Joe Biden and Kamala Harris did their first post-convention interview with ABC News, which airs this weekend. In one segment, Biden is asked if he would shut the country down again, and Biden says he would do it, claiming he would listen to the scientists.
So as in one of those people who calls themselves a doctor comes up to him and says... shut down the country, well then... so be it? He wouldn't consider economic considerations, he wouldn't consider what the individual State governments have determined. He wouldn't consider what the American public actually wants. He would just "shut everything down" as if he actually had that power?
This is exactly the sort of non-thinking political puppet that the left "wants" to install in the White House. Someone that they can just count on to do what the social "experts" on the left tell him to do As if Biden (as President) can justify following silly social justice warriors by demanding that doing so is listening to science.
There is literally no "science" that suggests anything about locking down a country other than to suggest empirically that it doesn't show that it works. You know what empirically is proven to work in actual statistical analysis? Treatment early on with things like Hydroxychloroquine and other drugs.
Our own shut down model has yet to prove that states that shut down harder are better off. In fact, they appear worse off. We are likely going to pass Sweden in the amount of deaths per million and our only line of defense would be do double down on something that is proving itself not to work.
The reality is that Liberals don't listen to science. In fact they pretty much ignore it. The pick and choose certain social justice experts, they call them scientists and then they follow them blindly. But here is the rub. For every scientist on one side of this argument, there are others on the other side. Worldwide, I am not sure that the more credible ones are in any sort of lock step on covid... other than to suggest a comprehensive response that includes everything (including treatment).
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Just went to Pharmacy to pick up my supply of Insulin and the price shocked me in a good way! It went down by 2/3rds! WOW President Trump is the greatest!! Someone that will actually do something for us people!
LATEST NATIONAL POLLS HAVE BIDEN AT +8 AND +10 WITH AN AGGREGATE POLLING AVERAGE OF +7.6
You do know the include polls that pre-date the DNC.
So Fact Check: False.
Trumps approval did indeed go up while Biden went down.
The media couldn't understand why a dystopian dark speech would be negatively received by the American people. They thought it was wonderful.
While we were filming a young man skateboarded up to me and said - “Can we do an interview?”
I never expected what happened next. Wow. Just watch:
VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1297321632156078081
I'm actually not all that surprised. A troubling trend for the Biden people is Trumps's approval among younger black male voters. It's certainly not a majority but Biden needs nearly all black voters to win.
Take a look at the date on the poll that gave Biden plus ten: 08/20-22/2020.
I’m historian Jon Meacham.
In his final Sunday sermon, days before his death, Martin Luther King Jr said, “We are tied together in the single garment of destiny. This is the way God’s universe is made. This is the way it is structured. A single garment of destiny. We the people cannot escape that reality nor as Lincoln taught us, can you and I escape history. And we shouldn’t want to for many of us have been given much; liberty, opportunity, a sense of possibility. The task of our time is to make sure those gifts are available not just to folks who look like me but to all of us."
This is a grave moment in America. A deadly virus is ravaging us. Our jobs are evaporating. Our faith and the things that bind us together is fraying for our democracy is under assault from an incumbent, more interested in himself than he is in the rest of us.
Extremism, nativism, isolationism and a lack of economic opportunity for working people are all preventing us from realizing our nation’s promise. So we must decide whether we will continue to be prisoners of the darkest of American forces or will we free ourselves to write a brighter, better, nobler story? That’s the issue of this election. A choice that goes straight to the nature of the soul of America.
Humankind has long viewed the soul as the vital center, the core, the essence of existence. The soul is what makes us us. In its finest hours, America’s soul has been animated by the proposition that we are all created equal and by the imperative to ensure that we are treated equally.
Yet, America is a mix of light and shadow. Seneca falls and Selma and Stonewall dwell in the American soul but so do the impulses that have given us slavery, segregation and systemic discrimination.
Often we’d prefer to hear the trumpets rather than face the tragedies but an honest accounting of who we’ve been, can enable us to see who we should be. A country driven by the best parts of our soul, not by the worst. A country informed by reason and candor, not by ego and lies. A country that’s big hearted, not narrow minded.
The struggle to be who we ought to be is difficult, demanding and ongoing. Justice can be elusive and change in America has been painful and provisional. The civil war led to segregation. The new deal to right wing reaction, civil rights to white backlash, yet history, which will surely be our judge, can also be our guide.
From Harriet Tubman to Alice Paul, to John Lewis from the beaches of Normandy, to the rendering of the iron curtain, our story has soared when we’ve built bridges, not walls. When we’ve lent a hand, not when we’ve pointed fingers. When we’ve hoped not feared.
If we live in hope, we open our souls to the power of love. We’ve been taught to love our neighbors as ourselves. As individuals and as a nation, however, we fail at following that commandment more often than we succeed. But when we fail, we must try again and again and again, for only in trial is progress possible.
From Jamestown forward, our story has become fuller and fairer because of people who share a conviction that Dr. King articulated on that Sunday half a century ago; the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. Bending that arc requires all of us. It requires we, the people, and it requires a president of the United States with empathy, grace, a big heart and an open mind.
Joe Biden will be such a president. With our voices and our votes, let us now write the next chapter of the American story; one of hope, of love, of justice. If we do so, we might just save our country and our souls.
Quinnipiac’s last national poll showed, the suburbs are not far from aligning with city partisan breakdowns:
BIDEN TRUMP
ALL 52 37
CITY 69 25
SUBURB 62 33
RURAL 38 55
Quinnipiac’s last national poll showed, the suburbs are not far from aligning with city partisan breakdowns:
BIDEN TRUMP
ALL 52 37
CITY 69 25
SUBURB 62 33
RURAL 38 55
Alky, you have 3100 fb "friends" , how many have come to your current home for dinner?
Alky my paternal-grandfather retired from the GA Forestry Commission.
He was putting out fires in the Okefenokee Swamp in the 50-70’s and other areas of the Southeast.
I knew about controlled burns at a young age
Here Roger, I know your effeminate ego needs validation.
(like)
Kellyanne Conway, one of President Donald Trump’s longest-serving advisers and a stalwart defender of his administration, will leave the White House at the end of the month, The Washington Post first reported Sunday evening.
Conway, who serves as a senior adviser, said she had made the decision in partnership with her husband to focus on their family.
“We disagree about plenty,” she said in a statement obtained by the Post, “but we are united on what matters most: the kids.”
Republicans Will Have No Party Platform
August 23, 2020 at 11:12 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
The Republican Party announced it will forego a platform.
Instead of drafting a document outlining the party’s beliefs and agenda, the Republican National Committee simply states that it agrees with everything Donald Trump has done and will do.
________
No, this is not from The Onion or The Babylon Bee. It is a real news release.
'Instead of drafting a document outlining the party’s beliefs and agenda, the Republican National Committee simply states that it agrees with everything Donald Trump has done and will do.'
TRANSLATION:
THIS PARTY IS A COMPLETE SELL-OUT TO AN IDIOT.
AND WILL DO. That could prove dangerous.
The hits keep coming.
[Impeached Trump campaign spokesman, Jason] "Miller still owes over $17,000 in back child-support as of today."
They won't have agenda until 2024
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/21/trump-campaign-voter-fraud-pennsylvania
No fraud
The hits keep coming
Dnc Biden supporting Republican speaker Michael is actually a registered democrat
And trumps staff keeps quitting !!!!!! Alternative facts Conway leaving to concentrate on her marriage.....BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
The two GOP factions competing against the US
1> Racists
2> Science deniers
Pretty well sums up the R's here like rat, the goat fucker, and cramps!!!!!!
This asshole accepts trump fucking around and gets pissed when his wife pulled a trump.....Whatta douche!!!!!
Suspended Liberty University leader Jerry Falwell Jr. confirmed to Washington Examiner columnist Paul Bedard late Sunday that his wife, Becki Falwell, had an affair with a young man they befriended and went into business with in Florida eight years ago. In a long statement, Falwell said he and his wife "forgave each other" — he suggested he had also "important smaller things" to atone for, quoting a Bible verse about visual adultery — and had decided to come forward because his wife's former lover had been extorting them for "huge amounts of monies" to stay quiet. "I'm just tired of it," Falwell told Bedard.
Falwell said the young man — Giancarlo Granda — had created a "'fatal attraction’ type situation," referring to a famous 1987 movie in which a jilted extramarital lover boiled a pet rabbit, among other acts of retaliatory intimidation. Granda, 21 at the time of the affair, told the Examiner in an email that "any allegation of extortion" is false, "defamatory, and belied by clear documentary evidence," adding that the attempt by the Falwells "to sandbag me" with this "last-minute story" just "reeks of desperation," and "the WHOLE truth will come out."
The salacious nature of the relationship between the Falwells and Granda emerged when Michael Cohen, the former fixer and lawyer for President Trump, told comedian Tom Arnold in a secretly taped conversation that he had destroyed riqué "personal” photographs involving the "pool boy" on behalf of Falwell weeks before Falwell unexpectedly endorsed Trump for president.
[Impeached Trump campaign spokesman, Jason] "Miller still owes over $17,000 in back child-support as of today."
that's nice alky.
cumala the whore still owes $1 MILLION from her failed zero fucking delegate presidential run.
Joe Biden’s running mate Kamala Harris has more than $1.1 million in unpaid bills from her unsuccessful campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, according to filings with the Federal Election Commission.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-12/harris-s-presidential-campaign-owes-1-1-million-to-vendors
perhaps her creditors can "take it out in trade."
All from Taegan Goddard's politicalwire.com:
Quote of the Day
6:38 am EDT
“You know I don’t have a history of dodging questions. But I don’t know how to answer that. There is no consistent philosophy, You can’t say it’s about making America great again at a time of Covid and economic distress and social unrest. It’s just not credible… That’s the best I can do.”
— GOP pollster Frank Luntz, quoted by Politico, when asked, “What do Republicans believe?”
Ex-GOP Lawmakers Launch ‘Republicans for Biden’
6:27 am
“More than two-dozen former Republican members of Congress threw their support behind a ‘Republicans for Biden’ effort being launched Monday by the Democratic presidential nominee’s campaign to engage potential GOP supporters this November,” Fox News reports.
Judge Shuts Down Trump Lawsuit on Mail Voting
6:23 am
President Trump’s plan to sue Pennsylvania in federal court to determine how the state conducts mail-in voting has been effectively shut down by a US district court judge, CNN reports.
Falwell Claims Extortion from Wife’s Former Lover 11:05 pm
Washington Examiner:
“Jerry Falwell Jr., suspended as president of Virginia’s Christian-focused Liberty University after a string of embarrassing acts, today said that he has suffered depression caused by a former family friend who had an affair with his wife and has been threatening to expose it.
---“Falwell revealed his wife Becki’s affair for the first time, said it was short lived and that the two reconciled quickly. But, they claimed, her former lover has threatened them over the past several years and they are done with it hanging over their heads.
--Yes, it was the “pool boy.”
Kellyanne Conway to Leave White House
GOOD RIDDANCE!
Love the smell of liberal desperation in the morning.
Smells like victory.
Exchange of the Day
August 24, 2020 at 7:26 am Taegan Goddard
White House Chief of staff Mark Meadows was interviewed by Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday:
WALLACE: You can end this controversy right now. Does the president disavow, does he condemn QAnon?
MEADOWS: Well, listen, we — we don’t even know what it is.
Ask rat about QAnon. He's a member.
I love it when cramps thinks his side is winning.....so typical of the science denying faction of the GOP!!!!! BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!
"CommonsenseAugust 24, 2020 at 6:25 AM
Love the smell of liberal desperation in the morning.
Smells like victory."
Yes, Good Morning.
Another hot , sunny day in Kansas.
Good day for those moving out of dhithile like CA and NY.
Good day for democracy as Bollier has money and a following!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Cuomo begging for the Wealthy to stay in NY was a very funny moment.
Video of a policeman shooting a black man in the back seven times.
Why the GOP is on its last legs of relevance!!!! The science denying racists true colors are showing!!!!!!!
A majority of Republicans surveyed in a national poll believe the number of deaths from the coronavirus is “acceptable,” and hold positive views of the US response to the pandemic.
The new poll showed a significant partisan divide over how each party sees the health emergency, which is killing some 1,000 Americans every day.
Fifty-seven percent of Republicans surveyed agreed with the statement that the number of coronavirus deaths in the US — which this week reached over 176,000 — was “acceptable.”
Conversely, 90 percent of Democrats said the number of deaths was unacceptable, as did 67 percent of independents.
The poll was carried out by YouGov on behalf of CBS News, using a representative sample of 2,226 registered voters interviewed between August 19-21, 2020
Trump begging to keep his job is even funnier considering how he has fucked up the country!!!! BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!
Trump Campaign Launches Massive Digital Ad Buy
August 24, 2020 at 7:44 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
“The Trump campaign is going all in on digital advertising for the Republican National Convention, with plans to again take over the YouTube masthead and flood Facebook, Google and streaming services like Hulu with pro-Trump messaging,” Axios reports.
“The massive digital ad buy — which is in the high seven figures, according to the campaign — will complement the Trumpian production planned for each night of the convention this week.
“The goal is to inundate Americans on TV and online throughout the convention.”
DESPERATION.
Blogger James said...
Video of a policeman shooting a black man in the back seven times.
1. He was resisting arrest.
2. He was reaching into a car for something. The police don't know because his hands were out sight.
This guy did everything you do to get shot by a cop. So either he was committing suicide by cop or he's a complete moron.
You never, ever hide your hands from a police officer.
When impeached Trump and his dynasty-desperate family attack Americans this week, it will be
☑Distraction
☑Deception
☑Projection
☑Confession
Republican Platform:
WHATEVER THE HELL TRUMP WANTS TO DO,
WHATEVER THAT IS.
Trumps job creation numbers over the last 3 years is 40k per month less than Obama's last 3 years.....Be proud that not only did Obama leave a growing GDP which trump has killed his claim of the best economy evah is bullshit....just like you goat fucker!!!!
When Trump's family members speak, that will draw attention to what his niece and sister have said.
This guy did everything you do to get shot by a cop
Shot 7 times at point blank range sure says something about shitty marksmanship!!!!!! Don't they train cops anymore?????? Yep cramps he sure deserved it you fucking asshole
Nobody cares outside morons like you James.
Don't they train cops anymore?????? Yep cramps he sure deserved it you fucking asshole
I do look forward to the day you're involved in a traffic stop.
do look forward to the day you're involved in a traffic stop.
And I look forward to trump getting his ass kicked and your reaction to it.....BWAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
BTW cramps the video and the cops story are not conclusive of anything!!!!! No body cam to verify what you claimed just the word of the cop.......sad, but they do have a habit of lying just like you!!!!!!
Let's guess! How many lies per hour @ the RNC just tonight???
I say 40 per hour
"
Graphic video that purportedly shows the shooting began circulating on social media. The video, which appears to have been taken from across the street, shows the man walking around an SUV as police yell at him with weapons drawn, with one officer closely following him. As the man opens the driver-side door of the vehicle, the officer grabs the back of the man's shirt and appears to fire several shots into the man's back. At least seven shots are heard in the video, but it was unclear how many officers fired.
Another sad example of why the country is pissed!!!!
Sure would not want to play a drinking game with lies......BWAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
hey BWAA,
why don't you wobble on over to XiNN and tell them that the Indy 500 IS NOT sanctioned by NASCAR.
LOL.
fucking morons.
BWAAAAAAAAA!!!!! The asshole cometh again!!!!!!!! Why don't you swallow a little more !!!!!!!!
More than two dozen former Republican members of Congress, including former senator Jeff Flake of Arizona, announced their support for Biden on Monday as part of a launch of a “Republicans for Biden" group, deliberately timed for the first day of the GOP convention.
“In a strong rebuke to the current administration, these former members of Congress cited Trump’s corruption, destruction of democracy, blatant disregard for moral decency, and urgent need to get the country back on course as a reason why they support Biden,” the campaign said in a statement. “These former Members of Congress are supporting Joe Biden because they know what’s at stake in this election and that Trump’s failures as President have superseded partisanship.”
The list includes some former lawmakers who have already announced support for Biden, including senators Gordon Humphrey of New Hampshire and John Warner of Virginia.
Former House members on the list include Steve Bartlett of Texas, Bill Clinger of Pennsylvania, Tom Coleman of Missouri, Charlie Dent of Pennsylvania, Charles Djou of Hawaii, Mickey Edwards of Oklahoma, Wayne Gilchrest of Maryland, Jim Greenwood of Pennsylvania, Bob Inglis of South Carolina, Jim Kolbe of Arizona, Steve Kuykendall of California, Ray LaHood of Illinois, Jim Leach of Iowa, Connie Morella of Maryland, Mike Parker of Mississippi, Jack Quinn of New York, Claudine Schneider of Rhode Island, Chris Shays of Connecticut, Peter Smith of Vermont, Alan Steelman of Texas, Bill Whitehurst of Virginia, Dick Zimmer of New Jersey, and Jim Walsh of New York.
The Biden campaign also announced that Flake would deliver remarks on Monday about the group’s effort to gather more Republican support.
Roger.. But rat will hold his breath and stick his head further up trumps fat old white ass and enjoy the suck!!!!!! bWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
Lol
Politics according to @AOC.
AOC dings Democratic National Convention targeted to ‘white moderates’
“Would I have done things differently? Of course. But as a young progressive Latina I know I was not the target audience for this convention. The target audience for this convention was white moderates who aren’t sure who they’re voting for in November,” she said.
“Do I agree with centering the programming on that audience? Not necessarily. I think we could have done more to rally turnout enthusiasm from our party’s base,” she continued. “Muslims has ZERO representation which is just utterly crazy to me — we need the turnout Ilhan [Omar] and Rashida [Tlaib] delivered in their primaries.”
1. I don't think she is well versed in the demographics of the country.
2. Trying to make it a turnout election flys in the face of Biden's enthusiasm problem and an examination of that problem is exactly the same progressive groups she hopes to turn out.
3. For as long as I remember presidential elections were all about consolidating your base and going after the middle. The swing states where elections are won do not look like the south Bronx.
As far as consolidating their base Trump looks to be in the better position with his base than does Biden. It's going after the middle. Trump does have a problem with suburban woman (although I think there is more support in that group than the polls indicate). And we don't know how much the riots and unrest in Democrat control cities will factor into their decision. The other positive factor for is his inroads into the black and latino community. Trump won't get a majority of them be he doesn't have to. Biden needs them to be almost 100% behind him.
Biden however is a complete mess. His base is eroding. Many will stay at home or even vote for Trump. I his naked appeal to white moderates fell flat with his dark and dystopian speech and his policies put good high-pay jobs in manufacturing and the energy industries in jeopardy.
BTW cramps the video and the cops story are not conclusive of anything!!!!
The video clearly shows the suspect reaching into the car with his hands out of sight.
Moron.
FANTASTIC MORNING, SHOULD BE A FANTASTIC WEEK !!!
Dems are ecstatic that coming out of their own convention Trump leads Biden by 10 amongst independents...can't make this shit up !!!
james said: LATEST NATIONAL POLLS HAVE BIDEN AT +8 AND +10
Ryan James Girdusky
@RyanGirdusky
People keep asking how Trump could be winning Independents by 10 points but losing nationally by 10 points.
The polls sample size is 42% Democrats and 30% Republican.
TABS: https://twitter.com/RyanGirdusky/status/1297636244294373378
Political Polls
@Politics_Polls
National GE, Among Independents:
Trump 47% (+10)
Biden 37%
@YouGovAmerica/@CBSNewsPoll, LV, 8/20-22
----
quite a "bum bump" for dems when you look closely and filter out the FAKE NEWS
ROFLMFAO !!!
Mark Dice
@MarkDice
Black Lives Matter in a nutshell.
VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/MarkDice/status/1297818555405103104
guess those signs don't protect you...
WALLACE: You can end this controversy right now. Does the president disavow, does he condemn QAnon?
cute.
let us know when wallace asks Slow Joe an da Ho to disavow antifa and black lies matter.
Those of you who believe the renowned, Dr. Fauci to be a fraud, but believe QAnon to be truth, please exit the country immediately. You are far too stupid to be claimed as fellow Americans.
oh lookie...
the alky has dropped the USPS conspiracy and latched on to the QAnon conspiracy.
LOL.
personally alky, i'm more in favor of the antifa/black lies matter scumbags leave my country.
i see no reports of QAnon burning our cities, looting our retailers, and murdering innocent Americans. in fact, i don't even know what the fuck QAnon does or why your sudden fascination with them.
rrb said...
oh lookie...
the alky has dropped the USPS conspiracy and latched on to the QAnon conspiracy.
Looks like he dropped the crabapples too.
And arguing the dems didn't leave out "under God" in some of their convention pledges. Hoyer recently did it in the House too. just a coincidence I'm sure.
What a small bitter life he leads, sad.
Walls must be closing in.
Ian Miller
@ianmSC
Masks don’t work example 10,000,000
Hawaii now has more hospitalizations per capita than Arizona
Wonder if the media will go after their governor now? Or would that not suit the narrative
CHART:
https://twitter.com/ianmSC/status/1297712290922291201
Saw a chart on Miami earlier which was even more obvious.
yes, THAT Richard Spencer -
Richard Lion face Spencer
@RichardBSpencer
Replying to
@MattRayLiberty
I plan to vote for Biden and a straight democratic ticket. It’s not based on “accelerationism” or anything like that; the liberals are clearly more competent people.
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yes, THAT Richard Spencer -
Nothing like having Neo Nazis white supremacist for support
Nothing like having Neo Nazis white supremacist for support
indeed.
so let's see...
the dems have locked up the neo-nazi/white supremacist AND the fascist/domestic terror vote.
nice.
The deaman Sperm doctor will not speak at the Republican convention
AFTER HE is nominated at a pared-down Republican convention next week, President Trump will make this argument to the American people: Things were great until China loosed the novel coronavirus on the world. If you reelect me, I will make things great again.
Seeking reelection in the midst of the worst public health crisis and sharpest economic downturn of our lifetimes, this may, realistically, be the only argument left to him. But, fittingly for a president who has spoken more than 20,000 lies during his presidency, it rests on two huge falsehoods.
One is that the nation, his presidency and, above all, Mr. Trump himself are innocent victims of covid-19. In fact, his own negligence, ignorance and malpractice turned what would have been a daunting challenge for any president into a national disaster.
The other is that there was anything to admire in his record before the virus struck. It is true that the economic growth initiated under President Barack Obama had continued, at about the same modest rate. Mr. Trump achieved this growth by ratcheting up America’s deficit and long-term debt to record levels, with a tax cut that showered benefits on the wealthy.
But beyond the low unemployment rate he gained and lost, history will record Mr. Trump’s presidency as a march of wanton, uninterrupted, tragic destruction. America’s standing in the world, loyalty to allies, commitment to democratic values, constitutional checks and balances, faith in reason and science, concern for Earth’s health, respect for public service, belief in civility and honest debate, beacon to refugees in need, aspirations to equality and diversity and basic decency — Mr. Trump torched them all.
Four years ago, after Mr. Trump was nominated in Cleveland, we did something in this space we had never done before: Even before the Democrats had nominated their candidate, we told you that we could never, under any circumstances, endorse Donald Trump for president. He was, we said, “uniquely unqualified” to be president.
“Mr. Trump’s politics of denigration and division could strain the bonds that have held a diverse nation together,” we warned. “His contempt for constitutional norms might reveal the nation’s two-century-old experiment in checks and balances to be more fragile than we knew.”
The nation has indeed spent much of the past three-plus years fretting over whether that experiment could survive Mr. Trump’s depredations. The resistance from some institutions, at some times, has been heartening. The depth of the president’s incompetence, which even we could not have imagined, may have saved the democracy from a more rapid descent.
But the trajectory has been alarming. The capitulation of the Republican Party has been nauseating. Misbehavior that many people vowed never to accept as normal has become routine.
A second term might injure the experiment beyond recovery.
And so, over the coming weeks, we will do something else we have never done before: We will publish a series of editorials on the damage this president has caused — and the danger he would pose in a second term. And we will unabashedly urge you to do your civic duty and vote: Vote early and vote safely, but vote.
“I alone can fix it,” Mr. Trump proclaimed at his convention four years ago.
How has that turned out?
His campaign, as our columnist Michael Gerson has noted, was based on the premises that Mr. Obama and all his predecessors had made such a botch of things that nothing could get worse — and that expertise and moral leadership were not only irrelevant, they were handicaps.
Mr. Trump has decisively refuted these premises.
As Franklin D. Roosevelt said 80 years ago, when democracy was similarly under threat, “There can be no ultimate peace between their philosophy of government and our philosophy of government.” If they should gain the upper hand around the world, “We should enter upon a new and terrible era in which the whole world, our hemisphere included, would be run by threats of brute force.”
Mr. Trump, in his fourth year, has branded China an enemy, mostly because he needs a pandemic scapegoat, but also because he hopes it will give him a campaign issue.
But for three years, he embraced and admired Chinese dictator Xi Jinping and made clear his indifference to China’s genocide of its Muslim Uighur population, its stifling of Hong Kong, the repression of its own people. Mr. Trump’s one concern was mercantile, and even there he failed: China’s economy is no more open to U.S. business than it was four years ago.
A president truly attuned to the Chinese threat would be investing in American universities and science; welcoming the smartest young people from around the world to study and work in the United States; and building alliances with like-minded democracies such as South Korea, Japan, Canada and Germany. In each case, the president has done the opposite.
Most of all, he would be modeling the virtues of democracy, but again he has done the reverse, admiring and embracing the methods of strongmen such as Mr. Xi. Mr. Trump denigrates a free press, makes a mockery of free markets, elevates insult over civil exchange, shows contempt for the rule of law in civilian and military courts, devalues truth, and dismisses legitimate oversight from Congress, the courts and executive branch inspectors general.
Last fall, Mr. Trump became the third president in history to be impeached. The House of Representatives charged him with what amounts to extortion for personal political gain: Mr. Trump held up an arms sale and a White House meeting in an effort to pressure the president of Ukraine to slander former vice president Joe Biden. The House also charged Mr. Trump with illegally refusing to cooperate with its investigation.
In February, the Senate voted to acquit the president, with Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah the lone Republican honest enough to acknowledge that the evidence was irrefutable. A few other Republicans, perhaps embarrassed by their own moral collapse, suggested that Mr. Trump would be chastened by impeachment and mend his ways.
Instead, he has been emboldened, and his behavior in the half-year since provides an indication of the lawlessness we can expect if Mr. Trump is reelected. He has swept aside U.S. attorneys who would not bend the law to his whim; fired officials throughout the government whose only offense was to do their jobs honestly or seek to hold his administration accountable; sicced unbadged troops on peaceful protesters in D.C. and Portland, Ore., for the benefit of his reelection campaign; and ignored and lied about credible reports of Russian bounties on U.S. soldiers.
He has sought to undermine confidence in democracy itself, lying about the prevalence of fraud, floating the possibility of delaying the election and even suggesting he may not accept its results.
These are high crimes and misdemeanors, as the framers of the Constitution understood the term. But this time it is up to us, the American people, to remove Mr. Trump from office.
Fucked up coward posts another pile of steaming bullshit without proof......The republican way!!!!! BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!!
And arguing the dems didn't leave out "under God" in some of their convention pledges. Hoyer recently did it in the House too. just a coincidence I'm sure.
What I am sure of fucked coward is that you are lying!!!!!!!
The Postmaster General has been lying repeatedly, he just said that he didn't stop overtime but it's on the record
LOL.
expose the racism that lurks just beneath the surface of the democrat party, and the alky flies into 700 wpm copy/paste mode.
LOL.
This is bizarre
The new poll showed a significant partisan divide over how each party sees the health emergency, which is killing some 1,000 Americans every day.
Fifty-seven percent of Republicans!!!!! surveyed agreed with the statement that the number of coronavirus deaths in the US — which this week reached over 176,000 — was “acceptable.”
Conversely, 90 percent of Democrats said the number of deaths was unacceptable, as did 67 percent of independents.
The poll was carried out by YouGov on behalf of CBS News, using a representative sample of 2,226 registered voters interviewed between August 19-21, 2020
Sounds like the vast majority of Democrats and independents don’t understand how a virus works.
We can thank the teachers unions for their stupidity
Sounds like the vast majority of Democrats and independents don’t understand how a virus works.
We can thank the teachers unions for their stupidity
yep, and it also shows that republicans know better than to politicize a public health situation for its potential to provide political gain.
Anonymous Caliphate4vr said...
Sounds like the vast majority of Democrats
BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! While you assholes think fauci is a fraud and science is a hoax.....Big mouth of the south.....why don't you tell us how it does work!!!! This will be fun!!!!! LOLOLOLOL
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