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 Proposes $1 Trillion Stimulus Plan
Anybody remember that Barack Obama proposed a $1 Trillion stimulus plan to pull the United States out of the Great Recession, because businesses and consumers were not spending, and therefore the government had to pick up the slack? Remember how the Republicans in the House and the Senate all screamed that the government couldn’t possibly spend that much money to…
Comparing Coronavirus To Seasonal Flu
People are fond of comparing Coronavirus to Seasonal Flu Seasonal Flu. They cite statistics like: “34,000 people died from the flu last year in the United States. But so far only 41 people in the United States have died from Covid-19.” How Many Got Seasonal Flu And How Many Died From It The problem with this argument — popular with…
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…
King Donald Trump And Putin-Style Election Fraud
When the GOP members of the Senate vote to acquit Trump, they will effectively crown him king of the United States. King Donald Trump. He will be able to do whatever he wants without negative consequence. Of all the ridiculous arguments the Trump lawyers offered this week, “Leave it to the voters to decide” is the most ridiculous. We can…
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…