Quit Picking on the Republicans
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It's okay to carry water for Trump no matter how awful he is and bash Trudeau relentlessly for the same reasons.
Just ask Walt.
Do I ? Certainly Trudeau is lacking , but I blame his handlers and the Liberal back room more then Trudeau , they had been trying for a relevant leader since Cretien and they brought the handsome young man out to create the spark of glory days mania two . Any paying attention could tell he was a shallow publicity hound with little to offer . Sadly to many Canadians are just like you , they believe the lies from the msm and get fooled time and again .
You should be down on your knees thanking your lucky stars, Walter and praying that you stay well. BTW, it is 'work' not werk.
Saying Quiet Part Very Loud, Trump Admits "You'd Never Have a Republican Elected in This Country Again" If Voting Access Expanded
"This morning on live television, the president of the United States admitted he is opposed to laws that would make it easier for Americans to vote because that would hurt Republicans."
President Donald Trump on Monday came right out and admitted his Republican Party would soon be defunct if voting in the United States was easier in a way that allowed more citizens to vote in elections, telling a national television audience it was a good thing that Democratic proposals for increased voting protections and ballot access were left out of last week's coronavirus relief package.
The comment came during an interview with Fox & Friends, the president's go-to show for positive coverage.
"The things they had in there were crazy," Trump said of the voter protection and expansion proposals in the bill. "They had things—levels of voting that, if you ever agreed to it, you'd never have a Republican elected in this country again."
Watch:
The remark—as many were quick to point out—is what's called "saying the quiet part loud."
"This morning on live television, the president of the United States admitted he is opposed to laws that would make it easier for Americans to vote because that would hurt Republicans," said Ellen Kurz, founder and board president of iVote, which seeks to expand voting rights for Americans.
As the Washignton Post's Aaron Blake noted:
"This morning on live television, the president of the United States admitted he is opposed to laws that would make it easier for Americans to vote because that would hurt Republicans."
President Donald Trump on Monday came right out and admitted his Republican Party would soon be defunct if voting in the United States was easier in a way that allowed more citizens to vote in elections, telling a national television audience it was a good thing that Democratic proposals for increased voting protections and ballot access were left out of last week's coronavirus relief package.
The comment came during an interview with Fox & Friends, the president's go-to show for positive coverage.
"The things they had in there were crazy," Trump said of the voter protection and expansion proposals in the bill. "They had things—levels of voting that, if you ever agreed to it, you'd never have a Republican elected in this country again."
Watch:
TRUMP: "The things they had in there were crazy. They had levels of voting, that if you ever agreed to it you'd never have a Republican elected in this country again."
Call Congress: 202-224-3121
Demand national vote by mail by November 3rd. We need those "levels of voting." pic.twitter.com/N8mR8mFsDJ
— Vote Save America (@votesaveamerica) March 30, 2020
Call Congress: 202-224-3121
Demand national vote by mail by November 3rd. We need those "levels of voting." pic.twitter.com/N8mR8mFsDJ
— Vote Save America (@votesaveamerica) March 30, 2020
"This morning on live television, the president of the United States admitted he is opposed to laws that would make it easier for Americans to vote because that would hurt Republicans," said Ellen Kurz, founder and board president of iVote, which seeks to expand voting rights for Americans.
Trump says the quiet part out loud on the GOP not wanting higher turnout:
Of the Dems' request for more vote-by-mail funding: "They had ... levels of voting that, if you ever agreed to it, you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again.”https://t.co/ZftXTJ5eA1
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) March 30, 2020
Of the Dems' request for more vote-by-mail funding: "They had ... levels of voting that, if you ever agreed to it, you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again.”https://t.co/ZftXTJ5eA1
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) March 30, 2020
Trump didn't expand on the thought. But he clearly linked high turnout to Republicans losing elections. The most generous reading of his comment is that he was referring to large-scale voter fraud resulting from the easier vote-by-mail options; Trump has in the past baselessly speculated about millions of fraudulent votes helping Democrats in the 2016 election. The more nefarious reading would be that allowing more people to participate in the process legally would hurt his party because there are more Democratic-leaning voters in the country.
That's apparently true, but you typically don’t see Republicans expressing the sentiment so directly. Generally, they'll connect tighter voting rules such as Voter ID to protecting the integrity of the process.
More: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2...ts-youd-never-have-republican-elected-country
On FOX Snews, Wally.
That's apparently true, but you typically don’t see Republicans expressing the sentiment so directly. Generally, they'll connect tighter voting rules such as Voter ID to protecting the integrity of the process.
More: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2...ts-youd-never-have-republican-elected-country
On FOX Snews, Wally.
Why Is the U.S.So Exceptionally Vulnerable to Covid-19?
This exceptionally dysfunctional society has run smack-bang into a real force of nature, a tiny virus that can kill millions of people.
Researchers in Italy have experimentally confirmed that up to 3 out of 4 Covid-19 cases are asymptomatic and therefore undetectable by testing only people with symptoms. After a series of deadly missteps, the U.S., which had its first case on January 20th, the same day as South Korea, has over two months later only just begun widespread testing, when we already have the most cases and the 6th highest death toll in the world. Even now, the U.S. is mainly limiting testing to people with symptoms, not doing the targeted testing of new case contacts that was so effective in China. This ensures that otherwise healthy, asymptomatic carriers will unknowingly spread the virus and keep fueling its exponential growth.
So why is the United States so uniquely incapable of confronting this pandemic as efficiently or effectively as China, South Korea, Germany or other countries? The lack of a national, publicly-funded universal health system is a critical deficiency. But our persistent inability to set one up is itself the result of other dysfunctional aspects of American society, including the corruption of our political system by powerful commercial and class interests and the American "exceptionalism" that blinds us to what we can learn from other countries.
The military occupation of the American mind has brainwashed Americans with strictly military concepts of "defense" and "security," perverting federal spending priorities in the interest of war and militarism at the expense of all our country's other vital needs, including the health of Americans.
More: https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/03/27/why-usso-exceptionally-vulnerable-covid-19
This exceptionally dysfunctional society has run smack-bang into a real force of nature, a tiny virus that can kill millions of people.
Researchers in Italy have experimentally confirmed that up to 3 out of 4 Covid-19 cases are asymptomatic and therefore undetectable by testing only people with symptoms. After a series of deadly missteps, the U.S., which had its first case on January 20th, the same day as South Korea, has over two months later only just begun widespread testing, when we already have the most cases and the 6th highest death toll in the world. Even now, the U.S. is mainly limiting testing to people with symptoms, not doing the targeted testing of new case contacts that was so effective in China. This ensures that otherwise healthy, asymptomatic carriers will unknowingly spread the virus and keep fueling its exponential growth.
So why is the United States so uniquely incapable of confronting this pandemic as efficiently or effectively as China, South Korea, Germany or other countries? The lack of a national, publicly-funded universal health system is a critical deficiency. But our persistent inability to set one up is itself the result of other dysfunctional aspects of American society, including the corruption of our political system by powerful commercial and class interests and the American "exceptionalism" that blinds us to what we can learn from other countries.
The military occupation of the American mind has brainwashed Americans with strictly military concepts of "defense" and "security," perverting federal spending priorities in the interest of war and militarism at the expense of all our country's other vital needs, including the health of Americans.
More: https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/03/27/why-usso-exceptionally-vulnerable-covid-19