HONOR Former Secretary of Defense James Mattis in an article in The Atlantic denounces the president and describes him as a threat to the Constitution. He said ”I have watched this week’s unfolding events, angry and appalled. The words “Equal Justice Under Law” are carved in the impediment of the United States Supreme Court. This is precisely what protesters are rightly demanding. It is a wholesome and unifying demand, one that all of us should be able to get behind”. …
USE OF FORCE ON PEACEFUL PROTESTERS IN D.C. The comment by Donald Trump conflating peaceful demonstration with unruly mobs has me wanting to throw up in my mouth. After 9 days of peaceful protests will they continue? Yes why not, the youthful protesters cannot go to school, have no jobs, the future looks bleak for the 40 million unemployed. They must have hope, as Obama had said. Will Trump respond with force? Is he inclined to use force on peaceful…
THE PHOTO-OP GENIUS The most important words in the constitution to keep a democracy vibrant are the words of the first amendment, which reads no laws can be made that abridges…. “the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the Government for redress of grievances”. I feel these rights are augmented by speech, press, and that religion thing. The law and order President attacks with military on its own citizens peacefully demonstrating for law and order. Equal…
DISPAIR AND THE DONALD Domination of its citizens via the military is the way of the dictator. In a move to make a political speech and a photo op at St John’s episcopal church near the White House he walked with his entourage and reporters, held up a prop in the bible, using the sight of the church as a backdrop. He gave the church elders no warning. It must have been a spur of the moment stage show. He…
THE POTENTIAL WAY OUT Grover Norquist is an economist that once said, “you should take government and shrink it to a size that could be drown in a bathtub.” Well the swamp has overflowed with effluence and it’s drowning everyone. His advocacy has always been that tax cuts generate employment and cuts would eventually pay for themselves. This debunked theory of Voodoo economics is based on the Laffer model, which has turned out to be a laugher. The Laffer curve…
WINTER OF THE APOCALYPSE PANDEMIC The pandemic will not abate any time soon. In fact some medical professionals have said this may be the 5th Corona-type virus that has eluded scientific community of epidemiologists virologists, and medical professionals for decades. The other 4 of the viruses cause the common cold. There are some professionals, which have a concern that a vaccine for the current novel virus may never be successful and we should plan accordingly. Endemic areas still remain for…
TWITTERING AWAY The light shines on the royal edict attempting to regulate by fiat. He has signed an executive order limiting legal protections of social media companies. This after Twitter called two of his tweets “potentially misleading”. The two tweets were about the safety and security of mail-in ballots. Trump, to the detriment of older voters, wants to make mail-in ballots difficult to impossible, which can adversely effect older voters. A choice of voting and potentially getting the virus and…
CAN BIDEN WIN IN NOVEMBER? MIDWEST The democrats key to the winning the Midwest would be to highlight the chaotic farm and tariff policies helping to create a 40% increase in farm failures and foreclosures. Last year the Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Purdue, when confronted with payouts only being rolled out to the large farmers and with the small farmer foreclosure rate that high said, “go big or go home”. His comment was as a result of the nature of…
NERO’S CORONA VIRUS TIMELINE Below is excerpts from the Morning Joe show timeline aired on May 27Th and 28Th 2020 with my comments. December 31, 2019: the CDC reported on a cluster of an unknown virus in China to HHS. January 3, 2020: China tells the CDC of the outbreak and both Alex Azar HHS secretary and the National Security advisors warned the White House. Peter Navarro also made 2 stern warnings in writing to the White House, and the…
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…