It is sadly clear that President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and other Trump Administration figures have no concern about the potential loss of human life in this CoronaVirus Pandemic.
All that they are concerned about is the reelection of Donald Trump, so to hell with senior citizens, children, and everyone in between!
They have never shown concern for human life, ironic for an administration and a Republican Party that is called “Pro Life”, but only really for women to be forced to have children when they become pregnant, forcing women to be parents after working to deny contraceptives to avoid pregnancy, and working to destroy abortion rights permitted under Roe V Wade in 1973.
So what the Republican Party means is protect every fetus, but once that fetus is born, to hell with any government responsibility to protect life and health, as they work to deny millions of Americans basic health care, as they have been on a ten year mission to destroy ObamaCare, the Affordable Care Act, without offering any alternative!
When Betsy DeVos talks about a “low” level of victims among children from potential infection of CoronaVirus, she is saying that some human lives, of any age group, are dispensable!
What a damned nerve of a super wealthy woman who never went to public school in her life, has never known anything but privilege, and has shown no concern for public education or children!
If some human lives are dispensable, how about her life, that of her super wealthy, privileged family?
And while we are at judging that some people’s lives and deaths, including children, are acceptable as statistics, why not Donald Trump, his children and grandchildren, instead of ordinary Americans who are now struggling in the midst of a second Great Depression, with no empathy or sympathy or consideration by the disgusting First Family, all of them!
While this pandemic is expanding, no way should schools reopen as normal, despite the reality that remote education is not preferable if conditions were normal, but they are far from that!
It is difficult on parents who need to work and have tight circumstances regarding physical space and the need to educate, but no one ever said being a parent is meant to be easy. Millions of people will suffer in this coming school year in many ways, but above all, survival and good health come first!
Our school board approved the reopening plan for our school system.
Pre-K – 3rd grade, special ed kids, and students learning English will attend 4 days a week.
Grades 4 – 12 will be divided into groups. Each group will attend 2 days per week and have remote learning at home the other 3 days.
Parents have the option of 100% remote learning at home for their kids.
Many are going to have to bring their kids to school, as buses will have to have reduced capacity.
There will be no sports, field trips, or other such activities.
If Virginia is unable to stay in Phase 3, schools will not reopen in the fall.
You gotta hand it to Betsy DeVos!
She is committed.
She should be…committed.
HAHA, yes, D, committed to a federal institution for abuse of power and corruption, after a mental exam!
Just like the President, it is clear she is very mentally ill and unstable, and a disgrace to the Department of Education, which she has undermined!
There are so many Trump cabinet and sub cabinet disgraces, but Betsy DeVos may be the absolute worst of all!
I am not a fan of George Will of “Washington Post.†(If I had a gun pointed to my head, I would answer that I prefer the stiff conservative Will—who sometimes is and sometimes is not out of touch—to the Jeff Bezos-owned-and-now-throughly-trashed “Post.†Will is wrong when he writes the 2020 Iowa Democratic caucus was not corrupt. But, I understand the reasons with the rest of his piece. Yes—Donald Trump has become a “boreâ€. And, with COVID–19, a useless one.) Here it is…
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‘This is what national decline looks like’
By George Will (07.15.2020)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/this-is-what-national-decline-looks-like/2020/07/14/ef499fd4-c5f0-11ea-b037-f9711f89ee46_story.html?hpid=hp_save-opinions-float-right-4-0_opinion-card-a-right%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans
Because of his incontinent use of it, the rhetorical mustard that the president slathers on every subject has lost its tang. The entertainer has become a bore, and foretelling his defeat no longer involves peering into a distant future: Early voting begins in two states (South Dakota and Minnesota) 61 days from Sunday, which is 107 days before Election Day.
Never has a U.S. election come at such a moment of national mortification. In April 1970, President Richard M. Nixon told a national television audience that futility in Vietnam would make the United States appear to the world as “a pitiful, helpless giant.†Half a century later, America, for the first time in its history, is pitied.
Not even during the Civil War, when the country was blood-soaked by a conflict involving enormous issues, was it viewed with disdainful condescension as it now is, and not without reason: Last Sunday, Germany (population 80.2 million) had 159 new cases of covid-19; Florida (population 21.5 million) had 15,300.
Under the most frivolous person ever to hold any great nation’s highest office, this nation is in a downward spiral. This spiral has not reached its nadir, but at least it has reached a point where worse is helpful, and worse can be confidently expected.
The nation’s floundering government is now administered by a gangster regime. It is helpful to have this made obvious as voters contemplate renewing the regime’s lease on the executive branch. Roger Stone adopted the argot of B-grade mobster movies when he said he would not “roll on†Donald Trump. By commuting Stone’s sentence, Stone’s beneficiary played his part in this down-market drama, showing gratitude for Stone’s version of omertà (the Mafia code of silence), which involved lots of speaking but much lying. Because pandemic prevents both presidential candidates from bouncing around the continent like popcorn in a skillet, the electorate can concentrate on other things, including Trump’s selection of friends such as Stone and Paul Manafort, dregs from the bottom of the Republican barrel.
“Longing on a large scale is what makes history,†wrote Don DeLillo in his sprawling 1997 novel “Underworld†about America in the second half of the 20th century. Today, there is a vast longing for respite from the 21st century, which — before the pandemic, two inconclusive wars and the Great Recession — began with a presidential election that turned on 537 Florida votes and was not decided until a Dec. 12, 2000, Supreme Court decision. Given Trump’s reckless lying and the supine nature of most Republican officeholders, it is imperative that the Nov. 3 result be obvious that evening.
This year, the pandemic will be an accelerant of preexisting trends: There will be a surge of early and mail voting. So, an unambiguous decision by midnight Eastern time Nov. 3 will require (in addition to state requirements that mailed ballots be postmarked, say, no later than Oct. 31) a popular-vote tsunami so large against the president that there will be a continentwide guffaw when he makes charges, as surely he will, akin to those he made in 2016. Then, he said he lost the popular vote by 2.9 million because “millions†of undocumented immigrants voted against him. Making a preemptive strike against civic confidence, Trump has announced that the 2020 election will be the “most corrupt†in U.S. history.
The 2020 presidential selection process began with Iowa’s shambolic Democratic caucuses, a result not of corruption but incompetence, an abundant commodity nowadays. It is scandalous that in many places casting a ballot requires hours of standing in line. Larry Diamond of the conservative-leaning Hoover Institution at Stanford discerns another scandal:
“The hard truth is that there has been a rising tide of voter suppression in recent U.S. elections. These actions — such as overeager purging of electoral registers and reducing early voting — have the appearance of enforcing abstract principles of electoral integrity but the clear effect (and apparent intent) of disproportionately disenfranchising racial minorities. One example was the decision of Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State (now Governor) Brian Kemp to suspend 53,000 predominantly African-American voter registration applications in 2018 because the names did not produce an ‘exact match’ with other records.â€
This nation built the Empire State Building, groundbreaking to official opening, in 410 days during the Depression, and the Pentagon in 16 months during wartime. Today’s less serious nation is unable to competently combat a pandemic, or even reliably conduct elections. This is what national decline looks like.
More stupidity from a Trump appointee, all geared to slow down or eliminate vote by mail.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/07/14/postal-service-trump-dejoy-delay-mail
I wouldn’t term the Iowa caucus as corrupt, but definitely a confusing way of voting.
Lol. Definitely agree it was confusing. The caucus voters looked like ants moving around from one part of the room to another.
I prefer going into a private booth, like primaries do or like you do in the general election.
Supplies of PPE are running low again. Yet Trump and his Republican cronies aren’t doing anything about it.
Trump has ordered for hospital data to be sent to his administration and not the CDC. He’s obviously going to change the data, put out fake numbers to make him look better.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/14/politics/trump-administration-coronavirus-hospital-data-cdc/index.html
Economic relief measures are set to expire at the end of this month. Trump and his Republican cronies don’t want to do anything about that either.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2020/07/15/trump-isnt-opposing-a-new-stimulus-because-he-thinks-its-bad-politics/
Dump Trump and Ditch Mitch. I’ve put those two slogans on my calendar! 🙂
Twitter accounts of Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and others apparently hacked.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/15/tech/twitter-hack-elon-musk-bill-gates/index.html
Wouldn’t be surprised if it’s the Russians doing a test run.