Part 1
It’s late Wednesday night & the news is again a bit overwhelming. Since our Part 3’s are about the economy & virus pandemic, once again that’s where most of our comments & links can be found. We’ll keep our commentaries quite a bit shorter tonight than what we presented a couple nights ago (https://www.thevoracs.com/
Part 2
Liar Liar, Pants on Fire…The number of Trump’s lies in office hits another milestone: https://www.washingtonpost.
As a lifelong GOP supporter who in recent years has detected how that party has lost their values along with their sanity, I’ve paid very close attention & have fortunately managed to escape their cult, but others within the Republican base have not been so lucky. All of us current non-Republicans who can see things through a rational lens, we have the facts on our side, so in sharing credible info like what’s presented inside these links might help inform those who’ve been duped, so please get involved since we really could do some good in this critical election year. This first set of links, as this blog always shows in Part 2, features a number of moves which display Trump’s authoritarian instincts. It should help serve as a clear warning how support for Trump could evolve into a ticket to fascism:
Fox Fake News & Other Deranged Pundits
Fox & the rest of the echo media have gone totally off the rails with their extremist messaging. But their nonsense has so permeated the conservative base, they’ve loaded most of the Republican Party on a spaceship that was launched into a distant galaxy, far removed from the realities here on Planet Earth. See these lying scumbags being caught in their own lies: https://www.mediamatters.org/
https://www.esquire.com/news-
Part 3
Even Among All the Desperation & Suffering, the Oligarchs Still Find a Way to Pilfer
The GOP has consistently sided with large corporate interests in their crony-capitalist utopia, which allows the rich & powerful to not only exploit their workers, but run roughshod over smaller business competitors. Apparently GOP politicians can’t help themselves, they’ve been preprogrammed to kowtow to their big donors. What is it going to take before the GOP base finally realizes their party is not really working on their behalf, but always places the priorities of billionaires above theirs? With the echo-media all in on promoting this economic structure which advances an emerging oligarchical Gilded Age, Trump & his party are given cover to pull off their bait & switch shenanigans. Like the Sheriff of Nottingham stealing from Robin Hood, GOP politicians & their rich friends are stealing from the American middle class.
Yes, we realize the mantra of free markets, the American Dream, individual initiative & work hard to get ahead sound all well & good, but not when the oligarchs use those narratives to take advantage of the snookered masses by rigging the system. That’s why we should be sharing this info & come November, it’s time to send Republicans packing if we can show GOP & independent voters the facts. Here are some of the facts that have surfaced on the stimulus package, as the GOP slipped through some juicy giveaways to the wealthy which they had tried to hide. No wonder the $349 billion for small business loans from the stimulus bill were used up so fast, with the big guys siphoning revenues off the top for themselves:
The Rest of the Economic Links
https://nymag.com/
https://www.businessinsider.
Coronavirus Pandemic Made Worse Than It Should Have Been Here In America
Some echo-knuckleheads are floating the narrative out there the death count on this Coronavirus will likely be similar to the seasonal flu. What they conveniently overlook is without the social isolation orders by governors & local officials, it’s likely the U.S. fatalities would have skyrocketed into the hundred thousands if not the millions. They also ignore had our president reacted to the crisis weeks earlier than he did when top officials repeatedly warned him the virus was going to hit us, we likely could have stemmed the spread & held the death toll down to far lower levels than what occurred. Trump’s failures are well-documented, unmistakable & irrefutable: https://www.alternet.org/2020/
Echo-morons are also pushing along with Trump for a premature reopening of the economy, even before we get the virus under control, or put in place a mass testing program allowing for isolation & contact tracing to arrest any further spread in its tracks: https://www.yahoo.com/news/
As we keep correctly pointing out, our president’s leadership throughout has been inadequate, dishonest, dismissive & contradictory, to the point his leadership has been AWOL: https://www.usatoday.com/
But especially on the continuing tepid testing issue, at a time we desperately need a federal mandate coming from on high, Trump is passing the buck & pushing the responsibility onto the states. And despite Trump’s claims, our testing is inexplicably still lagging way behind where it needs to be, with his leadership void being a main stumbling block. So again I ask, why does he incessantly harp on reopening the economy while ignoring the vital testing component? The number of tests per day has actually been declining in America lately, plus we’ve still tested a lower percentage of our citizens than many other countries. But why? In hindsight, maybe had we jumped on mass production of testing supplies at the first sign of a spread like South Korea did, like them we might be over the hump by now: https://www.motherjones.com/
Trump is so focused on watching cable TV & concocting narratives to refute the reasons he screwed up the whole response in the first place, it doesn’t appear he’s doing anything to actually fight the virus & take the important steps in safely reopening the economy. So where is that leadership & coordination to ramp up widespread testing which is essential for stopping the virus spread & saving the economy?: https://www.washingtonpost.
We do need to find out why the initial response & even the ongoing management of this crisis was so badly mishandled: https://www.motherjones.com/
And defunding the WHO in the middle of a pandemic could become more like an act of genocide, hamstringing an important international health organization just when they’re needed the most. While his timing is terrible, this is one of many instances where Trump seeks a scapegoat to deflect away from his own mistakes. Whatever delays the WHO was initially at fault for was mainly due to China’s lack of transparency. So for political purposes since Trump is trying to switch the attention & blame on the WHO instead of himself, the prez is risking many more lives lost. The dangers of this reckless move are explained in these links:
The Other News on the Virus
https://www.axios.com/
https://nymag.com/
Election Projections
If America is dumb enough to reelect this guy, then as a nation maybe we’ll deserve to go down the drain, since we only brought this curse upon ourselves! But let’s get active & not allow the hardcore extremists to take our country away from us, so please use www.TheVORACS.com as a key tool to inform & warn our fellow citizens. The November election must be won against the corrupt forces of dangerous demagoguery! Literally, our lives depend on it: https://www.usatoday.com/
Wisconsin could be the key pivotal state for the presidential election in November. A good sign this week was a liberal judge winning a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat. It looks like the GOP strategy backfired in trying to suppress the vote in that state, along with causing voters to risk their lives by standing for hours in long lines to vote. It’s still way too early to draw any optimistic conclusions with Biden currently holding a slight lead in the polls, but the margin should be substantially higher than it is now. Even with the disaster that is the Trump presidency, way too many voters still haven’t comprehended how bad it’s truly been.
With a slew of endorsements this week, the Dems have coalesced around their candidate earlier than they normally do, giving them a better opportunity to unite the party & build voter enthusiasm/registration drives around Uncle Joe. And they are energized to turn out all due to Trump: https://www.yahoo.com/news/
https://thehill.com/opinion/
Warren endorses Biden (https://www.huffpost.com/
I Want a New Drug
Yes, to help start getting the economy back on track & save lives, we need much more virus testing, antibody testing, PPE, a new vaccine & a new drug:
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