[above: Donald Trump repeats the absurd, dangerous and scientifically laughable lie that our COVID-19 infection rates are only rising because we’re testing more. In reality, cases are rising because Donald Trump has purposely slowed testing, pushed states to reopen prematurely, and politicized the wearing of masks. Full stop. And, as a result, the United States ranks 26th in the world in COVID-19 tests per 1 million people, and 9th in deaths per 1 million. And, no, people aren’t dying more here just because we’re testing more. That’s not how it works.]
I’m not in the business of making predictions, but, for those of you wondering what this election season may have in store for us, now that Trump now starting to slide in the polls and lose evangelical voters to Joe Biden, I think it’s safe to assume that it’s going to get pretty fucking dark.
Today alone, Donald Trump accused Barack Obama of having committed treason, said yet again that Democrats are in the process of “rigging” the election against him, and signed an executive order to further limit immigration in an attempt to shore up support on the racist right… Oh, and one of his attorneys put out a statement saying that she will not “recant” her Christian faith when the godless, liberal hoards come for her. [She just said that “they” would be coming for her, but it was clear what she meant.]
So, yeah, the President of the United States is accusing a beloved Democratic leader of a crime that’s punishable by death, suggesting that, if he loses, it will have been because of coordinated voter fraud, and laying the groundwork for a full-on civil war pitting the decent, white Christians of our nation against the law and order-hating criminals that make up the godless, non-white left. [The new vote-by-mail conspiracy theory has to do with the fact that some ballots are being printed outside of the United States.] But that’s not what I want to talk about today. No, I want to talk about the fact that, between now and Election Day, a whole lot more of us are going to die.
This past Wednesday, Donald Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity that COVID-19 was going to “fade away.” Since then, however, it’s done the opposite. It’s come back with a vengeance, especially in our southern and western states. According to analysis by NBC News, “In the last 14 days, Oregon has reported a 234.4 percentage jump in infections, Oklahoma jumped by 202 percent, Florida’s number increased by 155 percent, and Arizona’s confirmed coronavirus cases climbed by 142 percent.” And, no, this isn’t just because we’re testing more. More people are filling hospitals. And more people are dying.
From the New York Times:
…In an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Dr. (Michael) Osterholm noted, “We’re at 70 percent of the number of cases today that we were at the very height of the pandemic cases in early April.”
He said that a wave and trough pattern of the virus rising and falling like influenza was one of the scenarios described in an April report that he helped to write. Now, however, the data on how the virus spreads do not support that pattern. “I don’t see this slowing down for the summer or into the fall,” he said.
“I think this is more like a forest fire,” he said. “I think that wherever there’s wood to burn, this fire is going to burn it”…
That’s it. I just wanted to let you all know that things are going to get a lot fucking worse, and that Donald “slow the testing down” Trump isn’t going to be any help with his anti-mask crusade and demands that states like ours — states that actually tried to stomp this out — be “liberated” by armed conservative activists.
I want to go on, but I’ll just leave you with this note from Arizona, where Republican Senator Martha McSally just proposed giving every taxpayer $4,000 each to take a vacation. That’s right, Republicans are actually encouraging travel during the pandemic.
This is a death cult, folks. We are living in a fucking death cult.
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“A rule of thumb: If you’re lying about nonexistent voter fraud, if you’re limiting polling places, if you’re forcing people to line up to vote in a pandemic, even the old and the infirm, then it seems you’re basically admitting most Americans don’t want you to be president.”
–Dan Rather today.
Pretty, pretty good.
Side note: I just spent the evening planning a socially distanced/camping cross country road trip with my son. This news really sucks.
Everybody loves my “Putin/Trump 2020” bumper sticker.
Aloha heard Coumo talking about imposing a 14 day quarantine on folks entering NY from the rest of the US. Whitmer should consider one for Michigan.
The latest science from China on the very short immunity resulting from being exposed to the virus puts yet another nail in the absurd notion of herd immunity. Also raises the reality that any vaccine will be ineffective as well.
Those countries that adopted a contain isolate eradicate policy v flatten the curve approach will be the future.
Meanwhile …
NYT: Health Officials Had to Face a Pandemic. Then Came the Death Threats.
(Published June 22, 2020) Leaders of local and state health departments have been subject to harassment, personal insults and death threats in recent weeks, a response from a vocal and angry minority of the public who say that mask requirements and restrictions on businesses have gone too far.
One top health official, Dr. Barbara Ferrer, the director of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, issued a statement on Monday condemning attacks on public health directors and disclosing that she faced repeated threats to her safety.
“The death threats started last month, during a Covid-19 Facebook Live public briefing when someone very casually suggested that I should be shot,” Dr. Ferrer said in a statement. “I didn’t immediately see the message, but my husband did, my children did, and so did my colleagues.”
“It is deeply worrisome,” she added, “to imagine that our hardworking infectious disease physicians, nurses, epidemiologists and environmental health specialists or any of our other team members would have to face this level of hatred.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/22/us/coronavirus-health-officials.html
The fascists behind agent orange have no qualms about lying and cheating and police killings in the name of the status quo. Tens of thousands of preventable deaths mean nothing to them. They aren’t very good at “what comes around goes around”. Looks like they’re gonna learn the hard way.
I’m relieved that the second presidential debate scheduled for October 15 will no longer take place at the University of Michigan.
Members of Team Trump who have voted by mail in recent years:
Donald Trump
William Barr
Mike Pence
Kayleigh McEnany
Brad Parscale
Ivanka Trump
Melania Trump
Alex Azar
Ronna McDaniel
Kellyanne Conway
Jared Kushner
NYT: “A Plague of Willful Ignorance” by Paul Krugman
Read more:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/22/opinion/coronavirus-trump.html
Why are deaths still trending down if cases are going up?
Hysterical lefty derps: We have to gut the Constitution! We have to change how we have voted since the beginning! All Twump’s fault! Waah!!!
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/23/trump-joking-slowing-coronavirus-testing-335459
“I don’t joke around”
HW, have you considered signing up for some kind of remedial reading classes? Krugman put the answer to your question right in the piece!
“The fascists behind agent orange have no qualms about lying and cheating and police killings in the name of the status quo. Tens of thousands of preventable deaths mean nothing to them. They aren’t very good at “what comes around goes around”. Looks like they’re gonna learn the hard way.”
A communist would naturally see regular people as fascist. Just like antifaschistiche aktion back in the day condemning the moderates as fascist.
As long as I can take my vacation on my couch, I’ll take the 4k.
“This reflects some combination of the way that deaths lag infections, better precautions for the elderly, who are the most vulnerable, and better treatment as doctors learn more about the disease.”
Lame fuckin’ asnwer. It can’t be a lag at this point. Collectively you have been saying that for months.
Have you noticed a lot of “fuck the police” yard signs in Ward 3? ACAB signs? I’m sure there are a lot of BLM signs. How many of the households with signs supporting BLM also are also households that support Marxism, do you think?
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2020/06/23/881662948/why-reopening-isnt-enough-to-save-the-economy
It’s going to take some group effort here. I’d like you all to work harder so I can go out to eat.
The experience in Italy provides a good example. Their “lockdown” was comprehensive, and strict. For weeks, virtually all businesses were closed, and people were forced to stay inside their homes, allowed to venture out for very limited reasons. The Italian people’s sacrifice was great – but ultimately, cases there declined dramatically, and now everything has mostly re-opened, and life is returning to normal.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/world/europe/italy-coronavirus-cases.html
Here in the U.S., unfortunately, such an approach is impossible. Since the Federal Government has abrogated all responsibility for this crisis, we now have 50 different states each pursuing a different approach (albeit with no restrictions on travel or trade among them). Meanwhile, because so many ‘Merikans consider themselves rugged individualists (of the “Don’t Tread on Me” variety), a sizable minority refuse to follow even modest precautions (such as wearing masks or social distancing) – let alone consider stay home or restrict their activities.
The end result is that – by accident or design – as a society, we have collectively decided to accept a steady and ongoing rate of illness and death as the price we’re willing to pay to avoid making tough decisions, or accepting difficult choices.
Of course in this case, the risks and consequences don’t fall neatly or predictably. Some people’s “freedom” will result in OTHER people’s sickness and death. And – after all – isn’t causing some older people or those with underlying conditions (probably OTHER people’s friends and relatives, anyway …) to suffer and die a small price to pay for being able to being able to jet-ski, or hang out with friends in a bar?
The food supply better not get seriously fucked by the shutdown or you are going to have blood on your hands, more than you already do with these recent riots.
Aloha Demetrius, you are absolutely right. Good thing we have the second amendment. It has conditioned us to accept the necessary trade offs between some folks freedom to do versus other folks sacrifice. Hell if we are willing to sacrifice children to our gun fetish, old and infirm don’t stand a chance over our freedom to party.
MAGA
Aloha HW is so stupid he doesn’t realize when all your fellow workers in the packing plant are hacking up the Trump virus on each other it causes problems with folks wanting to come to work. Remember you got to learn to live with the Trump legacy virus. MAGA
I’m smart enough to know if the food runs out we are fucked and no amount of exaggeration of the effect of this disease will come close to what will happen then. You want to degrade me for not going along with the plan to destroy America though. Good luck, communist pig
@ Wobblie
I agree with you about the parallel between America’s COVID-19 response, and an overly-broad interpretation of the 2nd Amendment, since both involve a similar (and unequal) trade-off in terms of freedom vs. consequences.
Too many Americans are too quick to demand their “rights” without understanding that each also comes with corresponding responsibilities, and consequences. Understanding and accepting this dynamic is the mark of maturity – whether as an individual, or as a society.
I’m eating HW. Or any of a number of other complicit agent orange supporters on my list. He’s probably already on somebody else’s list. Alex Jones says it’s cool.
Alex Jones is one of your guys. Eat that. I have known he is a source of disinformation for just about twenty years. He has said a lot of true things also but that’s how it is done; it’s the lie sandwich. Jonesy is Mossad supported according to Q and to me it adds up. It has for a long time, since way back then.
Now you have to take responsibility for everything you have been advocating happening in reality; shootings, racial strife and the USA teetering on the brink of civil war.
HW what ever happened to those thousands of sealed indictments?
Obviously our food supply is important. Too bad Trump refuses to take any steps to protect it other than ordering people to go to work in meatpacking plants even though he really can’t force them to.
I admit that I wish I liked gardening because growing food seems like a smart thing to do right now.
They seem to be all tied up somehow, don’t they? Some major ones will be hitting soon. Lots of Obama admin people in the hot seat right now over illegal spying.
First the public needs to see what the dems want for our country: to destroy it, which is what they are doing now. The Cultural Revolution is in full swing. At least it is trying hard. Radicals are destroying history to create a totally false illusion in the future. It’s 1984 and you love it I’m sure.
No one wants to destroy the country. They want to smash the white patriarchy and that is the opposite of destroying the country. Also, no one is destroying history. I can’t even think why you would think that unless you are referring to people removing those confederate statues which never should have been erected in the first place because they give a false history where people like that deserve to be honored with statues.
But smashing the white patriarchy is communist propaganda. That’s exactly what they say. It’s purely to agitate against a country they openly state they want to destroy. You ought to know that but you haven’t caught on. What does arson, looting, felony assault and murder do to smash the white patriarchy even assuming there is such a thing to be smashed?
I am somewhere between what HW is saying and what Lynne is saying. Thanks for sharing your views guys. My take is that average Dems do not want to destroy the country, rather they want to control it roughly as it is. Dems are not pushing for a Marxist utopia but they are willing to exploit young radical Marxist/neo Marxist idealists toward creating chaos and division between social identity groups because they think the more chaos there is the more it will help them in the election. I empathize with the radical youth. I was the radical youth. They are being used by powerful and dark forces.
“No one wants to destroy the country”
That is simply not true and quite naive, imo. It is a small minority in my opinion. They have no chance to actually accomplish their goal but they are capable of causing all kinds of harm to innocent people even if they are small in number.
The destruction of history is part of the formula I think. It is the reducing all of American history (and Western history) through the narrow lense of oppressor and oppressed.
Take a look at a current map of world slavery which is still happening now. How did Western countries fare so well in the noble goal of eradicating slavery within? Did we just export it? If so why is that not part of the conversation?
Dem leaders are abandoning their police precincts to rioters. Seattle has allowed the citizens of chaz to do whatever they want with no interference. It’s a law-free zone (or so they think). People are being shot in there, held up, held down, beaten…it’s really bad if you watch all the videos from the chaz.
I would actually respect the average Dems a bit if they really wanted a revolution to achieve their utopian vision. They don’t really want that shit. They want control and they are willing to foster conditions that result in greater divisions between identity groups in order to get that control. Can’t get much more evil than that, imo.
So it’s not the average dem I am talking about. It’s the radicals and the leaders. The average ones will tend to say no more of this insanity and stay home. They will do it enough for a bigger landslide this time.
Notice: Lynne and Jean have many times mentioned they really don’t agree with economic Marxism. That is fascinating to me. Mark has said as much in the past as well. So what game are you guys playing? Honestly, I wonder if you guys have ever even considered your role in the game. It’s not a good role, imo.
“How did Western countries fare so well in the noble goal of eradicating slavery within? Did we just export it? If so why is that not part of the conversation?”
The European nations abandoned their charges by jettisoned the slave colonies in the 19th century because it was not a positive economic proposition and granted those territories independence. The United States had geographic contiguity and was not able to wash its hands of the matter so conveniently.
https://www.amazon.com/Empire-Cotton-History-Sven-Beckert/dp/0375713964
A good read.
That is what I think too HW. I guess we are actually pretty close in our views. The Dem leaders willingness to give legitimacy to this crap is unforgivable.
How is the non western world faring with washing their hands of slavery? There are many non-western countries that still have slaves.
Sounds like an interesting book though.
Aloha my sample rural community of Oshkosh which had 100 cases and one death 100 days into the pandemic and was liberated from science 5 weeks ago now has 609 victims and 11 deaths.
Nearly 800 killed by the Trump virus yesterday with record number of hospitalizations MAGA
FF— I’m not afraid of communism; I’m afraid of totalitarianism. I’m not afraid of communists; I’m afraid of totalitarians. I try to focus on people with totalitarian tendencies who are actually in power. There is zero in BLM rhetoric that concerns me around abuse of power.
Our President on the other hand.
Let’s focus on the government takeover, the looting and abuse and violence toward others that’s actually happening at the hands of the Executive Branch.
When the military start refusing the Presidehts orders, you might want to consider that he crossed a fundamental line.
What is it that scares you about Marxists?
Aloha. Hope no one wanted to travel to EU countries. The Trump virus wall will probably be very effective in keeping us imprisoned MAGA
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/23/world/europe/coronavirus-EU-American-travel-ban.html?referringSource=articleShare&fbclid=IwAR1iE0eMgcxrzXKpcDJ9TyiCYWx1TSQnLVlrhRwwp5KtheOuNK83KzR6HNY
Aloha even the evil medieval house of Saud understands the importance of social distancing as they cancel this years hajj. But let’s “play ball” and race cars here in the heart of Covid land. MAGA
Marxists preach a utopia but in reality they enslave the masses into a life of meager sustenance and near total loss of freedom. The government confiscates individual possessions and redistributes a small fraction, saving the lions share for the ruling elite. People protest in the streets to enable them to take power, and once in power, they kill to prevent any further protest. Wake up before it’s too late.
Aloha Biden is now a communist. The Trumpers are reeking of desperation. They know all they have is hate greed and fear to motivate. Thanks EOS for demonstrating the fear factor. People have wised up and see that Trump broke the economy while ensuring the Trump virus runs rampant. MAGA
“Aloha Biden is now a communist. The Trumpers are reeking of desperation. They know all they have is hate greed and fear to motivate. Thanks EOS for demonstrating the fear factor. People have wised up and see that Trump broke the economy while ensuring the Trump virus runs rampant. MAGA”
What the fuck is wrong with you?
“…preach a utopia but in reality they enslave the masses into a life of meager sustenance and near total loss of freedom. The government confiscates individual possessions and redistributes a small fraction, saving the lions share for the ruling elite.”
EOS perfectly describes the Oligarchy we currently live under.
We get to have possessions, dork. We get to eat and for the most part do what we like. That’s being threatened by dem leaders who are allowing this rioting nonsense but it’s not gone yet.
Dems are putting the lockdown on for regular people but allowing looters to have at it. Get robbed in the chaz? Consider it an unplanned donation to people who need it more than you.
Jean,
I truly believe most BLM supporters are regular people with good intentions. It’s not about BLM specifically even though their founders have revealed that the are trained Marxist organizers. I don’t know the group affiliation of the people who tore down Grant and vandalized Cervantes. I do know that Shaun King recently encouraged the “tearing down” of stain glass windows everywhere depicting a white Jesus. I do know that Jean Henry does not think the statement ACAB is prejudicial. I also do believe Jean Henry, daughter of Harvard folk and Landlord, will likely not take the “I am not afraid of communism” challenge. The challenge is where your family gives away all its “blood money and assets” to less fortunate people and begins living off of $10k per year —which is the current median household income in the world. Do it now. Prove that you are not afraid of communism.
My thesis is that the absorption of the logic of neo Marxism leads to your nonsense and Shaun Kong’s nonsense.
Note I am not even focusing on the 100million dead as a result of Marxist failed experiments….What planet are you living on Jean?
Maybe Jean means she is not afraid of Marxism because she does not think it will happen here economically. Ok. I could agree with something like that but my point is that a person is playing a game if they are willing to use the Marxist economic logic, which they reject in the realm of economics, and apply the underlying logic to the propping up of cultural tribes in an attempt to secure votes for a capitalist candidate when doing so is relies on so many acts of sewing the seeds of division.
Fake John Brown,
I have read that it takes about $30k US in income to be a global 1% er.
Can someone contact Lebron James for me? I would like him to come on ColuMbo.com forum to discuss his contract with the Nike corporation and their sweatshops. We can talk about brown lives matter too. It will be a great conversation, I promise.
Wouldn’t it be hilarious if it turned out that Shaun King really is a fake black guy and he is the one calling for the tearing down of white Jesus stain glass church windows?
You commie-capitalist-honky-clowns are a hoot. Honk honk.
I regret using the term “cultural tribes”. I think “social identity tribes” would have been better…
Good stuff
https://imgur.com/a/b3pXP2a
Because it has worked so well in Venezuela.