All purpose news and politics thread part VI: This Is Not The Time For Posing

[Tami]

This was a real question from a credentialed “reporter” at @OANN
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Dear real journalists, what y’all think?

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A real facepalm moment

[Farealmer]

At this point in the Administration of one of the most corrupt and incompetent Presidents in history, what could anyone possible say that would make him loose your support? Maybe no one wants to spend time in a futile effort?

Especially one that speaks of not letting emotions guide choices when that's all Donny seems to use in his decision making process. Appearantly the dems are the ones that need to stop appealing to emotions and acting on group think. Not the cool headed logical cons chanting "lock her up" at rallies.

Different day same old Donny supporters.

[Tami]

The Coronavirus’ Hidden Death Toll in America’s Counties

Coronavirus has taken a major toll on the US, and we likely don’t yet know the full extent of its damage. At Surgo Foundation, we’ve been concerned that the severity of the epidemic is being obscured by a massive underreporting of “excess deaths” — or the number of deaths above the average recorded for the same period in previous years.

Measuring “excess deaths” provides a window into the true toll of this pandemic. Excess death counts reflect not only coronavirus deaths, but increases and decreases in all causes of death — such as motor vehicle accidents, illnesses unrelated to COVID-19, suicides, and homicides. In the absence of widespread coronavirus testing, these counts help us better understand, and plan for, the true impact of the disease.

Researchers analyzing excess deaths in Italy concluded that the COVID-19 death toll may be twice as high as the official government count.

And in the US, a state-level analysis of excess deaths has reached similar conclusions: in the hardest-hit states of New York and New Jersey, researchers estimated that COVID-19 deaths may be 1.5–3 times higher than officially reported.

But we miss something important if we restrict ourselves to a state-by-state picture of the coronavirus death toll. If we really want to understand where the virus is having the greatest impact, we need to drill down to a more precise, hyper-local level.

[Spidey5640]

I have to ask, what has Biden done in his decades in Washington that make him worthy of your vote? Voting for the 90's crime bill?

I get people don't like Trump because he runs his mouth too much, I really do, but even if you don't want to give him full credit for some of the things he's accomplished in his first term inn regards to minorities you have to see it is still FAR more than Biden has ever done.

https://www.usnews.com/news/politics...black-colleges

Permanently funded hsitorically minority colleges - Did Obama/Biden do that?

https://www.usnews.com/news/politics...black-colleges

Lowest unemployment rate in history

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...b05_story.html

Criminal Justice reform

https://www.statista.com/statistics/...e-us-military/

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/2...omplete-chart/

Pay increase for the military - which has a larger percentage of minorities than the general population

https://www.defense.gov/Explore/News...alth-care-law/

Along the same line, he gave veterans more choices in health care specifically to seek private health care when necessary.

You can dislike the man, you can hate what he tweets, but he has accomplished things for minorities - and he's only been there for 3 years, not 47.

So no takers then? Very telling....although not at all surprising...sheep for the almighty Dem party

[Kirby101]

So no takers then? Very telling....although not at all surprising...sheep for the almighty Dem party

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...resident-ever/

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/05/...p-youre-worst/

https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-05-1...Lj2/index.html

https://www.statesman.com/news/20190...president-ever

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/max-b...b6e7d76c663267

Https://www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...ics-presidents

[aja_christopher]

So no takers then? Very telling....although not at all surprising...sheep for the almighty Dem party

As someone who just spent more than enough time "debating" someone else on racial issues to no effect there's little incentive to keep doing the same with you.

If you think black people should show gratitude to an individual who routinely discriminated against people of color on his properties, claimed that the Central Park 5 should be executed despite their innocence, calls black countries "shithole nations", retweets fake "black crime statistics" sent to him by neo-nazis, called the first black president a "Muslim Kenyan" and still insults him to this very day, has one of the whitest cabinets in history, depends on black voter suppression to get elected and injects white nationalist rhetoric into his immigration policies then it just reveals a level of disconnect that will likely never be overcome.

So why bother.

Vote Trump if you want and then get more of what you deserve while you ask yourself if this country is better off now than it was four years ago.

And whether four more years of Trump is worth the risk.

With regards to your list -- Obama and Biden could have done a lot more than that if the the Republican Congress had let them.

McConnell was a lot more concerned with making him a "one-term president" while Trump attacked him as an "illegal" Kenyan usurper.



The problem is arguing with most Republicans is almost always an exercise in futility -- they obstruct progress while claiming none is made.

Meanwhile they allow their candidates to run up record deficits then blame it all on Democrats when the bill comes due.

Edit: As for Biden's comments, he apologized and I take it for what it was -- a bad joke made by someone who needs to be more presidential.

Trump has said -- and done -- much worse many times and never apologized for it so the choice remains clear between the two.

[Mecegirl]

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A real facepalm moment

What the ****...

[Wildling]

Vote Trump if you want and then get more of what you deserve while you ask yourself if this country is better off now than it was four years ago.

Hey wasn't this exactly going to be the slogan the GOP was going to use for the Trump 2020 re-election campaign, before pandemics and stuff?

How's that working out for them nowadays?

[aja_christopher]

Hey wasn't this exactly going to be the slogan the GOP was going to use for the Trump 2020 re-election campaign, before pandemics and stuff?

How's that working out for them nowadays?

Well to be fair he could still win by riding the strength of Obama's record economic turnaround but since he's the one who is office when it ends -- as Republicans usually are since they can't actually govern and their economic policies almost always end in disaster -- he's the one who will have to deal with the consequences.

Likewise doesn't help that he's such a terrible leader that he can't even pretend to care about Americans affected by the pandemic.

He still could win though -- which says a lot about the electorate of America.

[The Cool Thatguy]

Hey wasn't this exactly going to be the slogan the GOP was going to use for the Trump 2020 re-election campaign, before pandemics and stuff?

How's that working out for them nowadays?

Trump: What do you have to lose?

100,000 people: ...

[Tami]

A GOP chair in Texas says coronavirus is a hoax made up by Democrats, she then asks everyone to take off their masks and they all start hugging. These folks should be in jail for endangering us all. This is insanity. Trump is to blame for this. All of it.

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[Tami]

Trump admin has looked at conducting first US nuclear test since '90s citing threat from Russia, China: report

Members of the Trump administration have explored conducting the first U.S. nuclear test since 1992 in a move that would mark a reversal from a decades-long freeze on such tests.

A senior administration official and two former officials familiar with the deliberations told The Washington Post that discussions were held at a meeting of senior officials from the top national security agencies last Friday. The conversations came in response to accusations that Russia and China are running low-yield nuclear tests, though no evidence has emerged to support the claims.

A senior administration official told the Post that showing Russia and China, two top adversaries, that the U.S. could conduct a “rapid test” could grant Washington leverage in seeking a trilateral nuclear deal.

[The Cool Thatguy]

Well to be fair he could still win by riding the strength of Obama's record economic turnaround but since he's the one who is office when it ends -- as Republicans usually are since they can't actually govern and their economic policies almost always end in disaster -- he's the one who will have to deal with the consequences.

God is it loathsome for Republicans to pretend that Trump did anything other than receive Obama's economy. How quickly they forget that Bush drove it into the ground

[worstblogever]

What issues should Democrats prioritize that are relevant to African-American voters? What policies would increase/ solidify turnout among this voting bloc?

We can start with how Democrats are stopping Republicans working to steal their right to vote. Or not get shot by modern day lynchers who will turn around and try to claim the "stand your ground" defense.

Just two, for starters.

[Jack Dracula]

So no takers then? Very telling....although not at all surprising...sheep for the almighty Dem party

The real problem is that you think you're bringing something original to the table. You've come here to make some point about how great Trump is but the last three years have already nullified your arguments.
The easily-fooled are just so fucking boring and tedious to deal with. You're like a joke we've heard a hundred times until it's just not amusing anymore.