Monday, November 30, 2020

"Why I lie about being Disabled" by Kara Garbe Balcerzak: Why I do NOT lie about being disabled.

 

Excellent article by Kara Balcerzak linked below.

I am disabled not from a concussion although through the myriad of falls due to my disability I wonder sometimes if concussion has any relevance for me. I had a profound concussion when I was 10 when my crutch slipped through a basement railing at nearly the top of the stairs. I landed on my back but my head bounced forward and then back onto the hard floor knocking me out. Since from polio my right leg is entirely paralyzed I have fallen and fractured numbers of times. So I have zero trouble telling someone I am out of work earlier than normal because polio did not present the vaccine to me until six months after I contracted the dreaded disease.

I paid in triplicate for my disability working through the difficulties of my paralysis when finally it became impossible. So I do something else to which I can commit my life.  I try to be the most humane person I can be working for candidates who are worthy to hold office and working against those like Trump who have taken the nation on a ride that should make everyone feel concussed. Moreover, I am a supreme advocate for vaccines as I have endured for a lifetime the results of not being able to get one. I advocate for universal healthcare, civil rights for minorities and other so called liberal causes. I am in the humane party otherwise known as the Democratic Party and am damn proud that I am! 

Thursday, November 26, 2020

Supreme Court Blocks New York COVID-19 Restrictions On Religious Gatherings--Supremely awful

 

The Trump additional poison changing the complexion of the Court to so called "conservative" sees a disastrous death dealing blow which will I fear be one of many delivered by this religious fanatical court.  This was a horrible decision; an abomination. These religious gatherings are possibly super spreader events. If it would apply only to the group that was doing the spreading it would be one thing but it applies to all of us. That is how a pandemic spreads. The so called "conservatives" on this court are supposedly so pro life but when it comes to adults they are in reality pro death. Because of this fanatical 5/4 decision many will in fact die!! Because of this decision there will be hundreds of new cases, if not more, straining our already stretched to the limit health care system and cost those infected with the virus thousands and it will keep happening if the churches do not comply with the experts' recommendations of mask wearing and social distancing.

COVID can show symptoms in people now called "long haulers" for weeks and/or months after the initial infection has abated.  Moreover, if one contracts COVID it will now be a preexisting condition too if this no life affirming court strikes down the ACA. I do pray and so I am praying that they do not strike it down.  Let those who cannot afford insurance and need the ACA especially after having COVID live!


Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Downfall. Bunker Boy starts his run for the big house.-- A MUST READ By Grumpy Geezer--THIS SAYS IT ALL in ways I could not emulate

 

No grace, no dignity, no humility, no magnanimity, no class, no morals, no empathy, no soul.

He has no friends, not even a dog.

His wife can’t bear his touch, his daughter can’t avoid it.

Devoid of humour he doesn’t make jokes, he doesn’t laugh. Not ever. An occasional dismal rictus, a necrotic gash in his ochre-lacquered face-bladder signifies nothing more than his satisfaction in transacting another con.

He’s a loathsome coagulation of every human failing with no compensating virtues.

A craven coward.

A sociopath.

A serial rapist.

A racist.

A quisling.

An opportunistic grifter.

An inveterate cheat.

A deceitful toad.

A chronic liar.

A shameless braggart.

An ignoramus who lacks curiosity. He doesn’t read, he doesn’t care.

Trump is a ridiculous, combed-over cartoon villain, a deranged clown with a face sprayed the colour of hang-over piss and toilet paper stuck to his shoe whose wits are defeated by an open umbrella. Rake the forests, nuke the hurricanes, inject the bleach, waterbomb Notre Dame cathedral, trade Greenland for Puerto Rico. Trump’s pompous idiocies are exceeded only by his appalling ignorance.

Crediting the British with the foresight to build airstrips in the war of independence 110 years before the Wright Brothers first took flight, revealing the hitherto unknown Himalayan countries of Nipple and Button, accusing Baltic leaders of starting Balkans wars! This clueless buffoon brags that he was able to keep the crayon inside the lines on his dementia test. Accusing Trump of a lack of self-awareness is like accusing Myra Hindley of poor child care standards.

The Grand Fubar of dysfunction, the maestro of petty vindictiveness, of malice and resentful belligerence is testing coup options yet America flatters itself as being “the world’s greatest democracy” much to the bemusement of observers here in Oz. It’s beyond our imagining that we’d ever have a bloated braggart, a liar, a hypocrite, a lazy shirker, a crony-stacking blame shifter at the helm filtering Murdoch’s kidney stones through his teeth while monetising a pandemic for the benefit of rich mates. Oh… what?

Trump, if he’d had the imagination, would’ve considered handing out small-pox infected blankets in Democrat-leaning districts but it’s too late now. A majority of Americans have said enough is enough. After 4 years of what-the-fuck-has-he-done-now, 46,123 tweets and 20,000 documented lies while in office to 9th July 2020 he’s been reduced to pathetic whimperings from his puckered-sphincter pout, playing his invisible accordion to an audience of gormless dullards, fellow hucksters and his retinue of fawning toadies, thralls, invertebrate lickspittles and hangers-on whose fealty is demanded but never reciprocated and who had neither the self-respect nor the courage to call out the capture of the US by an amoral, moronic lunatic.

We cannot know what tipped the scales against Trump.  

No lie has been too outrageous, bragging about sexual assault was just locker-room talk, five bankruptcies are apparently indicative of an astute businessman, stealing from a children’s cancer charity is fake news. Being laughed at by foreign leaders – meh, because y’all – “Merica!” Throwing meat to Boogaloos, Proud Boys, Klansmen and Call Of Duty cos-players was addressing his base. Perhaps it was inciting violence from uniformed goon squads spooled onto lawful BLM protesters that crossed the line. Perhaps it was the denigration of war dead and veterans as losers and suckers by a draft-dodging, yellow, mangy dog that did it.

More likely it was 11 million Covid-infected Americans, a quarter of a million who died while the orange blobulator ignored it, denied it, played it down, finger-pointed and then looked for ways to exploit it for his own advantage.

There is no excusing Trump, there is no sympathy that should be wasted on this pathetic parasite. History should not record him as some sort of tragic King Lear but as an effluvium, a discharge from the bowels of a diseased system; a funk that has now been sharted.

He had always exhibited the narcissistic and antisocial personality disorders of a lack of empathy, grandiosity, lying and deceit, indifference to conventional laws or rules or morality that characterise a despot. But he possessed none of the cunning, artifice, commitment to a cause beyond himself, the political skills of a Stalin or the oratory of a Mussolini. He had no ambition beyond the grift and the trappings – palaces awash with potentate kitsch, a yearning for military parades, a pneumatic wife and his narcissistic cult of personality. He has no talent beyond the con, he’s a schmuck with the dumb luck to be born into wealth that mestasised B-grade celebrity into A-grade larceny.

Fittingly, he’s spending his last days shaping his own humiliation. It’s an Armando Iannucci script playing out in real life. If Trump was to be found drooling in a pool of his own piss ala Stalin or dragged Sadam-like from his bolt-hole it would be the most metaphorically noteworthy achievement of his time in office.

Gone too will be his dreadful spawn. Ivanka’s in-it-up-to-her-nose-job reputation may limit her future career prospects to hand-job supervisor at a New York sperm bank while Uday and Qusay* could end up in Ryker’s Island trading sexual favours for lines.

Jared Kushner may get a gig at a Madame Tussaud exhibit of automatronic rent boys. Melania, no doubt, would enjoy the embrace of a Justin Trudeau look-alike cabana boy, chuckling at the thought that Trump has only Rudi Guiliani left to go through the pre-nup looking for loopholes.

The end of America’s nightmare is near. However it plays out over the next two months Trump is finished.

The irrelevant man.

A loser.

 

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Tony Blinken (our new Secretary of State) and Sesame Street's Grover chat about refugees at U.N. General Assembly

 

This video linked below shows our new future Secretary of State Tony Blinken with Sesame Street's Grover talking about refugees.

Thank God we have a human being as Secretary of State whose step father was a survivor of the Holocaust reinforcing Tony Blinken's humanitarian politics. This is how a humane and capable person should be. Thank you, President-Elect Biden (the Good), for your wonderful cabinet. What a breath of fresh air as capable brilliant people take the important and vital cabinet positions. I feel like I can breathe again!! See link below.

Trump is already doing things to compromise President-elect Biden's transition.  Let hope he does not do anything catastrophic.  I won't rest truly easy until January 20 after this wonderful man, Biden, takes the oath. I hope for the Beast to ultimately land in jail or in the alternative let him be a refugee to one of the dictatorships he loves so much.  I do not care if he disappears from the face of this earth he tried so viciously to destroy.  He was and still is a cancer to the security and humanity of our nation.

Saturday, November 21, 2020

Electoral College Madness--Turning in their Graves

 

The insane system to elect a president created the current mess we are now in and is allowing the president to corruptly press, interview and cajole the electors he wants and not for whom the people voted.  The rightful victors are once again biting our fingernails and waiting while Trump is holding court for only Republican electors from particular states that matter to him attempting to fraudulently change by whim that state's electoral result from blue to red.  This is an outrageous attempt by Trump to steal an election.

The electoral college is an abomination and a democracy killer. It is anachronistic hearkening back to the birth of our nation nearly 250 years ago. "The Founding Fathers debated for months, with some arguing that Congress should pick the president and others insisting on a democratic popular vote. The compromise was the creation of an intermediary -- the electoral college. The Founders created it because they were afraid that a popular vote system would mean that candidates for the presidency would favor cities with the most population and ignore the rural vote. They did not feel the general populace would understand just who was vying for the presidency and so they thought the state legislators who choose electors which to them would be a better more well informed body to choose this important position. Further complicating the task was a deep-rooted distrust of executive power."  Ironically, this is exactly what Trump brought to our nation -- a chief executive who wants and attempts to have a kingly authoritarian power who is now corruptly trying to overrule the voice of the people, Biden having won the election not by a hair but by a mandate of both the electoral college and the popular vote.

The electoral college should be abolished post haste and make the popular vote a rational choice for determining the presidency. It would mean the candidates for the presidency would have to make a trip to all 50 states instead of not campaigning in states that have a decided red or blue hue. Why should Michigan, Ohio, Georgia, Wisconsin, Florida and the like, swing states, get all the attention for a presidential election while Massachusetts, New York and Connecticut have no campaigning value at all?

The electoral college now is simply not fair; it can install in office those who did not win the popular vote. The electoral system is a poor, anachronistic and an unjust system because it can elect second place candidates. It is outrageously unfair and it is time to change it.  The kingly Trump is now attempting an unconstitutional coup trying to persuade or even, perhaps, buy electors from swing states to by whimsy switch the presidential winner.  It is just what the Founders feared and has them, proverbially, turning in their graves.  Abolish the electoral college in order to form a more perfect union!


Friday, November 20, 2020

Stealing a Home Run

Just when one would think that this slug president could not do more evil to a heretofore democratic nation he says he loves, a surprise is in order that he surely can.  The lame duck can overturn an entire democratic system by convincing Republican electors from swing states awarded to Joe Biden to overrule the will of their state's people and vote against the free and fair election result.

It is without a doubt the most corrupt and brazen attempt to steal an election ever to have existed in American history. It is simply shocking not that the uber corrupt liar Trump would do such a thing, because he would steal his mother's eyeballs if that were an advantage to him, but what sparks more incredulity is that his myriad of Republican enablers would help him do it and acquiesce to it! I shake my head in disbelief that such an utterly corrupt act to subvert democracy and overturn this fair election that was the cleanest election in US history is attempted.

It is outrageous, of course, to say the least, that the liar Trump is actually in plain sight trying to make electors switch from legally promised electors for Democrats to Republican and inviting Republican electors to the White House to boot to convince them to do it. Will these Republican electors go along with this in plain sight unconstitutional attempt to overturn an election that was won by Joe Biden fair and square?

In what universe is this happening that a home run in the bottom of the ninth to win a World Series game is called back because the other team held persuasive sway over the umpires who handed the win not to the winner but to the loser?  Because there is no Commissioner of Baseball to set the record straight if this happens, which, I believe, it will not, the honest fans in the nation need to protest, in the strongest voice possible, by burning down the phone lines to Congress in opposition to it or, in the alternative, fill up the field with thousands of protesting fans in outrage to this flagrant corruption of the game. 


Sunday, November 15, 2020

"GOP Leaders In 4 States Quash Dubious Trump Scheme On Electors"

 This report (linked below) is very satisfying. Take heart all the Biden supporters, including me, who are ravaged by fear that Trump will perfect some Trumpian dirty trick to, in fact, steal the election by turning Democratic electors Republican on December 14 when electors vote. 

This election has been proven to be one of the cleanest elections in US history and four Republican leaders in the four crucial electoral states of Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin will not send Republican electors instead of Democratic ones won by Biden overturning the will of their state's population. 

 Still my heart will not sit entirely calm until Jan. 20 when Biden takes the oath of office and I breathe a sigh of relief!

 


https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-leaders-in-4-states-quash-dubious-trump-scheme-on-electors_n_5fb043bec5b6c5f3d2f7ec15

 

 

Saturday, November 14, 2020

The Eichmann Show -- The Face of Fascism

 

During the Covid-19  pandemic I have had the opportunity to binge watch Netflix.  I have watched or glanced at so many films I could​ ​probably not remember all of them.  A few of excellence, though, stick with me.  "The Eichmann Show," a docudrama portraying​ ​the 1960 trial of Adolph Eichmann, the generator of the Final Solution to the J​​ewish Question –​​ the murder of six million Jews​ in Europe​ from 1933-1945 is one such film. The trial took place in Jerusalem after Israeli Mossad agents captured him in Argentina. I strongly advocate its viewing.

Revisiting the Holocaust, the killing of six million Jews including 1.5 million children as well as millions of others remains for me the single most important historical event that solidified my left of center humanitarian political stand.  I deliberated many years ago the differences between the right and the left on the political spectrum before I arrived at my conclusion.  The presidency of Donald Trump with its avowed extremist nationalism and racism's white separatist allure ​brought to us by a charismatic, corrupt and fatally narcissistic conman ​serves to emphasize why the rejection of Donald Trump must be perfected.  Under Trump's generalized blanket of anti-immigrant spewings and its proclivity to let stand its supporters’ advocacy for violence it becomes crystal clear why we must reject it by all non-violent means necessary. Trump is the face of Fascism in our time and is no less frightening then it was during the ​beginning of the ​Nazi menace a generation or two ago. It is racist​,​ it is authoritarian in nature and antidemocratic in practice.

"The Eichmann Show" was riveting.  Whether one knows much about the Holocaust or whether one is being introduced to it by this film it is imperative to know how simple it is for a once rational nation state to drift into totalitarian Fascism and why we must pay any price to reject it.

The questions perpetrated by the Holocaust are eternal.  How can rational humankind produce such evil that takes the deaths of 50 million ​and a World War​before it is expunged?  The film was summed up in prophetic fashion by its maker in a way that can easily be applied to our Trumpian time:

For each of us who has ever felt that God created us better than any other human being has stood on the threshold where Eichmann onc​​e stood and each of us who has allowed the shape of another person's nose or the color of their skin or the manner in which they worship their God to poison our feelings toward them have known the loss of reason that led Eichmann to his madness.  For this was how it all began with those who did these things.



Tuesday, November 10, 2020

THE ATTEMPTED COUP

 

A Blogger wrote:  "There is an attempted Coup d’Etat happening right now in this Country. Our future as a Constitutional Republic is legitimately at stake, and whether we survive will be determined over the next two months. This needs to be first and foremost on everyone’s mind. For supporters of President Trump, to aid and abet what he is doing would be to give up America as a Constitutional Republic for eternity in order to hold power for four more years. While this might seem appetizing, understand that when it turns against you, you will no longer have the protection of the Constitution. This is how Countries end.

This is the point where the Roman Republic turns into the Roman Empire. Where the Shah is no more and the Ayatollah becomes the Supreme Leader, where the Weimar Republic turns into Nazi Germany, where Venezuela turns into Chavezuela. It will happen if people—all good people—don’t stand up against it. The Country your kids will inherit is at stake. Donald Trump lost the election fair and square. This is not actually in dispute. There was no systemic fraud and there were no irregularities. Nothing happened out of the ordinary. This was a landslide in terms of popular vote and states. This bears no resemblance to 2000 when the entire election came down to 600 votes in one state, and there were legitimate issues of voter intent. That was a dispute that needed to be resolved and was.

This is an attempted theft of an election. The Constitution, states’ laws, and precedent indicate that if there was indeed a legitimate dispute and a State couldn’t certify their election by December 14, State Legislatures could use that “uncertainty” to Select their own slate of electors. There are Republican State Legislatures in Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Arizona. Trump doesn’t need to win in Court. He simply needs to tie things up in enough of those states until December 14. That is why he is claiming fraud and irregularities with no evidence. He told us months ago that if he lost the election, he was going to do this. He is now doing it. It’s all about his own power, and he would sacrifice our Country for it.

Sure, if there were legitimate issues he has a right to have those determined. What he doesn’t have a right to do is use the Constitution to destroy the Constitution. That’s what he is doing. It’s worth noting that a purge of sorts has also started. He fired the defense secretary who refused to use the military against citizens. He’s threatening to fire the head of the FBI and the CIA. He has stopped the GSA from releasing transition funds to Biden’s team. Even if democracy wins, this puts the Country and its continuity in peril.

This is the time to fight like our future is at stake. It is. It’s incumbent on all people—including Trump supporters and elected Republicans to put the Country and the Constitution before his power. To not allow him to create a crisis in order to maintain power in the face of an electoral defeat. Or America is no more. That’s not hyperbole. The Founders would be horrified."

Monday, November 09, 2020

November 3, 2020 – Reflections on Tyranny--the Threat of the Trump Presidency

 While I thrill at the Democratic victory and savor the moment of the Biden/Harris win, the presidential election was close.  Why is this nation divided still split right down the middle as significantly as it was in 1860, the dawn of the Civil War.

Donald Trump did not get the majority of votes but he surely did get enough to leave some of us scratching our heads as to why.  Trump to me was the most corrupt, most mendacious, the most sadistic, the meanest, most self inflated narcissist to ever hold the nation's highest office -- the presidency.  What was Trump's appeal to so many -- mostly white men but not all -- in this our representative democracy?  

The half that supported him were satisfied with the obvious democratic carnage as he rode roughshod over our founders' greatest bestowal -- the balance of power.  He and his democracy destroying minions were satisfied with his rude insulting tweets, his labeling of the most respected news organizations as fake news crushing truth, his embrace of anyone or anything that supported him including the right wing hate extremist terrorist groups like the neo Nazis and others who raised their arms in a Nazi-like salute shouting "Hail Trump." He told us some of the marchers in Charlottesville shouting "Jews will not replace us" were "very fine people"  and that the Proud Boys, a right wing extremist terrorist group, should stand back and stand by ready to help him if he needed their help.  No, none of them were very fine people.  His supporters did not flinch an inch when he described the military dead as "losers and suckers" or that John McCain was not a hero because he was "captured."  Trump said "I like people who were not captured" -- this coming from the draft dodger Sergeant Bone Spurs Trump who got away with everything because no one held him to account for anything nefarious he did, even paying someone to take the college boards for him.  The rules simply did not apply.

His enablers, the entirety of the Republican Party feared him so much so even in the face of impeachable offenses such as the abuse of power, contempt of Congress, and subverting the rule of law they refused to find him guilty and remove him from office even though clear impeachable offenses were committed.  In the face of numerous corruptions, illegalities and unconstitutional actions, Trump got away seemingly with it all as America became weary of it all.  Why would one half of America choose to ignore 250 years of a democratic experiment, often the envy of the world, and support a leader who was a human wrecking ball to a democratic system with designs on power far greater than even two terms as president.  Why?  I can only guess.

I feared Trump because of the lessons other fascist states can teach.  Fascism can happen anywhere and nearly happened here. How many times have I asked myself how could a bastion of intellect and a nation of learning that was Germany raise its arms in the Nazi salute for a totalitarian demagogue and mass murderer that was Adolph Hitler. If it could happen there as I looked at Trump and thought it surely can happen here.

"You have a republic," said Ben Franklin, if you can keep it." Democracy stands by a fragile Constitutional thread. It can be lost more easily than it was created.  All it takes is the will to erase it and a leader that takes advantage of that will.

The two ingredients of Fascism that create the poison of its elixir are nationalism in extremis and hate.  Most all of us are nationalistic that is most of us love our country but most of us do not hate so much that we would use our love of country to promote and adhere to a doctrine of hatred and the personification of it through violence.  

Both Trump and the haters that supported him seem strong but they are not strong they are weak.  Hundreds of years from the first slave ship, through the viciousness of Jim Crow up until our present time the vestiges of that hate in our present era resided in the presidency of Donald Trump.  Trump gave one half of the nation the green light to hate -- to hate Black Lives Matter, to hate the black/brown immigrant and fear a loss of American whiteness, to hate the loss of the Civil War, to hate the advancement of black rights and to hate the other whatever or whomever the other may be. From the loss of the Civil War, to the growth of American foreign policy criticism which saw America as not as the exceptional nation it said it was, conservatives have devoted years assembling power to overrule liberal thought and changes no matter how just and fair those changes were.

In the end, this nation showed its exceptionalism because the greatest threat to its democracy,  a second election of Donald Trump, was thwarted.  This election shows that this nation is a democracy in the fabric and the sinews of its being but that we must be ever vigilant to keep it strong because tyranny can happen anywhere even here!

Monday, November 02, 2020

Flip the Senate and more

 

Flipping the Senate from red to blue is almost as important as Biden winning the presidency.  Biden, if he is elected, must have a Senate majority of Democrats to get anything of consequence done including Supreme Court and other court nominations if vacancies occur.  A contribution or several if you can afford it would be wonderful.   Simply go to the Democratic candidate's web page.  For example Google "Jon Ossoff for Senate" scroll until you see his campaign site.  Rinse and repeat if you can for any other and/or all Democratic candidates. 

The Democratic candidates listed below for Senate are in blue/bold and their Republican opponent's respective states are listed in parenthesis below. 

Dem MJ Hegar v. (John Cornyn R Texas)

Dem Amy McGrath v. (Moscow Mitch R Kentucky)

Dem Jon Ossoff v. (David Purdue R Georgia)

Dem Sara Gideon v. (Susan Collins R Maine)

Dem Jaime Harrison v. (Lindsey Graham R South Carolina)

Dem Cal Cunningham v. (Thom Tillis R. North Carolina)

Dem Mark Kelley v. (Martha McSally R. Arizona)

Moreover, if you have the time you can go to the web sites and volunteer to call registered Democrats from other states to ensure they get out early to cast a vote for Joe Biden/Kamala Harris, the Dems running for Senate and other down ballot Democrats. 

Vote blue now up and down the ticket if you have not already voted.  If you vote tomorrow, November 3, vote early at your assigned polling place or deposit your ballot as soon as possible in your assigned drop box.  I have never experienced a problem voting in Massachusetts.

Here are instructions:

" There are laws that prohibit the carrying of firearms in certain locations in Massachusetts, such as school zones, post offices and other federal buildings. Schools in particular are commonly used as polling locations on Election Day. If the law restricts the carrying of a firearm in or around the building where a polling place is located, then it is illegal to carry a firearm at that polling location."

If you feel intimidated by an observer or see behavior that concerns you at the polls talk to the warden. The warden is empowered to enforce all election laws and regulations. A police officer is located at each polling place to aid the warden in that duty.

Should there be an issue that cannot be resolved with the warden, you can also call your local election office and/or the Election Division of the Secretary of the Commonwealth’s office. That toll-free number, 1-800-462-VOTE, is posted at every polling place, along with the “voter’s bill of rights.”

Sunday, November 01, 2020

The Depths of Depravity - Ensure your vote counts--added and edited

 In Texas a Biden campaign bus was surrounded, harassed and attempted to be run off the 

road with an event cancelled; the Texas governor pulled drop off boxes and placed only one

 in a heavily minority and democratic area.

In North Carolina parents and children are pepper sprayed during a peaceful march.

In Pennsylvania Republicans are trying to suppress the minority vote and to the extent they cannot they are trying to get the votes tabulated as late as possible. The goal is to try to count the votes until later of Democrats who have voted in huge numbers so Republicans can delay the election and to throw out votes of probable Democrats any way Republicans can.  Indeed Republicans would like to keep Democrats from voting at all.

I am not doubting that Biden would win if (a big if) the votes are counted fairly and legally but because the liar-in-chief Trump does not care about that and only cares about his showing a win he will do anything ... anything ... including voter suppression, lying and cheating like dumping post office sorting machines by his Republican contributor lackey, DeJoy, appointed by Trump as so called "Postmaster General," to ensure a win by any surreptitious means necessary.

This is a man who paid someone to take his college boards because he knew he was not that bright! Trump is a mendacious, unethical and inhumane deplorable man.  He is killing hundreds by having maskless rallies and is responsible for hundreds of thousands of American COVID deaths by not taking the virus seriously.  He knew COVID was a huge viral threat deadlier than the flu as Bob Woodward in his book "Rage" caught him on tape saying so. Because he wanted his numbers to look good he did not care about the deaths and said to hell with the numbers. He wanted the numbers suppressed and to that end he would lie, do and say all that could to make him look good.  It was not the American public panicking that was his worry but rather it was Trump panicking so much so he would say anything, including lie, about it to show the numbers were low when they were high.  No testing for him as the tests would reveal the truth about the high numbers of Americans infected with the virus and still counting.  His actions surrounding COVID have been unconscionable because Trump has no conscience and to the extent he cares about anything he cares about only himself.

To show the depths of Trumpian depravity he -- if one can believe this -- said that the doctors treating patients for COVID profit from their deaths.  That should be deemed illegal but even he is Constitutionally covered by free speech even if it is mendacious speech.  One cannot yell fire in a crowded theater said Oliver Wendall Homes in the 1919 SCOTUS decision Schenck v. United States, as some speech cannot be free when it is a clear and present danger  endangering the lives of many. One wonders if a president lies about an uber contagious virus that kills should he not be held to account and punished for his lies?  The depths of the human depravity of Trump can not be underestimated. 

Vote blue in person November 3 arriving early where you vote or better still by depositing a ballot in a designated drop off box.  Do it NOW before November 3 and to ensure your vote counts.


Democratic Presidential Convention--On to November

  I watched the Democratic convention last evening until my body's demand for sleep overtook me around midnight.  Having followed thin...