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March 31, 2020

The damage caused by incompetent tRump is far worse than we realize.

World health experts have known the time of the Black Plague that infectious diseases primarily originate in China. What has been learned in the last few decades is why. It is connected to the agricultural traditions of rural China. Viruses live in poultry and other animals for decades undetected. Eventually they make the jump to humans living in close proximity to the animals, often indirectly by making the jump to pigs and then to people. The jump from pigs to people is by way of an easy mutation. If a new virus makes the jump and is confided to one village or one region it can be stopped.
Understanding this, and having learned from SARS, H1N1, and Ebola the Obama set up an office to monitor fledgling outbreaks around the world so we could protect ourselves here in America and avoided a pandemic. MF45 as you know shut that operation down. That agency included medical people on the ground in traditional areas where viruses originate, China, Africa, and elsewhere. We Americans did not have to depend on what a foreign governments was telling us or hiding. We had our own medical intelligence people getting the information from the Chinese government. The Chinese current national medical system is worse than ours, for profit medicine on steroids. They may not have known how bad the outbreak was until it was well established. MF45 got rid of our independent sources of information/medical intelligence in China.
The current situation is bad for us but in the coming months and years it is going to be catastrophic for third world nations and war zones with large refugee camps. We are facing 200,000 deaths. World wide it is going to be billions of deaths. Our medical agents in China could have caught this early and with a competent president and administration could saved the entire world from this disaster.

August 9, 2019

ICE

ICE equals tRump-GESTAPO. Their goal is to make people afraid.

August 6, 2019

Stop Benedict Donald visits

The people of El Paso and Dayton should come up with a way to prevent the pResident from visiting. Block the airport runways or something.
None violent protest that blocks the unwanted visits.

May 8, 2019

Tiger Woods and Medal of Freedom

I respect Tiger Woods for his diligent hard work pulling himself back up from the disasters he created. It takes courage not to just crawl into a hole after that. Now he has degraded himself by accepting the Medal of Freedom which he must know he hasn't earned, and given to him by our Mango Mussolini. He allowed to let himself be used for a photo op so the tRump cold stand next to an actual champion. A real athlete who wins at golf without cheating.

April 16, 2019

Tiger Woods and the Medal od Freedom

I was glad to see Tiger Woods win the Masters on Sunday. It speaks to his character. Life is unfair. It takes years to build up a reputation or his case a skill set to rise to the level he was at a decade ago. It only takes a moment of weakness or one stupid choice to tear it all down. He stuck with it, kept working at his trade and last Sunday won a major tournament.
Now to my point, the mango Mussolini is trying to mussel in on Tiger Wood's' moment of redemption by offering him the Medal of Freedom. In a second demonstration of character, Woods should decline for a number of reasons. First why, tRump just wants to bask in Mr. Woods' aura. Tiger Woods and the medal are getting used. Second, it is coming from a racist. Many players from champion sports teams have declined to attend ceremonies at the WH in protest of tRump. Third, if I were Tiger Woods I would realize that winning one tournament does not qualify me for the Medal of Freedom. Fourth, the medal is coming from a guy who notoriously cheats at golf.

January 22, 2019

Who is responsible for the shut down?

We are blaming the shut down on the wrong people. Here is my thinking.
As a boy I lived in a neighborhood with a mentally challenged boy. The leading jerk kid, the bully, in the neighborhood told him that if he threw a rock through the window of the Jewish family in the neighborhood everyone would think him to be smart. So he threw the rock and got caught. Who was responsible.
Trump is the mentally challenged participant in this. Who is the leading jerk? Answer, Druggy Rush Limbaugh and the devil's trophy wife Ann Coulter. They are responsible.

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