4/20/2020 - Sheltering In Place Chronicles on National Weed Day

4/20 in 2020 is more or less a bust. No big gatherings, no contacts, no contact high. Don't even want to get high. Just want to get Drumpf out of office. True dat.

I can't quite keep up with the pace of this blog, folks, but I'm going to keep trying. I have gotten out of sequence with the days, so please bear with me. I might post a few pages as "Under Construction" so I can maintain the ordering of the posts.

Think it's time to employ the 25th Amendment, don't you? This President has endangered lives and allowed people to die because of his inaction, because he is more concerned about the state of the stock market and being re-elected. (Because once he's out of office - whooie, mamma -- those lawsuits are gonna fall down upon him.) 

He's becoming erratic: see his whipsaw behavior around State responsibility for dealing with COVID -19. I mean, check this out:

•  first, the states must take full  responsibility to provide health care, get PPE supplies for their hospitals and devise thier own rules and regs about how to deal with the virus because he and the Republican Federal Gov't weren't taking any responsibility. They weren't going to provide PPE supplies on a national basis (even though that's their job), they couldn't supply tests, they weren't going to enforce a unified policy to defend against the disease. Enacting a full national shut down, due to our lack of testing and preparedness, would have been the only sure way to beat the disease - and he refused to do it. Up to the States, he said.
• Then, two months later, Drumpf insisted he had total authority to force the states to open their economies (which no President can do to a State) by May 1st. Clueless there, and obviously not listening to any advisor.
•  When the Governors rightfully refused to budge, he acknowledged the Governors did have the authority over their own states about returning to full economies. Someone must have gotten through to him about the legalities. Wonder how anyone does that?
• Then he publicly urged people in those states to LIBERATE their states* --that is,  to actively disobey the laws and regulations of their state and protest in groups for the right to re-start all commerce, to repeal the shut-down orders - in effect, calling for rebellion against a State Government. This is so against US Constitutional law that I can't imagine anyone with a grasp of how our government works is able to keep breakfast down.  

Who can keep track of it all? Certainly not Governor Brian Kemp, who decided to open Georgia right up, got approval from Drumpf one evening and then was called out the next day by Drumpf for opening too soon and too fast. When are these Republicans going to learn that Drumpf has absolutely no loyalty to anyone? No point in trying to please Daddy when Daddy is an Abuser by Nature  and simply changes the rules whenever he so desires. And laughs at you when you complain.

Why is this not the time to enact the 25th Amendment and get him out of office, so the country can begin to re-assemble, begin to heal?  Perhaps because the chaos would be insurmountable in this time of The Virus?
So we must VOTE HIM OUT.
You betcha.
I'm just not so confident that we will last that long at the rate he's going.  He is acting more and more erratic and the campaigns haven't even begun yet.


* And yet how many people really showed up to these Liberation Protests? And who were they, exctly? Seems like many of them were organized as groups to participate in this exercise, rather than a true gathering of citizens.  Most citizens with a solid understanding of the Germ Theory of Disease ( i.e. almost everyone except Drumpf)  support sheltering as long as we can stand it. As Robert Hubbell asserts in his newsletter, there weren't that many Liberationsist, compared to the many more who stayed away, keeping quarantine.  And given the contagiousness of the virus, how many of these protesters will be ill in two weeks, how many will need to be hospitalized?
So there is that.
We wish them well, we really do. But I didn't see much in the way of preventative action  (masks, distancing) in the few pictures I saw.

p.p.s. will look for the articles to support my points above.