Today, May 4, 2020, marks the 50th Anniversary of the Kent State Massacre.
Last week 100’s of protesters, “American Patriots,” stormed the Michigan Capitol building.
The difference: The students at Kent State were armed with rocks. The “American Patriots” were armed with AR-15’s.
I was watching the videos of gun-toting demonstrators protesting Michigan’s coronavirus lockdown as they stormed the state capitol building. The images were horrific!
I read that the President of United States said that Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer should “negotiate with them…make a deal,” because “they are very good people.” It was a stunning, but not totally surprising, statement from this man.
I promised myself that I’d take a break from Around the Block today and instead go back to writing a few more chapters of my book, “Bashert,” (Look for it on Amazon in a few years).
But then I saw this on “Morning Joe” (actually courtesy of Trevor Noah and “The Daily Show”) and couldn’t help myself.
As you all probably know by now, Vice President Mike Pence visited the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. During his visit, and in an earlier meeting with Minnesota governor, Tim Walz (D), Pence was the only person in the room not wearing a mask.
This despite instructions on the Mayo Clinic website requesting that all patients, visitors and personnel bring and wear a face mask to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
I’ve written two letters to my Congresswoman, Lois Frankel, over the last two days. I won’t bore you with the entire letters, but I thought you’d be interested in the subject: PPP.
The first letter described how the PPP is affecting someone I know, someone very close to me, an independent contractor, a “gig worker” in today’s parlance, and the trials and tribulations of her attempts to receive the PPP loan she deserved.
25th Amendment — Pipe dream? For sure. Wishful thinking? Of course. Ever going to happen? Not a chance.
Joe Scarborough confirms: 25th Amendment (as well as the 10th Amendment) is dead!
You know, I always cringed when I heard Ronald Reagan’s small government mantra, “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”
Note: An earlier version of this post went out to an email distribution. Due to popular demand, I am posting it on Around the Block as well.
As the administration scrambled to contain the Trump “drink disinfectant” advice (I think that’s called an “unforced error” in tennis…oh, wait, Trump’s a golfer, maybe he should get a “mulligan.” But I digress.), among the administration’s admonitions were these:
Pence and the rest of the Cabinet need to not only think about it, but do something about it. Because, they’re the only ones who can get it done!
Earlier this week I published an Around the Block called, “Dumbestest!.” I closed with this request:
“…And remember, keep those cards and letters coming in – I want to know if you have any other elected officials I can add to this “dumb” hierarchy. And worry not, I’ve already developed a few additional superlatives…”
