Contacting media about an idea to get media to inform citizens about the idea is activism.

It certainly can be; however, doing that on a near-daily basis for multiple years until you get a response you're satisfied with is definitely trolling.

CW has written about many ideas that do not have their own blog.

The reason you troll him is because your idea isn't one of them. I don't need it explained to me, Don. No one does.

While CW has claimed that I am trolling, he has not explained how he reached that determination that my opinions are trolling.

You fit the definition, and you've confessed multiple times to trolling him. Perhaps your reeking ignorance is why he continues to ignore you and your petty shit.

Trolls constantly repeat false claims while refusing to back them up and ignore the response to the false claim.

They also troll comments sections with the same repetitive shit even when they've been told not to do so.

That's you.

This BS of yours above reminds me of the right-wing morons and dipshits who always rush to cry that it's "racism" when someone simply points out an issue of racism. You've admitted to trolling the author for a response. Me pointing out you're a troll will continue until you stop trolling the author.

When CW addresses my response to his claim of trolling and addresses the trolling by you I will take it seriously if he can make a valid argument.

Thank you for yet another admission of your trolling, you effing troll.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/23/opinion/sunday/coronavirus-economic-response.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

America has also seen, during this pandemic, a subsidy that gives millionaires a 1.6 million dollar benefit.

E M

I suspect the notion of a national health system as a comprehensive panacea for all that ails America is more widely received during a pandemic. In the last month, America has seen itself embrace some very socialist realities in public bailouts, universal welfare nets, and living wage disbursements. There's only so much logic the American species of democracy can absorb, regardless of the situation.

Who would have guessed at the time, during the 2019 SOTU, that a year after Trump exalted the GOP contingency with chants of 'America will never be socialist', he'd be personally signing 'living wage supplement' cheques for millions of Americans.

Trump never ceases to amaze, no failure is beyond his reach, no turnabout unexpected and no defeat small enough that can't be torn from the jaws of victory...Trump's un-success rate is unparalleled in the annals of human endeavor.

One can only admire the strength of such a creature, one that can muster the will and energy required to soldier on in the face certain adversity and the ultimate reversal of fortune...Were he a gardener, he'd have two black thumbs and a thriving crop of Triffids...

LL&P

I'd like to join a Health National Guard or some such thing.

That's why they have health departments. Or, don't they have health departments? Well, that right there then is problem number one that needs to be resolved.

Indeed! :)

Really,CW?

In the Trump era? Absolutely, positively, unequivocally!

I have learned so much since the early days of the outbreak in Wuhan just by following the WHO.

If I was a governor or even a mayor and I knew that national leadership would be completely missing from action (as everyone and their brother knew that it would be), I would have worked closely with other governors and local health departments to put an action plan into place while there was still time to do that. I would have hired a good communications team to alert the public and ensure that everyone would know how to protect themselves and how to protect others from a respiratory pathogen, known to be a novel coronavirus since Jan 12th of this year. JANUARY 12, 2020!!!

The name of this game is to act quickly - be the first to move on the virus. Don't wait for an incompetent national leader to act because he won't. That is incredibly unfortunate. But, it is what it is.

The reason Governors were slow to act can be chalked up to the fact that they were afraid of failure, afraid of acting too quickly, afraid of the response they would get.

The antidote to this virus is national and sub-national unity and global solidarity. And, many countries realized this, early on. Unfortunately again, the United States of America doesn't have the national political leadership that is required for an effective COVID-19 response.

i think CW's not wrong at all to fault the governor and mayor. especially since they both go on TV regularly criticizing the poor federal response, the fact that neither has been on-point in their own responses to the crisis is pretty relevant (especially given some other states' much better responses).

JL

Really,CW? First, I agree with them that their jobs aren’t to monitor the world for potential epidemics that they need to prepare for. That’s the role of the federal government; not states’ and especially NOT city administrations

The greatest error is not to move, the greatest error is to be paralyzed by the fear of failure.

~ Dr. Michael Ryan, WHO

Critical words to live by, indeed!

Your commenting on a blog on a near-daily basis to promote your so-called "idea" while you sit on your ass whining repetitively that somebody else won't blog on your behalf does not constitute "activism" but your own utter failure to "move."

Trolling isn't political activism!

Would you write about a protest that had body bags labeled with "Big money lies- people die" left at the doorsteps of politicians of the big money liars of both CMPs?

He'd never have to. The moron behind that "movement" is a lazy-ass mofo who won't even lift a finger to start his own blog to get his message out. That guy's idea of "activism" is to troll other people to do something for him while he sits on his ass daily and mostly just trolls and whines a lot.

CW...I'm not sure why anyone in this day and age would harbor any romantic notion that a president should (or could, in Trump's case) be held up as a paragon of national virtue. Surely those days went with 'thus, thee and thou' when politicians put down dueling pistols and reached for pens and headline banners. I guess its another rare species of sentimentality for bygone eras such as the 'Cowboy' or the 'loveable Hobo' I may truly never understand.

Ben Carpenter...When a shrug is all you can muster at another cretinous statement issued by a republican, you know you're trapped in the Trumpian era. Carpenter's poorly chosen words just come out as if he were defendant at Nuremberg struggling to reconcile atrocities committed with paranoia as an excuse in hindsight. A far better analogy would be the mass sterilizations and 'mercy' extermination of German mentally ill or developmentally challenged that was inaugurated by the Nazis in 1934. It might be wise to keep an eye on ole Ben in Alaska, it's a large state with an alarmingly diminishing native component, perhaps he's inadvertently looking out for their best interests.

Norma McCovey, I'm sorry, but if you didn't see that one coming, you are a Bible-toting right-wing hypocrite, just the kind of person the whole caper was designed to dupe. Surely, at this stage of the game, the duplicitous scumbaggery of the religious right in America is obvious to all but the perpetrators themselves.
Give thinks to this, folks, a 1000 years of sectarian bullshit came to an overdue end in Ireland within the space of a year once the systemic child abuse within the church came to light. One year. It took one year for a nation that once boasted the highest per-capita Sunday churchgoers in Christendom to embrace abortion as a women's choice and not the local Vicar's. One year of seeing the truth of their religion for themselves in its undiluted form and they came to the only conclusion they could, you can't trust the religious right to speak for everyone, they will always betray the greater good to benefit the few, and perpetuate the greater scam of the idolators and the Bish of Rome.

Correct. It was refreshing to see and listen to a president that can form sentences and finish thoughts. Although, an unscripted Obama can sometimes be excruciating when he meanders off into the minutiae of the ten thousand separate concerns behind every decision.

Trump should stick to taking extra-large doses of hydroxychloroquine (because he's more man than the average princep) and leave the talking to those with a knack for it.

LL&P

I see from Huffpo that a long-retired white house butler, who buttled every U.S pres from Eisenhower on, just died at 91 from corona virus.

The Dempanic strikes again!

Senior political advisers to President Donald Trump warned Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Thursday that Republican Sen. Martha McSally is falling dangerously behind in the critical swing state of Arizona.

Ah, Arizona, where one can take a leisurely stroll over lovely London Bridge... still standing after nearly two centuries on two different continents.

Have I mentioned lately not to bet against the astronaut? :)

Beginning in 1919, Henry Ford's "The Dearborn Independent" -- named for a suburb of Detroit and also known as "The Ford International Weekly" -- published ~90 anti-Semitic articles that were translated into multiple languages including a set of four bound volumes reprinted in German titled "The International Jew, the World's Foremost Problem."

The wall beside his desk in Hitler's private office is decorated with a large picture of Henry Ford. In the antechamber there is a large table covered with books, nearly all of which are a translation of a book written and published by Henry Ford. If you ask one of Hitler's underlings for the reason of Ford's popularity in these circles he will smile knowingly but say nothing.

~ The New York Times, December 20, 1922

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1922/12/20/98799625.html?pageNumber=2

In his 1925 autobiographical book "Mein Kampf," Hitler lauded praise upon but one person from the United States, and that American was... you guessed it, didn't you?

Henry Ford II, Ford's grandson, succeeded him as president of Ford in 1945 (Edsel died in 1943), and after the elder Ford's death in 1947, the younger Ford spent the entirety of his life attempting to atone for "the sins of the founder." This "atonement" continued for decades, and in 1997, the Ford Division of Ford Motor Company made TV history by being the sole sponsor of the network premier of the Oscar-winning film "Schindler's List," underwriting the entire cost of airing the over 3-hour movie in prime time on NBC, commercial-free and uncensored. Of course, they denied it had anything whatsoever to do with the "sins."

Admired by lots of degenerates throughout history like Hilter, Clyde Barrow, and now we know to add Donald "bloodlines" Trump to the list of unrepentant criminal advocates of Henry Ford.

This is a lesson that has ostensibly been learned, over and over again.

In the words of Dr. Michael Ryan, executive director of the Health Emergencies Programme at the WHO (reproduced here verbatim because, his words on this are so very important:

"In an epidemic or pandemic, if you need to be right before you move, you will never win. Perfection is the enemy of the good when it come to health emergency management; speed trumps perfection.

"And, the problem we have in society at the moment is everyone is afraid of making a mistake; everyone is afraid of the consequences of error. But, the greatest error is not to move; the greatest error is to be paralyzed by the fear of failure. That is the single biggest lesson learned by the Ebola responses.

"What we've learned from the Ebola outbreaks is that we have to move quickly. You need to go after the virus; you have to stop the chains of transmission. You need to engage with communities very deeply; community acceptance is hugely important. You need to be coordinated and coherent.

"You need to look at other sectoral impacts - schools, security, economic - be fast, have no regrets, be the first mover against the virus. The virus will always get you if you don't move fast."

Critical words to live by, indeed!

The inability to accept personal responsibility for not acting quickly enough to save tens of thousands of lives coupled with the loss of memory over time won't keep us in good stead for Pandemic II, unfortunately.

It is important to know, however, that the guidance released by the WHO from the onset of this outbreak during the very early days in Wuhan would have, if followed, saved tens of thousands more lives.

Stream of Consciousness thread as I dive into FTP - Woot! ... or STP - Woot! as it were...