TROUBLE SPAWN
Retired educator / military officer(Army Colonel) - Current Ops Div Chief (G333), HQDA / married / political progressive / ED.D. and Army War College Grad. 3277
Joined Nov 2017
Olivia Troye, former Pence aide, on Pandemic response...
“The president’s rhetoric and his own attacks against people in his administration trying to do the work, as well as the promulgation of false narratives and incorrect information of the virus have made this ongoing response a failure,” she said in an interview.
Philip Bump in WaPo on wearing masks...
Containing the virus isn’t complicated, though it is at times unpleasant. Trump’s response is to pretend that the unpleasantness can be ignored and to chastise Biden for acknowledging it. That response helps explain a lot about the presidential race more broadly.
It remains to be seen whether the rest of the country possesses the collective grit and determination to follow suit. A happy ending to this drama will very much be determined by how Americans decide to craft the rest of this current act.
But right now, the United States should just be trying to get through the rest of Act II—the coronavirus winter—and hold out until the arrival of a vaccine-enabled spring. It must impose severe lockdowns to truly curb the spread of the disease. New York has shown it can be done.
Good Piece from Foreign Affairs calling for another lockdown to get through this...
Herd immunity is a distant and unrealistic prospect, but Americans still have the opportunity to mitigate the suffering and death caused by the disease. The reality is that the only way for the United States to get through Act II with low levels of morbidity and mortality is through more complete lockdowns than were previously implemented in areas with high incidence of infection.
Schools continue refining new ways of learning while students learn new ways of coping...
Morning Peeps
Ken-Dogger: Hey Fifi, how goes it?
Fifi: Good, you made it back, I was worried.
KD: Naw, interfacing with govt. isn’t that bad.
F: But the Deep State dude, they gonna get ya…
KD: It was licensing, govt. has to do some stuff to ensure safety.
F: You mean govt. can be good?
KD: Yes, when it focuses on serving and protecting vice dividing.
F: That’s right, don’t tread on me…
KD: Well then, don’t fear what you need to live with others.
Later Peeps, got my drivers test today in Beaver...
So I'm Beaver Driving today...
Hope you have a lascivious day also...
Lust On Nauts, Lust On...
In short, the more Trump, the worse for his campaign.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/17/take-minnesota-wisconsin-out-toss-up-column/
Third, thinking back to his town hall on ABC Tuesday night or to the Republican National Convention, it’s hard imagine anything that could stem the tide of voters flowing to Biden. In fact, Trump’s willful ignorance and lying about covid-19, his cavalier attitude toward health care (an issue that generally ranks higher for women than for men), his incitement of violence, and his shoutouts to white nationalists are far more likely to turn off wavering voters than to recapture those he lost.
Jen Rubin on Trump failing to generate new voters...
There are several takeaways... First, Trump’s “law and order” message has bombed in two states with high-profile violence in recent months. This may have even been part of the reason voters turned away from him.
Second, Trump is no longer relying on White voters generally; he’s down to White men without college degrees in many states. That is not a sufficient slice of the electorate to compensate for the voters he has scared off.
WaPo Ed Board...
Mr. Trump has made clear that he believes “my generals,” the Justice Department and the rest of U.S. government are there to serve his private and personal interests. If voters do not take their government back, they can expect it to have been remade into a second Trump Organization four years from now.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/16/trump-promised-to-drain-swamp-self-dealing/
As I’ve pointed out time and time again, Trump makes chaos work for him. While critics, the media and social media users highlight and mock his blunders, inaccuracies and failures, his administration continues to take apart regulations that keep the rest of us safe. They keep their focus on the main goal, to the detriment of the rest of us.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/16/trump-administration-keeps-using-chaos-cover/
A report published by the advocacy group Public Citizen found, since the country began to shut down in mid-March, the Trump administration has done away with more than 30 government regulations and is in the process of unraveling 20 more. Those regulations have two things in common: First, they’ve almost absolutely nothing to do with the covid-19 pandemic. And, second, they are, in almost all cases, desired by business interests or otherwise sought out by Trump’s most conservative supporters.
Yet again, the Trump White House is taking full advantage of the fact that most people find the word “regulation” sleep-inducing, while almost everyone can thrill to the latest bit of presidential or administration craziness. As a result, this administration, a failure in so many areas, remains startlingly successful at imposing its conservative, pro-business agenda on the federal government regulatory structure.
Helaine Olen in WaPo on the distractions masking more crime...
But while public attention was focused on the unfortunate Caputo, many missed this Politico scoop: HHS Secretary Alex Azar, frustrated with the high standards the Food and Drug Administration was insisting on before approving coronavirus diagnostic tests, loosened the standards for lab-developed tests.
In turn, those who become civil servants bestow their own trust that all presidents — regardless of party — will take seriously the executive branch entrusted to them. Mr. Trump is violating that trust, ever more frequently, ever more flagrantly, with help from allies like Mr. Barr as he tries to bend the executive branch to serve his personal will. Public servants are telling us it’s unsustainable. It’s on the rest of us to listen.
by a highly regarded career public servant who had previously managed to oversee the investigation into the politically fraught firings of seven U.S. attorneys in the George W. Bush administration.
America’s framers understood the presidency “to be a fiduciary position, a position of trust.”
Never — and that’s even accounting for the department’s strong conservatives and liberals in its career ranks.
Ms. Dannehy poses a looming further threat to Mr. Barr. She didn’t just withdraw from the investigation; she resigned from the department entirely. That means Mr. Barr can’t muzzle her — and, in turn, she can warn Congress and the rest of us about what prompted such a dramatic move ...
TROUBLE SPAWN
Retired educator / military officer(Army Colonel) - Current Ops Div Chief (G333), HQDA / married / political progressive / ED.D. and Army War College Grad. 3277
Joined Nov 2017