Showing posts with label GOP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GOP. Show all posts

Friday, March 18, 2022

Wednesday, June 3, 2020

The Weakness of Donald Trump

Tuesday, June 2, 2020

Mission Accomplished!

Monday, June 1, 2020

Trump is about to lose the next five or six elections for the Republicans

From the Independent:

Think about educated people you know. How many think wearing masks is a masculinity test? Think gay people shouldn’t free to work without discrimination, or to get married, GOP-base mainstays before Trump? That government should restrict birth control? That immigrants all go on welfare and ravage cities? That neo-Nazis include very fine people, and barging into Michigan’s legislature brandishing AR-15s because you can’t get a haircut is normal? Some, but not enough to win elections. Attitudes on all these issues vary by education level and occupation — the more educated and white-collar, the more voters favor Democratic answers.
In other words, the culture war’s over and Republicans lost, even though many are very fine people.

Saturday, May 23, 2020

Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

The Stunning Incompetence of Donald Trump

From Facebook:
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For anyone complaining about Trump being blamed for the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic:

I thought I would post a little history lesson for everyone on both sides of the political divide. I think it’s important that we understand the truth, especially come November when it’s time to vote. Forgive the length, but hey, we all have time on our hands to read, correct? 

In December 2013, an 18-month-old boy in Guinea was bitten by a bat and died a brutal death a day later. After that, there were five more fatal cases.

When Ebola spread out of the Guinea borders into neighboring Liberia and Sierra Leone in July 2014, President Obama activated the Emergency Operations Center at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. The CDC immediately deployed CDC personnel to West Africa to coordinate a response that included vector tracing, testing, education, logistics, and communication.

Altogether, the CDC, under President Obama, trained 24,655 medical workers in West Africa, educating them on how to prevent and control the disease before a single case left Africa or reached the U.S.

Working with the U.N. and the World Health Organization President Obama ordered the re-routing of travelers heading to the U.S. through certain specific airports equipped to handle mass testing.

Back home in America, more than 6,500 people were trained through mock outbreaks and practice scenarios. That was done before a single case hit America.

Three months after President Obama activated this unprecedented response, on September 30, 2014, we detected our first case in the U.S.A. A man had traveled from West Africa to Dallas and somehow slipped through the testing protocol. He was immediately detected and isolated. He died a week later. 

Two nurses who tended to him contracted Ebola but later recovered. All the protocols had worked. It was contained.

The Ebola epidemic could have easily become a pandemic, but thanks to the actions of our government under President Obama, it never did. Those THREE EBOLA CONFIRMED CASES were the ONLY cases of Ebola in the U.S.A. because Obama did what needed to be done THREE MONTHS PRIOR TO THE FIRST CASE.

Ebola is even more contagious than COVID-19. Had Obama not acted swiftly, millions of Americans would have died horrible, painful, deaths like something out of a horror movie (if you’ve never seen how Ebola kills, it’s horrific).

It is ironic because since President Obama acted decisively we forget about his actions since the disease never reached our shores.

Now the story of COVID-19 and Trump’s response that we know about thus far:

Before anyone even knew about the disease (even in China) Trump disbanded the pandemic response team that Obama had put in place. He cut funding to the CDC, and he cut our contribution to the World Health Organization (WHO).

Trump fired Rear Admiral Timothy Ziemer, the person on the National Security Council in charge of stopping the spread of infectious diseases before they reach our country - a position created by the Obama administration.

When the outbreak started in China, Trump assumed it was China’s problem and sent no research, supplies or help of any kind. We were in a trade war, why should he help them?

In January he received a briefing from our intelligence organizations that the outbreak was much worse than China was admitting and that it would definitely hit our country if something wasn’t done to prevent it. He ignored the report, not trusting our own intelligence.

When the disease spread to Europe, the World Health Organization offered a plethora of tests to the United States. Trump turned them down, saying private companies here would make the tests “better” if we needed them. However, he never ordered U.S. companies to make tests and they had no profit motive to do so on their own.

According to scientists at Yale and several public university medical schools, when they asked for permission to start working on our own testing protocol and potential treatments or vaccines, they were denied by Trump’s FDA.

When Trump knew about the first case in the United States he did nothing. It was just one case and the patient was isolated. When doctors and scientists started screaming in the media that this was a mistake, Trump claimed it was a “liberal hoax” conjured up to try to make him “look bad after impeachment failed.”

The next time Trump spoke of COVID-19, we had SIXTY-FOUR CONFIRMED CASES but Trump went before microphones and told the American public that we only had FIFTEEN cases “and pretty soon that number will be close to zero.” All while the disease was spreading, he took no action to get more tests.

What Trump did was to stop flights from China from coming here. This was too late and accomplished nothing according to scientists and doctors. By then the disease was worldwide and was already spreading exponentially in the U.S. by Americans, not Chinese people as Trump would like you to believe.

As of the moment, I am posting this, the evening of April 7, 2020, we have 368,449 COVID-19 CONFIRMED CASES and 10,992 COVID-19 DEATHS in the U.S.A. The actual number is undoubtedly more than triple that amount.

As if you needed one more reason to vote, here it is. I copied and pasted this. Be so kind as to do the same.

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Republicans Embrace Their Inner Socialist

The Criminal Incompetence of Donald Trump

Friday, March 27, 2020

Hide the Sharpies!

Tuesday, March 24, 2020

GOP in Full Panic Mode!

This is the GOP Game Plan?

Saturday, November 16, 2019

You know what the Democrats should run against or mention when the GOP rails against rising taxes or taxing the rich?

 U.S. National Debt Hits Record $22 Trillion

 You're welcome.



Friday, November 15, 2019

Saturday, January 5, 2019

President Trump Regurgitates Russian Propoganda (Again)

So apparently the President reads Russia's briefing reports but not ours.

From the Atlantic: "Trump defends Soviet Union's 1979 invasion of Afghanistan"


Thursday, October 13, 2016

Who's Behind the Rise in Crime in the U.S.?

This piece from the Los Angeles Times notes that the rise in crime is attributable to older white males.

"Who’s behind the rise in crime? Could be Trump’s constituency: older whites."

Sunday, March 20, 2016

Karma

These quotes say it all, from an article in the Los Angeles Times, about how the GOP has found itself in its current situation with its core constituency going against the GOP establishment in its support of Donald Trump:
We’ve given the Republican Party a chance. They would have never taken the House without the tea party. We gave them the Senate. What have they accomplished? They haven’t accomplished a damn thing. – Amy Kremer, founding tea party leader
The support for Trump is not only a screw-you to the Republican establishment, it’s a screw-you to the conservative establishment. [People] are sick and tired of the same old, same old — just money corrupting the political process. They work hard, they vote for elected officials and they expect them to keep their promises. – Trump supporter
'Nuff said!

Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Planned Parenthood Indictments Fallout

From the Los Angeles Times:
Karl Rove, a Republican strategist and a former top adviser to President George W. Bush, has called proponents of shutting down the government to defund Planned Parenthood the "suicide caucus."
'Nuff said

Wednesday, December 9, 2015

"Donald Trump Blasts Time For Not Naming Him Person Of The Year"


Apparently, Donald Trump is upset at Time for not naming him Person of the Year, saying the recipient, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, is "ruining Germany."



I think Trump is confused. Hitler was named Time's Man of the Year in 1938, who ruined Germany.

Perhaps Trump should wait until he's elected, and he can be chosen as Time's Man of the Year when he ruins America.