6/4/17: Following a deadly terrorist attack in London, Trump realizes the best way to help would be to insult the Mayor of London. Taking the mayor’s words out of context, he tweets: “At least 7 dead and 48 wounded in terror attack and Mayor of London says there is ‘no reason to be alarmed!’”
Those who can read an actual newspaper or watch a video for two minutes without losing focus, know that after the attack Mayor Sadiq Khan actually said: “Londoners will see an increased police presence today and over the course of the next few days. There’s no reason to be alarmed.”
The reaction in The Guardian,
a British newspaper, captures the love Londoners now have for The
Tweeter-in-Chief:
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6/5/17: Trump decides to blast the judicial branch again, because the courts have blocked provisions of his travel ban. “In any event,” he tweets, “we are EXTREME VETTING people coming into the U.S. in order to help keep our country safe. The courts are slow and political!”
Meanwhile, he remains incapable of letting go about the attack in London. He tweets again: “Pathetic excuse by London Mayor Sadiq Khan who had to think fast on his ‘no reason to be alarmed’ statement. MSM is working hard to sell it!”
Mainstream media isn’t working “hard to
sell it.” They’re quoting what the mayor said in context.
BLOGGER’S
NOTE: During the next four years criticism of the judicial branch will become a
hallmark of Trump’s ultra-dangerous political career.
His fans will remain
singularly obtuse, in regard to the danger.
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6/6/17: Trump gets bored and decides he has nothing better to do than attack the free press once more. A stupid tweet follows: “Sorry folks, but if I would have relied on the Fake News of CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, washpost or nytimes, I would have had ZERO chance winning WH.”
(Too bad they didn’t realize the Russians were
helping you out.)
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6/7/17: Did you know deer kill more Americans most years than terrorists and illegal immigrants combined?
Do you know what the most dangerous predators might be? Grizzlies? Despite the claims of Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, no.
Sharks? No.
Try greedy drug company executives. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, “Sales of prescription opioids in the U.S. quadrupled from 1999 to 2014,” but there was no “overall change in the amount of pain Americans report.”
What happened?
Big Pharma pushed the pain-killing virtues of products like OxyContin. A quick check of Addictions.com turns up this detail: “According to Fortune magazine, an estimated 254 million opioid prescriptions were filled in 2010,” the year prescriptions peaked. That would be “enough to medicate every adult in the U.S. for a month on a round-the-clock basis. In that same year, pharmaceutical companies generated revenues of $11 billion from opioid sales alone.”
An effort to curtail over-prescription of such drugs, including a recommendation that doctors first prescribe aspirin or ibuprofen to patients complaining of chronic pain, met fierce resistance from – go figure – the drug companies.
With doctors issuing too many prescriptions, and those prescriptions running too long (current average 17.7 days), when a recommended dosage to start would be three days, billions of extra pills end up circulating.
A chart prepared by CDC shows where most
people who abuse opioids first go to get the drug:
In other words, the problem has long been clear. Most who try opioids get hooked when they borrow pills from friends or relatives. Addicts turn next to “pill mills,” physicians and druggists happy to hand out addictive substances because over-prescribing means big profits.
Big Pharma keeps pushing opioids. According to estimates, patients in this country consume 80% of the world’s supply.
By 2014, there are 28,647 deaths from drug abuse, more than half a result of prescription opioids.
Another 33,091 Americans die in 2015.
The following year is worse: with 59,000
drug-related overdose deaths. And 2017 is expected to be more deadly yet.
BLOGGER’S NOTE: President Trump, who blames the overdose
epidemic on his predecessor in the White House, has no luck stemming the tide
during his first year in office. In 2017, the toll passes 70,000. By 2020,
the figure will be 93,000.
Trump doesn’t accept any blame. Nor does
he ever apologize – or even realize how stupid his criticism was.
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