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Wednesday, May 6, 2020

Some Must Reads

If you haven't visited October Farm and read her Dump Trump series you'e got to go over there. (She's quite a cook too and posts some amazing recipes.)

Here are a couple I borrowed from her today.



And read these statistics from a Washington Post article summarized in The Week:

During the 13 hours in which President Trump spoke in the past three weeks of daily briefings on the Covid-19 pandemic, he devoted  ..... only 4 and one half minutes to offering condolences to the families of the 57,000 Americans who've died.  In one third of his answers to questions, Trump attacked someone -- including state governors, President Obama, and the press.

Here's another quote from The Week:

Trump actually believes he's smarter than scientists, said Jonah Goldberg in TheDispatch.com.  Longing for an "easy fix" to a pandemic that threatens his re-election, Trump seized on the bleach-and-sunlight cure as "a brilliant idea that never occurred to the fancy-pants experts." Trump suffers from what is known as "the Dunning-Kruger effect," said Jonathan Chait in NYMag.com.  This well-documented phenomenon describes how people with low ability "are too incompetent to recognize their own incompetence."  What should worry us most about Trump's embrace of quack cures isn't that gullible people will try them.  It's that he's left no doubt we're facing the greatest public-health crisis in a century behind the leadership of "an ignorant crank who thinks he's a genius."


WE MUST VOTE THIS MAN OUT OF OFFICE!


8 comments:

Marcia LaRue said...

Yes, I read October Farm every day, as well! She searches the Web for the graphics she uses! And, she is right on the money with all of them!
Her food blogs have my mouth watering! My Lord ... she cooks for an Army!

Tom said...

...Donny is a sicko.

Lynda said...

Completely agree. Thanks for saying it.

R's Rue said...

Thank you.

Anvilcloud said...

I do wonder about tRump. Does he not know in his heart of hearts that he is dumb and unfit?

Mystica said...

I've followed Octoberfarm for years. Apart from those quotes, just looking at American scenes of people following their leader in the no social distancing, no preventive measures I am amazed by the lack of a sense of responsibility or even preservation by one section of the populace (of course to the detriment of the rest).
We are on the seventh closer to eight now weeks of strict curfew. There is no walking the dog, exercise or anything. Yes to medical stuff only. No travelling between districts and think that we are a tiny country. Inconvenient sure. but safer yes.

Unknown said...

tRump is useless. I am constantly amazed at the crap he drivvels out of his mouth. I sure hope we can get rid of him before he gets us into a war with Iran or China.

Cynthia said...

Yup. O-U-T!!!
Thanks for donating my book, Marcia. I hope someone else will enjoy it.