May 23, 2020

Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy: David Frum, out on Tues, May 26,excerpts:

Hard hitting book about Donald Trump. Coming out on Tuesday..I haven't heard of it before today.
We will all hear about it very soon. Here are excerpts :

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"Trump is a swindler, but the Trumpocalypse of 2020 represents something a lot bigger and a lot worse than a swindle. In the fall of 2019, a nonpartisan research organization studied the distinctive attitudes of Republicans who watched Fox News as their primary source of information. Among that group, 55 percent said there was virtually nothing President Trump could do that would change their minds about supporting him. Fox News and the Facebook feed have become for many Americans friends more intimate and trusted than family or neighbors. The validation of their prejudices by television and Facebook is a validation of themselves."


"And so, for the sake of flag and faith, millions of decent conservative Americans countenanced scandals, wrongs, disloyalty, and crime. Trump’s followers live in an isolated knowledge community that has developed its own situational ethics. They wanted to lock up Hillary Clinton for sending and receiving emails on a personal server, not caring even slightly when Ivanka Trump did the exact same thing or when Trump outright blabbed to the Russian foreign minister secrets much more vital than anything Clinton could possibly have risked. They plunged into the QAnon fantasy of a wise and good Trump poised to crush a global ring of child molesters, in order to avoid the reality of a malignant Trump who by his own admission had preyed upon teenage beauty-pageant contestants."

May 23, 2020

John Oilver."How churches exploit the poor" 20 minutes. 5 years old, credit to-TomCADem

I saw this in another post and had to show it, Worth watching the whole 20 min, from- 8/17/15

May 22, 2020

This is one hell of a strange story..Trump said earlier on, "I wore a mask." and...

we argued back & forth that he was lying. All said "Of course he is lying" and now there is a picture of
Trump wearing a mask..That ass**le actually wore one...if the picture is real

...Now you tell me, isn't that the strangest twist of all..Once, just once Trump told the truth.
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MAYBE...MAYBE..AND MAYBE?????

.Maybe the whole thing was a set up to prove that the media "is fake news" Maybe...??

So at one point he clearly doesn't have one in front of the media, then at another point, there is a picture of him wearing one..as he tours around, then he can say the media lies and that is proof..

..Sounds like a plan...doesn't it. Also, it solidifies his base with the idea that Trump tells the truth, and everyone else lies about Trump..
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The lady governor looks bad, the Attorney General looks bad,,,and guess who looks good and honest?
You guessed it...Mr honest himself...the liar and ass**le Donald Trump...What a show..Think about that one for a moment..

WHAT DO YOU THINK??

May 21, 2020

This "No Mask Incident " just proves 1 more time: Trump only cares about himself, & no one else.

...Wearing a mask would prove as a leader he was willing to "take precautions." Others would see him taking precautions & see it is necessary to do so.

Not wearing a mask proves the idea that ..."It is all about what I want, & no one else matters"
...Others will follow his lead, (not wear a mask) and get sick and die...he doesn't care. "It is all about "ME",and what I want for ME" !!!!!

This is not complicated. That is what leadership is/was/ and will always be. Although Trump was told by someone about this..(I suspect today too), he still needed to show who the boss is..."It is all about what I want, no one is going to tell me what to do." Just like a 9 year old spoiled child ..

May 21, 2020

Question...Did Trump wear a mask at the Ford Plant?...not in latest news.

May 21, 2020

2 examples of great planning, saved thousands,2 examples of ignoring warnings, killed thousands

Two presidents did some outstanding planning that saved thousands of lives so lets give the positive examples first.:

...Jimmy Carter planned to order the car manufacturers to require air bags and other safety devises in the first year of his presidency...so the order went out in 1977 that the air bags would be mandatory in 1984. With the manufacturers consent, this was in fact done and if one looks at the facts about "deaths on the highways"..there was a significant drop in deaths from the mid 80s on. (from somewhere around 50,000 to about 34,000 today. Tens of thousands of lives have been saved due to all the safety devises on cars even though there are far more cars on the road today then before...(one hundred million more)
Look at number at this link from 82 till now.... "Motor vehicle fatality rates by year"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in_U.S._by_year

...Barack Obama planned far in advance to have a program for health care for those who had no insurance. He negotiated with everyone to get the Affordable Care Act through congress. Especially health insurance companies, both houses of Congress and everyone else. It took time, but eventually, that idea was put into law, and untold lives have been saved, and families finances have not been ruined but also saved.

....Now for those that were warned, and did nothing to save lives.
....George Bush Jr.: It has been proven, he was warned that foreign operatives were going to attack the United States, by an informer long before the attack. He told the informer that the information was fine, and that he could go home now, after the informer talked directly to Bush Jr..In spite of the warning, Bush did nothing and we had 9/11.

....Today we find out that Donald Trump was clearly warned about the virus that was coming to the U.S.A. months before the first death. Evidently Trump did not read the warning or listen to anyone who did read the warning. (we don't know for sure, if he was told out loud that it virus deaths were coming, but all he had to do was observe what was going on in Europe and ask other leaders how to protect our population..It seems clear now, that ..in spite of warnings, Trump did nothing and now we have over 90,000 deaths due to this virus

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The above examples are hard to believe, but they are totally true. 2 examples of outstanding planning that saved lives, & 2 examples of ignoring warning that killed thousands upon thousands of people.

May 21, 2020

Some proof about what concerns Tump the most.

Which of these 2 ideas does he talk about the most..

1. Opening up the country as soon as possible

2. Sadness about 90,000 people who have died from the virus.

May 20, 2020

Trump wants to reopen as soon as possible. Here is why -one sentence only

Trump doesn't care about reopening causing death, but he does cares about unemployment causing his failure at being reelected.

May 20, 2020

Trump Will Lose in Landslide, Business Model Predicts, CNN Business:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/20/business/economy-election-trump-biden-jobs/index.html


New York (CNN Business) — The economy has gone from President Donald Trump's greatest political asset to perhaps his biggest weakness.

Unemployment is spiking at an unprecedented rate. Consumer spending is vanishing. And GDP is collapsing. History shows that dreadful economic trends like these spell doom for sitting presidents seeking reelection.

The coronavirus recession will cause Trump to suffer a "historic defeat" in November, a national election model released Wednesday by Oxford Economics predicted.

The model, which uses unemployment, disposable income and inflation to forecast election results, predicts that Trump will lose in a landslide, capturing just 35% of the popular vote. That's a sharp reversal from the model's pre-crisis prediction that Trump would win about 55% of the vote. And it would be the worst performance for an incumbent in a century

(Please ignore video & sound, and read article instead, written article below picture)

May 20, 2020

Catastrophic flooding as dams fail, thousands flee in Michigan.

https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/michigan-dam-flooding/index.html

▪Thousands are under evacuation orders in mid-Michigan this morning, a day after two dams failed following heavy rain across the state.
▪The Tittabawassee River at Midland, Michigan, is forecast to crest 38 feet at 8 p.m. ET today. The river set a new record this morning, surpassing 33.89 feet, which was the previous record set in 1986



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Below is a post from the Washington Post with pictures and more information..

"Approximately 10,000 people evacuated as waters surge to record levels."


https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/05/20/michigan-dams-fail-midland/

here is a link to the story posted in latest news by brooklynite:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142497656