What Terrifies Me July 2020 Edition

Where we are as a nation, heading into the month of July:

On the battlefields of Afghanistan where the United States still deploys troops trying to resolve a war since September 11 2001, we're getting told that Russia's GRU - Putin's dirty war handlers - started in 2018 offering bounties to Taliban militants for every American soldier confirmed killed. The reports were confirmed by American intel people and presented to trump's White House by late March of this year... whereupon trump did NOTHING except increase his praise of Putin, try to force the G7 nations to re-include Russia in their clique by late May, and pretty much sit on his ass for three months until the reports leaked to the major news outlets (even Fox Not-News confirmed the reports were legit).

While the realities of war are that there will be bloodshed and questionable acts - the whole Cold War between USSR and America was pretty much both sides using proxy nations and guerrilla fighters to make the other side bleed - the Bounty program is an aggressive, offensive step by Russia that you'd think requires a direct and hard response from the U.S. towards that nation. The specific targeting of troops during a period of time when our nation was trying to engage the Taliban into peace talks to resolve 18-plus years of war, THIS requires a harsh rebuke, proportional responses, sanctions, public condemnation on the floor of the UN, something... and trump did nothing.

The White House is now claiming the intel wasn't verified so they had no reason to react, previously it was claiming trump never even saw the report. That part is actually provable: It's been well documented already that trump does not read his daily briefs.

But one of two things are at play here: Either trump is truly ignorant of his duties and fails to do even the basic minimum required of the high office, or trump did learn of the GRU bounty program and decided to do nothing because he's too beholden to his BFF Putin to defend our own nation's interests and our own troops. Either of these should be considered serious breaches of his Oath of Office. These are impeachable offenses (again).

After all the bullshit over Benghazi, here's trump committing an even greater affront to the men and women who are serving our nation overseas, and here's the Republican Party most likely ignoring it like the hypocritical bastards they've always been.

While all this is going on, trump has fully abdicated his duties to the nation in trying to curb the spread of the COVID-19 Coronavirus. No matter how he tries to deny it the pandemic and trump's failure to see the reality of it - the nation's economy cannot fully recover while COVID threatens everyone, there is no cure coming in time to help him recover the economy - condemns himself.

Speaking of the pandemic, the spike in cases over the last two weeks prove the United States is nowhere near "getting back to normal" and that the craziness of public gatherings since Memorial Day weekend have boosted the dynamics of COVID-19 into high gear. The virus is now clogging up hospitals in Florida, Texas, and Arizona to where the likelihood of COVID-related deaths are going to spike as well. We are, as God would say to us, royally fucked.

The one thing that hasn't happened is in relation to the Black Lives Matter protests that have gone global this past month. So far, in somewhat good news, the protests' disregard for social distancing hasn't led to any proven increase in COVID spread. That's probably because the protesters actually take things like masks and hand-washing absolutely seriously. In the bad news category, the protests show no sign of abating because there's no sign the police unions are going to give up their abuse of powers any time soon. This is going to be a long slog well into November and beyond...

And it's not even July yet.