Kayleigh Mcenany, Kellyanne Conway, Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham:
What’s behind snarky, golden-haired, Preening Princesses of Privilege’s affinity for Conservatism?  Cozying-up to harry-chested farmers and truckdrivers, could it  be about  Daddy?

I quipped that Donald Trump gives ignorance a bad name. I should explain.

According to mirriam-webster.com, ignorance is a “lack of knowledge, education, awareness.” The transitive verb “ignore” implies refusal to “take notice of.”—Like I understand “transitive verbs,” right!

Ignorance is not necessarily a problem nor a disgrace. We are ignorant. Being expected to know everything would put each of us in a sorry state. In my view, however, much if not most human suffering has roots in ignorance.

Is the opposite of ignorance genius? Geniuses exhibit “a single strongly marked capacity or aptitude, extraordinary intellectual power especially as manifested in creative activity, a person endowed with extraordinary mental superiority.” Obvious geniuses exhibit superior insight and skill in mathematics, physics, philosophy, music, painting, sculpting, athletics, etc. Less notable geniuses may show extraordinary understanding and skill in teaching, auto mechanics, culinary art, carpentry, tailoring, piloting, entertaining, truck driving. Truck driving? Try maneuvering double-long eighteen wheelers down a ten-foot-wide lane, seventy miles an hour, in bumper-to-bumper traffic. If you get there, back ‘er into a loading dock.

Like “ignorance,” “genius,” may carry mistaken baggage.   Despite unique skill and brilliance, geniuses know they don’t know it all. I suspect most do not think of nor would they label themselves a “genius.”

Ironically, calling himself a “stable genius,” Donald Trump flaunts ignorance, giving it a bad rap. Again ironically, by elevating ignorance to an art form our President may exhibit a sort-of perverse genius!

The Really Big Question: Does Donald believe his rhetoric or lie? Either way we have a world-class tragedy rooted in the Oval Office.

“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.”

A. Lincoln

My hunch is, under cover of racial justice, attacks on American’s heritage, defacing and pulling down statues, smearing, distorting and erasing our history have the fingerprints of Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping all over them. Sadly, a handful of mindless thugs are happy to serve as handmaidens and hatchet-men. Tragically, Vlad or Xi versus Donald Trump is like Sven Øen Carlsen smiling across a chessboard at an autistic five-year-old—NOT in any way to depreciate autistic five-year-olds.

If we hang tough and dump Trump we can survive.

 

From Alan Piper, Senior Politics Producer, “NowThis”:

2014 Obama-Biden’s global health security unit established to: see, isolate, respond quickly, 69 page pandemic response playbook

2018 Trump fired global health security unit, declined to renew CDC epidemic
prevention funding

2019 intelligence official warning of COVID coming from china

Jan. 3 Whitehouse National Security Council briefed

Jan. Germany began working on a test

Jan. 8 CDC first warning

Jan. 9 WHO first warning

Jan. 10 WHO issued a comprehensive packet how to detect test and manage potential
cases

Jan. 18 HHS Sec. Alex Azar tried to have an urgent phone call about the crisis but was
cut off to berate him for his efforts to ban flavored vaping projects

Jan. 20 First confirmed case of COVID 19 in America and South Korea implemented
testing, 250 deaths, US 65,000

Jan. 22 We have it under control. It’s just one person coming in from China.

Jan. 23 Wuhan shut down, WHO international news conference, Sen. Minority Leader
Chuck Schumer called for a public health emergency

Jan. 24 Tweet China all will work out well

Jan. 27 Biden op-ed: Trump failing to take this crisis seriously and need to take more
immediate action

Jan. 28 Warren released her plan

Jan. 29 Trade advisor Peter Navaro urgent White House memo warning of the risk of
the virus, task force formed

Jan. 30 Wouhan locked down, WHO “global health emergency”

Feb. 2 Partial China travel restriction 39 countries, epidemiologist Dr. Jennifer Ruzzo: no evidence travel restrictions stopped or slowed transmission of the virus

Feb. 3, WHO strategic preparedness

Feb. 5, Azar requested $4 billion to fight the virus, lead to a shouting match in the W.H.

Feb. 6, WHO began distributing ¼ million tests around the world, U.S. didn’t want any, 90 CDC
faulty tests

Feb. 10, Trump proposed budget would cut CDC by 16% (Trump: virus will be gone by
April)

Feb. 19, 20, Trump rallies

Feb. 23, Peter Navarro sounded another WHO alarm increasing probability of a full-
blown COVID 19 pandemic

Feb. 24, Trump asks Congress for additional funding “CORONA virus very much under
control”

Feb. 26, “you treat this like a flu” “risk to the American people remains very low” 60
cases, not 15

Feb. 27, “will disappear like a miracle”

Feb. 28: Democrat’s “hoax”

Feb. 29, first confirmed U.S. death

Feb. 29 – March 6, Wash., Calif. Maryland, Kentucky & Utah states of emergency, CDC
“anyone that needs a test gets a test”

March 4, Fox interview: might be okay to go to work w/CORONA

March 7, N.Y. state of emergency

March 9, Trump compared CORONA virus to the flu

March 10, “It will go away on its own”

March 11, WHO not just a global health emergency but a pandemic, alarming levels or
spread and severity and “by the alarming levels of inaction”

March 13, Trump finally declares a national emergency

March 16, tells governors respirators, ventilators and equipment get it yourself

March 17, I always knew it was a pandemic, knew long before it was called a pandemic

March 26, US passed all other countries with 82,000 confirmed cases

May 15, Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany, White House Scrapped Obama/Biden
Playbook and drafted their own. We see how that worked out.

The latest: In a July 5 speech Trump reported that after three million COVID 19 tests, ninety-nine percent are “totally harmless.” The source of President’s statistic is unknown to and unsupported by scientific advisors. As always, it’s impossible to ferret out The Donald’s thinking. Does he mean to minimize America’s 130,000 deaths and current 3,000,000 plus 50,000 new cases a day—ten times the total for twenty-seven European Union member states?

Columbia University found that a February stay-at-home order would have precluded 83% of America’s COVID 19 cases. Data from the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation show that 90% of U.S. COVID 19 deaths would have been prevented if the president had issued physical distancing guidelines even two weeks earlier.

Failing to act early and decisively, the Trump’s administration’s triggered the deaths of tens-of-thousands and suffering of hundreds-of-thousands Americans. And, alarming and unfathomable as it is, Donald’s campaign boast that he could shoot a person on a New York street and not lose a single voter seems born out!

In great and tragic irony, Donald Trump’s COVID 19 response today recalls Winston Churchill’s Battle of Britain observation regarding the Royal Air Force, “Never have so many owed so much to so few.”

And he’s running for reelection!

Such a tiny mind.

For Christians it’s simple. Whatever you feel, think or do, continually ask, “What would Jesus feel, think or do?”

We yearn for,

• “These are the times try men’s souls” (T. Payne)
• “Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.” (G. Washington)
• “We hold these truths to be self-evident . . .”
• “We the people of The United States of America . . .”
• “Four score and seven years ago . . .”
• “We have nothing to fear but fear itself.”
• “Ask what you can do for your country.”
• “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!’
• “I have a dream.”
• “There’s not a liberal America and a conservative America – there’s the United States of America.”

Now, choosing pebbles from a gravel pile,

• “Carry ‘em out on a stretcher”
• Mocked a handicapped man.
• “The beauty of me is I’m very rich.”
• “I just start kissing them. . . . Grab them by the pussy.”
• Haiti and African nations are “shithole” countries
• About rioters at the Charlottesville white supremacist and neo-Nazi “Unite the Right” rally, “You also had people there were very fine people, on both sides.”
• “Everybody loves me.”
• “I am a stable genius.”
• COVID 19 in America is “totally under control,” “going away,” “even without (a vaccine) it goes away”
• When Peter Alexander asked what Trump could say to Americans who are afraid, “I say you are a terrible reporter!”
• Bragging
• Mean
• Rude
• Insulting
• Name-calling