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Thanks to President Trump’s leadership we have seen almost 215,000 deaths in the United States and major economic problems. Yet he maintains that he has done a great job and would like us to vote to give him another 4 years.
Continue reading “Lies and election ads”
I have been forwarded quite a few videos by friends warning me about how bad the candidate I support is. Be careful since you may see something that never happened and form your opinion of the candidate based on a falsehood pretending to be a fact. In my experience most come from Republicans and are about a Democrat. I’ll not say it never happens the other way around, just that I’ve never seen it.
Continue reading “Deepfake videos in this election”
Dr. William (Bill) Foege was the director when I started at CDC. Back then (1978) it was the Center for Disease Control (CDC). Now it is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). They reorganized into a series of centers with focus in specific areas and added prevention to the name but kept the acronym.
I spent 30 years at CDC and so went through many changes of Directors. As far as I was concerned, Dr. Foege was the best.
Continue reading “CDC and Dr. William (Bill) Foege”
The most dangerous man in America is President Donald Trump.
Actually his past actions has already established that. He has made a series of moves that made the pandemic worse in the United States. He has promoted false cures and ignores science and public health measure.
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Several days ago I wrote Pennsylvania Republicans want to block the vote about this effort. It was long and detailed and many readers may have missed some essential points. We should be worried about this.
To summarize, Republican State Rep. Garth D. Everett is trying to get the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to form a select committee with powers to investigate the 2020 election. I think this could be a useful idea if done a bit differently. But I think the house resolution as written is just a power grab enabling this committee which would be majority Republican to subpoena election officials and seize ballots while the count is going on.
Continue reading “Do Republicans want to steal the Pennsylvania election ?”
Pennsylvania is a swing state and so will be a major factor in the Presidential election. President Trump is already making noise about not accepting the results of the election and not allowing peaceful transition of power if he loses.
Continue reading “Pennsylvania Republicans want to block the vote”
But we shouldn’t worry. If our goal is to find a new low President Trump could probably get us there. The P resident feed us a series of lies, constantly interrupted when his opponent tried to talk, refused to denounce violence and white supremacy groups, and refused to commit to a peaceful transition of power if he lost the elections.
In summary, it was a bad night for American democracy.
Continue reading “Presidential debate is new American low-point so far”
President Trump again refused to commit to a peaceful transition of power if he lost the election to VP Joe Biden in the debate last night. I think this is one of many very disturbing parts of the debate. Time described The Biggest Moments From the First Presidential Debate and this was one of them.
Continue reading “President Trump fails to be worthy of the office”
Donald Trump has played himself as billionaire on reality TV. He is currently President of the United States. He does not seem to be a successful businessman as evidenced in his tax returns but seems to have convinced many people that he is very successful in business and a billionaire.
Continue reading “Taxes of Donald Trump”
Quote of the day:
Douglas Brinkley, the presidential historian, said, “This may be the most damaging thing he has ever done to American democracy.”
This quote is quoted from Trump Again Sows Doubt About Election as G.O.P. Scrambles to Assure Voters.
I questioned whether this refusal to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he lost the election was Impeachable here yesterday but President Trump seems to be sticking to his threat.
President Trump refuses commit to peaceful transition of power if he is not re-elected.
Is this not an example of inappropriate behavior for the President of the United States? Our constitution assumes such peaceful transition. Is it unconstitutional to refuse this? Is it Impeachable>
Wil the House have the courage to impeach? Will the Senate have the courage to convict?
If not, are we ready for the fight at the inauguration when the elected President and the president who will not leave both show up.
The Biden Rule has come up again in discussing a potential Supreme Court nomination. There is no Biden Rule. Republicans just made it a rule to justify a political trick.
Continue reading “Biden Rule, republican alterative fact”
In a series of great moves, President Trump seems to be trying to make the current pandemic worse for all Americans, especially middle class and poor Americans. By the way, the death toll in the US is about 200,000 now.
Continue reading “President Trump ‘s great moves in this pandemic”
Do you remember CDC?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was once considered the best, or at least one of the best, public health agencies in the world. Until President Trump, they successfully guided the US though several epidemic and pandemics. Now the Trump administration is doing their best to ignore the advice of CDC and other public health experts as he fails to protect the American people from COVID-19.
Continue reading “CDC and political ping-pong”
We are talking about President Trump’s politics and and how that relates to the large number of deaths due to his failed response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
I do not think President Trump was not responsible for the virus coming here. But he is responsible for the large number of deaths that resulted from his incompetence and lies about the problem to the American people.
Continue reading “Politics and death”