I realize that many of my readers also read Electoral Vote, which I have always encouraged. I still want to mention that they published another letter of mine today. My letter was a response to a question asked by D.A. from Brooklyn, NY yesterday. His letter took Elizabeth Warren to task for her shifting rhetoric […]
In Pennsylvania, the Republican dominated state legislature was trying to pass laws to open up the state. They were telling everyone it was safe, and that COVID-19 wasn’t a threat. What they weren’t telling anyone was that at least one of them had already tested positive for the disease. The Republican caucus knew, and they […]
Donald Trump seems to be happy to represent himself as a wartime president, despite somehow thinking that a good thing for the president to do during this “war” is play golf. Even if you ignore the “war” rhetoric, when Barack Obama was president Trump attacked him (more than once) for playing golf during the Ebola […]
A study from the Brookings Institution looks at counties that have newly been designated as having a “high prevalence” of COVID-19. These “high-risk” counties have at least 100 active cases per 100,000 people. The results are interesting: Starting on March 29, there were 59 counties considered high-risk, which represented 8% of the US population. Ending […]
Really interesting study about COVID-19 out of Columbia University. This study based their model on actual data at the county level (rather than state or even country), which is important because virus transmission is always local, and used 7-day averages, which is important to avoid data noise. The result that is getting all the headlines […]
Desi Lydic watches Fox News for 48 hours and then Foxsplains “Obamagate” on The Daily Show. It all makes sense to me now! For those who don’t like to watch Fox News, here’s a slightly different explanation of Obamagate:
Today the last episode (for now) of Some Good News (SGN) was released. You gotta watch it: I’ve posted a few of these here in Political Irony, but that doesn’t mean the other ones aren’t great. Collect them all! In fact, this final episode makes lots of references to previous episodes, so maybe go watch […]
We often hear about Donald Trump’s father, Fred Trump, who set his son up in the Brooklyn slumlord business. However, we never hear anything about Trump’s mother, Mary Anne MacLeod Trump. But just watching her son Donald try (and fail miserably) to send out Mother’s Day wishes this year, you gotta wonder what the hell? […]
My last post focused on what leaders and scientists around the world think of Donald Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. But what about the rest of the “coronaverse”? Tom Tomorrow fills that important need!
This short video was created by The Atlantic. Watch it. They go on to say: One knows, of course, that Donald Trump behaves differently from the leaders of other countries, especially the leaders of other Western democracies. One knows that he disdains facts; that he does not read briefing papers; that he has no organizational […]
Yes, Clorox really does taste that bad… [And yes, this photo is based on one taken at Barbara Bush’s funeral. It is ironic that Donald Trump was added to a photo in which he didn’t originally appear.] In other news, The Lancet, the highly regarded British medical journal, says that “Americans should oust President Trump […]
Donald Trump says that widespread coronavirus testing is “overrated“. This, despite the fact that he and other administration officials are being tested regularly. But here’s what is really weird. Trump added: We have more cases than anybody in the world, but why? Because we do more testing. When you test, you have a case. When […]
Donald Trump is trying to push a new scandal, which he calls “Obamagate”. There’s just one problem. Even Trump can’t say what the crime is. When asked by a Washington Post reporter, Trump said “It’s been going on for a long time. It’s been going on from before I even got elected. And it’s a […]
Here’s an interesting demographic group: the people who hate all the presidential candidates, but still end up voting for one of them. For whom do they vote? Politico has an interesting article about this. Who are these people? According to one pollster, “There are a number of people who hate politics and politicians, and they […]
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