Fox “News” hosts insist Covid-19 is overblown – from the safety of quarantine in their own homes.  Trump claims he doesn’t wear masks.  But he does.

This was in the back, before coming out to the pubic.  He took it off before the press started taking photos because he doesn’t want the Cult-45 to know he’s lying to them…

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Trump claims he found a doctor to write him a prescription for Hydroxychloroquine and now he’s merrily taking it every day.  Frankly, nobody outside of the conservative bubble believes him but that’s his story and he’s sticking to it.  The doctor he’s making responsible for this is Sean Conley who now stands accused of prescribing a potentially deadly medication to a patient (the ostensible President of the United States, no less) who doesn’t have any symptoms.  Doctor-watchers tend to frown on things like that.

My first thought when I heard this news is this Doctor Conley should be investigated by the American Medical Association for malpractice.  Then I realized, if this guy can get the so-called “President” to voluntarily and happily ingest a medication for which he has no use but which – according to every study to date – significantly increases the chances the patient will die, perhaps the good doctor should instead by given the Medal of Honor…

Sadly, it’s most likely the doctor prescribed sugar pills dressed up to look like Hydroxychloroquine just to shut up his whiny patient…

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I’m laughing at conservatives who are simultaneously politicizing the Covid-19 response while shouting at the top of their lungs that nobody should be politicizing the Covid-19 response.  They don’t even seem to realize they’ve been directed to go outside and “prove” the safety of the situation so Trump can “revive” the economy and win the “election.”  Nothing political about that, right?

It’s a huge bet.  If it turns out Trump’s gut is right, everybody will be fine and everything will get back to normal.  If it turns out science is right, there will be another spike and more tens of thousands dead and FAR more damage to the economy.  Hell, the clowns running this show haven’t even contained the FIRST spike and they’re already ramping up another?  Nice.

Either way, there’s absolutely NO evidence Trump has the ability to revive the economy so putting everybody’s life at risk seems an extra stupid thing to do…

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Yesterday, Trump declared churches essential places of business and ordered governors across the nation to allow them to open for services starting this weekend.  I’m for it.  Anything that might reduce the number of Trump voters AND the number of religious zealots who want their god injected into everything except their own lives is okay in my book…

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Oh, hey, speaking of Republican hypocrisy, have you heard that Trump is fighting against people using vote by mail in every way he can?  He was clever enough to declare that if people get to vote, Republicans would never win again.  No surprise, there.  Republicans have long known they can’t win without cheating.  That’s why they a) cheat in every “election” and b) scream and shout about how their opposition is cheating…

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Aw, Tara Reid’s lawyer has let her go as a client.  It seems she got caught in yet ANOTHER lie, this time about her educational credentials.  She lies like a Trump.  You know the thing that blows me away about all of that?  I’m often amazed that people who lie so often, so readily, so easily, also lie so effing BADLY!  You’d think they’d at least be good at it…

Sloth-like response…
I think it’s hilarious the current “administration” is trying to blame it’s own myriad and sundry failures on Obama.  “Oh,” the ‘party of responsibility’ whines, “they didn’t leave us enough masks.”  Quick check: Donald Trump had been the so-called “President” for three years between Barack’s exit and the Pandemic.  Three years!  Trump had three years to buy masks and HE waited until weeks into the pandemic to try to replace them?  Sure…blame Obama…

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Obamagate?
This is one of those ‘many but only’ things.  Many conservatives believe that Obama launched an illegal investigation into the Trump campaign in 2016 but ONLY conservatives believe that Obama launched an illegal investigation into the Trump campaign in 2016.  Everybody else knows the investigation was launched after monitoring of the Russian criminals and spies in this country revealed multiple and extensive contacts between the Russians and the Trump campaign.  Investigating was the correct – and appropriate – thing to do.

Ultimately, although Mueller managed to uncover multiple crimes and much criminal activity among Trump associates, he failed to make any definitive, criminal connections to the Russians but his report did detail many troubling contacts.  I wonder about the intelligence of re-hashing this whole thing now.  I guess they’re confident no new information will be forthcoming (unless they fabricate it, of course).  Besides, they need to try to convince the voting populace that the Russians aren’t responsible for Trump’s last “win” so people won’t blame the Russians should Trump claim victory a second time…

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Yet Another Conspiracy Theory…
As of yesterday, according the CDC, there were 87,315 American deaths from Covid-19.  One can only speculate about how much lower that number would have been had a competent person been in charge of the response.  When Obama was faced with a potential Ebola virus outbreak, for example, it only killed 2 people in the US.  You know, because…competence…

So, conservatives are handling it the way they ALWAYS handle information they don’t like; they’re lying about it!  Conservatives are trying to pretend people are dying from other things but the hospitals are claiming the deaths as Covid-19 in an effort to increase profits.  They believe it, too, because, to them, it makes the most sense that doctors and hospitals across this once-great nation would risk their professional reputations, licenses, and certifications just to make Trump look bad.  (The true ‘Trump Delusional Syndrome…’)

Okay, in fairness, conservatives are not long on details so when they’re told some guy died of pneumonia and it got recorded as Corona-related, they believe it’s fraud because that’s how it’s portrayed in the conservative media.  The truth is, Covid-19 simply exploited a vulnerability in the patient.  The virus weakens one’s immune system and one dies of something other than Corona – but it’s absolutely a Covid-19 death.

It’s like AIDS.  AIDS, itself, didn’t kill anybody.  It just made people deathly vulnerable to…pretty much anything that came along.  Covid-19 is doing the same thing.  Doctors know these things.  Misinforming talking heads don’t…

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The Final Frontier…

He also likes to see big, “working-man” trucks…

Would you look at this Dufus?  Just look at that grin.  He’s SO happy he gets his new Star Fleet flag.  This is what his “team” is doing instead of dealing with the Covid-19 problem.  To me, he looks just like a little boy being praised for making pee-pee in the potty like a big boy! (Of course, he actually missed…)

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Connections?
In sad news, Melissa Etheridge lost a child this last week.  Her 21 year old son died from an opioid overdose.  I can’t imagine the pain and offer my deepest condolences on the family’s loss.  The father of that child?  David Crosby, a man with well-known struggles of his own with drugs.  I started wondering about the genetic predisposition to addiction.  I know there are FAR too many variables to say for certain but it crossed my mind…

I hear Covid-19 is starting to be detected in the White House.  Fingers crossed…

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It looks like conservatives expect people to get upset over the unsubstantiated accusations against Joe Biden.  It’s funny.  They never seem to understand how their double standards degrade positions.  When conservatives said similar charges against Trump didn’t matter, they were saying – like it or not – NO such charges matter.

Okay, the truth is, if her story made more sense, I’d think it worth a second look as well.  But it doesn’t.  Her story is nonsense.

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Apparently, Mississippi is America’s poorest state – chock-full of conservatives.  No relation between the two – at least as far as the conservatives can see.  Now they’re among the leaders in the push to re-open.  It will be interesting to see.  I’ve spent quite a bit of time debating the relative merits of injecting disinfectants or shoving lights up one’s ass or whatever and I think I’ve reached a point where my attitude is, hey, do it.  Either they’ll stumble upon something that actually works, or there will be significantly fewer Trump voters in November.

Either way, the rest of us can’t lose, right?

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Oh, God, yesterday I saw my first Trump campaign commercial.  The problem with him being so completely incompetent at his job is that he’ll want to campaign even harder now.  That means more commercials…but I think he’s wasting money.

Trump doesn’t need to convince people who might vote Trump and won’t be able to convince people who won’t vote Trump.  His base believes anything Fox “News” or this Onan network tells them.  The result is they have no clue about what’s really happening or why and they think Trump is actually doing a great job.  (This in support of the Nazi position that if one repeats a lie often enough people will believe it.)

Fact-based individuals, though, know that Trump has failed this once-great nation in just about every measurable way.  Advertisements that pretend he’s great won’t be able to affect those of us who know better…

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As of this writing: 78,789 dead in the U.S. from Covid-19.

Conservatives are being told that, no, it’s probably, like, 22 dead from Covid-19.  Conservatives are being told that doctors across the land are just making up numbers.  Conservatives seem to actually believe that doctors from sea to shining sea would risk their professional reputations and medical licenses just to overstate the severity of Covid-19 – all for profit…or just the joy of making Trump look bad.  (The story is “fluid.”)

I’ll tell you this: Trump doesn’t need any help to look bad.  He makes a fool of himself every day…

Never forget: Americans are dying because Donald Trump is so completely incompetent and the ideology he represents is dishonest.  For his own reasons, Trump wasted time that can never be recovered…

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The headlines all say the White House has blocked Dr. Fauci from testifying before Congress.  Not quite correct, as it turns out.  Dr. Fauci has been blocked from testifying before the HOUSE but is expected to testify before the Senate.

The House wants the facts and oversight of the President.  The Senate wants to whitewash the entire situation and pretend their failed so-called ‘President’ is a great man doing great things.

I have faith that Dr. Fauci will tell as much truth as he can but since the goal of the Senate is a coverup, he’ll be blocked from saying too much…

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Meanwhile, the Senate is packing American courts with what they call ‘Conservative Judges.’  These are people less concerned with impartiality and more concerned with pushing “conservative causes” – which always include harming as many poor people as possible while comforting the comfortable.

American jurisprudence is in deep trouble…

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I’m just going to say it: I don’t believe Tara Reade.

I know my conservatives will accuse me of partisanship but I’m not particularly loyal to Joe Biden and certainly not to the Democratic party nor the DNC.  Her story just doesn’t add up.  Or, I guess I should say the story she seems to have finally settled on doesn’t add up.

I don’t mean to be dismissive of honest claims but I’ve NEVER been a person who thought a woman HAD to be believed just because she says so.  There are FAR too many variables that range from incorrect memory to motivated misstatements right down to good old-fashioned lying.

She should have stopped at “tried to lift my skirt” because that’s the moment the women *I* know would have reacted – aggressively.  But she seems to want to yadda, yadda, yadda the moments between saying hello and being “digitally penetrated.”  It’s important to note that her complaint does not suggest she was drugged or in any way incapacitated.

Unless one is a virgin or a gay man who has never been with a woman, one knows that particular act takes a few steps to get there and I’ve never in my life known a woman who didn’t know where things were heading as the process started.

It’s a silly story and a waste of time…

There’s a good article in the Guardian.  The headline and the subhead each tell conflicting stories.  The headline, ‘Trump says briefings ‘not worth the effort’ amid fallout from disinfectant comments.‘  The subhead? ‘The President remained behind closed doors after advisors reportedly warned him that the briefings were hurting his campaign.’

It’s worth reading the original but I’ll save you some time.  Trump has been using the daily Covid-19 briefings as little campaign rallies, bragging about himself, insisting he’s doing a great job, pretending he knows things, and blaming anyone – everyone – not himself.  The thing is, daily appearances by Trump have served to expose him as the tiny-minded, flim-flam man he is.

He saw, and seized, the opportunity of the daily briefings to campaign for free.  The efforts have hurt his re-election bid.  His advisors suggested he stop so he stepped aside for a day or so with a snooty response, ‘not worth the effort.’  Like a cold sore, though, he’ll be back.  Irritating, obnoxious, demanding to be seen, he’ll be back.  The man has the self-control of a two-year old.  There’s no way he’s letting cameras focus on somebody in his administration who isn’t him for any length of time…

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The fallout from the ongoing debacle that is the Trump Administration’s handling of the current crisis is going to continue for some time to come; first illness, then financial, then illness again, and then financial some more.  All the while, this administration sits back making wrong-headed, ideological choices.

Did you know?  This is the EXACT same mistake Republicans made in the run-up to the first Republican Great Depression.  Simply put, they didn’t DO anything in response to the brewing crisis because of an ideology that suggested the economy should (and would) sort itself.  The same problem infected their thinking in the run-up to the second Republican Depression in 2008.  Can’t regulate derivatives.  That would be too much government interference.  Besides, what could go wrong?  Um…

And now they’re doing it again.  The current economy is in desperate trouble and Republicans are focusing all of their attentions on those who need help the least.  I’m not surprised.  It’s the Republican way.  “Comfort the comfortable and afflict the afflicted.”  Conservative media sold their consumers a bill-of-goods called ‘Supply Side Economics’ or colloquially, ‘Trickle-Down Economics.’

Of course, anyone with the sense of a stick of butter knows, now, that the whole thing was a scam that hasn’t worked, doesn’t work, and will not work.  But you know what DOES trickle?  Economic pain.  Not only does it absolutely trickle, it trickles UP.  The longer our Congress Critters ignore the plight of those at the bottom of the economic scale, the worse the subsequent economic crash is going to be.

Meanwhile, as those at the bottom suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous economic fortunes, the Trump administration is working as hard as it can to INCREASE the price of gas AND the cost of mailing a letter.  INCREASE costs on people already desperate and struggling?  Why…that IS the Republican way!

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So, the World Health Organization is coordinating worldwide efforts to find a vaccine to combat the Coronavirus.  The civilized nations are working together to find something.  They’re sharing information and coordinating efforts AND they’re committed to getting any resulting vaccine out to anybody who needs it as quickly as possible.

Victims of the Greatest Nation on Earth™, though, won’t benefit.  I mean, they COULD benefit.  The civilized nations have said they’ll include the U.S. even if the U.S. is too stupid to participate in the process (not an exact quote).  My prediction?  I think the U.S. will refuse any resultant medications.  Ideology again.

If the WHO effort succeeds and a vaccine is developed and then distributed around the world as needed, why, that would be Socialism.  (The horror!)  Besides, the pharmaceutical companies in the US won’t be able to price-gouge Americans if someone else holds the patent – or, worse yet, refuses to patent the vaccine at all and just allows it into the world.  (Oh, the humanity!)  No.  Americans are just going to have to keep dying until the U.S. develops it’s OWN vaccine that some corporation can own, control, and extort usury profits.

Political campaigns are famous for bluster and huge sweeping statements about the potential failings (and, therefore, dangers) of the opposition.  But I think this time, it’s for real.  Thinking Americans had to vote out Herbert Hoover and the Republicans in order get any relief in the 1930’s.  Thinking Americans had to vote out Bush 43 and the Republicans in order to get any relief in 2008.  Thinking Americans MUST vote out Trump and the Republicans in 2020.  These guys are literally killing Americans trying to make a buck…

I’ve long held that if the right conservative influencer told the rank and file that they could “own a lib” by driving an ice pick into one eye, you’d see a spike in one-eyed conservatives.  I have no conservative credibility, though, so the concept remained a hypothesis.  Until now.

As it happens, I was too…um…conservative in my thinking.  I STILL don’t know if they’d actually blind themselves (they would) but I DO know they’ll play Russian Roulette – just to own a lib.  Nice.

I wrote a couple of days ago that I had noticed a “movement” afoot to simply ignore the shelter in place and social distancing guidelines.  I wondered who might be encouraging such behavior.  Now the answer is coming out and no one is surprised to see various conservative groups (and money) are behind the AstroTurf movements.  One of the groups tied to the Michigan protests, for example, is the ‘Michigan Conservative Coalition.’  But THAT’S just the public face of a group called ‘Michigan Trump Republicans’ and was organized, in part, by a woman who started her career as a tea party leader and organizer.  Of course, the Tea Party was a Koch sponsored venture to undermine America.

Trump was planning to use the Obama economy to campaign on and now that the economy is in the doldrums, well, Trump is concerned so he’s supporting these actions, tweeting “LIBERATE MICHIGAN!” and “LIBERATE VIRGINIA.”  Still, there’s a bright side.  Hey, maybe they’re right.  Maybe this whole thing IS overblown.  Doctors say no but some people just trust their gut more than some educated, elitist doctor.  So?  Russian Roulette!  They’re betting their lives they’re right based on fabricated junk from conservative influencers.  Like Russian Roulette, the odds are in their favor.  But, also like Russian Roulette, those who lose, lose forever…

The people who attend these little political rallies will serve as our national canaries in the coalmine, as it were.  If they get sick and die, the rest of us will know we need to quarantine for a while longer.  If not, great!  Let’s get back to it.  In the meantime, the rest of us need to stay as far away from conservatives as we can while they marinate in their germs…

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One of the most recognizable symbols of human oppression, of forcibly taking one’s liberties, is the confederate flag.  Does anyone else find it odd to see them flying at rallies protesting the “taking of liberties?”

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I’ve made a decision.  I’m only going to highlight things the Trump administration gets right.  It will be a LOT less typing…

So…yesterday, I was talking to a conservative person I know and she suggested that about 300 people should all get together at a local beach.  The point of the gathering was to demonstrate that everyone is over-reacting to this Covid-19 thing.  It’s not a true threat, it’s an exercise in government control.  If they can make you wear a mask, they can make you do anything.

Then I see this in the Guardian: “Thousands of people protested Michigan’s stay-at-home order at the state capital. The protesters chanted “Lock her up!” in connection to Democratic governor Gretchen Whitmer, even though Whitmer’s handling of the crisis receives a favorable review from 71% of Michigan residents.”

Okay, I’ll let Gretchen (we’re on a first name basis, now) explain the basic problem with the idea:

“Whitmer expressed sadness that the thousands of people who attended the protest may have jeopardized their own health by participating.
“We know this demonstration is going to come at a cost to people’s health,” Whitmer said. “That’s how Covid-19 spreads.”
The Democratic governor added that ignoring the social distancing guidelines will likely only serve to extend the stay-at-home order.
“The sad irony here was the protest is they don’t like being in this stay at home order and they may have just caused a need to lengthen it,” Whitmer said.”

Seems obvious, right?  Okay, fine, but the question I have is, who in the conservative media is pushing the idea that banding (closely) together in public is a good idea?  Conservatives don’t come out en masse on their own.  They follow instructions.  (THEY think they’re taking suggestions…)

So…SOMEONE in some conservative media is telling these people Covid-19 is not a true threat and that people need to push back by ignoring guidelines; violate shelter in place, violate social distancing – just…screw the whole damn thing.  Owning the libs AGAIN!

I don’t think it’s Fox “News” but it’s someone with a sizeable following.  See, initially, Fox “News” had taken the same position.  That was Trump’s fault.  When HE started saying it was an over-blown non-issue – “the Democrat’s latest hoax” – Fox followed suit in defense of their “man.”  But Fox very quickly realized that they might be killing off their own audience – old people – and changed their tune.

Eventually, the followers of whomever is pushing this dangerous idea will begin to understand their error the way many conservatives learn lessons: it happens to them.  Maybe, someone they know.  It’s very likely many of the thousands who gathered outside the Michigan Capital had a great day shouting “lock her up” and they’ll go home this evening feeling very satisfied with themselves and gloating.  “See?  Out in public and I’m still alive!”

But it’s also very likely that many of the thousands who gathered outside the Michigan Capital are going to contract, pass along to – possibly kill – loved ones, and possibly even die from Covid-19 themselves.  All in a vain attempt to prove Trump’s “gut” knows more than Fauci’s knowledge.  Um…silver lining?

Well, Easter Sunday!  Apparently, that’s the day a rabbit brought Jesus back to life with chocolate eggs…or something.  Anyway, happy Easter!  Stay inside.  Remember, you’re on restriction…

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The Trump Bump and Drop Flop:
When Trump’s dithering allowed the pandemic to get going on a roll, many Americans did what Americans often do.  They got behind the President.  (Not me, I have to confess.  All day, every day, I expect the very worst from this administration and have YET to be disappointed…)  He got a little bump in the polls.  Even the people who tried to rally around him couldn’t take it for long, though.  His numbers are returning to where they were before.  People have even started calling for him to stop attending the daily briefings being the lying, petulant man-child he is.  HE thinks he’s impressing the hell out of everybody.

Trump keeps telling people what a great job he’s doing.  Yesterday, the United States took first place in the number of Covid-19 deaths.  Yay!  We’re number one!  If the goal is to kill more of  your citizens than any other country, I guess he’s right…

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Living the Con Con:
I still don’t know where my conservatives are.  On March 29, I wrote that they should be shouting from the rooftops in celebration of the complete destruction of the American dream.  Instead, they’ve disappeared from social media almost entirely.  They SHOULD be out, in force, extolling the virtues of the ineffective central government they’ve created.

As it happens, financially starving the government for 40 years forcing the various departments to adapt and make due under increasing pressure set the stage perfectly.  Putting a team of morons in charge was just the icing on the cake.

THIS – what we live in right now – is what the conservatives wanted.  They win.  They’ve destroyed our government.  The economy, I guess, was just collateral damage.  So where are they?  Why aren’t they out shouting about their “success?”

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Worse than Fox?
Apparently, our conservative brethren have a new, even MORE horrifying lying channel, ONe America Network, or ONAN.  If I understand, ONAN makes Fox “News” look almost honest.  Trump likes ONAN better than Fox.  ONAN will likely do more damage than Fox, as well, but I guess it doesn’t matter much at this point…

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The tree of liberty…
I’m opposed to revolution.  It’s so…bloody and destructive and unpredictable.  So I don’t call for revolution.  But I see it coming.  With Trump’s Covid-19 betrayal of the United States, I’ve watched the very worst of humanity trying to take every possible financial advantage of the virus despite the fact that people are dying.  Hell, probably BECAUSE people are dying.  Death can be great for profits.  Because this group of sub-human cretins insist on profit, even in the face of a human disaster, people at the bottom of the economic pile may have no choice, sooner or later, but to turn to violence…

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The ascent of the wicked…
I have long held that any existing hierarchy that has been around long enough will eventually be controlled by the very worst of humanity.  There’s a reason.  The person who advances in such a system tends to be the person most willing to do whatever they need to do to advance.  People with morals or ethics tend to self-select out.  Those people get confronted with some situation that requires some kind of ethical compromise and – from the corporate point of view – balk.

So, over time, the very worst of humanity, the people most willing to do – whatever – continue to rise through the ranks, eventually securing the corner office for themselves.  These days, it looks to me like so many of our offices and institutions are directed by the most horrible examples humanity has to offer, I don’t see a way through that doesn’t involve bloodshed.

Comments like that have a tendency to come off as hyperbole and it’s when people start to disregard me as FAR too extreme.  For the record, I’m not saying I’m absolutely right.  (It’s a solid read of history, though.)  All I’m saying is I don’t see any realistic alternatives.  But that’s just me so I invite your help.

In the comments section, please leave your view.  Where do we go from here?  We have a Federal government unwilling to help us in our struggles and incompetent to do so even if they were willing.  We have individual states battling it out to obtain needed supplies.  People who didn’t otherwise have to die, will anyway.  People who didn’t otherwise HAVE to become homeless, do anyway.  People who SHOULD have been protected by their government are instead left to their own devices in how to deal with massive corporations or even just this month’s rent.  What will desperate, abandoned people do?  How do we avoid bloodshed?

Oh, there IS one proviso: no magical thinking, okay?  No “philosophical points.”  No responses that include “if” or “maybe.”  ‘IF someone would…’ or ‘Maybe they could…’ are philosophical answers because “someone” won’t and “they” can’t…

The lying conservative media has decided to float the idea that there’s a reason  Trump’s response to Covid-19 was such a pathetic, miserable failure.  The excuse?  (Of course, I mean “explanation.”)  You may not be surprised.  Apparently, it’s the Democrats fault!  (It’s really the only story they have…)

See, the evil Dems were busily impeaching Donnie over his criminal activities (all fake news, of course) and the process kept Trump SO busy, he didn’t have time to deal with the Pandemic.  Frankly, I’m surprised by the admissions…

The first admission in that story is simply the acknowledgment that the Trump administration failed completely and in every conceivable way in it’s response to the threat.  The second admission is that Trump, even as an adult, is so limited in his brain power that he can’t focus on more than one thing at a time.  Most adults can multi-task.  It’s a thing.  And it’s really important for whomever is doing the “Presidenting…”

BUT…the third admission in that oh-so-very-poor “explanation” is that WHEN Trump, knowing his limitations and inability to focus on more than one thing at a time, realized he had TWO things demanding his attention – one threatening him, personally, and the other threatening potentially millions of Americans, Trump chose to ignore the plight of Americans and protect only himself, instead.

Narcissistic to the end…

Captain, My Captain:
I think the first thing I’d like to address is Captain Brett Crozier, Commanding Officer of the USS Theodore Roosevelt being relieved of his command.  He wrote a letter – an email, actually – requesting urgent assistance for his crew.  Covid-19 had been found on board and he needed help.  He sent the email to several people, some, apparently, outside his chain of command.  Someone leaked the letter to the media and the San Francisco Chronicle printed it.  Two days later, the Navy relieved the commander.

They said he hadn’t acted professionally.  I say he was protecting his crew.  They say he had lost the ability to lead.  His crew cheered him as he left the ship.  My guess is they would have followed him anywhere.  The Navy claims they took the action on their own – no pressure from above.  That could be.  Trump has morons everywhere in government.  Perhaps they don’t need direction to do the wrong thing at every turn.  But Trump has publicly supported the decision and whiny petulance is just Trump all over.  Captain Crozier did the right thing.  The Trump administration – once again – did the wrong thing.  Maybe Captain Crozier can get his ship back after we relieve Trump of his position due to his inability to lead…

…assuming we survive Trump’s continuing bungling of the Covid-19 response…

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Primarily speaking:
Well, like everyone else, I’m in lock down.  I spend the day staying mostly indoors, staying away from people as much as possible, little to do, seeking ways to keep busy.

I’ve never enjoyed a presidential primary so much…

It crossed my mind that the primaries could continue using paper ballots.  It’s a slower process, sure, but at least things could keep moving forward.  The thing is – and, yes, I know this sounds like a conspiracy theory – you know all the brilliant, impossible victories Biden started piling up?  What if paper ballots create a surge in Bernie votes, a surge that, for some reason, isn’t captured in electronic voting machines?  My guess is, that’s the very issue the DNC is wrestling with today.

The only real solution is to cancel the rest of the primaries and “fix it” – if you will – at the convention…

…assuming we survive Trump’s continuing bungling of the Covid-19 response…

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A Covid-19 silver lining:
Having JUST said I’m in lock down, I should clarify – I’m not.  I’m “essential” (read: “sacrificial…”)  I spend a LOT of time driving.  The roads are great.  They’ve even stopped wasting time with traffic reports on the morning news.

Yeah, I know that’s a pretty thin “silver lining” but at least it’s something…

Oh, wait.  The people truly trapped inside, never get to experience and enjoy the improved traffic conditions so I guess, for them, it’s no lining at all.  Never mind…

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We’re Number One:
Well, the United States managed to mangle it’s Covid-19 response to the point of having more infections than any other nation.  We haven’t hit the highest number of deaths, yet, but I have high confidence that with this crack team in charge, we will.  We will.

Early on, I saw one of my conservative friends ripping on the Italian government in social media as the Italians struggled to contain the virus.  It was an opportunity, you see, to try and attack Italy’s socialist medical system as inefficient and ineffective.  Now that the Capitalist system shows every sign of failing even MORE spectacularly, my conservative friend has gone silent on the subject…

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Greed kills:
If so-called “Free Market Capitalism” is so great, how come every seven to ten years Democratic Socialism has to step in to save it?  Worse, since we KNOW Democratic Socialism saves Capitalism every time Capitalism fails, why not just STICK with the better system?

…assuming we survive Trump’s continuing bungling of the Covid-19 response…