We’ve been very quiet over the past several months. There are several reasons for this. First, there’s enough anger, fear, and despair without another medium adding salt to the wounds. We have practiced compassion and have not added fuel to your embarrassment, anger, or fear. Enough already there.![]()
Secondly, we have been watching local organizations and local government making complete asses of themselves at the expense of an already overstressed population. Over the next couple of weeks we’ll be pointing out some of the major scoundrels for you, if you have been so distracted as not to have noted them for yourselves. Sadly, most of you have been asleep through all of this, or have been wearing the mask incorrectly — over your eyes or stuffed into your ears!
Playing blind or deaf has made this country the world’s asshole to be avoided. You are trapped on ASSHOLE ISLAND. You can’t get off because everywhere has closed its borders to the United States!
A couple of weeks ago, we tried to mail a letter to the Philippines. The postal clerk refused to take the letter saying, “You can’t send it. The Philippines is not accepting mail from the United States.” The PHILIPPINES, people! How bad can it get…Believe me, it’s getting worse THANKS TO YOU!!!
We recently received an email with a link to a news media report, “People from around the world watched a video on COVID-19 in the US. They could not believe their eyes” (last accessed on August 3, 2020), which included the video below. Watch it and weep, just like the young Korean at the end after viewing the statistics and the video footage!
if you are unable to directly view the video, here is the link to the YouTube posting: You won’t believe your eyes or ears!
Some of us here were brought to tears — out of embarrassment or out of sadness for this country, maybe both — while watching the video.
The sender of the original email was certainly not a fan of Mr Trump, judging from the accompanying text. We have nothing to say on the political leanings of our readers and our politics are our own. We are interested only in the effects on our community and on our people. But we did take the opportunity to remind the sender that Mr Trump is not acting alone, or if he is, where are the other branches of government who are supposed to be watching out for us? Here’s our response to the reader.
While we do agree with the general gist and the intended message of the video, which we have downloaded, and have reviewed and fact-checked, We feel it [the article, not the video] is a basic misrepresentation fueled by general ignorance and misrepresentation: There is one figure of interest (with his myriad advisors) in the White House, who is executive branch, in a tripartite system equipped with Constitutaional check-and-balance provisions. There are a total of 535 Members of Congress. 100 serve in the U.S. Senate and 435 serve in the U.S. House of Representatives, together with a small army of advisors and consultants, and a whole nation of 156 million registered voters, it is ridiculous to pin the blame on one single man. There are so many other candidates.
We didn’t need the video or the poorly-written article to form an opinion or to guess the world’s opinions.Both the article and the video have some entertainment value for those wo have withdrawn into terrified self-isolation. Thanks!
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) on Capitol Hill — We need to get crazies like her into a nursing home for the insane.
Yes, I’m very pissed!
The Editor