February 28, 2020 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
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My name is Susan DuQuesnay Bankston. I live in Richmond, Texas, in the heart of Tom DeLay's old district. It's nuttier than squirrel poop here.
I am honored and privileged to know Miss Juanita Jean Herownself, hairdresser extraordinary and political maven. Since she does not have time to fiddle with this internet stuff, I type her website for her and you can read it if you want to. If you don't, she truly does not give a big bear's butt.
A lot of what I post here has to do with local politics, but you probably have the same folks in your local government.
This ain't a blog. Blogs are way too trendy for me. This is a professional political organization.
And yet we laugh, while still knowing that is the exact map from which Donnie* receives his daily COVID-19 brief. As if Mikey Dense or anyone around him* would dare speak anything but what Donnie* wants to hear. Hey where’s Puerto Rico? Lots of big water on that map.
1He forgot Alaska and Hawaii. I understand his confusion about Hawaii, because Obama was born there, so it definitely is not in the United States – but Alaska?
2Look!
3That wall with Mexico worked!
Just last evening I drove by the TX Center for Infectious Disease/State Hospital for Infectious Diseases, and the adjacent San Antonio State Hospital, where the known infected people from the “Diamond Princess” cruise ship ended up, via JBSA-Lackland.
4Both hospitals are located near the old Brooks AFB in SE San Antonio [SE Military and S. New Braunfels]. A few years ago the area was fairly undeveloped, but there has been explosive growth since. Looked everyday, bustling with traffic and people everywhere.
Just jam packed with apartment complexes, big stores, shops, restaurants, etc., low wage jobs mostly. It just takes somebody working two jobs, one at the hospital, a ‘slip-up’, and we’re off…
How many of y’all think the Trump/Pence regime can handle this?
Sandridge, a dead cat would do a better job! Wanna bet that the Golden Gibbon and Mikey Dense both go into some kind of hiding. the Gibbon is a true germ-a-phobe. Dense, well, he’s just dense.
5maggie @5, we can hope either one catches something at one of those Hitler rallies.
Dead cat, dead skunk, whatever, gotta beat Comrade & Crime Fam. any way possible.
Getting home last night I just had to see that some damned fool[s] had put up two -big- campaign signs at the entrance road to my ‘hood off the highway. One T/P2020blah, the other might have been for Cornyn [hope MJHegar kicks his sorry ass], missed it as I was making a gliding left turn and the headlight beams were moving.
6Hard to believe so many are so warped, but this STX ‘all acreage’ mostly mini-ranch ‘hood votes ~90% biblethumping Rethug at least. Whole county goes ~73% Rethug.
[Me and a few neighbors must have been targeted– used to vote in a precinct up the highway a few miles in a talibangelical church. Got moved to a precinct/polling location that votes ~nine miles away, and may lean Dem. “Caging” is what I think it’s called.]
Gotta love those black permanent markers. Donald can do magic with them.
7Under law the government can declare quarantine because of risk of disease.
8If race is close who thinks the demented one would not try to “quarantine” any of his opponents.
Or on election day (early voting period) declare community “lock Down” of democratic areas while closing voting sites in those areas because of health issues.
Well then, Donnie* is wrapping his tiny little paws all around the military expertise he* learned at his fancy boys academy before he* became Cadet* Fake Bone Spurs. Who other than the recent bride of incel Stephen Miller to take charge of communications associated with COVID-19? Now before y’all scream nepotism, think about the wisdom of Donnie’s* latest selection. It’s based on an old adage about the military supply lines: “give it a federal stock number and nobody will receive it.” So leap further into optimism, everything IQ4.5* touches dies so he* may actually be onto something.
9K, “if only” Donnie* was thinking that small or even thinking. Meh. Quarantine is small stuff. IQ4.5* wants full blown Martial Law. He’s* already choosing the music. The ***king moron* is still miffed he didn’t get his big parade with tanks rolling down The Avenue.
November. COVID-19 will either be contained and a distant memory having run it’s course, or elections will be the least of our worries. Otherwise two scoops of ice cream or a hamberder may be our last best chance. Waiting for Moscow Mitch to grow a conscience isn’t on my bingo card.
10So why haven’t we heard from the anti-vax branch of public insanity.
11Shouldn’t they be trying to get an infected person to host a Coronavirus party just as they have hosted “measles party’s” to infect children to “strengthen” their immune systems.
After all the reported 2% mortality rate for this virus is the same as expected mortality from measles.(Wikipedia)
Wonder if a vaccine is developed for this disease if “moral and religious” concerns would be an excuse to not have the vaccine?
‘An Astonishing Rate of Corruption’: Trump Has Amassed 3,000 Conflicts of Interest Since Taking Office
Edit: Government watchdog CREW revealed that the president racks up the equivalent of two conflicts of interest per day. CREW Executive Director Noah Bookbinder called the milestone “disgraceful.”
“Every one of the more than 3,000 conflicts of interest that President Trump has incurred through his businesses raises new questions about whether he is making decisions in the interest of the American people or his own bottom line,” said Bookbinder in a statement. “Not only does he appear to be profiting from the presidency daily, but he is constantly facing new temptations to use his office for his own benefit.”
Since Trump took office and refused to divest from his businesses, instead handing over control of the Trump Organization to his two eldest sons, hundreds of people and groups have interacted with the president and his business in ways that “showcase the president’s willingness to blend his personal gain with his professional responsibilities,” CREW said.
According to the report:
• 55 members of Congress have made 78 visits to Trump’s resort properties.
• Cabinet members have patronized Trump properties and attended events with special interests or wealthy political donors at least 30 times.
• Foreign government-tied entities have held 13 events at Trump properties, and at least 134 foreign officials have visited one of Trump’s properties—violations of U.S. Constitution’s Emoluments Clause.
• Special interest groups have sponsored 117 events at Trump properties since he took office.
The report details several specific examples of favors given to officials and associates who visit Trump’s properties. Patrons of the president’s private Mar-a-Lago club in Florida have been offered chances to “shadow rule” government agencies, while a other members have been nominated to ambassadorships.
On Twitter, CREW research Director Robert Maguire posted a graphic showing the president has averaged more than two conflicts of interest per day since taking office.
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12https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/28/astonishing-rate-corruption-trump-has-amassed-3000-conflicts-interest-taking-office
Megasoid, I am not at all surprised. Horrified and disgusted, but not at all surprised. The presidency, for Trump, is nothing more than an opportunity for financial gain. Oh, fairly often it gratifies his need to be adored–that’s what the rallies are for–but mostly it’s a great variety of money-making opportunities. What he gives in return for the money is the security of the citizens of the United States, but they don’t matter to Trump.
13CDC Quarantine and Isolation broadly lays out the CDC’s responsibility as a function of the Executive branch.
14Martial law as I understand it is control of the civilian population by military means as directed by the executive in times of emergency. The kinda thing the founders feared above almost anything else. But it doesn’t prevent other branches of government from continuing to function.
After f**king trump’s Senate aquittal, and his increasingly authoritarian claims of his own executive mandate, how much of a stretch is it to imagine him trying to use quarantine authority to prevent other governmental bodies from assembling, and therefore functioning?
JUST UNTIL THE EMERGENCY HAS PASSED!
Leaving the long suffering, understaffed executive branch to carry on with the burden of governing under the benevolent guidance of…,.donald f**King trump.
Martial law might’ve been the Founder’s worst fear, and only envisioned as a last resort.
But THIS possibility (if nothing else, the concept him thinking it’s possible), is the reason they wrote the Constitution in the first place.
They just couldn’t have envisioned Facebook.
P.P. @14, until but not including the current maladministration. This group of criminals has trod over every aspect and provision of the Constitution without the Senate as led by Moscow Mitch beginning to show any interest in providing “checks and balances” over the ***king moron.* So yes, the CDC does have protocols to follow regarding quarantine. But jomo, not so certain Congress would check Donnie* even at the extreme of declaring Martial Law. There are also plentiful provisions in the UCMJ for refusing an unlawful order, but again jomo the current military high command seems to have abrogated as well. See assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani on Iraqi soil.
15Well, we don’t have any that we know of in Alaska, but I’ve seen some nervous behavior here already. A lot of actions from outside can affect us, so I did go to the store and stock up on dog food yesterday. If the worst comes to pass, I don’t want to try and explain to the dog why I’m starving him to death.
16Oh, great. Trump says there’s no reason to panic about the virus.
That means: there’s reason to panic.
17From the Encyclopedia Trumpicana
hoax (n) any inconvenient fact, including but not limited to climate change, COVID-19 epidemic, extortion of Ukraine, Russian interference in American elections, and the majority of votes cast for Hillary Clinton in 2016
SEE ALSO witch hunt
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