Just a coincidence that both Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are spreading the same lies? According to this report, DHS has chapter and verse on that foreign disinformation. Democratic Senators including our own Mark Warner want it released.
Facts about Mail-in Voting
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/step-step-trumps-falsehoods-mail-voting-analysis/story?id=73354979
Piece by piece, ABC analyzes the stream of lies gushing from Trump during the debate. Warning to Trump supporters – you will find this material offense – it contains facts.
Pandemic Timeline
This is a timeline of how we got here and identifies the reasons for our massive failures compared to other countries. The timeline starts with the George W. Bush administration. It seems that while on vacation, President Bush read a popular book on the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic. It freaked him out and lead him to launch a major effort of planning and pandemic preparedness. A very detailed “playbook” for the response of the federal government was prepared. A playbook, that in the event, was largely ignored.
A major thread in this timeline is “health communication.” Not just Trump but other leaders come in for some serious criticism. Bill DiBlasio gets a particularly hard thumping.
Trump supporters will immediately scoff because, you know, the New York Times is “fake news.” I recommend you get over that. Watch. And learn something. It won’t hurt.
Light Unto the Covid
This lighthearted commentary makes a serious point. Humanity is culturally disposed to survive infectious diseases. This is our default condition, a feature of our species the scientifically minded might attribute to evolution.
Donald Trump’s performance last night was disturbing and frightening. Four more years of that? Oh, hell no!
Just a few minutes into that 90-minute horror show by an American president, I could feel my heart pounding, I was trying to calm my thoughts down and my hand was on my chest. That is how something as routine and traditional as a Presidential Debate affected me for the first time, ever, last night. I managed (with great effort) not to turn off that annoying, interrupting man and watched the entire debate. I watched one man act calm, intelligent – the way someone acts when they want a particular job. I watched another man so out of control his face stayed sweat-drenched and who performed like an out of control toddler in serious need of a firm little smack on his bottom.
Continue reading “Donald Trump’s performance last night was disturbing and frightening. Four more years of that? Oh, hell no!”The “debate” is now history. And so is Trump.
Well, well, well. If Biden would have somehow “destroyed himself” with his “radical” ideas as some have hoped, we will never know after the embarrassing spectacle that Dear Leader made of himself last night.
The political reality is that Trump is losing the election. At this stage in 2016, Clinton was ahead by 3 points nationwide, won by 2 points but lost in a squeaker because of the anachronistic Electoral College. Biden is ahead by 8 points. More importantly, in the swing states which Trump won by tiny margins in 2016, Biden is leading by 5 points or so.
To legitimately stay in power he needs to convince ALL of the undecideds and some of Biden’s current supporters to give him their votes. He did absolutely nothing to achieve that. His virtuoso performance as a school yard jackass may have pleased the Proud Boys but for everyone else it was cringeworthy. He may think that leading this nation is a sort of WWE freak show. It isn’t.
It is clear from last night that Trump knows he cannot win and equally clear that he is planning some sort of Hail Mary based on the chaos he hopes to create by his constant dishonest bullshit about mail-in voting and the violence he hopes it will generate when the election is “stolen” from him by slow counting of the massive mail in vote. Proud Boys, put on your brown shirts and “Stand by.”
A little light reading while waiting for the debate
CEOs give Trump a Thumping ‘F’ on Covid and China.
For those who put great faith in the sagacity of successful corporate leaders lets see you spin away this recent informal poll of about 300 attendees at this prestigious conference.
Trump nominated for Nobel Peace prize for 3rd time
“Trump Doctrine” basis for 3rd nomination
Direct negotiation with the affected states, bypassing the Palestinians, has brought success. The prize is being considered for actual accomplishment, not participation.
White supremacy is ‘most persistent and lethal threat’ internally to US
That is according to Trump’s acting DHS Secretary in sworn testimony to a Senate committee last week. Not Antifa (a philosophy, not an organization according to Trump’s FBI director). Not BLM. Not people protesting Trump’s regime (“left wing mobs” according to Barr). White Supremacists.
You have to admire the way that reality eventually “trumps” lies in a free society with a robust free press which can protect whistleblowers willing to stand up for the truth.
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