess appointment? We wait to see where these nominations go. Trump wants disruptors to the system and both RFK jr. and Gaetz fit that requirement for sure. Then she added a personal RFK jr. eyewitness story from her youth. I was intrigued, I am not really that read up on the Kennedy scion's life adventures and experiences.
When she was a young girl, she and her family spent their summers in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. And one day while she and her brother were visiting the local famous homemade ice cream store there was a commotion in the street. And they witnessed the whole thing. There was a young man with long hair standing in the street talking to a young lady with the car door open and he was holding up traffic. And along came a local Police officer who asked the young man to remove himself from holding up traffic. And in the interaction after being asked to remove himself from obstructing the road the young spat his ice cream in the police officers face!
Now like I have already stated, I too have thought, done and said stupid and today still embarrassing to me things in my youth. Not quite at this level of disrespect for a law enforcement officer, however. Remember, we are talking about a Kennedy.
Make of it what you will, true leadership however leads.
Are you paying attention yet America? JGL 11/18/24
Yes, we are talking about a Kennedy, a member of America's royal family--founded by a Prohibition era rum-runner and populated with men who any sane woman would run from as quickly as she was able. It was--and still is--a family of extraordinary privilege, so it's not surprising that the members might feel themselves above any rules set down for the "little people." Still, you have to give RFK Jr. some slack; not only for the tragic circumstances that his family and he endured, but also for his youth. None of us could really escape unscathed from a close look at our actions when we were young and foolish.