There are rumors Joe Biden doesn’t want to deal with all the “stuff” which would be involved with investigations into all the ILLEGAL behavior of individual 1 and his sycophants. Apparently, he feels it would keep our IMPEACHED so-called two time LOSER president too much in the headlines making it more difficult for him to “bring the nation together.” Well, I hate to let him know this, but SOME of what SHOULD be investigated is what individual 1 and his sycophants are doing right now which will cause it to be close to impossible to “bring the nation together.” I really hope he doesn’t fall into the same mirage individual 1 fell into when dealing with the coronavirus. Individual 1 didn’t want to deal with the virus because he thought it would ruin his chances at re-election. Oops! Obviously, he SHOULD have taken it seriously and proved he had the capability to handle a crisis. OK, I know what you’re thinking. That’s not possible for him.

So, with Biden the worst decision he can possibly make would be to allow individual 1 and others to feel even more confident they are “above the law.” The OPPOSITE must be proven. Here’s what I heard him promise, with my own ears: He will allow THE Justice Department (not “his” Justice Department) to follow evidence of wrongdoing wherever it leads. Yep, that’s what he said – so, if he starts wanting to “walk that back” there will be a PLETHRORA of people like me who won’t be happy. Biden’s job is to choose an Attorney General and, then, let his Attorney General do his/her job. It should be undeniable there’s a fair (OK, a lot of) number of ILLEGAL activity coming from individual 1’s administration. For example, our IMPEACHED so-called two time popular vote LOSER president has lots to worry about – not the least of which would be ALL the OBSTRUCTION of Justice evidence “memorialized” by Robert Mueller and the Democratic House Judiciary Committee which, I’m sure, he’s trying to figure out how to pardon himself out of liability.

I’ve listened to varying reports on whether or not individual 1 can pardon himself – although, I’m certain, he’ll force the courts to decide the issue, ultimately. I do not doubt one of his last acts as he’s being dragged from the “White House” will be pardoning himself, his children, and anyone he can think of who has complimented him over the previous four years. He’ll likely pardon Vladimir Putin, just in case. One thing I believe I’ve heard enough so that it “rings” true to me is that he can’t pardon himself from “future” transgressions. A pardon is somewhat an admission of guilt, so he will have to admit he’s guilty of specific CRIMES before leaving office if he decides he wants to find out in court if he has that power. Up until now, NO president has ever shown any inkling to feel the need to pardon himself – so, it’s still a matter of conjecture.

Sadly, in my view, there’s no law which requires a president to do a good job so, the incompetence we’ve all seen during this pandemic isn’t something individual 1 has to pardon himself for – yet, the number of Americans who will be DEAD by the time he leaves office could, conceivably reach close to half a MILLION! Yes, you read that correctly. I listened to one of the doctors, today, at the University of Washington’s cohort which has been creating the “models” being followed during this crisis, and he was clear when he said we could be LOSING 4000 American lives, or MORE, PER DAY by the first day of February. At that rate, it adds up very quickly. Like today, November 18 – with 63 more days of enduring individual 1’s term in office – according to “worldometer.info” (which is the site I use to follow the Covid crisis) there were 1956 people who died, just today. It’s going to get a LOT worse.

One way I follow the statistics of the pandemic is by checking the “world” section of the above mentioned site you can find out the number of Americans in “serious/critical” condition. Obviously, as those numbers increase the number of daily deaths increase. So, about a month ago, when we were experiencing about 750 deaths per day, on average, there were around 14,000 Americans in “serious/critical” condition in hospitals around the country. Today, that number was 22,195 and increasing rapidly every day. That’s an increase of over 50% in just three or four weeks. Correspondingly, the number of DEATHS has increased by MORE than 50%. Take for example, what we’re seeing in El Paso, Texas is what happens when the hospitals run out of space to deal with all the incoming Covid-19 infected people. El Paso hospitals don’t have any more ICU “beds” so they are putting people in rooms to DIE because there’s nowhere else to put them.

After they die, to make matters worse (and, of course, no family can be anywhere near them as they’re DYING) their bodies are being placed in refrigerated truck trailers because there’s no room in the morgue as well. There are more and more hospitals across America every day which are in the same position as the hospitals in El Paso and, while all this is happening, individual 1, as he has been for the past five months, at least, when it comes to Covid-19 he’s been AWOL. And, to me, his new “covid czar” Scott Atlas is even worse. He not only continues encouraging people to simply find a way to catch this virus he’s ginning up the “deplorables” to act against governors who are attempting to enact mitigating policies to prevent their hospitals from becoming the next “El Paso’s.” This, in my view, SHOULD be CRIMINAL incompetence, but, sadly, it appears it’s simply incompetence. Both individual 1 and Mr. Atlas will have to face the consequences of their INACTION when it’s time for them to “meet their maker” if not sooner.

It’s become clear to me there is no “LOW” which could possibly cause individual 1 to lose even a “wink” of sleep at night. When it comes to a conscience, it appears he was in the rest room when conscience was “passed out.” He missed the “boat.” In fact, he’s now treating the entire government as if it’s the coronavirus and he’s ignoring it. Which would be OK with me if he wasn’t being so petulant about the reality of the election and preventing Joe Biden from any access to the transition money, materials, and office space which is called for according to the law – which, of course, our IMPEACHED so-called two time popular vote LOSER president has never felt the compunction to follow. Three guesses and the first two don’t count as to what individual 1 was doing today while he was SUPPOSED to be working for “we the people” – OK, you’re correct – he was golfing! Do you remember him claiming he’d be too busy to golf when he was originally campaigning. Yeah, right! He golfed over 300 times! (Yes, I started this post a few days ago and, while individual 1 continues his futile attempts at a coup, Joe Biden has received the “keys to the transition.”)

Now, I love to play golf, so don’t get me wrong. However, when I was still teaching I didn’t golf when I was supposed to be working. If you know any teachers I’m sure you know they spend almost as much time (if not more so) planning as they do actually teaching so it’s more than a full time job. (Like many important jobs in America) I averaged around 50 – 60 hours per week during the last few years of my career and more than that in the early years when I was finding my way. There was no room for golf – other than during the couple months during the summer when I didn’t have students – although, there always seemed to be classes. Now that I’m retired I’m able to find time to golf most weeks – when the weather cooperates – but, my point is, individual 1 SHOULDN’T be able to have golfed 300 times in just four years – that’s 75 times per year (if you’re math challenged). And, to make matters worse, his secret service personnel has to follow him at taxpayer expense (money in individual 1’s pocket). It’s been reported his golfing has caused taxpayers MILLIONS – aside from him being AWOL from his duties. Just sayin…………..

It’s been a few days and, today, there were over 180,000 newly diagnosed cases of Covid-19 and we’ve been averaging about that number for the past couple of weeks – and, it’s going to get much worse as people all around the nation continue to IGNORE the seriousness of this pandemic. It’s like they have NO respect for all the medical personnel who have been struggling to keep up with the numbers coming into their hospitals and trying to avoid burnout – which seems almost impossible at this point. PLUS these medical workers are getting infected by the virus at alarming numbers and there’s a serious SHORTAGE of doctors and nurses capable of treating Covid ICU patients. And, yet, individual 1 encourages people to go maskless. His campaign rallies left a “trail of Covid infections” which is obvious when you look at the statistics over the previous month. This is all simply hard for me to believe as someone who loves this country and just can’t understand how 70 MILLION Americans can be OK with this.

My youngest daughter is a registered nurse and I pray for her health every day. Tomorrow is Thanksgiving and I’m thankful that in about 56 days Joe Biden will be the president of the United States. Today, individual 1 pardoned Michael Flynn and it’s been interesting listening to the reaction. Further evidence we have a mob boss in the “White House” and, I believe, the pardons have just begun. When you consider all the corruption and combine that with the incompetence – especially regarding the pandemic – it’s easy to see why so many people, aside from me, are eager for January 20,2021. At this point, it’s no secret individual 1 is attempting to “burn the house down” on his way out the door – but it will soon be over and Biden will be able to reverse MOST of the DAMAGE caused in these last few days. For those of us who are either working in hospitals or have children who are doctors, nurses, or other medical personnel, it’s easy to see why we’re THANKFUL this national nightmare is soon to be over.

Final Thought: If you weren’t believing individual 1 is a fascist and was attempting to overturn America’s democratic republic just continue watching his attempts to overturn an election which he lost by MUCH more than Hillary Clinton lost in 2016 – including Joe Biden has around 6 MILLION more votes than our IMPEACHED so-called two time popular vote LOSER president and counting – not that that matters in America, the land of the Electoral College. Not only is individual 1 refusing to accept that he LOST to “sleepy” Joe Biden but MOST of his sycophants in the Congress are going along with his insolence. They are showing themselves to be more “connected” to whatever gives them POWER than the oath they took to defend our constitution from “enemies” foreign and DOMESTIC.

I’ve been calling individual 1 a TRAITOR, using varying terms – some more direct than others, and he’s just making me prophetic (OK, along with many many others). This is exactly why people like me were calling the 2020 election the most important in my lifetime (I’ve been paying attention to presidential elections since Dwight Eisenhower defeated Adlai Stevenson for a second time back in the 1950’s) because our IMPEACHED so-called two time popular vote LOSER president has shown he cares NOT about this nation – it’s all about himself. And, somehow he managed to get a large contingent of right wing thugs to be willing to go along with the ruse. I’ve been calling individual 1 a pseudo mob boss for 3 years now and, as I’ve said before, there’s an easy solution to prevent this from happening again.

Individual 1 MUST be held accountable for his CRIMES as we go forward. As I said above, it is IMPERATIVE Joe Biden does NOT prevent the needed investigations into the ILLEGAL actions of our IMPEACHED so-called two time popular vote LOSER president along with the ILLEGAL actions of those who have been enabling him for the past four years. All you have to do is actually READ the Mueller report to understand individual 1 brazenly considers himself above the law. And, to me, Robert Mueller was NOT the right person to lead the Russia investigation because, when you read “Where Law Ends” by Andrew Weismann you understand how deep the OBSTRUCTION of their investigation actually was. There was SO much they didn’t investigate because of the “anticipated” OBSTRUCTION – in other words, they spent the entire time of the investigation being threatened that they could be fired by the person they were investigating. This can’t happen – otherwise, we might as well get rid of the special counsel investigation.

Now, individual 1 and his enablers are going around the country attempting to overturn the just finished election via various “deplorable” means. And, keep in mind, despite me not being a lawyer, I know enough about the law to understand much of what they are doing may be added to the ILLEGAL issues they’re facing once we have a different Attorney General in office. For example, Lindsey Graham attempting to get the Secretary of State in Georgia to “throw out” legitimate ballots in order to change the result of the state’s election. That can’t be legal, period, full stop. Rudy Giuliani is out of control and likely breaking laws in various states – not to mention further embarrassing himself in one venue after another. Is the Bar Association paying attention? And, our IMPEACHED so-called two time popular vote LOSING president pressuring various election officials in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Nevada, and Arizona seems to me to be a violation of the Voting Rights Act. Individual 1 and his sycophants, naturally, are trying to get the votes of African Americans in major cities thrown out. Go figure……………….

Likely, I’ll never forget listening to individual 1 after he LOST the Iowa caucuses back in the run up to the 2016 election when he said, “I love my uneducated voters.” That didn’t sink in to very many of us back then, but it certainly should be now. As I’ve pointed out here of late, I’ve lost patience with people who continue to support individual 1 and then try to come across as if they are “educated voters.” Worst yet, everyone of them I know reacts as if offended when you bring up the racist issue – that is, if you’re going to enable an overt racist, well, what does that say about you? I think that should be obvious, unless you’re an uneducated voter. I still remember when I was teaching bringing up politics with fellow teachers who didn’t want to have the discussion – saying things like “I hate politics.” I would have to answer that by telling them, “if our remit is to prepare students to be productive citizens upon reaching adulthood, that’s not an option.” Political awareness is a requirement of being a productive adult – and, VOTING is not only a great privilege in this nation, it’s a responsibility.

And, I’m OK with someone voting for the person I don’t vote for – even if it’s individual 1. Just don’t LIE to me about your reason for doing so. If you’re an “uneducated voter” don’t pretend you’re not. And, trust me, listening to Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh doesn’t make you an educated voter. (or Tucker Carlson, etc. etc.) You can read books written by academics AND you can verify the factual basis of their writing by doing a little research. It only takes effort. THEN we can have a discussion!

I have to add: Individual 1 spent four years of resentment to the reality the “Russia thing” brought a sense of illegitimacy to his term in the “White House.” And, not only did Vladimir Putin go out of his way to get our IMPEACHED so-called two time popular vote LOSER elected, but there was also James Comey. I know he struggled to understand his “win” – with 3 MILLION fewer votes than Hillary Clinton – was “tainted.” So, now he’s attempting to cause his CULT to believe Biden didn’t actually “win” – even though Biden now has OVER 6 MILLION more votes and counting. The two instances couldn’t be more different – but, individual 1 is going to lament his being a LOSER for perpetuity. Honestly, this doesn’t speak highly of the American public that 70 MILLION of us voted for this corrupt mobster. Yikes!!! (It remains to be seen if the media will allow individual 1 to get away with this sham)