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Biden raped a woman.
Care to discuss?
The right used up all the available excuses defending Trump ,leaving none to defend Biden with .
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Biden raped a woman.
Care to discuss?
Biden raped a woman.
Care to discuss?
Trump raped at least 15 women
Care to discuss
Gropin Joe is a predator and a disservice to all women, Trump is a predator and a disservice to all women
Trump has done more to damage his own presidency than the Democrats ever could
Trump and his administration are responsible for grave, costly errors, most especially the epic manufacturing failures in diagnostic testing, the decision to test too few people, the delay in expanding testing to labs outside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and problems in the supply chain. These mistakes have left us blind and badly behind the curve, and, for a few crucial weeks, they created a false sense of security. What we now know is that the coronavirus silently spread for several weeks, without us being aware of it and while we were doing nothing to stop it. Containment and mitigation efforts could have significantly slowed its spread at an early, critical point, but we frittered away that opportunity.
“They’ve simply lost time they can’t make up. You can’t get back six weeks of blindness,” Jeremy Konyndyk, who helped oversee the international response to Ebola during the Obama administration and is a senior policy fellow at the Center for Global Development, told The Washington Post. “To the extent that there’s someone to blame here, the blame is on poor, chaotic management from the White House and failure to acknowledge the big picture.”
Earlier this week, Anthony Fauci, the widely respected director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases whose reputation for honesty and integrity have been only enhanced during this crisis, admitted in congressional testimony that the United States is still not providing adequate testing for the coronavirus. “It is failing. Let’s admit it.” He added, “The idea of anybody getting [testing] easily, the way people in other countries are doing it, we’re not set up for that. I think it should be, but we’re not."
We also know the World Health Organization had working tests that the United States refused, and researchers at a project in Seattle tried to conduct early tests for the coronavirus but were prevented from doing so by federal officials. (Doctors at the research project eventually decided to perform coronavirus tests without federal approval.)
But that’s not all. Trump reportedly ignored early warnings of the severity of the virus and grew angry at a CDC official who in February warned that an outbreak was inevitable. The Trump administration dismantled the National Security Council’s global-health office, whose purpose was to address global pandemics; we’re now paying the price for that. “We worked very well with that office,” Fauci told Congress. “It would be nice if the office was still there.” We may face a shortage of ventilators and medical supplies, and hospitals may soon be overwhelmed, certainly if the number of coronavirus cases increases at a rate anything like that in countries such as Italy. (This would cause not only needless coronavirus-related deaths, but deaths from those suffering from other ailments who won’t have ready access to hospital care.)
Yet in some respects, the avalanche of false information from the president has been most alarming of all. It’s been one rock slide after another, the likes of which we have never seen. Day after day after day he brazenly denied reality, in an effort to blunt the economic and political harm he faced. But Trump is in the process of discovering that he can’t spin or tweet his way out of a pandemic. There is no one who can do to the coronavirus what Attorney General William Barr did to the Mueller report: lie about it and get away with it.
The president’s misinformation and mendacity about the coronavirus are head-snapping. He claimed that it was contained in America when it was actually spreading. He claimed that we had “shut it down” when we had not. He claimed that testing was available when it wasn’t. He claimed that the coronavirus will one day disappear “like a miracle”; it won’t. He claimed that a vaccine would be available in months; Fauci says it will not be available for a year or more.
Trump falsely blamed the Obama administration for impeding coronavirus testing. He stated that the coronavirus first hit the United States later than it actually did. (He said that it was three weeks prior to the point at which he spoke; the actual figure was twice that.) The president claimed that the number of cases in Italy was getting “much better” when it was getting much worse. And in one of the more stunning statements an American president has ever made, Trump admitted that his preference was to keep a cruise ship off the California coast rather than allowing it to dock, because he wanted to keep the number of reported cases of the coronavirus artificially low.
“I like the numbers,” Trump said. “I would rather have the numbers stay where they are. But if they want to take them off, they’ll take them off. But if that happens, all of a sudden your 240 [cases] is obviously going to be a much higher number, and probably the 11 [deaths] will be a higher number too.” (Cooler heads prevailed, and over the president’s objections, the Grand Princess was allowed to dock at the Port of Oakland.)
On and on it goes.
To make matters worse, the president delivered an Oval Office address that was meant to reassure the nation and the markets but instead shook both. The president’s delivery was awkward and stilted; worse, at several points, the president, who decided to ad-lib the teleprompter speech, misstated his administration’s own policies, which the administration had to correct. Stock futures plunged even as the president was still delivering his speech. In his address, the president called for Americans to “unify together as one nation and one family,” despite having referred to Washington Governor Jay Inslee as a “snake” days before the speech and attacking Democrats the morning after it. As The Washington Post’s Dan Balz put it, “Almost everything that could have gone wrong with the speech did go wrong.”
Taken together, this is a massive failure in leadership that stems from a massive defect in character. Trump is such a habitual liar that he is incapable of being honest, even when being honest would serve his interests. He is so impulsive, shortsighted, and undisciplined that he is unable to plan or even think beyond the moment. He is such a divisive and polarizing figure that he long ago lost the ability to unite the nation under any circumstances and for any cause. And he is so narcissistic and unreflective that he is completely incapable of learning from his mistakes. The president’s disordered personality makes him as ill-equipped to deal with a crisis as any president has ever been. With few exceptions, what Trump has said is not just useless; it is downright injurious.
The nation is recognizing this, treating him as a bystander “as school superintendents, sports commissioners, college presidents, governors and business owners across the country take it upon themselves to shut down much of American life without clear guidance from the president,” in the words of Peter Baker and Maggie Haberman of The New York Times.
Donald Trump is shrinking before our eyes.
The coronavirus is quite likely to be the Trump presidency’s inflection point, when everything changed, when the bluster and ignorance and shallowness of America’s 45th president became undeniable, an empirical reality, as indisputable as the laws of science or a mathematical equation.
It has taken a good deal longer than it should have, but Americans have now seen the con man behind the curtain. The president, enraged for having been unmasked, will become more desperate, more embittered, more unhinged. He knows nothing will be the same. His administration may stagger on, but it will be only a hollow shell. The Trump presidency is over.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/peter-wehner-trump-presidency-over/607969/
Trump has made enough of a mess of his presidency (and the United States) that the Republican Party has become increasingly nervous about its future – as it should. But thanks to new information that came out of an investment conference in New York the GOP is under even more pressure as a major conservative donor has made it crystal clear that he HATES Trump.
At the Robin Hood Investment Conference, several billionaires discussed their feelings about Trump, and one big GOP donor in particular stood out. Billionaire hedge fund manager Seth Klarman — CEO of the Baupost Group – actually made a speech about how “awful” America has become because of Trump and called him a “threat to democracy” in front of all the attendees. Klarman said:
“The president is a threat to democracy. He has attacked journalists and he’s threatening to take away NBC’s license. He’s attacking judges. He’s violating all sorts of democratic norms, from the emoluments clause to questioning the election and threatening to lock up his opponent. People don’t focus on this, but Nazi Germany had a constitution before Hitler came to power and at the end of the war they had the exact same constitution. It lasted all the way through, but democracy didn’t.”
“The country is getting divided, whether it’s immigrants, whether it’s transgender people, whether it’s blacks, whether it’s Mexicans. It’s awful.”
This is really, REALLY bad news for the Republican Party. And to make matters worse, Klarman was far from the only billionaire donor to speak negatively about the disgraceful POTUS. Billionaire real estate mogul Barry Sternlicht, who has previously played golf with Trump, also bashed Trump’s leadership. Unaware that he was being recorded, Sternlicht said:
“I expected him to go to the middle, because I thought he wanted to be great. I played [golf] with Donald Trump and his golf game is like his presidency. He’s amusing as my friend, but he’s not very amusing as president of the United States. And I’m a Republican.”
Hilariously, Trump is confident in his current re-election campaign and has stated before that he’s going to serve 8 years. But based on these donors’ comments, Trump should start kissing 2020 goodbye.
he's accomplished in 3.5 years what moscow has tried for the last 90 years
It helps when you are a blackmailed espionage asset of the Russians.
"Billionaires hate me" is worth at least a few more electoral votes, maybe many, as if he didn't already have a guaranteed win.Trump has made enough of a mess of his presidency (and the United States) that the Republican Party has become increasingly nervous about its future – as it should. But thanks to new information that came out of an investment conference in New York the GOP is under even more pressure as a major conservative donor has made it crystal clear that he HATES Trump.
At the Robin Hood Investment Conference, several billionaires discussed their feelings about Trump, and one big GOP donor in particular stood out. Billionaire hedge fund manager Seth Klarman — CEO of the Baupost Group – actually made a speech about how “awful” America has become because of Trump and called him a “threat to democracy” in front of all the attendees. Klarman said:
“The president is a threat to democracy. He has attacked journalists and he’s threatening to take away NBC’s license. He’s attacking judges. He’s violating all sorts of democratic norms, from the emoluments clause to questioning the election and threatening to lock up his opponent. People don’t focus on this, but Nazi Germany had a constitution before Hitler came to power and at the end of the war they had the exact same constitution. It lasted all the way through, but democracy didn’t.”
“The country is getting divided, whether it’s immigrants, whether it’s transgender people, whether it’s blacks, whether it’s Mexicans. It’s awful.”
This is really, REALLY bad news for the Republican Party. And to make matters worse, Klarman was far from the only billionaire donor to speak negatively about the disgraceful POTUS. Billionaire real estate mogul Barry Sternlicht, who has previously played golf with Trump, also bashed Trump’s leadership. Unaware that he was being recorded, Sternlicht said:
“I expected him to go to the middle, because I thought he wanted to be great. I played [golf] with Donald Trump and his golf game is like his presidency. He’s amusing as my friend, but he’s not very amusing as president of the United States. And I’m a Republican.”
Hilariously, Trump is confident in his current re-election campaign and has stated before that he’s going to serve 8 years. But based on these donors’ comments, Trump should start kissing 2020 goodbye.
Trump now seems shocked, SHOCKED I SAY that his childish bungling when it came to America's National Security hurt his popularity and now they want a president that takes saving American lives seriously!
How could Trump have predicted that doing nothing while the American People died in large numbers would be a hot-button issue for the American voters?
Trump is losing to former vice president Joe Biden, in virtually every poll,and Trump can't seem to understand why!!
Trump's cupidity, demagoguery, hostility towards science, ignorance, intellectual laziness, unrepentant opportunism, narcissism and utter lack of empathy all combine to make him utterly unqualified to be America's Commander in Chief.
Thousands of Americans have died. Thousands more are dying, the hospitals are overwhelmed and the bodies of dead Americans are being buried in mass graves. And what's Trump's response?
He's encouraging and validating the idiotic protesters who want to reopen their states even as deaths from COVID-19 continue to surge.
You're right. He is a terrible president. Americans are dying in huge numbers and he just doesn't give a damn.
And things are going to get much worse in states like Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Kentucky and Texas. where support for Trump is the strongest. These are the states where more people took Trump seriously when he claimed the virus is a hoax and that we should re-open everything. The virus is going to spread much more rapidly there as Trump supporters ignore all common sense recommendations about halting the spread of the virus.
Coincidentally, these are also the states who have done the least to build healthcare systems that could handle a widespread medical emergency.
Trump's gross incompetence and gross negligence is going to end up killing a lot of Trump's own people.
We are beating this evil thing. Mitigate the Democrat virus by continuing to practice social distancing from Democrats. Flatten the curve of liberalism. Vote ALL Democrats OUT of political office. WeThePeople win!