American Politics

300920. Let me say right now, that I am going to change to format of my blog as of today, with the latest writings or ramblings being at the top of the page with older stuff at the bottom. It took a while to realise this but it will definitely improve your reading 🙂 

221020. This evening is the last debate or perhaps that should be debacle, between Trump and Biden. I have to say that I never thought that a debate of this magnitude could ever have collapsed into such a vehement slanging match. It carries with it the image that the world now carries of the American leader. Interference from Russia and Iran, supposed Proud Boys emails etc etc. How can one country be so divided? McConnell, Mnuchin and Pelosi  can’t even agree to help the American people struggling to keep things together and feed their families. How many families are now having to wait in line for food handouts? How many were there before the pandemic or as Trump likes to call it “the plague”. I have read 50,000,000. That makes it about 1 in 6 in what is probably the most advanced country in the Western world. I looked for the number using food banks in April but couldn’t find anything. Would have liked to find the increase. I must say that I am trying to find something positive to say about the US right now.
Anti-trust with Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple. Are they just too big now? People don’t seem to take responsibility for what they are knowingly doing. Bigger and bigger. More and more money for the shareholders. It could go on and on and on but I will leave it there for the moment and look forward to the debate this evening….. or maybe not.   

091020. Just back after a couple of days off and ….. WOW! “What the f*** is going on in the US.”
Trump has Corona, flown to Hospital for a couple of days then home again and takes off his mask then salutes the air  – which I then understand was to the leaving helicopter. No test results coming from the White House and Trump says he feels ike the perfect human being ….. Hmmmm. Debacle of a debate with Biden and then the debate between Harris and Pence. At least that was a little better organised but I think Pence needed to be more aware of the moderator – Susan Page – as it seemed to reflect an attitude towards women. Just wouldn’t stop talking sometimes after being repeatedly asked to stop. Really impolite. Having to have the last word. Regretfully I missed the last question which seemed to have been the best one. Forgot to add 10 minutes to the programmed timing. Naughty me!
I understand that staffers in the White House have contracted the virus. How many now? 20+ I have just read. Also just read that the Supreme Court nomination ceremony in the White House garden on 26th September is called a “Superspreader” event.  

Well I have just watched some of the Presidential Debate between Trump and Biden and I have to say that I turned it off after 5 minutes. I think Biden just won and if these are the two men running for President of the United States then I feel sorry for all of you Americans. I think that is enough comments on that but I will look at the next debate and see if it is any different….. but I don’t think so. 

Hopefully this isn’t going to become a long tirade.
So, are you a Republican or a Democrat? What happened to any other parties? The Libertarian, the Green Party and the Constitution Party? I had to Google for this information.
How come American developed a more or less two party system? With approximately 49%-51% I am not surprised that nothing gets done there. Democrats propose something then the Republicans stop it. Republicans propose something and the Democrats stop it.
I admire the Black Lives Matter movement, seeing them stand up to the police and some of the changes that they have made happen. Even Facebook is seeing and feeling the effect of it as it’s advertising revenue begins to fall. Shouldn’t be a difficult choice for Zuckerberg. Written over a couple of days, there is always something new from Trump.

090720. Today is going back to school time. In the middle of rising Corona virus cases in the US, is this a good idea I would ask? It is a hard choice to make, children in school frees more parents to work and yet how safe is it? The number of cases in the US Universities is nearly 7,000 and they have only just started the new semester. What do you do with them? I read that most of the increase has been caused by students partying. Large groups, no social distancing and no masks. What would happen if he/she gets the virus and goes home to his/her parents or visits his/her grandparents????? Is there no sense of responsibility? Is this the generation that will take over from the present generation? 
Everyone wants the economy to roll along again, which includes me as I am unemployed at the moment, but luckily, soon to be part-employed again, which feels really great.
So where do you go…. back to the normal or into the new normal? I like the feel of “new normal”. Sounds more positive.
I have been waiting for someone to say that Trump is responsible for the increase of Corona cases as the administration didn’t do much for 6 weeks and the “little flu” became a big pandemic. I think that there is also a not taking of responsibility with the wearing of masks. U.S. President Harry S. Truman’s “The buck stops here” (January 1953) is definitely not one of Trumps phrases. But then Truman was a democrat :-). I digress so back to the theme on the subject. 
How sad when people politicise the wearing of face masks. Even if you are not sure of what it does then with the possibility of saving someone’s life and maybe their family by wearing one has to be a good thing. Right? I saw a Republican guy from Florida on the TV yesterday who was starting a court case about it being unconstitutional to have to wear one. Sorry, but his logic defies me. It seems like some in the USA don’t realise that people all over the world are struggling with this virus, not only in the USA. But the numbers there are staggering – 136,000 approx and growing but no-one seems to mention this. I see it on CNN which I watch because I am afraid of what might come from this. I watch CNN because it is the only American broadcaster I can watch on my local cable channel. 

180720. Just been watching a group of “policemen” or federal officers in camouflage gear without names and rank arresting people in Oregon. Seems that there were protesters there, not sure what they were protesting about but they had been doing it for more than six weeks. Has to be something serious to be protesting for so long.
U.S. Attorney for Oregon requests investigation into reported arrests of Portland protesters picked up in unmarked vehicles  
Where do you guys go from here????? 

250820. Trump seeks to cast doubt on election integrity.
Having put another Trumpite into the Postal Services who, I have to imagine is as much a liar as Donald….. (we will see during the election whether he re-installs all the sorting machines), leaves me with the question that if people vote for Trump then must they all be liars? I read that he has lied over 21,000 times since he was elected. US Fact-Checkers. That means 14.38 lies per day. Anyone beat that? 2016-492, 2017-1,999, 2018-5,698, 2019-8,155 misleading claims, and this year is only half way through. Washington Post. I must confess that I sometimes watch the press conference that he sometimes gives in daily until the point where I just get tired of listening to him.

210720. I watched the preview of a programme on CNN about Trump and some conspiracy theories. Recorded it as it was on at 0300 this morning and way past my bedtime. Will look forward to watching it this evening. 
I think that CNN ought to look at the amount of “self advertising” that they do. It must be near 50-50 with TV programming time. Most every time I switch to CNN there are nearly always TV adverts then about 3 minutes programme and more adverts. Can’t they find more news and stuff? Maybe this is American TV????? Any Americans reading this, give me some feedback? Does it change the later it gets? Maybe there is a little more comment/news and fewer adverts?   
Well, our friend Mr Bump has done it again. Wants to stop the election citing possible voter fraud and, he suggested a delay until people can “properly, securely and safely” vote. C’mon Trump you are just scared of losing. You and your cronies in the White House. You have a pandemic in the US of alarming proportions and you want people to go out and wait in lines for hours to vote for Biden?! Face it, you are just a moaning loser. BBC – In a tweet, Mr Trump said “universal mail-in voting” would make November’s vote the “most inaccurate and fraudulent election in history” and a “great embarrassment to the USA”. Some of you reporters ought to challenge his assumptions. Facebook, where are your fact-checkers. Twitter, what about fake news? Reporters where are you? 250820. Trump’s Rally. Who is this lady? Kimberly “The Shouter” Guilfoyle. I understand that she worked for Fox News – Trumps favourite, now an advisor for him. Lady with a very shouty voice :-). Seemed a little incongruous to me. 260820. What is happening to the police in Wisconsin. It will be interesting to see what they say about shooting an unarmed man 7 times in the back.. Makes me think of Queen and “Another one bites the dust”….. and meanwhile Melania Trump wants racial harmony. Be wonderful if she got it. Hope she sees to it that the President writes it into his political agenda. Did she get the OK from Trump to say this? Doesn’t seem like it is on his political agenda. He wants separation not togetherness.
020920. Just watched a black guy (hope that is politically correct) called Van Jones saying that reporters ought to keep Trump on subjects like the virus, the economy and unemployment in the US and not let him “lead the pack” and be allowed to answer the questions in the direction that wants to answer – Biden, conspiracy theories, global warming, QAnon, planeloads of thugs going here and there but no-one in the White House knows where either! I have never heard of such a strangely habitual political liar as Trump. 

030920. And now we have Barr AG (makes him sound like a German company  – Aktiengesellschaft – Stock Corporation, but actually means Attorney General) following on from his interview with Wolf Blitzer. … I mean who is this guy except being a very strong advocate for Trump! A over bubbled intellectual, a mouthpiece for Trump. Never liked the feel of the guy ever since he was elected by Trump. 
More will follow after I have heard all of the interview. 
Germany wants the EU to tell Russia, who have, as usual denied everything, to openly investigate the supposed poisoning of Opposition member Alexei Navalny after Novichok was discovered. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54010741.  
I read that “President Donald Trump has imposed sanctions on any firm that helps Gazprom to complete the project”. This says, to me, that he is against Germany having an independent gas supply.
His rival in the presidential race, Joe Biden accused the Kremlin of “an outrageous and brazen attempt on Mr Navalny’s life”. 
“Donald Trump has refused to confront Putin, calling him a ‘terrific person’,” Mr Biden said. I imagine that lots of Americans will be very happy to (hopefully) see the back of Trump! 
And what about rushing the vaccine through without proper Stage 3 trials? Trying to get a political advantage over Biden? 
I feel really sorry for you America’s when you are going to have two months of the worst slanging matches that I could imagine. This might be even worse than me in a foul-mouthed bad mood and will probably lead to the worst of all political debates….. but, being an optimist, I hope it won’t!  Watch out for the White Supremacists and the Second Amendment and more undercover liars.  
I find that after writing all of the above that I want to write something a little more positive now – how about Joe Biden.   

After all the accusations levelled at Russia regarding Novichok and lots of other stuff, they always say “no” to everything even with lots of evidence against them. I would now put Trump and the White House in the same category – they say “no” and deny everything. Back to the previous quotes about +/- 22,000 lies/untruths they have always denied since the beginning of his presidency in 2016. Definitely a truth denier. I find that if I watch CNN and something about Trump comes up, then I can watch for a few minutes then I have to change back to the BBC for something, hopefully, a little nearer the truth! 

280920. The New York Times says Trump paid $750 in 2016 and 2017. He says it is fake news. Why doesn’t someone ask him to prove that it was fake news? A reporter could always ask him the same question about all of the other things he has called fake news.
Question: who coined the phrase “fake news”? The earliest reference I can find is in 1895 in the Christian Science Monitor. Not your creation Mr President – sorry.
Which President has tax returns under audit for 4 years???? https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54319948 

 

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