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Only 48 hours after Trump did much the same in the US. Could it be that Kenney worships at the feet of Trump?

This is a celebration?

And a supporter of the Nazi party along with Charles Lindbergh.

It appears that the Trump "strategy" is to offload the responsibility for coping with the pandemic to the individual states and cities and to hold financial aid conditional upon them being "nice" to Trump. That way he can deny any responsibility for the rapidly growing body count while encouraging the nutty fringe to resist any restrictions. And when things really go to hell in a handcart, he can wring his hands and say, "If only they had listened to me". All the while he can flail around for someone to blame: China, the WHO, the Democrats, Obama, and the CDC on the theory that if you throw enough **** at a wall, some of it is bound to stick and make you look like you are actually doing something. None of this is likely to work, and then we are going to see how ugly things can get.

If you are into body language, a forward lean is supposed to convey an aggressive stance. No doubt someone told Trump that he looks more powerful if he leans like that.

Tara Reade Dropped as Client by Douglas Wigdor, a Trump-Friendly #MeToo Lawyer Pilar Melendez, Reporter Published May. 22, 2020 12:00PM ET Tara Reade, the former Senate aide who has accused former Vice President Joe Biden of sexually assaulting her in 1993, no longer has legal representation. On Friday, lawyer Douglas Wigdor, who took Reade on as a client just two weeks ago, said Friday that he is not representing her. https://www.thedailybeast.com/tara-reade-dropped-as-client-by-douglas-wigdor-a-trump-friendly-metoo-lawyer

Alabama Is Packing Graduation Ceremonies and Overloading ICUs Several high schools in Alabama—where coronavirus cases have been steadily increasing since lockdown restrictions were first loosened last month—went ahead with ceremonies this week, provoking the ire of protesters and dismay among some public health officials. Even as local Montgomery officials warned this week that major hospitals had completely run out of available intensive care unit beds due to an outbreak in the area, Gov. Kay Ivey announced Thursday that statewide bans on large entertainment venues, athletic activities, and childcare facilities would end on Friday at 5 p.m. In other words, one of the states with the most alarming COVID-19 dynamics in the country was plowing ahead with a uniquely brazen reopening. https://www.thedailybeast.com/alabama-is-packing-graduation-ceremonies-and-overloading-icus

Trump’s creepy praise of an anti-Semite’s ‘good bloodlines’ triggers furious backlash Written by David Badash / The New Civil Rights Movement May 22, 2020 President Donald Trump once again is dog-whistling to his base. While delivering a campaign-style speech at a Michigan Ford auto plant that’s been retooled to manufacture personal protective gear, Trump decided to take a walk into history and praise the company’s founder, the infamous anti-Semite Henry Ford. https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/trumps-creepy-praise-of-an-anti-semites-good-bloodlines-triggers-furious-backlash/

COVID-19 Drug Cocktail Trump Said He Is Taking Brings 45% Higher Risk of Death: Major Study REUTERS / Leah Millis A massive worldwide study of coronavirus patients has found that the malaria drug that President Trump has relentlessly promoted during the pandemic poses a significant risk of death, the Washington Post reports. https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-coronavirus-drug-cocktail-linked-to-45-higher-death-risk-says-major-study?ref=home

A QAnon supporter just won a Republican primary for US Senate Jo Rae Perkins will be one of at least six GOP candidates for federal office on the ballot November 3. By Katelyn Burns May 20, 2020, 3:20pm E In winning the Oregon GOP primary for the US Senate Tuesday, Jo Rae Perkins became the seventh Republican congressional candidate who openly supports QAnon, a pro-Trump conspiracy theory that maintains the president is secretly fighting “deep state” operatives and Democratic pedophiles. Perkins won a four-way race for the party’s Senate nomination, earning just short of 50 percent of the vote. Former naval officer Paul Romero finished second with 30 percent. Perkins will face off with incumbent Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley in the general election on November 3, which Merkley is expected to win. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/5/20/21264925/jo-rae-perkins-qanon-us-senate-oregon

Well then, more for the rest of us.

Leaked Pentagon memo undercuts Trump's big promise: No vaccine until “at least the summer of 2021” Trump and his defense secretary tout a vaccine by year's end. An internal Pentagon memo paints a different pic A leaked Pentagon memo obtained by the military news outlet Task & Purpose undercut President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Mark Esper's claims that a coronavirus vaccine would be widely available by the end of the year.

Trump: ‘I Tested Very Positively’ for COVID-19 I TESTED‘POSITIVELY TOWARD THE NEGATIVE’ Justin Baragona President Donald Trump was apparently so proud that he still doesn’t have coronavirus that he attempted to put a sunny spin on his most recent test results, briefly claiming he tested “positively” for the virus before explaining “negative” means “positive.” Telling reporters Wednesday that he thinks he has “another day” of his two-week regiment of the unproven anti-malaria hydroxychloroquine—which he says he’s taking as a coronavirus prophylactic—Trump then boasted about his latest COVID-19 test. “And I tested very positively in another sense,” Trump bellowed. “So this morning, I tested positively toward negative, right? So no, I tested perfectly this morning. Meaning I tested negative. But that’s a way of saying it: Positively toward the negative.” https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-boasts-that-he-tested-very-positively-for-covid-19 (As if we needed any more proof that Trump is almost as smart as dryer lint)

You ain't seen nuthin' yet.

‘He ain’t bright’: Trump brutally mocked for ‘nonsensically’ insisting there are ‘many per capitas’ President Donald J. Trump, joined by Vice President Mike Pence, participates in a roundtable discussion on the Governors’ Initiative on Regulatory Innovation Monday, Dec16, 2019, in the Cabinet Room of the White House. (Official White House Phois week, President Donald Trump defended his response to the coronavirus pandemic by asserting that that the number of COVID-19 deaths in the United States isn’t so bad when analyzed on a per capita basis. But when Trump expanded on that line of thinking, his statement led to brutal mockery on social media. “And you know, when you say ‘per capita,’ there’s many per capitas,” Trump asserted. “It’s like, per capita relative to what? But you can look at just about any category, and we’re really at the top, meaning positive, on a per capita basis too.” https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/he-aint-bright-trump-brutally-mocked-for-nonsensically-insisting-there-are-many-per-capitas/

Trump is on the verge of repeating a historic disaster by pushing the Wuhan lab hoax This time around, it’s the Trump administration’s reckless charge that Covid-19 — maybe manmade, maybe not, advocates of this conspiracy theory argue — was released perhaps deliberately, perhaps by accident from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, the city that was the epicenter of the outbreak late last year. It’s a story that has ricocheted around the echo chambers of the far right, from conspiracy-oriented Internet kooks like Infowars’ Alex Jones to semi-respectable media tribunes and radio talk-show hosts to the very highest reaches of the administration itself, including President Trump. (It appears that Trump has chosen another plank for his re-election campaign )

This may have been posted elsewhere already and if so, my apologies. Ambrosie today announced that the league is exploring several season-opening scenarios but the most likely one is a September opening of the season. Good news!

It is still staggering to me that any sane American would still vote for Trump after all this. Hmmm.....I guess I just answered my own question.

There is a very preliminary study out of Norway (I think) that indicated that children were very unlikely to spread the virus.

Trump's past behaviour is that whenever his usual pattern of insults and belittling no longer work, he will escalate, first to threats, then he will intimate that violence is the only resort all the while denying he is doing so- his sycophants will do all the dirty work.

No matter what, Trump will try to portray himself as a victim so as to inflame his lunatic base and begin to set the stage for him to claim that the pending election is being stolen from him. Simultaneously, he and his minions will try to smear any and all opposition.

And the initial study done in France that seemed to support the efficacy of the hydroxychloroquine has been thoroughly discredited by the organization that sponsored it .