Saving the Nation's Life

I have been historically preoccupied with the rise of the Third Reich madness and the ensuing Holocaust of the Jewish millions. My father and I had many conversations about it as I struggled to understand not only the historical reality that the killing of millions of Jews and so many millions of others happened but also why my father and mother, both Jews, did not fear for their lives even though all of my family had come to America long before WWII occurred. My father said he always knew that because he was in America that he would be safe and that American might would protect them. He always felt secure here. And so I studied the Holocaust with the calm that was reflective of living here protected by Lady Liberty's light and felt like many have felt before and after me that what happened in Germany of the 1930's in the most advanced of nations, could not happen here. I no longer feel that way. 

 

Trump has so eviscerated our nation, has so imperiled it, has pitted one group against the other dividing us threatening violence and has ruined the safety and security of all of us by dismembering those brilliant checks and balances -- legislative, executive and judicial -- constructed by our prescient Founders that stood as a check one against the other prohibiting overwhelming power from residing in one branch. Will the vestiges of what is left of our nation if the curse of Trump is defeated be enough to preserve it? The chapter has not been written on that yet. 

 

As the Jewish New Year approaches and we are, it is said, written into the book of life or we are not I hope and, yes, I pray every day that we and our nation will live. I pray most especially that justice will prevail so that on Yom Kippur when our survival, it is said within the Jewish days of awe, is sealed that the goodness of democracy will triumph and that the evil and immense corruption of Trump will not be our eternal fate.

 

I ask you, on November 3, to VOTE BLUE UP AND DOWN THE TICKET TO ENSURE THAT OUR REPUBLIC STANDS STRONG, AND THAT TRUMP AND HIS SOLELY SELF-INTERESTED CONGRESSIONAL ENABLERS ARE DEFEATED THEREBY SAVING THE LIFE OF THIS NATION! TO MY RELATIVES AND FRIENDS BOTH JEWISH AND NON JEWISH ALIKE WISHING YOU: SHANA TOVA (FOR A GOOD YEAR.)

The Story of Fascism in Europe

LISTEN AND LEARN. THE LINK BELOW IS CHILLING AS FASCIST MOVEMENTS SPRING UP TODAY IN EUROPE, THE US AND EVEN IN LATIN AMERICA!! FASCISM IS THE FACE OF TRUMP. IT IS MEAN, IT IS CRUEL AND ITS PROPAGANDA ARE THE BIG (AN SMALL) LIES. THE LIAR-IN-CHIEF TRUMP HAS MADE 20,000 OF THEM. IT CHILLS ME TO THE BONE. YES, IT CAN HAPPEN HERE AND IS RIGHT NOW WITH THE DEMOCRACY KILLER TRUMP AND HIS REPUBLICAN ENABLERS. VOTE BLUE IN 2020 AND SAVE OUR DEMOCRACY! https://www.ricksteves.com/watch-read-listen/video/tv-show/fascism

Edward Snowden reacts to Russia meddling in U.S. elections--My Comment: Our Discontent

 Worthy comments of Snowden that require listening. It is sad Snowden created the pot in which now he and our nation are stewing. His words have merit though. In short, we are the only ones who can change the trajectory of this nation and we are the only ones who can fight Russian misinformation by creating and believing in rational truth. He says there will always be some nation that will want to insert itself in our affairs.  That cannot be stopped. I think that is true. Nations like Russia, he says, will always exist but the way to combat it is with sanity and truth. We are the creators of our own discontent!

https://www.msnbc.com/11th-hour/watch/edward-snowden-reacts-to-russia-meddling-in-u-s-elections-91579461517?fbclid=IwAR04IHjkddlKwcCg_hjoah7IJaKHp2_J2r_vFS_uiPkIMSqb4OoBwOZJp_A

Wisconsin court sets up possible delay in absentee ballot mailing + My Comment -- Window of Hope

 "The order injects confusion into voting in Wisconsin a week before a state's deadline for absentee ballots to be mailed to those with requests on file."   See link below.

My Comment: Every piece of news is depressing to those of us who advocate for fair, just elections and good government. How is this story of a colossally failed president possible? It is possible because our federal and state governments' hands are tied by corrupt leadership in the DOJ hierarchy including and most especially the courts packed with so-called "conservatives" who do not know what the true meaning of conservative is. It seems impossible for those of us who desperately want ethical and good government to be the face of America and for our nation to return to a sense of traditional normalcy and the example of democracy for millions it once was. Everywhere we turn Trump and his evil minions are there to subvert us and our once democratic nation our most brilliant Founders installed nearly 250 years ago.  They turn in their graves at this assault on and subversion of our nation's democratic  process for which they and others who followed gave their lives.

I have never in all my life been witness to such horrific times. Between climate change responsible for the massive destructive fires in California, Oregon, Washington state, and COVID-19's unnecessary slaughter of 190,000 Americans assisted by an unfit corrupt liar-in-chief occupying the oval office it is cultural mayhem. The staggering loss of this nation to the forces of subversion by enemies inside and outside the country will prevail unless honesty can be harnessed in some place where honest people live in this now sad and hopelessly divided country. 

November 3 brings us a window of hope but if hope dies and the elections are rigged by the evil Trump assisted by his Russian cohorts and his Republican election suppression enablers reinstalling him as president for four more torturous years of mendacious fraud then the window of hope closes for me.  I will still be looking for that oasis of calm to finally be at peace when and if Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are elected.  Vote blue up and down the ticket to save all of our lives!

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/wisconsin-court-sets-possible-delay-absentee-ballot-mailing-n1239836

To Save Nations

 

Every time I see the crosses and some Stars of David on the Normandy beach site in France marking those utterly brave souls who gave their lives on Omaha, Utah and other beaches during WWII so that the world could be free of the Nazi menace I choke up with sadness and am in awe of those dedicated and ever-so-brave Americans with our allies who sacrificed their lives so the world could live free from the jackboot of tyranny. Trump besmirched and insulted every man and woman who has served selflessly in our military to defend all of us from the machinations of corrupt autocracies.

Imagine if Trump were president at that time -- a man who loves and sides with Putin and other autocrats, would have loved Nazi strength along with its no conscience attendant cruelty and would have bowed to Hitler whom I am sure he would have envied and, indeed, imitated. We would be seeing Nazi swastika flags in all of Europe and flying from sea to shining sea of our once great nation. We would have seen the world lay prostrate wrapped in an envelope of fascistic barbarity for which Trump would have sadistically and with zero conscience advocated. Herculean heights of death and destruction would have been the Trump legacy and he would have shown no mercy to opposition he would crush like an insect under his shoe if he could.

It is said at Trump's bedside lay a book of Hitler's speeches. I do not, admittedly, know how true that story is. It may not be true but because I cannot dismiss that story outright and know of the characterless, corrupt and fraudulent Trump just the fact that it could be true is enough to make me cringe at the thought of giving the most ignorant of all men a second term.

If, God willing, Biden wins, I urge you to get down on bended knee and thank fate or, if one prays, thank the God to whomever one prays that this nation will have escaped the most corrupt, inhumane, and psychopathologically sick beast to ever occupy the sacred office of the United States presidency.

Our nearly 250 year democracy hangs on a thread of human volition and can be snuffed out in a near instant when a cult of personality that is Trump prevails to trick a needy populous into believing a mountain of lies which serve as a footing to build his future familial empire. Trump's cult of personality and promises are based on empty promises and unconscionable mendacity. He does not care about you, he does not care about me and he does not care about preserving our democracy. He is ripping our nation's foundation up to preserve his own power as the only thing Trump cares about is himself. If elected again on November 3 our democratic experiment will be left to the dustbin of history taking its place aside many other failed states bathing in the ruins of once prospering nation states.

Make no mistake Trump is the real loser and sucker he thinks those in the military who died or were captured are. Every indictment he makes is an indictment against him. The insults he spews against others he perceives as enemies is in reality not a description of them but a description of him.

To save not just this nation but all nations who love breathing the air of freedom's democracy, on November 3 get out to vote and vote blue up and down the ticket. The lives you save will truly be your own!

Empty Garden

 

If one clicks on the link below one will see the changes Melania Trump visited upon a once gorgeous rose garden just in time for the Republican convention of harsh cruelty.  She uprooted beautiful trees placed in the garden by John F. Kennedy as well as colorful gorgeous roses and other flowers put in by President Obama.  The link is aptly entitled: "Americans Recoil In Horror After Melania Rips Trees Planted By JFK Out Of White House Rose Garden."  The journalist Howard Fineman in a Tweet says "The Trump family did its best to turn the lovely Rose Garden into a neo-fascist parade ground."  It is, by its appearance, a sterile and empty garden. I agree with his thought.

When I began my attempt to understand political thought I would constantly be thinking about the differences between left and right. The left in the extreme was Communist taking many concepts from Karl Marx and Frederich Engels in "Das Capital" and the "Communist Manifesto."  The extremes of left and right have similarities for sure but the one characteristic of those on the left that the right does not possess is a feeling of empathy for the little guy and a disparagement of undue corporate power. The right wing, polar opposite to the left, makes no pretense of empathy. States like Nazi Germany, Brazil or Mussolini's WWII Italy become partnerships between corporate power, the military and barbaric enforcement for life of the authoritarian power of the state itself. Putin's modern day Russia is a good example.  Yes, Communist states like the historic Mao's China and N. Korea control the means of production and the extremes often possess ruling characteristics of each other.  Any challenge to power is met by the force of the state to crush it.   Still, the alleged philosophy behind leftist states pays at least lip service to humanitarian concern. 

In a Fascist state one gives me the autocratic power and I will allow and, indeed use, corporate power to ensure the entrenchment of those who own things and those who occupy the seats of power. This is a loose conception of how I believe the left differs from the right. Obviously, there are degrees but extreme nationalism and the racism that buttresses it are the province soley of the right.

I am not a Marxist or a Communist as those structures are a failure, but I do believe government should exist to benefit those who have the least and that government should lend a helping hand when those without power need it.  I believe massive corporate money should pay its fair share of tax so that those who were not the luckiest in life derive benefit from those who have it all.

Melania's jacket said everything when she visited the children her husband cavalierly put in cages at the border.  It said "Do I care?" The answer to that is a resounding no!   She does not care.  I place her in the same category of her zero empathetic and cruel husband. They both do not care. They care about two things: the maintenance of their power and the corporate money that sustains and massively enriches them.  This was exactly why Trump ran for the presidency to make himself richer by any means necessary.  I believe both Trump and Melania have a sterility of character -- unfeeling and non empathetic which the empty appearance of Melania's garden reflects.  Howard Fineman was right.  It is a neo-fascist parade ground.  Cast your eyes upon the before and after pictures of its  sterile sight.

https://thegailygrind.com/2020/08/22/americans-recoil-in-horror-after-melania-rips-trees-planted-by-jfk-out-of-white-house-rose-garden/?fbclid=IwAR2c45rnbKpd8FnoX-AouJvQg4-nchgKFgelabSxuLCWW75RJYRVJGAN6ug

Trump's VERY bad day! :)

 

U.S. Judge Dismisses Trump’s Attempt To Block Subpoena For Tax Records

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-tax-records_n_5f3e8463c5b609f4f675bd69

Steve Bannon, three others charged with fraud in border wall fundraising campaign

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/20/politics/bannon-build-the-wall-indictment/index.html?fbclid=IwAR3E5fESUUmyNz1kZaYtZzD59JLTotMOMkq1dvGgslFjc5UEaUS2GH1fs1g

Trump's QAnon embrace draws GOP backlash

“Why in the world would the president not kick QAnon supporters’ butts?” former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush tweeted.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-s-qanon-embrace-draws-gop-backlash-n1237438

The first two links are self explanatory but the third link is not to be believed.   So you may ask what is QAnon

It is a self described anti government deep state conspiracy theory group.  Recently it has believed that Hillary Clinton

was involved in a child pedophile ring that was responsible for cannibalizing children. They have actually threatened

violence toward anyone associated with that and indeed one man toting a rifle in hand traveled from N. Carolina to

appear at a pizza parlor in Washington DC to see if downstairs Hillary could be found.  Needless to say she was not as the pizza parlor had no downstairs.  No kidding?  I kid you not. 

What is worse than that our stable genius says that they like him and think he is the savior who will stop the Democrats from doing evil deep state things against Trump to take him down and so when asked, Trump says if they like him he will like them.  You know tit for tat!  This is our stable genius thinking through carefully what the essence of QAnon is.  I hear GOPers have been averse to Trump saying he supports this group if they support him.  You don't say? 

This crackpot group is dedicated to irrational anti-Enlightenment thought and thinks Trump is their savior.  Wonder what Evangelical Christians think of that? 

HOW UNSTABLE/STUPID IS DONALD J. TRUMP? ANSWER: VERY

 

HOW UNSTABLE/STUPID IS DONALD J. TRUMP? ANSWER: VERY!

This shows you how unstable and stupid Donald J. Trump is that he acquiesces to subverting the US Mail to hurt Democrats BUT what he does not count on is his own Republicans getting angry and hurt because many are old and want to vote by mail either because of disability or to avoid COVID infection; moreover, they want their prescriptions, too, so it should alienate seniors Republican and Democrat in general; beyond that the military whom Trump always says loves him so much will NOT love him when their prescriptions do not arrive on time either and perhaps not a few will die because of it. Yes, slowing up the US Mail hurts, in reality, EVERYONE not simply Democrats but Republicans also. So who thought up this stable genius maneuver?

The final analysis is that Trump had to say yes to the illegal maneuver that is subverting the US Mail before DeJoy, his megga donor in-his-pocket Postmaster General, could perfect the crimes. Donald J. Trump is VERY unstable and VERY stupid to think he would get away unscathed by this, unsavory, illegal, immoral and unethical action!!

"Robert S. Trump, the President’s Younger Brother, Dies at 71" -- To Tell the Truth Inbox x

Donald lies about that relationship too. Robert, the more normal of the brothers, worked for Donald in the Trump organization until Donald had a big falling out with Robert, screaming at him over something related to his casinos which were failing.  Robert couldn't take it anymore (who could) and he left the Trump organization. Robert was estranged for years but supported Donald in his presidential bid and reconciled with him.

Donald, of course, tells it as fantasy that he had a very close relationship with Robert as Donald puts it "from day 1."  That is UNTRUE.  You cannot believe one thing he says.  20,000 lies later, the liar in chief cannot tell the truth if his life depended upon it!

 

FACE THE MUSIC

 

Ellen DeGeneres’ Kevin Hart ‘Interview’ Is Artificial Talk-Show Culture At Its Worst

“Ellen” should be an ideal place to engage in cultural discourse, but the influential host proved we have no arena for litigating issues as serious as homophobia.

 

 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ellen-degeneres-kevin-hart-interview-oscar-host-controversy_n_5c2fb434e4b0bcb4c25b99cc

 

My Comment:   Matthew Jacobs is an excellent writer for Huffington Post As one who always has loved Ellen and thanked her in my mind's eye for her seemingly honest notoriety and for, as the queen of nice, giving hundreds of thousands even millions of gay people a new found respect for themselves. The press revelations now that she has received a tearing down of her image giving us a look at the woman behind the alleged illusory curtain makes me sad. It makes me sad because this culture has received another body blow and I do not know how many wounds one nation can stand. What is one to believe?   

 

I go to Huffington many times throughout the day hoping it gives me the truth about the news of the day. I think it does but what am I to believe about Ellen now just another millionaire star who has seemingly fallen from grace. I wish she would answer truly answer for all the bad press she has been receiving and tell us what we want to know. Is it true what they are saying about her and if so why has she not been honest with us, her once adoring fans? 

 

I am sad because nothing is what it has always seemed to me to be leaving me to find my own truth whether it's about the essence of my once beloved country or whether it's about a gay comedienne who gave me hope that people, as Ann Frank said, are basically good at heart as Ellen always seemed to me to be. I say to Ellen face the music and tell me if it is true and if so how we all can learn to dance again.

My letter to the DNC (Democratic National Committee)

 

Democrats need to figure out how to get younger staff to work polls and place drop boxes. We need to do the additional planning well BEFORE the election takes place or as sure as I am posting this the nightmare of Trump will be our god forbid fate and I will never see the kind of America in which my father so fervently believed and to which FDR so ably took us.

The DNC  MUST monitor everything nationwide and then taking COVID precautions (masks, social distancing, and frequent washing of hands) people must vote even if they have to stand in line and vote at polls. If that is our only remedy for this scum fraud in the White House to be foiled then I am prepared to do just that. If mail is an obstacle I will vote at the polling place.  If polling places are at a minimum then a ride should be provided. Get ID for those who need it, prepare people to vote without question on November 3 no matter where and how one must vote.

The DNC needs to show the way and do it.  It is our only hope. Foil these rightwingnut bastards at the pass and do not let them and their Russian cohorts steal another election!

COVID, charasmatic Kamala

 

I have stopped crying out of happiness and now am cheering for the joy of Kamala Harris, Biden's pick for VP on the ticket. Watching clips of her in more frequency since she was chosen I realize what I did not before. I originally was a supporter of Susan Rice who seemed to me to have the gravitas and superb intellect needed for high office. However, I have changed my mind and now support Kamala Harris with the full force of my emotive strength. There is a reason I am, as an understatement, thrilled at Biden's choice.

Kamala Harris oozes charisma. Her smile is infectious and her laughter contagious. She is a necessary complement to Biden. The ticket is explosive now with enthusiasm which Kamala already has brought to the contest.

A friend of mine when asked by me how she felt about the choice. She said she thought Republican men were heading to the bathroom since they saw their demise. I say good. That is exactly where supporters of Trump belong so we can flush the poison down the toilet never to be heard from again!! Well, I can hope anyway.

This is the first time my depression has lifted over months perhaps even years. Maybe just maybe the scourge of Trump has met his Covid and charismatic Kamala match. Good luck VP Biden and Kamala Harris this progressive is with you both 100%

Trump’s New Favorite COVID Doctor Believes in Alien DNA, Demon Sperm, and Hydroxychloroquine

So called Doc Immanuel says: "Hello Facebook put back my profile page and videos up or your computers will start crashing till you do. You are not bigger that (sic) God. I promise you. If my page is not back up face book will be down in Jesus name." See link below for her other crackpot beliefs.

This is the face of uneducated America and Trump wants to know why people do not like him! Trump has got at least one thing right few like him, the worst most corrupt president in US history. Mr. Trump, maybe that's why we do not like you because you are mean, cruel, have divided this nation possibly beyond repair; you are corrupt, you are a fraud and you lie continuously. Your inaction as to COVID-19 is responsible for thousands of American deaths and to add to the plethora of reasons to reject this president in toto he further stated that in 8 calls with Russia's Putin he failed to bring up the intelligence fact which has alleged that Russia is putting bounties on the heads of US soldiers in Afghanistan. He lied and said this intelligence did not pass his desk. Of course, it did. This is nothing less than treason!

Mr. Trump, you don't read, worse you do not read the presidential daily briefing, you ignore experts and you are criminal. You are an immoral, unethical beast who is a narcissistic sociopath. What is there to like about you? Answer: NOTHING. Resign!


 https://www.thedailybeast.com/stella-immanuel-trumps-new-covid-doctor-believes-in-alien-dna-demon-sperm-and-hydroxychloroquine

Coronavirus relief package could lead to Social Security and Medicare cuts

I am so chilled by this article (linked below). I cannot even write a strong enough post to show my complete disgust with the entire Republican Party that they would even think about doing such a thing that is probably illegal. Social Security is NOT an entitlement.  It is something we PAID for out of the payroll tax when we worked. It is NOT there for Republicans to take.

Beyond that don't they have seniors who depend on Social Security to live? Democrats are not the only ones who are dependent on Social Security. For the most part the entire nation depends upon it with the exception of course of the top 2% wealthiest which is the Republican base. This is disgusting!

Flood Washington with calls and letters telling them not to do this! All of our lives depend upon Social Security and for that matter Medicare. Perhaps an organized huge march on Congressional offices in Washington showing how much opposition there is to this if Congress considers such an abysmally destructive thing. Your life depends upon shouting huge opposition to this. Pass this onto anyone you like.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-covid-19-false-info-video_n_5f1f984ac5b638cfec4904d4

"Warning, Warning: Republicans Are Plotting to Raid Social Security"

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/nancy-altman/91929/warning-warning-republicans-are-plotting-to-raid-social-security

"The Beast and smirking chimp TRUMP wants to raid Social Security." Trump must be taken down! It's as simple as that unless you want to kill off the preponderance of this nation that PAID into Social Security. It is NOT NOT an entitlement it is an EARNED benefit.

 From the article above: "It is bad enough that Donald Trump and his Republican cronies in Congress are seeking to destroy our Social Security. It is insult on top of injury that they profit so royally as they do so.

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  In November, when we decide whether Donald Trump will retain the presidency and whether Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Graham, Ernst, Collins, Cory Gardner (R-CO), David Perdue (R-GA), Steve Daines (R-MT), Thom Tillis (R-NC), John Cornyn (R-TX), and Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) retain their Senate seats, we should remember the money they are pocketing.
  
  Donald Trump was right to say we should drain the swamp. What he failed to tell us is that he and his Republican allies are the swamp creatures."

"Anthony Fauci Reveals ‘Serious Threats’ To Himself, His Family Amid Pandemic"--My Comment

My Comment: This is sickening! The only thing I disagree with Dr. Fauci is when he says “I’ve seen a side of society that I guess is understandable but it’s a little bit disturbing,” It is in NO way "understandable" and it is HUGELY disturbing when the most advanced nation on earth one that has so many Nobel Prize laureates and put a man on the moon can sink so low as to threaten a man of academic excellence. Are these the same people of low intellect who believe that the earth is flat or bad humors cause disease? This is the era of stupidity and Trump in which we live.  Those are the people that retard the advancement of truth without which we would be still rubbing stones together to get fire. Charles Pierce wrote a book entitled "Idiot America: How Stupidity became a Virtue in the Land of the Free." SHAMEFUL!

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/anthony-fauci-threats-coronavirus_n_5f1aa207c5b6128e6823ed32

"The Swift Boating of Tammy Duckworth" My Letter to Renee Graham and the Globe -- Gobsmacked

Kudos, Renee Graham, to  your beautifully written editorial "The swift-boating of Tammy Duckworth" (Linked below). It is truly a reflection as to how low this slinger of mud president can go along with his sidecar of rightwing extremist media helpers.  Tammy Duckworth, a woman, who lost both legs as a soldier in Iraq, and a purple heart recipient for her valor, needs no supporting arguments for her obvious love of country.  Impugning her patriotism by the sickening war adverse President Bone Spurs 4 military deferments Trump and his sidekick Fox No News star, Tucker Carlson, is the height of dastardly swamp sinking vitriol by them.  How dare they both not silence their vicious asp-like tongues. 

The spewer of hate, Trump, told us what he was during his first campaign when he impugned John McCain for getting captured and being imprisoned by the North Vietnamese who through torture hung John McCain inversely from his arms never to regain proper usage of them again.  Two years in solitary confinement could not convince this low life president of McCain's hero status. 

The pain John McCain endured in service to his country is unimaginable and for Trump to have impugned him was the first example of Trump sinking into the abyss from which he never has emerged.  Impugning Tammy Duckworth, John McCain, or his making fun of  New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski's orthopedic joint disability by a gut wrenching mimicking of him are but a few examples of the mud into which Trump will sink if he thinks it will be received well by his base.  Shame on Trump, shame on Tucker Carlson and, most especially, shame on Republicans and his base enablers of these immoral and unethical Cretans who would not know true patriotism if it came up and gob smacked them in the face.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/07/10/opinion/swift-boating-tammy-duckworth/

Trump Administration Aims to Block New Funding for Coronavirus Testing and Tracing + My Comment

This administration and its brain dead president are completely, totally and irrevocably insane! It is like they want to kill off the nation. They and all of us will experience the lethal result of their hateful actions! The very thing that could help lower the curve of the virus and get the nation ultimately out of this nightmare, even back to work and back to school safely Trump opposes! If that is his goal of getting the nation back to work and back to school safely thereby improving his all-important-to his-campaign, the economy, his actions do quite the opposite. This makes zero sense.

Then again when has Trump ever made sense? Answer: Never but this time his actions are murderous.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/18/world/coronavirus-news.html?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20200718&instance_id=0&nl=breaking-news&ref=cta&regi_id=75028030&segment_id=33771&user_id=85a8ac1c6f518c011d82f4864472cc9b

In memory of Representative Rep. John Lewis

One by one those giants of the civil rights movement are ending their journey. It is up to us, the living, to pick up the baton and fight for what is moral and just and never give up. 

No matter how difficult it seems we must never give in to the forces of darkness and hate no matter how powerful the opposition is.  "The moral arc of the universe is long and it bends towards justice." It is said "Obama so loved the 1853 quote by Theodore Parker, Unitarian minister and abolitionist, that he had it woven into a rug in the Oval Office." Let's return that rug to the oval office which is being usurped by a would be dictator who is in truth weak, corrupt and evil personified. 

We must never forget John Lewis, Elijah Cummings, Martin Luther King and so many others of all races and nationalities who paint a portrait of this nation that is kind, fair, tolerant and good.

President Trump Is Working to Undermine Dr. Fauci Even as Coronavirus Cases Spike--Tsunami of untruths’: Trump has made 20,000 false or misleading claims: My Comment: to tell the truth

https://time.com/5866602/trump-white-house-anthony-fauci/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/13/donald-trump-20000-false-or-misleading-claims

Who does not believe science? Perhaps, someone who is guilty of telling 20,000 lies according to the Washington Post database collection of Trump's lies.  (See link above).  The fact that Trump is impugning the sterling reputation of Dr. Anthony Fauci as one of the world's most preeminent experts in immunology and infectious disease is understatedly shameful and should be criminal insofar as it is a lie against a person who can be the most helpful to the nation as it assumes the dubious distinction of leading the world in the amount of COVID -19  cases and deaths.  Instead of being thankful that this world famous expert in immunology is the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) since1984 with 40 years experience and is helping this nation and the world find a way out of this viral abyss, he runs roughshod over him.  Trump does not like what Dr. Fauci says not because his assessment is based on evidence but because he thinks Dr. Fauci's assessment will not help the nation's economy and therefore ruin Trump's chances for reelection.  Trump's reelection is the only thing on Trump's mind because this malignant pathological narcissist does not care about human life -- any human life but his own.  It is a lethal reality as the deaths of millions of lives are at stake. 

Clarifying, Dr. Fauci fully admits when something he has said is a mistake but it is only a mistake insofar as the data of this never before seen novel virus was not available in the early stages of the pandemic.  Every scientist was trying to make the most efficacious determination of its nature at the time.  He did not in January think the virus would take on the hue of a pandemic nor that masks were necessary to avoid it.  He has long since abandoned this view when the evidence and data told him to.

If one drives a car, if one has surgery, even if one bakes a cake one is using science to get a result. Science is based on the data of evidence that reveals truth.  Science through testing and retesting tells truths without which humankind could never progress. It changes belief when the evidence and peer review dictates it should. Humankind advances when it takes scientific truth and morphs into practice building buildings, treating disease, or flying to the moon.  Nearly everything one does requires the truths science reveals.

The US has the worst record amounts of the novel Coronavirus and growing because its dastardly leadership and those minority of science deniers who follow that leadership will not do what the science and its accredited science experts demand they do based on evidence. Dr. Anthony Fauci's name and reputation are being dragged through the muck by Trump because Donald Trump is incapable of telling the truth.  If it was solely Trump's life he is endangering that would be one thing. It isn't; it is the lives of  350 million populating our nation and ultimately the 7 billion on the planet whose lives are at risk if we do not get the scientific truth correct. To tell the truth, Mr. Trump, or most importantly to listen to those science experts who do is the most important thing you can do since all of our lives depend upon it including your own.