Posted on 10/28/2020 3:58:32 PM PDT by Ennis85
about a whole lot more than Donald Trump, or Joe Biden.
The election has been classed as a contest between old decency and raw, rumbustious America First rhetoric. The characters of both men have been instilled in their campaigns.
One, contradictory, argumentative and bristling with brash confidence. The other, plodding pragmatic and relentlessly reliable.
Trump, the maverick outsider last time out, now has to stand on a record which can be scrutinised no matter how many rinses it gets in the spin-cycle.
Biden too has a long shadow going back over decades. He has been in the environs of Democratic aristocracy long enough to be classed as a blue-blood among rank and file.
Considering 60 million Americans have already voted, it is something of a misnomer to call November 3 “Election Day”, but it will be no less historic or epoch-defining for all that.
It has already been described as the most polarising election ever – the “United States” has seldom been less so. Passions have be inflamed and racial tensions are at dangerously explosive levels.
The 45th president of the US has spent the past four years priming “the base”. He had felt a roaring economy would propel him smoothly to a second term on Capitol Hill. The Make America Great Again momentum would obliterate all in its way once the bandwagon got rolling.
Then came the pandemic.
The red-hot economy froze and millions were laid off. Only days ago, Mr Trump raged that all he heard about on television was: “Covid, Covid, Covid, Covid, Covid.”
No end of Twitter storms or mass rallies could counter the overwhelming evidence of an invisible virus, nonetheless getting the upper hand.
It has done precisely the same wherever it is allowed to run amok. Last week, the US hit a new record, registering more than 83,700 cases in a single day. Mr Trump was exposed as having no strategy to control the devastating spread. It followed he could not therefore deliver a promised economic recovery.
Mr Trump had also boasted to the faithful he would beat “Sleepy Joe”, although he has yet to deliver a cohesive argument against the Democratic nominee. The “Lock him up” chants at mask-less rallies were unlikely to reverberate too raucously in a country which has seen more than 225,000 Americans die.
It is not surprising an electorate might seek a credible explanation as to why a country endowed with wealth, experts, advanced biomedical researchers and a peerless biotech industry could be the nation with the highest death toll from the virus.
Time will soon tell whether his most unforgivable failing with voters was his unwillingness to take seriously the most acute domestic challenge his country has faced in recent history.
And whose fault is that?
These people are insane... 1/3 of our country is completely insane...
This must mean then that the thousands of deaths in nursing homes caused by the deliberate actions of Democrat/Left governors (e.g., Cuomo; Witmer; Newsom; Murphy, et al.) are surely unforgivable.
Dear Ireland. The US death rate from Covid is lower than Ireland’s. So GFY.
It sounds like they are trying to interfere in our election.
And many of those Covid deaths happened in Democrat New York.
Went to Dublin about 23 year ago.
Very nice people. Unfortunately, the far left have taken over the country lately. Every policy they’ve implemented is anti Christ, anti family, anti everything that is decent and wholesome. Sad.
Who cares what the newspaper of sh*hole country thinks. They should know that the 250,000 American patriots who lost their lives to the china flu are proud to have sacrificied their lives for PDJT and this great nation.
The jobs and the economy are much more important than some old and sick people dying, we have millions more where they came from.
If Republicans are responsible for Covid deaths, then Obama-Biden and all democrats are responsible for abortion deaths.
Trump has done very well in limiting and reducing Covid deaths. Demorat governors have more responsibility.
My keyboard put me in FB jail
and Trump's failed us with covid
One of the big lies in modern politics is that Joe Biden is a decent, honorable, temperate man.
Poor things, think Obama is still in office and we care what the world thinks about us, bless ‘em.
Notice no one in Italy blames the Italian Govt for the deaths, notice no one in France is blaming the French Govt for deaths, notice no one is blaming the Spanish Govt for the Covid deaths, but here in the US, instead of putting the blame on CHINA, who created this damn virus and spread it throughout the world, nah, cant blame them so lets blame Trump
forget US is #9 for covid deaths per million, behind much of Europe.
Belgium (#2 covid deaths per million) reports alleged 15,600 new CASES/INFECTIONS/POSITIVE RESULTS in a single day - which is the equivalent of ***468,000 new cases in a day in the US:
27 Oct: 9 News Australia: Belgian doctors infected with coronavirus told to keep working
by 9News staff
About a quarter of hospital health workers in the city are believed to have tested posted to COVID-19...
Belgium recorded 15,600 new cases yesterday, with October being the highest month yet for COVID-19 cases...
Meanwhile, a French doctor warned yesterday that his country had “lost control of the epidemic” after health authorities reported more than 52,000 new coronavirus cases in a single day...
“There probably are more than 50,000 new cases every day. Our estimate at the Scientific Council is closer to 100,000 – twice as many,” Dr Delfraissy (president of the scientific council that advises the French government on the virus) told RTL radio...
https://www.9news.com.au/world/belgium-coronavirus-doctors-infected-with-covid-19-told-to-keep-working/86e9c6b7-d64f-4358-ac87-b601da49540a
France’s 52,000 new cases in a single day would equal 254,800 new cases in the US.
100,000 French cases in a day would equal 490,000 cases in the US.
FAKENEWSMSM:
Covid cases, hospitalizations continue to surge as U.S. reaches ‘critical point’ in pandemic
CNBC - 28 Oct 2020
THE INEVITABLE PRE-ELECTION CRASH OF SORTS:
US stocks close down 3.5% as Covid concern mounts
Financial Times - 28 Oct 2020
US stocks close down 3.5% as Covid concern mounts. Wall Street follows European bourses lower on new pandemic restrictions in France and ...
EVEN ‘THREE’ CREATES HYSTERIA IN AUSTRALIA:
Breaking news and live updates: Victoria records THREE new cases as crowds spark fears of new infections
9News Australia - 29 Oct 2020
When you tell a lie, you’re distorting reality. Liars recognize this. But most liars don’t fully recognize that they’re not distorting all of reality, but only a localized part of it. So the lie is eventually overwhelmed by the non distorted reality that surrounds it.
In this case, the lie that Trump is to blame for coronavirus deaths is overwhelmed by the fact that everyone in the world can see it’s no more his fault than a hurricane is your next door neighbor’s fault.
Idiotic editorial from an idiotic country. Believe me, I know. Over the past 30 years, Ireland has slavishly followed every leftist/globalish/Soros-inspired trend. There’s no conservative or right wing to speak of in their politics. The spectrum runs from left wing to extreme left wing. Imagine a country where Nancy Pelosi is the right wing and antifa is the left wing. That’s Ireland.
I’ve often wondered....
When this thing first started the CDC admitted that the tests were faulty. Very faulty, due to contamination. How the hell that happens in a supposed sterile environment is beyond me, unless it was “intentional”....ha ha ha
Then we have people dying and we’re told that they died from The ‘Rona but no autopsy was allowed(NY and NYC), ergo, there’s no way of knowing how they died.
Then we have the head of the Illinois Dept of Health stating, at a press conference, that if a person tests positive for The ‘Rona at their time of death, no matter how they died, that death will be counted as a ‘Rona death.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEGCPPUiGvE&feature=emb_title ..... go to 42 sec mark and listen to that clown
Then you have two cases in Florida...one a nurse that died early on. They said she died from The ‘Rona. Autopsy showed she died from an internal infection. Family had to fight to have the cause of death changed....and....the guy that died in a motorcycle crash, who was positive and they tried to list his cause of death as The ‘Rona....
Also in Florida, one hospital inflating their numbers...so bad that they went from 90+% to 6% due to some decent reporting from a local news outlet.
Now...we have hyper sensitive tests, folks with no symptoms, fewer people dying from it an any other causes.....and there’s a new panic.
Their polling must show that the Harris-Biden ticket is in serious trouble.
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