The Loser | Tom Camfield

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A recent HuffPost story by Lee Moran noted a recent book in which Trump biographer Michael D’Antonio (Pulitzer Prize winner) turned one of Donald’s favorite insults — “loser” — against him. D’Antonio described Trump’s refusal to accept defeat in the 2020 election as “buffoonery” . . .  He is a “profoundly incompetent person, a loser, if you might say,” he told a CNN news show. D’Antonio, who wrote the 2016 book "The Truth About Trump," said the president was “failing at this essential task” of admitting defeat and that “we all lose at various moments.”

Indeed. The ability to write large checks at opportune moments often is pawned off as synonymous with intelligence in short-sighted circles, but I tend to have more admiration for what’s been uncovered in the scientific world of reality in recent years.

For instance:

“A drug repeatedly and erroneously pushed by President Donald Trump earlier this year as a positive treatment for coronavirus has been linked to psychiatric disorders.

“Chloroquine and a related compound, hydroxychloroquine — which was heavily touted by Trump — were reviewed earlier this year by a medical agency of the European Union after notification from Spain’s drug authority of six cases of mental disturbances linked to coronavirus patients on high doses of the medicines. The European Medicines Agency revealed the latest concerns Friday [Nov. 27, see HuffPost] and has recommended that the product information for the medicines be updated to inform health care professionals of the psychiatric risks . . .”

Gives one pause.

Donald’s also a white supremacist, a misogynist, xenophobic racist, a cheat — and likely the world’s most-accomplished liar . . .

So figuring to be so popular and all (and ever up on the latest medications), he figures he’ll run down to Georgia and star in a big pep rally gathering — the sort of thing that is keeping the coronavirus alive . . . red “MAGA” caps instead of masks . . . a “super-spreader” of the pandemic that has infected more than 13 million and killed some 260,000 Americans during the past nine months — that Donald couldn’t control with lies and vague generalities. We’re hoping that the public, a public freed of its chains by mail ballots, will see to putting Donald on record as a LOSER once again — as he throws Georgia’s Republican governor and others under the bus at his convenience.

At stake in the interim are: a two-year term in a special election for one U.S. Senate position and a full six-year term in a runoff where both of the top two candidates also received less than 50 percent of the vote. For the unexpired term, Kelly Loeffler (the wealthiest member of Congress) is finishing her initial year as a Republican appointee and is opposed by the Rev. Dr. Raphael Warnock. In the other much-closer race former-journalist Jon Ossoff is challenging David Perdue, also a wealthy Republican incumbent. These contests will be on a Jan. 5 ballot.

Just in case, Donald will continue to sow doubt as a feckless substitution for admission of defeat — and already is bleating how both elections have been “rigged” against Republicans well ahead of Election Day.

Computer problems have put me out of touch since I posted my last blog Nov. 18. I’d like to urge any of you immigrants who manage to reach the test for U.S. citizenship — don’t expect a passing grade by following the belief of my main responder that the main branches of our government are the House of Representatives, the Senate and the Presidency.

Officially, the three branches of our government are THE LEGISLATIVE, THE EXECUTIVE and THE JUDICIAL. Democrats controlled just half of the legislative branch prior to the Nov. 3 election.

Judicially, the Supreme Court’s new conservative majority showed its muscle on Thanksgiving Eve, with Justice Amy Coney Barrett playing a key role in reversing the court’s past deference to local officials when weighing pandemic-related restrictions on religious organizations.

All three of Trump’s nominees to the court were in the 5-to-4 majority that blocked New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s restrictions on houses of worship in temporary hot spots where the coronavirus is raging. So Donald has managed to annul the separation of church and state — even if it involves the separation of life and death. However, I more may be heard on this and it may not be quite the same as yelling “fire” in crowded theater.

BULLETIN — A $3-million Trump-sponsored recount of the Wisconsin vote showed that 87 BIDEN voters were somehow missed along the way.