The Greatest Country on Earth

Today, the United States, which has about four percent of the world's population, has just over a quarter of all reported Corona virus deaths.

Are you tired of winning yet?


By the way, did you see any of Trump's appearance at the White House today?  I only saw a couple of sentences of it, but he looked terrible.  I wonder how much he is dwelling on the ultimate humiliation that may very well be coming to him, what has haunted his thinking his whole life: that he would be stripped of all pretense of worth in front of the entire world; a fate to earn which he was willing to throw away every scrap of human decency he might ever have had.  Even more than Nixon, this is the stuff of tragedy.  But like the fate of Boris Goudonov, there will be nobody to mourn his passing.

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Jack said…
I can't help thinking that if Dick Cheney survived and is somehow not rotting in prison, Trump probably will too. Money seems to be a good buffer against all sorts of misfortune, justice, etc.
May 23, 2020 at 4:21 AM
Green Eagle said…
Jack, I certainly share your fear. I will say, however, that Trump has made himself a lightning rod for criticism of Republican behavior, as opposed to Cheney, who was content to steal the money and sneak out of the room. So, we'll see if Democrats, for once in the last century, are prepared to hold Republicans responsible for driving the country to the brink of extinction, or if they decide again that they have to "look ahead instead of looking behind." Looking ahead, of course not involving looking so far ahead that they see the Republicans running us into the same ditch twenty years down the line.
May 23, 2020 at 11:12 AM
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