A lot of talk right now on what to do about the increase of COVID- 19 cases with Nancy Pelosi explaining that we wear masks to protect others, not necessarily ourselves, and of course we have people wondering why Trump won’t wear a mask. It should be obvious. He doesn’t give a tinker’s damn about anyone but himself. He is the most selfish sociopath in modern history so why should he care if he gives it to you?
Pelosi made her comments on This Week where she ran over George Stephanopoulos like a bulldozer. She was prepared and precise, clearly stating her accusations and opinions and keeping George quietly in his seat.
Then George had a shot at Asa Hutchinson, Governor of Arkansas. Asa spent his time whining about the quarantine the Northeast was planning to put on states that had rising infection rates. He said by doing this NY, CT & NJ would be cutting off all the trade with Arkansas. Really? What the hell does Arkansas turn out besides bigots and racists? And Hutchinson is the prime example.
Testing comes up and this idiot blabbers about how well the President has performed in this area. He is talking about a President who keeps raving about cutting testing in order to lower the number of cases.
When questioned about Trump’s re-election chances Asa comments that it’s too early to write Trump’s obituary. Sorry Asa, it’s never too early to get started on good news.
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And then this week Sean Hannity asked Trump what he would do in a second term and Trump was stuck for an answer. He still hasn’t figured out what he wants to do with his first term. He had a couple of really bad ideas to start out this first term; stuff like building walls and cutting healthcare for the poor. They laid such rotten eggs he retreated to a position of just attacking those who were trying to get him out of office. There were so many of them that it would have taken a platoon of presidents just to give each one a couple of minutes a day, so now he just spends all his time in front of a mirror practicing how to get his tie exactly 6 inches too long.
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I have long applauded the movement to remove statuary of Confederate Generals from our landscape but like many movements, those fanning the flames just don’t know when to stop waving their arms. Yes, by all means let’s get rid of those memorials to Confederates that were actually traitors who sought to destroy the nation for the sake of keeping others in chains. But let’s cool our jets about all the other statuary that some fanatics are attacking.
The anger against the likes of Teddy Roosevelt, Chris Columbus and even George Washington, among others, seems a bit overblown. Maybe they weren’t sweethearts, admittedly they were flawed, but they’re not being honored for their personalities. In fact they accomplished quite a bit and that’s why there are statues of them up around the nation. There exist in the world certain people who have accomplished considerably more than most and we look to honor them. Remember: many of the things our PC citizens now accuse them of weren’t sins in their time. In order to mark their achievements, we are willing to overlook some of the bad crap of which we don’t approve. So it is with Washington, Roosevelt, Columbus, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton and yes, Pete Rose.
So let’s end this with the note that it is not okay to rip down a statue, even if it’s of Robert E. Lee just because your brother-in-law owns a tow truck with a winch. That’s why we have government. We demonstrate and then, as they are doing now, they pay attention. Have a little patience. As for the asshole that threw red paint on the statue of Washington in the Village, let’s not forget, George was a man who risked his fortune, his life and his family to help establish this country. Yes, he owned slaves but he also freed them. What did you do today?
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Every show on TV wants Andrew Cuomo as a guest and it’s no wonder. This guy shows up, tells the truth as he sees it and takes responsibility for his actions, just like a man should. When he leaves the screen, no matter what he has said, you feel better because you have a sense that someone is in charge and that someone understands the problem and is working toward a solution. Last Sunday he was preceded on the tube by Alex Azar, Secretary of Health and Human Resources and followed by John Bolton. The level of truth and fact before and after him was beneath contempt but it illustrated quite clearly why we watch Cuomo, and why so many other politicians disgust us.
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Mike Pence was interviewed on Face the Nation and proved once again that no one in the administration can be believed about anything that comes out of his or her mouth. This cynical, duplicitous, faux-Christian lies with every utterance. This is a sleaze that probably carries around replica of Trump’s ass just so he can keep it handy for kissing.
Every one of John Dickerson’s questions of the VP was answered by half-truths, evasions and outright lies.
Pence fought for the administration’s approach to handling the virus, which Dickerson immediately shot down as outright lies wrapped around incompetent actions. Everything Pence said, Dickerson refuted absolutely, but nothing seemed to phase Pence’s ability to just keep on keeping on, pushing the monument of Trumpian lies ahead of him.
Then Washington Governor Jay Inslee came on the show and buried everything that Pence was trying to sell.
***** The biggest story of the week is the one about Trump knowing about a Russian plan to pay the Taliban a bounty on the lives of American troops. It’s now a few days into the story and by this time it seems that a couple of facts are reliable. Trump did get a written brief in 2019 about the whole thing. The CIA had enough proof of this that they fed it to the Brits and other intelligence channels. But Trump has ignored the whole thing, doing nothing about the potential murders of our men and women in uniform.
This is the President of the United States ignoring his first function, the protection of the nation from its enemies. Instead what we did was continue to maintain friendly relations with Russia and, going so far as to invite him to the G7, which was cancelled because Merkel refused to come in protest over the Putin invitation.
But there’s another side to this, the Russian side. Of course they have denied everything about the story and of course we don’t believe them, but we are left with the nagging question of why? Why the hell would the Russians be dumb enough to do something as unproductive as this? What do they have to gain? There is no logical reason for the Russians to pay the Taliban to kill a couple of American soldiers and risk an international incident. The Taliban are trying to kill American soldiers anyway. Is it possible that Putin has been in touch with Trump so much lately that he’s caught “stupid”?
The investigation has progressed to the point where we have now found the bank accounts and the cash trove so that’s just more evidence to prove the whole thing is real. We already hear the Trump lackeys denying everything and saying it’s just “fake news” but that’s what they always say that about everything, so much so that it’s now an affirmation of the truth of the accusation.
The written report was presented to Trump in February as part of the President’s Daily Brief (PDB), but they know he can’t read so he is supposed to get verbal presentations about twice a week. Is it possible that his subordinates didn’t tell Trump about something so important? If so, why? It has been hinted by commentators that Trump’s lackeys were just afraid that such a story would just make him angry. So what? He’s the fucking President. It’s his job to deal with stuff he doesn’t like. He can’t spend all his time cheating at golf.
Withholding classified information from the President because you’re a lily livered coward has got to be some kind of felony.
Or is it because Trump is just a 4 year-old who can’t absorb such a dangerous concept?
There’s an old saw among the political cognoscenti; “When they have you by the short hairs blame the whistleblower.” That’s what Trump did yesterday sending out his so-called Press Secretary, a blonde bimbo named Kayleigh something to lie to the American people.
Before intelligence information reaches the PDB it’s been all over the intelligence services gathering verification in order to get the okay to present it to the President.
John Bolton told colleagues that he personally briefed the President on this specific problem back in February but couldn’t speak of it or put it in his book because it was all classified information.
This has motivated a Lincoln Project campaign ad in which a gun toting, pro-life, former Navy Seal calls Trump a coward and a draft dodger and demands his defeat in November. It’s a great hard-hitting ad as is almost all the Lincoln Project material. But don’t forget these guys are Republicans who just happen to hate Trump. If only the Democrats could learn to fight like this.
The bottom line of this whole mess is that Trump has obviously done something horrendous, something that would destroy any President. But in his case, it is only one more horrendous act by a horrendous degenerate that has done this so often we almost tend to ignore it. But that we cannot do! He has sold out our military, either because he is enamored by Putin’s strength as it dominates his ineffectualness or more probably, because Putin has something on him about which he is terrified. Either way he has betrayed his oath of office, and should immediately be removed from that office. But because there is no one around him with the nerve or the need to stand up like a man, his removal will have to wait until November. At which time, hopefully, our country will revert to its greatness and “Make America Grim Again” will be trampled into the dirt.