…ask a stupid question [DOT 6/7/20]

in a word...

6/7/20 SplinterRIP 14

…well…as a wise man once said

…well, maybe more than once

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/elijah-mcclain-was-injected-ketamine-while-handcuffed-some-medical-experts-n1232697

…& I don’t know that that whole “my brother’s keeper” thing is going to work out, though

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/fourth-july-ask-when-patriotism-became-synonymous-selfishness-ncna1232392

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/fda-chief-responds-trump-s-inaccurate-coronavirus-claims-won-t-get-into-who-s-right-and-wrong

…not when this is looking more like a ship of fools

Down in the polls and failing to control a raging pandemic, the president cast himself as waging battle against a “new far-left fascism” that imperils American values and seeks to erase history.

…&…much as I hate to say it…it gets worse

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2020/07/04/trump-got-his-crowd-his-fireworks-peddled-his-fiction/

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/independence-day-address-trump-condemns-left-media-n1232915

…& hard as it may be to believe…there really are people out there even now who are falling for this kind of shit

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/hundreds-of-armed-men-went-to-gettysburg-to-defend-it-from-a-phantom-antifa-flag-burner-created-on-social-media/2020/07/04/story.html

…but maybe not quite so many as once there were

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-racism-white-nationalism-republicans/2020/07/04/story.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/historians-question-trumps-choice-of-heroes-for-national-garden-monument/2020/07/04/story.html

…which I guess explains the bottom-of-the-barrel tack he’s taking

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-trumps-new-version-of-american-carnage-the-threat-isnt-immigrants-or-foreign-nations-its-other-americans/2020/07/04/story.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-vicious-culture-war-is-all-trump-has-left/2020/07/05/story.html

…hell, even the highest court isn’t even partially impartial about the things they ain’t partial to…or the arguments they’ll marshall

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/how-supreme-court-could-overturn-roe/2020/07/01/story.html

Progressives Begin New Push to Elevate Supreme Court as a Campaign Issue

…although…& forgive me if you’ve heard this one before…this has long been more evident to some than others

America’s Enduring Caste System

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/07/02/black-property-tax/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/politics/race-reckoning/

The Black-White Wage Gap Is as Big as It Was in 1950

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/05/us/coronavirus-latinos-african-americans-cdc-data.html

The pandemic is hitting low-income families and people of color — who often work in critical service jobs — the hardest.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/medical-assistants-cooks-and-cleaners-also-face-risks-on-the-front-lines-of-the-covid-crisis-but-with-low-pay-and-little-recognition/2020/07/04/story.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/07/05/coronavirus-disability-death/

Workers have been left behind as the U.S. economy expanded and chief executive salaries skyrocketed over the last four decades.

…in fact…the whole thing is in danger of becoming a lethally-deranged parody of itself

…yet we’re still out here acting like he’s the ventriloquist & not the fucking puppet

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-s-white-power-retweet-part-racist-twitter-ventriloquism-act-ncna1232601

…because let’s face it…his record speaks for itself

Putin still plays by the ruthless rules of the Cold War. Because Trump lets him.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/trump-would-do-anything-for-putin-no-wonder-hes-ignoring-the-russian-bounties/2020/07/01/story.html

…although to be fair…vlad ain’t exactly doing a bang up job of looking out for his own

…then again…orange foolius does seem to have trouble with the whole risk/reward thing when it comes to the military…in fact with this kind of commander-in-chief you could argue that they’re all cursed platoons

[pretty sure I had part 1 in one of these so here’s the other shoe dropping]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/we-asked-veterans-to-respond-to-the-posts-reporting-on-clint-lorance-and-his-platoon-heres-what-they-said/2020/07/04/story.html

…which might be some of why this idea could actually be gaining traction

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/duckworth-emerging-as-a-contender-to-be-bidens-running-mate/2020/07/05/story.html

…even while it looks like some things might never make it down the pipeline

Atlantic Coast Pipeline Canceled as Delays and Costs Mount

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/atlantic-coast-pipeline-canceled/2020/07/05/story.html

…& others might be a bridge too far

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/north-korea-dismisses-chance-face-face-u-s-nuclear-talks-ahead-of-election

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/can-trump-s-anti-mail-voting-crusade-hurt-him-key-in-key-states

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/trump-s-trying-end-obamacare-there-s-emerging-evidence-it-could-undo-him

…not that the whole healthcare thing is exactly going gangbusters right now to begin with

239 Experts With One Big Claim: The Coronavirus Is Airborne

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/8-common-coronavirus-mask-styles-don-t-actually-protect-against-coronavirus

Researchers claim that a predominating variant had a “fitness advantage.” But many experts are not persuaded.

Coronavirus updates: Texas, Florida and Arizona officials say early reopenings fueled explosion of cases

https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/after-trump-downplays-coronavirus-danger-officials-call-for-national-measures-to-stop-rising-spread/2020/07/05/video.html

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/warning-signs-flash-trump-wisconsin-pandemic-response-fuels-disapproval-n1232646

As Coronavirus Slams Houston Hospitals, It’s Like New York ‘All Over Again’

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/umms-signs-new-deal-with-company-under-firm-headed-by-former-board-member/2020/07/04/story.html

China Dominates Medical Supplies, in This Outbreak and the Next

…either way…the damage ain’t no joke

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-turned-july-fourth-into-a-partisan-event-the-damage-could-be-long-lasting/2020/07/05/story.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/07/05/coronavirus-pandemic-undermine-trust-government-decades/

…which is starting to look like a pattern, if we’re being honest

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-do-none-of-trumps-jokes-feel-like-jokes/2020/07/03/story.html

…& speaking of jokes that weren’t funny the first time…or even knowingly jokes to begin with

https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/kanye-west-2020-we-ve-heard-one-before

The U.S. Is Lagging Behind Many Rich Countries. These Charts Show Why.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/02/opinion/wage-salary-inequality-compensation.html

Why Do the Rich Have So Much Power?

…well…that’s part of it…there’s always a deeper story

…at least until it’s gone

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14 Comments

  1. You know what’s been grinding my gears about Trump now?
    For his entire life, Donald Trump has been an unabashed liar, and now is the time when he decides to honest about how racist he is.
    I don’t want Trump to be President again, but the thing that’s been bothering me the most is that his current strategy makes no sense in light of all the data that’s out there. All Trump would have to do to turn his polls around is fucking lie about being a uniter and give some vague platitudes about America being better together. He’s done it before! But instead he’s quadrupling down on a Stephen Miller strategy of stoking racial animus at a time in history when even white Republicans are starting to admit racism is an issue and support protests surrounding the deaths of black men and support taking down Confederate statues.
     
    All this lying ass liar has to do is fucking lie, and NOW he’s deciding to be as openly and crassly racist as possible. If ever there was proof that Trump is incapable of having anything that roughly approximates “a plan”, this is it. It’s utterly baffling, it is.

    • I think Trump, and his “team,” are seriously over-estimating the number of racists that he can count on. I did a long post on this the other day about “casual racists” and how Trump is alienating them because he’s putting their racism on display along with his own. 
       
      But you have to look at it from their perspective. When they look around, all they see are racists, mostly because those are the “best people” that Trump recruited (or more accurately, his racist minions recruited). So they assume from that skewed sample that racism is more popular than it actually is. It’s confirmation bias. Remember, this is the guy that demanded “apologies” for polls he didn’t like. And they’re too stupid to look beyond their inner circle and say, “fuck, we’re actually losing white Republican males, we must be doing something wrong.” Because racism never let them down before. 
       
      And the true movers-and-shakers of the conservative movement, massive corporations and rich old white people, are scared shitless. Because Trump looks to be ushering in a new age of Democratic leadership that’s going to shut them down for a decade or more, until the American public gets stupider again. So they’re turning on him viciously. 

  2. When I saw the headline the other day about Florida, Texas and Arizona officials saying “whoopsie, we opened too quickly,” my first thought was, “No shit, Dick Tracy.  Tell me something else that everyone with more than two brain cells to rub together already knows.”

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