1968,  I remember it as the year my naivete balloon popped. I was 19. Nam, multiple childhood friends coming home in caskets, the draft, RFK, MLK, Kent State, and the Chicago Democratic National Convention all changed my view about world leaders and what drives them.

 

1 hour ago, Zed Head said:

Looks like the three groups are in Portland too.  Working secretly apparently.  

Can you imagine being a young man or woman who joined one of these services when they were honorably run?  Now they have to attack fellow citizens and military veterans.  It's like Kent State.

https://komonews.com/news/local/navy-veteran-beaten-at-protest-says-he-was-enraged-to-see-federal-officers-in-portland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings

It shocks me, but you're right - it's like Kent State. I was in college from 1968-73; I lived through the 60's and all the unrest about the VietNam war. I'm Mark's age.

And regardless, that's one of the scariest things I've ever written. To think that something like Kent State could happen again disgusts me more than anything I have ever written about this administration.  They MUST go. 

Edited July 20, 20204 yr by Pilgrim

 Not only them. We need to take a serious look at ALL leaders in our society and see what drives them. Usually it's fame and fortune, with a percentage of Public Service thrown in for good looks. The signs of Narcissism are lack of empathy, superiority, need for recognition, arrogance, paranoia, entitlement, fantasies of love power & success, exploitation, and admiration. Sound familiar? Everyone has experienced some of these, to some degree, in their life. The ones at the higher end of the spectrum, the ones who crave power in their adult life, are the very ones that should not be running anything that feeds their ego's need for power over others. the more their ego is fed the more they resemble Jabba the hutt.

I really feel for the people who have kids.  They, the kids and the parents, are being used as pawns in this crazy game.  This is from The Guardian - 

"This is Lois Beckett, picking up this afternoon’s live politics coverage from our California office.

Comments from a Friday radio interview with Missouri’s Republican governor, Mike Parson, are continuing to spark condemnation and alarm, the St Louis Post-Dispatch reports today:

“These kids have got to get back to school,” the governor said on Friday. “They’re at the lowest risk possible. And if they do get Covid-19, which they will – and they will when they go to school – they’re not going to the hospitals. They’re not going to have to sit in doctor’s offices. They’re going to go home and they’re going to get over it.”

“We gotta move on,” he added later. “We can’t just let this thing stop us in our tracks.”

Among the many responses, the Post-Dispatch reported, was one Democrat running for governor in Missouri, who responded: “Does he not realize multiple American kids have died after being infected?”

Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding, a Harvard epidemiologist, called the comments “dystopian”. "

 

And this is from Good Morning America.

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/not-sacrifice-myself-says-teacher-fed-back-school-190200955--abc-news-topstories.html

I'm surprised that they're not offering free hydroxychloroquine to kids.

6 hours ago, Mark Maras said:

 I fear we're looking at the start of six months of a scorched earth policy driven by, If you won't let me play anymore, I'll fix it so no one can and it's all your fault.

The October Surprise this year might be Marshall Law which will postpone the election, then voting will be allowed only in "safe" areas tightly controlled ...

12 hours ago, grannyknot said:

The October Surprise this year might be Marshall Law which will postpone the election, then voting will be allowed only in "safe" areas tightly controlled ...

My worst fear is a Uncivil War and Marshall Law to postpone an election would likely trigger it. It would dovetail into a Scorched Earth policy

The Senate could still change all of this.  They're hiding too, hoping nobody starts talking about it.  They are the ones allowing the craziness to continue.  A few words in the hallways and it would all be over in a couple of weeks.  They actually bear more responsibility than the guy at the top.

Highly editorial comment:

I think the GOP in the Senate is starting to smell the outcome, but they're still unwilling to take on Cadet Bone Spurs in public. That's another way in which they're betraying their constituents.

Edited July 21, 20204 yr by Pilgrim

 If and when Trump loses the election, everyone else will be blamed, even the GOP that supported him up so they could forward their own docket. Basically it boils down to, I'll let you do what you want to do if you let me do what I want to do but if I don't get my way, screw you.

Here's the latest on "surviving" COVID-19.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/07/200714144739.htm

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2020/07/19/covid-19-smell-loss-brain-attack-depression-anxiety-university-cincinnati-research/5451349002/

"You can't smell anything. Taste is botched. How depressing, right?

Well, yes, that is right. But the real question is, why do you feel depressed when you have COVID-19 with smell loss? The answer could be that the disease caused by the novel coronavirus might be attacking your brain."