Noam Chomsky couldn't be more correct: Señor Trumpanzee is culpable in the deaths of thousands of Americans by using the coronavirus pandemic to boost his electoral prospects and line the pockets of big business. And he's not alone. The Republican Party is right there with him.
by NoahTonight's meme is a simple historic graph from the now badly and deliberately damaged Center For Disease Control that shows us what happened here in America with the flu pandemic of 1918-1919. The curve went down after several months, WW1 ended and people got tired of being cooped up so out in the streets they went.
I'd like to think that at the end of this nightmare, there will be a national consensus about which governors were as destructive as Trump in their responses to the pandemic and that they're all tossed into a live volcano like on that Spectrum TV commercial. I'm not even talking about the governors who were slow to react before they fully understood the gravity of them problem-- like Cuomo or Newsom, each of whom learned how badly they screwed up and moved to improve.
On Friday morning, Karine Jean-Pierre, author and chief public affairs office for MoveOn, tweeted the meme above about the Ahmaud Aubrey scandal. Rev. Jacqui Lewis, one of my colleagues from Vote Common Good wrote she's "sick of writing emails about dead Black people. This week, video footage surfaced of the February 23rd murder of Ahmaud Arbery.
The Dismantling Of American Democracy by Nancy OhanianBrown County is the fourth most populous county in Wisconsin. Green Bay is the county seat and biggest city. After the Republican-dominated state Supreme Court forced in-person voting on the state, Brown County was hot hard with new COVID cases. The Public Health Department reported another 95 cases Wednesday, bringing the total above 1,600.
On Thursday, Politico interviewed Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and she set the Trump Regime on fire for their incompetent, dysfunctional and bungled response to the pandemic. Their over-all grade wasn't an "F"-- presumably because Trump hasn't fired Fauci yet-- but a D minus.
Face To Face by Nancy OhanianPlease think of this post as a continuation the 5AM piece on anomie. I had a few questions about what anomie is.
The poem about recklessness by Kaj Munk above ran late last night. Maybe you missed it... so I decided to try again this morning... since I think it's important. The author, Kaj Munk, was a Danish pastor and playwright who was murdered in 1944 for resisting the Nazis when they were occupying his country.I don't know anyone who's happy about the societal lockdown and the attendant social distancing rules.
Last week one of the famous electoral prognosticators, who never gets anything right until a day or two before the election, looked at the Senate election in Montana and pontificated that "Based on what we can piece together, the race seems like it’s neck and neck at the moment. But does that actually make it a Toss-up?
