{"id":37964,"date":"2019-07-16T00:00:28","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T00:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37964"},"modified":"2019-07-16T00:00:28","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T00:00:28","slug":"trump-has-become-the-cause-for-serious-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37964","title":{"rendered":"Trump has become the cause for serious depression"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Donald Trump causes depression. I believe it might be a clinical depression at that.<\/p>\n

Here I sit in Flyover Country, Collin County in Texas, a place where Trump still stands tall. I write this blog full time in my retirement years. I spend a lot of time cogitating over what to write, offering commentary on this and that public policy and those who make those policies.<\/p>\n

The president’s latest Twitter tirade\/torrent\/tempest has taken aim at four members of Congress who have been critical of Trump and his policies. He has gone after them with racist rants.<\/p>\n

It’s depressing, man. I find myself looking for positive elements.<\/p>\n

The Amarillo Sod Poodles, the minor-league baseball team that now plays in the city where I used to live, is one option. I take joy in reading about the big crowds they’re drawing and that ballpark that graces the downtown district.<\/p>\n

So, too, is the ongoing renovation of that city’s downtown business\/entertainment district.<\/p>\n

I like commenting on adventures with out 5-year-old pooch, Toby the Puppy.<\/p>\n

I relish talking to you about retirement, travel and spending time with our precious granddaughter, Emma.<\/p>\n

High Plains Blogger, though, is built largely around the discussion of public policy and the politics that drive it. I make no apologies for my bias. I know I have it, although my bias is no more pronounced than anyone else’s bias.<\/p>\n

My commentary on the president, however, is getting me down. As in down in the dumps<\/em>. I don’t like feeling this way. I don’t like the feeling of hopelessness that at times creeps into my skull when I think of this guy, which — I regret to acknowledge — is quite often \u2026 perhaps too<\/em> often.<\/p>\n

I’ll have to get over it. I’ll work through it.<\/p>\n

If only Donald John Trump would stop providing all that grist that gets me down.<\/p>\n\n

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Donald Trump causes depression. I believe it might be a clinical depression at that. Here I sit in Flyover Country, Collin County in Texas, a place where Trump still stands tall. I write this blog full time in my retirement years. I spend a lot of time cogitating over what to write, offering commentary on … Continue reading Trump has become the cause for serious depression<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7932,9,13],"tags":[8780,2122,3655,3808],"class_list":["post-37964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump","category-local-news","category-national-news","tag-blog-writing","tag-high-plains-blogger","tag-politics","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37965,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37964\/revisions\/37965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}