The Donald Trump Score Card

or just a dumbass

 

Well it wasn't his brother Abel, so yeah it was the trump rally in Tulsa

 

Republicans have a problem accepting not everyone is as evil as them. The reason they are so sensitive to corruption and they fear violence is because THEY want to do those things so of course their rivals would do it worse.

Their arguments usually boil down to "everyone is bad" or "you would do it if you could".

They say the goverment is broken. Elect them and they will prove it to you.

 

U.S. coronavirus death toll surpasses 160,000.

Trump is expected to say that it's not as bad as other countries.


Coronavirus Update (Live): 18,651,548 Cases and 702,162 Deaths from COVID-19 Virus Pandemic - Worldometer

 

"Bigly" ~ Donald J. Trump

 

The US has more deaths than several other countries combined. Just more evidence of being in a cult. Reality is never reality unless the leader says it is.

 

political cartoon - coronavirus and economy

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Oklahoma Gov. Stitt was the first U.S. governor to test positive for the coronavirus.


We Have Dead People’: COVID-19 Infighting Gets Ugly in Oklahoma
A mayor accusing a state lawmaker of mask mandate-related threats was the latest absurd episode of a cascading coronavirus surge in the state.
Olivia Messer, Reporter
Published Aug. 04, 2020 4:04AM ET

‘We Have Dead People’: COVID-19 Infighting Gets Ugly in Oklahoma

excerpt:

"Bizarre though the episode may have been, it was an escalation of a months-long culture war over a century-old public health solution to a deadly virus. And conversations with officials, doctors, and residents suggested it was just the latest example of a remarkably brazen attitude among some Oklahomans toward a pandemic that has shown little sign of letting up in the state.

As state Rep. Regina Goodwin told The Daily Beast: “If you close your eyes to a tidal wave, you’re still going to get hit.”

Even before President Donald Trump brought his coronavirus-infected team to set up his 6,000-person rally in Tulsa, the state was struggling with a COVID-19 surge. Oklahoma has fought the deadly virus the way other red states have—an uphill battle made harder, some said, by Gov. Kevin Stitt’s refusal to embrace a mask mandate, even after testing positive himself. Local ordinances have created mask mandates and slowed the spread in some areas, but on Monday the state’s hospitals were struggling to find places to put patients, according to the president of the Oklahoma State Medical Association.

“When the governor opened up our state, many people treated it like the virus didn’t exist anymore,” said Dr. George Monks, the association’s president. “A lot of young people went to bars, and we had a really large surge in people under the age of 35 getting COVID.”

Goodwin, who serves the Tulsa area and is chair of the Oklahoma Legislative Black Caucus, slammed the governor’s hesitancy on masks and lack of “leadership.”

“Oklahoma was opened up too soon,” she said. Stitt’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Monday.

The evidence is in Goodwin’s favor. The state’s surge has only increased in recent weeks, hitting a new record daily case count on Friday, at 1,106. This week, tribal leaders with the Cherokee Nation said they have seen a 30-day spike in cases from 219 to 684, largely from gatherings without proper mask-wearing or social distancing. As of Monday, the state had a cumulative total of 38,225 cases and 550 deaths."

 

About 15% of voters were undecided leading up to the 2016 presidential election. In 2020 the figure is about 9%.

Trump won swing states in the Great Lakes region by the narrowest of margins. The feat will likely be more difficult in 2020 with an undecided segment that has shrunk and considering the fact that he is now an incumbent who has a record and is no longer a politically unknown wild card on which the public was once willing to take a chance.



Trump’s Self-Inflicted Wound: Losing Swing Voters As He Plays to His Base
The president’s support among bedrock Republicans is almost certainly not enough to win him a second term in the White House, as even some G.O.P. leaders concede.
By Adam Nagourney
Published June 29, 2020
Updated July 31, 2020

Trump’s Self-Inflicted Wound: Losing Swing Voters As He Plays to His Base

excerpt:

"Since the day he was sworn into office, President Trump has pursued policies and practiced politics with a single-minded focus on bedrock Republicans, showing little interest in appealing to independent voters. That has made him one of the most powerful figures ever in his party, and rewarded him with strong conservative support in his re-election campaign.

But Mr. Trump’s focus on his base at the expense of swing voters, who have historically been a key target for presidential campaigns, is almost certainly not enough to win him a second term in the White House, as even some Republicans concede.

A national poll of registered voters by The Times and Siena College shows Mr. Trump drawing 36 percent of the vote, a far cry from the 46 percent he won in 2016. Perhaps even more troubling for Mr. Trump is that he has not assembled a broad coalition of voters, which is critical to winning battleground states. While Republicans support him overwhelmingly, he has the support of just 29 percent of independents and nonaffiliated voters — 18 points behind Joseph R. Biden Jr., his Democratic opponent. Mr. Trump narrowly won independents in 2016, according to exit polls."

 

Oregon Senator Ron Wyden says Trump deployed 'secret police' in Portland to provoke violence for campaign ads


US Sen. Ron Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon, said Tuesday that President Trump's deployment of federal agents in Portland was intended "to create images of chaos for his own political gain — to air in campaign ads."

The real threat to Americans, Wyden argued, is posed "by the president and his enablers, who are calling peaceful protesters 'anarchists' and 'terrorists' and sending paramilitary forces into America's cities."

 

This is beyond what Trump can fathom. His hapless interview with Axios where he tried to field questions about the coronavirus exemplifies it.

Trump wants all the credit for supposedly making what he says is a superb testing system. But he doesn't want to abide by the social distancing requirements that are needed for such a system to be effective.

He doesn't grasp the concept of contract tracing which isn't simply testing and publishing the data on a heath website. It required people who have been in contact with an infected person to engage in social distancing guidelines, the guidelines Trump has dismissed.

 

Trump tried to spin the increase in coronavirus cases during the summer as being due to superb testing that supposedly wouldn't precipitate increased deaths.

He promoted the ratio of new deaths to new cases which was lower initially. It became apparent that he was wrong after a month or more had lapsed and the death rate caught up with the earlier increase in new case rate. The ratio of metrics increased. The lag is due to the time required for the illness to progress and cause death, which can take weeks

Herman Cain died about a month after his positive test result. Cain is an example of one piece of data that Trump had used to boast about a ratio of a death rate (that hadn't yet increased) to an increasing rate of cases (that had already occurred). When people like Cain who were infected earlier in the summer eventually died, it increased the ratio of metrics that Trump had been raving about, and Trump's spin no longer worked.

 

Trump is unwilling to take the initial steps to quell the virus which he thinks will damage the economy. He does this at the expense of causing a much greater damage to the economy that occurs later due to his shortsightedness. Even this late in the crisis, he's still engaging in this type of mindset.

Trump has been running around in circles for about five months after the virus hit the U.S. in earnest. The voting public has begun to realize it. Even Dr. Birx doesn't sound as apologetic to Trump as she once did when the virus was affecting mostly a limited number of large, urban, population-dense regions in the northern states.

 

Trump has also tried to spin the fact that the northern states have been able to contain the virus reasonably well after the initial impact. He has said that he thinks the rest of the country currently being impacted will have few new cases not too long from now. Trump doesn't acknowledge that the success in the northern states that were hit early by the virus is due in part to assertive implementation of the social distancing that he has dismissed.

Trump wants to take credit for all the benefits accrued by social distancing but doesn't want to encourage and implement it because it goes against the ideology of him and his base. It's a circular, self-defeating approach and one that will likely hurt him with independent voters in swing states.

 

It is what it is.

 

"“We still have beds, but it’s difficult to figure out where those beds are,” said Monks

Lolz

 

The Oklahoma and subsequent debacles that stemmed from Trump's cavalier attitude toward the coronavirus:


Eight of Trump's staffers who attended the Tulsa rally tested positive for the coronavirus at or shortly after the Tulsa rally.

Gov. Stitt of Oklahoma who hosted and had attended Trump's Tulsa rally said he was 'shocked' to learn he was the first U.S. governor to test positive for the coronavirus.

It's not known if Herman Cain was shocked. It's too late to ask because he died of the coronavirus after attending Trump's Tulsa rally and experiencing symptoms and being diagnosed about a week after the rally.

Trump canceled the upcoming Alabama rally after the Tulsa rally.

Trump canceled the New Hampshire rally supposedly because of a small chance of rain (and a big chance of the coronavirus and low turnout).

Trump later canceled the RNC convention in Jacksonville, Florida, a coronavirus hotspot he had chosen after a fight over social distancing that he started with the Democratic governor of the swing state of NC, the original and safer location.

The remnant RNC delegate count portion of the convention in NC was eventually scaled back to a video event with a limited number of delegates actually attending in person.

 

So criticize Trump for acting 8 days too late with the lockdowns, even though it was up to the State Governors not him

Then complain the lockdowns have ruined the economy

Okey Dokey

 

Trump's mindset in a second term isn't expected to be any better than what he has displayed the past few months.

It's a serious contemplation for the voters in 2020 that didn't exist in 2016 when Trump had no record of elected office governance and his performance had yet to be observed during a real crisis (in contrast to his petty-minded, manufactured drama queen culture war crises).

 

McConnell just told the press that he would pass another COVID Aid bill if Trump goes along. During the last aid bill, the ordinary people got $1200 each, and less for kids. Trump's billionaire friends got hundreds of millions of dollars, because they owned golf courses, other resorts, and assembly plants. I just don't understand why the Trump supporters go along with these unfair abusive Republican tactics. They seem to be content with bolting doors on car frames or butchering pigs at the meat packing house, if Trump throws them a little bone every now and then, and allows them to keep and bear arms. One would think there are more important issues which capture their attention, like education and health insurance for their children? At Trump's rallies. his gunslinger followers cheer when he dishes out insults to Mexicans while calling for a border wall. I'm speaking about the wall which Mexico did not pay for. Also Trump has been enraging these followers by claiming Muslims might come with the Mexicans across the southern border, hence a need for a wall. But such a catastrophe has not taken place. It seems that it only happens in the mind of a Trump follower.