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.
Hmm....do all the leaders of the various European countries get the blame for the deaths there?
Too bad they’re not concerned with all the babies they’ve been murdering since they legitimized abortion.
The original Prediction was that two million Americans would die from Covid. That means 1,800,000 owe their lives to St. Donald the Healer.
How is Ireland doing with the pandemic? England?? Norway, Sweden, Germany, France, Spain???? The Global Press... Almost as stupid as our America Media.
Those daggum staying at home with nothing to do but get drunkass drunk irish are at it again. I apologize for my many cousins. SMH
Biden makes the arguments against himself.
No plan for addressing the ChiCom plague? Ever hear of Operation Warp Speed?
As of October 10, “DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland on Saturday reported 1,012 new cases of COVID-19, the highest number in a day since the start of the pandemic and almost double the average for the past week.” -Reuters
Who do you blame for that? When we develop a vaccine as a result of President Trump’s timely actions, we will share it with you, even after this rather lame article.
It’s even more concentrated than that: in NY state, the best estimate is that there have been 33,000 COVID deaths so far, with just over 22,000 occurring in the New York City area. That’s more than 2/3 of the state cases occuring in a handful of counties in the urban core. The same thing happened in New Jersey: the half dozen counties immediately adjacent to New York City had the lion’s share of the cases.
New York was a trainwreck. And the media took NYC as a proxy for the rest of the country, creating a totally distorted view. That’s not an accident, of course, but it bears repeating when they gin up their hysterical shrieking about the “data” and the “science”.
Per population, probably worst of the lot.
For the social distancing and mask cooperation to work, it would require a totalitarian government. The American people refuse to be put under the might of government.
As for the masks, look at the pathetic pieces of cloth most people depend on for protection. Most leak covid laden droplets that shoot straight up from our poorly sealed nose area. That area is coated over the top area of our face and hair WITH OUR LUNG EXPIRATION. We rub our eyes and our fingers get contaminated with it as we sort through those tomatoes for that ripe one. As we walk through the grocery store our breath laden droplets coat the store merchandise and that person bending down to check the price of the cheap merchandise on the bottom shelf. As we walk up to the debit card reader, we punch in our entries as our chimney of droplets rain down and our contaminated fingers on the keypad. No one bothers to provide a cloth to wipe down the keypad with sanitizer. As we walk out of the store, anything we have touched has similar contamination which we coat our car keys, the steering wheel and anything we’ve touched before reaching over for our personal bottle of sanitizer. The American population are sitting ducks for COVID-19.
Boring attempt that will backfire.
Love,
Laz
Did Trump cause the other one million deaths across the globe? How many deaths were caused by CCP deception?
Trump has caused Increased climate change the last 4 years, climate change caused more COVID deaths.
It’s a fact, check your science textbook...
Justin Trudeau has been personally responsible for 10,000 deaths because of the increase of temperatures in Canada, due to climate change..
Mind you, the majority of those deaths have been in warmer regions of Canada.
And the most populated regions too...
I’m grateful to God my ancestors left that green sh!thole.
Whoever is president caused whatever calamity happens during his presidency? Reagan Directly caused aids? Bush directly caused 9/11? Kennedy Directly caused his assassination?
The so-called ‘Best Scientists” projected 2.5 million deaths if no mitigation was done. How can a tenth of that be a failure unless the left is politicizing it?
“The jobs and the economy are much more important than some old and sick people dying, we have millions more where they came from.”
Trump, being a responsible leader, cares about all those things. They’re not mutually exclusive, even if propagandists on the Left pretend they are.
And jobs and the economy do a great job keeping people alive and healthy. That’s why the Third World is called the Third World. Poor people in poor countries tend to get sick and die.
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