While you’re sitting at home, here’s two videos you can watch. If you see any others, please post them in the comments. UPDATE: I love this one, from Australia!
Everyone should read this article NOW. It is long and contains lots of numbers and graphs, but it explains everything well, every step of the way. If you want the short version, it is that we must reduce the transmission of the coronavirus, and the best way to do that is through social distancing, which […]
Donald Trump is trying to rewrite recent history, but he may not realize that the internet never forgets. Here’s a post from Political Wire: As President Trump attempts to blame President Barack Obama for his own handling of the coronavirus outbreak, it’s important to document Trump’s comments during this public health crisis. These are not utterances from […]
This is a snarky article from The Independent, a UK newspaper: Thank God we have Trump to do what the scientists won’t – build that coronavirus wall by Mark Steel We’re so lucky. Because in a time of global danger, we need leaders who are clear, informed, sensitive and decisive. So, truly, we have been […]
A friend sent me this article from political historian Heather Cox Richardson that discusses the coronavirus, oil prices, and Donald Trump fiddling while America burns. I encourage you to read it. This reminded me that I needed to add her website “Letters from an American” to my list of links (to the right). I’ve done […]
On Monday, Donald Trump announced his “timely and effective response to the coronavirus”. It is “a possible tax relief measure”. That’s it. Seriously. He’s going to talk to Republicans in Congress and ask them to cut taxes. Again. He cares only about goosing the economy, not about the people who are actually sick or dying. […]
This article from the Daily Beast (so read it with a grain of salt) is supposedly about how Donald Trump claimed that he “didn’t know people died from the flu” when in fact his grandfather died from the Spanish flu. The article points out “The president’s grandfather, in fact, was one of the first domestic […]
This SNL opening reminds me why I love both Kate McKinnon and Elizabeth Warren.
Again. During a town hall broadcast by Fox News on Thursday night there was a discussion about the national debt, which has soared during the Trump administration. This, despite the fact that Donald Trump promised to not just eliminate the deficit (which was last accomplished by Bill Clinton), but also the entire national debt. Of […]
A selection of comics about the coronavirus:
Joe Biden has a huge opportunity staring him in the face. And it is the same opportunity that Obama utilized for his winning coalition, when he brought many of his competing Democrats (and some Republicans) into his administration. Biden should announce cabinet level (or similar stature) positions for his now-vanquished competition: Elizabeth Warren. Is it […]
Thursday, February 27, 2020
Does anyone else think that the reason Donald Trump is putting Mike Pence in charge of combatting the coronavirus outbreak is so that Pence can be blamed and thrown under the bus when the outbreak becomes a pandemic? UPDATE: According to a report in the NY Times, Vice President Mike Pence was picked to lead […]
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
It looks like the coronavirus is being weaponized as yet another element to bring down Donald Trump. I’m dead right on this. The coronavirus is the common cold, folks. — Rush Limbaugh, claiming that the coronavirus is fake news and accusing the media of exaggerating its severity. Yes, this is the same Rush Limbaugh who was […]
Thursday, February 20, 2020
Like his boss, Rudy Giuliani loves Twitter, but he has a problem. Rudy is a poor typist, and often mistypes URLs in his tweets (along with inserting other spelling errors). A director for a cybersecurity company noted that Giuliani creates these bad URLs regularly. His mistyped URLs have become so common that hackers have started […]
