Over all the other stories swirling around us these days looms the terrible toll the novel coronavirus pandemic is taking on America. Today four doctors, led by Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, testified before the House Energy and Commerce Committee about the pandemic. Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control, said the coronavirus has “brought this nation to its knees.” So far, the United States has had more than 2.3 million confirmed cases and more than 121,000 deaths. With about 4% of the world’s population, the United States has had about 25% of the world’s deaths from Covid-19.
The current occupant of the White House has declared war on the majority of Americans.
“We’re here today to declare that we will never cave to the left wing and the left-wing intolerance…” “They hate our history, they hate our values, and they hate everything we prize as Americans…”
Does this sound like a man who plans to run a campaign of inclusion, retire peacefully in a few months if he losses, and then fade gracefully into retirement leaving the country a better place than he found it upon assuming office?
Or, does this sound like a person who believes the vote will likely go against him and is inciting his followers to keep him in office by any means necessary?
Professor Richardson: If you were asked to write the Democratic Party game plan for the November election, what would you tell them? Does history provide us with any lessons here?
When arrogance and ignorance collide it's a deadly combination. 45 is so hell-bent on reelection that he is willing to sacrifice a percentage of his base attending his rallies in the desperate hope it will reignite his poll numbers. "It's fading away." He is like a child that hides under the covers because if he doesn't look, he can't see the monster and then the monster's not real.
I shake my head in wonder at how anyone can still believe the drivel coming out of his mouth. We live in a small Wisconsin town and still see Trump banners flying. But because we are rural and COVID-19 has not touched them personally yet, his loyal backers are still of the "it's just a flu" mentality. God help us🙄😷
Europe's experience of the epidemic so far has enabled some preliminary conclusions to be drawn. The first is that the people who take responsibility for their lives, meet their civic obligations and act with consideration for others fare better. The second is a question of government preparedness in terms of protective measures (masks, tests, beds, technology, cre-givers). Those that thought ahead and acted fare better. The third is the reactivity, credibility and transparency of the governments response...faster the better. The fourth is that lockdown can be significantly more dangerous than responsible prudence for the people. Particularly vulnerable are the elderly in residential communities that were ignored and which quickly became deadly penitentiaries in which isolation and depression, not to mention pre-existing mesical conditions, were rampant and deadly. If the people have the right attitude and the government is serving them properly, total lockdown should be avoided if at all possible. Thereafterwards as many governments and people were not up to scratch we are going to be dealing with the mass unemployment for a very long time.
BLM is in part driven by higher afro-american death rates and unemployment generated by the epidemic. Let's not forget that unemplyment can mean loss of health insurance.
Look at what the epidemic is also spotlighting: the differences in access to "normal" healthcare according to socio-economic status and housing cost and thus the state of the populations general health in these areas/groups. The disproproportionate death rate for groups that are predominantly poor and live in poor neighbourhoods of mega-urban areas reminds me of 19th century New York. At what price Trump's undermining of Obama's healthcare reforms now?
Aaron Zelinsky's opening statement to the House Judiciary Committee concerning the irregularities in the sentencing of Roger Stone is worth a read. It can be found on the Washington Post website and doubtless, other sources.
Throught this tragic non-response to the pandemic, the president has shown NO empathy regarding those who have died, their families, nor the healthcare workers who have given their lives.
Your sentence that jumps out the most to me is "With about 4% of the world’s population, the United States has had about 25% of the world’s deaths from Covid-19." Shameful.
I am grateful to the Lincoln Project and their ads, all of which I am saving to post on social media before the election! Repeatedly! I long for integrity and normalcy in government...
EDUCATION! This, I believe, is one of the major solutions to BLM as well as the idiots who think Trump is their savior. Equal education that teaches critical thinking not test taking. A strong emphasis in civics that has been gutted since Reagan. If this had been in place all along, I think we would be in a better place in handling the pandemic. I think people would have seen right through charlatan Trump. Be that as it may, this will not solve the situation we are in. I don't see a solution unless we increase testing, use contact tracing and everyone take responsibility by social distancing and wearing masks. 2020 is toast. The one bright light is that the idjt is a one term president.
A single adjustment to his speech reveals once again Trump doing what Trump does best: shifting reality by casting his own crimes/sins/intentions/failures onto others, then moving in for the attack.
“They hate our history, they hate our values, and they hate everything we prize as Americans,” he said. “Our country didn’t grow great with them. It grew great with you and your thought process and your ideology. [Trump and his Loyalist mob are] trying to demolish our heritage, so they can replace it with a new oppressive regime that they alone control."
Reading all these quotes from a clearly demented demagogue, blatantly lying and rallying his ignorant cult base, really pisses me off that ppl said my aware friends and I were overreacting by comparing him and his methods to Hitler. That comparison has been overused in my lifetime since the Nazi regime was the most egregious in our modern culture and we have yet to murder millions in concentration death camps (just thousands neglected in camps called “immigration detention centers). But, he has clearly been using Hitler’s Playbook since the beginning and answering the question first-hand for those of us born at the end of the last World War “How did a great nation like Germany fall to such depravity?” I fear that we are seeing it unfold.
Forget Hitler. We can compare him to some depraved fictional archetype like “Big Brother” or “High Chancellor Adam Sutler” who feeds the ignorant masses a fictional “NewSpeak.”
"What you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening." No, that was not George Orwell in “1984.” Trump actually said that.
I am holding off changing my residency to Maine until after the election. It is so darned important I vote in Iowa. Steve King and Chuck Grassley are my representatives. That's why it's that important to me. I have been picking away at my fellow Northwest Iowans. So have many others. It is heartening to see that more are opening their eyes. But doggone, I've never known a more stubborn bunch. HCR we corresponded way back about NW IA being mostly a land bound Aryan Society. The editor of the local newspaper essentially said the same thing. "An Open Letter to Manager Ty Rushing" I responded to the article. I have much respect for the owner of the newspaper. He is as open minded as I could hope for in that area. https://www.facebook.com/nwestiareview/posts/2997820010271250?comment_id=2998967130156538¬if_id=1592946752921743¬if_t=feedback_reaction_generic&ref=notif
Question: 3,000 young people crowded into a megachurch for a Trump rally with little or no PPE displayed. How many of them will be tracked for further spreading of the virus? Any? I would love to see those stats, especially in a state where numbers are spiking.
Many Americans have an independent/libertarian streak to them. I wonder if, even under a different president, we could have taken the necessary steps to stop Covid. I doubt we could have -- the social responsibility and trust in government is just not there. But we'll never know because Trump has repeatedly done the opposite of what was needed since January. It is becoming ever more evident that the next 6 months are going to be grim, but there are two bright lights at the end of that tunnel -- a vaccine and a new president.
It saddened me to see the crowd of foolish young people not wearing masks and cheering Trump's lies. They will likely spread the virus and many will take it home to vulnerable parents and grandparents.
Holy Cow what a post!
The current occupant of the White House has declared war on the majority of Americans.
“We’re here today to declare that we will never cave to the left wing and the left-wing intolerance…” “They hate our history, they hate our values, and they hate everything we prize as Americans…”
Does this sound like a man who plans to run a campaign of inclusion, retire peacefully in a few months if he losses, and then fade gracefully into retirement leaving the country a better place than he found it upon assuming office?
Or, does this sound like a person who believes the vote will likely go against him and is inciting his followers to keep him in office by any means necessary?
Professor Richardson: If you were asked to write the Democratic Party game plan for the November election, what would you tell them? Does history provide us with any lessons here?
When arrogance and ignorance collide it's a deadly combination. 45 is so hell-bent on reelection that he is willing to sacrifice a percentage of his base attending his rallies in the desperate hope it will reignite his poll numbers. "It's fading away." He is like a child that hides under the covers because if he doesn't look, he can't see the monster and then the monster's not real.
I shake my head in wonder at how anyone can still believe the drivel coming out of his mouth. We live in a small Wisconsin town and still see Trump banners flying. But because we are rural and COVID-19 has not touched them personally yet, his loyal backers are still of the "it's just a flu" mentality. God help us🙄😷
Europe's experience of the epidemic so far has enabled some preliminary conclusions to be drawn. The first is that the people who take responsibility for their lives, meet their civic obligations and act with consideration for others fare better. The second is a question of government preparedness in terms of protective measures (masks, tests, beds, technology, cre-givers). Those that thought ahead and acted fare better. The third is the reactivity, credibility and transparency of the governments response...faster the better. The fourth is that lockdown can be significantly more dangerous than responsible prudence for the people. Particularly vulnerable are the elderly in residential communities that were ignored and which quickly became deadly penitentiaries in which isolation and depression, not to mention pre-existing mesical conditions, were rampant and deadly. If the people have the right attitude and the government is serving them properly, total lockdown should be avoided if at all possible. Thereafterwards as many governments and people were not up to scratch we are going to be dealing with the mass unemployment for a very long time.
BLM is in part driven by higher afro-american death rates and unemployment generated by the epidemic. Let's not forget that unemplyment can mean loss of health insurance.
Look at what the epidemic is also spotlighting: the differences in access to "normal" healthcare according to socio-economic status and housing cost and thus the state of the populations general health in these areas/groups. The disproproportionate death rate for groups that are predominantly poor and live in poor neighbourhoods of mega-urban areas reminds me of 19th century New York. At what price Trump's undermining of Obama's healthcare reforms now?
Trump has the worst case of projection ever.
Aaron Zelinsky's opening statement to the House Judiciary Committee concerning the irregularities in the sentencing of Roger Stone is worth a read. It can be found on the Washington Post website and doubtless, other sources.
Looking forward to HCR’s take on this.
So he said, "The left-wing mob is trying to demolish our heritage, so they can replace it with a new oppressive regime that they alone control."
This reads to me like projection on his part.
Throught this tragic non-response to the pandemic, the president has shown NO empathy regarding those who have died, their families, nor the healthcare workers who have given their lives.
Your sentence that jumps out the most to me is "With about 4% of the world’s population, the United States has had about 25% of the world’s deaths from Covid-19." Shameful.
I am grateful to the Lincoln Project and their ads, all of which I am saving to post on social media before the election! Repeatedly! I long for integrity and normalcy in government...
EDUCATION! This, I believe, is one of the major solutions to BLM as well as the idiots who think Trump is their savior. Equal education that teaches critical thinking not test taking. A strong emphasis in civics that has been gutted since Reagan. If this had been in place all along, I think we would be in a better place in handling the pandemic. I think people would have seen right through charlatan Trump. Be that as it may, this will not solve the situation we are in. I don't see a solution unless we increase testing, use contact tracing and everyone take responsibility by social distancing and wearing masks. 2020 is toast. The one bright light is that the idjt is a one term president.
A single adjustment to his speech reveals once again Trump doing what Trump does best: shifting reality by casting his own crimes/sins/intentions/failures onto others, then moving in for the attack.
“They hate our history, they hate our values, and they hate everything we prize as Americans,” he said. “Our country didn’t grow great with them. It grew great with you and your thought process and your ideology. [Trump and his Loyalist mob are] trying to demolish our heritage, so they can replace it with a new oppressive regime that they alone control."
Reading all these quotes from a clearly demented demagogue, blatantly lying and rallying his ignorant cult base, really pisses me off that ppl said my aware friends and I were overreacting by comparing him and his methods to Hitler. That comparison has been overused in my lifetime since the Nazi regime was the most egregious in our modern culture and we have yet to murder millions in concentration death camps (just thousands neglected in camps called “immigration detention centers). But, he has clearly been using Hitler’s Playbook since the beginning and answering the question first-hand for those of us born at the end of the last World War “How did a great nation like Germany fall to such depravity?” I fear that we are seeing it unfold.
Forget Hitler. We can compare him to some depraved fictional archetype like “Big Brother” or “High Chancellor Adam Sutler” who feeds the ignorant masses a fictional “NewSpeak.”
"What you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening." No, that was not George Orwell in “1984.” Trump actually said that.
I am holding off changing my residency to Maine until after the election. It is so darned important I vote in Iowa. Steve King and Chuck Grassley are my representatives. That's why it's that important to me. I have been picking away at my fellow Northwest Iowans. So have many others. It is heartening to see that more are opening their eyes. But doggone, I've never known a more stubborn bunch. HCR we corresponded way back about NW IA being mostly a land bound Aryan Society. The editor of the local newspaper essentially said the same thing. "An Open Letter to Manager Ty Rushing" I responded to the article. I have much respect for the owner of the newspaper. He is as open minded as I could hope for in that area. https://www.facebook.com/nwestiareview/posts/2997820010271250?comment_id=2998967130156538¬if_id=1592946752921743¬if_t=feedback_reaction_generic&ref=notif
Question: 3,000 young people crowded into a megachurch for a Trump rally with little or no PPE displayed. How many of them will be tracked for further spreading of the virus? Any? I would love to see those stats, especially in a state where numbers are spiking.
Many Americans have an independent/libertarian streak to them. I wonder if, even under a different president, we could have taken the necessary steps to stop Covid. I doubt we could have -- the social responsibility and trust in government is just not there. But we'll never know because Trump has repeatedly done the opposite of what was needed since January. It is becoming ever more evident that the next 6 months are going to be grim, but there are two bright lights at the end of that tunnel -- a vaccine and a new president.
It saddened me to see the crowd of foolish young people not wearing masks and cheering Trump's lies. They will likely spread the virus and many will take it home to vulnerable parents and grandparents.