Trump 'The Chosen One' Talks About the Coronavirus and Miracles

                                        Good Day World!

If you're a Christian, the reports that Jesus performed miracles are believable.

If you're a Trump supporter, the reports about the coronavirus being fake news is believable, because Trump promised the deadly infectious disease "was going to go away like a miracle" in a press conference recently.

The fact of the matter is Trump is trying to tamp down on the disease's progress by putting his puppet Pence in charge of a disinformation campaign designed to filter the truth out of public announcements.

Trump is taking the coronavirus personally, convinced that the whole thing is a scam to hurt his reelection efforts. Truth is being suffocated in the wasteland of The Trump White House once again.

Now Trump - the Chosen One - is asking his disciples to downplay the dangers that the coronavirus poses to the safety of every person in our country.

Ignoring the reality around him, Trump is blaming the crashing stock market on the Democrats instead of the pending pandemic sweeping the globe.

It's all the Chosen One knows. Pick a foil and blame them for his own stupidity.

The line between fact and fiction has been crossed by Trump and his minions who are trying to downplay the health crisis that's unraveling as I write this post.

Fair Warning

You can only mock reality for so long... before it kicks your ass!

I don't wish this horrible virus on anyone, but when Republicans start dying from the disease they may want to reconsider following a false prophet!

Time for me to walk on down the road...

New Research: It Might Be Time To Take LSD

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Full disclosure: I was a hippy dippy kind of guy in the 60's and 70s, and dropped LSD countless times. 

I stopped after coming back from Vietnam in 1970. 

A NEW LOOK AT LSD

I read a fascinating report about LSD's medical use in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs yesterday.

In it, there was a story about a 46-year-old woman who snorted a staggering 550 times the normal recreational dose of LSD and not only survived, but found that the foot pain she had suffered from since her 20s was dramatically reduced! 

Who would of guessed?

I remember dropping acid with some people who freaked out with just one dose. It's hard for me to imagine that the 46-year-old woman in the report didn't turn into a complete vegetable.

I guess that's how little I, and science, knows about all of the effects of LSD. Even after all of these years (first discovered in 1938 by Albert Hoffman). 

I discovered that there's a resurgence of research in the use of psychedelic substances for treatment of conditions such as addiction, PTSD, depression, and anxiety.

Despite the fact that psychedelics are illegal, the last decade has seen an explosion of research, with results so intriguing that governments are greenlighting studies around the world.

I'm turning 70 this year, and I'm a lot more cautious than I was back in the day. But, I never had a bad trip.

Maybe it's time to drop LSD again. I've got this bad knee...

Time for me to walk on down the road...

Be Calm: Trump Makes it Clear That Democrats Caused the Coronavirus But He'll 'Fix It'

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I certainly don't feel reassured.

Trump's speech yesterday to reassure Americans there's nothing to worry about despite the spreading pandemic that's in six of the earth's seven continents, went over like a lead balloon.

For starters, who believes the Lord of the Lies? Trump's perfect record of lying everyday since he was elected hasn't gone unnoticed.

Then there's that pesky propaganda Trump is pushing about the democrats and the mainstream media overreacting to the spread of the deadly coronavirus and "spooking the market."

Thus far, Trump's crooked regime has only grudgingly offered $ 2.5 Billion to combat the infectious disease instead of the $ 8.5 Billion recommended by Congress.

The fact is, no amount of political rhetoric will over-trump the science of what the nation is facing. Past presidents have used these times of national emergency to bring the country together.

Not Trump.

He has already shown us that's not the case with him. There's always someone, or something, to blame when he's actually the cause of the problem. 

In this case, it's the democrats and the mainstream media for pointing out how woefully unprepared we are to meet a major health challenge under his regime.

To bring that point home Trump's minions have proposed to slash (a 19 percent reduction) the Center for Disease Control's budget during this time of impending crisis.

In Trump's rambling rant yesterday to the nation he claimed US scientists are "very close" to a vaccine... which is bullshit!

As Trump continues to downplay adversities (big and small) while campaigning for reelection, it's clear that he's more interested in getting another term in the White House than he is in the loss of American lives.

Time for me to walk on down the road...

Cononavirus Contained in America? Who Do You Believe? Trump, or Health Authorities?

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Trump claims the Cononavirus won't affect Americans any more than it has.

Department heads from the Center of Disease Control and Prevention are warning Americans to be prepared for a likely outbreak.

Which source do you believe?

Our serial liar of a president, or knowledgeable experts on the subject?

Trump's minions, like National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow, are willingly following Trump's bogus claim.

How typical.

"Nothing to see here folks... just move on."

This is where America's currently at; we're watching an oncoming train and the president of the United States is more worried what business will be lost (so he lies) instead of showing concern for the safety of every American in the nation.

Related: Lawmakers Raise Alarms Over Trump Coronavirus Response 

It's that bad. 

Trump's reluctance to share the truth is well established, and this time his stubbornness may cause deaths. His hunger for power and wealth has been taking the country to dark places.

In this case, Americans are going to have to decide for themselves on the proper course to take.

They sure aren't getting any sensible direction from the Divider in Chief.

Time for me to walk on down the road...

Will Democrats Lose the Election in November Because of a Toxic Label?

                                        Good Day World!

When I grew up during the Cold War the term Socialist was interchangeable with Communist. The enemy.

Today, Millennials don't think the term Democratic Socialist is a bad label. But their parents still see the term socialist (in any context) as un-American.

In a recent article by William Saletan for Slate, the data described sounds like bad news for Democrats if they do go with Bernie Sanders, a self-avowed Democratic Socialist.

One of the articles most important points was that data shows Independents are less likely to vote for a socialist. The other point was the democratic candidate absolutely NEEDS as many Independents as it can get to beat Trump.

Last time, in 2016, Trump carried more Independents than the Democrats, helping Trump (along with other factors like the Russian's) beat Hillary Clinton.

Bernie Sander's campaign is gathering speed every day as he leads in delegates going into the South Carolina primaries.

The democratic establishment wants a moderate candidate like Biden, Buttigieg, or Klobuchar, because they believe Independents are more likely to vote for one of them. 

But what if Bernie wins the majority of delegates by a landslide? Will the party support him in the convention, or contest his majority and go with a moderate?

There's no upside to that possibility. Divided, the party won't stand, and it's candidate won't be able to defeat Trump in the general election.

Who knows? maybe the polls are wrong and Independents will be able to swallow their dislike for a socialist candidate in order to defeat Trump?

Time for me to walk on down the road...

Trump's India Visit is His Biggest Photo Op Ever!

                                       Good Day World!

It's taken weeks of planning to arrive at todays photo shoot.

The White House billed it as Trump's first official visit to India.

Trump aides went to Ahmedabad, India, the home base of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, weeks ago to help set up the logistics for Trump's arrival.

Trump and Modi are buddies and fellow showmen. Both love a spectacle, and having Trump at the inauguration of the world's largest cricket stadium - Motera Stadium - (with seating for a 110 thousand people) is pure Hollywood gold.

The official bullshit is Trump's there to work on their poor trade relations, but don't expect any kind of breakthrough. However, that's not to say the two leaders haven't gotten other mutual interests.

Like Trump Tower going up in Mumbai and other real estate ventures.

The Trump organization is planning on going bigger in the future and Modi wants the business. 

That's why Modi is spending one-and-a-half percent of the nation's annual budget to butter Trump up.

Trump's Indian host made sure he doesn't see the poverty that plague's the world's largest democracy by building a quarter-mile long wall from the airport to the stadium. It's no secret Trump loves walls.

Time for me to walk on down the road...

Feeling the 'Bern' in Nevada: Sanders Is Setting the Democractic Establishment on Fire

                                          Good Day World!

It rained off-and-on in Las Vegas yesterday, but that didn't seem to bother Sanders supporters attending the Democratic primary.

The emerging story today tells a tale that moderate Democrats don't want to hear; voters are feeling the "Bern," picking Sanders as their choice for president in Nevada.

That moderates like Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar didn't do as good as they should have, especially in a diversely populated state, has to be a concern for establishment Democrats.

A Populist, Bernie Sanders was the big story. One interesting sidebar to his story is that 3-in-5 voters made their mind up before yesterday's primaries.

The Democratic National Party is facing a dilemma it hoped to avoid; a growing split in the party between moderates and the far left.

The prevailing thought is that a self-avowed socialist will get pummeled by Trump because he'd be the perfect foil for him and his cult followers.

When a House Intelligence Committee warned that the Russians wanted Trump reelected, and were supporting Berni Sanders as his opponent, Democratic leaders were faced with another unwanted narrative... 

Bernie Sanders won't stand a chance against Trump and that's why his campaign and the Russians are promoting him. How do you deal with that little fire?

Because Sanders took the majority of the Hispanic vote (with Biden a distant second) DNC leaders can't ignore that important demographic if they want to win states like Nevada.

Anyone who saw Sander's rally in Texas yesterday, as he was winning the Nevada vote, couldn't help but see the enthusiasm of the huge audience he was addressing.

It almost looked like a Trump rally, with the exception that most at Bernie's rally live in the real world! 

Fact: No other Democrat has been able to generate such large and enthusiastic audiences. No other Democrat has more individual donors than Bernie.   

The DNC can't just ignore the groundswell of support that Sanders has been enjoying because their afraid of his socialist tag. No matter who runs against Trump, he'll find something to attack them on.

There's a long ways to go yet before Super Tuesday and the remainder of the other primaries are over. Lot's can happen. 

The one thing that shouldn't happen is the DNC working against Bernie because they can't overcome their assumption that only a moderate can beat Trump.

Related: Bernie Sanders Just Declared War on the Democratic Establishment

The key to beating Trump is having a united front. If Democrats are really serious about winning they may have to think outside the box to beat such an unorthodox opponent.

Time for me to walk on down the road...

In a Time of Universal Lies... Telling the Truth is Revolutionary

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Trump, our divider in chief, is on a constant mission to debunk the truth, wherever he finds it. 

He's sick of it surfacing and embarrassing him.

When the truth doesn't suit Trump (95 percent of the time) he tracks it down like a big game hunter, and attacks it. 

The most recent example was when all 17 intelligence agencies concluded that the Russians were currently attacking our electoral system to help get Trump reelected.

When Trump was told about the House Intelligence Committee briefing that confirmed the Russians were out to help him get reelected, he flipped his hair piece!

Like a naughty 3rd grader hoping to get his teacher in trouble, Rep. Devin Nunes ran to Trump right after the briefing was over and reported the intel community was sharing the truth. That was intolerable news for the First Narcissist.

Trump exploded at Joseph Maguire, a veteran intelligence operative who was the current acting DNI after Nunes squealed that a Maguire deputy told a bipartisan congressional committee, including Trump's arch nemesis, Adam Schiff, that Russia was back at it again - pushing Trump's re-election.

Wasting no time, Trump fired Maguire and put in one of his puppets, Richard Grenell to stop anymore truths from leaking out.

In a full court press against truth and transparency in his administration, another Trump puppet, John McEntee, his former bodyguard who was elevated to run the presidential personnel office, was instructed to root out anyone that was disloyal to Trump - in other words - truth talkers. 

Regardless of Trump's attempts at suppressing the truth it always has a way of coming out. Sometimes right away, or later when it's not expected.

A great journalist, Edward R. Murrow, once said,

"To be persuasive we must be believable;

to be believable we must be creditable;

to be credible we must be truthful."

The truth will always be Trump's enemy... and must always be used to combat his fake news and outright lies.

Time for me to walk on down the road...

America: A Republic in Search of a Savior

                                        Good Day World!

In these stressful times under a wannabe tyrant, Americans are looking for relief from the daily chaos coming out of The White House.

The only possible answer to ending that chaos and protecting our Democracy and values, is to vote Trump out of office in November.

In the search for a savior, the Democrats have narrowed it down to five presidential possibilities: Joe Biden; Mike Bloomberg; Pete Buttigieg; Amy Klobuchar; Bernie Sanders; and Elizabeth Warren. 

Meanwhile, while the search narrows down, Trump and minions are having a grand old time degrading the Justice Department by flaunting laws and traditions.

The fate of a nation based on laws and equality is at stake.

The question is whether the Democratic party can get behind the eventual winner of the primary process and present a united front against Trump?

If, for instance, Bernie's (infamous Bernie Bros) followers refuse to accept anyone but him, even if he loses the primaries, that will be an incalculable blow to a unified Democratic voting bloc. 

There's no room for errors, or re-does.

If the Democrats don't get it right this time and motivate the maximum amount of voters in every state, Trump will be reelected.

Our republic won't survive, as envisioned by the founders, with four more years of depredations in every branch of government. 

As it is, the new president is going to have a real challenge undoing the damage Trump's already wrought on all of our intelligence agencies, the Department of Justice, the State Department, the Treasury Department, and Congress.

There is hope. There's always hope.

I believe there's enough Americans who want to end the reign of our reality show president that they will turn out in record numbers to vote for his Democratic challenger (whomever that may be).

As someone who came of age in the 1960s, I've seen this country meet every challenge and continue to move on with the challenges each decade presented. 

Related: Analysts See 'Blue Wave' Emerging in U.S. Cities 

That we're a republic that needs a savior every so often, is nothing new under the sun.

"Life always promises to give the world a person to take away everything bad." - Eloise Dyson

Time for me to walk on down the road...

New Domestic Terrorist Group: Not the Boogyman Coming... But the Boogaloo!

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It's a sad fact of life in America that domestic terrorists are increasing like flies around a decaying body.

A new anti-government movement that advocates for a second Civil War is being organized around the term Boogaloo, an inside extremist meme.

Extremism researchers first detected the movement in 2019 when fringe groups from guns rights and militia movements began referring to an impending civil war using boogaloo, a joking reference to "Breaking" 2: Electrical Boogaloo, a 1984 sequel movie about breakdancing.

Boogaloo memes are shared alongside violent text and images that have crossed over from their early platforms like 4chan, to mainstream platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and Instagram.

The ambiguity of the term Boogaloo works to cloak extremist organizing in the open, much like the OK hand signal coopted by white supremacist's (who deny the association). 

Like a virus hiding from the immune system, the use of comical-meme language permits the network to organize violence secretly behind a mirage of inside jokes and plausible deniability.

In just the last three months researchers warn that the use of the term has increased by 50 percent on Twitter and Reddit.

Organizers have even monetized the Boogaloo concept through merchandize advertising on Facebook and Instagram ads, marketed to former and current members of the military.

This latest movement is part of a renaissance for extremists in America that have grown since Trump slithered into office.

Time for me to walk on down the road...

Tales from the Swamp: Featuring Trump's Favorite Toady Bill Barr

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It's ironic watching the swamp grow in Washington DC, as Trump's toxic policies and deeds foul our society.

Just a little over three years ago, Trump convinced gullible voters he would "clean out the swamp" in Washington politics. 

The reality is Trump created the mother of all swamps, and it's getting deeper by the day.

Tales from the Swamp

This installment we're going to take a look at one of Trump's favorite toadies... Attorney General Bill Bar.

He's been making waves in the algae lately by ignoring DOJ regulations and openly siding with Trump against his own department's decisions.

When Barr recently overrode a recommendation by DOJ prosecutor's for Roger Stone to serve between 7-9 years in prison it was the straw that broke the camel's back.

More than 2,000 ex-DOJ employees have called for his resignation in response to Barr's overt interference. When her saw Trump tweeted about how unfair the sentence was to his long-time buddy Stone, Barr intervened and called for a shorter sentence. 

Meanwhile, Barr has been a busy little toad, conducting backroom investigations to exonerate other Trump associates like former national security advisor Mike Flynn.

Barr's unswerving loyalty to Trump was evident when he managed to suppress - and spin - the redacted Mueller report.

He gave Trump's legal team a head's up, and then held a press conference where he offered an alternate reality defense to the public. 

Barr managed to slime Mueller's report so effectively even the Democrats gave up trying to undo the damage and moved on to the Ukraine scandal.

As a top toadie, Barr has managed to steer Trump through the swamp safely every time he's been threatened with legal issues, and even impeachment.

Qualifications for Swamp Dwellers

1. Willingness to lie for Trump

2. Undying loyalty to his "Trumpness"

3. Must not have a conscience

Needless to say, Barr has passed the bar, and earned his place in the swamp.

 Time for me to walk on down the road...