Shameless: Having no shame; lacking in modesty; immodest; impudent; audacious; insensible to disgrace. The first and last part of that definition fits perfectly, in my view, with what is going on in individual 1’s final two months in office – for our IMPEACHED so-called two time popular vote LOSER of a president AND his sycophants. As “we the people” helplessly have to kind of sit by and watch the further degradation of the office of the president as the DAMAGE I’ve been talking about for almost four years now is mounting almost as exponential as the number of cases of the coronavirus which individual 1 continues to ignore. Reports are there will be poorly thought out reductions in America’s troop levels between now and January 20th and, to me, the really SHAMELESS is the hurriedly selling oil rights in the Arctic National Wildlife refuge. I’m sure there will be much more – not the least of which is SHAMELESS Secretary of State Mike Pompeo taking his wife on a seven nation tour of Europe at the expense of the taxpayers while he still, well, can. As I often say now, Mr. Pompeo is SHAMELESS!

I wrote that first paragraph yesterday, prior to the antics of Lindsey Graham (and others) becoming public knowledge and Mr. Graham is taking SHAMELESS to a new level. Well, actually, he is bordering it on taking it to the level of illegality. Usually, republicans are cagey enough to make sure there will be no legal recourse to their actions and, likely, Graham has done so (he’s got the “my word against his” defense). So, the report which came out last night was Graham badgering the REPUBLICAN Secretary of State in Georgia to “find a way” to throw out enough LEGAL ballots to allow individual 1 to say he won the state. What the………..???? Graham is the Senator from South Carolina (who, sadly, wasn’t voted out of office on November 3rd) and his actions would be patently ILLEGAL if the Secretary of State of Georgia, Brad Raffensberger, had a recording of his demand. And, of course, Graham’s not the only republican doing this. The result?? Well, thankfully, it appears Mr. Raffensberger, the Sec. of State, has called this for what it is and has told these people where to get off. And, of course, true to the republican creed, Raffensberger and his wife are now receiving death threats. What is wrong with these people? (A reminder: Lindsey Graham is the chair of the Senate JUDICIARY committee! Yikes!!!)

Here’s what I think – because, individual 1 is as vindictive as “they come.” Individual 1 worked to contest the legitimacy of the presidency of Barack Obama – without a shred of evidence – suggesting President Obama was not born in America – as the “head” of the so-called “birther” movement. Well, as they say, “turnabout is fair play” – well, I’m sure that’s how republicans ultimately viewed the “Russia thing” which our now IMPEACHED so-called two time popular vote LOSER president brought on himself with his COLLUSION with the Russians and, as time passed, the republican sycophants came to believe individual 1 that there was “no collusion and no obstruction.” (Read Andrew Weismann’s “Where Law Ends” to find the TRUTH about the obstruction and collusion) So, now I’m thinking individual 1’s refusal to admit he LOST while he’s ginning up MILLIONS of Americans to actually believe him so that Biden’s “legitimacy” will be questioned by all the right wing “ditto heads” who watch Fox “news” is, in his mind, payback. Here’s the deal, “turn about is NOT fair play” when it comes to the security of this nation. There is a PANDEMIC going on! I’ve been saying this for years, “we the people” need to retire the republican party to the history books. They’ve brainwashed enough Americans who seem almost illiterate to continue this ruse for another undetermined length of time. Sad!

So, for republicans who still remember the “women’s march” right after the “election” of individual 1 and the “resistance” which followed, there’s a HUGE difference between individual 1’s “victory” and that of Joe Biden. Biden didn’t work with a foreign government to “win” the election – he actually campaigned – while giving deference to the Covid-19 pandemic – which, by the way, was raging thanks to individual 1’s incompetence – in strategic states and he actually won, at this stage, close to 6 MILLION more votes than our IMPEACHED so-called two time LOSER president AND, more importantly, he also won the Electoral College in an identical “landslide” to individual 1’s in 2016. Any, “resistance” coming from the right wing echo chamber will, eventually, fall into the same place in our history books reserved for all the other sycophants of individual 1. The republican party has become the right wing white nationalist movement in America. The next four years should be interesting, to say the least. (And, by the way, by standing firm for the TRUTH Secretary Raffensberger is putting himself and his family in the direct line of death threats!)

Speaking of the Russians and Vladimir Putin – OK, I didn’t mention Putin, but here goes. If you’ve had your head in the sand – or you watch Fox “news” or listen to people like Rush Limbaugh (who SHOULD have to give his medal back, the one which individual 1 gave him) – you don’t understand Putin, in the 2016 election was attempting to undermine America’s election process and turn Americans against each other. They COLLUDED with members of individual 1’s campaign (those connected to Cambridge Analytica) to use Facebook in a massive misinformation campaign (AKA “Fake news” AKA “LYING”) to undermine the 2016 election which all parties assumed individual 1 would LOSE (both the Electoral College AND the popular vote). Of course, the past four years are evidence the experts were wrong regarding the Electoral College and we’ve all had to endure the corruption and incompetence of our IMPEACHED so-called two time popular vote LOSER president since. (I can’t wait to be able to stop writing that “name” because it’s getting harder the more he LOSES)

So, when you do a bit of reading and you begin to understand the “connection” which exists between individual 1 and the Russians it has to make you wonder – OK, it’s making me wonder – what REALLY is the connection of Russia with our IMPEACHED so-called two time popular vote LOSER president? Why do I ask? Well, it appears he’s still doing the bidding of Vladimir Putin. Undermining the election process in America? Putin couldn’t do it any better! Turn Americans against each other? Putin couldn’t do it any better! Start a race war? I think you, by now, know where I’m going with this – yep, Putin couldn’t do it any better! We’ve watched this with our foreign policy over the past four years and now the domestic policy issues are becoming clearer and clearer. Our NATO allies were on the edge of their seats watching our election with the future of that alliance likely hanging in the balance and, now, individual 1 is working overtime to destroy the confidence in our elections by his supporters – as if you didn’t vote for him you got cheated – like the nearly 80 MILLION people who voted for Biden were fraudulent. Rrrrrright!

I’ve written about my belief individual 1 has been acting like a traitor – is he more focused on what is best for America or is he actually doing the bidding of Putin? Many beyond me are asking the same question. He owes HUNDREDS of MILLIONS of dollars – much of it, allegedly, to foreign interests. On top of that, the Scottish government is wanting to know where he got the money to purchase the Turnberry Golf Links over there near Aberdeen Scotland a few years ago? It appears there are people in Scotland who believe our IMPEACHED so-called two time popular vote loser president may have LAUNDERED some Russian money in order to purchase this golf course. I believe this potential investigation along with many others may be a large part of the reason why individual 1 continues to pretend he didn’t LOSE the election. When you’re no longer president money laundering, bank fraud, and insurance fraud are very serious CRIMES. Potentially crimes for individual 1’s entire organization which would, possibly include his children. And Jared Kushner? I read “Kushner Inc” as far as I could and all I could think about was “The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.” I believe Kushner has a bit of worry on his legal horizon.

The reports are that individual 1, in his waning days in office, wants to cement a “legacy” which is connected to the impending Covid-19 vaccinations which are, apparently, soon to get emergency approval by the FDA. It’s also being reported our IMPEACHED so-called two time popular vote LOSER president is refusing to allow Biden’s “team” access to any information regarding the roll out of the vaccines apparently so he’ll get more credit for things created in labs around the world – as if he actually created them. Here’s the deal, the fact he supported a “fast track” for the companies making the vaccines wasn’t some kind of “genius” decision – ANY person in his office would have done, at least, the same. That all being said, his refusal to even attempt any mitigation of this virus will actually be his LEGACY. (And, of course, Scott Atlas will be right there with him) As I’m writing this the 7 day average of NEW reported INFECTIONS is now over 150,000 per day – soon to be over 200,000 per day – numbers which SHOULD have been unthinkable. The daily DEATH total is now well over 1000 per day and, sadly, soon to be OVER 2000 per day. This will be what he’s remembered for!

One thing about us Americans is we are predictable. So, in my state (Washington) our governor has instituted another policy attempting to “stop the spread” of the coronavirus and, sure enough, the run on toilet paper (and other household items) has begun. I was at Costco yesterday and they are, once again, funneling people through the side of the building with all the things they’re “out of” on mini bulletin boards outside the entrance to the warehouse. And, naturally, toilet paper was at the top of the list. As Michael Osterholm has warned, repeatedly, we’re about to enter “Covid hell.” He’s been pointing out to anyone willing to listen that the fall and winter months are going to be a horrible time regarding the coronavirus based on the lack of policy coming from the “White House.” By the time Joe Biden is legally in charge there could be another 200,000 people DEAD. For example, right now, in El Paso Texas, there are so many people critically sick with this virus that the hospitals are being forced to tend to the people with the greatest chance of survival while putting others in cordoned off rooms where they are allowed to take their final breaths before they’re put in body bags and then stored in refrigerator trucks because the morgues are beyond their capacity. This is horrible, disgusting, and prior to Scott Atlas was preventable. Come to think of it, considering all the reports of individual 1’s FAILURES regarding the coronavirus, based on Scott Atlas’s pronouncements, this surge in Covid-19 infections along with the accompanying surge in DEATHS, in MAGA world, maybe is considered to be a wildly successful outcome. Yikes!!!

As all of this unfolds we are seeing example after example of how republicans, the so-called “law and order” party, are visualizing themselves as “above the law.” Of course, right now the focus could be on Senator Graham because his actions clearly were ILLEGAL. I mean, what reason would a Senator from South Carolina have in interfering in an election in Georgia? That’s just NOT supposed to happen. And, if something happens to the REPUBLICAN Secretary of State in Georgia does Graham (and individual 1, of course) have responsibility – as they are ginning up the right wing “crazies?” (Deplorables, in the words of Hillary Clinton) The governor of Michigan is now under threat again – threats which were encouraged by none other than Scott Atlas himself – apparently saving individual 1 from the need to do so. And, of course, all of this begs the questions surrounding all the OBSTRUCTION of Justice by our IMPEACHED so-called two time popular vote LOSER president which COULD be prosecuted once he’s no longer in office. I mean, what is it going to take to get these republicans to understand the laws actually apply to them as well?

I really do have to wonder how all the MAGA maniacs are going to react when their cult leader starts having to deal with his issues with the legal system starting on January 21st. Joe Biden has assured “we the people” he will not interfere with the Justice Department if/when the investigations into the behavior of our IMPEACHED so-called two time popular vote LOSER president and his sycophants start gaining “steam.” Trust me, there’s a lot to uncover which “we the people” don’t know about as I’m writing this – but, I’ve read enough about individual 1 to have no doubt he was operating a RICO enterprise prior to FOOLING the republican party into believing he was a successful businessman who could actually run our government. Sadly, MOST Americans don’t read about politics despite the FACT we are responsible for being informed voters – which is hard to do watching TV “news” shows – no matter what network you choose. The only way I’ve ever managed to be in the 1% was by reading the Mueller report – which I did twice. If you read that report with an open mind and you actually believe we are a “system of laws and not men” you wouldn’t be driving around with a bunch of individual 1 flags flying from your truck or car. Honestly, that’s kind of embarrassing to watch.

Final thought: As I’m writing this there are 65 days until this national nightmare is finally over. The problem is the DAMAGE. I’ve been writing about the DAMAGE for almost four years now and it has been progressively mounting at higher rates. I even speculated on what this “transition period” would be like once individual 1 had officially been voted out of office. My guess was he would do as much DAMAGE as he could manage on his way out the door. After all, he’s about as vindictive a human being as they come. (Picture the mob boss, which has been my way of equating him for almost three years now) He has no SHAME and he’s NOT a “loyal republican.” The ONLY way he cares about the republican party is in ways which benefit him. He will undoubtedly announce he’s running again in 2024 (I’ve written he was going to do that regardless) and he’ll do whatever he needs to do to keep the republican “establishment” (whatever that is right now) backing him as he goes on to face a potential plethora of legal charges coming his way.

Here’s the thing for me. There’s no conceivable way to charge him with any crime for what he’s NOT doing to fight this virus, but, in my mind, that may be his greatest crime. HUNDREDS of thousands of lives very well may be attributed to his FAILURE to lead “we the people” in the face of a once a century (hopefully) pandemic – which he was warned about prior to taking office, while the virus was still confined to China, and as his own HHS Secretary warned him in January. He chose to try ignoring it because he felt any cases made him look bad (think of the cruise ship he didn’t want to allow the people with the virus to leave). Every decision he made regarding Covid-19 was wrong – most by 180 degrees. And, the worse it got the more obstinant he became – to the point where we are now and will be as he leaves office. Let’s hope he doesn’t compound all the DAMAGE he’s already done with some kind of foreign policy fiasco – like what has been reported in the past couple of days – that he’s thinking of “bombing Iran” on the way out the door and leaving Biden with that mess.

Bush/Cheney left Obama/Biden with, what at the time, was an unbelievable mess. The financial markets were cratering and jobs were being lost by the HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS every month. At least, during the transition, the Bush/Cheney “team” worked with the incoming “team” to help them “hit the ground running.” Individual 1 is determined to make sure that doesn’t happen. This, of course, proves he could care less about America – he’s going to increase the DAMAGE as much as he can. Where are the republicans? What the hell is going on with them? If individual 1 does some reckless foreign policy adventure to add to the mess, to me, it’s as much on the republicans in Congress as to our IMPEACHED so-called two time popular vote LOSER president himself. And, cleaning up this mess? Is Moscow Mitch going to do everything he can to OBSTRUCT that process as well? Stay tuned…………..

One last thing: Trust me, I fully understand when it comes to the DAMAGE caused to this nation by individual 1, I understand only the “tip of the iceberg.” I will say, it won’t surprise me if we learn, ultimately, our IMPEACHED so-called two time popular vote LOSER president has been working for the Russians. At some point, “we the people” will learn what it has been they’re holding over him. And, if Joe Biden makes the same mistake as Barack Obama – which would be blocking investigations into all the wrongdoing – we’ll soon be facing a rerun of these last four miserable years. He (Biden) promised he wouldn’t do this, but as we get closer to the day he takes the oath of office I don’t have a good feeling. To republicans, this would be another democratic example of their lack os spine.

As I listen to our so-called “liberal media” reporting on the fiasco which is unveiling itself in America as individual 1 continues acting like a “baby” who didn’t get his way and is having temper tantrums in the middle of the Oval Office leaving a lengthening trail of disgusting behavior in the wake of his actions (or, inactions) during the previous 9 months of his administration they continue blaming the “partisan divide.” Virtually everything individual 1 has done since he was warned about the coronavirus back in January has been wrong – him acting as if the democrats created this virus to “take him down” instead of acting like a real president whose number one interest was the safety of the American people. The issue isn’t a “partisan divide,” it’s a combination of obstinance and incompetence coming from the “White House” and they should call it as it is.

Honestly, as much as I wanted individual 1 to LOSE in November (which he, of course, did), I believe, had he chosen to put the health of “we the people” ahead of the election he would have won in a landslide. He would have shown enough people he could handle a crisis to gain enough support to prevent all the states which “flipped” from doing so. Instead, when you look at the statistics of the raging pandemic, he has left a trail of sickness and death in the wake of all the “rallies” he insisted on holding during the last month of the campaign. Not a recipe for attracting voters. Eventually, all the statistics will be available to EVERYONE who chooses to look at actual FACTS, and it’s going to look really bad for individual 1. Ultimately, he’s going to be responsible for the DEATHS of hundreds of thousands of Americans – many who will die between right now and Biden’s inauguration due to individual 1s petulance. This is actually, in my view, a travesty which is hard to imagine! (And, reportedly, our IMPEACHED so-called president is planning to run again in 2024! Yikes! The nightmare continues)

As I’m writing this, it’s not quite 5 PM in the East, (I live in the West) there are already over 150,000 NEW cases of people infected with this virus despite 10 states yet to report, including Texas, where the virus is, once again, out of control. It won’t take long for the totals to be in excess of 200,000 per day and republicans will find creative ways to “spin” all this so that the BLAME doesn’t fall where it should – which is right at the feet of individual 1. The scientists, doctors, nurses, and others in the health care industry have been pleading with our IMPEACHED so-called president to institute an organized national strategy to “crush the virus” (in the words of Nancy Pelosi). Along with the Senate republicans there has been a refusal to even pass a bill which would bring relief to all those affected negatively by this pandemic. To me, when the reporters complain about the “partisan divide” – which is true – they need to be clear about the effects of the republicans refusal to FIGHT against this virus! When democrats pass a bill and republican refuse to consider it, that’s not an issue with “both sides.”

For heaven’s sake, Mitch McConnell won handily in Kentucky despite his refusal to even bring to a vote the “HEROES Act” which would have benefited Tens of thousands of Kentuckians let alone MILLIONS of other Americans around the nation. The misinformation swirling around places like Facebook (and other right wing web sites) has created a large swath of Americans who believe stuff which is so far from reality it makes people like me want to use derogatory words like “stupid” when discussing people who believe this stuff. I “get” there are MILLIONS of Americans who care about the so-called “pro life” movement and nothing else. When I talk to these people – I’m a Christian and I go to church (when there’s no pandemic) – I just come away shaking my head. Isn’t protecting as many Americans as possible from this virus “pro life?”

Individual 1, when all is said and done, will be considered the WORST president in the history of this nation. His attempt to turn over virtually every success of Barack Obama, apparently out of spite (racist spite?), will ultimately be a really bad LOOK. He was unable to even do ANYTHING to stop the coronavirus and we’re staring the Climate Crisis straight in the face and he’s still denying it exists. He’s, to me, about as intelligent as many of the people I hang around with. I believe had I inherited half a BILLION dollars I could have become an (actual) BILLIONAIRE over the previous 50 years (we’re about the same age). And, I think I could have done this without getting myself tangled with the mob and without routinely violating the laws.

When I listen to some of the commentators on MSNBC I just think they’ve fallen into the same ruse as individual 1’s cult – and, that is refusing to simply accept our IMPEACHED so-called president is a pathological LIAR so you can’t believe a word coming from his mouth. He’s a ten on the scale ten of narcissists so you can assume EVERYTHING he says is intended to benefit him, and only him. He’s an authoritarian, likely a “mob boss.” And, he’s been the most CORRUPT president in modern times if not EVER. MSNBC has now, at least, started pulling away from his press briefings once the LYING begins, but, to me, they should have long ago simply refused to show them – reporting ONLY on anything which was newsworthy. individual 1 got over 70 MILLION Americans to vote for a dictatorship in this country. To me, that is startling and means the future of this nation remains on the line going forward and couldn’t have happened without the help of our “liberal media’s” unquenchable “thirst” for MONEY at all costs.

I’ve already started to think of the importance of the 2022 mid-term elections. Traditionally, the party in power in the “White House” usually loses. It is of paramount importance that the Biden administration does NOT lose in the next mid-term election. Individual 1 will create as much harm as he can in the remaining 68 days until he’s evicted. Once we get past that point it is paramount “we the people” don’t relax. Trust me, individual 1 will be ginning up his white nationalist base for the mid term – if, for no other reason, spite. Generally, the number of Americans who vote in mid-term elections is embarrassingly small, but democrats MUST already be planning on a large turnout in 2022 to offset the right wing backlash to Biden’s victory. These republicans aren’t going anywhere unless we make them go away – or, what would be better, they could start acting as if the success of the country is their focus, not the failure of the other party and they could work to help Biden succeed – don’t count on that!

Despite the fact individual 1 felt as if the democrats were totally focused on destroying his administration, the reality is he brought all of his problems on himself. First of all, even though William Barr LIED about the Mueller report, the COLLUSION with the Russians was a choice our soon to be former IMPEACHED so-called president made on his own. If you don’t believe that, actually READ the Mueller report and you’ll understand the truth. And, if that doesn’t do it for you, read Andrew Weismann’s book “Where Law Ends” as he explains what it was like to be part of Mueller’s “team,” as individual 1 was constantly OBSTRUCTING their work. And, the extortion of the president of Ukraine, that was a self-inflicted “wound.” And, of course, as I said above, the incompetent reaction to the coronavirus was a choice made by a narcissist who is incapable of putting “we the people” in front of his perceived interests. That is, he’s just not capable of “doing the right thing.”

None of that will slow down the members of the republican party who remain in power via misinformation (LYING), gerrymandering (CHEATING), and out and out CORRUPTION. The very best the democrats can hope for coming out of this election is a 50/50 split in the Senate, but, regardless, there’s going to be MAJOR problems going forward, and, as I’ve pointed out here over and over, republicans will start BLAMING Biden for the problems as soon as individual 1 finally concedes DEFEAT – or, on January 21st – whichever comes first. In other words, if you love this country and want it to remain a democratic republic, grab onto your ass and prepare for a few more long years fighting off this right wing assault on the fabric of our nation! Yikes!

Ideally, we’ll see an infrastructure bill which will help to insure this nation is able to remain competitive in the world economy and keep our roads, bridges, etc. from completely crumbling while somehow Moscow Mitch is prevented from blocking via his obstruction tactics. It would be great to begin a concerted effort to address the Climate crisis and, it would be awesome if we could find a way to reunite all the 600+ children who’ve been taken from their parents who were seeking a better life in this nation only to discover individual 1 and his heartless sycophants were willing to do the unthinkable in this nation of IMMIGRANTS! As I’ve pointed out several times of late, individual 1 is a second generation IMMIGRANT and his wife IS an immigrant – who brought her parents here by the same policy individual 1 opposes. Go figure!

Speaking of “immigration,” that’s an issue which is undoubtedly going to be a “hot” one going forward as republicans have decided immigration is bad unless it comes from white people – apparently, the ideal immigrant in individual 1’s mind seems to come from “Norway.” A good example of why their immigration policy is so bad would have to do with this virus – people in the Latinx community, if they’re worried about ICE deporting them will remain in the “shadows” when sick and, therefore, help to spread the virus when they SHOULD be getting tested without fear of retribution should they be positive. This pandemic only accentuates that issue which is repeated over and over in the best of times. We need to provide a way for those in this country “illegally” to become “legal” so they can continue doing “essential” jobs without fear of being exposed. I’ll say it again, to varying degrees, we’re ALL immigrants.

When I talk to people I know who are part of the right wing “Christian” base of our IMPEACHED so-called president it’s always a bit deflating. Today, as I was talking to a good friend of mine, his wife “piped” into the conversation as my friend was denigrating Joe Biden (sadly, that’s just what republicans do) and she suggested Biden was going to bring in “socialism” to America. These are reasonably intelligent people – in fact, my friend is an engineer – but, they don’t like politics and they watch Fox “news.” That’s a bad “mix” for anyone making public their “opinions.” It really is hard to reason with people who watch Fox, as I’ve pointed out many times before here. Their (Fox’s) brainwashing technique is sophisticated and is focused on power and not the good of this country. (Actually, the “technique” originated in Nazi Germany)

Final Thought: I have to wonder if our vindictive IMPEACHED so-called president is simply willing to allow the virus to continue exploding until he gets dragged out of the “White House” and if he’ll continue urging his cult following to refuse to cooperate with the mitigation attempts which will be put into place once the Biden administration takes over. When I started writing today, as I mentioned above, the number of new cases was over 150,000 with several states still to report. After a trip to the store, I’m back and the total today is our first day OVER 180,000. The virus is spreading just as the experts have been predicting all along and still we have about a third of this nation unwilling to cooperate in order to “crush” it.

This will be the final act of individual 1 as our IMPEACHED so-called president which, as I’ve said, will help cement his place in the pages of the history books where no one SHOULD want to “tread.” Of course, his future may be in numerous courtrooms around the country and maybe, to a certain extent, around the globe. I’ve heard rumors the Scottish government is planning to investigate where individual 1 got the funds (“unexplained wealth”) used to purchase the Turnberry golf club – an historic Scottish establishment.

So, as individual 1 is facing these legal challenges once we get to January 20, 2021 his obstinance could be leaving the rest of us with a depression level economy. He predicted a Biden presidential economic plan would lead to a depression, but it appears he’s going to make sure that happens, along with the Senate republicans. I’ve said many times here, I believe Wall Street is like a “house built on sand” and it could fall off the “cliff” at any point in time. Today, individual 1 spoke for a few minutes in front of the “White House” and he said, “This administration will not call for a “lockdown” and, of course, republicans still are living in fear of him. Here’s the deal, it doesn’t matter what our IMPEACHED so-called president says, this economy is in major DANGER – because the virus is spreading exponentially and will be over 200,000 new cases per day, maybe by next week. Soon, 2 – 3 THOUSAND Americans will be dying of Covid-19 EVERY day! This CAN’T be continued. The impending CRASH of the economy will NOT be the fault of Joe Biden.

As usual: I started this post a few days ago and individual 1 remains petulant and the virus remains on the “upswing” – which, likely, means 200,000 NEW cases per day soon – maybe this week. As our IMPEACHED so-called president continues sulking somewhere in the “White House” the DAMAGE is mounting and he’s leaving an even DARKER mark on his legacy, I didn’t think that was possible, as he prevents Joe Biden from access to transition assets which will/would allow a more seamless move into the White House by Biden’s “team.” Apparently, individual 1 doesn’t care that, by some estimates, maybe a HUNDRED THOUSAND lives will be lost by his sulking at LOSING the election. Individual 1 and his sycophants are showing how they could care less about this nation as they tread DANGEROUSLY close to a complete commitment to a fascist revival in 2024. They will burn America down to retain power. That is not and has not been a secret!

I’ve been talking about the DAMAGE being done by individual 1 for over three years now and we’re going to see a good example of what I’ve been talking about as our IMPEACHED so-called president takes out his anger on our government while he’s cleaning out his desk in the “White House” over the next couple of months. For example, there have been reports in the media over the past week that Secretary of Defense Mark Esper was about to give his resignation in the next day or so, but, of course, that’s not good enough for individual 1 – it’s more CHILDISH behavior as he FIRES Esper in a “you’re not resigning because I’ll FIRE you first. Trust me, there’s more to come.

If you’ve been on this site before you know I was a 6th grade teacher in my working days. I’ve had a lot of experience dealing with SPOILED 6th graders who were BULLIES and who hid behind the “mommies and daddies” when I, as the teacher, attempted to get the child to understand “bullying” was unacceptable in my classroom, but also virtually anywhere else. In every instance, when this young BULLY got “put in his place,” meaning NOT getting what he wanted, the little BULLY would start crying and show himself to be, in reality, a coward. Well, just as I’ve said many times individual 1 has reminded me of a sixth grade bully and his response to getting DEFEATED by Joe Biden – who he claimed was the worst candidate in history – has been cowardly lashing out on “Twitter” and, likely, spending time in the fetal position as he cries himself to sleep. It’s very difficult for someone as narcissistic as individual 1 to accept defeat – even though he brought this on himself. That being said:

Individual 1 has bulldozed norm after norm and he’s not going to stop now. He’s very angry he LOST, (OK, individual 1 on the miniscule chance you’d read this, YOU’RE a LOSER!) especially to a 78 year old man and a “woman of color,” and that he’s unable to find a way to CHEAT in order to change the results. He has succeeded in brainwashing his cult followers into believing the only way he could lose is for Biden to cheat which, of course, is absurd on its face. (I always felt the ONLY way he could’ve won was by CHEATING) There’s not a shred of proof to validate his accusations – not like what happened in 2016 where it’s OBVIOUS he “won” (with 3 MILLION less votes than Hillary Clinton) with the help of the Russians (yes, CHEATING) and there WAS COLLUSION despite William Barr’s cover-up. There just wasn’t a strong enough case of conspiracy for the Mueller team to take it to court – and, of course, they were NEVER going to indict “a sitting president” because of the OLC memo which the Department of Justice (therefore, Robert Mueller – a “rule follower”) strictly follows.

Right now I’m reading “Where Law Ends Inside the Mueller Investigation” by Andrew Weissmann which is a very interesting read and I highly recommend it to anyone interested in better understanding the Mueller investigation. I’m only about half way through the book and it’s becoming clearer to me my view of our IMPEACHED so-called president as a “mafia boss” is, well, right on. The firing of Esper makes me feel even more apprehensive about what MIGHT happen in the next two months – we have a republican Senate and they’ve proven themselves as cowardly in dealing with individual 1 – who, I believe, was planning his run for a third term in 2024 when the reality he’s OUT started to hit him in the face. Just picture other nations around the world figuring out what ways they can further take advantage of the DAMAGE I’ve been talking about over these past 3+ years.

One part of Weissmann’s book which really has struck me as being not only relevant, but an issue which SHOULD be “front and center” is the OBSTRUCTION which came from the “White House” (OK, individual 1) during Mueller’s investigation. There was so much more they could have uncovered but they spent the entire 22 months of the investigation wondering if “today would be the last day” – via threats from individual 1 he might fire them. In Mueller’s report he detailed 10 instances of OBSTRUCTION which over 450 former prosecutors from the Justice Department said they could prosecute if individual 1 weren’t protected by the OLC memo. Of course, on January 21, 2021 he will NO longer be covered by that memo and Mueller, clearly, in his report (I read it twice) said he was “memorializing” the evidence in case a prosecutor “down the road” might want to look into a prosecution.

I believe Mueller put it that way because he knew the possibility of IMPEACHMENT – which is the remedy for this kind of behavior in our constitution – was not a realistic option because of the gridlock in Congress and the republican party which seems to be afraid of individual 1’s tweets. Mueller did make it clear why OBSTRUCTION is such a serious CRIME. When you think about it, OBSTRUCTION of JUSTICE is the stuff of organized criminals – that’s how they stay our of jail. Threatening witnesses, threatening prosecutors and judges, LYING and individual 1 was guilty of OBSTRUCTION in numerous other ways as well during Mueller’s probe. Obstruction of Justice is one of the crimes most people (I’m saying this because I’m guilty myself) don’t think about so it shouldn’t surprise anyone that most Americans didn’t “blink” when William Barr undermined Mueller’s work with his “summary” and “conclusion” there wasn’t evidence to support a charge of OBSTRUCTION. Of course, Rod Rosenstein, to his eternal shame, was standing right there agreeing with Barr (after supervising the investigation for the entire 22 months).

Similar to James Comey and Mueller, himself, Weissmann spent much of the early part of his career as a prosecutor going after the mob. Naturally, he saw similarities to those investigations with the Mueller investigation. It’s interesting reading about their probe into the crimes of Paul Manafort and their possible connection to the individual 1 campaign. Clearly, Manafort represented a possible connection with the Russians which the Mueller team simply was unable for really investigate fully because of the thread of their firing hanging over their heads pretty much the entire time of the investigation. They wanted Manafort to “flip” but he was never going to do so, because, in my view, he felt he would be safer in jail than outside if he “turned” not only on individual 1 but the Russians.

Speaking of jail, do you think that has anything to do with our IMPEACHED so-called president’s refusal to admit he’s LOST the election. It’s several days since the election was “called” and he still hasn’t conceded and he’s likely to NEVER concede. Are the federal marshals going to have to drag him out of the “White House?” I wrote the other day I can’t imagine individual 1 doing the traditional “handoff” where he rides with Biden to the inauguration and sits right behind him as Biden and Kamala Harris take the oath of office. To this point in our history individual 1 is the ONLY politician running for president to get fewer votes than a woman – both Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris (of course, she’s now the Vice President elect). Breaking another norm. Do you think our IMPEACHED so-called president is going to break this norm – pardoning himself? Would that be admitting he’s been committing crimes?

Here’s another thought that I certainly don’t have the answer to. First, I’m not sure he can pardon himself in the first place – that SHOULD be litigated because, undoubtedly there will be republican presidents in the future so we need to understand if that is actually in his power. Obviously, it seems a president shouldn’t be able to pardon himself – that would actually put him/her above the law. Can he give himself a “blanket pardon?” Meaning pardoning himself for ANY crime he can/will be charged with in the future? Isn’t a pardon for something where someone’s already been charged/convicted with a crime? When you think about it if he can give himself a “blanket pardon” for future lawbreaking, well, that would be a bit scary, wouldn’t it?

I mean, you have to wonder what is going on in the brain of our IMPEACHED so-called president as he’s filing lawsuits all over the nation in an attempt to overturn the “will of the people” where he’s still contesting the mail in votes as being fraudulent – with NO EVIDENCE just as there’s been since the first time he suggested this. If you remember, individual 1 showed his “true colors” shortly after he LIED the oath of office when he forced his press secretary to LIE about something as trivial as the crowd size of his inauguration. He couldn’t handle that Obama’s crowd was much larger than his own. Then he formed a committee to “prove” over 3 MILLION illegal aliens voted for Hillary Clinton – the reason he “lost” the popular vote by that number. That SHOULD have sent a message to his followers, but, clearly they weren’t thinking along those lines.

This morning I listened to an interview with a voter in Texas who voted for individual 1 and, to say the least, it was interesting. First of all, she believes individual 1 actually “won” the election because the democratic votes MUST have been fraudulent. She believes in individual 1 because he moved the American Embassy to Jerusalem thereby recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The previous three administrations considered the moving of our Embassy to Jerusalem as a negotiating “chip” in any potential peace agreement with the Palestinians, a “chip,” which obviously, is now gone. She said she believes individual 1 was placed in office by God and added, “plus Biden wasn’t having rallies with 30,000 people.” Another Texan who voted for our IMPEACHED so-called president believes we’re in the “end times” and I’m not sure how he places individual 1 in that “plan.” Is he the “anti-christ?” If you saw the movie “Left Behind” that makes those of us still here a bunch of pagans – including these individual 1 voters in Texas, doesn’t it? These people appear to be no match for “social media” – which must be where they’re getting their “misinformation” (ie “Fake News”)

As we move past the election it’s becoming clearer and clearer individual 1 has created maybe the largest death cult in the history of the world. When all these court challenges FAIL, it should be interesting to see how all his right wing supporters respond to his defeat. Are the Proud Boys going to hit the streets? Or, are they going to be creating havoc going forward? Senator Lindsey Graham is suggesting if “republicans don’t change the election system (???) there will never be another republican elected president again. OHHHHKAYYY!? What the hell is he talking about? Apparently he’s suggesting their “platform” isn’t going to change as our country is CLEARLY changing – the demographics of our country is changing – and, it appears to me he’s PANDERING to the older white nationalists who republicans have had to depend on to “win” elections (the last one anyway). These people aren’t thinking very clearly.

It’s no surprise to me to see Ted Cruz, for example, encouraging individual 1, who disparaged his WIFE, of all things – the lowest form of political attacks, to continue attempting to get ballots changed in the various states where MILLIONS would have to be overturned for him to “win” another election. Can you imaging what would happen in this nation if that happened. The votes have been COUNTED and if, somehow, individual 1 got those who he planted into the courts decided to overturn the “will of the people” I believe the prediction of my (individual 1 supporter) friend that “liberals” would be filling the streets and rioting would actually come true. Individual 1 is in the process of being the “MOTHER” of bad LOSERS! Further cementing his place next to Benedict Arnold in the American History books.

Final Thought: It IS embarrassing watching the reaction of individual 1 AND his sycophants who apparently are going to their graves in FEAR of our IMPEACHED so-called president. However, it goes way beyond EMBARRASSING! These republicans are un patriotic and this is all simply letting us all know how deep the DAMAGE – which I’ve been talking about for almost four years now – really is. There are multiple reports individual 1 is already planning to run again (God help us) in 2024 (should he avoid too much jail time) so republicans will need to be subservient to him for, well, likely the rest of my life. And, to all those who are “giddy” about Joe Biden’s message of unity, I’ve got “news” for you. Let’s call it Fox “news.” I hope you get my “drift.”

This country is in deep trouble and it’s the result of the republican push to the “right” which started back in 1980 with the election of Ronald Reagan and the sooner democrats understand what is/has happening/happened the sooner they may be in a place to overcome this disaster. Let me put it succinctly – the many WHITE people in America (full disclosure, I’m one of them) feel they are the victims of the demographic shift which has been ongoing for years. Apparently, there are a lot of white people who don’t want to be forced to compete with “persons of color” so they are the perfect “stooges” for a demagogue like individual 1. Many of them shield their grievance in absurd moral issues – like “pro life” – while they support the MOST morally BANKRUPT politician in America – maybe EVER!

I could go on and on with my summation of individual 1’s moral lacking – and, of course, I have – but suffice it to say the number of Americans who are likely to DIEA between the time I’m writing this and when Joe Biden has individual 1 escorted from the “White House” should he pretend he’s still our (IMPEACHED so-called) president, could approach a quarter of a MILLION! That’s simply one issue resulting from individual 1’s “moral bankruptcy” – he could care less about all these people who are going to die. (Full disclosure – I could be one of them if I happen to contract the virus, which is starting to spread rampantly in the local area where I live) Today, as I’m writing this (11/11/2020) there have already been over 123,000 NEW cases of Covid-19 reported with, still, nine more cases to report.

Hospitals are filling up and, sadly, the people working in these hospitals are already exhausted and too many of us Americans don’t seem to care about our doctors, nurses, and other people who work in the hospitals who we expect to be there “for us” when it becomes necessary to actually be there. Personally, I’m hoping to have an “elective surgery” before the end of the year, but I’m guessing that will have to, once again, wait. The next two months as we wait for individual 1 to address his legal issues as a “private citizen” – but face his vindictiveness as he will continue to refuse any organized federal response to the pandemic – could be catastrophically BAD. Epidemiologists who once warned us about “possibly as many as 100,000 cases per day” are now suggesting over 200,000 cases per day within a couple weeks.

Today, in Wisconsin, it was reported that fully one out of EVERY three people being tested for the virus are proving to be positive – which is an ALARMING number! Anything over 5% is considered problematic, but 33%?! Yikes!!! And, the hospitals in Wisconsin are nearly FULL as are the hospitals in the surrounding states so doctors are warning there’s no place to send the overflow of patients they are expecting in the coming weeks. This is just ONE of the disasters individual 1 will he “handing off” to Joe Biden – and, makes it clear to the people of Georgia the importance of electing TWO democratic Senators in the January election because the republicans in the Senate are going along with not only what individual 1 is doing (OK, not doing) in regard to Covid-19, but also what appears to be his authoritarian attempt to challenge the very foundation of our constitution, once again – by refusing to accept the results of the previous election. (You can read my true concerns in my previous posting where I posit the question: Is individual 1 actually planning a coup de tat? And, will republicans go along with that? Well, Lindsey Graham will go along with “whatever”)

I have to add: Trust me on this one – individual 1 is leaving the MOST egregious MESS as he leaves town, however that will have to happen, for the Biden/Harris administration and “we the people” will see the right wing “echo chamber” blaming Joe Biden and Ms Harris for all the disasters they are about to “inherit” and it will be up to those of us who supported them to DEFEND them at all costs. Individual 1 is going nowhere (unless a court decides otherwise) but it really is time for those in the CULT to re-evaluate their patriotism. Many of them drive around with flags flying from their cars and trucks. We’ll soon see how hollow all of that is/was! God help us! There will come a time when people realize it’s shameful to have an individual 1 flag flying next to an American flag! I believe that time is here, but the challenge is to get those who voted for him to understand their FEARS which allow them to align with white nationalists are NOT well founded!

Reports are – individual 1 is going to announce his campaign for the 2024 nomination before he actually leaves office. Can you imagine how republicans are going to accept that “promise?” All those republicans who are making their own plans and who’ve been acting as sycophants for the past four years will have to put their plans on “hold.” Individual 1 is going to make sure he destroys the republican party one way or the other. Just look at the group who are planning the “MAGA Million” protest this weekend – a bunch of KNOWN white nationalists associated with the likes of Alex Jones, The Daily Stormer, Stormfront.com, etc. If you’re part of America who still don’t understand individual 1 is a white nationalist, well, I’m not sure what to say to you, other than “get your head out of…………………. OK, I’ll let you finish the sentence.

Sadly, the people of Kentucky didn’t have the foresight to prevent another six years of OBSTRUCTION by Moscow Mitch McConnell AND the people of South Carolina failed to relieve “we the people” of Lindsey Graham’s SLIMY pandering of whoever seems most likely to give him as much limelight as possible. However, and THANKFULLY, “we the people” chose to FIRE individual 1 from the “White House,” for all intense and purposes, saving America’s republic from a second generation (from Germany, no less) pseudo fascist who, via (apparently) a reality TV show (which I NEVER watched), gained a cult following which seemed to believe he cared about their “pro life” beliefs. Similar to a démagogue who took over Germany in the 1930’s, individual 1’s base is the so-called “evangelical Christians.” For me, as a Christian, this is terribly disappointing. I know so many Christians who don’t read and almost ALL of them watch Fox “news.” Sad!

I listened to an individual 1 supporter yesterday suggesting she doesn’t believe Joe Biden could have possibly won the election “because he didn’t have rallies with thousands of supporters.” (Of course, when you look where those rallies were you see a “trail of tears” with THOUSANDS of people now suffering from the coronavirus) So, what do you think will happen if individual 1 attempts to pull off a coup de tat right here in the “World’s greatest democracy.” Here’s a scenario which would seem likely only in a movie, but I don’t put anything past our IMPEACHED so-called president, just think about how he just FIRED Mark Esper as the Secretary of Defense because he’s “not loyal enough.” Well, who is he putting into the Pentagon? Is there something nefarious going on? Honestly, I wouldn’t put it past individual 1. And, of course, the republicans are scared to death of him.

Just think about this, what if individual 1 calls in the military to prevent Joe Biden from taking control of our government? Remember, until January 20th William Barr is in charge of the Justice Department – which includes the FBI. Do you think individual 1 is STUPID – or SICK – enough to try pulling this off? Just today I heard Mike Pompeo suggesting “there’s going to be a peaceful transition into the second individual 1 administration.” What the hell does that mean? Pompeo was first in his class at West Point which is giving me pause to think about what kind of institution is our Military Academy. Supposedly, there’s an honor code at West Point which puts integrity above almost all else and, of course, we KNOW Pompeo has violated the code numerous times, so is he willing to go to the extreme of attempting to help overturn a “free and fair election” in this nation?

Clearly, there is a large segment of the American public which was willing to except an authoritarian takeover of our government – as long as it’s their “leader” at the helm. I mean, individual 1 has been showing the classic signs of a Erdogan type dictator for the entirety of his term in office. People like me have been pointing this out since day one. The parallels to the Germans back in the 1930’s have been stark from the first day I started researching them. (And, to boot, individual 1 is a second generation German) As I watch all of this playing out I will emphasize again the importance of Joe Biden allowing full investigations into the ILLEGAL behavior of individual 1 and his sycophants once this is all settled.

We all know individual 1’s final action as our IMPEACHED so-called president leaves office will be him pardoning himself (unless, of course, he has to be dragged from the White House by U.S. Marshalls who refuse to participate in any potential coup. And, I’m not sure individual 1 can give himself a “blanket pardon” which covers all potential legal violations. Doesn’t a pardon have to cover specific crimes. Would individual 1 have to admit to all of his crimes? Specifically? That being said, there’s a whole bunch of sycophants who, I believe, had better “tread lightly” right now as our IMPEACHED so-called president is encouraging them to act in very “un-American” ways. If, somehow, Biden does the “we need to look forward instead of back” thing President Obama did in the face of Bush/Cheney admitting to authorizing WAR CRIMES – we’ll be looking at another republican administration in four years. It’s time to draw the line on ILLEGAL behavior by America’s top elected officials! Period, Full Stop!

I was listening to Donny Deutch today on one of MSNBC’s afternoon shows (“Deadline Whitehouse”) and he suggested individual 1 is setting himself up to start up a TV station which will be the competition for Fox “news” – which is why Fox is probably a bit nervous with some of their commentators challenging individual 1’s integrity – FINALLY! Of course, our IMPEACHED so-called president has been LYING at an incredible rate for four years and Fox has rarely said anything negative about him – but, based on Deutch’s comments today, I’m guessing Fox’s executives are a bit nervous. Of course, Fox has already put themselves into the category of national DISGRACE, so maybe this is what they have coming. Personally, I’m not sure individual 1 will be able to pull this off because, pardon or not, he’s facing some serious legal jeopardy. Deutch may have inside information on this because it’s been rumored he’s dating ONE of individual 1’s ex-wives.

It’s also been reported individual 1 is talking about “running again” in 2024. Well, he was planning that before Joe Biden BEAT him – there were credible reports he envisioned himself as “(IMPEACHED so-called) president for life” like President Xi Jinping in China. Do you see why I’ve been saying this election is/was the MOST important election in my lifetime? And, I can guarantee you, virtually ALL the people I know who voted for individual 1 are still refusing to believe he lost. I have one who I’ve texted over the year of Covid-19 and he still has not responded to my text confirming his prediction liberals would be flooding the streets after the election, he was correct. It’s just that he also predicted they would be rioting because of individual 1’s victory in the midst of a “Red Wave.” Oops! Trust me, these people will NEVER accept Biden’s victory as legit – because republicans really are in a death cult. The next two months should be interesting (as if the last 46th haven’t been)

So, hopefully I’m wrong about individual 1 planning a coup de tat, but it’s undeniable he’s as vindictive as any person I’ve ever witnessed – and, while all the election stuff has been at the head of the news the coronavirus has been expanding at a rate which seems almost unbelievable to me right now. Not only is individual 1 doing NOTHING to help with the attempts by the medical personnel to “crush the virus” – in fact, it has appeared to me for months that he’s aspiring to the “herd immunity” approach which could, conceivably end up with anywhere from 2 to 6 MILLION Americans dying from Covid-19. So, today there were 135,000 NEW cases of the virus reported – in just one day – so, the virus is spreading “exponentially” as the epidemiologists have been warning us against – and, still, Americans are acting as if they’re tired of dealing with this – as if they could care less about those who are going to die from this disease.

Not only is individual 1 not doing ANYTHING to help mitigate this virus, it’s now being reported his vindictiveness is leading him to make it more difficult for any of the impending vaccines which are in the pipeline from proceeding at “Warp speed.” I can just wish to be the “fly on the wall” as he’s venting about how the news from the Pfizer vaccine was reported a day after he was declared the LOSER of the election. Of course, I’m sure that was a democratic conspiracy to prevent him from winning the election. So, his response is to make it more difficult for the companies working to get a vaccine ready for the American people. That’ll show us all. Maybe he can work out some deal with Pfizer to get them to ONLY provide the vaccine for people who voted for him. Is that possible? Of course not, but maybe it is in his head!

Today, I couldn’t help but think, “Is individual 1 going to break things on his way out?” Is he going to steal things? Both of those questions, of course, assumes he goes out willingly. It’s been reported individual 1 is doing a lot of “fundraising” because he needs to raise a bunch of money to get rid of his campaign debt. And, then once he’s out of the White House reports are he’s facing a “mountain of debt” for his business empire which he’s personally guaranteed. I’m not sure if he will be able to figure out how to use his fundraising to pay off his personal debt, but I’m certain he will try. He will have the DA of Manhattan and the AG of New York bearing down on him once he’s out of office and, if he pushes things, I believe he will just embolden them. He’s making himself into even more of a pathetic person for those who haven’t been sucked into his cult following.

Joe Biden is 78 years old and Nancy Pelosi is even older and both of them are “teaching” all the young and energetic democrats in the Congress and those aspiring to be part of government around the country the “art of politics.” Ms. Pelosi negotiated the “Cares Act” earlier this year which prevented America from being in a depression right now and Biden is showing all the members of Congress who, justifiably, want to get to the business of fighting Covid-19, providing health care for every American, and pick up the pace of fighting the Climate Crisis to name a few issues, how patient “we the people” have to be in overcoming the republican obstruction. For starters, I came to the conclusion Biden was the one democrat who could have defeated individual 1 – it should be clear to all democrats why individual 1 was willing to risk IMPEACHMENT in order to defeat Biden. Getting individual 1 out of office was imperative for any of the democratic agenda to have a chance. OK, that’s been accomplished. Now, I have to emphasize the work has just begun – and, that means those of us around the nation MUST stay focused and keep the pressure on.

Likely, we’ll need a successful mid-term election in 2022 in order to turn the Senate “blue” so that we can actually move forward, unless, of course, the voters of Georgia decide they want to see the Biden administration moving forward on their agenda right from the start. Both Mitch McConnell (AKA Moscow Mitch) and Lindsey Graham will be there for at least another 6 years and the sooner they’re in the minority the better. I hope the people of Georgia understand the significance of the two run-off elections in Georgia and maybe even a few republicans there might vote for the democrats so that we can move forward to defeat this virus and get our economy functioning again. At the rate we’re going, we’re looking at a major “stay at home” order sooner rather than later – and, regardless, it’s likely too late to prevent a major uptick in the numbers of Americans who are going to die from this virus.

Summary: Individual 1 is a thug, and who knows what he’s up to – one thing we know for sure, it’s not the benefit of “we the people.” I’ve always felt there’s no limit to “how low he’ll go” – but, let’s hope we don’t find out the limits. Republicans have allowed this and the only solution is the destruction of the republican party – which will require, once again, democrats winning the run-off elections in January in Georgia.

Final Thought: Speaking of the run-off elections in Georgia. Here’s my worry about the democrats. They didn’t win the Senate (even though there was a gain) and they lost seats in the House, so there’s bound to be members of Congress and the democratic party who will consider the election a “loss” – despite the FACT defeating individual 1 was the MAJOR objective and was what people were focused on. There’s going to be back-biting because – well, because it’s politics. I envision members of the House going after Nancy Pelosi – not understanding the role she played in getting Joe Biden “over the hump.” I’ve watched this too many times – democrats pulling “defeat from the jaws of victory.” In this case, there’s likely a bit of confusion as to what was a victory.

Once again, my apologies for not re-reading and editing! (I’m really getting lazy in my old age)

Naturally: I forgot something on my mind which is very important. What if someone attacks us between now and January 20th? The Pentagon just got expunged from 3 of the 4 top officials – replaced by incompetent lackeys! Yikes!! These are truly historic times!

There have been a never ending run of ironies since individual 1 took office and the republican party chose to stain itself for all time by allowing him to be his mafioso self for the past four years, but today I couldn’t help but think of a “biggie” as our IMPEACHED so-called president was pondering his “paths to victory.” If you remember, a week or so before “we the people” went to the polls individual 1 made a trip to Omaha Nebraska in an attempt to win the Nebraska #2 (2nd district) where he left a bunch of supporters “in the cold” – literally – and our IMPEACHED so-called president ended up losing this district giving Joe Biden the one Electoral College vote he would need if the election would have swung on Arizona and Nevada – with Biden failing to come through in Pennsylvania and Georgia (Both of which, likely, Biden is going to win). For one day, when Biden trailed in Georgia by between 300 and 400 THOUSAND votes and in Pennsylvania by over 600 THOUSAND – despite people like Michael Steele and James Carville saying “put the ice on hold” – I couldn’t help but think that one vote could make all the difference in a 270 – 268 Biden victory. Of course, as it has turned out both Steele and Carville were correct with Pennsylvania right from the start and likely Georgia as well (I’m not sure they were predicting that one).

OK, it’s the next morning and, essentially, Joe Biden is the president elect. He’s now well in the lead in Pennsylvania and barely in the lead in Georgia putting Biden well past the 270 number of Electoral College votes needed to win the election. (He’s ahead by over 4 MILLION in the “popular vote”) By the time all the votes are counted in Pennsylvania Biden will have a lead, by my calculation, of about 85,000 votes. It’s certain individual 1 will be asking for recounts in many states and he’ll continue filing lawsuit after lawsuit to the point where it will be looked at as a child having a temper tantrum. There are many people wondering “why is this taking so long?” And, to me, the answer is obvious.

For starters, the election process in America is antiquated. Secondly, NEVER has there been an election in the middle of a pandemic where so many Americans wanted to “vote from home” and if there was a competent person in the “White House” “voting from home” would be considered the “right” thing to do. Unbelievably, to me, individual 1 was encouraging his supporters to vote in person and NOT send their vote in via the United States Postal Service. For a period of time, that strategy was very curious to me – but, eventually, it became obvious. (Obvious, but, by no means, “smart” – I know individual 1 proclaimed himself a “very stable genius” but…………..)

After our IMPEACHED so-called president started telling his supporters to avoid sending their votes in by mail he installed a Postmaster General who began dismantling the Post Office in key “battleground states” causing significant mail delays soon after his taking office. Personally, I thought that was getting a bit “low,” but, as usual, individual 1 can always go “lower.” His plan, all along, was to get a large lead with the “in person” voting on election night and then, as he did, “declare victory.” Of course, hardly ANYONE heard him and even, now, REPUBLICANS are beginning to voice their concerns with this delusional IMPEACHED so-called president. After he declared “victory” the mail in votes started being counted and reality began to take shape. In Pennsylvania, for example, the mail in votes erased a 600,000+ lead for individual 1 and, in Georgia, a nearly 400,000 vote lead. I guess our IMPEACHED so-called president figured if he declared “victory” those votes wouldn’t be counted. DELUSIONAL!

Republicans actually had a pretty good night on election night and you’re already hearing the “small talk” among the Monday morning quarterbacks in the democratic party. This just seems to be how politics works in this nation. For example, democrats were planning to increase their majority in the House and gain a majority in the Senate. Well, they lost a handful of seats in the House and will be very lucky to gain a 50/50 tie in the Senate – which would give them control and i, for one (OK for MILLIONS) would LOVE to see that in the interests of getting “stuff” done. We’ll be hearing for weeks, “What happened?” and I’m willing to answer that right here right now.

Democrats were SO focused on defeating individual 1 they just weren’t able to keep their focus on the other places which would have helped to meet their goals in Congress. To me, the most egregious “shortcoming” of the democratic “plan” was their “miss” in regard to the Latinx community. I’ve heard reports that the different Latinx communities in Florida, for example, supported individual 1 at a rate which explained his victory in the state by several “points” when the “polls” predicted a 50/50 election. Individual 1 won Florida handily. I still remember when it was reported the democratic convention, essentially, ignored the Latinx community – with NO representative even speaking at all during the convention, they were making a huge mistake. I’m guessing democrats assumed they’d get this support based on individual 1’s disgusting behavior toward that community. It didn’t work out that way. Democrats MUST fix this problem going forward if they want to build on what they gained in this election.

I sincerely hope the fact the democrats lost ground in Congress doesn’t cause them, as usual, to run away from their fundamental beliefs. We DESPERATELY need a progressive agenda and you can expect the right wing propagandists to keep the pressure on to protect their corporatocracy for the next four years. The BS (misinformation – OK LYING) is NOT going to stop and, sadly, there’s obviously a large segment of our population who have “bought the Kool aid” and it will be challenging, at best, for Biden to “pull the nation together” as he’s set as his goal. And, of course, it’s more complicated than that.

Hold on to your seat belts because we now have a WOMAN Vice President, Kamala Harris, who is also of African American and Indian descent. The attacks on her will begin shortly and they will get ugly. Actually, we’ve already seen individual 1 doing his “birtherism” trick on Ms. Harris and you have to keep in mind that Biden will be 82 in 2024 and the likely next “leader” of the democratic party will be Kamala Harris. Remember what republicans were constantly doing to Hillary Clinton and realize they will be going after Ms. Harris on, at least, the same level. Their goal will be to make sure she’s a “one term ……….” fill in the blank. It’s going to get really nasty! (To borrow a phrase from individual 1 ;o)

Just stop, amid all the celebrating among “liberals” right now, and think for a moment what individual 1 will be “handing off” to the incoming administration. First, in a week or so republicans will be before the Supreme Court trying to overturn the Affordable Care Act which, if they succeed, will create a catastrophic situation in America’s health care system – exponentially worse than it is right now – with tens of MILLIONS of Americans without health insurance and maybe a HUNDRED MILLION susceptible to discrimination based on their previous health care issues. In addition, individual 1 will be handing off an economy which has a “net loss” of jobs since he LIED about his oath of office with over 20 MILLION Americans on some level of unemployment compensation. This is a depression era level economic reality which is being “hidden” by Jerome Powell’s bottomless ability to PUMP TRILLIONS into Wall Street which, with republicans in control of the Senate, could easily come to a screeching halt causing us all to face the reality of individual 1’s most recent squandering away what he “inherited” – which was a healthy economy from Obama/Biden.

If you question that, just remember 2009 when Bush/Cheney had turned over a near depression level of economy to the incoming Obama/Biden administration and Moscow Mitch could only say “we (republicans) will do whatever we can to make Obama a one term president.” (Democrats didn’t need to do anything to make individual 1 a “one term president” – he was fully capable of doing that to himself) This will certainly be one of the most egregious issues our IMPEACHED so-called president leaves for the incoming administration, but, as always with him, there’s more.

I’m writing this (now) on the Saturday following the election (when we KNOW Biden will be our 46th president) and by 2 pm Pacific time there have been 105,000 NEW cases of coronavirus, just today, listed on “worldometer.info” – which tracks every case, every death, etc. etc. – and, many states are like the one where I live (Washington State) and they don’t report full results on the weekends. This is REALLY bad – yesterday, there were OVER 130,000 cases reported in just one day. When you figure out how to find info on the “worldometer.info” website it’s easy to follow the numbers of Americans in “serious/critical” condition in hospitals and, in the past month the total has gone from 14,000 to well over 18,000 – in just under a month. These are people who very likely won’t survive the illness. This is REALLY bad, as I said above. Michael Osterholm of the University of Minnesota, the expert I believe the most (he’s been correct at EVERY “turn”) is saying the next 12 to 18 weeks will be the “darkest” we’ve seen, by far. Predictions are that by the time Biden/Harris take office 2500 Americans will be DYING of this virus EVERY day! And, you can expect individual 1 to still be whining about LOSING to Biden – probably still claiming the election was “stolen” from him – and doing NOTHING to fend off this deadly virus – in order to save as many lives as possible.

MUCH of the damage, in relation to the virus, caused by individual 1 has already had its “seeds” planted by his insistance on all the political rallies where his supporters felt obligated to attend without masks (OK, most of them, but not all). As I’m writing this there have been over 30,000 cases of coronavirus attributed to his rallies with a resulting 700 deaths and, I believe, that number will be far exceeded by the time he leaves office. Remember, the “trail” he left behind the rallies shows up from the first week after to as much as three or four weeks later. But, when you look at the “map” of where the cases are, the states he was campaigning in are virtually ALL now coronavirus hotspots as well as the surrounding states. For example, Illinois is located right next to Wisconsin and Michigan with people traveling to rallies across their border and right now Illinois, and Indiana for that matter, are on fire – along with Wisconsin and Michigan – and, of course Ohio, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania. The reality, according to Osterholm, is that about a third of Americans are refusing to wear masks because they’ve been convinced the virus is a “hoax.” (Well, who do you think caused them to believe that?)

So, there you have THREE major challenges individual 1 is leaving to Biden/Harris with a government which has been gutted over the previous four years and will require time to fix – and, in many instances will require cooperation from republicans. Hopefully, there’s at least a few who are willing to work with democrats – but, remember, McConnell filibustered President Obama’s agenda over 800 times – that can be a MAJOR problem. Sadly, many Americans don’t understand who is doing to OBSTRUCTING when they get frustrated by a government which isn’t “working.” Maybe, miraculously, the two Senate runoffs in Georgia will produce democrats to go to Washington giving the Senate a 50/50 split which would prevent McConnell from BLOCKING the democratic agenda. For example, without democrats in control of the Senate there’s NO CHANCE of replacing the Affordable Care Act if the Supreme Court “torpedoes it.”

I say all this and then consider the climate crisis is here – right here right now – and McConnell will have the ability to block much of what needs to be done to turn this nation to a more 21st century place in the world with a 21st century infrastructure. Trust me, the corporate elite who pull the strings of the republican party and can’t seem to get enough money aren’t going anywhere. There are MANY extremely wealthy Americans who don’t feel the obligation to pay their “fair share” of taxes. In fact, many of them pay NO taxes and believe that’s OK. And, trust me, when “we the people” talk about “patriotism” there are many corporate “leaders” in this nation who have little to no allegiance to this country. Their business models are international and they “stash” as much of their profits as they can in places like the Cayman Islands to avoid paying taxes. It’s really kind of sad.

As I tell my son, when I was young workers were more important to businesses than shareholders and that all began to change with Lewis Powell’s now infamous “memo” to the Chamber of Commerce back in the early 70’s followed by the election of Reagan in 1980. Workers have been “losing ground” ever since – and, sadly, republicans have fooled so many of them to vote republican over social issues the leaders of the republican party could care less about. I’ve been pointing out for several years now the republican advantage in “messaging.” They’ve become more sophisticated in their messaging and, of course, their willingness to “make things up” – essentially, to use the propaganda scheme of the Nazi’s back in the 1930’s – has helped them to create what now appears to be a cult following. Rush Limbaugh calls them “ditto heads” and, well, I can’t think of a better way to put it. Why would you want that moniker????

Final Thought: Michael Beschloss was on MSNBC yesterday morning pointing out how bad it is for a president to stand in front of the American people LYING and I couldn’t help thinking, “what about all the other times he’s done this?” Apparently, on the night when it became apparent that he’s no longer going to be our (IMPEACHED so-called) president standing in front of the American people and LYING through his teeth is worse than ALL the other times he’s been doing so. It will be interesting to see how many of individual 1’s supporters come to realize how STUPID they were to fall for his shtick. I taught my sixth graders how to cross reference information to identify the veracity of what they were reading/hearing. I see/know so many individual 1 followers who, to this day, still believe he “tells the truth.” I realize that’s because most of them watch Fox “news” but it doesn’t take much effort to get factual information these days with all the access to the internet.

For example, when individual 1 tells you he’s created “the greatest economy ever” it takes NO effort to discover there have been SEVERAL instances where, by all measures, he’s LYING. And, of course, it doesn’t take long to figure out he didn’t “create” anything – he INHERITED an economy which had been expanding at a steady rate for 7 years when he took office and it continued to expand at almost the exact same rate (even with the tax scam) for the first three years of his term – which would leave ANY logically oriented person to realize he simply benefited from what he INHERITED (and, of course, with the help of the coronavirus, later destroyed). How many times did he say, “I’m the least racist person you know?” That LIE is NOT hard to prove. Or, how about, “I’ve done more for the Black community than anyone except MAYBE Abraham Lincoln?” Yikes! When are even republicans going to tire of all this.

Quite naturally, with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris CLEARLY the president and vice president elect, individual 1 is “tweeting” (so I’ve heard as I don’t do ‘social media’) “I won the election bigly.” We can only imagine what the next 74 days will be like. Do you believe our IMPEACHED so-called president will leave graciously? Can you picture him riding down Pennsylvania Avenue with Joe Biden in the same limo to the inauguration? Can you imagine him trying to mitigate the virus between now and then? Of course not, of course not, of course not – and, I could go on and on with all the things I believe he’ll do further STAINING his image – which, when Americans find out all he has done, as I’ve said often here, will place him next to Benedict Arnold in the history books – with William Barr, Mike Pense, Devin Nunes, Jim Jordan, Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, Matt Gaetz, and Mike Pompeo (and many others) still “attached” and by his side.

Like most Americans, I’m tired, and, other than me, hardly anyone reads this (although, if you’re reading it this far, I hope you’ve found it interesting) so I’m going to post without editing (which I’ve done too many times – something I’d never have accepted from my sixth grade students). I’ll end by saying – To the people of Georgia: You can do America a great “favor” by electing the democrats in the January runoff elections! Both of them are worthy candidates and will do Georgia proud! (For heaven’s sake – Both your republican Senators were hiding the truth about the coronavirus while they were dumping their stocks ahead of the March sell-off – that was ugly from my perspective)

I try to pay pretty close attention to what is happening politically in America, but some of what I heard prior to the election is becoming clearer the day after the election. Both campaigns had been saying prior to election day they were anticipating things were much closer than what the polling was suggesting. The pandemic was clearly creating a situation which “we the people” haven’t seen in our lifetimes and much of what I “heard” prior to election day are playing out. For example, democrats were voting in LARGE numbers EARLY or by mail and republicans were voting in LARGE numbers in person on election day. Early reports suggested individual 1 was going to “declare victory” on the night of the election, which, apparently, he did. (I went to bed before that happened)

Of course, individual 1 was trying to get the counting of the ballots stopped. The “battleground states” were required to count the in person votes FIRST and then count the mail in and early voting AFTER the election day voting. Well, that would mean individual 1 was going to have early leads in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. Our IMPEACHED so-called president chose to declare victory early and now, the next morning, he’s LOSING Wisconsin and Michigan and everyone is waiting for Pennsylvania, which also doesn’t look that good for individual 1.

While our IMPEACHED so-called president has a lead of around 480,000 votes in Pennsylvania (as of the time I was writing that) there are over 1.2 MILLION votes outstanding mostly in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia where it appears Biden has a lead in these votes around 70+ per cent which means Biden could “win” Pennsylvania by a razor thin majority. Plus, if you remember, mail in votes which were postmarked prior to election day and received within three days MUST be counted. Those might be the votes which decide Pennsylvania so individual 1 is likely headed for the courts. I believe this scenario is EXACTLY why he was so anxious to get Amy Barrett on the Supreme Court prior to the election. (I wrote this shortly after the polls closed)

The ONLY thing, in my mind, which will be CERTAIN coming from this election is America’s polarized society will continue for the foreseeable future. As an OLD person, that’s a bit depressing because I believe this right wing push in the republican party is far from being subdued. I can see how this election could end up with a 270 – 268 Biden win in the Electoral College with him WINNING the “popular vote” (which, SHOULD be the VOTE) by between four and five MILLION votes – yet we’re all on the edge of our seats waiting to see who actually “won.” If Biden ends up winning in Pennsylvania then, “all bets are off.”

OK, it’s now a couple days after the polls closed and it’s becoming more apparent Joe Biden is the duly elected president of the United States of America. Now, we’re going to get a straight up look at individual 1’s “promise” to not have a “smooth transition” as he just claimed victory once again, suggesting all the early voting ballots which are now being counted are “fraudulent” and he’s claiming the election is being STOLEN from him. Now, people like me – along with his niece Mary Trump – have been pointing out for years our IMPEACHED so-called president is delusional, he’s a pathological LIAR, etc. etc. and it’s going to get very ugly. I believe he’ll be calling out his ARMED militia supporters (remember: to the Proud Boys. “Stand back and Stand by”) and, as I predicted over a year ago these people will soon be filling out streets. The other thing I questioned was what will law enforcement do – being under the guidance of William Barr for that matter. Yikes!

As I’m writing this Georgia is about to turn BLUE. They are counting the final votes and individual 1’s lead, which was once over 300,000 (I believe maybe over 400,000) votes is down to just over 3000 with ONLY heavily democratic districts left to report. I think you can see why he, and other republicans, would be so upset. The mail in votes prevented Brian Kemp from suppressing the votes as he managed to do in last year’s governor’s election. In fact, I believe, it will be Stacy Abrams who is MOSTLY responsible for turning Georgia BLUE along with other places around the country. Arizona is likely going to go to Biden (although individual 1 still has a chance via the final 60,000 votes). Biden will likely win Nevada AND he’s GOING to win Pennsylvania. So, this is going to be a more definitive VICTORY for Biden than what it looked like just yesterday.

Tuesday evening, around midnight out here in the West, watching James Carville and Michael Steele telling democrats to just “relax” – they both held up wine bottles and said, “just put them on ice,” – this was when individual 1 was 600,000 votes ahead in Pennsylvania which looked, at the time, like the key to the election. I, at the time, certainly wasn’t even thinking Biden would be winning Georgia and I was feeling Biden’s path to victory was via Arizona and Nevada – although their final results will be a bit “whatever” at this point in time because it appears Pennsylvania and Georgia will be decided tonight (Thursday). I believe it won’t be long before Mr. Carville and Mr. Steele are opening up those wine bottles. And, Biden looks like he will have an even bigger “landslide” than individual 1 had last year (I believe it was 304 Electoral votes).

Biden already has more votes than any candidate for president in history (for that matter, individual 1 has more votes than any LOSER in history – does that mean he’s an historic LOSER?) with over 72 MILLION votes as I’m writing this and I believe he’ll eventually surpass 75 MILLION. As time goes by we’re going to see what an incredible LOSER we’ve had in the “White House” over this past four years and the next two months could be the darkest days in America since the days of the Viet Nam war and all the protests (which, by the way, I was participating in to a small degree). Today, for example, according to worldometer.info there were more than 113,000 NEW cases of coronavirus, yesterday over 110,000 and, now it appears the average will be over 100,000 for the seven day average.

Soon the hospitals will be overflowing and likely needing to make hard choices about who gets treatment, our doctors and nurses are likely already “running on fumes” (this has been ongoing for 9 months) and they need to feel as if “we the people” are taking this seriously, and soon the deaths will start piling up even more than they have been as they “lag” usually about 3 – 4 weeks behind the surges in cases. The Covid-19 pandemic is surging all around the world, once again, and I listened to a medical expert today suggesting it’s very possible for us to be at a quarter MILLION new cases per day sooner rather than later based on the way we’re going. When you look at the states which are really surging you see a “path” of where our IMPEACHED so-called president was holding his rallies. And, then, today, apparently, the counties which voted for individual 1 – like the top 380 of them – are the ones which have the greatest issue with Covid-19. Thankfully, Biden will be in charge come January and there will then be an attempt to “crush the virus” in the words of Nancy Pelosi.

The republican party, under individual 1, has become like a DEATH CULT – as many of us have pointed out on numerous occasions. Additionally, I’ve been pointing out for three years now I believe our IMPEACHED so-called president appears to be a mafia boss. My biggest fear of the incoming Biden administration is that, despite Biden PROMISING he would NOT interfere in any investigations into the illegal behavior of individual 1. There is a long line of transgressions which people like me – who, like our IMPEACHED so-called president believes in “law and order” – would like to see individual 1 have to defend himself against. As he (our IMPEACHED so-called president) has said, over and over, which I always “took” as “projection,” he wanted his political opponents investigated and jailed. I think you get my drift.

Here’s my fear – with the election being closer than the pollsters had suggested (although, most states were in the margin of error of most of the higher rated polls) – I worry that Biden will, just like Barack Obama, say “We’re going to look forward instead of back.” I believe that action was one of the reasons we ended up with individual 1 in the “White House.” When democrats show they fear actually holding political leaders to “account” it’s simply like giving republicans a “green light” to continue this lawless behavior. No politician has flaunted our laws anywhere near what individual 1 has done, but Dick Cheney was no “amateur” at acting as if he was “above the law” and President Obama confirmed that. And, both Cheney and GW Bush were admitted WAR CRIMINALS – yet, ALL investigations into their illegal behavior was blocked. I really hope, NOT THIS TIME!

Tonight, as I listen to the commentators on MSNBC it’s clear NONE of them seemed to have read Mueller’s report because they’re all talking about the level of individual 1’s public persona once he’s out of office – accurately pointing out around 70 MILLION will have voted for him once this is all over. They’re actually speculating on whether our IMPEACHED so-called president will run once again in 2024? The next thing will be they’ll be speculating on individual 1 Jr., or Ivanka, or (ugh) Jared Kushner. Give me a break! These people have ALL been pilfering as much taxpayer money as they can get their hands on since the day individual 1 told his first “official LIE” – which was when he repeated the “oath of office.” The amount of legal transgressions since then are numerous and are all these people willing to “look the other way?” Individual 1 is firing off lawsuits one after the other so it’s about time for him to be on the other end of a few – namely coming from the newly confirmed Attorney General come January of 2021. Will democrats have the guts? History doesn’t bode well for people like me.

I’m going to go to bed and I believe by the time I wake up tomorrow AM Joe Biden will be the President Elect and it will be time to watch individual 1 come unglued as he’s expected to act graciously over the next couple of months – which is likely impossible. Our IMPEACHED so-called president will be attempting to find creative ways to accuse democrats of cheating and, tonight, I even heard Lindsey Graham accusing the people in Philadelphia of being “crooked as a snake” – apparently, suggesting he’s some kind of “beacon of honesty.” Here we go, as far as the “worst LOSER in the world.” I’ve previously, on many occasions called individual 1 “The Worst Person in the World” (in the words of Keith Olberman) and, by the way, Lindsey Graham has received the “award” before, but I’m creating a new award, “The Worst LOSER in the World.” Nice ring to it, don’t you think?

Final Thought: I’m a person who’s had periods of superstition in my past, but I’m going out on a limb. Calling individual 1 “The Worst LOSER in the World” before there’s been a determination makes me a bit nervous – but, I’m going to do it. Likely, if you are reading this, it’s after Joe Biden has been declared the WINNER in Pennsylvania and, likely, in Georgia, Nevada, and Arizona as well. I hope I don’t jinx Mr. Biden by calling individual 1 the LOSER before it’s official, but i’m old and it’s my final opportunity to do something like this – shake my superstitions!

I’ve been following American politics since the days of Dwight Eisenhower (I was very young back then – listening to my Mom and Dad arguing over Eisenhower v Stevenson) and, of course, nothing compares to what is happening in this year’s election. The POLLS make it clear “we the people” have had “enough” of individual 1 – even Fox “news'” polling shows Joe Biden with an eight point lead over our IMPEACHED so-called president, but people remain on the edge of their seats because we all know individual 1 will be looking for ways to CHEAT up until the final “nail is in his political coffin.” Of course, for the past 40 years there’s only been one election where the republican nominee actually won the most votes in a presidential election.

Individual 1 is counting on winning the Electoral College once again – using whatever means he can to pull this off. For me, the memories of 2000 seem fresh in my mind and I don’t trust Ron DeSantis who is very likely doing whatever he can to suppress votes in Democratic leaning areas. Tonight there was actually video of a postal station in South Florida where there were mail boxes stacked on each other full of mail in ballots which had been sitting there for almost a full week – this is three days before the election. Add this to the likelihood there are going to be unending court battles if Biden wins the election so, as many (including me) have been saying, “hold on to your………” it’s going to be an interesting “ride.” Let’s hope people have actually voted like their lives depended on it and Biden wins in a LANDSLIDE. I, personally, don’t think even that will calm individual 1 down.

Today, according to “worldometer.com” there were over 101,000 newly diagnosed cases of Covid-19 in America – just today. Yesterday, over 90,000 as with the day before that – and, while all these cases are being identified individual 1 and individual 1 Jr. are out there claiming there’s no problem with this virus. Jr. claims the total number of deaths (about 900 per day) amount to “almost nothing” while individual 1 is saying doctors are LYING about the number of deaths because they get more money if someone dies from Covid. That was about as low as anyone can go – accusing these great people of cheating to get extra money. My anger meter is increasing by the day. God help us if our IMPEACHED so-called president somehow figures out how to CHEAT his way into another four years in office.

It’s three days until election day and I decided to look in detail at one of the polls which was graded “A” by Five Thirty Eight – the site I trust the most when it comes to polling. I looked at all the questions asked – and, by the way, they were similar to questions I was asked in the one poll in which I participated – and, quite honestly, I was baffled at the numbers of people who answered questions as if they’d been in an individual 1 rally of late. I’ve been wondering: “how on earth can over 40% of Americans continue to support him?” Well, one of the questions in the survey read something like this: “I’m going to read you a list of nine TV news outlets and please answer which one you TRUST the most.” I’m sure you know where I’m going with this – by a large margin the answer was “Fox news.” (The first thought in my head was the survey I read a while back which said those who depend on Fox for their “news” are less informed than people who don’t watch any news on TV)

This just further confirmed in my head that Fox needs to find a resting place alongside individual 1, William Barr, Jim Jordan, Matt Gaetz, Devin Nunez, Moscow Mitch, Lindsey Graham, and a plethora of other republicans right next to Benedict Arnold in our History books. I’m sure they’ll find their way to that place eventually because, even if our IMPEACHED so-called president manages to CHEAT his way into another four years – which is possible, thanks largely to Fox – eventually, their scam will run out of steam. Of course, my hope is that happens on November 3rd, but as Fivethirtyeight.com points out, it’s still possible individual 1 pulls off another Electoral College upset. I will point out those who were part of the above mentioned survey, in larger numbers than those who “trust” Fox “news,” pointed out Fox was the news site they trust the LEAST. About 2 don’t trust them for every person who does. I forget all of the other options other than CNN was the second most “trusted” and the second least “trusted.”

When you look at the numbers of people who answered questions in ways implying they had no idea what they were talking about – or, maybe a better way to put this would be their answer suggested they watch too much Fox – to me, was a bit mystifying. For example, when asked who was to blame for “Congress being unable to agree on another Covid relief bill,” a significant plurality said, “Nancy Pelosi and the House Democrats.” Of course, “Nancy Pelosi and the House Democrats” passed a “Covid relief bill” about four months ago which Mitch McConnell has refused to put up for a vote in the Senate. These are the kinds of things which are the most frustrating to me. People are being brainwashed and our “news” seems to be full of more misinformation than actual factual “news.”

If that question was do you favor or oppose another relief bill I could see a range of different opinions – but, when there’s already been a bill passed by one group and most Americans believe that group is the one preventing the bill from passing, well……………. I think you get my point. This is a good example of why I believe Fox “news” is a traitorous organization, just as the IMPEACHED so-called president they are propping up. Sadly, their market share far surpasses any other “news” outlet and their influence very well may be enough to get individual 1 “over the hump” once again.

The saddest example, to me, of what Fox is doing to this country came today when I read Jack Nicklaus’ (The greatest golfer of all time – save, maybe for Tiger Woods) reasons for supporting individual 1. I say this because I’ve come to admire Nicklaus over the years – when he was younger, as a fan of Arnold Palmer, I really didn’t care for Mr. Nicklaus but the truth is he and his wife do a lot of good for others and I have to admire that. But, listening to his reasoning as to why he’s supporting individual 1, I was left scrambling to understand how someone who seems so smart can say such stupid things. Like, for example, “individual 1 is more likely to pull this country together.” Where on earth did he get that thought? Then, when he suggested a democratic victory would mean “socialism” my first question was answered. Just further proof as to the damage propaganda outlets like Fox along with the IMPEACHED so-called president they “prop up,” who rely on the Nazi’s “Big Lie Theory” day in and day out are doing to this once great nation. If America is to be “great again,” individual 1 MUST be voted from office! Period, full stop!

I’m guessing by the time I finish this posting the election will be either decided or in the courts with individual 1’s CHEATING in full throttle. I’m a Christian (apparently, liberal) and I trust God to be in control, but I’m feeling I won’t be all that happy with him if he subjects “we the people” to another four years of individual 1. And, what most people aren’t talking about because of the direct threat to the health care system in the middle of this pandemic, four more years of choosing judges and this nation will be in dire straights for at least a generation and possibly two. As I’m writing this I have to wonder whether enough Americans could possibly vote for individual 1 to actually subject us to his “herd mentality” approach to the pandemic. We’re talking about HUNDREDS of thousands of lives in the balance! And, what no one seems to be talking about, individual 1 is threatening Social Security and Medicare along with the Affordable Care Act. Yikes! I can’t believe I feel compelled to be writing this stuff!

Final Thought: the reality is if individual 1 “wins” on Tuesday, it will be the “Christian” community who cause it to happen. Is it any wonder so many young Americans are turning their backs on Jesus? Today I listened to a great sermon at my church (I’m still doing it online) and the message pretty much summed up my thoughts (other than I’m certainly PRAYING Joe Biden will win the election). Our pastor, who is from Huntsville, Alabama (our church is across the Columbia River from Portland, Oregon – go figure) lamented all the “lobbying” he’s been receiving from people in the church, many of them, apparently, threatening to “leave the church” if he didn’t take a stand on the pulpit. Of course, that would violate IRS guidelines (the law) and would cause the church to lose its tax exempt status – but, these days there are a lot of people who consider our system of laws as an inconvenience.

That being said, our Pastor shared there are people who don’t believe anyone who’s a democrat should be in the church and they wanted to know if he’s a democrat. (I highly doubt it, but he’s not going to respond to STUPID questions like that – he didn’t say the questions were stupid, but I did it for him ;o) They were claiming that there’s only one issue and that’s abortion. So, in other words, for all these “Christians” the 545 children at our border who are now ORPHANS thanks to our IMPEACHED so-called president, don’t matter. The “herd mentality” to a pandemic which has already killed close to a quarter MILLION Americans doesn’t matter, the 25,000+ LIES don’t matter, and on and on. And, most of these people will/are encourage(ing) individual 1 to continue destroying our government institutions – until, of course, it affects them. Most are affluent white people who still don’t understand they’ve benefited from “white privilege” their whole lives – they just understand they want to continue doing so. (It was reported today there have been 30,000 cases of Covid-19 directly resulting from individual 1’s rallies with 700 deaths – need I say more?)

Most of these people, at least the ones I’ve talked to, will tout the importance of remaining dependent on OIL and find reasons to criticize people like me who have invested in clean energy with solar panels on the roof and electric cars. They don’t believe there is systemic racism in America, in fact, they don’t believe individual 1 is a racist, or a LIAR, or a misogynist, or a xenophobe, or a narcissist. None of this matters to them because they oppose a woman’s right to control her own body. I keep saying, here, at some point I’ll make a posting on the abortion issue, but I’ll give the short answer. First, I’m thankful I’ve never been in the position to have to deal directly with that issue – other than one miscarriage where my wife had what amounted to an abortion (of a deceased fetus) – and, Secondly, I’ve come to the place where I believe if you don’t believe in abortion, don’t have one. Why are all these people who believe in less government wanting MORE government? That gets me back to Mr. Nicklaus.

When I listen to people like Jack Nicklaus suggesting that if Joe Biden wins the election we’re going to become a “Socialist” country – or words to that effect – I have to wonder what on earth caused him to say that? Does he not know that during the terms of the last two republican administrations – including this one – we’ve seen SOCIALISM as we’ve NEVER seen it before. In Bush/Cheney we got a minor dose of it compared to individual 1, but if your memory is short, the TARP BAILOUT was Socialism pure and simple. Our government BAILED OUT our financial industry to the tune of almost a TRILLION dollars. In addition, the “Great Recession” – which resulted from our so-called “free market” leaders resulted in TRILLIONS more coming from the Fed, which most of us (including me) know little to nothing about – propping up major industries – keeping them afloat on Wall Street. It appears to me wealthy people, like Mr. Nicklaus, believe it “pocketing the gains and socializing the losses.” Of course, these bailouts work in his favor. I’m not complaining about it, I’m just pointing out a curious fact.

So, now we have individual 1 – whose tax scam certainly would have saved someone like Mr. Nicklaus, likely, MILLIONS of dollars (he doesn’t need) – his ONLY legislative “accomplishment.” I don’t know how the rolling back of all the environmental regulations could possibly affect Mr. Nicklaus, but the stock market? That might be the answer to why he suggested what he suggested. (Although, the market is doing no better under our IMPEACHED so-called president than under a democrat, likely worse) Does he know Jerome Powell has pumped something like six or seven TRILLION dollars into the market to stabilize it, just this year? I’m sure that benefits him in a big way, but is that not SOCIALISM? I have to wonder how he defines Socialism? Likely, by what he hears on Fox “news.”

Pretty much everyone who has chosen to affiliate themselves with individual 1 end up with some level of “stain” on their reputation. I’m sorry Mr. Nicklaus chose to go in that direction, but as one person on our local sports talk show said, “he gets to have a different opinion than you” – talking to all the people who were offended by his comments. Yes, that’s true, but he would have been better off, in the long run, to keep those words to himself. (Can you tell I’m a bit over confident in my own position – I’m thinking of those 545 kids as I’m writing this. Of course, I’ve done nothing but donate a few dollars to help them, but the FACT they’re still in those cages and will possibly NEVER see their parents again, grieves my heart and causes me to wonder how people like Mr. Nicklaus can support this. The lasting damage to these children from what has already happened brings tears to my eyes ……………….. God help us!

The message coming from the pastor of my church this morning was that post election, no matter the results, his prayer is we would love one another! My thought would be, “Is there one candidate where that’s more likely?” Stay tuned………………….

Often times I think of all the “conservatives” who complain that democrats like Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are “socialists.” These are the same “conservatives” who don’t bat an eye when the “Fed” intervenes in their reckless financial behavior and bails them out. We saw this in the “Great Recession” back in 2008 where GW Bush’s Treasury Secretary, a “free market” kind of guy, Hank Paulsen rushed to Congress right before the 2008 election asking for 700 BILLION in TARP bailout funds. Money to prevent the major banks on Wall Street from having to “face the music” for their reckless, and in many instances, likely illegal behavior. Of course, we all know now many of those banks used some of that money to pay BONUSES to the very traders who created the problem in the first place.

Well, in the panic which followed the “invasion” of the coronavirus and the reality our “leadership” in Washington DC is incapable of dealing with it, Congress, again led by the republican “conservatives” who claim to believe in “free markets” were, this time, giving Jerome Powell, the Fed Chairman, almost a “blank check” to bailout all the industries which benefited to the tune of BILLIONS from the 2017 tax scam and used the money to buy back stock preventing numerous industries from, again, “facing the music.” Many times, here, I’ve made the disclaimer “I’m no economist,” but from what I can tell Mr. Powell has “funneled” something in the neighborhood of $6 – $7 TRILLION into Wall Street to keep various INDUSTRIES somewhat afloat. Not necessarily, for example with the airline industry, keeping the workers afloat, but keeping the shareholders afloat. This has been going on since the days of Ronald Reagan – shareholders are more valuable than workers. To me, in a “nutshell” what’s wrong with America.

I’ve been pointing out for months Wall Street is, to me, like the house built on sand and I’ve suggested republicans just never picked up on Nancy Pelosi’s attempt to help individual 1’s “economy” with the “HEROES Act” which Moscow Mitch stuffed under his desk calling it “dead on arrival.” Well, now our IMPEACHED so-called president’s precious stock market appears to be “teetering” on that foundation of “sand” and it’s likely too late for republicans to turn the impending crash of the market before the election. Just as there’s a “spike” in coronavirus infections as we approach the election the market is appearing to be “tanking.” I’m sure individual 1 will blame it all on a “democratic hoax.”

Today, the “White House” declared the “end of the coronavirus” as an accomplishment of their administration. Yes, you read that correctly. Today there were over 80,000 NEW confirmed cases of Covid-19 so saying we’ve reached the “end of the coronavirus” just shows you individual 1’s sycophants are as delusional as our IMPEACHED so-called president. Individual 1’s campaign is so much more disgusting than any I’ve EVER witnessed in my lifetime it’s hard for me to put words to it. Just today Federal Judges had to make two ORDERS which pretty much says it all in regard to our IMPEACHED so-called president’s attempt to CHEAT in order to win this election. First, there were a couple guys who sent “robo calls” to THOUSANDS of democratic voters telling them it was too dangerous to send in mailin ballots and trying to discourage them from voting at all. These calls were sent to primarily African American voters in several “rust belt” states. Of course, these two men committed FELONIES and the judge ORDERED them to send messages to EVERYONE who got the original message explaining the original call was a scam and not true. Of course, it’s likely too late for those who get the “new” message to vote by mail because of the other issue.

Another judge has ordered the Postal Service to REVERSE all the changes put into effect right after Lewis DeJoy was put in as the head of the Post Office. The result of the changes has been delays in the delivery of First Class mail by several days in several “battleground states” like Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. Do you think that’s a coincidence? The delays are focused in Detroit, Philadelphia, and Cleveland (Ohio) in areas which, again, are heavily African American communities. OK, it’s NOT a coincidence. Well, the NEW robo calls – reversing the original ILLEGAL ones would be helpful, except the mail won’t NOW get those votes to the polls in time. It’s like individual 1’s sycophants are “doubling up” on their voter suppression tactics.

Heck, individual 1 seems to be even “suppressing” his own voters. I’m sure, if you’re reading this, you know our IMPEACHED so-called president is holding “super spreader” rallies “on top of each other” – but, it gets worse. Yes, the people attending the super spreader events this close to the election should be able to make it to the polls, even if they get the virus – you Know they’ll take it with them – but, last night, individual 1 outdid even himself, if that’s possible. In search of 1 Electoral College vote in Nebraska he held a rally in an obscure airfield outside of Omaha in freezing cold temperatures. We all KNOW our IMPEACHED so-called president cares about NO ONE but himself, but apparently, that hasn’t sunk in to his supporters just yet – unless they live in Omaha, Nebraska.

At the conclusion of this rally individual 1 was in Air Force one and “on his way” within moments of the end of the rally, but not so much for his supporters. In fact, hundreds of them were left in the freezing temperatures to find their way back to the main airport terminal which is around 4 miles from where the rally was held. There were several supporters who were admitted to local hospitals (which are already full of Covid-19 patients) – some with the original form of pneumonia, frostbite, or ????? Of course, other than members of individual 1’s “death cult” we all know he doesn’t care about a single ONE of those people.

I mentioned above about how the stock market is in the beginning stages of another cratering and, soon, individual 1 will be touting a “record” rise in GDP for the “third quarter” of this year – which will be another phony argument suggesting he’s good for the economy. As I often say, I’m no economist, but the reason for the large increase in GDP for the third quarter is because it is following the second quarter which had the LARGEST drop in GDP in recorded history. So, picture this – the economy drops 32% in the second quarter and then it recovers, say, 25% in the third quarter, we’re still DOWN around 7% and when you add the 5% we were down in the first quarter, well, I think you get my point – especially if you’re ANY good at all with Math. And, the NEXT drop in the economy may very well be under way as I’m writing this. The stock market, individual 1’s measure of success, was at around 20,000 when he took office. Today, it closed around 26,000 – around a 30% increase in four years. When President Obama took office, the market was at around 10,000 and tanking thanks to the policies of Bush/Cheney – soon to be at around 6500.

Now, remember, individual 1 inherited an economy which had been expanding for over 7 years and the market continued to increase at about the same rate which he INHERITED for the first three years of his administration. So, now it’s about 30% above what he INHERITED and Obama/Biden left him a market which was about 300% above where the market bottomed out after Bush/Cheney’s debacle and over DOUBLE 200% of what it was when they took office – which was during the “Great Recession.” Either way, individual 1 comes up well short of what Obama/Biden did during their eight years in office. In the final three years of the Obama/Biden administration well more JOBS were created than in the first three years of individual 1’s. Of course, when you take into account the coronavirus, individual 1 is the FIRST (IMPEACHED so-called) president to administer over a net job LOSS, well, EVER.

And, speaking of the coronavirus he keeps suggesting the ONLY reason there are so many cases in America is because of the testing – suggesting, I guess, if we didn’t test people they wouldn’t have the virus. Of course, this is the perfect way to cause the virus to spread even more rapidly than it already is. And, now he’s suggesting Joe Biden shouldn’t be pointing out we’re facing a “dark winter” (as are virtually ALL the scientists) as if by not saying anything about it will make it not happen. I’m not sure who disgusts me more – individual 1, who is a pathological LIAR, a misogynist, a racist, a xenophobe, and I’ve got to add he’s ignorant and, by far, the most narcissistic person I’ve ever seen – or the 40% of America who cheer as he’s LYING to their faces, who don’t care about the incompetent response to the one crisis he’s had to deal with, and who say “I’m not a racist” as they’re cheering for the president who has torn apart over 500 families simply seeking a better life and a plethora of other issues. I find this disgusting!

The people who attend the rallies of our IMPEACHED so-called president don’t seem to care about the surges in the virus which are following these rallies. These are among the Americans who don’t believe Covid-19 is serious and refuse to wear a mask. Where I live, most people I see are wearing masks and our “numbers” are pretty low – the hospitals are not overwhelmed. But, that’s not the case in places like Idaho, Montana, North and South Dakota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Kansas, and on and on. This virus is SURGING and our republican LEADERS don’t seem to “give a rip.” The first republican who comes to my mind – of course, not counting individual 1 – is South Dakota governor Kristi Noem – a politician who disgusts me almost as much as our IMPEACHED so-called president – seems to be lining herself up to be the next “individual 1” in 2024 – via her disregard for the health of the people in her state. She not only encouraged people to attend individual 1’s rally on July 4th at Mt. Rushmore without mask and without “social distancing” but she also allowed the “Sturgis” motorcycle rally to happen in her state where something like 500,000 “maskless” bikers showed up for a couple weeks and then went back to states all over the country – maybe the largest “super spreader” event in the world.

I’ve been following the increases in cases of Covid-19 in the states around South Dakota since the Sturgis rally and it’s hard to argue against the DAMAGE caused by all those people “hanging out” for a couple weeks as if there’s no pandemic. To me, this is the epitome of selfish people. Check with the people in the hospitals in the Dakotas and the surrounding states which have been affected by this rally. Just today, in South Dakota there are over 1500 NEW cases reported of Covid-19 with OVER 1300 NEW cases today alone in North Dakota and MORE than 1000 in Montana. Makes me wonder if people like Ms. Noem care at all about the doctors and nurses in the hospitals who are the ones who have to risk their own health in trying to save the lives of all those who end up in their ICU’s fighting for their lives. Of course, just as many of us pointed out in the beginning of this pandemic, by not having a national policy to FIGHT this virus “we the people” are at the mercy of people like Ms. Noem who are making reckless decisions which impact people all across the country. The virus does not respect borders and people travel all around this great country.

Joe Biden understands the key to re-invigorating our economy and saving the lives of HUNDREDS of thousands of Americans is by “crushing the virus” in the words of Nancy Pelosi. Now the virus, as was predicted by the scientists (I listen to Michael Osterholm) is surging to levels we haven’t seen yet this year – we could be at 100,000 cases per day within a week or two, yesterday there were over 90,000 NEW cases according to “worldometer.com” – and Wall Street is responding by heading a bit south. Of course, if you’ve been on this site before, you know I’ve been pointing out Wall Street is like a “house built on sand” and, unless Jerome Powell has a couple more TRILLION dollars to pump into the failing businesses he’s been propping up since April the market could TANK to dangerously low levels. When there are over 20 MILLION Americans collecting some level of unemployment benefits the reality is we’re in a serious economic downturn – maybe depression levels of unemployment. Stay tuned…………….

Final Thought: We all KNOW the disaster of the previous four years is likely the result of James Comey deciding to temporarily “re-open” the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s EMAILS just 11 days prior to the 2016 election. I was watching the polling very CLOSELY back then and I saw the polls shift noticeably toward individual 1 during those 11 days – Comey’s report VIOLATING all FBI protocols and turning America, essentially, “upside down.” In that vain you have to understand the recent press briefing by the head of the DNI (Department of National Intelligence), John Ratcliffe, was likely an orchestrated attempt by our IMPEACHED so-called president to order one of his sycophants to attempt recreating Comey’s intransigence.

Ratcliffe, it has since been reported, strayed from the script those standing next to him on the podium were expecting to come from his mouth. He suggested the “interference” he and Chris Wray, the head of the FBI, were reporting to “we the people” was designed to “hurt” individual 1. If you’re aware of the supposed spoof emails he was referencing, which appeared to come from the “Proud Boys” and threatened those who received them with – HARM of some sort – if they didn’t re-register as a republican and vote FOR individual 1. Somehow, Ratcliffe interpreted those emails as being designed to “hurt” our IMPEACHED so-called president. He took a different logic class than myself, just sayin……… Additionally, he failed to mention the “Proud Boys” in his remarks, although, according to reports since that briefing, his prepared remarks had that reference in them – and Mr. Wray was expecting that reference.

Mr. Ratcliffe hardly mentioned Russia in his remarks and, personally, I hope Joe Biden is planning to give Russia “what for” regarding what they’re doing this year in their “meddling.” Not only are the Russians spewing “misinformation” into places like Facebook and their plan to create division in America has been wildly successful. Now the Russians are attacking our Voting infrastructure – and, of course, we don’t know what they’ll accomplish in the last few days of the election – or what they’ve already accomplished because individual 1 won’t allow anyone to even mention the Russians – but, they’ve also been attacking hospitals around the country with a form of “ransomware” which, apparently, the virus “protectors” are unfamiliar with so there are hospitals which are actually shut down. I really hope Joe Biden will authorize our cyber warriors to give it back to Russia many times over what they’ve done to us. Maybe that would get them to stop their so-called “active measures.”

OK, one more thing: I’ve pointed this out many times here I have a tendency to watch/listen to MSNBC, although I’m starting to find out what it’s like at CNN, But today I was listening to “Deadline White House” on MSNBC as I was driving around, I do like to listen to former republican Nicole Wallace, and I found myself yelling at my car radio. The topic was the 545 children at the border separated from their parents, likely forever, and that this was “criminal.” Well, of course it was! It’s a NEW blight on our nation and the question was should we “look back.” Ms. Wallace seemed to think this action was egregious enough for us to “look back,” although she added many of the other transgressions of individual 1 weren’t “worth it.” That’s when I started YELLING!

If you remember, one of the first things President Obama did regarding ALL the ILLEGAL behavior of Bush/Cheney – including WAR CRIMES by authorizing TORTURE – was to say, “we’re going to look forward instead of back.” At the time (and, many times since) I pointed out it’s IMPOSSIBLE to deal with ILLEGAL activity without LOOKING BACK! That SHOULD make perfect sense. The crime is committed and then the investigation leads to accountability. You MUST “look back.” There was NO accountability for Bush/Cheney and several others in their administration (Don Rumsfeld, et al) and, at the time, I predicted Obama was opening the “door” to further lawlessness coming from the “White House” down the road – and, it didn’t take long to make me look prophetic. (OK, I wasn’t the only one making these predictions) The list of ILLEGAL activity by individual 1 and his surrogates goes way beyond what was done by Bush/Cheney and it MUST be fully investigated if our system of LAWS is to “prevail” over those disregarding it because they are part of the powerful “elite.”

With the exception of the anticipated CHEATING, it appears individual 1 could be going down to an overwhelming defeat on November 3rd. He knows this and his republican sycophants know this so, as I’ve pointed out here numerous times, grab onto your “safety belt” as our IMPEACHED so-called president and those in Congress who’ve been enabling him for the past four years attempt to INCREASE the DAMAGE they still have the ability to cause prior to January 20th – the date most of us are hoping will be a “peaceful transition of power.” It was reported today there were changes made to the “rules” of how our government personnel process works so that republicans can “stick” some of their worst sycophants deeply into the “bowels” of the government, apparently so they’ll be unnoticed in Biden’s administration. That’s just one of the ways they’re attempting to “muck up” the system. Of course, the obvious way is the cramming through of Amy Barrett onto the Supreme Court – a person who is clearly out of touch with anything close to “mainstream” America. Are there NOT four republicans willing to put the future of this nation ahead of their political “well being?” Of course not, maybe one!

Everyone of the republicans in Congress who continues to be enablers of individual 1 need to start thinking about their own legacy as well. Take for example reports last week there are STILL 545 children at our Southern border who may NEVER be reunited with their parents. Apparently, their parents have been deported and the children are still here. This will be written in our history books in the same section where we learned of the Japanese Americans put in cages during WW II. Everytime I see video of these children – still in CAGES (which individual 1 claims are very clean – as if that absolves him of this DEPLORABLE situation) I get tears in my eyes and I bow down in prayer for the children. Knowing there’s NOTHING I can do about this other than VOTE and keep PRAYING is beyond frustrating. And, then I think of all the republicans who are enabling this. How can any American vote for someone cruel enough to do this to all these children? How do these republicans sleep at night?

These children represent the stark reality of the previous four years and what individual 1 is doing to this once great nation (“we the people” now really need to “make America great again”) but, as usual, there’s obviously more. On most days the cruelty aimed at these children gets no mention in the “news” because of what, to some degree, will be an even worse section of our history books. That’s the lack of response to the pandemic caused by the coronavirus and the disease resulting from it, Covid-19 (I’ve seen it called “SARS CoV-2”) which will likely have KILLED over 400,000 Americans before individual 1 leaves office. (OK, that’s assuming he LOSES to Joe Biden on November 3rd) Should our IMPEACHED so-called president somehow manage to CHEAT his way into another four years (he’ll be trying to make it permanent) it would almost guarantee the loss of at least one MILLION “souls” with the possibility of many more. If the vaccines don’t work and he continues with this “herd mentality” approach to the virus there could be as many as six MILLION lives lost before the virus finally, as he says, goes away.

Environmental regulations have been rolled back to dangerous levels, the deficit is at astronomical highs and “deficit spending” is still called for because of the MILLIONS of Americans who are unemployed with no “road” to a decent job – until investment can be made by the government to rebuild this nation and transform it in a way to create MILLIONS of new jobs as is being proposed by Biden, by the way. The Justice Department, under William Barr has been turned into a “weapon” of the “White House” and if that continues this nation is ruined. Virtually every traditional department of our government has been purged of the skilled non-partisan public servants who will be very difficult to replace – it will take a lot of time and if individual 1 remains these departments will be in ruins before long.

I’ve mentioned several times here about how one of my friends, who somehow continues to be part of individual 1’s cult, has predicted a “red wave” after which “liberals” will be “rioting” in the streets. Of course, I see it in exactly the opposite direction, I told him Biden will win and the right wing militia’s will be the ones in the streets. I certainly hope we’re both wrong as far as “the streets” are involved, but every time I see individual 1 making absurd comment after absurd comment I just shudder to think he’s our IMPEACHED so-called president let alone he could still be in that position after January 20th. Individual 1 won’t even do ANYTHING in an attempt to mitigate the deaths coming from the virus in line with the scientists who’ve been correct all along as this devastating virus has engulfed this nation.

Our IMPEACHED so-called president ignored the pandemic for the now infamous “first 70 days,” then made a half-assed attempt to participate with the White House Coronavirus Task Force with Dr. Fauci but couldn’t last even one day after putting out the plan for “opening up the country” after the “15 days to slow the spread” which morphed into about a month – and, by the way, was actually working – until Twitter was bombarded by “tweets” calling for groups like the Proud Boys and other right wing militia groups to “LIBERATE Michigan,” “LIBERATE Minnesota,” and “LIBERATE Virginia.” That was when individual 1 grabbed his “white flag” and went AWOL from any sense of fighting to mitigate the virus leading to the HUGE rise in cases during July and August. Now, the administration has admitted they’ve completely “thrown in the towel” and, consequently, we’ll soon be at 100.000 cases per day.

For people like me, I don’t think it will be long and the NFL season will be in serious doubt and, I believe, it will be a miracle if there’s an NBA season this next year – unless they can do the entire league in a “bubble” like they finished last season. And, Baseball – Spring training starts right after the inauguration and, based on the predictions of the best scientists – like Michael Osterholm of the University of Minnesota, we’ll be experiencing over 100,000 NEW cases per DAY at that point in time – possibly several hundred thousand cases per day. Hospitals will be over capacity and it will take Joe Biden four to five months to get the virus under control once he’s in office, should he win on November 3rd.

Biden is likely to win decisively on November 3rd, but individual 1’s strategy is becoming clearer by the day. Take Pennsylvania, for example. Individual 1 MUST win Pennsylvania to have any chance for re-election. So far, there have been close to two MILLION early votes cast in Pennsylvania’s election. This is something like 40% of the expected turnout and something like 70+ per cent of the early votes have been from democrats to less than 20 per cent coming from republicans with the rest coming from “other” – and, of course, who knows who was voted for on those ballots. The expectation is democrats will continue sending in early mail in ballots building up an almost insurmountable lead going into election day.

However, in Pennsylvania, the ballots which are counted FIRST are the ones cast on election DAY. So, I can see individual 1 claiming he’s won Pennsylvania – probably by a landslide because his supporters are planning to vote in person on election day – so the first reports will show him way ahead. Of course, once the “ballots,” as he calls them, are counted – meaning the mail-in, and early voting ballots – he’s likely to be well behind Biden. Right now, the “polls” are suggesting Biden leads by about 7% which, in Pennsylvania, would be around 400 – 500 THOUSAND votes. Individual 1 will claim Pennsylvania’s vote was “rigged” – GUARANTEED.

“We the people” need to hope for the best and prepare for the worst – because there is NO low which is too LOW for individual 1. He not only doesn’t want to be humiliated by Joe Biden, but he’s looking at some serious legal jeopardy once he’s out of office for the things still within the limits of the statute of limitations. I, for one, feel he’ll need to face the Southern District of New York allegations which got him the moniker “individual 1” – and, by the way, also got Michael Cohen 36 months in prison. (Oh yes, Michael Cohen’s book was one of the best I’ve read about individual 1 – and, of course, partly about Mr. Cohen – which was nice. If you haven’t read it, I would highly recommend it.) The District Attorney in Manhattan is targeting our IMPEACHED so-called president and someone SHOULD follow through on all the allegations in Mueller’s report which include many instances of Obstruction of Justice. These are likely the MAIN reason individual 1 is campaigning so hard. He’s the head of a mini “crime family” and a bunch of them could be preparing to “face the music.” Stay tuned………………………….

Tonight, on MSNBC, there was a discussion of the number of LIES in one of individual 1’s rallies – the list was ENORMOUS – and the discussion evolved to talking about legislation which was passed by Barack Obama with the support of John McCain and, which individual 1 is taking credit for passing. A reporter for the Washington Post, Ashley Parker, pointed out how effective our IMPEACHED so-called president’s LYING is because, during the recent Republican National Convention there were several speakers who wanted to include this LIE in their speech but thinking it was actually true.

Ms. Parker pointed out how effective individual 1’s “strategy” of repeating the LIES over and over until people start to believe the LIES are actually true is. My disappointment hit a near 10 level because it was the PERFECT opportunity for SOMEONE in the “liberal media” to point out this is the propaganda strategy of the Nazi’s – called the “Big Lie Theory” which was devised by Hitler himself and put into effect by Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s chief of propaganda. Go ahead, look it up! I’ve pointed this out too many times, here, to remember – but, Ms. Parker came the closest of anyone I’ve seen in the media to exposing that our IMPEACHED so-called president is using the Nazi’s propaganda scheme.

Final Thought: Sadly, once we’re rid of our IMPEACHED so-called president the “machinery” which made his assault on our republic possible, Fox “news” et al, will still be in business and, in order to remain “alive,” they will have to rebrand their ATTACK mode and I can virtually guarantee you it will be aimed directly at Kamala Harris. We’re already seeing the signs, as I’ve pointed out in previous postings, and it’s going to get UGLY – as their “schtick” always is. They spent years attacking Hillary Clinton – succeeding in causing members of the republican Congress to WASTE millions of America’s tax dollars in fruitless endeavors such as the “Benghazi” fiasco. That STUPID waste of government energy ended in the so-called “Benghazi hearings” where republicans finally had to interview Ms. Clinton. For 11 hours she made them look like the fools they are – but, that wasn’t the message which permeated the public sphere. They were going after her “favorables” with the public and they succeeded.

Well, these DEPLORABLE republicans are already going after Ms. Harris including by “dog whistle” memes to make sure their right wing racist base knows, aside from being a woman, she’s of African American (and Indian) descent. Individual 1 and others are already attempting to brand her with the “socialist” label because she’s in favor of ALL Americans having access to affordable health insurance. But, of course, just like with President Obama, the worst offenders will be the white nationalist section of the republican base which they will have a hard time distancing themselves from. This is exactly why many traditional “conservatives” are suggesting the republicans need to lose in a landslide – “burn the party down” – so it can be rebuilt into something which has a future beyond total fearmongering, racism, and nationalism in the years ahead. America is changing and, if the republicans want to be part of it, they will have to change.

I’ve been saying this for years: “This is a WAR for the heart and soul of America.” Eventually, the republicans will LOSE and hopefully that happens this year. It would be good for America and good for the GOP if they got hit by a “Blue Wave” in this year’s election. I, personally, believe we need a progressive agenda like what democrats are pushing to turn this nation back to what was once the envy of the rest of the world, but it won’t happen unless we finally address our “original sin” and, collectively, demonstrate we are an empathetic and compassionate society. Our government MUST work from the “bottom up” in order to save this nation from itself and the GREEDY corporate interests which were unleashed with the election of Ronald Reagan back in 1980.

I know many of the republicans who’ve turned against individual 1 still view Reagan as the patron saint of the party, but, I believe, they need to take a more focused look into who Reagan really was. By all accounts, he SHOULD have been indicted because of the Iran Contra fiasco which, to many republicans, was another “who cares” violation of our system of laws. However, in my view, the accountability should be greatest at the “top” and what happened following Iran Contra set the wrong message going forward. Actually, GHW Bush was “knee deep” in that controversy as well and he pardoned a bunch of the perpetrators on the “front lines” of the illegal scheme. Naturally, that was followed by GW Bush and Dick Cheney leaving office as “alleged” WAR CRIMINALS – the investigations which NEVER happened because of Barack Obama saying “we need to look forward instead of back.”

I always felt that was Obama’s greatest failure, and it happened shortly after he took the oath of office. Just as I predicted, at the time, that failure to hold Bush/Cheney and others accountable for a plethora of ILLEGAL activity – some of it horrendous – helped lead to individual 1 and his belief he’s “above the law.” No one has EVER flouted himself to be above the law anywhere close to our IMPEACHED so-called president. And, of course, the republican led Senate kind of proved him correct when they FAILED to hold him accountable for ANOTHER (some of them MUST have actually read the Mueller report) attempt to CHEAT in an election via help from a foreign source. And, of course, if, somehow individual 1 CHEATS his way into another term, he’ll do it again – as he’s trying to run for a third term in 2024!

Joe Biden is leading, according to the polls, by numbers far outside the “margin of error,” yet people like me are just waiting to see how individual 1’s CHEATING is going to make it possible for him to “win” another election. Clearly, he’s going to be overwhelmed by the “popular vote” but, of course, America’s presidents are chosen by the Electoral College. So, today, the director of the Department of Intelligence (DNI) gave a very strange press briefing where he pointed out both the Iranians AND the Russians have “penetrated” our election systems – they’ve found “holes” in the local voting elections software with the ability to actually change things like voter registrations. We’re all witnessing the possibility our democratic republic is under siege and, if this allows individual 1 to gain another four years in the “White House,” this nation is in big trouble.

Today I saw copies of emails sent to various voters around the country which supposedly were sent from the “Proud Boys” to registered democrats threatening them with harm should they fail to re-register as republican and vote for individual 1. The threatening letters include the recipients full names and legal addresses. Voters in Florida, Arizona, and Alaska received these letters and maybe people in other areas. The head of the DNI suggested the emails were intended to harm individual 1’s campaign – which appears a bit ludicrous to me – but, apparently, the emails came from an Iranian intrusion into the voter lists of about three or four states. How the emails were designed to “hurt individual 1” I’m not sure – hopefully, NONE of the recipients were intimidated into actually voting for our IMPEACHDED so-called president.

So, for the first time this year I decided to actually watch a “debate” from start to finish and I watched the final debate between individual 1 and Biden. My first takeaway is that Christin Welker, the debate moderator, did a great job. Compared to the segments of the first debate I saw I thought she had a much better grasp on the moderators role and, at times, it was actually a “debate.” The debate commission decided to turn off the microphone of the person not speaking and I thought that was a great idea. I believe that sent the message to individual 1 that his boorish interrupting was unacceptable. Almost all of individual 1’s interrupting was when he was interrupting Ms. Welker.

I’m guessing MOST of the people watching the “debate” aren’t like someone like me who is feverishly paying attention to as much as I can in regard to this election and don’t understand the incredible number of LIES coming out of individual 1’s mouth. Of course, if you’ve been paying attention that would be NO surprise and aren’t likely to check out the fact checkers in tomorrow’s Washington Post or Politifact’s “truth-o-meter.” Naturally, one of the places where the LIES were coming “fast and furious” was the discussion of the coronavirus. I was sitting there wishing I could be debating our IMPEACHED so-called president after many of his absurd comments. Like, how many times has he attempted to convince “we the people” that “stopping flights from China” was a great move to “stop the spread.” (OK, he didn’t say, “Stop the spread” – but, what he said made NO sense) He only claims he stopped flights from China because he believes that relieves him of “the missing 79 days” which, early on, scientists estimated caused hundreds of thousands of American lives. Actually hundreds of thousands, shortly afterward, came in from China – the flights weren’t actually stopped.

In the “debate” I didn’t hear any discussion on individual 1’s new “policy” – herd ‘mentality’ – OK, I’m sure he meant “herd immunity” – which is the “work” of Scott Atlas the non-epidemiologist who is now running the “Covid Task Force” in the “White House.” I’m sure this appeals to individual 1 because he doesn’t have to do anything. Of course, had the issue been raised it would have been interesting to hear him explain why losing a few MORE MILLION Americans would be OK and how would that be good for the economy? Everyone wants the economy open, kids back in the classrooms, restaurants open, movie theaters open, flying on a plane without a mask, and on and on. That doesn’t happen by doing nothing now and hoping there’s a vaccine which rids us of this virus. The reality is those “missing 70 days” took away the opportunity to fully mitigate this virus forever – you can’t get those days back – and, individual 1 IS responsible.

Our IMPEACHED so-called president’s “super spreader” campaign rallies weren’t part of the debate from what I can tell, either, but, as I watch the statistics of the recent upsurge in new diagnosed cases, it appears to me individual 1’s rallies are leaving behind problems for hospitals and other medical personnel along with thousands of people contracting the disease Covid-19 after he’s gone and then “spreading” it to others. The states he’s been in are suddenly experiencing expanding numbers to the point where it’s becoming critical. I have to wonder what people in places like Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania are saying in regard to what he’s doing to their states’ fight against this deadly virus. It won’t be long until the death toll of the virus passes a quarter MILLION. Predictions are another 200,000 dead by the inauguration and still, “crickets” coming from our IMPEACHED so-called president.

Earlier today I wrote:

Today, I checked “Worldometer.com” where I follow the “numbers” of the Covid-19 pandemic and it demonstrated clearly the SURGE in diagnosed cases of the disease caused by the novel coronavirus with almost 60.000 NEW cases by early afternoon Pacific time with likely more than another 10,000 coming from the 9 states which haven’t reported. I wrote the other day about the result of the Sturgis “rally” in South Dakota – a state with a governor who has failed to do ANYTHING to mitigate this disease from the start – and South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, Minnesota, Iowa, Idaho, and Nebraska have numbers putting their hospitals into serious issues with lack of capacity and lack of personnel able to address the needs of the incoming SURGE of patients. South Dakota and North Dakota have TOTAL populations of less than one MILLION people and, today, they each had close to 1000 new cases.

Well, by the time the “Worldometer” stopped reporting cases for today the total was up to almost 75,000 which, I believe, is the second highest one day total yet – and soon to be moving down the list of statistics – Dr. Anthony Fauci, earlier this year, said he expects 100,000 per day if we don’t instigate more effective mitigation efforts. Well, from the standpoint of individual 1 the mitigation would be “open your businesses, open your schools.” In the debate tonight he said something like not many teachers would die from this. I’m a retired teacher and my wife is still teaching and, I have to add, those words weren’t very comforting. Today, I said to her individual 1 reminds me of a teacher who comes to class without preparing for the days’ lessons. He was “winging it” in the “debate” – often times it felt to me as if he was making up what he said – I’ve said many times here he’s a pathological LIAR and, so, as the words roll off his tongue he actually believes he’s telling the truth. To him, there is NO truth.

We’re also learning more every day about why individual 1 has been refusing to release his taxes. The NY Times has gained access to 20 years of his tax returns and it makes it curious about some of our IMPEACHED so-called president’s accusations toward Joe Biden and his son Hunter. These attacks, to me, come across as simply more PROJECTION coming from individual 1. It was reported the other day he has a SECRET bank account located in China, which he pulled something on the lines of 15 MILLION dollars from shortly after his “election” (with 3 MILLION less votes than his opponent) and, now, he’s making evidence lacking claims against Hunter Biden about some connection to China. This bank account, along with at least two others, (UK and Ireland) have not been reported on individual 1’s required financial disclosure forms filed with the government – just more REFUSAL to abide by the “laws of the land.” Unfortunately, Mr. Biden failed to point out this broach of our campaign laws to the audience tonight. And, of course, individual 1 continued to claim he can’t publish his taxes because of this audit – which is 100% malarkey. Biden did ask directly to individual 1, “What are you hiding?”

I’ve written many times about the deplorables at Fox “news” who are a serious problem in this country. I know people who refer to Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson by name, “Sean says,” or “Tucker says” when they are making absurd comments which make my stomach curl as I ask for evidence to support their opinions. These are people who should know better but have been brainwashed and have no idea what’s happened to them. I can only tell them to stop watching Fox, but the next time I see them it’s like a broken record, we go through the same thing again and again. I’ve offered to give them books to read and both have declined. I did give one of them a book a few years ago but he only made it through a few pages and then decided the information didn’t appeal to his Fox damaged brain. It’s very sad.

One of my individual 1 supporting friends has been predicting a “red wave” to me and suggesting the streets will be full of “liberals” creating havoc once individual 1 wins re-election. I’ve always said, the opposite will likely be true. After Joe Biden wins, the “Proud Boys” and their white nationalist/supremacist brethren are going to be the ones in the streets. And, these people are armed to the “hilt.” And, of course, the person in charge of defending our constitution and defending the laws of the land will be our “law and order” IMPEACHED so-called president for about 70 days from the end of the election until the inauguration. Here’s a question I’ve been asking of late; Do you trust William Barr, the head of the Justice Department, to come down heavily on these white supremacists who are a significant part of individual 1’s base? Rumors have it that individual 1 is going to fire Chris Wray, the head of the FBI, after the election because he’s angry Wray has been telling “we the people” the truth. Stay tuned………..

Back to the debate: Joe Biden did bring up the FACT the democrats have had the HEROES Act passed since early summer and that Mitch McConnell is doing nothing with it. It includes money to help State and Local governments along with money for workers and PPP, etc. Individual 1 tried to blame Nancy Pelosi for no bill passing through the Senate which, I believe, MOST Americans are smart enough to realize was an absurd comment. Individual 1, again, brought up his vendetta against “blue states” giving Biden the perfect opportunity to look right into the camera and say, “I’m going to be the president of all Americans not just those who vote for me.”

What no one seems to bring up is that, like in places where I live – Washington State – a “blue state” – which individual 1 has no chance to “carry,” there are MANY “MAGA” supporters. In fact, many of them are beyond obnoxious. When I drive into town (I live in a semi rural area) I’m always driving past groups of people waving an assortment of flags – some of which say…………. his name, the one I can’t bring myself to write – you know what I’m talking about, and they’re selling shirts, hats, the flags, etc. By refusing to support our “blue state” individual 1 is refusing to support his own supporters. He’ll likely carry between 30 and 40% in the election in Washington state. And, his supporters are getting the virus just like everyone else – in fact, possibly at a higher rate because many don’t believe in wearing a mask.

Another day has passed: And, today there were OVER 80,000 Americans newly infected by the novel coronavirus’ “Covid-19.” As I’ve said, I follow this on the “worldometer” and they also keep track of the number of people in “serious/critical” condition and that number has INCREASED by over 2000 people in the last week or so as this fall surge – you know, where individual 1 says again, “it’s going away” – is picking up steam. As of today, in America, there are almost 16,500 people in critical/serious condition in hospitals around the country. Many states are at or near capacity in their ICU’s and, sadly, the increase in deaths is going to follow within the next couple of weeks. Predictions of the number of Americans who are going to die between now and the inauguration based on individual 1’s inaction are staggering – some predictions suggesting there will be OVER 400,000 dead by February 1. The sad part of this is it just didn’t have to be this way and with individual 1 at the “helm” there’s not much more “we the people” can do. Stay tuned…………….

Final Thought: “The Atlantic” has been in business as a publication for 163 years and have endorsed only three previous persons running for President of the United States – and, now a fourth with Joe Biden. In their support of Biden they, essentially, eviscerated individual 1 in a way which made me envious – because I struggle to stay this focused. Here it is:

What we have learned since we published that editorial is that we understated our case. Donald Trump is the worst president this country has seen since Andrew Johnson, or perhaps James Buchanan, or perhaps ever. Trump has brought our country low; he has divided our people; he has pitted race against race; he has corrupted our democracy; he has shown contempt for American ideals; he has made cruelty a sacrament; he has provided comfort to propagators of hate; he has abandoned America’s allies; he has aligned himself with dictators; he has encouraged terrorism and mob violence; he has undermined the agencies and departments of government; he has despoiled the environment; he has opposed free speech; he has lied frenetically and evangelized for conspiracism; he has stolen children from their parents; he has made himself an advocate of a hostile foreign power; and he has failed to protect America from a ravaging virus. Trump is not responsible for all of the 220,000 COVID-19-related deaths in America. But through his avarice and ignorance and negligence and titanic incompetence, he has allowed tens of thousands of Americans to suffer and die, many alone, all needlessly. With each passing day, his presidency reaps more death.

I couldn’t have said it better and, of course, I couldn’t make myself write the actual surname of our IMPEACHED so-called president. The “editorial” they are referring to in the first sentence is their reasons for endorsing Hillary Clinton (The other two they’ve endorsed are Abraham Lincoln and LBJ) when they correctly, but understatedly – as they point out above – predicted why individual 1 was UNFIT to be the President of the United States!

October Surprise? Do you really think the laptop dropped off somewhere without an “owner” which mysteriously has emails from Hunter Biden furthering Russian misinformation will compare to Borat’s movie – which, apparently, will be seen by MILLIONS in the next week or so (probably not me) and has a scene in it which, according to Steve Schmidt who has seen it, will be the end of Rudy Giuliani’s public career. I continue to be confounded as to how so many Americans can fall for the republican schtick.

As I said above, I watched my first debate – the last one – and I saw little in it which would cause people change their minds on who they support. I don’t remember individual 1 saying ANYTHING which resembled a policy position other than saying he can somehow guarantee Americans protection for “pre-existing conditions” if the ACA is overturned. And, of course, anyone who’s been paying attention (which, apparently, is a minority of Americans) KNOWS individual 1 and the republicans are not capable of coming up with any health care “plan” other than the private insurance rip-offs which have been getting progressively worse over the years and leave more than 30% of Americans uninsured.

I read a Washington Post editorial suggesting individual 1 won the debate based on his attacks on Biden’s record with the crime bill back in 1964. I wish I had recorded Al Sharpton’s response to that argument, but suffice it to say this guy’s (of course, I forgot his name despite my senior ability to remember things – like “person, woman, man, camera, TV”) suggestion “Black men” are going to flock toward individual 1 is, in my mind, a fantasy. Of course, time will tell, but I, personally, believe Black male Americans are more concerned with individual 1’s incompetence with the Covid-19 pandemic which is killing them in far disproportionate numbers compared to their percentage of the population than Joe Biden’s support (along with many Black leaders, at the time) of the 1964 “Crime Bill.” (And, of course, Biden has admitted he was wrong in his beliefs back then.

I don’t remember if it was pointed out individual 1 has NEVER apologized for taking out a full page ad in the NY Times calling for the execution of 5 innocent Black youths in 1989. At the time our now IMPEACHED so-called president paid $85,000 for the ad. I have to wonder if the guy who wrote that STUPID (OK, sorry) Op Ed in the WA Post thinks that reality will draw Black men toward individual 1. Personally, I expect Black men to support Biden overwhelmingly and I expect there is FINALLY going to be a concerted effort in this country to address systemic racism.

And, if you tell me you have a Black friend so you couldn’t possibly be racist – forget it! I, personally, have MANY Black friends and acquaintances and, truth be told, I’ve spent a lifetime benefiting from “white privilege” and haven’t done near enough to address the issues which cause the lives of my Black friends to be so much more difficult than mine. The amount of productivity in this nation which is lost because brilliant persons are held back because of the color of their skin is a national tragedy and it is well past time to deal with it – DIRECTLY. “We the people” need to VOTE en masse for Biden/Harris and then “keep the pedal to the medal” in demanding police reform and developing a PLAN to address the issue of systemic racism and income inequality in America. Should we actually cause this to happen this country will be a much better place!

I have to add: Most Americans understand the ONLY way individual 1 can “win” this election is via CHEATING – which he’s proven he has no compunction to doing. (That’s how he “won” in 2016) Republicans, for example, have won a battle in Michigan’s Supreme Court to block ANY mail in ballots which arrive AFTER November 3rd from counting, even if they’re postmarked by election day. Hopefully, the word will get out to Michigan’s voters so their votes will count. In addition, to make matters worse, the Postal Service’s “slowdown” instigated by Lewis DeJoy is working in places like Michigan and Pennsylvania – states where there will be MILLIONS of mail in votes which individual 1 is trying to get “suppressed” because the Postal Service is tardy in getting them delivered on time. This is DEPLORABLE! Why are republicans constantly attempting to prevent people from VOTING or having their votes count? In “red” states, are officials going to open ballots to determine if they’re going to be counted? Will it get to that?

Last thing (I promise): Today, individual 1 held ANOTHER “super spreader” event with supporters crammed together like “sardines.” This one was in “The Villages” in Florida, which, curiously, includes the largest retirement community in America – a bunch of old people, among the MOST vulnerable to the virus, without masks, sitting side by side yelling and cheering, causing all kinds of potential Virus to be passed around the setting. As I said above, everywhere he goes he leaves a trail of sick people and crowded hospitals in his wake. These people in “The Villages” listened to him claim, again, “we’ve turned the corner on the virus, at the same time there were around 83,000 new cases just TODAY! A new record – over yesterday’s new record. Florida had around 4000 cases just today and it’s likely that number will be much higher by election day. Maybe his supporters are planning to vote in person on election day – and, by then, this will end up being an unexpected way he suppresses the vote. We’ll see…………….