Day 1213 – Preparing for The Long Dark Winter

Day 1213 – Preparing for The Long Dark Winter

Friday May 15, 2020 

170 Days until the election on November 3^rd

250 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

There are all sorts of bits lying about. Most of it is excrement.

Some of it is outrageous. Are you surprised? Of course not, it is what we have come to expect.

– There was the Republican congressman during the hearing of Dr. Bright who used his time to say this was all a political stunt and no one is giving Trump credit.

– There was another Republican congressman who during that same hearing questioned Dr. Bright about who was paying him: his old job at BARDA or the new job he was being offered at NIH? This congressman went on to question how it was that Dr. Bright was able to be at this hearing if he had been out on medical leave and now vacation if in fact as Dr. Bright had claimed he had high blood pressure? How was the doctor able to function here and not on his new job that he had to take “medical leave”? The congressman “just wanted to understand.” Bull Shit. 

But as Dr. Bright explained several times to the congressman, because the congressman by his own admission had trouble understanding, he – Dr. Bright – had been forced out of his job on short notice and this caused hyper-tension, which he was being treated for.

– Then there was the young look-a-like Kelly-Ann Conway who was on the White House lawn with Trump (I think she’s a former Fox News whatever) who explained that the Obama administration had left a playbook and it was inadequate and didn’t do the job, but the Trump administration had written a new playbook which did. Bull Shit.

Holding up a marked up not good looking report and a cute good-looking report does not make it true. Why haven’t you, The White House, followed any playbook?

Oh yeah, and at one point the White House denied the Obama administration had left them a playbook. That ended when Ron Klain, who headed up the Ebola response team under Obama, showed a copy of the front of the playbook that was left. It was marked “PLAYBOOK …” Read it? They claimed not to know about it! He also published the table of contents so folks would see for themselves the detail they went into.

We are still waiting to see the Trump playbook. Maybe because it really has nothing in it?

In that hearing Dr. Bright laid out what he had done to try and get the administration to pay attention to the coming pandemic. He had done everything he could think of. He repeatedly warned people at the highest levels. He pulled every lever, warned every person – repeatedly. They blew him off. Trump says Dr. Bright is a disgruntled employee. Disgruntled? Why would he be disgruntled? Just because he did his job and got fired? He says he’s not disgruntled, but frustrated.

So then there was the interview with Andrew Cuomo on Rachel. Man, what a breath of fresh air. New York is going to reopen. The Governor has put in place rules as to when a county can reopen. What? Rules and guidelines? Get out to here.

The Governor has said that nursing homes must test their staff and if they don’t they risk having their licenses pulled. He has sent out 100,000 test kits to start this process. Compare this to the White House “plan” which says that there should be testing. No money, no help, just a suggestion.

Then we get to the Michael Flynn case. The Justice Department has withdrawn from the case. That is they don’t want to prosecute Flynn. This has so outraged the lead prosecutor on the case that he withdrew from the case. Another disgruntled employee? 

The judge has now asked a retired judge to step in and argue the old Justice Department case. 

Meanwhile, Wisconsin and several other states have “opened up.” In the case of Wisconsin it is over the objection of the Governor of that state, who was overruled by the state Supreme Court. I’ve seen the charts on the infection rates of those states: Wisconsin, South Dakota, Texas are opening up, while their charts of the rates of infection are going up. This is not smart. This is stupid. I have to wonder what will happen when lots of those places are overwhelmed with sick patients?

There was a piece about a guy who thought this whole corona virus thing was fake, overblown, a hoax. He thought God would protect him. Then he got sick. He’s now preaching that it isn’t fake, not overblown, not a hoax. It’s real. Protect yourself. Don’t get this thing. Wow. Amazing huh?

How many more will have to undergo this miracle transformation? I suggest that they believe. Believe the scientists.

Then there’s Obamagate. This is the latest fabrication by Trump. What’s up with that? Well, the president has finally gotten the intelligence community cowed at the top levels and his plan is to use that and Justice and law enforcement to go after Joe Biden and the Democratic party that’s what.

Then there’s ballot harvesting. The practice of someone collecting mail-in ballots from others and submitting them en mass. Devin Nunes was seen on Fox News saying that was the only way that a Republican could win a  particular seat in California. This practice has been ruled illegal in the other 49 states. Why? Oh I dunno. Maybe after that guy in North Carolina deceived people about what they were voting for, took their blank ballots and filled them in, and threw out  the ballots that voted for the opponent? Just guessing.

So, come the fall when we are in the worst outbreaks of this virus we will have ever seen and rural states have people dying and they have no ventilators or places to store the bodies and the economy is in the deepest recession this country has ever seen, including 1929, then what?

170 Days until the election on November 3^rd

250 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

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