Individual 1 has a problem with logic and he just keeps making his situation worse with every passing day. A couple months ago I thought I heard him say the key to saving our economy was in controlling the Covid-19 virus. It was maybe the ONLY time this year I heard him say something which made sense. Of course, that sentiment only lasted about one day, just like one day after he came out with the different phases of “re-opening” the economy he was “tweeting” “LIBERATE” in regard to several battleground states which ALL are now heavily favoring Joe Biden. Our IMPEACHED so-called president is not the “brightest light in the room” and, today, he, again, while grubbing for votes in Wisconsin, once again said, “If we didn’t test we wouldn’t have any cases.” Every time I hear him say that my jaw drops. My suggestion is someone should give him a different campaign slogan.
In the past couple of days another poll came out which would suggest if individual 1 doesn’t figure out what is happening in America (over 40,000 KNEW Covid-19 cases again today) we could have a record breaking landslide in November. My friend I mention here often who is part of the individual 1 Cult has been predicting just that, to me, for months – although, he’s predicting it will be our IMPEACHED so-called president on the winning side. He’s also predicting “liberals” will be in the streets after that happens. I suggested to him he was correct, he just has it backwards – and, the polling of late would indicate I may be the one who has it figured out. I’ve long worried about groups like the “Boogaloo bois,” the “Proud boys,” and other white nationalist groups rebelling as their fuhrer is voted out of office.
Individual 1 is already setting the stage for his white nationalist supporters hitting the streets by suggesting the election is going to be rigged! I’ll say it again, ALREADY! He sees all the polls and he’s already so far behind it will take the Russians, William Barr, AND James Comey to get him over the “line.” Not only is individual 1 trailing by almost 10 points in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin, but he’s trailing by almost 10 points in Arizona, Florida, and North Carolina. To make matters worse, he’s also trailing in places like Georgia, Iowa, and Texas – just within the “margin of error” in those three states. Bottom line: it looks really BAD for our IMPEACHED so-called president! (And, he keeps making it worse. This past weekend he “retweeted” a “tweet” of one of his supporters shouting “white power” from a golf cart in Florida’s “The Villages” retirement community. Just so there’s no doubt about his racism)
Individual 1 is ruining our country. We are part of a world economy, like it or not. Other places around the world are nearing a point where they will reject Americans from even visiting. Simply attempting to wish this virus away, for example, is a bad strategy and a bad look. The Europeans are looking at America with dismay. (Except for the neo-Nazi’s) There are numerous issues which are turning our traditional allies away – and, we need to fix this in November, or we may never recover from the DAMAGE!
But, the DAMAGE goes way deeper than this virus to what our IMPEACHED so-called president is doing to this nation. Astonishingly, the republican led Senate continues to walk in “lock-step” with individual 1 and THAT is making matters worse. For over a month (since Moscow Mitch declared the HEROES Act “dead on arrival) I’ve been pointing out the republicans don’t even understand what is holding up the economy. Democrats are trying to help, but republicans reflexively say no. Almost like the oppositional defiant students I used to deal with when I was still teaching. When republicans think “stimulus” they immediately turn to Wall Street – apparently, without limits. But Main Street?……………….
Yes, they’ve provided about $7 TRILLION for Jerome Powell’s “tool chest” at the Fed to prop up Wall Street but, it seems to me (again, I’m no economist) what is really helping our economy are the parts of the CARES Act forced through by the democrats. That would include the PPP (Paycheck Protection Plan) plus, to me, more importantly the $600 bonus payments each week to those who are receiving unemployment benefits. This is money which, in most instances, is being put right back into the economy. From my perspective that is what is “propping up” the economy – rents are being paid, bills are being paid, and people are buying food for their families. That “bonus” is due to end in about four or five weeks. And, trust me, the unemployment issue won’t be “over” by then.
My son works in a restaurant and last week he was called back for about 15 hours per week after about two months of unemployment. Even though we live in a state which was doing really well earlier, things are getting worse and it wouldn’t surprise me to see the restaurants getting shut down again. The restaurant, a very popular one, is less than half full so it will be some time until it’s really open again. Still about half of the workers are on furlough and collecting these unemployment benefits. Today, as I always do, I checked the stock market and it was down about a bit over 2% with increased speculation there’s a 20% “dip” on the horizon. The reason? Well, people who own businesses understand what the effect will be once somewhere between 20 and 40 MILLION people are no longer receiving that $600 bonus each week. That’s money which will no longer be going right back into the economy.
Naturally, democrats are pushing to extend this “bonus” until at least January of 2021 while Moscow Mitch, as I said above, has called it “dead on arrival.” The market is picking up on that and realizes the reality of where our economy would be without that stimulus and, therefore, where it’s going if the stimulus is not extended. There are actually MORE Covid-19 cases today than at any other time. According to individual 1 that’s because “we’re testing” and he keeps adding “if we didn’t test we wouldn’t have cases.” Yikes!!! The combination of the SURGE in Covid-19 cases and the intransigence of individual 1 and Senate republicans is a BAD look!
There are also many “conservatives” who want to just “keep on keepin on” who want to simply weather the storm and they keep suggesting the fact the death toll is averaging about 750 per day over the past week or so indicates things aren’t so bad. First, 750 deaths per week are BAD, but, let me add, it’s going to get worse – deaths are a “lagging indicator” – the hospitals are filling up including the ICU’s and the people requiring intubation are increasing as well – at an alarming rate. (It’s been a few days and “deaths” are down a bit more but, as I’ve said they are a “lagging indicator” and it doesn’t look good going forward)
I’ve been “out of commission” a couple days which seems like a lifetime in following individual 1. I keep thinking, “What if Obama…………….?” Fill in the blank. This past weekend’s number one SCANDAL which would topple any other administration is the news about Russia putting a BOUNTY on American troops in Afghanistan via the Taliban – apparently, resulting in the deaths of “a few American troops.” Individual 1 is claiming, “I didn’t know.” Well, which is worse – he didn’t know or he knew and did nothing about it? Both of those scenarios make me even more nervous about the next 7 months. Individual 1 will be our IMPEACHED so-called president until January 20, 2021. Can you imagine if we’d known about this as individual 1 was giving the commencement address at West Point? This administration is like the “house of horrors.”
The level of incompetence coming from this “White House” seems beyond imagination – but, the sad reality is it’s really this bad. The headlines for this week’s scandals center around the continued lack of leadership regarding Covid-19 AND, more significantly, questions about individual 1’s continued “bromance” with Vladimir Putin. He’s said NOTHING about the Russians paying the Taliban to KILL our troops in Afghanistan and, on top of that, he’s doing Putin another favor by pulling 25,000 troops out of Germany. Additionally, he’s been trying to get Putin and Russia into the G-7. Individual 1 is SHAMELESS when it comes to getting on his knees for Vladimir Putin. Sad!
Final Thought: I started this post a few days ago and then the internet connection at our house suffered an outage and I was forced to live like I used to for a couple days – it was interesting, to say the least. So, today, as I’m watching the news there is concern all around the country due to the SURGE in Covid-19 cases which, apparently includes MOSTLY “young” people – people in their mid twenties to late thirties – in Florida, I believe, the governor said the average age of new patients in their hospitals is 36. There is a lot of concern about “community spread” and who those might be following all these “young” people into the hospitals around the country.
As I was thinking about this, all I could get my mind around was the Covid-19 consequence of the George Floyd protests are still on the horizon, in my view. I just don’t see how you could put all those people, who, quite naturally, I supported, into such close proximity and not have a lot of “spread” of this virus – which is EXTREMELY contagious. Of course, the biggest fear is for those “old people” who are infected by these “young” people. We’ll see how this goes but the reality is this virus is pretty much out of control all across the country and STILL individual 1 is pretending “all is well.” Of course, it is NOT “well,” and the next few weeks could be disastrous.
(So far, the “experts” are saying the protests have not shown up in the statistics on the virus)