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 9^th out of the 10 countries listed (out of the bottom 10 worst cases) and Trump insisted the chart showed us right behind the 10^th place Germany.   So it shows we are 131^st not #1.

Trump has a propensity to go with disinformation if it will suit the narrative he has scripted, as if he were the executive producer directing the show.  How did we get here?  Trump has the attitude that government is the problem, like Reagan had said. 

For 3 ½ years he has denigrated and belittled the legitimate roll of civil servants.  He has combated the bureaucracy and has them cower for fear of retaliation.  He has fired all legitimate oversight, including Inspectors General.  The culmination of this is his installation of his cronies, grifters, and sycophants, which have stoked the fears in the civil servants.

Fear in agencies has been overtaken expertise.  Trump in election mode, has sidelined the experts and has hired (that’s right, hired!) doctors that are sympathetic to his dis-information.  Watch the conflicts, let the information wars commence the CDC experts in epidemiology and viruses against the doctors Trump hires to put on a disinformation show.  Did you ever see his personal doctor prior to his election?  This confusion will lead to fear and will have the opposite effect for those that take the virus seriously, however his base is comprised of what is left of the party of stupid.  A second (quack for hire) opinion vs facts and expertise?

It is estimated that 83% of the lives could have been saved if he acted immediately after he learned of the potential severity of the pandemic.  This is a result of additional studies on the spread and the comparison to the countries that acted immediately.  Thank you Mr. Trump.

His staff is either reluctant or incapable of learning or acting on information that is contrary to that of the POTUS.  It’s as if they have not learned from their prior mistakes.  There is no way to tell or convince POTUS that testing is/was the only way to safely open. One doctor has stated that tests have a 100 fold payback.  If you open without testing, you can’t tell where the virus is and where it has been.  Without the information how do we know we are safe?  So, why doesn’t he promote testing?  Does he think that if you know how many people are infected it reflects on him?  As far as empathy and his role in calming and reassuring, these are not skill or emotions he can express.   The CDC has been caught manipulating the numbers associated with the pandemic (as I predicted), with the hiring of a firm to present the numbers.  They are conflating both types of tests, the virus and the antibody tests, that give conflicting and unhelpful results. SSDD

OBAMAGATE UPDATE

The Fox Conspiracy channel just got a kick in the nuts.  No, not the nut jobs on “The Five” ether.  They only spew out and promote the nutty stuff.  The damage has already been done, by saying the words “Obamagate”, which is meant to have a negative connotation. The announcement is all the wacko Trump base needs to claim Obama should be locked up?

The charge is that the Obama Administration, including Joe Biden, had Michael Flynn unmasked from the FBI investigation and used this information to entrap him.  The kick in the nuts comes, when it was uncovered that Michael Flynn’s name had never been redacted and was always unmasked.  So where’s the beef?  The problem is the innuendo not the facts.  How do you undo stupidity? The laser light is dimming on this, even though it had its desired effect.