TWO ROMAN EMPERORS AND A GOVERNOR WALK INTO A BAR OR, FRIENDS ROMANS AND COUNTRYMEN It was Caligula that attempted to install his horse as his council. So what do we do in this century? Install Mr. Ed as the stable genius as our Autocrat? The analogy to Caligula fits when you consider his family and friends, without any experience, might just as well be another herd of horses. He also acts like Nero by putting the whole virus thing…
DAILY UPDATE 16 May, 2020 The information is not going the way he wanted and spent 10.7 million dollars to put out data for the CDC as a result of the friction between WH and CDC. The Administration wants to sanitize the data before its released. What can go wrong? Will data be relevant or will it be misrepresented, slanted and full of wishes and magical thinking? Trump continues to say the CDC deaths are overstated without evidence, however, with…
SPYGATE MORPHS INTO OBAMAGATE “The greatest political crime in history”! You know what Obamagate is? It’s birtherism, Spygate, and Benghazi in spades. These political hit jobs, meant to distract and sow doubt, all have no basis other than to smear a political opponent. They are looking for evidence where there is no actual evidence of a crime, so they can start an investigation and hold hearings. First look for the evidence of a crime and then fabricate the story to…
LETS MAKE A DEAL Today Paul Manafort was released from a minimum-security prison where he was serving a sentence that would have him out in 2024. His early release was accredited to his age and vulnerability to the virus. This bogus rationale does not hold up when you consider there are no currently reported cases in the prison. Federal guidelines used for home confinment of non-violent federal offences during the pandemic incudes only those who completed ½ of their sentence…
BARR, SHIELD AND SWORD Trump has a plan to de-legitimize anyone around him that poses a threat, the FBI, the Justice department, Inspectors Generals, and his perceived enemies. Trump is using the Justice Department to look into Obama, determining what he knew and when he knew about Michael Flynn. Remember, Obama warned Trump not to hire Flynn because Flynn was dirty, and Obama had fired him from his administration. Fox conspiracy theorists are drumbeating “Obama-gate”. Now Barr is about to…
BRIEF WISHES “If someone wanted a test right now you can get a test ” is the stated magical laser light show in the latest remarkable remarks by our leader in yesterdays briefing. The spokesperson from CDC had to clean it up after the test comment, if you “need” a test and not “want” a test. He stated that there are enough tests to cover those showing symptoms and those who have been in contact with someone that tests positive…
WHAT MAGIC? Yesterday Trump commented on testing, making one of the more insane statements about how the Vice President’s press secretary, Katie Miller, someone who had been tested daily, and had tested negative, but now he couldn’t imagine why she had all of a sudden tested positive. “She tested negative and for some reason, she is now positive!” he confounded. Like it was some kind of a mystery. His comment was, “this is why we don’t need testing nationwide”. WTF?…
SSDD Same Stuff(sp) Different Day. Russian bots and badly altered videos abound, this in light of Trump turning to election mode and is taking no prisoners. The Biden harassment story has morphed from someone keeping quiet for 25 years to having it be the ruination of her entire life even though there is no sign of any written report. The accuser has emails praising Putin, so I wonder why now she is insisting that Biden get out? The story keeps…
WHATS NEXT INSECURITY? Food insecurity is a reality for 40% of the children. They depend on SNAP programs and food banks. While in school, free lunch and breakfast programs once served these children, but with the schools shut down due to the pandemic, these same kids can no longer count on these meals. The summer heat that normally suppresses flu outbreaks is the silver bullet that Trump is counting on. This flies in the face of a study I read,…
L’ETAT C’EST MOI or THE FRENCH CONNECTION This is the catch phrase of Napoléon Bonaparte and it appears to also be the mantra of Donald Trump ( Napoléon was channeling Louis XIV). It goes “the state is me” or as Trump would say, “I am the state”. An interesting development in the Michael Flynn case occurred recently. The career prosecutors all quit in disgust at what was going on. A Trump (Barr) appointed attorney was assigned as a lead and…