As you watch this adorable little video here, remind yourself: About 43% of Americans want four more years of this.

They have only vague understandings that the United States has been singularly lame in its handling of the pandemic, that Americans are prohibited from travelling virtually everywhere on Earth outside the U.S., that there are 44 million people out of work, 22 million hungry children, 27 million with no healthcare, unprecedented levels of race-related violence–and that all this has happened/worsened since Trump took office.

Their solution: re-elect the president.   

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Could someone please explain something to me?  How does a president, any president, “rush out a vaccine?”

Obviously, there standard medical protocols that gauge safety and efficacy.  Who in the hell would get a vaccination that the scientific community as a whole hadn’t put its stamp on?

Again, I say this about any president, but especially about Trump, a man who has demonstrated hundreds of times that he has not the slightest concern for the well-being of the common American.  Here’s a guy who’s suggested injecting disinfectants and shining light into people’s orifices.    Who could possibly care what he thinks about our nation’s health?

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Person A: Winner
Me: I suppose it depends on how one feels about felons. I raised my kids to believe that criminals were losers regardless of how much money and power they had. I think I made the right call here.
That this is in any way controversial is a very sad development in this formerly great country.  
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If the California Frisbee Golf Association had come out with a statement to the effect that it supported its players’ right to protest, it might not have had the same impact as NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell’s publicly apologizing for not listening to his players earlier.

Hats off.

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Since Trump’s attacking the U.S. military has cost him the support of a great swath of the right wing, one wonders: who’s left?  With the left and center gone, the only remaining constituencies appear to be a) hardcore racists/gun nuts, and b) people whose news source has them so completely terrified and so badly misinformed that they’re missing all current events.  Given the highest-rated Fox News shows have no more than 7 million viewers, and there are 18.2 million veterans alone, how can this possibly work out?

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As a schoolboy, I once made a comment about something that was always quite clear to everyone, and a friend told me, “Craig, you have a firm grasp on the obvious.”  The photograph here brings that moment back into focus for me.

For some reason, however, Americans’ perceptions of Trump are not so cut and dried.

There are 42% who deem Trump to be honest, competent, Godly, dedicated to public service, selflessly committed to the well-being of all Americans–the victim of a predatory media.  Fortunately, most of the rest of us see him as nothing but a conman, but 42/53? That’s just amazing.

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Look at the faces of Merkel and Macron.  That’s intensity.  They know their looking into the eyes of pure evil, and each would do anything in their power to destroy it.

Trump seems to have a different feeling about Putin.

We may never learn precisely why.  Perhaps it’s just his admiration and envy of a dictator.  More probably, it’s far more sinister.

 

 

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The rather intense-looking fellow at the upper right is John C. Calhoun, U.S. vice president from 1825 to 1832 under James Monroe. That scowl was indicative of America at the time, rooted as it was in wanton cruelty.

1830 saw the beginning of the Trail of Tears, a series of forced relocations of approximately 60,000 Native Americans, carried out by government authorities (state and local militias) following the passage of the Indian Removal Act.  These relocated peoples suffered from exposure, disease, and starvation while en route to their new designated reserves. Several thousands died before reaching their destinations or shortly after from disease.

FWIW, I think Kamala Harris will do a fine job as veep.  She’s an honest and intelligent person with solid, humanitarian values.

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Are you an expert in solar PV installations?

Neither am I.

But I think we both know enough about the subject to understand that putting a solar panel under a bridge isn’t a strong idea.

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Of all the “word of the day” apps available, my favorite is Wordsmith.org, edited by the brilliant Anu Garg.  One of my favorite features is the “thought for the day,” and here’s today’s:  I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it. -Edith Sitwell, poet (7 Sep 1887-1964)

Powerful stuff in today’s America, a country featuring millions of people who believe climate change is a hoax, the pandemic is planned, whites are the master race, the Earth is flat, liberals are communists, and Bill Gates is implementing his plan to enslave humanity.  (more…)

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