Birtherism, Pence, and Trump’s Muddying Masks and Voting

Birtherism Strikes VP Mike Pence

While not explicit, the Constitution clearly assumes that a candidate for President or Vice President must be a human being who can think independently.  This clearly rules out a computer or cyborg from becoming President or VP.  We humans have to stick together on this, since soon, computers will surpass us in all areas.  Plus, computers can work 24/7, instead of just 2/5, and computers can monitor all TV channels in all languages, instead of just Fox News.   A computer also won’t waste 267 days during the most urgent times trying to hit a tiny ball into a tiny cup, over and over again.  Even if our current President only played 18 holes an outing, that’s about 83 x 267 = 22,161 shots (the 2.8 handicap probably includes 10 mulligans). 

Now, after four years of closely observing everything that VP Pence has said and done, it is 100% certain that he is an Obsequion, not a human.  The Constitution requires a Naturally born citizen.  There is nothing Natural about being born an Obsequion.  I would take a thinking Cyborg or even an algorithmic Cyborg over an Obsequion any day.  Should something happen to the President, an Obsequion will only imitate the way the President trained him.  But our President changes policies and statements every day.  So the Obsequion would only follow the last day’s policy, and would not adapt to advisors who always change it, and could not deal with any new situations.

The best question asked at the Trump political talk today within the White House was whether Trump regrets telling all of his lies.  Trump didn’t answer, but at least he didn’t storm out of the room.

What is it with Trump and basements?  Trump said that Biden wanted us all to hide in basements for three months.  Biden only said that we should wear masks when outside for three months.  Trump claims that he backs masks, but then said:  maybe they are great, maybe they are good, and maybe they are not so good, again muddying the most important message he could ever give.  Trump also yacked on about our freedoms.  Every one of our freedoms is limited by not harming others or ourselves, which is the whole point of wearing masks and taking vaccines (I just got my flu shot.). 

Trump also said that (Senator) Kamala Harris was not born in our country.  She was born in California, like I was.  It doesn’t matter that her parents were not citizens (14th Amendment).  I should note that they met at UC Berkeley, and that Senator Harris received her J.D. from UC Berkeley Hastings Law School.  She graduated from Howard University.  Senator Harris’s mother was a Biochemist, and her father an Economist.

By the way, I am very happy to have a woman candidate for Vice President.  Also, the University and Science profession has been talking about how to help professional people of color.  Having leaders of color clearly inspires students of color to rise to their best.

I get about 100 pieces of mail a month.  Sending me one ballot, and taking my one ballot mail is not going to be a disaster.  The only disasters will be Trump’s suits against mail-in ballots, installing a partisan backer to head and cripple the postal service, and withholding funds to count mail ballots.  Again, Trump explicitly told Iran, N. Korea, and China (not Russia) how to mess up the election by mailing fake ballots.  Forcing us to face uncleanable touch screen voting machines during a pandemic, after a half hour of claiming that he has done everything to fight the Coronavirus, is quite a hypocrisy by Trump.  It is so odd that Trump had not known from the start that it is mostly Republicans who vote by mail.  Trump had to backtrack on that for Florida and Arizona.

The other hypocrisy, is that during the pandemic and the coming holiday season, people are going to be mostly shopping by mail.  Expanding the mail system is a key part of our economic recovery.  Ruining the postal system is counter to the President’s and the country’s economic recovery.  The mail system also delivers medicine on a tight schedule.  They also deliver bills with deadlines.  Trump is so far removed from ordinary life, that he knows nothing of this.

There are now 166,000 American deaths definitely tested to be due to the Coronavirus.  But the total excess deaths in the country from March 1st to July 25th are 219,000.   There have been around 1,000 Coronavirus deaths a day for 18 days since then, so the current number of excess deaths must be greater than 237,000.  Also, the US deaths on July 24 were 144,000, which adds about 20,000.  The 237,000 total deaths is 43% larger than the tested deaths.  While some of the extra deaths are from the Coronavirus, others are from delayed or poor health care because of the pandemic.  They would not have occurred if we had successfully stopped the virus as other countries have.

About Dennis SILVERMAN

I am a retired Professor of Physics and Astronomy at U C Irvine. For two decades I have been active in learning about energy and the environment, and in reporting on those topics for a decade. For the last four years I have added science policy. Lately, I have been reporting on the Covid-19 pandemic of our times.
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