The best way to know the self is feeling oneself at the moments of reckoning. The feeling of being alone, just with your senses, may lead you to think more consciously. More and more of such moments may sensitize ‘you towards you’, towards others. We become regular with introspection and retrospection. We get ‘the’ gradual connect to the higher self we may name Spirituality or God or just a Humane Conscious. We tend to get a rhythm again in life. We need to learn the art of being lonely in crowd while being part of the crowd. A multitude of loneliness in mosaic of relations! One needs to feel it severally, with conscience, before making it a way of life. One needs to live several such lonely moments. One needs to live severallyalone.

Saturday 4 March 2017

#THETRUMPDUMP: ITS OBAMA AND SHWARZENEGGER AGAIN!

US President Donald Trump is at his favourite pastime again, pastimes that he routinely forgets to keep a bay as pastimes while donning the all important hat of the world’s most powerful person (he also conveniently forgets that it makes his position as the most responsible one as well).

He is back at slamming his bĂȘte noir Barack Obama, his predecessor in the White House, and is adding some garnishing to it by sparing some visionary words from his stable for Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Hollywood action machine with a long career as a Republican politician (and California Governor).

Both are known for their dislike for Donald Trump. Obama has been a towering presence with two successive terms in the White House and Trump treated him like his primary opponent even if he was pitted against Hillary Clinton.

Trump’s Obama tweetaculation of the day are:

Donald J. Trump‏ @realDonaldTrump 
Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my "wires tapped" in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!
Is it legal for a sitting President to be "wire tapping" a race for president prior to an election? Turned down by court earlier. A NEW LOW!
I'd bet a good lawyer could make a great case out of the fact that President Obama was tapping my phones in October, just prior to Election!
How low has President Obama gone to tapp my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!

See the range here! Blaming Obama for tapping his phones, Trump’s tweetacules use some mighty words like McCarthyism or ‘new low’ or Watergate. People are busy analysing that whether Donald Trump will be another Richard Nixon in terms of an aborted presidential term. By using the Richard Nixon/Watergate corollary, Trump, it seems, is trying to send out a message that using such a corollary to paint Trump in a negative light is fundamentally flawed.

Donald Trump’s another target of the day is nowhere near to the towering presence of Barack Obama. But even then, he is no lesser important in the US society, especially when people have doubts about Trump who is seeing historically low approval ratings. But in the classic way of ‘I will always chase my detractors come what may’, Trump never forgets to shoot a punch whenever he sees an opportunity to deride his opponents.

Schwarzenegger has decided to leave hosting Celebrity Apprentice where he replaced Donald Trump. Trump has always criticised Arnold for not delivering on the show the way he did. Tweetaculations on it have been in vogue. Now Trump thinks that Arnold is being sacked from the show for not delivering a hit performance and finds it apt for another round or Arnold bashing tweets. He wrote,

Donald J. Trump‏ @realDonaldTrump
Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't voluntarily leaving the Apprentice, he was fired by his bad (pathetic) ratings, not by me. Sad end to great show

But then Arnold’s reputation of being an action machine is not any fluke. He immediately hit back.

Arnold @Schwarzenegger
You should think about hiring a new joke writer and a fact checker. https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/838016045222854656 …

Well, whatever might be Arnold’s intent behind advising Trump to hire new joke writer and fact checker, we indeed know that the Trump Team indeed needs an army of fact checkers, especially after repeated exaggerated speeches by Trump, before and after his election. Latest in the series is his maiden congressional speech delivered to joint sitting of the US Congress which ran so low on facts that media houses not just in the US but globally carried out its ‘fact checking’ analysis of it. 

©SantoshChaubey