What makes it especially difficult for the Grand Old Party is Donald Trump. Democrats are doing everything possible to keep him out jail before the middle of next summer, but sum of all his criminal acts is making this difficult:
Trump is the only president who has been shown to be guilty of a crime. Lost $5 million to E. Jean Carroll, and is being re-sued for a lot more.- His defense of those Mar-a-Lago classified documents is weakening as investigators uncover more evidence. But when will he be formally charged?
Georgia's Fulton County district attorney, Fani Willis, is anticipating multiple indictments by the special grand jury in September. Court? Has to do with trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. That phone call he made is particularly condemning.- The big one is Merrick Garland's investigation of Trump coup attempt on January 6. Trump was the lead, and there is a pile of evidence, where previous court decisions are paving the way.
There is so much anticipation of his culpability that pundits are now talking about whether he can still run while in the process of multiple convictions. Or, more so, his running for the presidency, as socialist candidate Eugene Debs did in 1920 when he was already jail...or, if incarcerated, how to manage the country. Debs, incidentally, was serving a 10-year sentence and still got 3.4% of the votes.
The burgeoning list of GOP hopefuls is complicating their picture, for most don't think Trump will be available by the Republican convention in July of 2024. Near the top are Ron DeSantis, Mike Pence and Nikki Haley, and behind them are at least 11 others. Thus, if Democrats can keep Trump viable until then, that will totally screw up their nomination process.
By the way, did you know that the USA is way above herd immunity regarding that COVID-19 virus? We are up to 96% immunity.
- CDC scientists tapped blood-donation centers to analyze data from 143,000 samples, and found that 96% contained antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 (or COVID-19).
When they did this between April and June of 2021, this figure was 68%.- The Mayo Clinic says that herd immunity for covid is 94%.
- This is the percentage that needs to be immune to stop the spread of a disease. The number depends on disease contagiousness. Here are some herd immunity thresholds:
- Measles 93%
- Chickenpox 91%
- Mumps 91%
- Polio 83%
- Smallpox 77%
- HIV/AIDS 65%
- COVID-19 65% (note that the Mayo Clinic said 94%)
- Common Cold 58%
- Seasonal Flu 23% (only 23%???...I thought the flu was really contagious)
Rochelle Walensky steps down as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (so the more accurate acronym should be CDCP) at the end of the month.- Mandy Cohen (right) has been nominated by President Biden. She was a candidate for the Health and Human Services Secretary job that went to Xavier Becerra.
14-year old Dev Shah from Florida won the 2023 Scripps National Spelling Bee last night, correctly spelling PSAMMOPHILE (which is an organism that prefers or thrives in sandy soils or areas) to win $50,000. He is the 22nd of the past 24 winners with East Asian (India) roots. This was his third time in this competition. Watch his victory. 11 million entered, and 231 made it to National Harbor, Maryland this year. Age range of 9 to 14. Charlotte Walsh from Virginia was #2, and won $25,000. To do that she had to spell akuammine, collembolous and Jhangar. For some reason my recording on the Ion Channel did not work. I saw this last year, also on this station.
There was an Iam Tongi special on KITV in Hawaii last night. This morning, we congratulated him in the Star-Advertiser. The show repeats Saturday night, but you need to live Hawaii.
Once Super Typhoon Mawar, known as Betty in the Philippines, is now down to 45 MPH, and impacted Okinawa before trundling on towards Japan. Will, however, move past the country sufficiently offshore to cause any real problems. Lot of rain, though.
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