Mod: Once again that infamous orange chicken Trump is nowhere to be seen near the front lines.
Egging on social-distancing protesters is another ‘bone spurs’ moment for Donald Trump (AZ Central link): If the president believes there is no danger in opening up states, he should get out there and join the protesters he is encouraging. If Donald Trump wants states to relax social distancing restrictions why doesn’t he lead the way?
Get out there with the protesters. I mean, if he believes there is no danger, why not?
Although, I’m not sure the protesters even believe it. In
Phoenix on Sunday just about all of those who drove down to the
State Capitol to urge a reopening of the state did so from within the safe confines of their vehicles.
Earlier last week
Trump seemed almost conciliatory toward the nation’s governors, suggesting that he was okay with individual state’s determining on their own timetables when to lessen stay-at-home orders and other constraints.
That changed on Friday, however, when the president decided suddenly to encourage the right-wing protests aimed at pressuring governors to ease the social distancing orders by tweeting “
LIBERATE MICHIGAN!” and “
LIBERATE MINNESOTA!” and “
LIBERATE VIRGINIA!” If
Trump believes this is okay. Or if he believes there is no danger in opening up
Michigan or
Minnesota or
Virginia, or anywhere else, he should fly there and lead the demonstrations himself.
Or would he prefer to have others take the risk for him, as happened during the
Vietnam War, when
Trump took four military draft deferments while in college and got a fifth after graduation, when a podiatrist with offices in one of the buildings owned by
Trump’s father told the draft board
Donald had bone spurs in his heels.
If
Trump truly believes that states like
Michigan,
Minnesota and
Virginia should drop restrictions then he should get out there and mingle. Or does he only want to talk tough and allow others to take the risks? If so, the incendiary tweets and comments are just another of
Trump’s “
bone spur” moments.
Mod: A rampant pandemic, economic collapse, and anarchy in the streets. Welcome to Mad Donald Trump's dystopian vision for end times in America.
Pro-gun activists using Facebook groups to push anti-quarantine protests (
Washington Post link): A trio of far-right, pro-gun provocateurs is behind some of the largest
Facebook groups calling for anti-quarantine protests around the country, offering the latest illustration that some seemingly organic demonstrations are being engineered by a network of conservative activists.
The
Facebook groups target
Wisconsin,
Ohio,
Pennsylvania and
New York, and they appear to be the work of
Ben Dorr, the political director of a group called “
Minnesota Gun Rights,” and his siblings,
Christopher and
Aaron. By Sunday, the groups had roughly 200,000 members combined, and they continued to expand quickly, days after
President Trump endorsed such protests by suggesting citizens should “liberate” their states.
The
Dorr brothers manage a slew of pro-gun groups across a wide range of states, from
Iowa to
Minnesota to
New York, and seek primarily to discredit organizations like the
National Rifle Association as being too compromising on gun safety.
Minnesota Gun Rights, for instance, describes itself as the state’s “no-compromise gun rights organization.”
The online activity instigated by the brothers helps cement the impression that opposition to the restrictions is more widespread than polling suggests. Nearly 70 percent of
Republicans said they supported a national stay-at-home order, according to a recent
Quinnipiac poll. Ninety-five percent of
Democrats backed such a measure in the survey.
Still, the
Facebook groups have become digital hubs for the same sort of misinformation spouted in recent days at state capitol buildings — from comparing the virus to the flu to questioning the intentions of scientists working on a vaccine.
Mod: I'm not exactly sure what there is to approve of lately. 40,000 counts of negligent homicide with many more on the way isn't enough for you?
Poll: Majority of Americans disapprove of Trump's handling of coronavirus outbreak (
The Hill link): A majority of
American voters disapprove of
President Trump's handling of the coronavirus outbreak and believe he did not take the pandemic seriously enough at the beginning of the crisis, according to a new
NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll.
The survey found that 52 percent of voters disapprove of
Trump's response to the global outbreak, while 44 percent approve of it. The findings represent little change from a similar poll conducted in March, which found 51 percent of
Americans opposed how he was handling the pandemic.
Meanwhile, 52 percent of respondents said they generally do not trust
Trump's rhetoric about the virus, while just 36 percent said they do. This pales in comparison to
Americans' trust of the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and
Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert and a key member of the
White House coronavirus task force.
Sixty-nine percent of respondents said they generally trust what th
e CDC says about the outbreak, while 60 percent said they trust
Fauci. Meanwhile, 66 percent said they generally trust what their governors have said when it comes to the coronavirus.
An overwhelming majority of
Americans - 65 percent - also said they believe that
Trump did not take the coronavirus seriously enough when it first presented itself as a threat. Forty-five percent of those respondents said
Trump is still not handling it well, while 20 percent said that his response has since become effective.
The
U.S. has confirmed more than 735,000 cases of
COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, and roughly 39,000 deaths caused by it, according to a
Johns Hopkins University database.
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