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August 19, 2020

Well Duh: Big Majority Embarrassed by U.S. Coronavirus Response

A new CNN poll finds 69% of Americans say the U.S. response to the coronavirus outbreak makes them feel embarrassed.

“And Americans are angry. About 8 in 10 say they are at least somewhat angry about the way things are going in the country today, including an astonishing 51% who say they are very angry.”


MORE:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/19/politics/cnn-poll-us-coronavirus-response-embarrassed/index.html

August 19, 2020

Boy do we need Biden in the White House.

So powerful.

Boy do we need Biden in the White House.

Her husband too.

https://twitter.com/DavidPepper/status/1295919018445070337?s=20

August 18, 2020

RUDE PUNDIT: Michelle Obama Scared the Hell Out of Us (For Good Reasons)

..........as Michelle Obama pointed out, Trump didn't just squander her husband's legacy. He chewed it up, shit it out, and then told everyone how awesome his shit is. She said, "When my husband left office with Joe Biden at his side, we had a record-breaking stretch of job creation. We’d secured the right to health care for 20,000,000 people. We were respected around the world, rallying our allies to confront climate change. " And Trump just decided to fuck all that up for the sake of rage and envy.

There is no sitting on the sidelines. Like Michelle Obama, I've seen the devolution of the Republican Party that started with Ronald Reagan (yes, you can argue it started with Nixon). I've seen how Reagan and H.W. Bush fucked shit up and Clinton corrected it, to a degree. I've seen how W. Bush fucked shit up even worse and Obama corrected it, to an even greater degree. A lot of us know of what we speak when we say that shit is really, really fucked up and that, yeah, more than usual, this is an existential crisis right now.

I loved Obama's near-last line. "We have got to reassert our place in American history," she said. Yep. It's time to take the narrative back from the motherfuckers. Again


the rest:
https://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2020/08/michelle-obama-scared-hell-out-of-us.html

August 18, 2020

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern hit back against Pres. Trump

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern hit back against Pres. Trump for saying her country is experiencing a "big surge" in COVID-19, calling the remarks "patently wrong." https://abcn.ws/3h8KONk

https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1295692937729376256?s=20

August 18, 2020

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