- Texas authorities have blamed power lines for igniting their largest wildfire. Bad news for Hawaiian Electric Company.
- President Joe Biden gives his State of the Union message tonight before a joint session of Congress tonight at 9PM ET.
- Great opportunity for his first major campaign speech, and he will cover all his victories and campaign issues.
- Senator Katie Britt, Republican from Alabama, will deliver the Republican response. She is a MAGA-Trumper.
- Jill Biden has invited 20 guests, including the prime minister of Sweden (see following story).
- Some history:
- George Washington gave the first SoU in 1790.
- Thomas Jefferson discontinued this need in 1801.
- But Woodrow Wilson in 1913 re-established this practice, and the SoU has since then been presented yearly, but sometimes not orally, as for example Jimmy Carter in 1981 days before his term ended after defeat by Ronald Reagan.
- I was working for Senator Spark Matsunaga and was given a seat in the gallery for Ronald Reagan's address in 1982.
- Virtually every news channel covers the speech.
- Only 27.3 viewers last year of Biden's talk, but reached 38.2 million two years ago.
- Donald Trump did well, with 46.8 million in 2019.
- Barack Obama, however, did better in 2009 with 52.4 million.
- Of course, Donald Trump never misses a one-up opportunity, for tonight on Truth:
I am pleased to inform you that tomorrow night we will be doing a LIVE, Play by Play, of Crooked Joe Biden’s State of the Union Address. I will correct, in rapid response, any and all inaccurate Statements, especially pertaining to the Border and his Weaponization of the DOJ, FBI, A.G.s, and District Attorneys, to go after his Political Opponent, ME (something never done before in this Country!). We did this once before to tremendous success - Beating All Records. It is important for the Country to get the TRUTH!
- Sweden today joined NATO as the 32nd member. Putin wanted to weaken NATO with the Ukraine invasion, but instead strengthened the organization. Here is a chart of Ukraine war aid in billions of euros (one euro equals $1.09):
- Called my personal doctor's office and asked them if I should. Answer was yes, and was told to go to Walgreen's on Beretania.
So there I went, and spent a hour getting things signed and such. However, something went wrong with the connection to health plan approval, so they said to come back another day, but call first.- As the recommendation was to take this shot two weeks before traveling, I then decided try Walmart on Keeaumoku.
Another hour of bureaucracy, but I did get my vaccination, and the charge was ZERO.- Interesting that they first place on a round band aid, with no gauze, just a covering metal piece.
- The needle is pushed through the bandage.
- Wow, no pain at all.
- My arm began to hurt at night, but that would be expected.
- Today, that pain is gone, and I feel good about being better protected from Covid-19.
- Basically, nothing much, except that it did increase his antibody levels.
- Remains healthy. Is 62 years old.
- That's an average of a shot every four days for 2.5 years.
- Perhaps an experience that might convince some no-vaccine types to consider getting vaccinated.
The following was sent to me linked to someone named Bruce Spielbauer from Quora, which fits in well with this subject.
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You mentioned 17,000 H1N1 deaths (which is actually closer to 12,000, but we already know that Trump lies), — and for some reason you chose to invoke the name of the president at the time of the “Swine Flu.” at that time — President Obama.
As of Jan. 21. 2021 — the number of Covid-19 deaths had reached over 6.87 million. In addition, the number of deaths from Covid-19 was over 6.86 million — while Donald Trump was in office. The United States is the country with the highest number of confirmed cases and deaths. The U.S. government’s overall response to the pandemic under Donald Trump has been criticized — by the entire world. (For good reason - Donald Trump had no response, unlike the rest of the planet).
Those 17,000 H1N1 Swine Flu deaths that Trump tweeted about and exaggerate about). were worldwide deaths — and they occurred over a period of seven years. (And, those were worldwide deaths, not just American deaths.)
In about one year, Trump has led us right into 6.86 million American deaths. Deaths in the United States. Compared with Obama’s response to the Swine Flu — which resulted in about 12,000 deaths — over the course of seven years.
Ugggh.
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There was more, also from Quora:
When the H1N1 outbreak first became known, Obama reacted, swiftly — within a week. Just as he did with the Ebola virus. Just as he did with the Zika virus. Remember that?
Today —in the year 2020 — When the Covid-19 virus first became known — gulp…
Here is Donald Trump… for more than two months:
A timeline:
[Trump was first warned, by US intelligence agencies, in late November of 2019. Trump ignored these warnings.]
[The entire planet was warned, by legitimate journalists, throughout December, as they covered China’s response. The whole world watched, via The New York Times, the Washington Post, NBC, CBS, ABC, Reuters, the BBC, and many more, as China struggled, and then locked down the city of Wuhan and then the province. Not a day in December went by when this was not being reported on. Trump ignored all of those warnings.
[The World Health Organization privately warned Donald Trump, in writing, on December 31. Trump ignored that warning.]
[Trump was warned by the CDC three times, in January, and a fourth time, on January 19. On January 20, the World Health Organization warned the entire world that this disease was being spread human-to-human, and that it appeared it would probably reach pandemic levels. Trump ignored that warning.]
Trump’s daily briefings from American intelligence warned him 22 times in January, that this was a serious threat to the security of the United States. Trump ignored all 22 of those warnings.
Then –
January 23 -- “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.” [Donald Trump, January 22.]
February 2 - “We pretty much shut it down coming in from China.” [Donald Trump, February 2.]
February 24 - “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA… Stock Market starting to look very good to me!” [Donald Trump, February 24.]
February 25 - “CDC and my Administration are doing a GREAT job of handling Coronavirus.” [Donald Trump, February 25.]
February 25 - “I think that's a problem that’s going to go away… They have studied it. They know very much. In fact, we’re very close to a vaccine.” [Donald Trump, February 25.]
February 26 - “The 15 (cases in the US) within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.” [Donald Trump, February 26.]
February 26 - “We're going very substantially down, not up.” [Donald Trump, February 26.]
February 27 - “One day it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.” [Donald Trump, February 27.]
February 28 - “We're ordering a lot of supplies. We're ordering a lot of, uh, elements that frankly we wouldn't be ordering unless it was something like this. But we're ordering a lot of different elements of medical.” [Donald Trump, February 28.]
March 2 -- “You take a solid flu vaccine, you don't think that could have an impact, or much of an impact, on corona?” [Donald Trump, March 2.]
March 2 -- “A lot of things are happening, a lot of very exciting things are happening and they’re happening very rapidly.” [Donald Trump, March 2.]
March 4 -- “If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.” [Donald Trump, March 4.]
March 5 -- “I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.” [Donald Trump, March 5.]
March 5 -- “The United States… has, as of now, only 129 cases… and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!” [Donald Trump, March 5.]
March 5 -- “I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down… a tremendous job at keeping it down.” [Donald Trump, March 5.]
March 6 -- “Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful…. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.” [Donald Trump, March 6.]
March 6 -- “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. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.” [Donald Trump, March 6.]
March 6 -- “I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault.” [Donald Trump, March 6.]
March 8 -- “We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for our attack on CoronaVirus.” [Donald Trump, March 8.]
March 9 -- “This blindsided the world.” [Donald Trump, March 9.]
March 12-- "But it'll be -- it'll go away very quickly." [Donald Trump, March 12.]
March 12-- "You know, you see what's going on. And so I just wanted that to stop as it pertains to the United States. And that's what we've done. We've stopped it." [Donald Trump, March 12.]
March 12-- "Let's put it this way, I'm not concerned, OK?" [Donald Trump, March 12.]
March 13 – “I am officially declaring a national emergency." A national emergency. Those are two very big words.” [Donald Trump, March 13.]
March 14 – “As of this moment we have 50 deaths, which is — a lot of good decisions were made, or that number could be many times that. But that’s based on a lot of good decisions, one or two in particular.”
March 15 – “"My administration is recommending that all Americans, including the young and healthy, work to engage in schooling from home when possible, avoid gathering in groups of more than 10 people, avoid discretionary travel and avoid eating and drinking in bars, restaurants, and public food courts.”
March 20 – (Reporter: “What do you say to Americans who are scared?”) Donald Trump: “I say that you’re a terrible reporter, that’s what I say!” [Donald Trump, March 20.]
March 21 – “We’re giving relief to affected industries and small businesses, and we’re ensuring that we emerge from this challenge with a prosperous and growing economy because that’s what’s going to happen. It’s going to pop. One day, we’ll be standing, possibly up here, and we’ll say, “Well, we won.” And we’re going to say that. As sure as you’re sitting there, we’re going to say that. And we’re going to win, and I think we’re going to win faster than people think, I hope.” [Donald Trump March 21.] [Perhaps Trump is waiting for that miraculous “pop.”]
58,343 Americans were now dead. In only four months.
In fact, the number of U.S. deaths was not only the highest on the planet, the number of U.S. deaths now is one-third of all of the deaths on the planet. Even after only four months.
Think about that.
58,343 Americans were now dead. In only four months. Thanks to Donald Trump’s complete lack of response. That grew to 6 million. Thanks to Donald Trump’s complete lack of response
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Not sure where they are getting 17,000 or 12,000 Swine flu deaths, but the total number of Americans who died from the 2009 Swine Flu was 3433. Well, anyway, here are three Trump/Covid cartoons.
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