@coldjoint,
Biden is up on him by 8 percentage points. Wait til November, assuming his risky behavior hasn't given him bad c0ronavirus before them, and he's in the high risk category.
@Region Philbis,
brilliant translations all.
Dave Stanley
April 9 at 4:16 PM · Public
Thank you, President Trump, for Making America Great Again! First, for the little things, too often overlooked in this age of fake news and alternative facts. You've taught our children to call people derogatory names. You've taught our children to blame others for their own actions. You've taught our children to avoid taking personal responsibility for anything. You've turned demeaning those who don't agree with you into an art form and brought back bullying after all those nambypambys tried to suppress it. You've forced many parents to consider parental filters for televised presidential addresses. But many people don't know that that's not all the greatness you have given us.
You've reversed the small steps that we'd made over many decades in fighting racism and intolerance, exacerbating the worst aspects of our nature as tribal animals. After all, there are good people on the white supremacy side, too. Oh, and you've brought back the nationalism movement of the 1930's and combined it with the McCarthy era paranoia of the 40's and 50's. I love medleys, but that's a very impressive accomplishment!
Furthermore, thank you for reversing forward-thinking environmental rules meant to address the long term health of our planet, in favor of short term gains in the stock market. You certainly improved unemployment! (Until recently) there were far more low-paying second jobs that people could get to supplement their primary low-paying jobs. So they could pay their rent! Or maybe get health insurance. But certainly not both. (Those people are so disrespectful!) And it worked! (Until recently) the stock market was booming, built on the backs of those unappreciative people and the poorer health of the planet for future generations.
I especially liked the relaxing of ivory import restrictions. Now Junior can shoot some more elephants! (I hope he gave you the tail he cut off with his pocket knife.)
And you kept your promise! You drained the swamp of previous administrations' lobbyists, replacing them with your own lobbyists. Putting an ex-coal lobbyist in charge of the EPA was brilliant! That'll show those people who want clean air. Ungrateful bastards.
And I especially liked that you drained the swamp of many highly qualified team members, even though you hired them! I'm eagerly anticipating the firing of HHS Inspector General Grimm, who has had a brilliant career since 1999 and was appointed this past January, (that means under your administration, many people don't know that), but who made the mistake of doing her job and compiling a survey of undersupplied hospitals that Jon Karl explained to you at your latest, "react to questions like a third grader," press conference.
I also gotta admit that you've done a great job of making sure that anyone from your administration that is allowed to speak in public can efficiently recite the words, "Under President Trump's leadership." That's nine syllables! Well done.
Oh and finally, thank you so much for treating the impending pandemic so lightly as to not alarm your citizens, or more importantly, the stock market. Through your great leadership, we've learned that by merely denying something, it can't actually hurt us! We had the most warning of anyone on the planet. We saw it coming. We watched it spread across the world, getting closer and closer by the day. We watched South Korea react quickly and efficiently. It blindsided the world! But since you assured us that you had it under control, that it would soon go away magically, that we only had 15 cases and would soon go down to 1 or 2, Covid-19 never got here and churches are still full in the South!
And right now, as Bill Gates warns that we need to be planning and building the factories and capabilities to manufacture billions of doses of vaccine when it is finally synthesized, I'm confident that you are leading the charge to do just that. Because "billions" is a really big number–a lot of zeros. Not many people know that. Because once we DO have a vaccine, we don't want to face a shortage, do we? That would be bad. Really, really bad.
Thank you, President Trump. Everything you've done has been beautiful. Perfect-it's-perfect beautiful! Better than anyone has ever done. Other countries are calling, saying, "how did you do that?" You've done the most ever in history. And that's a long time. History is. But what do I know? I'm not a doctor. But what do we have to lose? Everyone says that. Many, many people are saying that.
And finally, thank you for making things so much easier for ME. For my entire life, I've struggled with who to vote for: Carter? Reagan? Bush? Perot? Obama? Romney? I gave them all a check mark. I've expended so much energy over the years wading through the noise, investigating, trying hard to pick out the very best person. And that was the same for state and local elections! It was always a time-consuming effort. But you've eliminated that chore for this one time, right-leaning centrist! Thanks to your strong leadership, (see, I said it!) I'll never have to spend time thinking and researching again. Because I'll never cast a vote for a Republican again. At any level. Period. Ain't America Great?
@coldjoint,
there's no such person as Killary who ever ran for president. Hillary on the other hand ran for president and was voted for way more than trump, who only won by a statistical fluke in the way the e.c. is set up..
@coldjoint,
there you go. why anybody with any sense realizes you're talking purely out of unreasoning hate.
Kentucky man faces federal charges for child pornography, just months after Republican pardon
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/8/1935564/-Kentucky-man-faces-federal-charges-for-child-pornography-just-months-after-Republican-pardon
Who didn't see this coming?
Former republican Gov. Matt Bevin.
The republican scourge continues... Bevin should be charged as a conspirator.
@Region Philbis,
That can’t be for real. That has to be from the onion, or Borowitz.
My Trump Loving Parents Have Become Skeptics
I do a Skype chat with my parents every week. Over the years it’s become a familiar pastiche of amusement (as octogenarians learn to use modern technology), routine (going through the day-to-day chronicles of errands, outings and family updates), and frustration (as any mention of anything political results in a recitation of Fox News talking points).
Just about four weeks ago, my employer advised that everyone able to do so work from home until further notice. I’m lucky that my role allows me to contribute remotely and proud that my company values its employees’ safety. My parents attitude at the time was this seemed overblown or even nonsensical. My father in particular was openly mocking anyone who was willing to disrupt their normal routine over what he considered a garden variety bug.
Since then I’ve seen a gradual acknowledgement of the situation, but still had to fend off occasional comments downplaying the severity and had to suffer a number of pro Trump (or anti Pelosi) memes on Facebook, along with a little amount of misguided information about looming cures or treatments that had bubbled up from the RW noise machine.
Today’s conversation was different. My mom proudly relayed how she had crafted homemade face masks from bandannas, and how they had learned to go to the store at off hours to avoid the crowds. My dad had stopped complaining about missing his pool game and golf outings, and has recognized that they will be sheltering in place for another month, at least. They even pumped me for a list of movies to queue up on Netflix.
The real kicker came when my mom wondered aloud why so many people were still going around without masks or practicing social distancing. My dad replied, “they’re getting conflicting information from the news.” And basically implied that he had learned whose word to not take seriously. Neither of them specifically said anything against Fox, the administration, or the GOP, but it’s a huge step forward just to hear them using their own critical thinking skills and applying their own life experiences in the midst of this, rather than taking their cues from those that don’t have their best interests at heart. It makes me just a little more hopeful than I had been that the truth will out, eventually.
Comment:
It is suddenly dawning on a few what we have been trying to tell them for years...
@Region Philbis,
That is 8 years of Obama's leadership..
Also, it took many days before Trump responded to the hurricane damage in Puerto Rico... When he finally did respond, it was a half-hearted response that left many more to die.
He let them die on purpose...
Just as Trump has done with the Coronavirus, his lack of immediate response and then a half-hearted response has made the death toll rise exponentially while he has pedaled his for profit drugs that are not a cure and the side effects will only add more to the death toll.
He has lied to cover up the dangers so even more people will catch this virus and spread it to others.
He has damaged our government's response abilities and fired military officials who have tried to save lives.
He has silenced government scientists from speaking out about the "true" dangers and possible life-saving strategies to inform the public. He has out bid hospitals for vital supplies vitally needed to keep doctors safe and patients alive, driven up the price of these supplies that taxpayers will have to ultimately pay for. He has lied about government stockpiles and mishandled their delivery to those places needed most.
He has stood in concert with the republicans to repetitively try and destroy medicare, social security and affordable healthcare "Obama Care" which would have made this disaster at least 10 times worse or more.
And this has all been done in only 4 years...
Benghazi!
@snood,
Quote:That can’t be for real. That has to be from the onion, or Borowitz.
i'm quite sure the numbers are real...
@Region Philbis,
But the way the chart is set up has to be a satire on how Fox and the republicans emphasize the democratic failings and deny the republican’s. I mean it’s either a satire or Fox News
actually thinks people won’t see the numbers if they emphasize the size of the columns.
That’s why I think it’s a satire exaggerating the Fox News art of manipulating facts.
Hell, I
hope it’s a satire..,
