Medicynic

He can’t help it. His ego leads him to the worst possible choice again……and again. .

“This was never going to be an easy situation to wind down, but there were certainly ways to do it without destroying America’s reputation as a reliable ally. As of today, however, it looks like that ship has sailed.”

Medicynical note: A peach colored bull in a china shop. Bumbling around almost at random without understanding long-standing relationships and previous commitments and, yes, debts. A not so slowly evolving foreign policy disaster. But then, he is the master of everything. (Sic)

Perhaps the delusion is over.

Medicynical note: Bernie is an exceptionally vigorous 78 year old. His run for the presidency has been filled with all manner of promises, unrealistic but attractive, that have captured the imagination of many who haven’t bothered to calculate the costs. He now has little or no chance for the nomination. He represented Trump’s best chance for re-election. The same might also be said for Elizabeth Warren whose plans also seem as pie in the sky and unrealistic as Bernie’s–maybe a tad closer to reality. But IMHO they don’t pass the smell test. Meanwhile Biden, undeniably a nice guy with a sap sucking son bumbles along. And Trump at age 73 continues to play his role of ultra-conservative delusional, pseudo-religionist, misogynist with large intellectual deficits that he tries to cover-up with aggression and juvenile nastiness.

So the best the Democrats can do against Trump is three somewhat flawed aged front running candidates in the most crucial U.S. presidential election in our history. Can’t we do better?……..

He lies

Medicynical note: His inability to differentiate between truth and self promoting fiction, i.e. his incompetence, is reason enough to impeach. He is a national disgrace.

Saudi Arabia has said that US patience with Iran is not inexhaustible and warned that military options are still being considered following the attack on the Aramco oil facilities earlier this month.

Medicynical note: Who is in charge here? The government of fifteen 9/11 hijackers? The government that murdered a respected U.S. based journalist? Who?

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/09/17/how-vladimir-putin-is-outplaying-us-africa/

“With time, however, the Withdrawal Doctrine is undermining the administration’s commitment to deter and contain Russia. Nowhere is this contradiction more clearly on display than in Africa. The Trump administration’s reduced engagement on the African continent has created new opportunities for Russia to move in. As the United States withdraws some troops from Africa, and signals indifference to African affairs more generally, the Kremlin has dramatically and dangerously stepped up its military and commercial dealings across the continent.”

“The contrast between Washington and Moscow’s focus on Africa is stark. Trump’s assault on diplomacy and development programs has left U.S. embassies short-staffed and in policy limbo. This is true globally, but Africa-related work has been especially hard-hit and appointments extremely slow in coming. Amazingly, South Africa — a regional leader with the second-largest economy on the continent — has been without a U.S. ambassador since Trump took office. Trump has had little interaction with African leaders and little to say about the region (with the notable exception of his reference to African states as “shithole countries,” a comment that continues to reverberate across the continent).”

Medicynical note: Trump’s ignorance manifested by his racism and fealty to such dictators as Putin, Kim and Egypt’s el-Sisi undercuts our foreign policy objectives of encouraging democracy and aiding emerging nations towards stable democratic governments. Trump really isn’t smart enough to give a damn.

Why? Because it’s America and because they can.

Medicynical note: A $7,644 facility fee and an over $12,000 bill for a nurse evaluation, two bottles of saline IV and a less than 1 hour visit. American healthcare isn’t.

Deficit, not my department, implies bankruptcy maven Donald Trump after achieving the milestone of a trillion dollar deficit while claiming the “best” economy ever. This can’t end well. Ask his partners in his six previous bankruptcies.

“President Donald Trump, who promised during the 2016 campaign to eliminate the federal debt, has instead overseen a dramatic increase in deficits.”

Medicynical note: in his rush to outdo the Obama administration Trump has succeeded……..in doubling the annual budget spending debt in just three years. Quite an accomplishment. One that our children and grandchildren will have the honor of paying back. Trump has indeed succeeded in running the government like his previous bankrupted businesses.

Even Bill Gates can be bought.

“On Monday, CNBC reported that Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates met with late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in 2013 after Epstein “unleashed an aggressive lobbying campaign” to secure that meeting. In an interview published on Tuesday, Gates offered his explanation of why to the Wall Street Journal: Epstein knew a lot of rich people!”

Medicynical note: Bill, the issue is not that there were only men present or that you didn’t partake in his crimes but rather that you had anything at all to do with this monster. Money in America is the universal lubricant.

“Some people assert that Trump is in fact a Russian asset; whether you agree will depend on how you define the term. But it has become clear that across the government and the country, everyone has had to adjust their expectations and actions to the fact that the president of the United States simply cannot be trusted to uphold America’s interests, if doing so conflicts with his greed, or his desire to please a foreign dictator, or simply some whim he had while watching “Fox & Friends.””

“It may be some time before we understand the full extent of the damage that has caused.”

Medicynical note: Unbelievable. And Moscow Mitch too.