Countdown 95 days WRITERS BLOCK and RECOVERY I have attempted daily to write about the current presidential clown show with no lack of ammunition. For 5 months I have seen the mis-direction, miss-information, conspiracy theories, and lies spewing from his rhetoric and in Trump’s tweets. His message is always divisive and some meant to re-direct the conversation to his antics to cover for other more important news of the day. Thus far there has been no shortage of his lunacy. …
Countdown 96 days DUMBING DOWN AMERICA Social media platforms appears to be the primary tool for the Republican Party. The party of stupid (POS) embraces conspiracy theories and discounts both science and medicine. Social media is the source of talking points, propaganda and fake news and fake science and medicine. The second source of dis-information for the Republican Party is the right wing radio and Fox noise, propaganda and conspiracy theory channel. This is where Trump shines at the disinformation…
Countdown 97 days FED’S NEXT MOVE? In mid-March when markets crashed the Federal Reserve met to develop a strategy to avoid a total meltdown of the financial markets. The normal Fed tool used to stimulate the economy is a lowering of the prime interest rate. This tool had already been exploited by Trump demanding the Fed lower the rate during a good economy in 2018. Trump used this as a tool to continue to stimulate the economy. Lessons had been…
WHO ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL? The European Union has managed to coral the virus and is about to open their borders on Aug 1, without having to quarantine for two weeks. The EU has threatened not to allow any travelers from the United States. In a LA times article this week, Thomas Jaeger a political scientist at Cologne University said, “People are completely shocked by the way the United States has mishandled the crisis. The one nation they thought…
Countdown 99 days DEFIANCE OF TRUMP In an opinion piece in the Washington Post the following editorial was published on July 24th, 2020 penned by Greg Sargent and is shown below in its entirety. My additional comments follow the end of the article. In a revealing aside, President Trump told chief propagandist Sean Hannity on Thursday night that he traces much of the overwhelming enthusiasm for his reelection now sweeping the country back to his Mount Rushmore speech commemorating Independence Day….
Countdown 100 days to the election TRUMP’S REALITY False claims are the hallmark of the Trump administration. These claims are meant to provide reassurance to a gullible audience and show that all is alright in Trump world. These boasts are easily rebuked by anyone with Siri and the Internet. Hidden between the virus disinformation and the disinformation on the health of the economy and the Black Lives Matter protests, Trump has managed to slip in lies about localized industries. These…
SPREADING REALITY On January 27th Joe Biden had written about what actions should take place in preparing for a pandemic. The actions included the reliance on the medical experts for information and how essential it is for them lay out the necessary procedures required to suppress the virus. Until now, Donald Trump has done everything he could to spread the virus. He downplayed the virus and thus the states and the federal government did not brace for the up-coming pandemic….
TRUMP CREATING CHAOS Chaos is complete disorder and confusion. Trump organized and deployed untrained, camouflage dressed and unnamed armed hodge-podge of officers. These were from various law enforcement departments and were sent to Portland under director of Homeland Security Chad Wolf, with orders to protect federal property. The officers confronted and engaged the peaceful demonstrators with force and tear gas and stun grenades, and rubber bullets. Chad Wolf, the current acting head of the Homeland Security department, has not been…
THE VIRUS BRIEFING BY THE LONE RANGER Trump admittedthey never really had a plan. The plan is perpetually in process. In Trump’s Coronavirus briefing he said, “we are (uh) in the process of developing a strategy that’s going to be very, very powerful we develop(um) as we go along.” There were no health officials present and the briefing only lasted 30 minutes, with the usual stretching the truth. He did manage to say that the Covid-19 virus will get worse…
TRUMP’S SOURCE DATA Dr. Deborah Brix has relied on a University of Washington model for the projections of the Covid-19 virus. The projections for May and June had very little indication of a second wave and this information floated within the White House, which explains the President’s attitude in re-opening. That was then, but now things have changed. With the re-openings prior to being fully compliant to the CDC guidelines, created a very different scenario and UW has changed its…