Perhaps this is the way Scott feels as he has to admit to himself that, unless he wants four more years of you-know-who, he has to break down and vote for that guy with the “D” after his name…
But still, if he’s really serious about it, he needs to do more than just whine about it.
If you’re not actively campaigning for Biden, that’s still voting for Trump!
It is never enough for President Trump’s supporters to provide casual approval. The price of loyalty goes higher and higher.
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From reporting by Jeffrey Goldberg in the Atlantic, we know that the commander in chief regards Americans who lost their lives in battle as “losers” and can’t comprehend the nonmonetary motivations for military service.
This is more than a failure of patriotic ritual. Most concisely in the Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln argued that a moral appreciation for self-government requires an understanding of the human cost of sustaining it.
“From these honored dead,” he said, “we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion.”
By Lincolnian reasoning, Trump is indifferent to the fragile majesty of democratic institutions because he is impervious to the sacrifices on which they rest.
Yet, by the relentless logic of Trumpism: Because the American way of life is at stake, the symbolic desecration of every military grave is a minor matter.
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From reporting in a book by The Post’s Bob Woodward, we also know that Trump was fully aware of the deadly nature of covid-19 in early February but continued to publicly dismiss the danger.
We suspected this, of course, since White House officials had begun ringing alarm bells in January.
But Woodward has provided smoking-gun audio evidence that Trump had been informed about covid-19’s dangers by Chinese President Xi Jinping, and was engaged in purposeful public deception in dismissing its seriousness.
“I wanted to always play it down,” Trump told Woodward on March 19. “I still like playing it down.”
Trump’s explanation — that he didn’t want to “create a panic” — is credible only if the panic he sought to avoid was on Wall Street.
Now, taped conversations between the president and journalist Bob Woodward, as reported in the forthcoming book Rage, indicate that in early February, Trump was well aware of the dangers of the coronavirus and chose to downplay the public health threat to Americans.
“This is deadly stuff,” Trump told Woodward in a Feb. 7 conversation.
“You just breathe the air and that’s how it’s passed. And so that’s a very tricky one. That’s a very delicate one. It’s also more deadly than even your strenuous flu.”
For public health expert Jeremy Konyndyk, the conversations clearly demonstrate that the president has been scapegoating WHO for failures of his administration.
“These tapes make clear that the very things that the president was accusing WHO of failing to share, specifically the lethality and the transmissibility of this virus, were things he was already well aware of,” said Konyndyk, a senior policy fellow at the Center for Global Development who led the U.S. response to international disasters in the Obama administration.
“To blame it on the WHO and then pull out technical and financial support is absurd,” said Nancy Cox, who retired in 2014 as director of the Influenza Division at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where she also headed up a WHO collaborating center on flu control.
The Woodward interviews underscore the fact that, despite Trump’s assignment of blame, the U.S. did not rely on information from WHO or official Chinese sources to make decisions around its pandemic response, said Jimmy Kolker, a former U.S. ambassador who served as assistant secretary for global affairs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Now that you had your scream, Carmen, it’s not too late to start working for Biden’s election. And to request your mail in ballot. On Election Day 2016, 49% of eligible voters stayed home instead of voting. If at least half of that number showed up and voted for Hillary, she likely would have won the electoral vote (as well as the popular vote. I am convinced that we would have done a better job fighting Covid under Clinton than we have under Trump.
Cheapskate0 about 4 years ago
Perhaps this is the way Scott feels as he has to admit to himself that, unless he wants four more years of you-know-who, he has to break down and vote for that guy with the “D” after his name…
But still, if he’s really serious about it, he needs to do more than just whine about it.
If you’re not actively campaigning for Biden, that’s still voting for Trump!
electricshadow Premium Member about 4 years ago
Move aside. I wanna try that.
Silly Season about 4 years ago
It is never enough for President Trump’s supporters to provide casual approval. The price of loyalty goes higher and higher.
✁
From reporting by Jeffrey Goldberg in the Atlantic, we know that the commander in chief regards Americans who lost their lives in battle as “losers” and can’t comprehend the nonmonetary motivations for military service.
This is more than a failure of patriotic ritual. Most concisely in the Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln argued that a moral appreciation for self-government requires an understanding of the human cost of sustaining it.
“From these honored dead,” he said, “we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion.”
By Lincolnian reasoning, Trump is indifferent to the fragile majesty of democratic institutions because he is impervious to the sacrifices on which they rest.
Yet, by the relentless logic of Trumpism: Because the American way of life is at stake, the symbolic desecration of every military grave is a minor matter.
✁
From reporting in a book by The Post’s Bob Woodward, we also know that Trump was fully aware of the deadly nature of covid-19 in early February but continued to publicly dismiss the danger.
We suspected this, of course, since White House officials had begun ringing alarm bells in January.
But Woodward has provided smoking-gun audio evidence that Trump had been informed about covid-19’s dangers by Chinese President Xi Jinping, and was engaged in purposeful public deception in dismissing its seriousness.
“I wanted to always play it down,” Trump told Woodward on March 19. “I still like playing it down.”
Trump’s explanation — that he didn’t want to “create a panic” — is credible only if the panic he sought to avoid was on Wall Street.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-cost-of-loyalty-to-trump-grows-higher-and-higher/2020/09/10/f4823bfe-f378-11ea-bc45-e5d48ab44b9f_story.html
Silly Season about 4 years ago
Now, taped conversations between the president and journalist Bob Woodward, as reported in the forthcoming book Rage, indicate that in early February, Trump was well aware of the dangers of the coronavirus and chose to downplay the public health threat to Americans.
“This is deadly stuff,” Trump told Woodward in a Feb. 7 conversation.
“You just breathe the air and that’s how it’s passed. And so that’s a very tricky one. That’s a very delicate one. It’s also more deadly than even your strenuous flu.”
For public health expert Jeremy Konyndyk, the conversations clearly demonstrate that the president has been scapegoating WHO for failures of his administration.
“These tapes make clear that the very things that the president was accusing WHO of failing to share, specifically the lethality and the transmissibility of this virus, were things he was already well aware of,” said Konyndyk, a senior policy fellow at the Center for Global Development who led the U.S. response to international disasters in the Obama administration.
“To blame it on the WHO and then pull out technical and financial support is absurd,” said Nancy Cox, who retired in 2014 as director of the Influenza Division at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where she also headed up a WHO collaborating center on flu control.
The Woodward interviews underscore the fact that, despite Trump’s assignment of blame, the U.S. did not rely on information from WHO or official Chinese sources to make decisions around its pandemic response, said Jimmy Kolker, a former U.S. ambassador who served as assistant secretary for global affairs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/09/11/911968726/woodward-book-casts-new-light-on-trumps-fight-with-who
VegaAlopex about 4 years ago
I wouldn’t stand on a rock that unstable.
Northgalus2002 about 4 years ago
Now that you had your scream, Carmen, it’s not too late to start working for Biden’s election. And to request your mail in ballot. On Election Day 2016, 49% of eligible voters stayed home instead of voting. If at least half of that number showed up and voted for Hillary, she likely would have won the electoral vote (as well as the popular vote. I am convinced that we would have done a better job fighting Covid under Clinton than we have under Trump.
Darsan54 Premium Member about 4 years ago
Oh, it’s been said alright…….many, many, many times since November, 2016.
William Robbins Premium Member about 4 years ago
Did it?
ajr58(1) about 4 years ago
#TrumpKnew
rossevrymn about 4 years ago
Stantisfernuthin’, Revelation 3:16: “So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth.”
Bradley Walker about 4 years ago
“Promises Made, Promises Kept.”
“Eat My Shorts and Jesus Wept.”
CW Stevenson about 4 years ago
You forgot how much better off the US is with Trump n charge.
mistercatworks about 4 years ago
I have actually referred to him for years as President Aaaaaarrrrrggggghhhh!
sandflea about 4 years ago
Trump lied, tens of thousands died.