Category: Current Events

And Then God Said

First, God said: “I tried to warn you. All during the campaign I let all the news networks give him $4 billion worth of free coverage, hoping you would understand and not vote for him. “But instead, enough of you voted for Russian plant candidate Jill Stein to elect him.” And then God said: “So then, I gave you Robert…

Wisconsin Is A GOP Prototype

SCOTUS has committed an act of brazen voter disenfranchisement. Wisconsin is a GOP prototype for the November election. From the New York Times: “The stakes were apparent in the lawyers involved in the Supreme Court fight. The Democratic team included the party’s top election lawyer, Marc Elias; among the law firms representing the Republicans was Consovoy McCarthy. The firm is…

Trump’s European Travel Ban Is Ridiculous

According to The New York Times, “President Trump announced on Wednesday night that he was taking action to stem the spread of the coronavirus by suspending most travel from Europe to the United States for 30 days, beginning on Friday. The restrictions do not apply to Britain, he said.” Fundamentally, Trump’s European travel ban is ridiculous. And he cannot explain it.…

Trump Approach To Risk Is Reactive

This is the dangerous, immature and irresponsible core of Trump’s belief system: the Trump approach to risk is reactive. He is not only deeply ignorant about how vaccines work, as he demonstrated this week, he has terrible ignorance about basic risk management. Instead of using and valuing programs that can prevent problems from developing, Trump believes in waiting for bad…

White House Hires College Student in Personnel Role

According to Politico and other sources: “The White House has hired a college senior to be one of the top officials in its powerful Presidential Personnel Office, according to three administration officials familiar with the matter. “James Bacon, 23, is acting as one of the right-hand men to new PPO director John McEntee, according to the officials. Bacon, a senior…

GOP Senators Can’t Risk New Evidence

The GOP Senators voted against allowing witnesses and new evidence at Trump’s impeachment trial because, their leader McConnell said, they have seen and heard enough evidence, which was collected during the House investigation. The problem is that much of the evidence and testimony that the House could have collected was blocked by Trump and his lawyers. Trump was clear about…

Trump And Iran And Ukraine

It is not a coincidence that Trump, Iran and Ukraine came together recently. Iran shot down a Ukrainian plane in Iraqi airspace earlier this week. Specifically, Iran shot Russian-made missiles at a Ukrainian International Airlines plane and killed 176 people. Dozens of passenger planes were in the Iraqi airspace at that time. Why did Iran shoot down a Ukraine International…