Ron Ecker

I've found a subliminal message of major JFK import in this NBC headline: New York Attorney General Leticia James files lawsuit to dissolve NRA. Anyone else see it or am I just imagining things? https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/new-york-attorney-general-letitia-james-files-lawsuit-dissolve-nra-n1236009

Statement from the NRA (with apologies to Charlton Heston): "They'll have to pry the association out of our cold dead hands."

Well said. And why most Americans don't feel this way is sad and hard to fathom. Or maybe it's not hard to fathom in a country where people pull guns or have fist fights over simple mitigation, or get together like sardines in a can to party, during a pandemic. We live in a selfish and surprisingly ignorant society.

I don't think it's guilt. How does a narcissistic sociopath feel any guilt? If I knew one, I would ask him.

That describes Donald Trump. "It is what it is."

That's the thing. Trump is hoping that in-person voting will kill more Democrats than Republicans. He's so stupid it doesn't occur to him that they will have already voted before they die.

The election is going to be a mess, much worse than 2000 with its hanging chads etc., with a postal service that Trump has crippled if it even exists in November for lack of funds. (At this moment the Republicans are resisting assistance to the postal service, one of the things holding up the new stimulus bill. They would rather let people starve than try to have an orderly election which Democrats would win. The corruption in this administration is on a wide screen in living color.) That's on top of Trump's drumbeat of the biggest electoral fraud in history, and plenty of Americans still listen to him no matter what nonsense he utters. His former right-hand man Michael Cohen testified that there would be no peaceful transition of power and I fear that Cohen knew what he was talking about. Trump is going to do anything and everything he can to steal the election, and it helps to be in control of the executive branch and have sycophants running things like the DOJ, the Senate and the crippled postal service. I see no cause for optimism whatsoever.

All the more reason why he won't leave office. The White House is so much more comfortable than jail.

Bernie Sanders is irrelevant. Biden will win what election there is, but it won't make any difference because it was "fraud, fraud, fraud." Trump will stay unless the military removes him, and what are the chances of that? If the military tried to make a move, he would tweet them into retreat.

I can't think of any president in my lifetime before Trump that could get away with such open and across-the-board corruption. Nixon was the closest and he was forced to resign. I'm beginning to realize that Trump will probably not be leaving office but will become a dictator, because I'm beginning to realize that this sad country is simply unable to stop him.

I would call in a bomb scare to the TSBD about 12:25 on 11/22/63. That is, if the phones were working. The evacuation would at least get Oswald out of the building and mess up the plan. Then, when JFK was safely past the TSBD, I would call in a bomb scare to the Trade Mart. By that time JFK might decide they need to go somewhere that's safe. One of the Secret Service agents might suggest Jack Ruby's Carousel Club.

I assume that means he's voting by mail.

The good news is that Trump will just disappear on January 20. That is, he'll disappear from the White House. He will still be highly visible and should eventually appear in a New York jail.

Reminds me of Woody Allen's "Love and Death," when this old man tells his son, "I've got this little piece of land." And he takes a piece of sod out of his pocket. Best scene in the movie.

No, Bob, the folks in that COVID ward are just "crisis actors" (your wife doesn't know?), like the ones used in that hoax at Sandy Hook.

Over 150,000 American lives were cancelled. "What's the big deal? Support Patio Pizza!" - Donald Trump

What people seem to be "missing" is that the postal service may not exist in November for voting by mail. I don't see any concern among the politicians, but the last I saw the postal service will run out of money in September or October, and of course Trump is against bailing it out so forget about passing a bill. Or what am I missing?

When does he think people in this country will be able to "safely" vote in person? Oh, I forgot, when the virus just disappears.

Wow. I just woke up and my eyes are still a little blurry. At first glance I thought you said, "Did you guys all get your watches wet?" I wondered what that could be about. (The slow flow or drip, drip of time during self-isolation?)

My favorite stupid song from that era is "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini."

Ditto. Donald Trump and COVID-19 will go down in history as the classic American definition of a perfect storm.

Thanks. I don't remember hearing the song back then. But then I wasn't a big Chipmunks fan. I preferred more sophisticated music like "You Ain't Nothin' but a Hound Dog."

It sounds vaguely familiar. What song? I was fairly impressed with Trump being able to repeat "Person, woman, man, camera, TV" without any trouble. If he can also say "Hydroxychloriquine," that seals the deal. The man is as sharp as a tack. That may be why he insists on promoting this drug, just to impress us by pronouncing it.

There were reportedly eyewitnesses (as of course there would be if he was there). I recall one identified by name, though I don't recall an actual account from him. That's the first time I've seen an enlargement of the guy in front of the TSBD, and it does bring out the resemblance that I didn't see in the smaller version. Do you know what photograph the one is from showing "Bush" and "Lansdale"? It looks like it could be the same one that shows "E. Howard Hunt" crossing Elm Street in his trenchcoat, but the Hunt image is much clearer than this.

Not surprising at all. Last week my sister, who says masks provide no protection at all against a virus, told me that infection is higher in places where people wear masks than in places where they don't. I don't know where she gets her information, but I know she spends a lot of time on Facebook, that "social media" gold mine of info.