There's A Lot Of Evidence Mounting That Trump Has Been The Worst President In History-- Who Would Have Guessed?

 

The 2020 Social Progress Index has been released and it has been noted that the "pandemic threatens to set back global development by a decade, delaying achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals by 62 years unless urgent actions are taken. 'The 17 Sustainable Development Goals, which include the eradication of poverty, improving access to education and action on climate change, will only be fulfilled by 2092 once the effects of the pandemic are taken into account.' Environmental Quality (36.87) and Inclusiveness (39.25) are one of those areas where the world shows particularly alarming results, raising questions about the future of environmental sustainability, more since climate change is predicted to continue through this century and beyond."

In terms of quality of life, wealth isn't the whole story. The U.S. is still one of the richest countries on earth but ranks only 28th on the index "falling behind less wealthy countries like Greece, Cyprus and Estonia. The U.S. is just one of three countries in the world that has declined in social progress over the past decade, together with two other fascist-run countries, Brazil and Hungary.

As Avivah Wittenberg-Cox of Forbes pointed out, while all three above-mentioned, declining states are run by populist, male leaders, “the four top-ranked countries in the world on 50 dimensions of wellbeing, in the just-published 2020 Social Progress Index, are all run by … women.” Indeed, Norway, Denmark, Finland and New Zealand occupy the top positions in the overall ranking, performing especially well in the Foundations of Wellbeing dimension; however, there is still room for further improvement in all three dimensions.

Meanwhile, Trumpistan is 91st in the world in access to quality education; 97th in access to healthcare; 95th lowest homicide rate; 100th in avoiding discrimination against minorities...

Yesterday, the U.S. passed the 8 millionth confirmed case-- and went over the 200,000th death. But the stunning series of reports discussed yesterday in ARS Technica goes beyond the obvious to spotlight how badly the U.S. is failing pandemic-wise. "A grim series of articles published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association makes clear just how hard the United States has failed at controlling the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic-- from the country’s horrifying death toll to its inability to drag down its shamefully high death rates."

It was already clear that the US has tallied more deaths from the coronavirus than any other country and has one of the highest death rates per capita in the world. But, according to one article in the series, the US is also failing to lower COVID-19 death rates-- even as harder-hit countries have managed to learn from early disease peaks and bring their rates down substantially.

...If the pandemic continues in the US as it has, the researchers’ estimate suggests that there may be more than 400,000 excess US deaths for the whole of 2020. The significance of this estimate “cannot be overstated,” write Howard Bauchner, editor-in-chief of JAMA, and Phil Fontanarosa, JAMA’s executive editor, in an accompanying editorial. The toll “accounts for what could be declines in some causes of death, like motor vehicle crashes, but increases in others, like myocardial infarction.”

In yet another article, a team of psychiatrists highlights that every single extra death creates its own radius of devastation. “Each COVID-19 death leaves an estimated 9 family members bereaved,” the psychiatrists write. This “projects to an estimated 2 million bereaved individuals in the US,” given the 225,000 extra deaths so far. “Thus, the effect of COVID-19 deaths on mental health will be profound.”

They go on to explain how this tandem epidemic of grief will lead to spikes in prolonged grief disorders, substance abuse, and societal disruption. And this toll doesn’t include the mental health distress of health care workers, who witness first-hand the ravages of COVID-19 disease and deaths.

“In summary, a second wave of devastation is imminent, attributable to mental health consequences of COVID-19,” the psychiatrists write. “The magnitude of this second wave is likely to overwhelm the already frayed mental health system, leading to access problems, particularly for the most vulnerable persons.”

With the extra deaths, long-term health problems, looming mental health crisis, and loss of gross-domestic product from the pandemic, Harvard economists David Cutler and Lawrence Summers estimate that cumulative financial costs of the COVID-19 pandemic will be $16 trillion.

Of course, the health, death, and economic tolls won’t be felt equally, write Lisa Cooper of Johns Hopkins University and David Williams of Harvard. The implications for the United States are “sobering,” they write, but are “even more profound for communities of color.”

“The COVID-19 pandemic has further compounded health, social, and economic disparities in communities of color,” they add. “The effects of 2020 will be felt for years to come.”

You can't just blame Trump. Think of all the help he's had from the Republican Party and particularly from Governors like Ron DeSantis (FL), Greg Abbott (TX), Brian Kemp (GA), Kristi Noem (SD), Doug Ducey (AZ), Mike Parson (MO), Bill Lee (TN), Kim Reynolds (IA) Kay Ivey (AL), Tate Reeves (MS), Henry McMaster (SC), Doug Burgum (ND), Asa Hutchinson (AR), Kevin Stitt (OK) and Pete Ricketts (NE).

Lincoln Project Co-Founder Steve Schmidt Fires Back At Trump And Reduces Him To Charred Cinders

 

-by Noah

For those of you who may still not know, Steve Schmidt is a conservative who worked on several Republican campaigns including those of Arnold Schwarenegger, George Dubya Bush, and John McCain. President Donald J. Biohazard, however, was a bigly bridge too far for a conservative with the smarts of Schmidt. So, patriotic American that he is, he just had to respond when our nutcase Beavis & Butt-head President attacked him as a "Loser" and a "Failure" for forming the Lincoln Project to run advertisements against him that speak truth to such corrupted power as that of Trump and the current Republican Party. What follows is the brilliant combined text of several of Schmidt's tweets back at Trump in response to his endless whining about the ads.

You’ve never beaten me at anything. This is our first dance. Did you like, Covita? We are so much better at this than your team of crooks, wife beaters, degenerates, weirdos and losers.

You are losing. We heard you loved Evita. You saw it so many times. Where will you live out your years in disgrace? Will you buy Jeffrey Epstein’s island? One last extra special deal from him? Or will you be drooling on yourself in a suite at Walter Reed? Maybe you will be in prison?

I bet you fear that. The Manhattan District Attorney may not be around to cover for you or your crooked kids anymore. Eliza Orlins doesn’t believe in different sets of rules for the Trumps. What about the State Attorney General? You know what you’ve done.

Oh, Donald. Who do you owe almost $500 million in personally guaranteed loans to? It's all coming down. You think you and your disgusting family are going to be in deal-flow next year? Are you really that delusional?

You are lucky Chris Wallace interrupted you after Joe Biden said you weren’t smart. You started to melt down. That’s the place that hurts the most. Right? Fred Sr., knew it. You’ve spent your whole life proving it. You aren’t very smart. You couldn’t take the SAT on your own. What was the real score? 970? We both know you know.

Are the steroids wearing off? Is the euphoria fading? Do you feel foggy? Tired? Do you ache? How is the breathing? Hmmm. Are you watching TV today? We will have some nice surprises for you. Everyone is laughing at you. You are a joke. A splendid moron turned deadly clown.

Did you watch Martha McSally in her debate against American hero, fighter pilot, test pilot, astronaut Capt. Mark Kelly? She is so embarrassed by you. She is ashamed and full of self-loathing for the choice she made in following you over the cliff. She is in free fall now. She will lose, like most of them, because of you.

We hear from the White House and the campaign everyday. They are betraying you. They are looking to get out alive and salvage careers and their names. It’s Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner vs. Donald Trump Jr., and Kimberly Guilfoyle on the inside. They are at war over scraps and who gets to command what will be the remnants of your rancid cult.

It’s almost over now. You are the greatest failure in American history. You are the worst president in American history. Disgrace will always precede your name. Your grandchildren and great-grandchildren will grow up ashamed of their names.

One day, I suppose there will be some small and not-much-visited library that bears your name. It will be the type of place where a drunk walks by, staring at the wall for a minute, before deciding it is beneath his dignity to piss on. That’s what is waiting for you.

Joe Biden is a better man. He’s smarter. He’s winning.

Do you remember when you didn’t want to name Donald Trump Jr., Donald because you were worried about him being a loser named Donald? You were right about that. He is.

But it is you who will be remembered as America’s greatest loser. You will be crushed in the election! Shhhhhhhh

Having read Schmidt's response to the baggy-suited, ferret-wearing nutcase who is roaming around the White House and the country spreading his disease, it is clear that Trump will never be in Schmidt's league. Schmidt's writing has an Edgar Allan Poe quality about it. It's certainly time to seal Trump behind a wall.