Annoyances
The media and others keep referring to Trump as President-elect and Pence as Vice President-elect. They are at best President and Vice President presumptive.Thanks to the Constitution, the actual election by the Electoral College, the 538 votes that actually matter, doesn’t happen until December 19th, and those votes aren’t counted until January 6th. If the electors decide to vote for Gary Johnson and Jill Stein, there is nothing anyone can do about it.
The positions of President and Vice President deserve respect, but the people in those positions have to earn it on their own. I see nothing that either Trump or Pence has done that is worthy of my respect. People who pay $25 million to settle fraud law suits are, and always will be, crooks in my moral code. I don’t respect crooks.
Several people wrote stories highlighting the fact that Tesla made more money last quarter, than the US oil industry made last year. It is true, but it has no greater meaning. Both Tesla and the oil industry are heavily subsidized by the government, but the oil industry was spending based on $100/barrel oil, and it fell to $50. Implying the ‘death’ of the oil industry is early. It is dying, like coal, but not quite yet.
