Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets

Donald Trump in front of an audience, cannot stop himself from saying anything to please, to connect with his audience. Lies abundantly flow like an infinite river. We now have a CURE for Covid-19 he told his NBC interviewer on television last night. Untrue. We have drugs that ameliorate symptoms, like he received Regeneron and Remdesivir, with a little anti-inflammatory steroid on the side: dexamethasone. He doesn't know who QAnon is. He just re-tweeted someone else's tweet. He had something going on in his lungs, but he wouldn't say it was pneumonia, or when he last tested negative for Covid before he became sick and then tested positive and ended up at Walter Reade Hospital in our nation's capital. But not before exposing himself and his coronavirus particles to who knows how many people??

'Lies Flowing Like An Infinite River' is today's Trump Poem.

We're getting close to Election Day. 10 million people have already voted. The candidates are out there trying to win your vote, those of you who have not voted yet. They are saying all kinds of things that are not true; making promises they want you to believe.

This poem is especially for you veterans of all sorts. But especially those of you who served our country. And made sacrifices that many of us can never imagine.

'Campaigning For The Veteran' is today's Trump Poem.

Remember the craziness of the beginning of the Trump Administration? (That is still going on today!?) Like Donald heaping all those important political functionings onto his son-in-law, one Jared Kushner.  

And don't you love the number of that most expensive building ever sold in America: 666 Fifth Avenue!? 

'Ask Jared' tonight's Trump Poem Podcast #51.

It is time to stand up! Object to Senate 'Unanimous Consent' that accelerates Senate proceedings!!! Filibuster!!! One Senator saying 'I Object' obliterates the unanimous consent and forces the Senate to proceed much more slowly through its business, if it can proceed at all. - with frequent 'I Objects' being expressed by patriotic Senators! We must use the tools we were given 'to protect the minority from being trampled by an irresponsible majority' - as Indivisible says.' We can gum up the Senate until Inauguration Day by using these tools we have been given. To prevent this unfair Supreme Court hearing from coming to fruition. We can fight unfairness, as in what happened to Merrick Garland's March 2016 Supreme Court nomination never having a hearing 8 months before Election Day 2016 because it was characterized as being too close to the election by Mitch McConnell and the Republicans. But the Republicans wiping that act away as if it never happened. Thinking they can get away with what they are doing in the Senate right now. Which can be slowed and driven to a halt!

From Kahlil Gibran: 'Strength and tolerance are partners.' 

'We all admire strength, but the majority is most impressed by it when it is without form and stability. Few are those who respect strength when it is clearly defined and has meaningful ends.' 

Today's poem is 'Halt The Hearing - Object!!! and Filibuster!!!'

Inspired - and the how-to-do-it laid out - by the activists in Indivisible.

To call your Senators (2 for every state) just call the Congressional Switchboard 202-224-3121. They will put you through to one of your Senators at a time if you tell them which state you reside in. Be Active! Our country is at stake!!!

Science has been taking a hit ever since Donald Trump became President. He taboo'ed 7 words that the CDC could not use henceforth,* in the early days of his administration. He wants that magic vaccine for Covid-19 to be blessed by science before Election Day, November 3rd. But that will not happen. Especially with the news today that Johnson & Johnson is suspending their vaccine adventure due to an untoward undisclosed problem occurring with one of the vaccine volunteers. Creating a vaccine requires testing at three levels, to ensure the vaccine is safe, before allowing it to be given to millions of people. 

We have three one-sentence Spiritual Sayings from Kahlil Gibran from the book of the same title, to preface our Trump Poem of the Day: 'Science Takes A Hit'

Including: 'Keep me safe, Lord, from the tongue of the viper, and of him who fails to obtain the fame he craves.'

*Trump Administration 7 Forbidden Words CDC Cannot Use: fetus, vulnerable, science-based, evidence-based, entitlement, diversity, transgender.

If you ask "REALLY?" The answer is "REALLY!"

A leader has many considerations within his consciousness, low or high, narrow or wide minded may he be. Even Donald Trump. Though vindictiveness and venom flavor what The Donald spouts to his subjects. Errrr, fellow citizens. Of America. Home of the brave, land of the free. We know he thinks the press is the enemy of the people, like a bad cliche dictator. George Orwell, role your eyes and turn over in your grave. Sorry. That is our unbelievable reality in the modern future where he have arrived in 2020, to have to experience.

Shout-out in this poem for Ignorance and those who feel comfort in her warm sultry arms . . . .

How we are perceiving and treating Covid-19 has been changing and evolving. First it was no, masks did not help. Then by June 2020, yes, we said, masks do help. That includes the World Health Organization or the WHO, saying as late as the end of March that masks do not help. And even saying today that aerosol infection is not significant. We shall see. 

This poem is a snapshot from June 8 2020 when the USA had exceeded 100,000 deaths from Covid, due to our paralyzed President and his scientific ignorance interfering with our nationwide response. Not helping procure and produce protective gear and adequate testing supplies for our nation. Which now has over 215,000 deaths due to Covid. Our President afflicted himself. Still infectious as far as we know. Irresponsibly going back to the White House to endanger the people who work there. A host of his staff have been stricken by the disease. The midwest is peaking with new cases and deaths.

It should be obvious now what should be done. But Trump cannot admit to any mistakes. His father and his mafioso lawyer Roy Cohn mentored him never to do that. Which doesn't conjoin well with science. Where theories are made, studies are done, assumptions must be revised and cast anew. But not if Donald Trump has anything to say about it. Or lie about it. In the death throes of his last weeks as President. 

Or can he weasel his way out of a loss by pulling out all the stops of deviousness and dirty play? While another 100,000 or more Americans will die before another President can come to the USA's rescue?

Not a pretty picture.

But this is what it looked like to me on June 8th 2020 . . . 

The Vice Presidential debate pitted two white people against one woman of color, as the rules and chidings were not enforced equally. Pence interrupted Kamala Harris repeatedly, though not as psychotically as Trump interrupted Biden. But result was that Pence received more time to talk in the end. Caroline Randall Williams, the poet, and author of the brilliant NY Times Opinion piece 'You Want A Confederate Monument? My Body Is A Confederate Monument.' observed on the Lawrence O'Donnell show October 8, 2020 that Harris seemed to be looking ahead into the future with optimism. Talking to the youth of today who will be changing this country toward a better direction. While she thought Pence was looking backward, preserving the old establishment, the white racist establishment. 

The future is now.  Donald Trump, Mike Pence, William Barr et al are trying to take us backwards, giving more traction to our racist ways, instead of following the demand of the public for more tolerance, and realization that by mid-century, people of color will outnumber white people. Whatever 'white people' means. When the Italians came over to this side of the Atlantic they were not considered white. Until it was politically expedient to add their numbers to increase the count of 'white people.' After they had met terrible racism in their first years in the USA. Black people and indigenous people, and Trump's 'Mexican gang' members, are still dealing with the racism of the moment. Which can be changed.

Meanwhile, the Conman-in-Chief and his enablers are infecting everyone around them with their white privilege and Trump's thinking he can continue going around lying. Saying he's not infectious without showing anyone proof of a negative test. But not caring about threatening the health of his non-mask wearing followers surrounding him, who play the fool at his urging. And now are paying the price. But Mitch McConnell just said he won't go over to the White House, they're too incompetent over there dealing with the coronavirus. He confessed he actually had not been at the WH since early August.

Preserve The Old Days (I'll Strangle The Golden Goose) - written in April 2016 in a flurry of foresight . . . .

The inevitable had to happen/Karma kept skirting the edges/And now everything is collapsing. Even our favorite most intense White House racist Stephen Miller has contracted the coronavirus. Along with ALL the heads of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, all five men self-quarantining, which of course has never happened before. Meanwhile our probably still infectious Leader has demanded his way back home, to endanger everyone in the White House with possible Covid infection. He has to have his way!

And remember Hope Hicks, we hear, found out she was positive last Tuesday, 8 days ago, Sept 30. She travelled on Trump's plane. If he knew she was positive before boarding, would he have still taken her along? So, did she find out en route, and THEN self-quarantined on the plane, They Say???? Now!? And then everybody on that plane on Sept 30 should have self-quarantined thereafter. But no, not our spoiled brat President. No, he had go to several functions and meet with people and not wear a mask all the time, including meeting with his donors in a smallish room around a table, for 45 minutes in Bedminster, NJ. Those people are just SO happy with him, and his ultra-selfish behavior. And finally on Oct 1 Trump reportedly tests positive and ends up spending the weekend in the hospital. Reportedly his oxygen level dropped twice, and he required supplemental oxygen. Plus the two new drugs Remdesivir and Regeneron. And for an extra-added attraction, dexamethasone, as an anti-inflammatory agent. Which sometimes makes patients act in bizarre fashion.

A poll was done a couple of days ago where 63% of those polled said Trump acted irresponsibly, in the situation described above. Refer back to the above paragraph when the lies start flying, as the Trump mind tries to mix you up timeline-wise.

Donald Trump appears to have survived his hospital visit and bout with Covid. He probably should make it. Though he still is infectious, and will be for at least a few more days. And can spread it to other people, as before he actually tested positive. For one is infectious 2.5 days before symptoms appear, research is showing us; and the infectiousness peaks 0.7 days before symptoms appear. And typically lasts about one week. There have been patients whose infectiousness lasts longer, up to a few weeks. And then there are the critical patients on the ventilators in our hospitals who could be infectious for even longer periods of time.

This poem is really an extreme fantasy of being Invincible. I have to give it to Donald this time, because he did get through. His will being the foundation on which his survival was expressed.