So, Trump holds a press interview to announce that deaths due to the virus have almost doubled from his last prediction.  His estimate went from 50,000 to 90,000.

But his real concern?  That he is being treated worse than Lincoln by the press.

Hy, did y’all notice how very small he looks in pictures of this event.  Heck, the Fox reporter’s feet hit the ground. Trump looks like a little boy up against two giant press people who just might treat him even worse than they did Lincoln.

I cannot think of another president who would be presumptuous enough to hold an interview at the Lincoln Memorial.  Not even Nixon.

But while we’re on the subject, can we all agree that the press treats him worse than they did Nixon? I can agree with that. Why doesn’t Trump say that, especially when he pardons Roger Stone?

The latest polls show that Trump is bleeding ego juice in Texas.

Donald Trump and Joe Biden are in a dead heat in the race for Texas, signaling that the Lone Star State is evolving into a presidential battleground.

A new Dallas Morning News/University of Texas at Tyler poll shows that Trump and Biden are backed by 43% of poll respondents, with 5% opting for “other” candidates and only 9% undecided. Trump’s overall approval rating was 45%.

It is in the big urban areas, where Democratic mayors and county judges have taken the reins of leadership or lack thereof, from Trump and Governor Gregg Abbott that will flip the state.

Houston is in Harris County, where a 27 year old woman born in Bogota, Colombia, with a degree from Stanford, was elected county judge over a long time Republican incumbent.  She is the first woman to hold the post. There was much doomsday talk and moaning following her election because of her youth and inexperience. Lina Hidalgo has been spectacular.  What a county judge does is explained here, but one of her duties is to be head of emergency management.

What Judge Hidalgo has proven is that Democrats can lead, women can lead, young people can lead, and if you put all three in one package holy cow step back and be delighted.

There are other strong Democratic leaders in Texas cities and counties. Watching them put Trump to shame is a joy.

I’m not a political scientist although I play one on the internet. But, I think Tump is losing by comparison. Seeing real leaders in our own backyard has reminded us how great we can be.

By the way, there are 4.5 million people in Harris County.  There are 25 entire states with less population than that.

From a former student of Deb T. –

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In these days of a deadly virus, the US economy tanking, leadership change in an unstable nuclear power, and threats of international terrorism, it’s so great to know that Senator Ted Cruz knows where our attention needs to be:  China totally screwed up the movie Bohemian Rhapsody by making Freddie Mercury totally not gay enough. 

And he appeared to be sober. Stoned maybe because that’s hard to tell, but sober.

“One of your bills is called the Script Act,” Fox News host Maria Bartiromo announced. “[Chinese officials] have really bullied Hollywood and Hollywood producers roll over about it. You’ve mentioned a couple of films before Top Gun, Bohemian Rhapsody.

“It really is tragic that Hollywood has been willing to, over and over again, to kowtow to Chinese communists and let the Chinese government censor American movies,” Cruz opined.

Cruz says that Hollywood allows China to edit their movies.  Seriously.

The, being as cute as cute can be, I mean even cuter than reading “I Do Not Like Green Eggs and Ham” on the senate floor, Cruz mocks Maverick, a leading character in Top Gun.

Referring to a character in Top Gun, the senator complained: “We’re saying Maverick is afraid of the damn Chinese communists.”

No, Senator, we’re not saying that. You are saying that and you look like a damn fool.

And then he goes off on Freddie Mercury being not-gay-enough in the Chinese version of the movie.

They did it because the Chinese government didn’t want to acknowledge that Freddy Mercury was homosexual. Look, that’s a huge part of the story!”

“The problem is Hollywood is more interested in making millions of dollars from the Chinese market than they are in free speech, than they are in artistic integrity,” the senator added.

Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit – Ted Cruz defending homosexuality as “artistic integrity” – two words when he doesn’t know the meaning of either.

Hell, Ted, 90% of your supporters don’t want to acknowledge homosexuality at all.  Are you afraid of those damn American terrorists?

Cruz shivers up and down my spine almost daily. Sometimes I have serious doubts that he and I are in the same species.

Thanks to SGray for the heads up.

Thanks to Kary for the heads up.

Maryland has a Republican Governor by the name of Larry Hogan.

Hogan told Robert Costa of the Washington Post today that he put his state’s Covid-19 testing supplies in an undisclosed location to hide them from the federal government.

And by the federal government, he means Donald Trump.

Maryland Republican Gov. Larry Hogan told the Washington Post’s Robert Costa on Thursday that he has had to hide COVID-19 testing kits to make sure President Donald Trump doesn’t commandeer them.

During an interview with Costa, Hogan explained how he worked to smuggle testing kits in from South Korea in a complicated process that took over three weeks to pull off.

Hogan said that he even called in the Maryland National Guard to oversee the delivery of the shipment of the testing kits as they arrived at BWI.

And now they are at an undisclosed location being guarded by the state police and the Maryland National Guard.

Remind me who the enemy is?

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.