Let’s get started:
1) Bernie Sanders is running for President on the Democratic ticket. He has no medical training or any kind of health care training. But like many politicians, that would never stop someone like him from voicing a stupid and ignorant opinion without any rational thought or basis.
He recently did such a thing. He recently opined that coronavirus could kill more Americans than U.S. soldiers died in World War II which was over 400,000 people. Let’s do some simple math:
- The death rate of those that contract the disease is about 3%.
- Which means that for Sanders to be right, 400,000 deaths, the total number of Americans that contract the disease would be over 13,000,000, a number we are nowhere close to so far.
- Less than 50 Americans nationwide have died from this virus so far, a far cry from Sanders fear mongering 400,000, .0125%.
- In the worst flu season of recent times, 2017-2018, about 61,000 Americans died from that strong flu strain, about 15% the size of what Sanders says could happen.
Could he be right? Possible. Should we wash our hands, avoid crowds, and anyone who may be sick, either with the flu or the coronavirus? Certainly. But given his total lack of expericne in the field and his desire for media air time for his failing Presidential run, forecasting the future, especially stupid forecasts, have to be taken lightly. Keep in mind the words of a great American philosopher, Groucho Marx: “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.” Sanders is no exception to this reality.
2) Michael Bloomberg is already out of the 2020 Presidential race, having spent almost half a billion dollars for virtually no return. But that does not mean he did not lie like a long term politician:
- According to Politico, Bloomberg had promised people that he had hired for his Presidential campaign that they would have a job until November even if he withdrew from the race.
- But now it seems that he is firing staffers across the country despite promising them that they would have a job until almost the end of the year.
- And while they will get to keep their Bloomberg campaign-issued iPhones and MacBooks, they will have to apply for a new job with Bloomberg’s political action team if they still want a job.
- However, most staffers will get their last Bloomberg paycheck on March 31, eight months before they were supposed to be let go.
- This is a serious breach of the original promise of employment until November which would include a monthly salary up to $6,000 along with a $5,000 relocation bonus and with full dental, healthy, and vision benefits.
- One staffer, according to Politico, thinks the job opportunities offer has a shady side to it: “I think they are using the FEC regulations as an excuse to lay off a bunch of people” because they have to set up a new political entity.
- Another Bloomberg staffer had the following take on this lie: “I didn’t think I was going to have to apply for a job. It was presented as being automatic. Field organizers were told during interviews that they had a guaranteed job through November.”
3) The state of California is in pretty poor shape. It’s infrastructure is among the worst in the country, its schools are terrible, its tax burden on citizens and businesses are back breaking, it has over $200 billion in unfunded liabilities, and it has a homeless problem that is so bad that that the state has 53% of the entire nation’s homeless population, a homeless population that has already led to the revival of at least one Medieval disease, typhus.
Given these crises, one would hope that the state’s political class and state government was focused on fixing on many, if not all, of these critical crises. But as always with California politicians, their priorities are elsewhere and they are pathetic:
- One state California politician thinks that it is horrible that clothes stores have separate displays for boys clothes and girl clothes.
- And he wants to punish California stores that dare to separate boys and girls clothes.
- California politician, Evan Low, has drafted legislation called AB2826 that would fine stores that had separate areas by gender for children.
- He says this idiocy was inspired by a discussion with an 8 year old kid on why stores should tell the kid what is a girl’s piece of clothing or toy and what is a boy’s piece of clothing or toy.
- The penalty for daring to separate boys and girls products would be $1,000 for each infraction.
- This is obviously a bone thrown to the LGBTQ lobby at the expense of convenience for shoppers.
Stupid priorities of California politicians, Bloomberg stiffs his staff, and Bernie Sanders talks about something he has no knowledge about. Stupid, cheap, and ignorant, sound about right for American politicians.
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