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That’s been one of my biggest beefs with Trump is the failure to face his total misjudgment of the Covid situation. I know that he’s a germophobe and some of his reaction could stem from that, but it is abundantly clear by this stage that it was a complete disaster and he needs to address his role in that disaster. I’m still surprised by how he misjudged so many people that he placed in responsible positions. Not sure if it was the fact that he relied on the advice of people he thought he knew or just overconfidence in his own abilities, either way it would be nice if he stepped up and faced the fact.

As related to Ukraine and the concomitant, as well as seemingly infinite, problems it has born, I have a very uneasy feeling that with so many moving parts and so many truly incompetent players involved, things could easily get out of hand and trigger a cataclysmic, albeit unintended, series of events with horrendous consequences.

This foolishness, not to mention dangerous, notion that the neocons have about their being on top of the situation along with their completely unjustified confidence in their own abilities does not bode well for the country.

I’m also not fully convinced that the BRICs development and its affect on the status of the dollar and the overall financial makeup of the world economy is as “far in the future” as some folks might assume. I’m reminded of Hemingway’s characterization of bankruptcy as being “gradually and then all at once”, seems to me that’s where we are right now, somewhere where between gradually and all at once. Not willing to join Tucker on the “hot war with Russia” bench, but I think we are a point where the situation is every bit as perilous as it was during the Cuban Missile crisis. And it’s also abundantly clear that the folks who are running this mess cannot hold a candle to the caliber of people involved in that crisis.

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Ketanji is not a biologist. Trump is not a doctor. Trump is alternately guilty of not following expert advice and following expert advice, as the case may be. Why should he even bother explaining. As for the biggest issue in US politics, I recommend an article in the American Mind, "Show Trial, American Style" byTJ Harker. In it he states: "The object of the pending trials of Donald Trump is not to determine if he really believed his election fraud claims, or if he stole office paper, or if he lied about it. Their object is to demonstrate to 80,000,000 Americans that dissent will not be tolerated." Whatever the verdict in the two trials, they will succeed in proving that our regime is illegal, oppressive and indifferent to the wants and needs of the public. Having succeeded in that, massive coercion will result in the public finding ways to avoid compliance, massively.

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