To anyone still defending Trump
New coronavirus cases on Monday in
France: 580
UK: 564
Spain: 546
Germany: 365
Canada: 299
Japan: 259
Italy: 200 (at one point it was really bad there)
Australia: 158
South Korea: 52
US: 55,300
Just to put this into perspective, the total for France, the UK, Spain, Germany, Canada, Japan, Italy, Australia, and South Korea COMBINED was 3,023.
A lot of the rest of the world is returning to normal. The United States is not. If you needed an unassailable assessment of national leadership, you’re looking at it. And it is continuing, with the President now yanking New hospital data on cases from the CDC. How many reasons could he possible have for doing this?
One
He wants to be able to lie about the numbers freely.
For whose sake?
Certainly not for the sake of most Americans.
Why should a President who doesn’t do things for the sake of most Americans be reelected?
Ask his supporters. I can’t answer that question.
Can any of his supporters be considered patriotic?
I can’t see how. They’re all willing to sell our country down the river for the sake of being able to freely express and support their bigotry.
07/15/2020 @ 11:37 am
Excellent data to have – thanks.
07/16/2020 @ 6:29 am
Additionally, a quick glimpse cyber-search: Covid-Nineteen Latin America continues to underscore the urgency of empiricism and preventive precautions as opposed to the Administration’s bombastic selfish consistently politicised insouciant arrogance.
Unacceptable that POTUS continuously finagles opportunity to be proactive and construtive. What’s it? Four more months? Batten down the proverbial hatches, guys!
07/16/2020 @ 5:29 pm
Consider anyone that you are close to who voted for Trump, or continues to support him. Sadly, data like this makes discussing Trump’s complete failure and malfeasance around this crisis less likely. My wife’s uncle, in his mid 70s, voted for Trump. He’s a very decent man. I can’t express in words how good and likable this man is. Decent to his core. Most of the family can’t understand why he voted for Trump, other than the fact that he is a dedicated Republican. This man has confided in me about everything, but we can’t discuss this issue. He’s a corner office executive of a large investment firm, and he studied Finance in college. He’s no dummy.
The other person I think of is a former close friend of mine. He’s a bank executive, but not one to follow news and current events closely. He’s a decent, affable, great with a story sort of guy, and he and his wife and my wife and I enjoyed a rather close friendship. We knew we stood on opposite ends politically, but that was never an issue. It would not have been an issue had I not raised it, but I did when the news broke of the children on the border were being taken from their families. I find this unconscionable. His wife broke the conversation off. My position was, I don’t care how you choose, but just tell me that you don’t endorse Trump’s bigoted policy agenda? I suspect that they were more concerned about showing their ignorance about current events than taking a hardline, but I said that the condition of our friendship rested on rejecting bigotry. They never responded. The only response I ever received was a regular invitation to a brunch that we had regularly. They showed up and said, “where are you guys”?
In the time since that stunted conversation, Trump has loudly and frequently declared himself to be Nazi Nero. I often wonder how they are taking it because they can’t avoided knowing about it by now. I’ll never know though because that sort of person can’t even say that they don’t support him.
I’m looking forward to the November election because I think it will show that many of the Trump voting uncles, and non news following friends will have silently rejected the worst president in our history…but I still don’t know for certain yet.
07/16/2020 @ 6:31 pm
I’ve seen this, but I don’t get it. How many reasons are there to support Trump? The most likely reason is the impatience/hatred/somewhere in between of PC, like why are These People getting help they don’t deserve and why is anyone telling us what language to use? It boils down to a fictitious America First because of a suspicion that the world is taking advantage of us (that’s not 100% wrong but there’s way more to it than that) and a conviction that minorities are taking advantage of us at home, a conviction that is way, way wrong.
People like that, and it is a generalization I feel completely comfortable making, are hyper-aware of any advantages minorities get but completely unaware of any advantages they get. Also, because they have a lot less skin in the game being a lot less threatened, they don’t get that to you this isn’t just Politics that has no relevance to their daily lives. They don’t get that they’re dealing with a guy who wouldn’t be bothered putting your kids in cages, something I’m reasonably sure is true but something they’d never believe because they don’t see Unreasonable that close to home. He Wouldn’t Dare.
07/17/2020 @ 12:01 pm
It is said that: “All politics is local.” To that , I would add that that: All voting is personal.
People who support and vote for Trump have been duped into identifying with him for one reason or another on a personal level….
Most of them have been conned into feeling some kind of visceral kinship with a person who doesn’t care about the concerns of common folk at all.
He has acted against the interests of the average American at every turn. Yet, his supporters flock to his rallies in droves…
He resonates and relates to these folks in a manner that is eerily remindful of the power of nefarious demagogues of the past.
Therein lies the dangers of the Trump. Presidency.
Everything Hitler did during his rise to power in Germany was legal under German law and became popular amongst the common citizenry.
When Trump loses the upcoming election in the November 30% of the population in this country will be made to feel that he and they have fallen victim to conspiracy and fraud…
The aftermath of the election will not be the peaceful transfer and transition that we expect because of our laws, traditions, and customs…
I fear that Trump may have to be removed from office and he’ll have 30% of the population and Bill Barr supporting his effort to resist…
07/17/2020 @ 12:12 pm
I’m hoping that 70% feels the opposite
07/17/2020 @ 1:25 pm
Agreed!
However, Trump may attempt to incite violent resistance to transfer and transition…
He will make an absolute mess of the time honored process of peaceful change in the executive branch…
It won’t be pretty or comfortable…