If you got away with not being killed so far after going home drunk from the bar the last 20 years you didn’t beat the odds, you simply lucked out because someone else in that batch did get killed. It’s a skill that got him to the White House. i suspect he fears his uncontrollable rantings and ravings might have a deleterious impact on his Richard Feynman. his subreptitious [a more nocent pejorative than surreptitious] pronouncement that he and his brummagem wife have tested positive for covid-19 is yet another T3 scam. Creator of Bracing Views. Here is a chronological listing of every comment Trump has made about COVID since last February. There is a strong parallel to Feynman's "Nature cannot be fooled" in Galileo's remarkable letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany, 1615. Trump, for example, enjoyed making fun of Joe Biden and his propensity for mask-wearing; he further claimed the virus would simply disappear. I think Mary Trump is right and we are giving Trump too much time. Maybe my title should have been “The Coronavirus Feeds on Lies.” And we are giving it plenty to feed on. eric? — Richard Feynman (1918–1988) Theoretical physicist. Richard Feynman's famous conclusion to his report on the shuttle Challenger accident, which arose again in the Columbia accident, is "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." In retrospect, with Trump’s diagnosis, I see the ad as brilliant!! For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. Like the expression/claim “beat the odds” – not possible. given T3 [the tangerine turd] is a con-artist and media-junkie ‘ne plus ultra’, one should not hold her/his breath for his imminent death. (And Mailer was saying this in the early 1960s!). NASA owes it to the citizens from whom it asks support to be frank, honest, and informative, so that these citizens can make the wisest decisions for the use of their limited resources. however, the dumpster is such a gifted conman, my pavlovian reaction is to believe NOTHING he vomits from his maculating mouth; his spewing vomitus stains everything. If you haven’t gotten sick with COVID there are a lot of reasons and most of them also carry “so far” as the condition. i presage that he and melania will emerge from the hospital, all smiles, brimming w/ confidence and blooming health, to prove to his base that he’s as strong and fit as a young bull, that his covid-19 faticinations have been proved accurate [“see? Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. They really felt they needed to add that coda: based on facts. melania? Living by the light of lies is a surefire way to get burned. A fool and his health are soon parted. I have opined publicly elsewhere that Judge Barrett may well have triggered this outbreak. I don’t plan on reading Ms. Trump’s book, but I do know she was quoted as indicating we shouldn’t expect Trump to “get any better,” or words to that effect. The context was Feynman's participation in the commission investigating the causes of the Challenger disaster. his tarts and bimbos?… some of whom might find ‘our dear leader’ as repugnant as i do. Retired AF lieutenant colonel and professor of history. May I alter the old saying just a bit? News that President Trump has COVID-19 and must be hospitalized highlights Richard Feynman’s famous observation that, whether you’re dealing with technology or science or medicine, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. If in this way the government would not support NASA, then so be it. His mental state is surely on a one-way downhill slope of decline. The COVID-19 virus is not going to be fooled with lies. My favorite comment of Trump’s is about Biden wearing a huge mask being an indication of psychiatric problems. Trump is the man who sold us a fake university. ivanka? his putative covid-19 infectious state also liberates him to slither away, snake that he is, from the next prearranged debate w/ biden. Contributor to TomDispatch.com, Truthout, History News Network, Alternet, Huffington Post, Antiwar, and many other sites. Lies will only kill us while smothering democracy. Investigating the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion, physicist Richard Feynman reached a famous conclusion: “For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.” The COVID-19 virus is not going to be fooled … Investigating the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion, physicist Richard Feynman reached a famous conclusion: “For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.”. Monday Musings: On Russia, Helplessness, and Polls, Here is a chronological listing of every comment Trump has made about COVID since last February, On War, Trump Has Largely Been an Appeaser, A Typical Democratic Official on the Pentagon and War, Veterans Day Is a Time to Reflect on the Purpose of Veterans, “Unquestionably Syme Will Be Vaporized”: Lessons from Orwell’s 1984, A Revealing Moment at the Democratic National Convention. In theory, to please their idol, the donors declined to wear masks. nothing to worry about; it’s just a mild flu”], and that his self-proclaimed status as “the world’s most stable genius” should now manumit the electorate to re-consign ‘his holiness’ to the post of soi-disant ‘leader of the free world’! There is a real possibility he won’t survive this, but I want him to stay alive long enough to see himself defeated at the polls, by a big enough margin [unfortunately, I have no real confidence in this outcome!] Don’t worry: the final decision will be based “on facts.”. Mailer uses the word meretricious, which combines vulgarity with falseness and insincerity, and he proceeds to denounce our culture, our art, as sickening us because of its ugly dishonesty. You may never get sick, or you may die tomorrow, but someone is getting sick regardless. Since my position from Day One has been that he is mentally deranged (literally), I have to share that opinion. I believe he/she (I really don’t know) accompanied Judge Barrett to DC to “make the rounds” after the announcement. precious ratings, particularly among swing-state voters. The other day, I was listening to an interview with Noam Chomsky, and he made the point that Trump is a master propagandist. Trump is the man who’s lied roughly 13 times a day since becoming president. - Richard P. Feynman quotes from BrainyQuote.com "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled."