I know I said yesterday that I wanted to spend more of my time thinking about positive things that people are doing here in our community, and less time considering Donald Trump’s negative impact on the lifespans of my loved ones, and I really meant it at the time… but then I read that the […]
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Jared Kushner, having failed to deliver peace to the Middle East, is reassigned to manage the Trump administration’s COVID-19 response
Posted in Health, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Andrew Cuomo, Anthony Fauci, coronavirus, COVID-19, Donald Trump, ebola, Fukushima, New York, pandemic, public health, scapegoats, Steven Chu, Strategic National Stockpile, supply chain management, ventilators 94 Comments
The generals who serve Trump, why they do it, and at what cost
An interesting question was posed in the Washington Post today… “Is it still possible to honorably serve in the Trump administration?” The article was inspired in large part by a recent profile of Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis in the New Yorker, which included the following passage. …When Mattis asked Michèle Flournoy, the former Undersecretary […]
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Donald Trump, facts, Fresh Air, generals, H.R. McMaster, Jim Mattis, John Kelly, Leon Panetta, Michael Flynn, Michèle Flournoy, national security, Pentagon, post-truth, reality, Sean Spicer, Tom Ricks, western civilization, Winston Churchill 5 Comments