5/24/20: No telling right now, whether we’re headed for a gradual recovery or a fresh explosion of COVID-19 infections.
Another 559,668 confirmed cases.
According to the Centers for Disease Control, the U.S. racked up 24,268 more cases Friday. On Saturday we had 26,229. Sunday numbers will be posted on Memorial Day, but the CDC is reporting 97,049 Americans have died. Total number of new cases this month? According to CDC: 559,668.
Remember when President Trump said we needn’t worry because the disease would go away in April?
Like a miracle, he said!
Turning water into wine, this is not. Johns Hopkins
University posts the following numbers Monday
afternoon: 1,651,254 confirmed cases in the U.S., including 97,850 dead.
Brazil, led by another virus denier, is second with 363,211 cases. Russia, also
led by a virus denier, trails slightly, but has dropped to third. The U.K.
stands second in deaths with 36,875.
Worldometers runs similar numbers, but updates faster. They have the U.S. death toll at 99,450, or 301 persons per million. Russia, where Putin clamps down on any news he doesn’t like, reports only 25 deaths per million. Germany, which handled the threat effectively from the start – because Chancellor Angela Merkel is a trained scientist and not a golf-club wielding fool – has 100 deaths per million. The top ten U.S. states for infections are:
New York 371,193
New Jersey 155,384
Illinois 110,304
California 94,486
Massachusetts 92,675
Pennsylvania 71,961
Texas 56,166
Michigan 54,679
Florida
51,746
Maryland 47,152
Cases are increasing in
the following states:
Overall, cases in the U.S. are falling; but this may be true
only because several of the hardest hit states have managed to slow the spread,
particularly New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts:
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WE ALL KNOW by now that Donald J. Trump is truly terrible when it comes to making predictions.
Deal Maker Don: Just as clueless as Disinfectant Don.
Now, as we approach the second anniversary of Deal Maker Don’s greatest deal, we discover he was clueless all along. It seems like a thousand years ago, but remember when Donald was touting his chances of winning the Nobel Peace prize? He said he had earned his imaginary award by convincing North Korea to agree to give up all its nuclear weapons.
Deal Maker Don boldly announced in June 2018: “North Korea is no longer a nuclear threat.” And because he had worked out the best deal ever, he claimed the American people could “sleep well tonight.”
Sadly, Trump’s deal was ephemeral. Kim Jong-un didn’t give up all his weapons. He didn’t give up any, really. He built more.
Now the homicidal dictator – I mean Mr. Kim – has decided to promote several officials who have been helping expand the North’s nuclear program. North Korea is still a nuclear threat. The official, government-run Korean Central News Agency explains:
Set
forth at the [latest top-level] meeting were new policies for further
increasing the nuclear war deterrence of the country and putting the strategic
armed forces on a high-alert operation. Taken at the meeting were crucial
measures for considerably increasing the firepower strike ability of the artillery
pieces of the Korean People’s Army.
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Trump's imaginary Nobel Peace Prize. |
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WE SHOULD also focus clearly, on this Memorial Day, when we remember those who have died fighting for freedom, on Dictator Don’s growing anger with the free press. If all you watch is Fox News, you won’t realize it, because you will be inundated with fifty stories about Joe Biden’s recent gaffe, saying black people who support Trump “ain’t black.”
True. Biden’s comment was a gaffe. On the other hand, Dictator
Don has been peddling crazy sh*t.
Dictator Don’s Alter Ego: Detective Don.
The latest example involves Trump tweeting unfounded conspiracy theories about former congressman and current MSNBC morning host, Joe Scarborough. Trump loathes his show. That meant, Saturday, you had Trump suggesting that “Psycho Joe,” as he calls him, had had a hand in the murder of an intern in 2001. “A blow to her head?” Detective Donald wondered. “Body found under his desk? Left Congress suddenly? Big topic of discussion in Florida...and, he’s a Nut Job (with bad ratings). Keep digging, use forensic geniuses!”
(The fact that Trump considers “bad ratings” as bad as Scarborough’s imaginary involvement in a murder tells you all you need to know about this truly malign human being we are stuck with as president.)
With Trump, of course, there’s always more. So he attacked his former Attorney General, Jeff Sessions:
Jeff, you had your chance &
you blew it. Recused yourself ON DAY ONE (you never told me of a problem), and
ran for the hills. You had no courage, & ruined many lives. The dirty cops,
& others, got caught by better & stronger people than you. Hopefully
this slime will pay a big...
...price. You should drop out of
the race & pray that super liberal @DougJones, a weak & pathetic puppet
for Crazy Nancy Pelosi & Cryin’ Chuck Schumer, gets beaten badly. He voted
for impeachment based on “ZERO”. Disgraced Alabama. Coach @TTuberville will be
a GREAT Senator!
Dictator Donald naturally turned to dehumanizing language again. It’s a Hitlerian tactic, one Trump loves to employ. His enemies are never human. In this case, Sessions is “slime.”
Then, with the nation in the midst of a crippling health/economic crisis, you had Dimwit Don retweeting idiotic sh*t from idiots. In this case John K. Stahl got a series of retweets from the president.
Included was this juvenile bit, with Nancy Pelosi as his (and the president’s) target: “Anyone know what’s going on with PolyGrip? I’ve noticed lately that her face seems glossy and she is sporting a poorly marked 2nd set of eyebrows. I’m thinking it’s an extreme case of incurable TDS. Any thoughts?”
Stahl included this “photo” and Dimwit Don loved it and
passed it on to his cultish followers, who liked it also:
This, then, is the essence of who Donald J. Trump is, a most
deplorable human being.
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