Amerika in Crisis: Uncontrollable Pandemic vs Portland Paramilitary Secret Police vs Trump’s Fox interview vs Kanye’s Presidential launch
The United States of America looks like it is having a cultural brain aneurysm while suffering a heart attack while being diagnosed with cancer while driving a tank into a kindergarten.
Where does one even begin?
The Covid outbreak looks like it’s actually mathematically out of control now, that the exponential power of spread has reached a place where Trump’s incompetence allows for a full blown pandemic to take place.
Trump’s obnoxious use of blunt force against protestors in Portland with anonymous paramilitary secret police is as terrifying as his train wreck of an interview with Fox News. The cold gleam of his position to not respect the election result should chill every heart.
He could drag out a close result and plunge the country into a nightmare scenario where he refuses to leave office if voted out and seeing as QAnon has 40 candidates running in the upcoming American election and 600 000 members, any shade of insanity with armed militia is now possible.
With conflict against China the perfect rallying cry Trump needs for his base alongside depressing voter turn out because of Covid, Trump’s growing desperation allows for any number of self inflicted abominations to occur and erupt.
He is an agent of chaos without any moral or ethical values beyond self aggrandisement and naked malice.
How else could you top this carnival of violence off than Kayne West’s unhinged Presidential campaign launch?
The ultimate irony would be that if West ran as a 3rd party candidate and took just enough Black American votes to help hurt Democrats in places they need to win.
We are seeing the grand enterprise of the American experiment implode in real time.
At some point as NZ struggles with the economic dominance China has over us, we will need to deal with our Political Overlord America as it descends into a pit of human rights abusing burning pus.
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Kanye has entered the race to take votes off Biden. Noting else.
If, heaven forbid, he wins 1 or 2 states (and their electors), and neither Trump nor Biden have the required votes to win, West can just instruct his electors to vote for Trump.
The myth of America being ‘the greatest nation on Earth’ has been well and truly been blown to smithereens.
‘The United States is failing to report vital information on Covid-19 that could help track the spread of the disease and prevent the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans, according to the first comprehensive review of the nation’s coronavirus data.
The report, Tracking Covid-19 in the United States, paints a bleak picture of the country’s response to the disease. Five months into the pandemic, the essential intelligence that would allow public health authorities to get to grips with the virus is still not being compiled in usable form.
That includes critical data on testing, contact tracing, new cases and deaths.
What the authors call “life-and-death information” is being pulled together haphazardly by individual states in a way that is “inconsistent, incomplete and inaccessible in most locations”. Without such intelligence the country is effectively walking blind, with very little chance of getting “our children to school in the fall, ourselves back to work, our economy restarted, and preventing tens of thousands of deaths”.
The review has been carried out by Resolve to Save Lives, a part of the global health group Vital Strategies. It is led by Tom Frieden, the former director of the main US public health agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/jul/21/coronavirus-live-news-trump-backs-face-masks-as-patriotic-eu-set-to-agree-stimulus
When thinking of the US, it pays to remember that the Americans couldn’t even manage to adopt the International Standard (SI) system of measurement. And they drive on the wrong side of the road.
Needless to say, there are some very good people living in what is called the United States (even if they are not united). It’s just that well-educated, thinking, compassionate people are so few and far between there, and none are anywhere near the levers of power.
Early access (1859) to easily-extractable liquid fuels gave the Americans a head-start in the race to dominate the world, and the devastation of many of its competitors in the Second World War led to a very temporary ascendency to the position of world dominance. But that’s all over now, and all that’s left is the poisoned land, the poisoned waters and the poisoned air, the poisoned people, and a whole lot of decaying infrastructure that nobody knows what to do with. Oh, and a bloated military that is incapable of meeting any serious challenge because most of it’s equipment is outdated, and what isn’t outdated doesn’t perform well compared to what other nations have.
And people in NZ STILL think America is great!!!??? -because people in NZ are so grossly uninformed, courtesy of the corporate media, and to some extent the politicians who continue to promote the myth.
Who won the war [WW2)? The USSR did! -with the help of the British Commonwealth, the free forces of occupied nations, patriots in occupied nations, and with the help of American industry, especially trucks built by GM. (Yes, the daylight bombing of Germany did help keep some German forces, which would otherwise have been on the Russian Front, occupied. And the Germans did have to utilise a few divisions to hold back the puny forces the Allies were able to land in France.)
I personally believe the US will last another few months in its present form. The gig is up.
‘the jig is up
The plan or scheme has been discovered and/or thwarted; the game, trick, or deception is at an end.’
Just to add to America’s immediate woes:
‘A perfect storm of crises is forming across the United States. Above our heads, a “heat dome” of high pressure could blast 80 percent of the continental US with temperatures over 90 degrees for the next few weeks. This coming in a summer when the Covid-19 lockdown has trapped people indoors, many without air-conditioning—and mass unemployment may mean that residents with AC units can’t afford to run them. Deeper still, the heat and the pandemic are exacerbating long-standing and deadly inequities that will only get deadlier this summer……’
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2020/07/how-a-heat-dome-forms-and-why-this-one-is-so-perilous/