Want Trump More Involved in COVID Response?  Bribe the boy!

      I think even the densest among us must have noticed the number of stories in the past five years that have Trump and the subject of bribes in them.  The number of his closest associates (Manafort, Kushner, Cohen, Flynn, etc., etc.) who are in jail, on the way to jail, or already pardoned and implicated in/arrested/serving time for bribery-related charges.
       And let's not forget to give credit where credit is due.  Has not Orange Leader pioneered a whole new approach to Presidential bribery?  I refer of course to having an expensive place he visits on weekends for bribesters to also visit, have dinners, and other access points to the president to arrange, transfer, and legitimate bribes.  AND the bribesters pay to stay at Trumps' digs!
      If that isn't using creative, stable, genius to advance one's own goals AND design new forms for the art of the bribe, I don't know what is!
      So, if you think we're not responding enough or correctly to this COVID virus, starts shoveling the bribes and the names of the companies you want to get the contracts to any Trump landmark near you and we can have this country in full response! 
      There just has to be profit channels for Trump and his co-conspirators.

The Trouble With Good Old Joe

He IS a good old boy type of guy.  An important skill/behavior mode for a politician. 

He is certainly practiced at working the room: grabbing hands, shaking hands, keeping his hands off women's hair.  He joshs and can give and take like he was on the street-- many years ago.

But when he told a woman he doubt the veracity of her statement, he used a John Wayne line, no longer acceptable especially from a man to a woman today.  He called her a "lying dog pony soldier" if I remember correctly.  Great for moving and shaking with the good old boys-- very out of touch with the movement of where social morality is nowadays.

Joe's made mistakes in his Senatorial career:  treatment of Anita Hill before the Senate Judiciary Committee, going along to get along with some he won't chose to support today.  I hope.

But the moment that made it clear to me that Joe was NOT my candidate for the Dem nom.  When sparring with an audience member

Trump Gratitude, Chapter One

I am SO grateful Trump is not in charge of COVID response!

       I just heard a short piece on KQED about a reporter crossing a European border.  Hazmat clad medicos came on board his bus and quickly, and orderly wanded each passenger and passed the bus on their way.

       I couldn't help but think: "How about if Der Trumpster were in charge?"  Would he hold up each bus and each passenger until they paid a toll directly to him?  Would he require a pledge to vote for him?  Or better yet, institute Early Convenience Voting.  You'd vote right there and then, after paying your toll.
      Oh, that Orange Leader!  Who else can you think of who protects us best by doing the least?