(diary)
More horrible times, but repeating that is a truism.
Biden has taken off over the past weeks and it looks confident that he will vanquish the threat of a contested convention and a Sanders hissy fit. Well, the fit will still happen but there will be no air to sustain it. The loss of Warren (at least for me, as a guy) I can live with and in fact I turned around pretty quickly to Biden after she dropped out. He was never even on my short list of choices because, let’s face it, we really need to stop with old and white and male beating out qualified. However, when he became effectively the last man standing, I felt how I think many people felt (again, as a guy) that a clear, reasonable decision had finally brought some certainty into our, Democrats’, direction moving forward. The certainty is the thing.
Big primaries tomorrow.
We’ve been imploding with Covid-19 catastrophe’s-in-the-making everywhere where there is a where. Just today, Italy as a whole has shut down. Visitors there were posting pics of them standing in empty streets in front of the Colosseum or museums a few feet from Michaelangelo’s David. (There’s still a small part of me, young-ish healthy me, that wants to buy a cheap ticket on an empty 747 and take a weekend in Europe.) The director of the CDC–Robert Redfield, a man who wrote the forward for a Christian book that described AIDS as “God’s judgement” on homosexuals–debased himself and any of the great scientists that work or have worked there. To Trump:
First I want to thank you, for your decisive leadership … I also want to thank you for coming here today … I think that’s the most important thing I want to say.
A week prior, Redfield made a public statement that the CDC was to blame for Trump saying that the first American infected with Covid-19 was a woman (it was a man) even though other’s had already reported the correct information. Coward.
And Trump during the press conference:
I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it. Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability.
In short: the administration has been suppressing information and lying to benefit themselves.
DJIA tanks 7.79% today and hit the breakers twice to stop trading. Price war on oil between Saudi Arabia and Russia is on. Saudis increasing production and dropping prices against a very weak Russian economy.