Trump “I Know So Much About the Coronavirus Because of Natural Ability”

Disagree vehemently.

Mish stands for common sense, which is far less common that presupposed. The thing with intelligence is that it undivided. It is a myth that you can be an expert on doorknobs even though you are nincompoop on a flat tire. No. You either have sense, or you don’t. A philosophy professor that can’t fix a flat tire will be no use to you on the subject of the nature of reality.

I am no supporter of Trump but preferred him to the alternatives (more chance of nuclear conflict with Russia, more war-mongering, more corruption & identity politics). Still, I have always known that the average high school student has a better grasp of geopolitical relations than does Trump, even though he says things that are true. But most of what Hitler said was true as well, otherwise nobody will listen to you.

Wow, there seems to be so much wrong here. DNA frequencies? That’s new to me.

There is a Michael Jordan at Tufts – no Michael Lewin. His specialty is HIV research, not DNA frequencies.

link to tuftsmedicalcenter.org

Please link to the paper where he discusses changing DNA frequencies due to telemere attenuation in humans. I’m genuinely interested if this isn’t a Trump-like word-salad of various bizarre concepts strung together to sound credible.

Otherwise people might think you are just MSU. Heaven forbid!

So: you think Pelosi and Schumer and the Press are into ‘burying their hatchets’ (not to mention the Press which is almost openly run by various intel agencies, most of whom are dead set against this President)? I think not.

Trump is punch drunk from being attacked non-stop since his election and too many of those attacks have been unmerited, indeed criminally treasonous. He really should shut up on this one (but then so should hundreds of others who are politicizing it all shamelessly and he has risen to the bait).

So he’s been behind the curve on this one, seemingly, but don’t discount no end of treachery from within the Gov, so many of whom have publicly admitted that their mission is to obstruct and ‘resist,’ to make him fail, even if that means the country fails in the process. Like they had a plan with tests from the beginning, but it didn’t come through for reasons I didn’t yet glean. Sabotage is quite possible given how much of it there’s been already. Or tactically: they might have finally boxed him into a lose-lose situation which he has managed (miraculously) to avoid thus far: if he projects firm ‘in control’ leadership he’s an idiot; if he projects how chaotic the entire thing is, he’s a loser. So he’s fighting back with his usual salesman tactics and digging himself into a deeper hole. This might even be an inflection point in his Presidency, but his track record of being able to turn things around would tend to suggest otherwise. His boasting comments at that conference seemed very much like deliberate trolling, so maybe he has something up his sleeve, a Big Card soon to be played.

But playing political tactics games with situations involving death from disease is unforgivable. However, I cannot put it all on him: this President hasn’t been given a break by the Press or Elites since the day of his election so if they want a huge mess – which seemingly they do – he cannot prevent it.

In any case, Trump aside, it’s become a sine qua non of pretty much any genuine crisis that the government which has been gobbling up billions and trillions to prepare for such things seems to have dropped the ball entirely. (9/11, border control, finances, foreign affairs crises and on and on.) I’ve felt for years now that the only way to save the country is to dismantle the Federal Govt entirely, go back to the States, wait a generation, then try again but this time without the Federal Reserve credit cartel at the helm.

The US no longer seems a viable Republic to me, but that’s how it’s felt since JFK got assassinated on national TV and the country bought into the ludicrous explanations provided by the perpetrators; yet she keeps chugging along somehow, so I’ve given up on ‘worriting’ about it one way or another.

Including right now: my working assumption is that this is going to be a nastier-than-usual flu which has a higher-than-usual chance of carrying off myself and many of my old friends, but apart from that not nearly as big a deal as people are making of it. It would be nice if the USG could have tests ready, get organised, provide clear guidelines and that States would follow along, but it’s not going to happen and it will all be Trump’s fault in the mind of half the country, and the whole thing will further fuel Big Government, Mendacious Press, Big Brother Intel Community, Bloated Military and last but not least, the Credit Cartels. In the larger context, all Presidents and elections are just the bread and circuses provided to give citizens the illusion of being in a well-ordered Republic based on Rule of Law and a Constitution. It’s theatre.

Meanwhile – hate to say it – but (for long-termers) Kudlow might be right: ‘buy the dips.’

Knowing what you don’t know makes you better at being a doctor, and better at a lot of things. It seems to have a poor correlation with winning elections, though.

Trump clearly has strong narcissistic personality features. Hard to say whether he has the “personality disorder” because he’s “functional,” ie objectively successful in work, love and play. (I don’t think the criteria were designed to deal with people who inherit massive wealth, though.). I do think Trump displays an unusual amount of overt narcissism even for a politician.

As much ridicule as that exposes him to from haters, it clearly doesn’t speak to his ability to compete with at least some other presidential challengers.

It also does not speak directly to whether he is your best of the few available crappy choices in the USA. Living in MA my opinion is irrelevant on presidential choice. Pick your political poison and decide.

I kind of loathe Trump on a personal level, but, like Mish, I don’t much care for any of my plausible choices (if I were in a swing state and they mattered).