Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 84. Sunrise is 5:50 AM and sunset 8:11 PM for 14h 20m 52s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 39.7% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1914, in response to the German invasion of Belgium, Belgium and the…
Kakistocracy
Kakistocracy, Trump, Trumpism
‘Only with the Best and Most Serious People’
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Embed from Getty Images 2015, Trump: “I’m going to surround myself only with the best and most serious people.” 2021: Man who posed at Pelosi desk said in Facebook post that he is prepared for violent death, QAnon supporter from Arizona dressed in fur and horns joins storming of US Capitol, and Apologists For Trump’s Mob…
Kakistocracy, Trump
Secretary of Failure
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Kakistocracy, Trump
Winning
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Kakistocracy, Seven Deadly, Sloth, Trump, Unfit
Impotus Americanus
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Authoritarianism, Bigotry, Conway, Ethics, Gluttony, Grifters, Impeachment, Kakistocracy, Medicine, Mendacity, Nepotism, Never Trump, Official Misconduct, Sloth, Trump, Trump-Russia, Unfit
Trump’s Condition: Unfit by Many Standards
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
It’s enough, as an indictment of Trump, to see and then reject his role on purely political grounds: a bigoted autocrat of limited knowledge & reasoning ability with a love of foreign dictators and contempt for American liberal democracy. One doesn’t need a training in medicine to reject Trump. There are, however, compelling critiques of…
Coronavirus, Kakistocracy, Public Health, Trump, Unfit
Trump Admin Picks ‘The Dog Breeder’ to Lead Pandemic Task Force
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
One reads from Reuters that Trump Administration, whose leader promised America only the best people, tapped a Former Labradoodle breeder to lead U.S. pandemic task force: Azar [Alex Azar, Secretary of Health and Human Services] tapped a trusted aide with minimal public health experience to lead the agency’s day-to-day response to COVID-19. The aide, Brian Harrison,…
Babbittry, Bad Ideas, Boosterism, Conflicts of Interest, Kakistocracy, Kushner, Nepotism, Public Relations, WEDC, Wisconsin
An Empty-Headed Man’s Next Gig
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Updated with a longer – and so more revealing – video of Kushner’s vapidity. When Jared Kushner is finished impairing America’s response to a pandemic, he’ll need something else to do. Wisconsin still has the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, and in small Wisconsin towns like Whitewater one finds development hucksters, business leagues of landlords &…
Kakistocracy, Trump
Top Trump Departures
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Indolence, Kakistocracy, Trump
Slothful: Trump’s In Late, Out Early
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Immigration, Kakistocracy, Trump
Trump’s Wall Con
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Indolence, Kakistocracy, Trump
Slothful: Donald Trump Works Less Than Most Americans
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Even before the latest reporting from Alexi McCammond and Jonathan Swan, there has been ample evidence that Trump was slothful — a shiftless, unproductive man: In a Special Report, MSNBC Chief Legal Correspondent, Ari Melber, examines Trump’s first two years in office and a scandal hiding in plain sight: mounting evidence that there are stretches…
Kakistocracy, Never Trump, Presidential race 2016, Resistance, Trump, Unfit
Yet Go He Will…
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Ted Koppel cautions Don’t expect Trump to go quietly: There is a disarming innocence to the assumption that whether by impeachment, indictment or a cleansing electoral redo in 2020, President Trump will be exorcised from the White House and that thereby he and his base will largely revert to irrelevance. Truthfully, there are few among the…
Kakistocracy, Trump
Tillerson Describes Trump as Though Trump Were a Functionally Illiterate Criminal
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Aaron Blake reports Rex Tillerson on Trump: ‘Undisciplined, doesn’t like to read’ and tries to do illegal things: Tillerson said Trump is “pretty undisciplined, doesn’t like to read,” and repeatedly attempted to do illegal things. He didn’t call Trump a “moron,” but he didn’t exactly suggest Trump was a scholar — or even just a steady…