I’ve worked in five Republican presidential campaigns. Four won the nomination and two won the White House. It’s a presidential election summer but I am trying to do everything I can to help elect a Democrat: Joe Biden.
Another four years of Donald Trump would be a disaster for America and the world.
They would also be a disaster, and likely fatal, for the Republican Party.
The reality is that President Trump is a symptom, not the source, of the disease that is ravaging the Republican Party.
Only by confronting that sickness can there be a possibility of a cure.
✁
For decades, Republicans told themselves that African Americans would be drawn back to the party if only Republicans understood how to communicate with Black voters.
✁
It was all nonsense.
African Americans heard Republicans clearly; they just didn’t like what they were hearing.
✁
After the 2012 election, Republican Party Chairman Reince Priebus commissioned a so-called “autopsy” to analyze the reasons the party had only won the popular vote once since 1988.
The need to reach out to non-white voters, to appeal to younger voters and women was presented not just as a political necessity but a moral mandate for a governing party.
All of that was thrown aside a few years later when the party embraced the white grievance candidacy of Donald Trump.
Trump didn’t bend the party to his will, he gave the party an excuse to quit pretending it really cared about anything but power.
I’ve helped elect Republican governors or senators in over half the country, and I have given up any hope that there is some line Trump can cross to make more than a few Republicans in Congress stand for the principles they all swore to believe.
The only way to save the Republican Party is to crush Trump and Trumpism and rebuild. ✁
Some scientists suspect that Covid-19 causes respiratory failure and death not through damage to the lungs, but the brain – and other symptoms include headaches, strokes and seizures.
Helms and her colleagues published a small study in the New England Journal of Medicine documenting the neurological symptoms in their Covid-19 patients, ranging from cognitive difficulties to confusion.
All are signs of “encephalopathy” (the general term for damage to the brain) ✁
Now, more than 300 studies from around the world have found a prevalence of neurological abnormalities in Covid-19 patients, including mild symptoms like headaches, loss of smell (anosmia) and tingling sensations (arcoparasthesia), up to more severe outcomes such as aphasia (inability to speak), strokes and seizures.
This is in addition to recent findings that the virus, which has been largely considered to be a respiratory disease, can also wreak havoc on the kidneys, liver, heart, and just about every organ system in the body.
We don’t know yet if the encephalopathy is more severe with Covid-19 than with other viruses, but I can tell you we’ve been seeing quite a lot of it,” says neurologist Elissa Fory of the Henry Ford Foundation in Detroit, Michigan.
“As the number of cases increases, you will start to see not only the common manifestations but also the uncommon manifestations – and we’re seeing them all at once, which is not something any of us have encountered in our lifetimes.”
Estimates of exact prevalence vary, but it seems that roughly 50% of patients diagnosed with Sars-CoV-2 – the virus responsible for causing the illness Covid-19 – have experienced neurological problems.
The extent and severity of these neurological issues has flown largely under the radar. Most people, including physicians, may not recognize neurological abnormalities for what they are when they appear – ✁
The line that “leftists” have an “agenda” and are “out to destroy the country” has been the mantra of Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, Rush Limbaugh. I’ve been an unwilling listener to his tripe for decades now.
(Unwilling in the sense that, in our cubicle maze, enough people would have him on all day long – and heaven help the person who would ask for it to be turned down so I could get some work done)
About the only thing sadder than what Rush says is that, he has said it enough times, over and over, that a sizable chunk of Americans now believe it. Including a president who decided to give him that award. Probably as a reward for continuing (and originating) the conspiracy theories he uses to keep America polarized.
Now along with an army of Rush “wannabes” all piping out the same thing: “Leftists are out to crush us! It’s up to us to crush them first!”
In the meantime, the “left” is trying to solve the nation’s problems, with the “right” constantly saying that we “are” the problem and, as implied by Old Guy above, we need to be banished!
How the Sam Hill are we expected to do anything in this country any more, let alone against this virus, let alone racial inequality, let alone fix our highways…
Commenters such as Old Guy seem to miss the point that there may not be much nation to maintain if Trump and Co. continue in power. Given the pandemic (in which the US is failing miserably), the economic consequences of damaged global supply lines and credit lines (neoliberal primacy), and the increased climate consequences of human activity (100 F. above the Arctic circle last week), there may not be much USA surviving for either Left or Right. And the Left, in the minds of such as Old Guy, seems to include all scientists and economic experts.
Trump denies knowledge of the Russian bounty for Afghans killing American troops.
.
So, for Trump Disciples:
1. Do you believe him?
I mean, not that he would ever LIE about anything, especially about something that would cause American troops to be killed.
.
2. If you believe him, it’s perfectly OKAY that he didn’t know because he’s way smarter than the generals and those intelligence people are not worth listening to anyway.
or,
3. If you don’t believe him and figure it’s OKAY that he lies because what’s good for Trump is good for the country, how many American deaths in Afghanistan are acceptable?
.
In short, is America better off if The Messiah knew about the bounties of if he did not?
Cheapskate0 about 4 years ago
I kinda like the artwork today!
Captain Colorado about 4 years ago
So negative!
RobinHood about 4 years ago
Why is anything controversial, people need something to argue about and here yields a bumper crop of conflict.
Silly Season about 4 years ago
By Stuart Stevens:
I’ve worked in five Republican presidential campaigns. Four won the nomination and two won the White House. It’s a presidential election summer but I am trying to do everything I can to help elect a Democrat: Joe Biden.
Another four years of Donald Trump would be a disaster for America and the world.
They would also be a disaster, and likely fatal, for the Republican Party.
The reality is that President Trump is a symptom, not the source, of the disease that is ravaging the Republican Party.
Only by confronting that sickness can there be a possibility of a cure.
✁
For decades, Republicans told themselves that African Americans would be drawn back to the party if only Republicans understood how to communicate with Black voters.
✁
It was all nonsense.
African Americans heard Republicans clearly; they just didn’t like what they were hearing.
✁
After the 2012 election, Republican Party Chairman Reince Priebus commissioned a so-called “autopsy” to analyze the reasons the party had only won the popular vote once since 1988.
The need to reach out to non-white voters, to appeal to younger voters and women was presented not just as a political necessity but a moral mandate for a governing party.
All of that was thrown aside a few years later when the party embraced the white grievance candidacy of Donald Trump.
Trump didn’t bend the party to his will, he gave the party an excuse to quit pretending it really cared about anything but power.
I’ve helped elect Republican governors or senators in over half the country, and I have given up any hope that there is some line Trump can cross to make more than a few Republicans in Congress stand for the principles they all swore to believe.
The only way to save the Republican Party is to crush Trump and Trumpism and rebuild. ✁
~
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/06/26/republican-party-has-lost-its-way-republicans-should-vote-for-joe-biden-2020-column/3254053001/
Silly Season about 4 years ago
Some scientists suspect that Covid-19 causes respiratory failure and death not through damage to the lungs, but the brain – and other symptoms include headaches, strokes and seizures.
Helms and her colleagues published a small study in the New England Journal of Medicine documenting the neurological symptoms in their Covid-19 patients, ranging from cognitive difficulties to confusion.
All are signs of “encephalopathy” (the general term for damage to the brain) ✁
Now, more than 300 studies from around the world have found a prevalence of neurological abnormalities in Covid-19 patients, including mild symptoms like headaches, loss of smell (anosmia) and tingling sensations (arcoparasthesia), up to more severe outcomes such as aphasia (inability to speak), strokes and seizures.
This is in addition to recent findings that the virus, which has been largely considered to be a respiratory disease, can also wreak havoc on the kidneys, liver, heart, and just about every organ system in the body.
We don’t know yet if the encephalopathy is more severe with Covid-19 than with other viruses, but I can tell you we’ve been seeing quite a lot of it,” says neurologist Elissa Fory of the Henry Ford Foundation in Detroit, Michigan.
“As the number of cases increases, you will start to see not only the common manifestations but also the uncommon manifestations – and we’re seeing them all at once, which is not something any of us have encountered in our lifetimes.”
Estimates of exact prevalence vary, but it seems that roughly 50% of patients diagnosed with Sars-CoV-2 – the virus responsible for causing the illness Covid-19 – have experienced neurological problems.
The extent and severity of these neurological issues has flown largely under the radar. Most people, including physicians, may not recognize neurological abnormalities for what they are when they appear – ✁
~
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200622-the-long-term-effects-of-covid-19-infection
MAGA Premium Member about 4 years ago
Uh oh. Hope you are not called racist or blackfacing your comic characters.
Kip W about 4 years ago
If the polarity was completely flipped, so that our receptors became their own opposite, would we even perceive that everything else had changed?
And how does the colorist earn their pay today?
Cheapskate0 about 4 years ago
Actually responding to Old Guy, above:
The line that “leftists” have an “agenda” and are “out to destroy the country” has been the mantra of Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, Rush Limbaugh. I’ve been an unwilling listener to his tripe for decades now.
(Unwilling in the sense that, in our cubicle maze, enough people would have him on all day long – and heaven help the person who would ask for it to be turned down so I could get some work done)
About the only thing sadder than what Rush says is that, he has said it enough times, over and over, that a sizable chunk of Americans now believe it. Including a president who decided to give him that award. Probably as a reward for continuing (and originating) the conspiracy theories he uses to keep America polarized.
Now along with an army of Rush “wannabes” all piping out the same thing: “Leftists are out to crush us! It’s up to us to crush them first!”
In the meantime, the “left” is trying to solve the nation’s problems, with the “right” constantly saying that we “are” the problem and, as implied by Old Guy above, we need to be banished!
How the Sam Hill are we expected to do anything in this country any more, let alone against this virus, let alone racial inequality, let alone fix our highways…
martens about 4 years ago
Commenters such as Old Guy seem to miss the point that there may not be much nation to maintain if Trump and Co. continue in power. Given the pandemic (in which the US is failing miserably), the economic consequences of damaged global supply lines and credit lines (neoliberal primacy), and the increased climate consequences of human activity (100 F. above the Arctic circle last week), there may not be much USA surviving for either Left or Right. And the Left, in the minds of such as Old Guy, seems to include all scientists and economic experts.
rossevrymn about 4 years ago
How are things “oppositety?” I mean, nice artwork, Stantis…………..how bout just postin’ that without the Stanis b.s.?
braindead Premium Member about 4 years ago
Here’s an ‘oppositety’ for the Trump Disciples.
Trump denies knowledge of the Russian bounty for Afghans killing American troops.
.
So, for Trump Disciples:
1. Do you believe him?
I mean, not that he would ever LIE about anything, especially about something that would cause American troops to be killed.
.
2. If you believe him, it’s perfectly OKAY that he didn’t know because he’s way smarter than the generals and those intelligence people are not worth listening to anyway.
or,
3. If you don’t believe him and figure it’s OKAY that he lies because what’s good for Trump is good for the country, how many American deaths in Afghanistan are acceptable?
.
In short, is America better off if The Messiah knew about the bounties of if he did not?
cosman about 4 years ago
The sneakiest of oppositey is the ones one haven’t noticed.
Ricky Bennett about 4 years ago
Looks like White Lives Matter now…