Nothing says, “I’ve got this,” like Bruce Aylward of the World Health Organization discussing the Coronavirus outbreak in a goddam medical exposure mask:

Today, the WHO gave a briefing saying that the Coronavirus outbreak COVID-19 has not reached pandemic level -yet.  But there is a large outbreak now in South Korea and Italy. China has tried to tamp down concern for the growing crisis, and that has certainly not been helpful.  COVID-19 sounds like a ComicCon convention name, but no, it’s not that fun.  This whole thing gives me the willies.

I guess a lightbulb came on over his head.

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg will postpone a CNN town hall slated for Monday to prepare for Tuesday’s debate in South Carolina.

I guess someone told him that he got barbequed in the last debate.  If he doesn’t want another 50 miles of rough road he might better find a way to answer criticism because I’m betting Trump is already practicing with a cardboard cut out of Bloomberg.

He better remember one thing about Elizabeth Warren taking him to the woodshed: she has a plan for that.  He might want to get one, too.

Here’s where the bad guys won.

Americans should not be confident about the security of the 2020 election, according to a slim majority of experts surveyed by The Cybersecurity 202.

“Every part of the voting process is vulnerable. This includes the voter registration process, the voting itself, the vote tabulation, and the results-reporting system,” said Bruce Schneier, fellow and lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

It’s doesn’t have to be vulnerable, just believing it’s vulnerable is all you need.  Trump did not need an investigation of the Bidens, he just needed people to believe there was an investigation.

If Trump wins, they will announce that they did a magnificent job of protecting the voting.  If Trump loses, it was stolen, probably by Hillary, and he’s not going to leave the office.

Trump has people believing that they can trust no one, except him.  When, in fact, the opposite is true.

As an aside, people are suggesting the fear that Trump won’t leave the White House if he’s defeated in 2020. I used to hear the same rumors from Republicans about Barack Obama.  Trump will leave the White House. I personally know a goat roper with the instincts of a mountain lion and a horse named Prissy who who will bring that piece of livestock out the front door while you time her.

Nadine Farquar can also field dress the goat, build a proper fire and have roasted cabrito ready for dinner.  Somebody may have to go in and bring Prissy out because Prissy will get freaked that all the front part of the horses in there are totally missing – all you see are the rear ends.

See, I can pretty much fix everything.

Oh hell, no.

They wanted volunteers to sign NDAs.  Volunteers. What the hell?

One guy refused to sign and his job was taken away.  Although now state party officials say they did this in 2018, the guy says he worked in 2018 and was never given an NDA to sign.  And now the state party says the NDA are not required.  They are done voluntarily.

Asked if volunteers who signed the agreements would be sued if they talk to the media or others about the caucus experience, he stressed the NDA is voluntary.

Look Democrats, if you’re looking for someone to emulate, don’t pick Donald Trump.  Donald Trump is a bad guy.

You’ll be happy to know …

“President Trump’s new acting intelligence director, Richard Grenell, used to do consulting work on behalf of an Eastern European oligarch who is now a fugitive and was recently barred from entering the U.S. under anti-corruption sanctions imposed last month by the State Department.”

Grenell wrote several articles defending the oligarch and, just to make it a trifecta at the Slime Races, “Grenell also did not register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, which generally requires people to disclose work in the U.S. on behalf of foreign politicians.”

Yep, there you go – all the best people.  If you’re looking for employment opportunities, he’ll get to you. Just wait a couple of months.  If you can bring yourself to say, “That handsome Trump guy, he knows all the best words,” then gainful, but temporary, employment awaits you when it’s your turn.

Seriously, where does he find these guys?

Forgive me if I’ve told you this story before.  Years and years ago, my county bought new voting machines. Up until then, we voted scan-tron with paper ballots that could be hand counted if need be.

A lot of people who had lost money in a Coke machine weren’t too excited about computers with no paper trail and we raise a bunch of hell about there being no paper trail on the machines being considered.  So, the county commissioners called a big meeting for the makers of the three machines being considered to explain how the machine worked and how safe they were.

After they explained them all and allowed us to use them in real time, they asked us to vote on which one we liked best.  And how did they ask us to vote?  They handed us a pencil and paper.  Yeah, my point exactly. When I asked the geniuses on commissioner court why we weren’t voting on one of the machines, they replied, in that real sarcastic voice that county commissioners develop during their first month in office, that for sure someone would complain that the voting was rigged and they wanted proof.  Yeah, someone replied, and the important lesson we learned here today is ….

We are finally getting new machines with a paper trail mainly because it got too damn embarrassing to say to new voters, “It works just like a rotary phone.”

Anyway, I started this story to tell you that we got troubles.

Pete Buttigieg’s campaign sent a letter to the Nevada State Democratic Party on Sunday, alleging that there are “material irregularities pertaining to the process of integrating early votes into the in-person precinct caucus results” and asking the party to take three concrete steps to address the purported issues.

With Trump firing a guy who says that Russia is interfering with our election and hiring one to say, “Premier Trump assures us that’s not happening,” I’m probably not the only one with a wary look on my face.

Look, I don’t think Bernie Sanders stole that election, and no matter what Chris Matthews says, I think it was legit.  (By the way, don’t watch Chris Mathews – he’s a bore and you should be eating dinner with your family or good music or something.) But, this stuff is not helping anybody get excited about voting.

Give us a pencil and some paper and let us vote.