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Wednesday, May 20, 2020

November Electoral College vote up for grabs?

It's arcane, outdated, the antique of American democracy. But, it elected Donald Trump in 2016, and threatens to do an encore in 2020.

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T-rump lost the 2016 popular vote in a landslide for Hillary Clinton, 3-million more, but she lost the election. Common sense would tell us, if three-million more Americans wanted Clinton for president than wanted Trump, she should be sitting in the Oval Office now. I preferred Bernie Sanders but sure as hell didn't want Donald Trump. The year started off right for Trump but his gross incompetence in handling COVID-19 has opened the eyes of many,

CNN, The Point, adds in connection with that...

"two of the most prominent non-partisan political analysts in the country have released new projections that show presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden with a clear edge over President Donald Trump in the Electoral College map."

Now, what is the Electoral College?...

The count today is 232 electoral votes for Joe Biden, 204 for Donald Trump. States not included here because they are toss-ups today include: Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Nebraska's 2nd district. Those six represent 102 votes, which could be a big turning point for either candidate. The flip side is Biden appears to be getting stronger with the issues like health care, climate change, guns and economic fairness.

The other flip side is the new support of college-educated whites -- especially white women with college degrees, an area where Trump did well in 2016. And no one wants to have the devastation of American citizens account for election results, but it looks like Trump's incompetence in the handling of the coronavirus pandemic will cost him votes in the industrial belt in states like Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.

Gerrymandering and the Electoral College...

Here's an excuse for the Electoral Electors that almost makes sense. The framers were concerned that the public would not have adequate knowledge to intelligently vote for a candidate, thus, the electors who are supposed to intelligently cast the votes. Although the latter is questionable, it still does not consider the fact that the Electoral College has become completely partisan with the Republican gerrymandering in the last few years. That is the problem.

As the Recent Supreme Court sessions have revealed, constitutional text, history and structure do support that "electors were meant to vote freely." This, of course, could go either way in November, but, again, the direction seems likely to be GOP-sided considering the current structure of state voting districts, which are in favor of Republicans. But with the positive news, above, from two known political handicappers, lookin' good on the left.

Tuesday, May 19, 2020

Today's COVID-19 results WORLDOMETER

Coronavirus cases 1,567,191

Coronavirus deaths 93,380

Coronavirus recoveries 362,384

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Donald Trump is completely obsessed with Barack Obama

David Smith of the Guardian says Donald Trump is being eaten alive inside by his manic compulsions with Barack Obama.

Donald Trump with Barack Obama at Trump’s inauguration ceremony at the Capitol in Washington, USA on January 20, 2017.

Barack Obama looked like a great president as he entered the White House in 2009, with the kind of enthusiasm, energy and capacity to get things done as John F. Kennedy. Kennedy was struck down by a bullet, Obama with a bullet of a different name, Moscow Mitch McConnell. President Obama had the overwhelming support of the American people as the racist McConnell began to spread his game plan of a one-term presidency.

That didn't work as Obama won with another landslide against Mitt Romney. But, as was the case in his first term, he was dogged by Moscow Mitch, who convinced his Republican colleagues to support him in keeping anything Obama from happening, actually anything Democrats. With the Dems, that hasn't changed. The Oval Office has changed and it is the startling difference between two men, Barack Obama and Donald Trump, that is the subject of this post.

Donald Trump's obsession with Barack Obama...

David Smith quotes journalist, Jon Karl, as he observed the then president and the one coming into office. He thought of Trump as actually "humbled," out of sorts, awed by the situation, and definitely not in control of the room. Obama was turning over the torch in the classy way he had conducted his presidency, to his predecessor, who “seemed a little dazed” and “a little freaked out.” These would be two of the earliest signs of Donald Trump's incompetency.

Then Smith comments...

"But what became clear in the next three and a half years is that Obama remains something of an obsession for Trump; the subject of a political and personal inferiority complex."

Here, the why...

"Observers point to a mix of anti-intellectualism, racism, vengeance and primitive envy over everything from Obama’s Nobel peace prize to the scale of his inauguration crowd and social media following."

Barack Obama criticizes Donald Trump's handling of coronavirus pandemic...

Obama criticizes Trump's handling of coronavirus...

CNN Politics says Trump has been backed into the corner on his incompetence with the COVID-19 pandemic, so he simply reverts to his favorite subject, Barack Obama...

"With the death count from the coronavirus rising and its economic fallout deepening, President Donald Trump is trying to fire up his base and divert the national conversation by promoting a baseless conspiracy that casts his predecessor, Barack Obama, as the architect of a plot to subvert his presidency."

And you can always depend on Jennifer Rubin, conservative columnist for the Washington Post, to zero in on Donald Trump's real intentions...

"It makes zero sense, you would think, for President Trump to attack his predecessor, since President Barack Obama is the most popular politician around (next to his wife) — someone who instills in Democrats a feeling of solidarity, of nostalgia for decent leadership and of hope. Even those critical of Obama’s presidency regard that era as akin to a Golden Age compared with the Trump calamity that brought us the Great Depression 2.0."

Donald Trump's absurd Obamagate conspiracy theory...

There's always a 'yeah, but'...

"And yet over the past week or so, Trump has rekindled “Obamagate,” a made-up scandal that has become a bumper sticker for Obama-haters. Trump’s claims are so thoroughly baseless and hopelessly convoluted that Trump cannot even explain it."

She also agrees with Jake Tapper's assessment...

"President Trump and his team are launching an unprecedented smear campaign against rivals, leveling wild and false allegations against critics in the media and politics, ranging from bizarre conspiracy theories to spreading lies about pedophilia and even murder."

Have we arrived at the pinnacle of Donald Trump's desperation, and are we dangerously close to the edge, or will this latest debacle simply fade away like all the others have because Republicans, plus an uncaring media, give him another free pass? Right now, I have to go with the latter.

Monday, May 18, 2020

WORLDOMETER Today's COVID-19 results

Coronavirus cases 1,545,211

Coronavirus deaths 91,751

Coronavirus recoveries 353,245

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Trump tries to dump CDC

Jennifer Prah Ruger served on the CDC Director's Advisory Ethics Subcommittee during the wake of SARS, anthrax attacks and avian influenza, and she totally disagrees with Donald Trump's reopening of the economy.

Jennifer Prah Ruger

She asks the question, "What has become of the CDC? The CDC is the national agency tasked with protecting America from threats to our health, safety, and security." She draws comparisons with other countries...

"CDCs in South Korea and Taiwan helped those countries act swiftly, decisively and successfully against Covid-19. The Taiwan Centers for Disease Control activated the Central Epidemic Command Center and imposed home quarantines, border restrictions, a face mask distribution system and other preventative measures. The CDCs in Taiwan and South Korea spearheaded rigorous detection and contact tracing, communication, and isolation."

Ruger comments that the CDC is a "national treasure" and just one of the reasons is that, as a very young agency, newly created in 1946, it eliminated malaria in 1951. The Oval Office lunatic wouldn't know this because his grasp of history only goes back to yesterday. She gives a good background in understanding the pandemic...

"A pandemic is an epidemic's spread across multiple countries. While pathogens are natural, epidemics and pandemics occur through human behaviors that spread them. Weak policies, institutions and leadership foster these disasters. Pandemics are preventable and controllable."

How COVID-19 spreads...

Ruger talks about 'human behavior' and it is obvious that the country reacts to Donald Trump's pronouncements, taking the lead on something they favor, like reopening businesses, etc. Trump sends out his double-digits to ramp up the crowd, resulting in an osmosis to those who aren't his supporters who temporarily forget the fact that COVID-19 is deadly, and there is a reason the scientists from the CDC have established their warnings.

The great hope to curb the spread of coronavirus is, like with any disease, to create a vaccine to immunize the public. That's what the CDC and several private companies are attempting to do, but, T-rump, in his haste to open the country, minimizes the work being done with this headline, "Trump downplays the need for coronavirus vaccine: ‘It’ll go away at somepoint.’" Yeah, like a bad cold. He has said this before but it gets more stupid as the pandemic progresses.

Listen to the reasoning of a mentally incompetent moron who has no idea what he is doing...

“We think we’re going to have a vaccine in the pretty near future, and if we do we’re going to really be a big step ahead”

“And if we don’t, we’re going to be like so many other cases where you had a problem come in, it’ll go away at some point, it’ll go away. It may flare up and it may not flare up, we’ll have to see what happens, but if it does flare up we’re going to put out the fire and we’ll put it out quickly and efficiently. We’ve learned a lot.”

Donald Trump says COVID-19 will go away, vaccine or not...

This idiot has learned absolutely nothing, and the tragedy of the whole situation, as I have mentioned before, is that this oaf does not realize just how stupid he is. Everybody else knows but he doesn't. And this “Operation Warp Speed” crap is just another ploy to snow his double-digit followers, and mis-lead the general public in thinking that he actually has a plan. He doesn't...he never has...and he never will. It is free-wheel conning at its very best-Donald Trump perfected it.

NPR reports...

"Americans should oust President Trump from the White House and elect a leader who will support – rather than undermine – public health experts who are battling the COVID-19 pandemic, British medical journal The Lancet says in a newly published editorial."

Trump announces “Operation Warp Speed” bullshit...

Not a novel idea, except for the part about the CDC, which draws attention to how well this organization is respected, even across the pond. There's more...

The unsigned editorial sharply criticizes the Trump administration, saying it has marginalized the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to a degree that is dangerous for both the U.S. and the world.

"Americans must put a president in the White House come January, 2021, who will understand that public health should not be guided by partisan politics," the journal says.

Yes, we know that, and the balanced side of the U.S. population is doing everything it can to accomplish this in November. GET OUT THE VOTE!

Sunday, May 17, 2020

WORLDOMETER Latest COVID-19 results

Coronavirus cases 1,524,551

Coronavirus deaths 90,902

Coronavirus recoveries 343,179

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