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What a fine set to pick from Chronic Observer. Thanks to Bill Griffin

V E R S E ❦ I M A G E

[with 4 poems by Doug Stuber]

“Look at that one, Mom, a Rainbow Unicorn Skeleton.”

“Oh my, and all the spiders!”

We’re driving through residential Ardmore in Winston-Salem, just the two of us. An outing! On our way to the pharmacy and yes, we’ll pick up a prescription for Dad, but this is one time we made him stay home. Dad’s 96th birthday is Thursday and this is Mom’s chance to pick out a card, maybe a few goodies. And see all the Halloween decorations.

It’s rare that I have Mom all to myself. At her doctor’s appointments Dad tags along, and well he should since Mom’s memory is failing and he needs to tattle on her. The grocery store, the dry cleaners, Trader Joe’s, those are all on Dad’s agenda; usually Mom stays home with the CNA. As Mom ages she’s become more withdrawn, much more passive, but get…

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Good Luck with Trump

I’m part of a growing movement that would make a public lie (tv, social media, youtube, newspaper, minister, politician) punishable by 100 hours of community service. A big problem is that the USA is so divided many can’t and won’t agree on what the truth is. For instance, in your opinion has Donald Trump ever knowingly lied? Mitch McConnell? My side would have thousands of separate examples for each. But your side might have none. That’s why public lying (which is not protected by the first amendment as in: screaming “fire” in a crowded theater when you know there is none) has to go to court so the DA or State side would have to prove it’s a lie.

I’m sure Fauci was the one who told Trump to ignore Europe, thus making the spread of Covid much worse as Americans from all over the country travel to Europe, where very few other than ethnic Chinese fly back and forth to China comparatively. Both Fauci and Trump were lying when Trump said “we only have 15 cases it will go away soon.” Fauci needed him to say that to assure the quick and deadly spread. Likewise when assuredly Fauci told Trump to pull the mask stunt, and never wear one, Fauci himself said we didn’t need to wear masks, and switched his tune once the Trump followers were hooked. That gave him more time in Trump’s hand-picked Covid team, which gave Gates just what he wanted. Now, with many vaccines gobbled up and Indonesia, the Philippines and India less than 1% vaccinated the death toll in those countries could be 59 million, 49 million and 500 million respectively. That’s a Gates wet dream. None of Africa is over 3% vaccinated so the death toll there should be huge, and, because Fauci had Trump tell his followers not to get vaccinated, the 35% of the US that will remain unvaccinated will assure that the virus is here forever. That’s right, forever. We needed to get to 95% vaccinated long before now to have any lasting effect. These lies spread by the Gates/Fauci/Trump team and their associates have not only killed many more Americans than had to die, it wouldn’t have been possible if just Gates (who wisely stays quiet about it) and Fauci had lied about Covid on their own. Fauci was a double agent and had to appear to be in favor of halting it because that’s his job. Do the strenuous efforts of Trump to lie about all this bother you?

Fauci has been in Gates’ health board for over 20 years, thus he is a double agent. When the President the United States tells people to not wear masks, not get vaccinated, don’t worry about getting tested, he flouts science, and the reality on the ground, assures that 30-40% will never be vaccinated, and Covid will be here forever. This type of lying has damaged our country forever. If the fascist wave, which began in 1980 under Reagan and was at its worst under Bill Clinton, continues one more step, that step will be when Trump gets re-elected in 2024. Nostradamus was correct about his predictions stretching 350 years into the future, 85% of the time. He marked 2025 as the beginning of the wars the end human life in earth. The end? 2035. I studied his prayers and writings a lot because he is a character in my first novel. Trump would be the perfect ambassador for the apocalypse because he already never did a thing about white cops killing unarmed blacks, nor a thing about the environment, nor a thing about poverty, and no truthful words at all about our economy, only the stock market. Like his fellow capitalists, as long as there is a profit to be made it’s good (regardless of environmental impact) and if it costs anything it’s bad because he has to keep cutting taxes for the rich (himself?). Go ahead and stick with Trump. The first thing to fall in 2024 will be democracy in the USA. After that, the sky’s the limit for all the horrors that could spring up

States Run and Certify Elections, not the Supreme Court…it’s right there in the Constitution

If Trump loses, look for big ol’ riots all the way up to civil war.  If he loses, count on him contesting every single ballot submitted before election day.  If the contesting loses in the states he will ILLEGALLY and UNCONSTITUTIONALLY take it to the Supreme Court.  A cursory look at the Constitution finds that elections  shall be carried out and certified by the STATES.  Thus Bush V. Gore was unconstitutional as a SUPREME COURT case because the FEDERAL Supreme Court is NOT ALLOWED TO WEIGH IN.  But now that the UGLY precedent has been set, Trump will go there if he loses.  In the Supreme Court, even if Trump loses 50 states, if they vote him in, HE’S in.  How do I know? 

When all votes were finally counted in Florida, in 2000, the Supreme Court had already declared Bush the winner.  The final count  (as paid for by the AP and Rolling Stone Magazine) showed the Bush did not win by 7000 votes, but Gore had won Florida by 53,000 votes.  The Supreme Court both made an unconstitutional ruling, but also picked the wrong winner, and didn’t care, because that body has been politicized since 1934 when they MISTAKENLY ruled that INDIVIDUALS have a right to bear arms (The gun industry paid for that ruling, I assure you) when the constitution CLEARLY states that the only time an American Citizen can carry a gun is in a “well-regulated militia.”
Unlike the Proud Boys, KKK, 3% or any of the other 940 hate groups recently delineated by the Southern Poverty Law Center,  a group I trust, well-regulated means regulated by a state, by it’s law officers, by its National Guard maybe, but certainly NOT a militia of men who, like poke buddies, have certain prejudices and mind-sets that are detrimental to society.

So if Trump loses look for riots and possibly a civil war, especially if the Supreme Court denies even hearing his case, AS THEY SHOULD.  
And if Trump wins?   >>> …. Autocratic Fascism for the rest of the history of the USA, that’s all.

Covid list of “accomplishments” or, Covid Uber Alles

Halted CHINESE incoming flights, but not incoming from Europe. Blew six weeks talking it down or ignoring it.

No test kits meant early test and trace was impossible. Why no kits? Somehow China had millions of kits in no time. Trump refused to buy kits from China. Jack Ma (Baidu) offered 166,000 free kits and Yrump turned them down.

During the early PPE crisis trump had FENA outbid states fir ol much needed supplies. Why? This drive the price of gowns for instance, to prices six times their norm. Trump-assisted gauging?

He asked those “standing by” to liberate Virginia, Illinois and Michigan from their evil, lockdown, self quarantining governments. Militiamen entered the Capitol in Lansing toting guns, were not stopped by police or security. Why not?

Trump insisted that states reopen in the summer so republican governors in states like Georgia, Florida and Texas did so. To horrific results.

All the time flouting mask-wearing and mocking scientists at rallies. he also disdains global wRming and climate change as wildfires scorch 14 states and Louisiana gets hit 7 times by flood causing hurricanes and UF, does he visit the sites to console anyone? Or the families of the 231,000 dead? Nope.

Instead he says hospitals and doctors get paid bonuses for counting any dead as Corona dead. seriously. There are people who swear this is true.

Whatever happened to test and trace?

Finally,, he gave up fighting it. But he never began so is that a double coward or a

Reprehensible murderer?

Either way, by missing the one chance we had, Trump has assured that the USA will have to lock down again because a safe vaccine is at least 8 months away. (June 2021?) compare our numbers to any of 174 other countries and you will find us dead last n fighting this bug. This not wearing masks are the ones who will lead in not taking the vaccine. That means Covid Uber Alles

The mess ahead

And all this time I was leaning toward a conspiracy theory that put Fauci and Gates together also. Large gatherings can still be held in zoom. Anyway this theory goes that the pandemic was hatched at Harvard, transplanted to China and then spread from Wuhan. In this one two CHINESE researchers at Harvard snuck the early version to WuHan in their socks. Either way, Fauci has been on Gates Health board for 21 years and for even longer than THAT Gates has trumpeted population control. I wondered why the CDC didn’t test and trace right away as China, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea had. But every single country has done better in beating the bug back, making the USA not only a laughing stock, but full of tragedy right now. 1) Trump refused to buy test kits from China, the only country making enough of them to be of assistance 2) Trump admitted he wanted to downplay the problem because it could hurt his re-election campaign. 3) this new surge is so massive only testing is available now as it would take 50 million people to trace at this point. 4) the US has 50 million or more out of work. Hey, why not hire them as tracers? But nooooooooo. And that’s similar to the $1.3 trillion Trump promised to spend in infrastructure then never spent a dime: both make sense but would be too much like FDR’s plans (Ccc and all) that stopped starvation and created amazing items like Black Mountain arts, thousands of paid photographers and the Blue Ridge Parkway and the Taconic Parkway. A touch of socialism to save the day. Also note that China was fully ready with the exact right test kits BEFORE the bug was let loose. That suggests they knew it was coming. Lastly, Trump refused FREE test kits (166,000 for starters) from Jack Ma the founder of Bidu. Why? I suggest that, and the 19 decisions Trump made that worsened the problem (especially reopening too soon) including having FEMA outbid states for precious protective supplies, never instituting a national plan to rid the bug, pushing lethal ventilators to be built, and demanding that schools reopen at 5 days a week or they lose their money. Also doing so without providing the money to secure the schools. He probably knows that the average teacher gets 2.5 flus per year and that reopening would assure a large number of lefties got wiped out, as conservatives teach at charter schools and private schools but public schools pay so little (barring NY and CA) which conservative would work there? Throw in a heavy dose of pulling out all high speed sorters from post offices and then destroying their expensive lasers, and PRESTO you have a case for TRUMP being the alternate society builder based on his rules, not the constitution, that’s for sure. I blame Dems too, especially Pelosi who impeached on two counts, ignoring 1.9 years of investigation by Mueller. !she should have impeached on 183 counts including the smashing of the emoluments code. Plus, ever skip court once subpoenaed? Fir And all this time I was leaning toward a conspiracy theory that put Fauci and Gates together also. Large gatherings can still be held in zoom. Anyway this theory goes that the pandemic was hatched at Harvard, transplanted to China and then spread from Wuhan. In this one two CHINESE researchers at Harvard snuck the early version to WuHan in their socks. Either way, Fauci has been on Gates Health board for 21 years and for even longer than THAT Gates has trumpeted population control. I wondered why the CDC didn’t test and trace right away as China, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea had. But every single country has done better in beating the big back, making the USA not only a laughing stock, but full of tragedy right now. 1) Trump refused to buy test kits from China, the only country making enough of them to be of assistance 2) Trump admitted he wanted to downplay the problem because it could hurt his re-election campaign. 3) this new surge is so massive only testing is available now as it would take 50 million people to trace at this point. 4) the US has 50 million or more out of work. Hey, why not hire them as tracers? But nooooooooo. And that’s similar to the $1.3 trillion Trump promised to spend in infrastructure then never spent a dime: both make sense but would be too much like FDR’s plans (Ccc and all) that stopped starvation and created amazing items like Black Mountain arts, thousands of paid photographers and the Blue Ridge Parkway and the Taconic Parkway. A touch of socialism to save the day. Also note that China was full ready with the exact right test kits BEFORE the big was let loose. That suggests they knew it was coming. Lastly, Trump refused FREE test kits (166,000 for starters) from Jack Ma the founder of Bidu. Why? I suggest that, and the 19 decisions Trump made that worsened the problem (especially reopening too soon) including having FEMA outbid states for precious protective supplies, never instituting a national plan to rid the bug, pushing lethal ventilators to be built, and demanding tgat schools reopen at 5 days a week or they lose their money. Also doing so without providing the money to secure the schools. He probably knows that the average teacher gets 2.5 flus per year and that reopening would assure a large number of lefties got wiped out, as conservatives teach at charter schools and private schools but public schools pay so little (barring NY and CA) which conservative would work there. Throw in a heavy dose of pulling out all high speed sitters and then destroying their expensive lasers, and PRESTO you have a case fir TRUMP being the alternate society builder based on his rules, not the constitution, that’s for sure. I blame Dems too, especially Pelosi who impeached on two counts, ignoring 1.9 years of investigation by Mueller: she should have impeached on 183 counts including the smashing of the emoluments code. Plus, ever skip court once subpoenaed? For everyone but white house workers, that’s instant contempt of court (or Congress) and jail time until you DO testify. Barr is culpable, as he was when he invented laws that allowed/justified Bush’s filthy Iraq/Afghan wars. Pelosi has always sucked up to Republican ideas, and in reality both major parties are the same except for the attempted elimination of coal by Obama. Otherwise he expanded Bush’s war by five more countries. Did zippo on the global warming front, nothing to improve the lives of the impoverished, and pushed the TPP which would have shipped even more jobs away. Biden, if elected, will do nothing to reverse the fascist take over that began in 1980. In fact he often put forth bills that asked fir more military spending THAN THE PENTAGON WANTED. Vote Howie Hawkins for real change. Ha, Biden won’t be able to cure the pandemic, nor will vaccines, as a recent poll found 51% of America would refuse to take it (wisely) as it takes 4-6 years to develop a safe vaccine.

This piece is in response to this clown:

“The Breakaway Civilization can, and will, employ many different means of destruction in order to effect the controlled demolition of advanced industrial societies. At the time of writing, in the year 2020, we are already witnessing the first of these: an artificially engineered pandemic. Although COVID-19 was engineered at the Wuhan Virology Laboratory in Chinea, those who invested in the ‘Gain of Function’ research that produced it were Western corporatists, such as Bill Gates. Their main aim in producting a pandemic with such a long incubation period and low mortality rate is to bring about a protracted global lockdown that would most adversely effect dense metropolitan areas. The institutionalization of social distancing and the effective prohibition of large gatherings is not only meant to constrain the possibility of political protest, but also to make cities and their dependent suburbs increasingly unattractive locales for habitation.” – Jason Reza Jorjani

Why Trump is failing

Trump refused to buy test kits from China. That meant no test and trace in the first week (s) and once those weeks were gone, no tracing happened either. With millions out if work tracing could have been easy. But no.

South Korea: 536 dead. USA 225,000 dead and were expecting 200,000 more by January. Yes the USA has 6 times more people, but that would be 3300 dead by comparison The Difference? test, trace, contain. Humans their favor the good of their culture over the “needs” of individuals: everyone wore masks, everyone potentially infected self-quarantined. And by god they beat it but good.

So trump told supporters to skip wearing masks, and pushed states to reopen, and got armed militias to try to “liberate” Michigan, Illinois and Virginia. Before that he had FEMA outbid states for vital supplies. This raised prices six-fold in some states. Why did he do this?

Jack Ma, the founder of Bidu, China’s Google, offered 166,000 test kits for free! Trump turned them down. he told school districts that if they did not reopen full time he would cut off their money! Is this helpful?

He’s got a skyrocketing stock market mostly because the federal reserve pumps millions per day into it. It’s a fake height, and could correct to the tune of down 25% if the fed ever stopped pumping money in. Ah but Corona has been a monumental mess up. Or has Trump offered the sacrifice of Americans as part of his larger schemes to ruin our standing abroad, divide the country irreparably, ruin our leadership Rolex in NATO. He wanted to pull out of NATO!, he jumped out of both the Paris Accords and the Trans-Pacifico’s Partnership, created poverty for Soy Bean Farmers…see the trend? Watching Americans die under the “it is what it is,” banner.

In this case Corona becomes not the way Trump may lose, but a purposeful following of orders from afar. Like pulling mostly out of Syria (enter RUSSIA) and taking 12,000 troops out of Germany (enter…?). Screwing the relationship with China also contributes to Emperor Vlad.

If Trump loses he will contest the election. If, based on an unconstitutional over-reach by the Supreme Court in Bush v Gore (2000) they’ve set an unconstitutional precedent, trump could go straight there to steal the election. Or call in militias to take matters into their hands. And many other ors. Many other possibilities, because Pelosi and others reduced their role as a checker of the executive branch on TWO counts, when 183 counts of illegal activity could have been brought in an impeachment. the dems used 0 of what Mueller dug up. Pelosi is the same type of Dem Bill Clinton was: highly conservative in open or behind closed doors.

Why did so many unanswered subpoenas NOT result in jail time until those subpoenaed finally testified? I guess it’s because too many dems are in on whatever this fffffing scheme really is. Sure trump will leave the USA if he loses. But will he ever admit he lost?

September art, 2020

Opus 2253 24×36 on wood with hobby horse root $850
Opus 2253 24 x 36 on wood with hobby horse root $850
Opus 2244. 36×36 on wood $1000
Opus 2247. 12×36 on wood $500
Opus 2271. 12×36. On wood 500
Opus 2373 12×36 on canvas $500
Opus 2269 16×24 on wood $600
Opus 2283 36×36 $1000
Opus 2272 36 x 36. $1000
Opus 2282. 48 x 48 $2400
Opus 2380. 36×36. $1000
Opus 2246. 36 x 36 $1000
Opus 2277 24×36 $850
Opus 2281 36×36 on wood $1000
Opus 2276 24×36 on wood $850
Opus 2275 36 x 36 $1000
Opus 2273 12×36 $500
Opus 2266 36 x 36 on wood $1000
Opus 2278 36 x 36 on wood $1000

Art Update 27 Aug. 2020

Opus 2259 View 1
Opus 2259 View 2
Opus 2259 view 3. Pillbox Hat Box, 24 x 36 assemblage, $800
Opus 2260, 36 x 36 on wood, with Spatula and File, $1200
Opus 2261, 36 x 36, on wood, $1200
Opus 2262, 24 x 36 on wood, $800
Opus 2264, 24 x 30, on canvas $600

Art: Seven More from Corona, June 2020

Opus 2208, 48 x 48 on canvas, unframed, $2400

Opus 2208, 48 x 48 on canvas, unframed, $2400

 

Opus 2247 Space Gonad II, 12 x 36 on wood, $500, unframed

Opus 2247 Space Gonad II, 12 x 36 on wood, $500, unframed

 

Opus 2245 Charged Up Boar, 23 x 36 on wood, $850, unframed

Opus 2245 Charged Up Boar, 23 x 36 on wood, $850, unframed

Opus 2252, Choate Hobby Horse, assemblage, 24 x 36, on wood

Opus 2252, Choate Hobby Horse, assemblage, 24 x 36, on wood

Opus 2250, Mushroom, on wood 36 x 36, unframed, $1000

Opus 2250, Mushroom, on wood 36 x 36, unframed, $1000

 

Oopus 2251, Greater Than, Lesser Than, 12 x 48

Opus 2251, Greater Than, Lesser Than, 12 x 48

 

Opus 2254, Kissing Fishes, 12 x 48, on wood, $750, unframed

Opus 2254, Kissing Fishes, 12 x 48, on wood, $750, unframed

Art, Four from July 2020

Opus 2134, 24 x 24,

Opus 2134, 24 x 24,on wood, in display box, $600

 

Opus 2197.5n canvas, unframed, 24 x 30 $400,

Opus 2197.5 on canvas, unframed, 24 x 30 $400,

 

Opus 2194.7 24 x 24 on canvas, unframed, $600

Opus 2194.7 24 x 24 on canvas, unframed, $600

 

Opus 2198 24 x 24 on cnvas, unframed $600

Opus 2198 24 x 24 on canvas, unframed $600