Well, individual 1 has been working hard to place the BLAME for his BLUNDERS and incompetence in regard to his response to the novel coronavirus somewhere beside, well, himself – and, lately it’s been a combination of the World Health Organization and/or China. Of course, his incompetence was the result of his own ignorance – but, he’s got a history of NEVER admitting to a mistake and ALWAYS coming out “swinging” when anyone criticizes him so the fact he’s busier figuring out how he can deflect and BLAME than actually fighting the pandemic should surprise no one. While “we the people” are suffering for his decisionmaking he considers himself the victim. I suppose it still hasn’t sunk in to him suggesting ingesting disinfectant to “cleanse your lungs” is a bad look for a U.S. president!
I wrote yesterday that his son-in-law Jared Kushner managed to get a spot on “Fox and Friends” to announce the IMPEACHED so-called president’s administration’s response to the pandemic has been a “great success story.” Well, we all know that’s not true, and, in fact, I believe it’s MORE “untrue” than “we the people” fully understand at this moment in time – there’s one day left in April (I’ll likely not finish this post until sometime in May) – and, starting on Friday the “stay at home” “suggestion” coming from individual 1’s administration will end and his push to “re-open” is designed, on its face, to transfer the responsibility for the soon to be uptick in Covid-19 cases to the governors of any of the states who fall for his shtick. Going forward, the uptick will be the governors fault, trust me on this one.
I can picture someone saying “How ignorant is individual 1? Let me count the ways.” Well, one way he’s not ignorant is in his ability to manipulate the media – he’s the “center of attention” every day, whether it works in his favor or not. He NEEDS the attention and it’s worth it to him no matter the cost. So, he is going to keep himself on the “front line” – in front of the TV cameras and, therefore, I’ll continue writing – apparently, this would indicate I don’t want him getting the last word. That being said, our IMPEACHED so-called president’s expertise is in his ability to brazenly just forge ahead looking for anyway to make himself look good and, like many of the workers he doesn’t care a lick about who are living “paycheck to “paycheck,” individual 1 operates day to day.
It’s almost as if he can’t remember what happened “yesterday” when he’s questioned “today.” This is why he is able to, for example, after suggesting people might try ingesting cleaning solvents as a way to “cleanse their lungs” one day and the next day, without breaking expression, claim “I was just being sarcastic.” He did the same thing after standing next to Vladimir Putin in Helsinki (most people have forgotten this dreadful performance) and “throwing our intelligence community under the bus.” The next day he, with a straight face, suggested he meant to say “wouldn’t” instead of “would” – which would make little difference, but it just showed his “ability” for shameless LYING for the entire world to see.
Of course, his suggestion of the use of Lysol or ???? caught the attention of MILLIONS of people around the world who are just wondering what on earth has happened to America? Well, when I suggest he’s “shameless” I believe that is the best way to describe what he’s doing with his plan to force our economy to re-open. Like I wrote yesterday, we’re still seeing deaths which total over 2000 per day – on most days. We’re still seeing nearly 30,000 new confirmed cases of the virus each day so I’m not sure how individual 1 has come to the conclusion we’re past the serious stage of this crisis. I’ve admitted I’m a cynic and, at this point, there’s no way I’m going to see individual 1 as anything but the PROBLEM which has caused America to be experiencing, by far, the worst case of this virus in the world. (And, apparently, it’s going to get worse in the not too distant future. Just sayin…)
I mean, they’re talking about the “return” of the virus while it appears to me the virus is still RAGING. Doesn’t it have to “leave” before it can “return?” I’m honestly not sure how to take the suggestions we’re getting from many governors – almost all republicans – that it’s time to re-open the economy. In fact, it’s causing me to think this will cause the rest of us to stay in our homes or succumb to the republican wish that we just “go for it” and let the philosophy of “herd immunity” to be our policy. If that was going to be the policy why did we “stay at home” for the past month and a half? Of course, there’s a couple other countries with leaders who somewhat “mirror” individual 1 and that’s Great Britain and Russia. So, I’ve been checking their statistics on “Worldometer.info” to see how they compare to the U.S.
Well, I suppose it shouldn’t be a surprise to me to see the United Kingdom and Russia moving quickly up the statistics of the “worldometer.info” website because both Boris Johnson and Vladimir Putin took similar positions to individual 1 at the beginning of this pandemic. As of today, Britain has surpassed every country beside Italy and, of course, the U.S. in the number of deaths and they should be in “2nd” place in all categories, including the number of infections, in a matter of days. And, of course, that’s not a good place to find yourself. Then there’s Russia and, based on reports I’ve been reading, the combination of the price of oil tanking and the virus rapidly spreading, Mr. Putin is finding himself in the awkward position of having “tanking” poll numbers – even in Russia.
Putin didn’t take this virus seriously to begin with, but, from what I can tell, he’s “changed his tune.” For example, Russia is testing way more people each day, by far, than America. That would tell me Putin has decided this really is serious. Just a couple weeks ago there were just a very small number of cases in Russia and now there are over 100,000 with over 7000 new cases today plus their death toll has surpassed 1000 with hundreds dying each day. I don’t get a lot of information out of Russia, but I’m guessing they’ve put some stringent “social distancing” measures in place as the virus appears to be spreading rapidly in Moscow. Clearly, this virus does not discriminate – if you don’t take it seriously, you’re likely to be getting it.
There does appear to be many people who could care less if they get the virus and they are moving back into situations where “social distancing” is, well, a “distant” concept. In at least a couple of the states where there were protests against the stay at home orders, Wisconsin and Minnesota, their numbers of confirmed cases are going up again. The protesters in Michigan were traced back to Western Michigan after their last protest, and the cases there have doubled. I agree “staying at home” for a year and a half, if that is how long it takes to get a vaccine, is not a workable solution to this problem. Yet, all I’m seeing coming from individual 1 in the form of a “plan,” is, well, NOTHING. It’s up to the governors! Actually, that’s NOT a plan.
Individual 1, clearly was planning to get himself re-elected based on “The greatest economy ever” (Which, of course, wasn’t the greatest economy ever), an economy which he inherited from the Obama/Biden administration which they managed to keep on the same upward trend by passing a HUGE tax cut for corporations and rich people and deregulating many environmental regulations. Of course, the trade-off is dirtier air and water in an attempt to make sure that the graph’s trend continues going up until, at least, November. Individual 1 has tried on several occasions to wish this virus away and that seems to be a really BAD strategy. Just as he looks to BLAME away his incompetence re; this virus, he’s been taking credit for the economy he inherited since his first day in office. Neither of those tendencies is a recipe for saving our economy.
In times like these our “free market” republicans are really good at finding unlimited amounts of money coming from – somewhere – in an effort to “save the economy.” Honestly, I think it would have been much better for individual 1 to put his focus on the virus and putting an emphasis on helping workers above all other goals, right from the start during this crisis. I think people would have been surprised and would have noticed had individual 1 been able to act as if “we the people” were more important than his re-election. Fix the problem with the virus and the problem with the economy is solved – as best as it could have been.
I’ve pointed out several times here I don’t see how our “market” can continue moving upward while there’s 30 MILLION people claiming unemployment benefits and business after business boarded up. At some point, it appears to me, Wall Street is going to go through another “tanking” and this is likely to happen sooner rather than later. I believe, as I’ve said, the market is like a house built on sand. In my view, the economy was never “the greatest ever” and, as I’ve said, when you disconnect “Main Street” from “Wall Street” it’s eventually going to fall like a house of cards. Obviously, I don’t understand the market, but I don’t think even finding a way to “fix” that will overcome the day in and day out demonstration of incompetence – in front of the TV cameras while MILLIONS of Americans have nothing better to do than watch TV. To me, that’s an ill advised strategy.
As I said above, it’s likely the main objects of individual 1’s ire, in the next few weeks will be the World Health Organization and China. Individual 1 is likely to create lasting DAMAGE to America’s relationship with China and there’s virtually nothing “we the people” can do about it. And, if he’s able to cut off funding to the WHO (Isn’t that like what he did with Ukraine? Isn’t it illegal?) in the middle of this pandemic, well, that seems STUPID once again. Whatever he can do to place the BLAME elsewhere. If individual 1’s actions have been such a “great success” why does he need to be doing all this BLAMING?
Final Thought: I’ve pointed out recently my suspicion that some of the republican governors who don’t want to put “stay at home” orders in place are CHEATING when it comes to reporting the actual statistics of the number of cases and the deaths in their states. I put my focus on South Dakota – the worldometer.info statistics make it seem obvious they’re CHEATING. Well, now the governor of Florida has been exposed as ordering the death count in his state to not be reported. Well, Florida and Georgia were the other two states I had suspicions about and this is really outrageous. You have to think individual 1 is somehow involved in this CHEATING! My guess, in regard to Florida, is their statistics are maybe double what they’re reporting.
Here’s the reality, the “experts” are pointing out that, depending on where you live, between 5% and, maybe 15% of the people have had this virus. And, before it’s done with us, based on reports I’ve seen, it will infect at least 60% to 70%. So, we’re no where near having “flattened” the “curve” and, based on what is obvious and what you can infer, the death toll of this virus is potentially 25% more than what’s been reported. There are statistics related to normal death rates in states and comparing those stats to what is happening it becomes clear there are many more people dying of Covid-19 than what is being reported.
The main issue is testing – which has been the problem since day one – which leads me to believe individual 1 simply just doesn’t want widespread testing because he doesn’t want “we the people” to know how many people are infected. And, of course, now we’re seeing republican governors, Ron DeSantis for one, are HIDING the statistics likely at the behest of our IMPEACHED so-called president. What’s the saying, “What we don’t know can’t hurt us?” Of course, this is all about the November election and individual 1’s belief “we the people” are really STUPID! I guess we’ll see – it doesn’t appear it’s working.
One more thing: I have written about one of the thoughts I’ve had that I try to block out because they just seem too cynical, even to me. But there he was today, Bill O’Reilly – remember him – suggesting most of the people who are dying from Covid-19 “were near the end already” – as if that makes it OK to sacrifice them – he was on Fox where the idea of just going for it seems routine. What he didn’t say is the other “groups” who are affected by this virus beside people in nursing homes are African Americans, prisoners, and people working in meat processing plants – many of whom are Hispanic. For example, 80% of the deaths in Georgia, which opened back up today despite being in the throes of this virus, are African American. Does that surprise you? Does any of this surprise you? Clearly, democrats are just a bunch of “softies.”
And, Oh by the way, many of the states which were kind of on the sidelines of this virus, up until recently, are getting promoted to the “varsity” – thanks to their arrogance thinking “it can’t happen here.” Like, South Dakota, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Mississippi, South Carolina, Arizona, Missouri, Kansas, Alabama, and Tennessee just to name a few. Andrew Cuomo said it best as New York was pleading for help (and, of course, it’s still bad there, just no AS bad) “This is coming to your state.” Prescient words!
Of course, Michigan already is in a bad spot with over 40,000 confirmed cases and today there were a few hundred pseudo terrorists carrying assault weapons demonstrating the importance of putting an assault weapon ban into law ASAP. These people are further spreading the virus and we’re seeing this happening in more places coming from right wing militia types who seem to want to create a violent assault on our nation – and, of course, individual 1 is encouraging them. These are the people I’ve been talking about for when individual 1 LOSES the November election. I’m expecting a violent reaction – and, of course, when it happens individual 1 will still be our IMPEACHED so-called president and William Barr will still be our Attorney General. Yikes! God help us!!
I recently saw photos of the militia members who had their protest on my state, Washington, and it looked like a bunch of hill people who were drummed out of the military so this was their response. The sad, and dangerous, reality is they, as with the people in Michigan today, were armed and they’re threatening violence as if they are the answers to the problems in this country. And, one of the worst parts to me, is the reports these people “hang out” together on, where else, but Facebook. I’ve been saying for some time now Mark Zuckerberg is one of the more dangerous people in this nation. He’s created a “platform” which allows these seditious groups to fester and, clearly, he’s doing NOTHING to stop them. Yes, there are other places for them to congregate, but Facebook seems to be the “petri dish” for them and other terrorists around the globe. Just sayin………….. (And, yes, I DON’T do Facebook)