Here are a few of the headlines we should be seeing somewhere today.
Trump Looses Grip on Reality in Denial of Arizona Audit His People Paid For
Donald Trump's dementia was observed to be worsening as his statements today regarding the Cyber Ninja Audit in Arizona appear to be disconnected to the actual circumstances. Trump called for Arizona governor Doug Ducey to decertify the 2020 election results in Arizona and appoint electors to cast ballots for him. Trump seemed unaware that the Cyber Ninja report released yesterday did not provide any evidence whatsoever for decertifying the results and in fact confirmed that Biden not only won the election, but actually got more votes than originally reported.
Trump's statement seemed to indicate that he was completely unaware of the findings of the Cyber Ninja group, linked to him via their conspiracy theories and was also completely ignorant of the fact that the time for "decertifying" an election, under law, has long since passed by. Apparently, no one in his group of advisors is either aware of the law or the constitution. In spite of his continued insistence, Governor Ducey stated that "Arizona would abide by the law."
Biden Makes Plans to Eradicate Coronavirus While Republican Governor Actions Make Pandemic Worse
The governors of Florida, Mississippi and Texas, where the delta variant of COVID is overtopping hospitals, spreading through schools, killing teachers and students, and is worse now than it was at its peak back in 2020, continue to resist attempts to stop its spread.
In Florida, a denialist was appointed by Governor DeSantis to be the state's surgeon general. You can't go much lower than that, and make a move that turns COVID-I9 into a partisan issue than to put someone in charge who is just going to "let it run its course" no matter how deadly it is. Let that be on him, then.
In Mississippi, where Republican Governor Tate Reeves referred to I3 year old M'Kayla Robinson, who died from a COVID infection she got in a "mask optional" school as "that young kid in Smith county" while claiming to pray for her family and that the 9,000 Mississippians who have died "break my heart.", while at the same time calling the threat of federal mandates "tyranny." As if he even knew what that word means.
In Texas, well what can we say about Texas, where Governor Greg Abbott is now losing court battles he is fighting to prevent schools from mandating masks and to try and keep vaccinations from coming into the state while patients who are seriously ill with non-COVID medical issues have to scramble around to find hospitals that will take them.
Trump Sues Niece While Admitting NY Times Story on His Taxes Was True
Mary Trump may be one of the only people with that last name who actually does tell the truth. In the quirky way that legal maneuvering sometimes works, the evidence of Mary's true statement is found in his filing of the law suit against her. Trump's former fixer, Michael Cohen, is advising Mary Trump which should make for some interesting news to follow if the suit even moves forward with a judge.
Former Trump White House Press Secretary Points to Rise in Murders in 2020 Under Her Boss
Via twitter, former Trump White House Press Secretary Katy McEnany put out a chart showing the rising murder rate in 2020. She tried to blame the rise on President Biden with a graphic making that claim and showing a 30% increase in murders during the year. She couldn't get the attribution down quick enough when it was pointed out that Biden was not president in 2020, but took office in January of 202I. Data from the FBI has shown a flattening of the murder rate since Biden took office. Oops.
Critics Have Little Evidence to Prove Biden's Afghanistan Withdrawal Was a "Botch" So They Resort to Criticizing His "Obsession with Deadlines"
And in the "Is this for real" category, an op-ed by Noah Rothman concludes that the biggest problem, demonstrating the need to use words in headlines like "calamity", "undermining political victory", and "in a masterclass of bad management" is his "risky obsession with deadlines."
So rescuing over I20,000 Americans and Afghans, through a single-runway airport in a country whose own military was a zero and whose President had himself fled, was bad management because a deadline was set, extending the one set by negotiations with the Taliban through the previous President who had absolutely no plan whatsoever for evacuating anyone by then, was in a "masterclass of bad management."
If that's Rothman's conclusion, then he has failed miserably to make his case. On the other hand, he is an "opinion columnist" for MSNBC. If he's trying to make a mockery out of the ridiculousness of the criticism of Biden's withdrawal, which, while not flawless was one of the most courageous and righteous decisions ever made by a sitting President of the United States, then he succeeded. He has proven that even MSNBC has the capacity to be as much of a journalistic zero as Fox News or Newsmax.
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