Stupidity at the top is our real fear | Tom Camfield

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Our fear is both real and rational, of course. But Donald’s greatest fear throughout the violence gripping our nation — all that matters to him — is that the public be kept somewhat in the dark on the actual details behind his self-serving actions.

He began his campaign of “fake news” against the American press even before he weaseled his way into office. So read this update from Monday morning: https://www.yahoo.com/news/witnesses-describe-night-kyle-rittenhouse-090034526.html (click to continue if indicated.)

The heading above of this blog is just for starters. The man knows no limits when it comes to gaining, holding or increasing power. He’ll throw everything at the wall, keep what sticks — and hire a few more people who will agree with his views for whatever reason.

If re-elected, he will return to destroying the environment, a hot potato in some election seasons, but not this one. At least not yet. Returning to this topic attempts to convince the public it somehow needs more gold and fewer salmon via the Pebble Mine at Bristol Bay. And I hear the plan’s afoot to do some oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Win or lose, he will have convinced a portion of the public that the election was fraudulent — even though it is Republicans who have put all the voting difficulties into place to begin with.

At the very worst for him. he can lose the election, spend four years denigrating and lying about the Democratic incumbency — then attempt to try running for office again in 2024.

As of Aug. 31, total coronavirus cases worldwide were 25,528,999
(U.S. 6,107,008), deaths worldwide 852,686 (U.S. 187,534),

Donald has played the out-of-the-blue, ignore-the-figures game for more than six months now, claiming late in March or so, that the public could quit worrying by Easter . . . claiming with his non-stop lying on each occasion that the coronavirus was under control and disappearing. Yet many schools are about to open and the regular flu season is almost upon us — and some 1,000 more Americans will die between today and tomorrow.

Easter was April 12, and about 1.000 still are dying in this country from the virus each day.

Trump, however, still is claiming that if we vote for him about the first of November, he’ll have a vaccine available by the first of the year. Horse feathers. The same old malarkey. It’s less than two months between election day and Christmas.

Here’s a little quote from a Washington Post story that appeared Monday in the Seattle Times. “President Donald Trump on Sunday amplified his call for federal forces to help subdue protests in American cities, denouncing local Democratic leaders and fanning partisan tensions a day after a deadly clash between his supporters and social justice demonstrators in Portland underscored the threat of rising politically motivated violence.”

Or there is Nicholas D. Kristof’s editorial column in The New York Times (also printed in The Seattle Times Aug. 30). It’s too long to reproduce here, but some excerpts: “‘From the very beginning, Democrats, the media and the World Health Organization got the coronavirus wrong,’ according to a GOP propaganda film shown at the party’s convention. Fortunately ‘one leader took decisive action to save lives: President Donald Trump . . . We did the exact right thing,’ Trump said in his speech Monday; we saved millions.’

“He has moved seamlessly from the fantasy that the virus would ‘go away,’ as he has said 31 times, to the fantasy that he already dispatched it . . . Some 40,000 confirmed infections are being reported each day in the United States, and another American dies of the virus every 90 seconds. The University of Washington model projects that about 310,000 people will have died by Dec. 1 — a figure greater than the number of American combat deaths during World War II.

“So portraying this toll as a tribute to Trump’s leadership takes real chutzpah . . . Pandemic control involves not a single tool but a broad set of skills, making it a measure of good governance. It’s not surprising that Germany — led by a disciplined scientist, Angela Merkel — has done particularly well, with a death rate now only 1/48 that of the United States . . .”

MISCELLANEOUS — As of Aug. 6, the U.S.Senate had confirmed 203 judges nominated by Donald Trump, including two Supreme Court justices, 53 U.S. Courts of Appeals judges and 146 U.S. District Court judges.