{"id":178641,"date":"2025-02-09T17:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T17:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=178641"},"modified":"2025-02-09T17:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T17:41:07","slug":"more-february-musings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2025\/02\/09\/more-february-musings\/","title":{"rendered":"More February Musings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Trump reality TV show continues and becomes more extraordinary and the plots become more unrealistic day by day.  One is compelled to watch the unfolding disaster and fight the strong urge to hide behind the sofa.  I don&#8217;t see it running for an extended season somehow.  And all the news I am getting from my Facebook friends from the USA is not good. I think one senior couple I know have split up as he is pro trump and she is not. There is potentially some very bad shit being attempted but the supreme court is putting the breaks on some of it. But it looks more and more like a coup every day.  I feel there could there be civil disobedience with violence coming in the US. I believe that in some places that it may happen this year though perhaps not to any great degree. But if it starts to affect the middle classes (you know who you are ) that&#8217;s a different matter .The USA has a lot in more  common with Russia than one might imagine. A lot of the population seem to live in a bubble&#8230;. And not just the older folk. A few wars are good for the economy as long as they are not to extensive or expensive and don&#8217;t interfere with our lives in the west too much&#8230;Not that I am cynical much.<br><br>Here is a song for you.<br><br><strong>Beginning of the End<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/2028751308&#038;color=%238c8cc8&#038;auto_play=true&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\" title=\"Diana Stones Glasscage\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">Diana Stones Glasscage<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/begining-of-the-end\" title=\"Beginning Of The End\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">Beginning Of The End<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I am having ongoing back issues at present which are getting a bit concerning and cramping my style a little.  I don&#8217;t have any new pictures to post either. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump reality TV show continues and becomes more extraordinary and the plots become more unrealistic day by day. One is compelled to watch the unfolding disaster and fight the strong urge to hide behind the sofa. I don&#8217;t see it running for an extended season somehow. And all the news I am getting from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2025\/02\/09\/more-february-musings\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More February Musings<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-Ktj","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":68376,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2017\/02\/02\/totalitarianism-in-the-age-of-trump-lessons-from-hannah-arendt\/","url_meta":{"origin":178641,"position":0},"title":"Totalitarianism in the age of Trump: lessons from Hannah Arendt","author":"diana Stone","date":"February 2, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2017\/feb\/01\/totalitarianism-in-age-donald-trump-lessons-from-hannah-arendt-protests?CMP=fb_gu On BBC radio and downloadable as a podcast. 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Much chat about Trump and people thinking it was a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Diana Stones Songs&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Diana Stones Songs","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/diana_stones_songs\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/way-back-in-1995.jpg?fit=814%2C553&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/way-back-in-1995.jpg?fit=814%2C553&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/way-back-in-1995.jpg?fit=814%2C553&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/way-back-in-1995.jpg?fit=814%2C553&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":63,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2009\/07\/25\/more-musings\/","url_meta":{"origin":178641,"position":3},"title":"More musings","author":"diana Stone","date":"July 25, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Give me a home where the Buffalo roam and I will show you the house of someone that just doesn't care. 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