Day 1184 – The Worst Could Be Yet To Come

Thursday April 16, 2020 

199 Days until the election on November 3^rd

279 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

While the president has been saying he’s hoping to open up the country soon we have a few problems to solve. There is some hope, but the smart money, if there is any would say, “Hey, don’t worry they’ll screw it up.” The “they” seems to be the Republican president, who has joined a long line of Republican screw up presidents and Republican governors and Republican Senators. Although in the case of the senators I’ve got a tingly feeling that a few of them are nervous about doing the stupid thing. Not the wrong thing, that’s okay, but the stupid? You know the one where you get caught with your pants down on the toilet kind of stupid? They’re worried about that.

Yesterday a commentator said that it wasn’t that long ago that another Republican president had left us a mess. And boy what a mess that was! But, as Bill Clinton said at that time of the Republicans, their main complaint of Democrats was that the Dems didn’t clean it up fast enough. Hey, don’t worry. This time it will take the rest of our lifetime to clean up this one.

Let’s do a quick dive into recent history. It was Reagan that started us on this downhill slide. He took the money from Social Security. I know the republicans want to blame LBJ, but that isn’t true. LBJ combined the budget of Social Security with the rest of the budget. He didn’t steal the money, that took the great communicator himself. Plus old Ronnie destroyed the union movement which destroyed the chances of middle class advancing, and he cut a deal with the Pope, which killed off the zero population growth project, which has led to the over population of the world which has led to humans going into wild and fragile areas of the Earth more and more which has led to animal viruses crossing over into the human population which has led to the current pandemic. Maybe, I’m over stating things.

Okay then papa Bush came along and extended the stuff Ronnie was doing leaving a huge deficit which Bill Clinton cleaned up and gave a surplus to W who immediately gave it away and left our county in economic collapse for Obama to clean up. 

Let’s not forget the Nixon/Ford left Carter with a huge inflation problem that Carter solved at the cost of his presidency. It might be interesting to review exactly what Carter did to solve the stagflation problem. He let the experts do their jobs. Weird, huh?

Now we’ve got Trump. He hasn’t gotten one thing right about this crisis, which didn’t have to be a pandemic. How do I know this? Well, a person who was involved in the last potential pandemic, the Ebola outbreak, told us what we should have done. He said we shouldn’t trust the Chinese with what they were reporting but instead we should go over to China and find out for ourselves. That we should help the Chinese with their outbreak.

Did we? No. Trump closed the door. Well, not really but he likes to say he did. Just like he’s now saying he’s cutting off the money to WHO. He can’t. Already allocated.

Who was that guy who back in January said we should go over to China and help them?

Joe Biden.

199 Days until the election on November 3^rd

279 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

PS WTF? Only in Hong Kong.