A NOTABLE FOURSOME The United States, Russia, England, and Brazil the notable foursome (and you thought I was talking about golf) have one thing in common. They are the best at having ignored the warnings and were all slow to respond to the current Covid-19 pandemic. Jair Bolsonario, the 65 year old President of Brazil, like Trump, is someone that initially stated the virus was just like another flu and has become another presidential ostrich. Taking his ques from The…
IT’S ONLY JUST BEGUN The illusive coronavirus will come back in the fall. This is assured by the 40% transmission rate, with persons that have the virus and no symptoms. Couple these facts with the opening of beaches and POTUS insistence that schools (the epitome of a petri dish) reopen now. With 24 states still increasing in cases, these states have opened beaches, bars, and parks nonetheless this with religious services and schools to follow. The CDC upped their estimate…
HOW IT ALL BEGAN The warnings from medical professionals and the intelligence department briefings were ignored by Trump all through January. Trump’s CDC rejected 250,000 test kits, when offered by the WHO, only because the CDC wanted to use their own kit they developed in their own labs. The CDC kits were contaminated and useless. After an inspection of the CDC labs, it was determined that if they were any other lab, they would be shut down. Trump brags about…
DEATH OF KNOWLEDGE The reset of ancient knowledge was once set to zero, by the burning and sacking of the library at Alexandra Egypt and through the dark ages. Today, libraries are being relegated for the use of meetings and not the source of reading printed text. This is due to the onset of e-books and the internet. The problem with the internet is, you don’t see all that is out there from within the keyboard. You can ask Siri…
DEBT AND THE ECONOMY Trump’s lasting legacy will be his national debt explosion. He has always claimed to be the king of debt, although he has had 4 bankruptcies, numerous business failures, and caught cheating on a charity. Anyone cheating on all of his wives, at golf, and a charity and has never asked forgiveness, has no conscience or empathy and has no leadership qualities, is qualified to be president? The party of stupid thinks so. Here is how Trump…
TODAYS GAMBIT Trump’s bragging about being #1 shows he does not know how to read a graph provided when he made the remark. The chart he presented in a briefing was showing worst to best countries (highest to lowest) with outcomes that result in deaths as a % of the infections. Keep in mind, the study was conducted on 140 countries. The chart showed the United States as 9th out of the 10 countries listed (out of the bottom 10…
ELECTION PURCHASE PRICE Trump has approved a 19 billion dollar farm bill and only 3 billion is being used to provide for food bank purchases to support nutrition during the pandemic due to school closings. This tragedy, with shortages and destruction of food, is as a result of having 40% of the food chain being broken by the shutdown of the end users. The mid-west is critical to his re-election. The problem I see is clear, the demand for the…
ELECTION YEAR MISHEGAS The beginning of the year until now, the Commander in Chief has been in election year mode. To the detriment of public health and safety, he continues to divide and throw up laser lights, fireworks disinformation and down right nutty proposals to remain in the spotlight. Tweeting at all hours and lying when it is totally unnecessary, only to act as if he was right, even though the professionals all agree he’s nuts, and with potential deadly…
IG REPORT I had recently written about the Inspector General at the State Department who was fired. The IG Mr. Linlick was investigating the 8 billion dollar arms sales to Saudi Arabia. Trump had declared a fake emergency, in order to circumvent congress that had blocked the sale last year. Congress was upset at the killing of the journalist Khashoggi in September last year and their ire was again lifted by civilian killings in Yemen, using U.S. precision weapons by…
EXPERTISE? The death of expertise comes with the onset of a political election season. The criticism of Drs. Fauci, Bright, and Brix by Trump, in which their statements are counter to Trump’s proclamations about medicine and science, has put the experts in the way of Trumps goals. It’s to vilify the democratic states leaders for their response in their handling of the states’ openings, even though they are following the guidelines the CDC put out. It’s like the Trumplodites have…