Sunday, August 7, 2026
There has been so much bad, so much incompetence and stupidity that it’s hard to frame it in a coherent and cogent way. There are three men in the world responsible for the wars that plague our planet. Our country is no longer being run but rather driven into the ground, and for what? We went from having the most remarkable economic recovery after COVID of any country to now reporting some of the worst numbers. It’s not just the economic numbers, you can see and feel it. Two years ago houses were selling. Signs went up; there was an open house and the place was gone. Now? Few signs go up, and when they do they stay up. Nothing is moving.
Every week there’s a new report about how people are being denied: healthcare, voting rights, justice, SNAP benefits. The administration is actively working to deny. It is with cruelty that they do it. And the reasons? The reasons are so obviously wrong headed. The Vice President of the United States made a speech saying they were going to crack down on Medicare fraud by denying people benefits. Every article I have read about health care fraud deals with administrators, not the recipients. Look no further than Senator Rick Scott. Or look at the list of fraudsters Donald Trump has pardoned that carried out massive fraud against the healthcare system. But instead they went after the people who actually needed help.
And it’s like that in every corner of the government. Rand Paul attacking Anthony Fauci. The Millers, that despicable couple, asking for Fauci’s help privately while attacking him publicly, WTF?
Robert Kennedy Jr. and his trail of disease outbreaks. Turns out if you don’t get people vaccinated and you don’t inspect our food and water supplies things get bad in a hurry. Who knew? Every rational American.
But there’s the attack on science and learning, it is likened to Stalin era science.
There’s the dismantling of our government institutions. Be it the people and agencies that deal with voting, crime, public welfare, foreign aid – they are all attacked, dismembered and left in tatters. Why? The only reason seems to be that anyone one who knows anything must be sidelined. I mean you can’t have someone doubt you? So what if you lie, make up nonsense and blame others?
I think people are starting to realize that there is a reason to have the government involved in various aspects of our lives. The fellow who just won the Michigan Democratic Primary, who has been attacked for being Muslim and a socialist pointed out that in a true capitalist society the producers get taxed. They don’t get a free ride like they are getting now. How does he know this about capitalism? He told us – he reads.
When was the last time Donald Trump read – not a book – anything?
But there is a large segment of our population that keeps spouting stuff they are being feed by the purveyors of disinformation. I’ve seen postings by people who I know are “conservative” who are saying things like we better wake up because of these various horrible things going on. Then they list them (well they copy a ten point screed given them).
The list includes things like: Trans people ruining women’s sports, illegal voting, protecting something usually schools with more guns, vaccines causing autism…
None of these are serious issues, if you look at the numbers.
The trans people one is especially annoying. Remember when Kristi Noem was governor of South Dakota and she made a big deal about making sure trans people didn’t play in women’s sports> The head of the athletic department for the State was asked how many people were we talking about. The number was zero. He thought maybe there had been a wrestler back a few years ago. The NCAA says the number is like ten or twelve. Mike Johnson said there are only two sexes like it says in the Bible. Bible scholars, and people who read the Bible, say that the Bible doesn’t say that. It is silent on the issue. There is reference to sodomy, but two sexes? No.
And after this you then get into the question of what is a man and a woman. It’s not an easy question to answer. Some say like porn they know it when they see it. When I was going to Johns Hopkins there was a famous annual lecture by a one Dr. Money. He would show slide after slide of children born with mixed genitalia A penis instead of a clitoris, Externally looking female internally looking male, or vice versa. Or as the trans girl who faced Kentucky senators who were trying to pass a bill that would throw her mother in jail for helping her with gender affirming care, “God made me and God doesn’t’ make mistakes. I am perfect the way I am.” ( I am paraphrasing here.) But the point is the lines between men and women aren’t as clear cut as some would like so the issues that people have that have to live with the bodies they were given is not so easy to regulate with laws and I gotta ask why is anyone trying to do that?
Then there’s the vaccine causes autism stuff. Despite, mountains of evidence to the contrary this idea, like Atlantis, persists. Where did it come from? Turns out there are some kids that develop autism due to a genetic disposition and it happens at about the time kids get vaccinated for certain diseases. So the vaccines cause autism crowd failed one of the basic tenets of science – causality. And its corollary – just because tow things happen at about the same time does not mean there is any connection.
Then there’s the voter fraud nonsense. Despite over sixty cases brought by Trump none have proven any voter fraud. The numbers kept by the Heritage Foundation bear this out. Over billions of votes cast the number of actual voter fraud case is less than fifty. And shockingly they are usually Republicans doing the frauding (a new word?) These cries of voter fraud all seem to be attempts to limit voting and kick people off voter roles. An easy way to solve this problem would be to pass a law saying everyone has to vote.
Meanwhile there was a recent posting on Facebook where someone apologized to their MAGA friends because Trump was okay other than a list that went on and on and on, listing his various crimes and atrocities.
And now Iran has declared they are done negotiating until Trump is out of office. Art of the Deal indeed!
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