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Trump with his ever changing tariffs reminds me of the demented tailor who made a man a custom suit that on first fitting didn’t fit.  The left arm was too short and the right too long.  Rather than altering the suit he told the customer to simply pull in the left arm and extend the right arm as far as he can while hunching his shoulders and then used a few safety pins to fix the length.  

The pants of the suit didn’t fit at the waist, they were too small so the tailor told the guy to leave it unbuttoned and zip the fly down.  The left leg was too tight so the tailor cut the seam to loosen it  and the right was too long so he used the safety pins to shorten the leg.

At the end of the fitting the demented tailor exclaimed, “look, a perfect fit.”

Medicynical Note: I’m repeating this because our demented tailor is still at it. He can’t seem to find the perfect fit, which to him is a surrender by all the nations of the world to his arbitrary ridiculous tariffs. He has this unique skill of bringing chaos out of order. Not good.

“Olavarria assumed a mass attack was underway by an adult. In a sense, though, what actually happened turned out to be even more unsettling: A 6-year-old first-grader with a handgun had shot his teacher, Abigail Zwerner, in a classroom at the Newport News, Va., school.”

Medicynical Note: Our politicized somewhat corrupt Supreme Court did this. They are to blame. On one hand the court doesn’t hesitate to undermine and reinterpret the long accepted Jeffersonian concept of separation of church and state saying in essence that they know better than the founders. But on the other hand it believes it must not and cannot in anyway adapt the second amendment to modern society, because, you know, the founders. And in doing so is, in a way, responsible for this shooting and many other gun deaths in America.

It’s not rocket science. This court has worked to facilitate gun ownership. It claims this was the “intent” of the founders second amendment written during the musket era 250 years ago. And that they, the founders, would not have wanted availability, ownership or open carry of guns restricted. So, in modern day America we now have frequent mass shootings, school shootings, guns used in homicides and suicides and inexplicable accidental shootings. We lead the industrialized world in all categories of gun deaths, it’s not close. The crowning achievement of our gun laws IMHO, is this innocent six year old (I consider any six year old to be an innocent) bringing his mother’s gun to class and shooting his teacher, who almost died.

Yet, this court, the enthusiastic facilitator of our open carry gun laws, is the same group that has members who have complained about and demanded protection from peaceful protesters because they might be carrying a weapon. Because they feel threatened. That’s kind of pathetic when you consider the terror of kids nationwide being drilled on how to respond to a shooter in their schools— an event that was almost never an issue prior to this court’s gun rulings.

In case you wondered:

Medicynical Note: The vaccine may decrease your chance of contracting COVID and does decrease your risk of death.

This time it’s two policemen who were shot. The U.S. leads industrialized nations in this statistic as well. The US leads the industrialized world in literally every reportable gun death statistic. A dubious distinction.

Medicynical Note: Once an idyllic place with the highest standard of living and overall great satisfaction with the quality of life (unless of course you were African-American or indigent). The U.S. with it’s “conservative” values has become a country of increasing income disparity, guns everywhere, mediocre health care (we lead the world in COVID deaths), systemic racism, white angst, and gun deaths. Not a pretty picture.

We owe this to Vladimir Putin, one of the worst Supreme Courts in history, a congress increasingly manned by incompetents and a clueless citizenry. We’re in a national libertarian/conservative/faux religionist downward spiral to who knows what.