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"Think Life Will Go Back to Normal After Coronavirus? Think Again" Umair Haque
Umair - "Capitalism Is Literally Killing America: How Capitalism Is Adding Disaster To Catastrophe"
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Umair Haque: "Lessons From American Collapse" (Remember How Fast The Soviet Union Fell?)
"If It Feels Like Capitalism Is Killing You...
That's Because It Is"
Umair Haque
Umair Haque: "Lessons From American Collapse" (Remember How Fast The Soviet Union Fell?)
"Nature's Revenge": Umair Uses 'Australia Burning' As A Paradigm For The Rest Of Us
"Benefits Of A Global Pandemic"
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Think Life Will Go Back to Normal After Coronavirus? Think Again.
How Coronavirus will Usher in an Age of Chaos Across the Globe
A Dog Park, London
Through the old, narrow, cobblestoned little street that led to the park, the banners unfurled, Union Jacks and American flags hung high. The neighbours milled around, sipping wine, laughing, talking, remembering a terrible war fought and won, a lifetime ago.
The magical tiny white cotton puff Snowy grinned up at them, strolling. I said my hellos, and thought about the war they say we’re fighting now. And arriving at the park on a perfect spring evening, as the dogs went off to play, I found myself in the middle of long, involved discussion. With the crowd of new friends from around the world, who brought their puppies to play on this patch of green, bonded by that strange intimacy of watching little creatures grow up together.
“There he is. Ask him!” said Ben, the grizzled London copper. Uh-oh. Ask him what? Snowy ran off before I could use him as an excuse. The little cute bastard.
Matteo, the Italian doctor turned to me, frowning, and then so did the group.
“What do you think-ah”, he asked, “the world will be like after-ah the Coronavirus?”
I laughed. “Just your regular Friday evening chitchat, then.”
They laughed too. And then Wolfgang, the accountant from Berlin said, seriously, “Come, come. You are thinking, always thinking. So. Better or worse?”
I looked at the dogs. Snowy played with Roxy played with Lester played with Sasha. They ran around and around in great circles, tongues wagging, yelping every now and then in delight, chasing this ball, that stick. Their little world — or was it a big one? — went on the way it always had. But ours? We human beings have the unique gift of making a mess of our worlds. They’d grown together, by growing up together. Friendship ran through their canine blood now. What about us? Were we — us, the human race — growing together, growing up together…or just growing apart…or maybe even just falling apart?
I reflected on it all. Our world. Its wars, old and new. Better, worse. The dogs playing sweetly, in this tiny patch of civilization, on a ball of dust, spinning through the endless night. Us walking apes standing there, trying to catch a glimpse of tomorrow. And I shrugged. “Maybe you should ask them,” I replied, pointing at the dogs.
“Mamma mia!” said Matteo, slapping his forehead. “What a cop-out!” said Ben, rolling his eyes.
It was a cop-out. But who wants a lecture from a boring nerd like me on a perfect Friday evening in a pandemic spring? And what did I have to really say, anyways?
Here, though, is what I thought.
I think of Coronavirus as a Great Accelerator. It’s putting the pedal to the metal, for the great trends that were already shaping our world before the pandemic hit. That means something like this: societies that were struggling will struggle harder, those that are collapsing, like America, are now in full blown meltdown, and those which are cohering and prospering will build on their success.
In that respect, the world won’t get better or worse. It will be better and worse, and which one of those applies to you depends a great deal on where you are.
Take the example of America. It’s implosive trends long predate Coronavirus — but Coronavirus is going to accelerate them all. Inequality, middle class collapse, the working class becoming the new poor, not enough good jobs to go around, the average person living and dying in debt because paying the bills has now become impossible for something like 80% of Americans. It was a dismal state of affairs before — but after, all that is going to be much worse.
You can already see, in America, a Coronavirus Depression emerging. Unemployment is going to hit 25% or more. As it does, people will lose buying power, and so businesses will close en masse, and growing unemployment will become permanent. The vicious cycle of depression, which has already set in, will harden.
What do depressions do, politically? It’s a kind of modern myth that people come to their senses. They don’t. They lose them, in the fear, anxiety, rage, and despair of economic ruin. They tend to vote for hard-right extremists — authoritarians, fascists, nationalists, theocrats. Trumpism was a predictable consequence of America’s middle class collapsing around 2010 or so. And the Coronavirus Depression, sadly, ensures many more years of extremist authoritarian rule — and the dysfunction it breeds — in America. Say hello to President Jared and Ivanka? Quite possibly. I’d say another Trump term is looking more likely by the day (and I don’t put much faith in “polls”, they’re always wrong in abnormal times because they’re based on normality to begin with.)
Britain, which seems to have joined America in choosing a path of surefire collapse, is likely to end up much the same way. It’s busy trying still to pursue the folly of a hard Brexit…instead of investing enough to really fight the virus. Hence, both Britain has the highest death toll in Europe already.
In America and Britain, the pandemic is going to last much, much longer than elsewhere. You can see that already: in much of Asia, it’s already under control. In Europe, death rates are falling fast. But in Britain and America, they are simply reaching a long plateau — not really slowing significantly. That means: the virus is going to last months, maybe even years. It will become a recurrent part of life, more or less, in many ways.
I mention that because you might wonder: well, how much will Coronavirus accelerate America’s implosive trends? The answer is: a very great deal. You see, if a depression is already kicking off…but death rates are not slowing…then there is a massive problem. That depression will linger, fueled by the loss of confidence, the rise of fear, that a pandemic which seems to last forever carries with it. America and Britain are now poised for a full decade of genuine ruin. They will emerge as societies with permanently lower levels of income, employment, savings, happiness, trust, all the great indicators which really matter.
Let me sum that up more simply. America has been on the road to becoming a poor, third world country, a failed state, an imploded society, for 99% of its people for quite some time. Coronavirus is going to massively accelerate that trend — and make it more or less inescapable. What might have taken two decades will now take one. The possibility of changing it has gone from slim to nonexistent.
Contrast that with Europe. Europe’s been struggling, this last decade or two, to really get its social contract right. Fissures have emerged between rich and poor countries, centre and periphery, like Germany and Greece or Estonia. That trend, too, is likely to accelerate. The debate over European unity will be brought to a crescendo by Coronavirus. Nationalists and neo-fascists will use it to say: “See! Unity is a burden, a myth, a lie!” — and many will believe them. Those who back a united Europe will have to show that they are really committed to the cause of rebuilding after such a devastating event. The struggle for Europe — united or divided, peaceful or fractious, gentle and wise, or foolish and cruel — will only intensify.
Then there are the real success stories. Take a country like gentle and wise New Zealand. It’s long been one of the world’s untold success stories. Countries like America and Britain — who are failing badly — should study it, but don’t, in their arrogance. Never mind: over the last few decades, New Zealand has emerged as a bastion of peace, prosperity, civilization, democracy.
But that change isn’t just skin deep. It’s not just about — at least in my estimation — the superficialities that neoliberals call “policy.’ It is about a people becoming truly gentle, cooperative, wise, full of a certain kind of soul. Ready to be friends with one another. Remember how the little creatures play at the park? There’s no wish to hurt each other, just to be close, to be good to one another. New Zealand has that feeling — which is the feeling of a true social democracy. Goodness and friendship. How rare these things are in our torn human worlds.
Yet is it any surprise that it led the world in its Coronavirus response, then? It wasn’t only about Jacinda Ardern — as stellar an example of a leader as she is. It took a certain kind of people to elect her. People brimming over, at last, after a difficult peace, with friendship and goodness towards each other. Maybe even New Zealanders themselves will say: “Umair, you’re too kind.” But compare them to Americans, or even Brits — people who now wish only the worst for their neighbours, to the point of denying them healthcare and retirement. Is it any wonder, they, too, led the world in worst Coronavirus response?
Today’s most successful societies — whether New Zealand or South Korea or Canada — are all social democracies. Coronavirus will be an accelerator for them, too. Their standing in the world has risen. We begin to look to them as new exemplars of what it means to be a successful society — something, in truth, we should have done long ago. The feeling in those societies, I think, that they are on the right path, will intensify. Their confidence, in other words, will grow.
But not confidence of a foolish kind — like in America: confidence in ugliness, brutality, violence, greed. Confidence of the right kind, the true sort — in gentleness, in acting wisely, in doing the right thing, in being good people to one another. Those values are what build genuinely successful societies, and as these societies grow more confident in them, their success, too, is likely to be accelerated.
Societies like that, though, are a tiny list. Maybe they are places like my little dog park. I mean no insult by that. I laugh and tell everyone Snowy is much smarter than I’ll ever be. I mean it this way. Little oases of friendship and community and gentleness. In a world like a desert, one in which, because it’s growing short of basic resources, people have stopped caring much about each other. Self-preservation is hard enough.
That’s just another way to put the vicious spiral of depression — which I think will now rule much of the rest of the world this decade. America and Britain are, I think, lost. To time and history. They will be remembered as societies who, consumed by a certain ugliness, became jungles, where predators fed on prey. But jungles, while they may be pretty, in a cold, glittering way, are not oases of civilization. As they fall, China — which depends on their consumption — falls too.
Europe, torn between becoming truer social democracy, or the American-British way of everyone fend for themselves, turn everything into a brutal contest for survival — which way will it choose? One way lies depression, and all its ugliness, barbarity, and ruin, the other, something much more like a higher plateau civilization.
As the megatrends intensified by coronavirus accelerate — depression, the political descent into authoritarianism which usually follows nationalism and isolationism, higher levels of indebtedness, mass unemployment, lower incomes, eroded social contracts, denuded public services, all of which add up to a decade of despair and collapse for many societies — sweep the globe for years to come, how much progress are we really likely to make on issues like climate change, ecological ruin, and economic reinvention? The answer, sadly, is very little. Coronavirus marks the beginning of a chapter of chaos that’s likely to last until well into the middle of this century. You don’t have to look much further than America, by the way, to see what I mean by chaos reigning.
There’s another way to put all that, I suppose. A much easier one. Coronavirus has let loose the dogs of chaos.
Funnily, ironically — that proverb is the exact opposite of the wise little creatures in my dog park. Sure, you might think chaos rules, there, but you’d be wrong. It only looks that way. Friendship does rule — which is the highest kind of wisdom there is, as Aristotle knew, as Camus wrote. And in those human places which yet to learn that lesson, or have forgotten it — like America, where neighbor strips neighbor of healthcare, retirement, education, like Britain, where old friends are turned into new enemies, as the Brexiters strut and preen — what will rule is simple.
Go ahead and take hard look at America. What really rules it? Chaos does. And in that darkness, the most vicious tend to rise.
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Hermann Hesse’s 100-Year-Old Love Letter to Trees (With John Muir And Mary Oliver Sidelights)
Hermann Hesse’s 100-Year-Old Love Letter to Trees
In the final years of his life, the great neurologist Oliver Sacks reflected on the physiological and psychological healing power of nature, observing that in forty years of medical practice, he had found only two types of non-pharmaceutical therapy helpful to his patients: music and gardens. It was in a garden, too, that Virginia Woolf, bedeviled by lifelong mental illness, found the consciousness-electrifying epiphany that enabled her to make some of humanity’s most transcendent art despite her private suffering.
When my dear friend Natascha McElhone (who narrated Figuring) was asked to choose a piece of literature with which to narrate a tour of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, for an episode of Wander — a lovely series by filmmaker Beau Kerouac, benefiting Britain’s Mental Health Foundation and helping quarantined people virtually visit some of the world’s most beloved parks and cultural institutions, accompanied by some of the world’s most beloved literary and artistic voices — Natascha chose a wondrous 100-year-old love letter to trees by Hermann Hesse (July 2, 1877–August 9, 1962), which she had saved from Brain Pickings nearly a decade ago. Originally published in Hesse’s 1920 collection of fragments, Wandering: Notes and Sketches (public library), it comes newly alive in this transportive, transcendent journey through the screen and past it, into a lush wonderland of nature’s aliveness, with two uncommonly beautiful voices as the sherpas.
For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beethoven and Nietzsche. In their highest boughs the world rustles, their roots rest in infinity; but they do not lose themselves there, they struggle with all the force of their lives for one thing only: to fulfill themselves according to their own laws, to build up their own form, to represent themselves. Nothing is holier, nothing is more exemplary than a beautiful, strong tree. When a tree is cut down and reveals its naked death-wound to the sun, one can read its whole history in the luminous, inscribed disk of its trunk: in the rings of its years, its scars, all the struggle, all the suffering, all the sickness, all the happiness and prosperity stand truly written, the narrow years and the luxurious years, the attacks withstood, the storms endured. And every young farmboy knows that the hardest and noblest wood has the narrowest rings, that high on the mountains and in continuing danger the most indestructible, the strongest, the ideal trees grow.
For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beethoven and Nietzsche. In their highest boughs the world rustles, their roots rest in infinity; but they do not lose themselves there, they struggle with all the force of their lives for one thing only: to fulfill themselves according to their own laws, to build up their own form, to represent themselves. Nothing is holier, nothing is more exemplary than a beautiful, strong tree. When a tree is cut down and reveals its naked death-wound to the sun, one can read its whole history in the luminous, inscribed disk of its trunk: in the rings of its years, its scars, all the struggle, all the suffering, all the sickness, all the happiness and prosperity stand truly written, the narrow years and the luxurious years, the attacks withstood, the storms endured. And every young farmboy knows that the hardest and noblest wood has the narrowest rings, that high on the mountains and in continuing danger the most indestructible, the strongest, the ideal trees grow.Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.
A tree says: A kernel is hidden in me, a spark, a thought, I am life from eternal life. The attempt and the risk that the eternal mother took with me is unique, unique the form and veins of my skin, unique the smallest play of leaves in my branches and the smallest scar on my bark. I was made to form and reveal the eternal in my smallest special detail.
A tree says: My strength is trust. I know nothing about my fathers, I know nothing about the thousand children that every year spring out of me. I live out the secret of my seed to the very end, and I care for nothing else. I trust that God is in me. I trust that my labor is holy. Out of this trust I live.
When we are stricken and cannot bear our lives any longer, then a tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me! Life is not easy, life is not difficult. Those are childish thoughts… Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening. If one listens to them silently for a long time, this longing reveals its kernel, its meaning. It is not so much a matter of escaping from one’s suffering, though it may seem to be so. It is a longing for home, for a memory of the mother, for new metaphors for life. It leads home. Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother.
So the tree rustles in the evening, when we stand uneasy before our own childish thoughts: Trees have long thoughts, long-breathing and restful, just as they have longer lives than ours. They are wiser than we are, as long as we do not listen to them. But when we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy. Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness.
“Perspective” by Maria Popova
For a lyrical kindred-spirited counterpart, visit one of Earth’s greatest forests with Pablo Neruda and astronaut Leland Melvin, then savor Amanda Palmer’s reading of Mary Oliver’s spare and splendid poem “When I Am Among the Trees” and this cinematic love letter to the wilderness, inspired by the great naturalist John Muir, who saw the universe as “an infinite storm of beauty.”
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This Dartmouth Article On COVID-19 Prevention Strikes Me As Exceptionally Well Done
ERIN BROMAGE: COVID-19 MUSINGS
Always defer to the guidance from your local Health Department or the CDC!
What you need to know up front:
- I am not claiming to be an expert in coronaviruses, medicine, or preparedness.
- I have PhD in Microbiology and Immunology from James Cook University, Australia.
- I am a Assoc. Prof. of Biology at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, where I teach and research infectious diseases and host immune responses of animals.
- I get all of my information directly from experts in their fields and from the papers those experts are publishing daily.
- I mostly write these articles for my family, friends, and students, who value my advice.
The Risks - Know Them - Avoid Them
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My Response To A Baptist Minister Friend's Facebook Post Commenting On Jogger's Killing
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2020/01/a-comprehensive-review-of-trumps-racism.html
More Of Trump's Cruelty
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I do not expect you to approve what I am about to say but in the confines of my own conscience I am now convinced that Trump Cult will do ANYTHING necessary to win The Oval Office in November.
Trump and his cultists are not friends of democracy.
With astonishingly regularity, they tell (or repeat) brazen lies, and when not lying they cultivate ignorance or invite misinformation, simultaneously sealing themselves in "Confirmation Bias Bubbles."
"Confirmation Bias And The Power Of Disconfirming Evidence"
From now on, when I find myself in head-to-head conversation with someone who is defending Trump (or Trumpism) I will answer the first question they ask (or respond to the first stupid, ignorant or benighted statement they make) by replying, “Why are 93% of American hate groups politically conservative organizations?"
"Who Gets The Political Support Of 892 Certifiable U.S. Hate Groups?"
"And why do we know as soon as an unarmed black person is murdered in cold blood (like jogger Ahmaud Arbery shot dead in Georgia this week) that the killer (or killers) are ALWAYS politically conservative?" (Infrequently, rogue black cops will kill unarmed black men,)
"And why is it that whenever we see a Nazi or confederate flag, the person brandishing it is ALWAYS politically conservative?"
After this prelude I will answer the cultist’s specific question.
In brief, let it be known that contemporary American "conservatism" is fundamentally cruel - and worse.
"My Own Contact With Family Separation, And The Young Girl Who Died (The Story Of UNC-CH Public Health Professor John Hatch)"
A Critical Mass Of American "Conservatives" Are Stupid, Ignorant, Hateful And/Or Cruel
Here is Randy's original post:
The idea that the confrontation with Ahmaud Arbery was a citizen's arrest is the perverse attempt to cover the evil with some legal jargon that makes the ones who killed seem like they were acting justly. If any notion of self-defense appears, it will be a similarly perverse attempt to cover the evil with jargon that makes the ones who killed seem like they were being threatened. When a man is seen jogging down the road and the decision is made to grab weapons, get into the vehicle and chase down the man, confront the man because maybe he looks like someone you think committed a crime at some point, yell at the man to stop because you think you are somebody who should be able to yell at someone to stop and they should just stop, exit the vehicle with weapons in hand, at the ready...there is NOTHING that links any of this to citizen's arrest or to self-defense. NOTHING.
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As Trump Sees His Electoral Chances Cratering, Expect Him To Do ANY GODDAMN THING
My Response To A Baptist Minister Friend's Facebook Post Commenting On Jogger's Killing
Excerpt: I am now convinced that Trump Cult will do ANYTHING necessary to win The Oval Office in November.
Lie. Cheat.
Wage a war to "busy giddy minds with foreign quarrels.
Perp a false flag attack. (Whether by way of collusion or not, why wouldn't Vladimir Putin "do something" to make Americans rally around the flag and the President, thus ensuring reelection of the only presidential candidate he's ever really wanted in the Oval Office? Duh.)
I mean these guys are industrial-strength criminals. They have NO moral compass and are fully prepared -- probably eager -- to do ANY goddamn thing.
At bare minimum, Trump and his lickspittle cultists are no friends of democracy. They are theocrats just as Frank Zappa prophesied.
Frank Zappa Prophesied A Fascist Theocracy. Barry Goldwater Agrees
With astonishingly regularity, these malicious malfeasants tell (or repeat) brazen lies, and when not lying they cultivate ignorance or invite misinformation, simultaneously sealing themselves in "Confirmation Bias Bubbles."
Don't forget...
There is no adult in The Oval Office.
And Michael Flynn (along with Steve Bannon) are on their way back to rebuild the coven.
To re-establish The Chaos Obama now speaks of openly.
Here's a blog post I wrote three years ago.
Trump Will Go Full-Throttle Fascist Following The First Major Terror Attack.
Putin Knows This. (He Also Knows How To Hack The United States.)
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From now on, when I find myself in head-to-head conversation with someone who is defending Trump (or Trumpism) I will answer the first question they ask (or respond to the first stupid, ignorant or benighted statement they make) by replying, “Why are 93% of American hate groups politically conservative organizations?"
"Who Gets The Political Support Of 892 Certifiable U.S. Hate Groups?"
"And why do we know as soon as an unarmed black person is murdered in cold blood (like jogger Ahmaud Arbery shot dead in Georgia last week) that the killer (or killers) are ALWAYS politically conservative?" (Infrequently, rogue black cops will kill unarmed black men,)
"And why is it that whenever we see a Nazi or confederate flag, the person brandishing it is ALWAYS politically conservative?"
After this prelude I will answer the cultist’s specific question.
In brief, let it be known that contemporary American "conservatism" is fundamentally cruel - and worse.
The Origin Of White Supremacy: "An Indigenous People's History Of The United States"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-origin-of-white-supremacy.html
Snopes: "Did Christopher Columbus Seize, Sell, and Export Sex Slaves?"
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Kamala Emerges As Early Biden VP Favorite As Sting Of Debate Attack Fades
Kamala Emerges As Early Biden VP Favorite As Sting Of Debate Attack Fades
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"It Is Increasingly Difficult To Contemplate Trump And Trump Cultists Without..."
Alan: Sometimes vulgarity is the only way to properly describe "the vulgar."
Sure, these people are children of God and -- unlike most of them -- I assume that, ultimately, we are all "saved."
But to call them "children of God" is a platitude-euphemism that does not express their reality, right here-and-now, in the midst of the jaw-dropping devastation and criminality they enable.
"There Is Neither Nobility, Nor Kindness Nor Uplift In Trump's America"
A Critical Mass Of American "Conservatives" Are Stupid, Ignorant, Hateful And Cruel
Core Truths That Dependably Dismantle Attractive-But-Bogus Right-Wing "Arguments"
My Response To A Baptist Minister Friend's Facebook Post Commenting On Jogger's Killing
"Trump Is A Traitor By Virtue Of Normalizing Falsehood And Teaching Americans To Do The Same"
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Best Trump Documentary EVER, Made In Scotland, By Scots, In 2011: The Asshole At His Worst
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"You've Been Trumped" (made in 2011, 4 years before Trump's presidential campaign) is the most revealing Trump documentary. It was produced, directed, filmed and financed in Scotland where Malignant Messiah presumed he could push around an entire native community whose ancestors lived in that place for hundreds if not thousands of years. This film reveals "The Asshole" at his most loathesome.
Roger Stone: Members Of Trump's Inner Circle Are Unusually Likely To Be Convicted Felons
"You've Been Trumped" (made in 2011, 4 years before Trump's presidential campaign) is the most revealing Trump documentary.
It was produced, directed, filmed and financed in Scotland where Malignant Messiah presumed he could push around an entire native community whose ancestors lived in that place for hundreds if not thousands of years.
This film reveals "The Asshole" at his most loathesome.
Illegal Immigrants Commit Crime At A Considerably Lower Rate Than Trump's Inner Sanctum
Inconvenient Truth About The Trump Administration's Rife CriminalityDonald Trump, Felon: Re-Visiting Trump UniversityTrump Ordered By Judge To Pay $2 Million To Eight Charities For Illegal Use Of FoundationA Heated Discussion Provoked By The Proposition That Trump's "Best People" Are More Likely To Be Felons Than Illegal ImmigrantsPulitzer Prize-Winning Investigative Journalist David Cay Johnston Calls Trump "One Of The Most Successful Criminals In America"And "The Greatest Con Artist In The History Of The World"David Cay Johnston: "Trump Is Not A Loyal American... There Is A Traitor In The White House""Our President Is Essentially A Mob Boss": Former FBI Counterintel Chief Frank FigliuzziTrump's Alleged Mob Ties"Ask Not What You Can Do For Your Country"
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/12/ask-not-what-you-can-do-for-your-country.html
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Trump: The Culmination Of Capitalist Piggery
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/12/trump-culmination-of-capitalist-piggery.html
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"The Love Of Money Is The Root Of All Evil" - An Open Invitation To Christian Conservatives
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-love-of-money-is-root-of-all-evil.html
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Alan: Notably, Ted Nugent was Donald Trump's featured guest at his last 2016 campaign rally.
Inconvenient Truth About The Trump Administration's Rife Criminality
Donald Trump, Felon: Re-Visiting Trump University
Trump Ordered By Judge To Pay $2 Million To Eight Charities For Illegal Use Of Foundation
A Heated Discussion Provoked By The Proposition That Trump's "Best People" Are More Likely To Be Felons Than Illegal Immigrants
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Investigative Journalist David Cay Johnston Calls Trump "One Of The Most Successful Criminals In America"And "The Greatest Con Artist In The History Of The World"
David Cay Johnston: "Trump Is Not A Loyal American... There Is A Traitor In The White House"
"Our President Is Essentially A Mob Boss": Former FBI Counterintel Chief Frank Figliuzzi
Trump's Alleged Mob Ties
"Ask Not What You Can Do For Your Country"https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/12/ask-not-what-you-can-do-for-your-country.html
Trump: The Culmination Of Capitalist Piggery
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/12/trump-culmination-of-capitalist-piggery.html
"The Love Of Money Is The Root Of All Evil" - An Open Invitation To Christian Conservatives
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-love-of-money-is-root-of-all-evil.html
Alan: Notably, Ted Nugent was Donald Trump's featured guest at his last 2016 campaign rally.
Ted Nugent Reveals The Essential Piggishness Of The Good Christians'"Party Of Family Values"
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Millions Of Deplorables Voted For Trump B/C He Was The Only Candidate As Crazy As They
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Millions Of Deplorables Voted For Trump B/C He Was The Only Candidate As Crazy As They
"The Moral Confusion Of Trump Christians," John Pavlovitz
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-moral-confusion-of-trump-christians.htmlChristian Ministers Have A Moral Obligation To Call Bullshit On Trump Cultists Spreading Lies
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2020/04/christian-ministers-have-moral.htmlIf Trump Cult Liars Do Not Repent, Their Descendants Will Be Ashamed Of Them Forever
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2020/04/if-trump-cult-liars-do-not-repent-their.html"Conservative""Christians" Refuse To Distinguish Between Punishment And CompassionFr. Thomas Merton Explains -- In 16 Words -- Why "Christian""Conservatives" Are Always WrongMerton: "God Is Sick Of The Rich People And The Powerful And The Wise Men Of The World""Thomas Merton: Adolf Eichmann, Sanity and Normality"Armageddon Cheerleaders: "Christian""Conservatives" Pining For Nuclear ConflagrationCompendium Of Best Pax Posts: What I Think About Christianity"My Gripe With Christianity"Evangelical Academic Decries Coronavirus Theories: "Gullibility Is Not A Christian Virtue"(St. Paul Put To Evil Use By "Christian""Conservatives")"Jimmy Carter On The Separation Of Church And State And The Danger Of Religious Superiority"Facebook Dialogue With Christian Fundamentalist Friend Who Asks: "How Does Morality Work?"Aquinas Discovers That "Divine Truth" Cannot Contradict Nature And "The Natural Light"American Conservatives Are The Apotheosis Of Pharisaism. (Conservatives, Please Weigh In)The Pharisee Party And The Devolution Of GOP Leaders Into Oligarchs Who Despise DemocracyThe Pharisees Are Always With Us: A Field GuideBibliolatry... And How To Live Happily Ever AfterWhy Doesn't This Trump Quote Reveal His Satanic Mendacity To Anyone With A Single Synapse?"Hey, Christian! How Many Of Jesus' Moral Stands Do You Approve? Take The Test!""A Simple Test For Trump Supporters: Are You Hateful, Racist Or A White Nationalist/Supremacist?""My Attempt To Supply A Rigid Christian Friend With A Theological Alternative To Self-Strangulation"
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-moral-confusion-of-trump-christians.html
Christian Ministers Have A Moral Obligation To Call Bullshit On Trump Cultists Spreading Lies
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2020/04/christian-ministers-have-moral.html
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2020/04/christian-ministers-have-moral.html
If Trump Cult Liars Do Not Repent, Their Descendants Will Be Ashamed Of Them Forever
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2020/04/if-trump-cult-liars-do-not-repent-their.html
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2020/04/if-trump-cult-liars-do-not-repent-their.html
"Conservative""Christians" Refuse To Distinguish Between Punishment And Compassion
Fr. Thomas Merton Explains -- In 16 Words -- Why "Christian""Conservatives" Are Always Wrong
Merton: "God Is Sick Of The Rich People And The Powerful And The Wise Men Of The World"
"Thomas Merton: Adolf Eichmann, Sanity and Normality"
Armageddon Cheerleaders: "Christian""Conservatives" Pining For Nuclear Conflagration
Compendium Of Best Pax Posts: What I Think About Christianity
"My Gripe With Christianity"
Evangelical Academic Decries Coronavirus Theories: "Gullibility Is Not A Christian Virtue"
(St. Paul Put To Evil Use By "Christian""Conservatives")
"Jimmy Carter On The Separation Of Church And State And The Danger Of Religious Superiority"
Facebook Dialogue With Christian Fundamentalist Friend Who Asks: "How Does Morality Work?"
Aquinas Discovers That "Divine Truth" Cannot Contradict Nature And "The Natural Light"
American Conservatives Are The Apotheosis Of Pharisaism. (Conservatives, Please Weigh In)
The Pharisee Party And The Devolution Of GOP Leaders Into Oligarchs Who Despise Democracy
The Pharisees Are Always With Us: A Field Guide
Bibliolatry... And How To Live Happily Ever After
Why Doesn't This Trump Quote Reveal His Satanic Mendacity To Anyone With A Single Synapse?
"Hey, Christian! How Many Of Jesus' Moral Stands Do You Approve? Take The Test!"
"A Simple Test For Trump Supporters: Are You Hateful, Racist Or A White Nationalist/Supremacist?"
"My Attempt To Supply A Rigid Christian Friend With A Theological Alternative To Self-Strangulation"
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Cartoons: How Things Will Change After The Pandemic
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Cartoon: This Year's Darwin Awards Canceled
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Will The Supreme Court Let Trump Keep His Many Secrets
The proof is in the pudding.
It must be clear to Roberts, Gorsuch and (perhaps) Alioto that Trump's passion for secrecy and "non-disclosure" is foundational to his frequent flirtation with malfeasance, and that he wants to hide his financial records, not for some "high presidential principal" but because they contain evidence that will reveal him as a common criminal like happened the last time citizen Trump's financial records were subpoenaed.
The other culprits?
Out of self-interest or self-defense, Kavanaugh and Thomas will vote on behalf of secrecy.
After all, their careers were almost destroyed by the revelation of personal secrets.
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"Kamala Harris Can Be Joe Biden’s Biden," Francis Wilkinson, Bloomberg
Kamala Harris Can Be Joe Biden’s Biden
The presumptive Democratic nominee needs someone who makes voters comfortable with an old white guy at the top of the ticket.
Joe Biden is getting a lot of unsolicited advice about a running mate. Here’s mine: Find yourself another Joe Biden.
When Barack Obama was cruising to the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination in 2008, he chose someone who buttressed his political weakness. Obama’s overriding political weakness wasn’t hard to pinpoint: He was a mixed-race intellectual whose father was from Kenya.
In the midst of economic collapse presided over by a Republican incumbent, any generic Democrat was poised to win in 2008. But there was nothing generic about Obama.
Enter Regular Joe.
Obama aides have said that the final veep choice came down to Indiana Senator Evan Bayh or Biden. Bayh was white, Midwestern, cautious, reserved, moderate. Regular Joe was better. Obama’s evident comfort with Biden, and Biden’s with Obama, helped white voters find their own comfort with an unprecedented nominee. Bayh, a senator’s son, lacked the middle-class emoting gene, and hard-times sheen, that Biden has in abundance.
Obama aides have said that the final veep choice came down to Indiana Senator Evan Bayh or Biden. Bayh was white, Midwestern, cautious, reserved, moderate. Regular Joe was better. Obama’s evident comfort with Biden, and Biden’s with Obama, helped white voters find their own comfort with an unprecedented nominee. Bayh, a senator’s son, lacked the middle-class emoting gene, and hard-times sheen, that Biden has in abundance.
Biden’s more hazily defined weaknesses will come into better focus after Republicans work through their arsenal and find a few attacks that stick, more or less. He starts out with not-so-great favorable/unfavorable ratings — typically net negative by a couple points. Meantime, Republicans are already attacking his age, 77, and in the primaries young Democratic voters invariably preferred other candidates.
Despite Biden’s support among older black voters, both Russians and Republicans are likely to repeat their 2016 efforts to suppress black voter turnout; a black vote surge is far from guaranteed. Finally, Biden has a wobbly left flank, the residue of rekindled left-wing ambition and Senator Bernie Sanders’ persistent campaign against the party whose nomination he sought.
Which women — Biden has committed to pick a woman — help here?
Senator Elizabeth Warren might help close the enthusiasm gap on the left, and would make a vice president for the ages. But she soon turns 71, and would thus elevate the age issue and raise uncomfortable questions about the future. A double-septuagenarian ticket might be pushing its luck. (President Donald Trump turns 74 next month, while Vice President Mike Pence turns 61.)
Younger white contenders, such as 60-year-old Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota or 48-year-old Governor Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, are often pitched as regional firepower to win the upper Midwest. Maybe. Each is popular in her home state. But neither provides the kind of cultural outreach that Biden provided for Obama. They reinforce his strength with white moderates rather than buttressing his vulnerabilities. And in the upper Midwest, victory may well come down to black turnout in such places as Milwaukee and Detroit.
Senator Kamala Harris of California and former Georgia legislator Stacey Abrams are more appealing in that vein. But Abrams, who was minority leader in the state House of Representatives, doesn’t meet the credential test.
On a strictly comparative basis, of course, that statement is absurd. The incumbent president shows no interest in the workings of government or issues of public policy, and never will. But Biden’s age makes the credentials of his No. 2 more salient, and women typically need more credentials than men to meet a given (manufactured) political threshold. Abrams, who has never held statewide office, falls short.
That leaves Harris, who was California’s attorney general before her current position. Harris’s presidential campaign was hugely disappointing. She seemed ideally suited to the Democratic electorate, but never won it over. The No. 2 slot entails different opportunities and demands, however.
The daughter of immigrants, a Jamaican father and an Indian mother, Harris is a youthful and energetic 55 (if not quite as youthful and energetic as Warren’s 70). Some progressives don’t like her record as a prosecutor. But they don’t like Biden’s criminal justice record, either, so the added cost is negligible. And both records will be useful armor when a Biden White House pushes criminal justice reform.Another former state attorney general turned senator, Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, is also reportedly under consideration. But if Trump’s nonstop scapegoating of Mexican and Central American immigrants is not sufficient to turn out Hispanic voters, it’s hard to believe a vice presidential candidate can do much more.
Meanwhile, Harris would elevate black women from the foundation of the party to one step short of its pinnacle. She’s also a sharp inquisitor who will likely be an effective attacker on the (presumably digital) campaign trail.
Biden leads a largely unified party whose members widely consider his opponent a borderline sociopath who threatens democracy — not to mention prosperity, decency and human life. Under the circumstances, any sensible vice presidential pick will do. But Trump will be waging a culture war that, by November, will be but a few steps shy of civil war. Harris will have cultural resonance in the parts of America — immigrant, brown, black, female — that will be under sharpest attack. She can make manifest what’s at stake in this election, especially to those underwhelmed by the prospect of another old white guy in the Oval Office.
Harris’s face is the future of the Democratic Party, and of the nation, just as Biden is the face of receding power. She complements and strengthens him. She can be Biden’s Biden.
Francis Wilkinson writes editorials on politics and U.S. domestic policy for Bloomberg Opinion. He was executive editor of the Week. He was previously a writer for Rolling Stone, a communications consultant and a political media strategist.
Listen To The Article: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-05-10/biden-s-running-mate-kamala-harris-is-the-obvious-best-choice
"The Guardian's" View Of The Vice-Presidential Contest: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/10/joe-biden-vice-president-woman-running-mate-democrats
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The Supreme Court's Decision Will Determine If United States Deserves Preservation Of Union
Alan: Any nation whose values are trivial enough to protect the personal financial privacy of public officials for whom there is "probable cause" of felonious financial malfeasance, is a country that deserves to "go down."Here is how I recommend that this happen, assuming that the Supreme Court rules in favor of His Toxicity.
"The United States Of Education And Compassion" Secedes From "Jesusland"https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-united-states-of-education-and.html
Alan: And here is a brief "bibliography" on Trump's criminality, mostly financial but including other crimes as well.
Roger Stone: Members Of Trump's Inner Circle Are Unusually Likely To Be Convicted Felons
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/11/roger-stone-reminds-us-that-members-of.html
Illegal Immigrants Commit Crime At A Considerably Lower Rate Than Trump's Inner Sanctum
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/09/illegal-immigrants-commit-crime-at.html
Inconvenient Truth About The Trump Administration's Rife Criminality
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/08/inconvenient-truth-about-trump.html
Donald Trump, Felon: Re-Visiting Trump University
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/05/donald-trump-felon-re-visiting-trump.html
Trump Ordered By Judge To Pay $2 Million To Eight Charities For Illegal Use Of Foundation
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/11/trump-ordered-by-judge-to-pay-2-million.html
A Heated Discussion Provoked By The Proposition That Trump's "Best People" Are More Likely To Be Felons Than Illegal Immigrants
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/10/a-heated-thread-around-proposition-that.html
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Investigative Journalist David Cay Johnston Calls Trump "One Of The Most Successful Criminals In America"And "The Greatest Con Artist In The History Of The World"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9VceMr046E
David Cay Johnston: "Trump Is Not A Loyal American... There Is A Traitor In The White House"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/07/david-cay-johnston-trump-is-not-loyal.html
"Our President Is Essentially A Mob Boss": Former FBI Counterintel Chief Frank Figliuzzi
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/11/our-president-is-essentially-mob-boss.html
Trump's Alleged Mob Tieshttp://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/12/a-gangster-in-white-house-by-david-frum.html
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https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/11/roger-stone-reminds-us-that-members-of.html
Illegal Immigrants Commit Crime At A Considerably Lower Rate Than Trump's Inner Sanctum
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/09/illegal-immigrants-commit-crime-at.html
Inconvenient Truth About The Trump Administration's Rife Criminality
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/08/inconvenient-truth-about-trump.html
Donald Trump, Felon: Re-Visiting Trump University
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/05/donald-trump-felon-re-visiting-trump.html
Trump Ordered By Judge To Pay $2 Million To Eight Charities For Illegal Use Of Foundation
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/11/trump-ordered-by-judge-to-pay-2-million.html
A Heated Discussion Provoked By The Proposition That Trump's "Best People" Are More Likely To Be Felons Than Illegal Immigrants
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/10/a-heated-thread-around-proposition-that.html
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Investigative Journalist David Cay Johnston Calls Trump "One Of The Most Successful Criminals In America"And "The Greatest Con Artist In The History Of The World"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9VceMr046E
David Cay Johnston: "Trump Is Not A Loyal American... There Is A Traitor In The White House"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/07/david-cay-johnston-trump-is-not-loyal.html
"Our President Is Essentially A Mob Boss": Former FBI Counterintel Chief Frank Figliuzzi
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/11/our-president-is-essentially-mob-boss.html
Trump's Alleged Mob Tieshttp://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/12/a-gangster-in-white-house-by-david-frum.html
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Trump Will Lie, Cheat Or Drop The Big One To Get Re-Elected
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This Dartmouth Article On COVID-19 Prevention Strikes Me As Exceptionally Well Done
Since the author is wide open to communication. I encourage you to share your thoughts about a possible antibody study of the two centenarians who have survived both Spanish Flu and coronavirus.
Here is Erin Bromage's email address: ebromage@umassd.edu
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"And why do we know as soon as an unarmed black person is murdered in cold blood (like jogger Ahmaud Arbery shot dead in Georgia last week) that the killer (or killers) are ALWAYS politically conservative?" (Infrequently, rogue black cops will kill unarmed black men,)
"And why is it that whenever we see a Nazi or confederate flag, the person brandishing it is ALWAYS politically conservative?"
After this prelude I will answer the cultist’s specific question.
In brief, let it be known that contemporary American "conservatism" is fundamentally cruel - and worse.
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Love
Alan
PS Here is Umair's new article about the long-term impact of COVID-19 which I read to you and Jim on the phone today.
"Think Life Will Go Back to Normal After Coronavirus? Think Again" Umair Haque
Umair is one of two columnists whose writings I always read.
His assessment is bleak and I understand that reasonable people may choose to bypass this essay while hoping for the best.
Perhaps it is my own version of Confirmation Bias, but I have "known" since the Vietnam War that something was profoundly wrong with the United States of America and "her" national character. If the long arc of the universe bent toward justice, it seemed to me that the vast, ugly underbelly of the American ruse would be revealed.
After all, there is no statute of limitations on karma.
"Confirmation Bias And The Power Of Disconfirming Evidence"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/05/confirmation-bias-and-power-of.html
My Response To A Baptist Minister Friend's Facebook Post Commenting On Jogger's Killing
Excerpt: I am now convinced that Trump Cult will do ANYTHING necessary to win The Oval Office in November.
Lie. Cheat.
Wage a war to "busy giddy minds with foreign quarrels.
Perp a false flag attack. (Whether by way of collusion or not, why wouldn't Vladimir Putin "do something" to make Americans rally around the flag and the President, thus ensuring reelection of the only presidential candidate he's ever really wanted in the Oval Office? Duh.)
I mean these guys are industrial-strength criminals. They have NO moral compass and are fully prepared -- probably eager -- to do ANY goddamn thing.
At bare minimum, Trump and his lickspittle cultists are no friends of democracy. They are theocrats just as Frank Zappa prophesied.
Frank Zappa Prophesied A Fascist Theocracy. Barry Goldwater Agrees
With astonishingly regularity, these malicious malfeasants tell (or repeat) brazen lies, and when not lying they cultivate ignorance or invite misinformation, simultaneously sealing themselves in "Confirmation Bias Bubbles."
Don't forget...
There is no adult in The Oval Office.
And Michael Flynn (along with Steve Bannon) are on their way back to rebuild the coven.
To re-establish The Chaos Obama now speaks of openly.
From now on, when I find myself in head-to-head conversation with someone who is defending Trump (or Trumpism) I will answer the first question they ask (or respond to the first stupid, ignorant or benighted statement they make) by replying, “Why are 93% of American hate groups politically conservative organizations?"
"Who Gets The Political Support Of 892 Certifiable U.S. Hate Groups?"
"And why do we know as soon as an unarmed black person is murdered in cold blood (like jogger Ahmaud Arbery shot dead in Georgia last week) that the killer (or killers) are ALWAYS politically conservative?" (Infrequently, rogue black cops will kill unarmed black men,)
"And why is it that whenever we see a Nazi or confederate flag, the person brandishing it is ALWAYS politically conservative?"
After this prelude I will answer the cultist’s specific question.
In brief, let it be known that contemporary American "conservatism" is fundamentally cruel - and worse.
The Origin Of White Supremacy: "An Indigenous People's History Of The United States"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-origin-of-white-supremacy.html
Snopes: "Did Christopher Columbus Seize, Sell, and Export Sex Slaves?"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/05/snopes-did-christopher-columbus-seize.html
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Borowitz: Obama Unworried About Trump Accusing Him of Crime Because Bill Barr Does Not...
Obama Unworried About Trump Accusing Him of Crime Because Bill Barr Does Not Prosecute Criminals
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Former President Barack Obama said on Monday that he is unconcerned about Donald Trump accusing him of “the greatest crime in American history” because Attorney General Bill Barr does not prosecute criminals.
“At first, when I heard that he was accusing me of being the worst criminal ever, I have to admit I was a little rattled,” Obama said. “But then I remembered Barr’s don’t-prosecute-crimes policy, and I was pretty chill about it.”
Obama said that he was unsure what crime Trump was accusing him of committing, “but I’m pretty sure I never lied to the F.B.I. or anything as serious as that—so I’m good.”
The former President said that, if it turns out that he did commit a crime, “I’ll immediately admit that I did it, because, if history is any guide, the next thing that will happen is me not getting prosecuted.”
Reflecting on how the Department of Justice might view his illegal actions, whatever they were, Obama said, “This is an awesome time to be a criminal.”
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A Timely -- And Hilarious -- Reminder Of The Jerk's Ineptitude And Deadly Self-Interest
![US President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference on the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC on May 11, 2020. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)]()
"Compendium Of Best Pax Posts About The Pandemic And Trump's Grotesque Mismanagement"
"Compendium Of Best Pax Posts About The Pandemic And Trump's Grotesque Mismanagement"
History Repeats Itself: Coronavirus And The Spanish Flu Of 1918
"What's Next On The Coronavirus Timeline And What Happens If Trump Opens America Too Soon?"
"Chris Cuomo Interviews His Brother, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo"
"Compendium Of Pax Posts About Coronavirus: Trump's Denial, Ineptitude And Mismanagement"
Donald Trump held a bizarre pep rally press conference type thing on Monday. Trump and others spoke in the Rose Garden with two identical posters hung on each side of Trump’s dumb head, boasting a lie about America’s primacy in testing for the novel coronavirus. Americans with even the smallest level of critical thinking could see what was happening. Trump is attempting to sell America Trump steaks made out of Grade Z beef.
The signs, in big sans serif lettering, said: “AMERICA LEADS THE WORLD IN TESTING.” This was a last second deal and as George Orwell’s 1984 has taught us, simple bold lettering is how you drive home propaganda. Of course, simple bold lettering on a blank white background is also wildly easy to photoshop, so Twitter decided to have a field day with the tragicomedy that is this administration.
And there’s this other brutal fact.
And the actual numerical fact.
And this simple fact.
And here’s a recent American history lesson
But there is also this sad reality.
And remember when this was the sad fact?
And what is being said.
And a reminder.
And finally.
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Cartoon: Dead Cat Bounce
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