Bye-bye, so long, farewell Bye-bye, so long See you in November See you when the summers through Here we are (bye, Donald, goodbye) Saying goodbye at the polls (bye, Donald, goodbye) Extended vacation (bye, Donald, bye, Donald) Is taking you away (bye, Donald, goodbye Have a good time but remember There is danger in the summer moon above (called Covid-19) Will I see you in November Or lose you to a Biden love (Counting the days ‘till you’ll be gone) Counting the hours and minute, too) Bye, Donald, goodbye Bye, Donald, goodbye Bye, Donald, goodbye (bye-bye, so long, farewell) Bye, Donald, goodbye (bye-bye, so long) Have a good time but remember There is danger in the summer moon above (called Covid-19) Will I see you in November Or lose you to a Biden love (You’ll be alone each and every night) (While you’re away don’t forget to write) See you (bye-bye, so long, farewell) In November (bye-bye, so long, farewell I’m hopin I DON’T See you (bye-bye, so long, farewell) After November (bye-bye, so long, farewell) Well, maybe I’ll See you (bye-bye, so long, farewell) (For the last time) In November (bye-bye, so long, farewell) Thanks to “The Happenings” for their 1966 song celebrating summer love, which is about as far removed from where we are now as is possible. It also is an indication of just how freakin old I’m getting to even remember this tune!!! After three plus years of lies, distortions, misinformation, collusion, obstruction of justice, extortion of a foreign government, environmental destruction, wealth inequality, tax breaks for the wealthy and corporate America, a foreign policy that isn’t, the incompetence and downright gross negligence of his “CABINET OF CLOWNS”, the tragic handling of the coronavirus pandemic from the very beginning which has cost tens of thousands of American lives, the theater of the absurd news briefings every day, culminating with the drink the bleach fiasco last week, the unchecked spread of gun violence and the sale of military style assault rifles while politicians stuff their pockets with campaign contributions from the NRA and gun lobby, the reluctance and refusal of multiple REPUBLIKAN(T) governors to either issue or enforce lockdown orders and the current rush to reopen businesses at the risk of endangering public health and safety, (YOUR health and safety I might add!) I have said everything I have to say about the destruction and long term damage Donald Trump and the REPUBLIKAN(T) controlled Senate under the direction of “MOSCOW” Mitch McConnell have done to our nation and our democracy. Two thirds of my fellow citizens agree. To the other thirty to forty per cent who have steadfastly supported this incompetent egomaniac from the beginning regardless of what feckless statements or reckless actions he makes or takes, I have just one thing to say. I’m also saying it to the REPUBLIKAN(T) Senators like “MOSCOW” MITCH and Congressman like Devin Nunes and Kevin McCrathy…your time is up!!! You’ve had your moment in history, and it will be recorded for what it has been-a complete an unmitigated disaster not only for our great nation but also for the rest of the world. Over the last three plus years I have probably written more than FIVE HUNDRED of these posts under the “WAR ON COLE” or “COLELASSAL NEWS” by-line, many of which have detailed the transgressions of this snake oil salesman since he took office. I have nothing left to say about Donald Trump and the REPUBLIKAN(T) party of which I was a member for over FORTY years! If the American voters haven’t figured out for themselves by now (which I know they have!) that this man is incredibly ignorant, his policies are wildly inconsistent across the board, his appointments have been a constant revolving door and he has done a job so bad in managing the current pandemic it borders frankly on dereliction of duty then shame on all of us!!!. Come election time, I will be sending in my mail in ballot and proudly checking off the names of Amy McGrath and Joe Biden. Until then, “See You In November”. VOTE DEMOCRATIC!!!
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Any time now the number of American deaths from the coronavirus pandemic will exceed the total number of Americans killed in the entire Vietnam conflict, over FIFTY FIVE THOUSAND. And the worst of it is, much like the Vietnam conflict, most of these deaths could have been avoided.
I hear those voices who continue to proclaim that the catastrophic crisis, which Trump was warned about in January, is not the President’s fault. That much is true. However, what is also true is that despite intelligence information from numerous sources and warnings from within his own administration about what was coming, our President did nothing. In fact he was too busy telling America that the whole thing was a “hoax, just one person infected from China, it will all miraculously disappear in the spring, we have this totally under control” and ignoring the doctors and scientists who were telling him how devastating this pandemic would be. Instead, he was more concerned about the stock market, failing to issue a European travel ban on the advice of his sycophant Steven “The MUNCHKIN” Mnuchin which we now know that Italy was the primary cause of the outbreak in New York. His so called travel ban on China was a farce, allowing over 400,000 into our country after the outbreak was known and another 40,000 plus AFTER his travel ban. He had all of his political hacks and media microphones like “INSANITY” Hannity and Rush “OXY” Limbaugh telling America this coronavirus was no worse than the flu. For the entire month of February, essentially nothing was done. Mardi gras celebrations went ahead as planned. Spring breakers raged on FL beaches. Meanwhile our government did absolutely NOTHING to replenish stockpiles of required PPE or medical equipment like ventilators. While we watched the rest of the world, especially China and Italy deal with this pandemic and witnessed the devastating effects it had on the most vulnerable, the infirm or the elderly, we did NOTHING to protect those individuals or anybody else for that matter. Donald Trump played golf. March brought more stonewalling and misinformation from Trump and his administration. His publicized visit to the CDC was a disaster, a foreshadowing of what we have been witnessing in his so called daily briefings. While the virus struck hard in Washington State and California, then New York in devastating fashion, Trump still did essentially nothing, leaving the states to their own devices. It was only after states like NY and CA issued stay at home edicts like in San Francisco that Trump came out in favor of such measures. It was only after a doctor on FAUX News mentioned 2.2 million people could potentially die if the virus was left to “thin the herd” that he started to realize it WAS serious, DEADLY serious. I’m not going to get into the specifics of timelines here-they are available for everybody to see for themselves and they do NOT lie. What I am getting at is that we have a President who from the very beginning has lied about everything from the size of the inauguration crowd (many of whom were bought and paid for by Trump’s very own inauguration committee!) to the botched handling of this pandemic. He brags about his ratings and what a great job he has done in controlling this outbreak…..tell that to the 55,000 families of those who have perished!!! He lies every single time he stands in front of a microphone. Neither he nor anybody in his administration has a shred of credibility left. Just look at his recent hire of Kay(LIE) McEnemy as his Press Secretary-she also on record with a cable news channel stating that the coronavirus would “never come here”. The man that was elected President in 2016 despite losing the popular vote by some 3,000,000 votes, Donald J. Trump, has proven to be not only the worst one in history, but one who will be held ultimately responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of people as a result of his ignorance and incompetence. The governmental agency established to handle the nation’s response to a pandemic was gutted in 2017 by Trump in typical REPUBLIKAN(T) fashion. He stood by and did nothing while being played by Kim Jung Un allowing N Korea to further develop their nuclear arsenal and capability to deliver it. He allowed Vladimir Putin to interfere in our election in 2016. He then went to extraordinary measures to cover it all up, culminating with his hand picked shyster lawyer and AG William (DIS)Barr whitewashing Robert Mueller’s report which noted TEN different incidences of obstruction of justice. He then attempted to extort a NATO ally, Ukraine, into digging up dirt on his political rival Joe Biden while withholding desperately needed military aid in their battle against Russian backed militias who invaded their country. Despite being impeached by the House, the Senate, under the direction of “MOSCOW” Mitch McConnell, completely disregarded their oaths of office and acquitted him in a sham trial, orchestrated by Trump himself. All of this was reason enough to show this buffoon the door come November long before Covid-19 struck with such a vengeance. Now we are actually witnessing the horrific tragedy of electing a game show host and failed real estate mogul to the most important position in the world. At our nation’s greatest hour of need, we have witnessed a complete and utter failure in our leadership in general and the President in particular. The result is the catastrophic and failed response to this crisis which has resulted in more deaths than all the troops KIA in the Vietnam conflict. While the death toll mounts, even now he is encouraging states and his supporters to open things back up despite the warnings from doctors and scientists that we are ill prepared to begin getting back to any semblance of normalcy, especially in the area of testing. Here again, Trump has lied daily about the availability and effectiveness of the governments testing program; even REPUBLIKAN(T) governors have complained bitterly about this abysmal failure. The states have pretty much been left to their own devices in this regard, and to their credit have done the best they can under the circumstances-the same holds true for the PPE and equipment…as far as Trump and “HE WENT TO” Jared Kushner are concerned, the government stash is for “us” and “we aren’t a delivery service”. But we WILL compete against you for these supplies and divert them for our own selfish purposes or to score political points with certain state governors. I’m quite certain that this covid-19 pandemic has effectively killed ANY chance Trump had at getting reelected in November and he has nobody to blame but himself. History will NOT be kind to him, and his legacy will be one of destruction and failure. I just hope beyond hope that THE American people have seen now with their own eyes and heard for themselves the disastrous consequences of electing this dangerous egomaniac and pathological liar to such a position of power. The only way to rid ourselves of the plague that is Donald J. Trump is to vote him and his REPUBLIKAN(T) enablers like McConnell and Graham out of office and start with a clean slate to repair the damage his administration has wrought on our economy, our resources and our people. For FIFTY FIVE THOUSAND souls or more, it’s already too late!!! Following in the illustrious footsteps of such honest and intellectual giants as Sean Spicer and Sarah “HUCKLEBERRY” Sanders we now have as press Secretary Number Four Kayleigh McEnany, who I shall hereafter refer to as Kay(LIE) McEnemy because she has already embarked down that same dark path as her pathological boss, Donald Trump. She is just another cable news hack, another Kellyanne “C” Word, another voice to be screened out by those seeking the truth or any semblance thereof. This newest Trump appointee has already made such brilliant comments on record as for instance, in a video of Ms. McEnany on the Fox Business show “Trish Regan Primetime” from Feb. 25, circulated by Andrew Kaczynski of CNN, the new press secretary said, “We will not see diseases like the coronavirus come here, we will not see terrorism come here, and isn’t that refreshing when contrasting it with the awful presidency of President Obama?”
She has at times trafficked in the type of “othering” of President Barack Obama that Mr. Trump once did by promoting a lie that the first black president, whose father was Kenyan, was not born in the United States. “How I Met Your Brother — Never mind, forgot he’s still in that hut in Kenya. #ObamaTVShows,” Ms. McEnany tweeted in 2012. The perfect foil for the ultimate reality show host, Donald J. Trump. I heard one of the first things she demanded of the press was that they all refer to Trump as “President” Trump; this would be understandable and appropriate if the man she was referring to was deserving of such respect, or frankly ANY respect at all. But he isn’t and hasn’t been since he became a millionaire compliments of dad’s money and destroyed any semblance of decency and credibility along the way, and it has followed him right into the Oval Office. And now he chooses to surround himself with incompetent sycophants who are themselves nothing more than shills, props on Trump’s game show set, soon to be discarded into the Trump dumpster when their shelf life expires. The last so called press Secretary Stephanie Grisham NEVER held a press briefing. EVER. And who could ever forget “The MOOCH”, Anthony Scaramucci, whose fifteen minutes of fame equaled his time as Press Secretary??? Or the incredible performances and bare faced lies of “HUCKLEBERRY” Sanders during her tenure as Press Suckretary??? People say it doesn’t matter who Trump has as his Press Secretary he will continue to spew forth his ignorance in tweets and his so called coronavirus briefings, and is just itching to get back in front of his adoring masses at the so called political rallies (if they aren’t all dead from protesting the lockdown orders) where he can spread more hate and discontent. I say after seeing how the job should be handled under previous administrations that it’s just another evidence of the absolute shambles Trump has made of our government and its structure. There is ZERO credibility in the words of ANY member of this administration, be it the ultimate liar himself, Mr. 18,000 and counting Donald Trump, Kellyanne “C” WORD, Mike “I’M A LITTLE DENSE” Pence or William (DIS)Barr-they are all liars and will say and do anything to protect Trump. They all understand that in reality (pun intended) he is his own worst enemy. Kay(LIE) will prove her worth right away if she can convince this moron to stop showing up at the coronavirus briefings, especially after he became the world laughing stock for his remarks about ingesting disinfectant or massive doses of UV light as ways to kill the virus and end the pandemic!!! I’m quite certain that since those inane and dangerous remarks were made (now Trump claims he was being “sarcastic” in those remarks!) that there have actually been Trumpites who have followed his direction and ended up in the ER at a time when people are dying of Covid-19, which just over two months ago he labeled as a “hoax”. This is actually how stupid people can be. After all, if Donald Trump said it, or Kay(LIE) says it, or Sean “INSANITY” Hannity or Rush “OXY” Limbaugh say it…wait for it…..it MUST be TRUE. And thirty per cent or so actually do believe it, that’s the scary part!!! Following the most outrageous coronavirus “briefing” to date given by our snake oil salesman in Chief Donald J. Trump in which he recommended ingesting bleach and household disinfectants as a means of killing the Covid-19 virus (as well as yourself) and for all of those Trumpists out there rushing to empty the grocery store shelves of Lysol, I present for you his top ten ways of self medication he suggests as a means of curing the virus.
I hope you have found this list helpful, as always. Tune in to tonight’s exciting telecast of Dr. Donald and friends to be followed by exciting new medical revelations by “INSANITY” Hannity on FAUX NEWS. You KNOW it’s gotta be true if you heard it from either of these two great institutions of medical science!!! Oh, and BTW, nearly FIFTY THOUSAND of your fellow Americans are DEAD. And this is our President. OMG!!! \ `I’m writing this letter on behalf of two thirds of my fellow citizens addressing specifically those who have chosen to ignore the advice of scientists and medical experts regarding our shelter in place mandate and instead show up en masse at various state capitols waving their assault rifles and claiming their Constitutional rights are being violated upon urging from none other than our own President, Donald Trump. Incredibly, at a time when leadership is desperately required on a national level as our coronavirus death toll hits 43,000 and counting, Trump is instead urging these people on with tweets like “liberate Minnesota”. To all those who have chosen to blindly follow the misinformation and political rants of a President who is obviously in way over his head, whose lack of attention to all of the warning signs back in January have led to countless unnecessary deaths across our country I have but one simple question to ask: what the FU*K is wrong with you????? People are dying daily by the thousands across America and all you are interested in is waving your AR-15 around and impeding the efforts of those who are interested in stopping the spread of this plague and containing it?!? Shame on all of you. I could care less that those of you who chose to ignore the social distancing guidelines so you could take your selfies and defy your state governors get infected with the virus as a result of your reckless and foolish behavior. That was a decision you made and you have to live with it (or die with it!). What I DO care about is all those people you will in turn infect when you choose to disregard the directions of your state and local governments and attempt to return to normalcy when there is none. Everybody understands that this is one of the most difficult times in our nation’s history and the economic impacts of this virus have been devastating for a lot of people. We’re all in the same boat. The government’s pathetic attempts at bailing us out aren’t even a drop in the bucket unless you happen to be a large corporate entity with large campaign contributions to offer. The $2400 check won’t pay for a single months expenses for housing, food and other necessities. Small businesses can’t get the money earmarked for them because large corporations have taken it for themselves and their subsidiary companies. Nobody wants to be stuck at home for weeks on end, worrying that every time they go to the grocery store they may contract this terrible disease, especially those with children. But guess what? The vast majority of Americans are doing their part and sucking it up as best they can. They are lighting their homes in green and putting teddy bears in the windows, not waving assault rifles around. Somebody said at the beginning of this national nightmare that this will be a test of our generation much like World War II was for our parents, the so called “Greatest Generation”. Instead of sending our sons and daughters off to war, we are sheltering them in our homes for their own protection and that of their grandparents, their friends and the ones they love. All we have to do is ride this out for a couple of months, maybe a bit longer, until this dreaded monster is subdued with vastly increased testing, tracing and monitoring that will allow us all to get back to the new norm, which will be far different than the old norm. To all those demonstrators who are clamoring for a return to the “good old days”, I have news for you-it isn’t going to happen soon or EVER for that matter. Things will never be the same…how could they be??? So take your family and friends, your MAGA ball cap and your AR-15 and GO BACK HOME where you belong. The only rights that are being violated are mine and my families when you show up in large carefully orchestrated groups and completely disregard your own health and safety and everyone around you to make a ridiculous and empty political statement. This pandemic doesn’t need a military grade weapon to kill. Just messengers of death like you and your buddies to spread it around. You say “don’t tread on me!”??? I say you already have treaded on me and millions of other conscientious Americans who are trying to do the right thing. Wake up and stop making this a political statement-it isn’t!!! It’s a matter of life and death…FORTY THREE THOUSAND plus and counting. The next victims could well be you or a loved one. Following yet another demonstration of defer and deflect during Donald Trump’s daily political rally masquerading as a pandemic briefing yesterday, another one full of misinformation and flat out lies, in honor of his crossing the EIGHTEEN THOUSAND lie barrier last week after just over three years in office and for all of his fraudulent Evangelical supporters, I give you the Ten Commandments according to Trump.
I hope this meets with your approval, Ferry Falwell, Jr.!!! After thirty plus days in virtual lockdown and in the midst of the spiking cases of Covid-19 and deaths, just when you thought things couldn’t get any worse, we now give you the Donald Trump Traveling Road Show, a political rally on wheels coming soon to a state capitol near you!!! We not only have a President who honestly has tweeted out to several different states to be “liberated” in the last twenty four hours where not so spontaneous REPUBLIKAN(T) and total TRUMPITES staged demonstrations against the current lockdowns necessitated by the rapid spread of the coronavirus. They claim that their Constitutional rights are being violated as a result of the various lockdown or shelter in place mandates that state governments have imposed on them, including Trump specifically mentioning the Second Amendment in his “Liberate Virginia” tweet. Coincidentally, this state and its Democratic governor and legislature just passed some of the strictest gun regulations in America, and of course the Trump supporters not only showed up in Richmond but brought along their AR-15 assault rifles with them for good measure. We have seen similar demonstrations take place in Ohio, Michigan and Kentucky, all by the way states with Democratic governors. These demonstrations are NOT spontaneous-they are carefully orchestrated just like Trump’s political rallies to afford him maximum exposure and fire up his base. And for Trump to actively encourage these demonstrations and disruptions at a time when the nation is in desperate need of ANY type of leadership is not only despicable it’s downright dangerous-dangerous to you and I and every other citizen who is trying to do the right thing and ride this out until its ultimate conclusion, be that 4 weeks, six weeks or eight weeks down the road.
Everybody understands the financial hardships this lockdown has caused-the unemployment numbers tell the story. People are desperate to pay their bills for rent, mortgage, utilities and other necessities. Small business owners, many of whom have been locked out of the $350 billion dollar bail out because large corporate parent companies jumped in and snatched up the available funding are also desperate to open their businesses back up again, restaurants, bars and shops. People need to go back to work. But make NO MISTAKE-if these steps to return to “normalcy” are instituted too quickly, as Trump and his supporters are demanding, the results would be catastrophic. Look what is happening right now in Japan and China, with renewed spikes in the outbreak following the attempts to get back to business as usual. To open up the economy prematurely would only result in further cases of the virus, more deaths and worst of all a return to square one for the economy. The real key to getting back to any semblance of “business as usual” lies in the availability of widespread testing. Despite what Trump and Pence claim, we are woefully behind in this area and simply cannot hope to reopen the economy until we have adequate testing in place to insure the safety of the workforce and the patrons of these various establishments and events. Trump doesn’t care about you or I. The only thing driving his words and actions right now is his own reelection. He believes, like all of his ignorant REPUBLIKAN(T) sycophants, that getting the economy back up and running, whatever the human toll, is worth it. They have said so over the last few days, from ignoramuses like IN Congressman Trey Hollingsworth, Senator John Kennedy of LA or the Governor of FL, who BTW, just opened up his beaches yesterday. This is the same man who allowed spring breakers to mob these same beaches back when all of this started and then return home as messengers of death, the same man who mandated WWF as an essential business. You simply cannot make this sh*t up, folks!!! There were numerous photos and videos of these ignorant demonstrators completely disregarding social distancing rules. They themselves will also become messengers of death, but apparently they could care less about their fellow citizens, particularly those most vulnerable. I have previously suggested all of these good folks should get together in an enclosed space, shake hands, hug and kiss and then self quarantine for fourteen days and see what happens. If they are willing to gamble your life on their actions, they shouldn’t be afraid to gamble with their own. They scream that governors like Andy Beshear of Kentucky are tyrants and they demand “liberty or death” in reopening the economy no matter what the human toll. I say, give them both!!! It’s bad enough that we have to watch or listen to V.P. Mike “I’M A LITTLE DENSE” Pence on the daily Trump clown show masquerading as a coronavirus update. Just the other day he assured all America that the President has the absolute power to reopen the country, unlimited authority in fact. Another lie, more misinformation from the former Indiana governor who has proven to be one of the most useful lap dogs in Trump’s pack. Now we hear from another complete moron from the Hoosier (as in whose ur momma?) State in REPUBLIKAN (T) Congressman Trey Hollingsworth. Yesterday he was bold enough to actually make the statement that essentially defines REPUBLIKAN(T) strategies for getting America back to work, that is to say it’s worth thousands more people dying to get the economy back on track. Read for yourself.
In an interview on April 14, 2020, Hollingsworth created a controversy when he stated that letting more Americans die from the Coronavirus disease was the "lesser of two evils" compared with the economy faltering due to social distancing measures. In the interview with WIBC (FM) in Indianapolis, Hollingsworth said: "The social scientists are telling us about the economic disaster that is going on. Our (Gross Domestic Product) is supposed to be down 20% alone this quarter," Hollingsworth said. "It is policymakers' decision to put on our big boy and big girl pants and say it is the lesser of these two evils. It is not zero evil, but it is the lesser of these two evils and we intend to move forward that direction. That is our responsibility and to abdicate that is to insult the Americans that voted us into office." A statement provided by his office later that same day said "It's hyperbolic to say that the only choices before us are the two corner solutions: no economy or widespread casualties. We can use the best of biology and economics to enable as much of the economy to operate as possible while we work to minimize disease transmission." OMG!!! It’s finally out in the open. Right there in black and white. This truth is underlying every single REPUBLIKAN(T) or far right media argument pressuring for the reopening of the economy. We’re talking about trading lives for $’s, plain and simple. How does that make you feel about the job YOUR government is doing in containing this pandemic?!? Sleeping better at night??? It’s difficult to even write about such incredibly ignorance and to lend ANY sort of credibility to another individual who has obviously left the reservation a long time ago. Please also note that Hollingsworth chairs a House financial committee, so we know he has tentacles that run deep into the corporate coffers, like most all of his REPUBLIKAN(T) colleagues in Congress. He has also been a staunch opponent of Obamacare as thousands of uninsured Americans suffer the primary brunt of this pandemic in terms of loss of life. In other words, here again we have the prototypical REPUBLIKAN(T)-a wealthy white male who could care less about the needs of his constituents and their safety and welfare as long as the corporate campaign contributions keep rolling in. I never cease to be amazed out how buffoons like this man and Mike Pence could ever be elected in the first place, but we are talking about Indiana here. Their REPUBLIKAN(T) Governor Eric Holcomb was also slow to react in ordering a shelter in place mandate and the number of Covid-19 cases and deaths reflect that, just like in other states controlled by the GOP like AL, MS, GA and FL. Remember their mantra..."it's the economy stupid!". As we enter our second month of isolation and shut down and Trump and his REPUBLIKAN(T) allies ramp up the call to “reopen the economy” by May 1st, a completely unrealistic date according to every single scientist and doctor on record, I urge my fellow Americans to consider just exactly who has your families best interest at heart, the health and safety of your loved ones. We have on one hand a President who has told 18,000 lies to you in just 1170 days, a REPUBLIKAN(T) party that is far more concerned about their own self perpetuation and Wall Street investors than you or your family and Congressman like Hollingsworth who publicly admits that the economic recovery (translation campaign contributions and reelection) is worth more than your life or the life of a loved one. Think about it. When I wrote posts entitled “THE REPUBLIKAN POLITICS OF DEATH” and “THE REPUBLIKAN(T) POLITICS OF DEATH REDUX” within the last two weeks it was a wake up call. These remarks should sound the alarm bells. Your life and that of your family could well be at stake. And that’s no lie America. UNHINGED: Unglued. Deranged. Demented. Unbalanced. Crazed. Mad. Insane. Manic. Disturbed. Distracted. Confused. Crazy. Cerifiable. Cuckoo. Daft. Loony. Unsound.
Anybody who was unfortunate enough to have witnessed the incredible and truly pathetic briefing that Donald Trump orchestrated yesterday trying to defend his administrations abject failure in dealing with the coronavirus pandemic can appreciate the words described above. Over the weekend the New York Times had an in depth article which chronicled the entire timeline of his response to the pandemic and how he had systematically disregarded all the warning signs of what was coming. Instead of focusing on the fact that 23,000 Americans have perished as a result of this horrific disease, he chose instead to spend two hours attacking the media, claiming that as the President he has absolute authority over the states and promoting his own economic and political self interests, while the very people who should be spending one hundred per cent of their time devoted to curbing the spread of Covid-19 are forced to stand by and watch as he spews forth more misinformation and more lies. He even went so far as to have his own staff put together a completely fabricated clip of INSANITY Hannity and FAUX NEWS supporting his baseless claims. This followed weeks of trying to pass the buck on to the individual states in their attempts to procure desperately needed PPE equipment and supplies to fight the outbreak and leaving the decision to shut down up to individual governors. And then to see V.P. Mike Pence stand up in front of the microphone to reaffirm the absurd claim Trump made of absolute power just reinforces my belief that our nation is in serious trouble. This is a POTUS who has been documented to have spoken no fewer than…wait for it…EIGHTEEN THOUSAND lies in 1170 days!!! That would be hard to do if you were trying!!! It amounts to about fifteen per day, and I assure you there were many more than that yesterday alone!!! Credibility?!? You've got to be kidding me. America, you better believe one simple fact today. We are on our own in this so called war, the closest to war this draft dodger will ever get. The federal government has been essentially rendered useless by the words and actions of Donald Trump. We are here in this place today because of his absolute failure to head the advice and warnings of his own advisors and intelligence agencies months ago. His failure to react in a swift and decisive manner has resulted in the deaths of thousands of your fellow citizens no matter how he tries to spin it. He is so desperate to end this pandemic to suit his own political ambitions and restore his economic firewall he is willing to prematurely send people back to work, back to school and in harms way when it is highly likely there will be another spike in the outbreak as a result. We are already seeing evidence of this in countries like China and Japan. It is absolutely imperative that the extreme isolation measures that have been implemented remain in place until this pandemic is better controlled and there is ample testing available to assure people it is once again safe to resume any semblance of normal activities. Individual state governors like ours in Kentucky realized weeks ago they were on there own. Now a number of states on either coast have banded together to formulate a cohesive strategy to get back to this point, and it has sent Trump over the edge. America, listen to your local authorities. Do NOT heed the ill advised ramblings of this unhinged man or his media allies when they tell you all is well. It isn’t and it won’t be for quite some time. In the meanwhile, be wary of those RED state REPUBLIKAN(T) governors in states like TN, AL, MS and FL who blindly followed Trump’s lead (or lack thereof) and caused innumerable deaths in their own states as a result of not closing down their states when they needed to. Remember, this is YOUR life and the lives of your families and loved ones they are gambling with. Not their own. I just hope we can make it to November and rid ourselves of another plague …..Donald J. Trump, the dictator wanna be. He is not only unhinged, he is downright dangerous. Over 16,000 of our fellow citizens are dead, 7000 plus in Trump’s home town of NYC alone as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. Our country has now more cases and deaths than any other country in the world has experienced. And we have a President who appears more concerned about his television ratings than the death toll. OMG!!! He was bragging about having ratings higher than “The Bachelor” while NYC is digging mass graves to bury the dead. Even his staunchest allies in the Senate, like Lindsey Graham, are urging him to stop the daily so called briefings because he is hurting himself and the REPUBLIKAN(T) party every time he opens his mouth and spews out more lies or disinformation. His approval ratings are once again tanking, an indication that these political rallies do not impress the American people.
As I have written, a great many of these tragic deaths could have been avoided had Donald Trump listened to his own advisors and read the intelligence briefings which warned of this coming outbreak back in January and February. The issue we face now as we enter into our second month of lockdown is a President who still refuses to admit that his administration has greatly underestimated the scope and severity of this pandemic from the beginning and now is pushing to prematurely reopen the economy without the essential ingredient required to do so as demonstrated in other countries coming out of their lockdowns-testing. Without testing availability for everyone, who can know it will be safe to return to work, go out to a restaurant or back to school? Without knowing who is still transmitting the virus asymptomatically, there is a great likelihood that we will see another spike in cases and deaths as a result. On one side we have the doctors and scientists who are advising that we not consider lifting the social distancing guidelines in place which have proven to be effective in slowing the spread of the coronavirus before June at the earliest. On the other hand we have advisors and Cabinet Secretaries to the President pushing him to disregard the risk to the public safety and welfare and end the restrictions by the end of this month. These are people like his new Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, Economic Advisor Larry Kudlow and for some strange reason Attorney General William Barr. The question of the moment is which way will Trump be swayed in this internal White House discussion? I think that we all know the answer to that question. He will not listen to ANYBODY. He listened to his economic advisors when they told him NOT to impose a European travel ban and as a result NYC became the epicenter of the pandemic with the catastrophic results outlined above. The only reason he agreed to the current guidelines for social distancing was when he was shown the estimated death toll of 260,000 Americans, and he was itching to lift these restrictions by Easter Sunday. Now he is focusing on reopening the economy the first of the month, being pressured to do so by corporate Amerika as well as those within his own inner circle. Meanwhile, MOSCOW Mitch McConnell continues to use the pandemic as a political opportunity, taking shots at the Democrats and as usual holding out big $ bail outs for his corporate sponsors as opposed to the average American. He has used the pandemic to attack his probable opponent in the November election, Amy McGrath, a decorated Marine combat pilot. It’s bad enough that REPUBLIKAN(T)S have already agreed to bail out companies like the airlines that chose to buy back their own stock instead of investing in infrastructure and building cash reserves. Now they want to give away more of our tax dollars for more of the same and drive our national debt to over THREE TRILLION DOLLARS!!! FYI that’s $3,000,000,000,000. What we are witnessing is the complete meltdown of Donald Trump. He now realizes that his number one reason for reelection has been effectively destroyed by this pandemic and his own lack of decisive action to combat it, one which has become much more severe than it should have had he and his administration handled it like they should have. Now instead of a booming economy with 3.5% unemployment we will head into November with an unemployment rate above 10% if we’re lucky and a full blown recession raging. This is what is driving Trump’s decision making America, don’t be fooled. His ONLY concern is being reelected, his own ratings and his own financial fortunes. He has ZERO empathy for the plight of the common citizen who is basically in lockdown or those who have suffered the pain and loss of losing a loved one to this virus or those who are sick-instead he brags about his ratings. His behavior is disgraceful to be charitable. The country made a monumental blunder in electing a completely unqualified and incompetent buffoon to be the leader of the free world and our great nation. As a result of that tragic mistake, literally thousands of people have died or will die. When we need leadership Donald Trump is missing in action; instead we get a charlatan who uses the podium to berate his political opponents, the media and to give out misleading information and medical opinions. As the great band “The WHO” so aptly put it, “We Won’t Get Fooled Again”. Let’s hope not for the sake of our country or what’s left of it in the post Trump era. It’s going to take a while to recover from the damage that he and his gang of fools has wrought upon our nation. We must be patient and we must persevere while recognizing that the partisan politics that Trump brought to America in 2016 have torn our country asunder at a time when we truly are all in this together. America nor the world cannot survive another four years of this reckless narcissist and pathological liar. His incompetence and arrogance have caused enough deaths already. |
About Mike ColeBorn in Hamilton, OH but a proud Kentuckian since age two. One brother and three sisters. Suburban, Catholic middle-class upbringing. Attended Jefferson Community College and Pasadena Community College. Proud father of four and grandfather to seven, and most of all, a concerned American citizen! Are you??? Categories |