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 sow the doubt.  No doubt his minions will be more than vocal in the choirs of “lock him up” in the fall.  Again a distraction and a hit job, all in one package. Another twofer!  Distract from the 90,000 deaths and lack of testing for the virus.

Trump sycophant and talking Muppet Linsey Graham, rejected Trump’s request for Obama’s testimony before the Senate.  This request has no precedence.  Only George Washington had been requested and appeared and Gerald Ford, who volunteered to explain his pardon of Richard Nixon.  Trump will do anything to get re-elected.  Graham had also announced that next month his committee will again investigate the origins of the Russia investigation. Lindsey Graham did acquiesce to investigating both Joe and Hunter Biden and of course he plans to have a full report out by October (surprise). 

Richard Grenell acting intelligence chief, gave Barr the names of the Obama era employees that asked for the unmasking of Flynn. It appears Trump is weaponizing the intelligence department in conjunction with the Justice department. A Trump twofer.  Investigate now and produce the crime and evidence later, because Trump knows a crime has been committed.-Duh!

Thousands of times a year unmasking happens.  What is unmasking?  It is the revealing of actual names of individuals on a surveillance phone call.  This occurred when individuals in the Obama administration requested the name of the individual talking to Sergey Kislyak the Russian foreign minister, after reading the transcripts of the call.  Trump accused Obama of tapping his phone last year.  What the Trump Administration was unmasking were the individuals that requested the unmasking of Flynn.  This was so they could point too, and say they did their job after reading the transcript and wanted to know who was undermining the country and selling it out to foreign governments?  To Trump, anyone that is that competent, and who does their job must be a suspect, he thinks.  In 8 years, the Obama administration had requested the unmasking of 8,000 people. Trump, thus far in 3 years, has unmasked 16,000 people.

The actions of the Obama administration, were in no way politically motivated, unlike what Trump is accusing the Obama administration, and Biden specifically, of doing. SPYGATE of last year with Obama taping Trump’s Phone went nowhere, so now he is promoting what is now called “Obamagate”.  If there was any illegal activity the FBI should investigate or Trump should shut up.  If the FBI really had a case they would not blab it, as they keep any investigation secret until they have a case. 

What happened to lock her up? Was this just a saying and a conspiracy theory? I guarantee that if Hillary had committed a crime, the Trump justice Dept would have charged her.  It took 14 committee investigations to paint her with no crime in Benghazi.  This blatant action is typical of wasting time and energy, which should be used concentrating on the pandemic and running the country.  This presidency is full of conspiracy theories, Bill Gates created the virus, 5G networks spread the virus, etc… All promoted and spewed on Fox disinformation and conspiracy theory network.

Besides, that’s why “Obamagate” is criminal in the minds of the Fox conspiracy channel and in Donald Trump’s pea brain.  Fox and Trump have vilified the FBI and claim they are the deep state and that’s why the FBI refuses to make a political investigation? (not that that there is any there-there).  Be aware of the recruitment of any and all agencies to stoke the flames of this conspiracy just like all the others like. 

Another Trump light show, after scathing testimony by both Fauci and the whistle blower.  The Fox cheerleading for the “Obamagate” theory was astounding with their theatrical performance feigning real anger at the totally legal, and I would say patriotic, actions by attempting to understand what could have been construed as traitorous activities by Flynn.  This legal action is totally ignored on the Fox Trump channel.

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Bailouts

On bailouts, it was found that 10 of the 14 largest retail firms, that have gone bankrupt were purchased by private equity firms.  The losses are going to be paid by all taxpayers, by either the bailout or by the write-offs the equity firms have included in recent tax legislation.  These equity firms knew when they were purchased, that they would fail.  This allows these firms to rob pension funding and take away any health care provided to retirees, which are not tied down.  After Trump’s casino bankruptcy, he sold the business to Carl Icahn.  Carl robbed the pension fund of any excess contributions, based on the market at the time and took away health insurance for all retirees.

Testing

“Testing is why we have so many cases” Trump still insists.  I guess if we did not have as many tests we would not have as many cases? -Duh!  Trump also states “testing is overrated”(I still don’t know what he believes, if anything).  He said in an interview, he believes that we will have therapies by the fall and a vaccine by the end of the year.  Professionals and even Fauci agreed there is a potential.  The Fauci said the tests may be made available by the fall, but would not be widely available until 2021 and this would be amazing.  Once a vaccine is developed, it does not mean public distribution.  The trials need to be completed to instill confidence.  Trump also said he may not take the vaccine if available, stoking the anti-vaxer movement which is counter-productive to fully opening the economy.  Trump’s playbook on testing will certainly lead to a heard immunity, however with extreme numbers of cases and deaths.

Tests are required to spot outbreaks.  Without tests everyone is flying blind and is reactive and not proactive.  Testing is the only arrow in the quiver to open the economy without risking mass graves.  Testing, isolation, and contact tracing are the only things that will instill confidence, yet the president does not absorb the reality of the pandemic.  He has yet to get out of his bubble and confront the truth, instead he continues to believe in magic, and like a child that puts its tiny hands over their eyes and thinks it’s not there, he uses his own tiny hands and sees nothing.

Bad news, the Spanish Flu virus was mostly squelched by the summer of 1919 with the normal lull in the summer time, due to added UV light and heat.  The Spanish Flu resurgence in the Fall/Winter of 1919 killed 2 times more people than the original wave.

Re-opening Guidelines

The CDC finally released the guidelines for re-opening the economy.  This, after a detailed 63-page document was returned from the White House review, with the comment that, that document would not see the light of day.  The new guidelines are more of an overview of non-compulsory actions and not detailed enough to give clear and concise measures to follow.  There are no mandatory requirements for masks and most rules are presented as a guide.  The comments include those who expressed concern that there were no meaningful guidelines and no specific measures for opening.

Not only did Obama have a plan, but it was specific in the preparedness for such a pandemic.  Trump flashed a plan they had generated, however no one has seen or reviewed the plan to know if it was adequate and reviewed to see if they had complied with their own plan.  Bill Gates in a 2017 interview with president Trump told the president that a pandemic is the #1 thing that could kill many Americans.

The Trump death toll

The “Obamagate” BS is only to distract and tarnish his administration and thereby Biden, by saying he is under investigation.  This laser light show is brought to you by the Donald.  Keeping in mind the almost 90,000 deaths, and in the month of April the equivalent of 30 times the deaths as 911.

To calculate the potential numbers of deaths that could have been saved, one can look at Korea with its first case at the same time as the U.S.. They immediately tested 140,000 people, with tests offered to the U.S. at the same time we tested 2,000 people.  We have 90,000 deaths and Korea had 256.

Let’s look at the available information (hypothetical only, but mathematically accurate). If the U.S. had taken the 250,000 test kits instead of Korea, let’s do the math with only a limited supply of test kits to be fair.  Korea has 51.7 million people and the U.S. has 330 million.  With 51.7 million divided by 140,000, you get a test rate of one test for every 369.3 person at that time. 

So Korea had 256 deaths with 140,000 tests then if we had the same population our death number would be 6.38 times that of South Korea or 1,633 deaths, if we tested using all 250,000 at that time. Then potentially the death toll would have been reduced to 140,000/250,000 or a 56% reduction or 914 deaths. 

Can you attribute all 89,000 deaths to Trump and his inaction?  I contend that any avoidable death can be attributed to Trump’s Neroesque attitude about the pandemic and when he felt he might fail, he passed the buck off to anyone and everyone and acted like Pilate.  Good luck to us all, if its 2x worse in the fall and winter like the Spanish flu.

 “WE WOULD HAVE VERY FEW CASES IF WE DID NOT TEST” A QUOTE BY OUT STABLE GENIUS.