Month: October 2020

Old and New

CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta finds the data on how Trump’s rallies spread the virus.

How are Trump’s rallies going? Wednesday night Omaha crowd stranded in freezing weather, hospitalized for hypothermia. Yesterday Tampa firefighters hosed down crowd suffering heat exhaustion, some hospitalized. NC rally last night canceled amidst reports of virus outbreak from a recent NC rally.

Let’s play Biden Cabinet picks.

Here are the jobs to fill:

15 executive departments – the Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Labor, State, Transportation, Treasury, and Veterans Affairs, and the Attorney General.

The Cabinet also includes the White House Chief of Staff and heads of the Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Management and Budget, United States Trade Representative, Central Intelligence Agency, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and Small Business Administration.

I’ll kick off my fave: Sally Yates for Attorney General.

Out of money, pulling ads in key states, no coherent closing message, down ballot candidates running away, no surrogates other than well-paid family members, on last-minute defense in states won last time, and behind in every battleground poll.

Time for Trump campaign-in-meltdown news coverage. We’d see it if this was happening to Biden.

The Dec 30, 1922 issue of Time reported that “Battling Bob” (Robert La Follette) had authored a proposal to reign in the reactionary Supreme Court. He wanted a Constitutional Amendment that would allow Congress to overrule the Court just as it had the power to defeat a presidential veto. Other remedies for judicial tyranny that were suggested included making positions on the bench elected, allowing the public to vote to reverse rulings, or allowing the public the right of recall.

As America is once again threatened by the possibility of a reactionary judiciary, channeling the ‘original thoughts’ of long dead legislators, presumably through satanic seances, what should we the people do ?