The thing we seem to have missed in this pandemic is that in order to have a population that engages itself in maintaining good health practices, we have to help people remain less panicked over their economic survival. People worry about getting sick but they worry more about not being able to feed their children or losing their home. You may or may not get the virus but you will, for sure, lose your home if you don’t pay your rent or the mortgage. It seems that while you may be able to find food in this country, it may not be enough to stay healthy and you may not be able to get to it if you don’t have the fare.
Most people are not fully adult, even the old ones. So if you expect them to adopt a new mode of living that is not as comfortable or as much fun as the old one, you have to give them a treat. Strangely enough the best way to make people wear masks is to pay their rent or their food bill through a program like unemployment. That makes them happy or at least relieved and therefore more inclined to go with the flow and wear the mask.
The two pandemic relief bills touched that nerve, but they have been allowed to run out and even when they were in force they did more for rich people or corporations that didn’t need the money than they did for those that were really in need. Our country has become frighteningly incompetent and that is only partly due to the incompetence of the Trump administration.
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Trump has crowds of his brain dead followers screaming, “Lock her or him up.” But this is not just about Joe Biden and Gretchen Whitmer. This moron is still going after Hillary Clinton four years after she slipped into oblivion. The Donald wanting a politician in jail is just another prophetic impulse because as soon as Trump loses the protection of the presidency he will be buried in indictments from DA’s offices all over the country. I guess that’s why you can see the panic in his flabby face as he listens to those chants.
Of course this strategy of wanting to lock up anyone he doesn’t like would also be prophetic of what he will do if re-elected.
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Trump wasn’t satisfied with his followers displaying gross stupidity so he had to go further by attacking the Biden family, calling them criminals. Yeah, that’s a hot one coming from the national crook of the decade. If I recall correctly it was Biden’s son Beau that was a decorated military vet while Trump’s brats use guns only to kill endangered species. And wasn’t it Ivanka who pulled in all those patents from China the same day her daddy did a big trade deal with them? That’s some family.
Of course Trump keeps attacking anyone who speaks ill of him, leaving little time for any kind of discussion of what he will do if he gets re-elected. That’s not a mistake folks. That’s a cover for the fact that he has no idea what he will do if re-elected except play golf and lie to the public. Trump never had a plan for the last four years and that’s why “Make America Great Again” has turned into “Can Anyone Fix This Mess?
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Ted Cruz is a damn good speaker. Unfortunately he isn’t as good a thinker. He went on for an inordinate amount of time at the Barrett hearings in order to make the point that Democrats got more dark money in contributions than Republicans. That may be but it has nothing to do with the fact that Democrats are trying to get rid of the ability to donate dark money because it’s the wrong thing to do and Republicans don’t care that it’s the wrong thing as long as they can get the money.
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So a huge problem that will be coming out of these hearings on top of the appointments of Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch is a situation that has been created out of whole cloth by Moscow Mitch McConnell. Supreme Court appointments have always had some controversy attached to them, but recently, McConnell’s blatant fight to stack the Court with conservative judges has led to a rupture of the process that can only get worse. It means that going forward we will always have this political mess attached to the Court. This isn’t going to stop, be mitigated or change in any way. There was a time when a bi-partisan judge could be elected to the court on his or her judicial merits. That’s gone, forget it. Now the only way for a judge to get nominated is to guarantee loyalty to the President instead of to the law of the land. There’s just no way for any honest judge to get nominated anymore. Thank Moscow Mitch for fucking up one more aspect of out governmental process.
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It’s not really hard to believe that Donald Trump is stupid or venal enough to think that the bullshit he is selling about Joe Biden and his son Hunter will be believed by anyone but his most brain dead fans. Yes the QAnon crew will buy anything but what about the rest of the world. I mean, Rudy Giuliani finds a computer with information on it that is supposed to prove that Hunter did all sorts of dishonest stuff and that his father was involved. Really? And the computer found its way to a repair shop where Hunter dropped it off in a drunken stupor and where the blind repair shop guy recognized Hunter? How many blind guys do you know that repair computers? No it’s not just difficult, it’s impossible. But this blind computer repair guy calls Rudy and gives him the computer?
So how are you buying the story so far? From where I’m standing, the only one besides Trump, stupid enough to believe this bullshit is Rudy.
And then the whole story appears in the NY Post under the by-line of someone who quite possibly never read it because the guy who wrote it refused to attach his by-line. That’s because even though he’s a whore, he doesn’t want to appear to be a lying whore. It seems the Post had a hell of time finding someone who would put his or her name on the story. Of course they finally did. This world and especially that paper is full of lying whores, so it was inevitable that they would finally find someone who valued a paycheck above their honor.
But that brings us to another question. Why is a foreigner allowed to control a major media outlet? And not just one, but a whole conglomerate.
Our Constitution protects our media so that it will always be able to tell the truth without pressure from governmental sources. Realistically we know that the media doesn’t always tell the truth, but we expect that it will most of the time. When Rupert Murdoch purchased control of the NY Post and Fox News he proceeded to destroy any notion of honesty in the media that had ever existed. He came to our shores with a reputation already tainted by his newspapers in Great Britain, which were a putrid mixture of soft- core porn and fact free reporting. He has continued this formula here.
All media has political leanings but Murdoch has driven this concept far past any point of acceptance.
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The President went on one of his babbling rants this week demanding that the AG open an investigation into all the egregious crimes Joe Biden has committed during his 47 years of public service and he couldn’t name even one of these fantasized deeds. Trump went on stomping his feet and gnashing his teeth, demanding that Barr do this immediately and special emphasis be placed on the efforts of Hunter Biden and his dealings with foreign banks.
This illustrates that Trump had the spare time to have someone read him the incredible story in the NY Post, which no one wants to claim as his or hers, but which the scummy Post published anyway.
It’s getting late and Trump and his fellow criminals are getting desperate. Keep your eyes open for a declaration of war against Greenland or possibly the Bahamas.
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Government lawyers now claim that they can’t find the parents of 545 children who are in government custody after being separated from their mothers during Donald Trump’s all out attack on immigration from Latin countries. The strategy of separating mothers from their children as a means of discouraging Latin families from seeking asylum in the U.S. has been identified as a crime against humanity by every reputable legal organization in the world. The fact is that the United States, which has always been a beacon of freedom and fair play, has been subverted by the insane demands of a President with the moral instincts of a rabid bat.
This is something that Trump and his spineless appointees must be held accountable for. We were quick to convene the Luxemburg Tribunals after WWII to punish the Nazis for their horrendous acts perpetrated against humanity. This is no less heinous.
The problem is, most of the parents of these children have been deported back to Central and South America and no one in the government wants to take responsibility for finding them and getting them back here to retrieve their children, so what we are left with are orphans created by the United States government. This is a horrendous situation and those who are responsible for it, all the way up to Trump, must he held accountable, but even more important than punishing the perpetrators, is reuniting he parents and children. Some of these kids have been held in jail for almost three years for the horrible crime of being children. Anyone who doesn’t want to see Trump’s head on a stake just for this horror has no feelings.