March 26, 2020

There is only one thing that Trump could do to unify this country: "Resign his office April 1, 2020"

...That is it, and that is all. This way, the nation can focus on totally dealing with this horrific problem. Donald Trump is taken out of the picture forever. Of course, Pence is not any better, but at least there will not be thought about how stupid Trump is as the current President of the United States. The focus will turn to Mike Pence, and dealing with one of the most horrific and disastrous problems in world history.
....Trump is clearly too stupid to have a clue. He will lose the November election. By resigning, the focus will not be on what a poor way handled the beginning of the crises, and how he made fun of this crises in the beginning. As stated, he will be out of the picture forever. He won't do it, but at least the suggestion could be made. Trump has already destroyed his reputation forever. Nothing he can say or do will change that. The focus needs to be changed totally away from Trump to dealing with this horrific problem.

March 26, 2020

Wall Street Journal says 458,000 cases of virus in world..

Wall Street Journal...article says 60,000 cases in U.S, 458,000 in world., (see headline) at this link:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-lockdown-begins-in-india-as-global-cases-pass-420-000-11585133981

direct quote:

"The number of confirmed cases of the new coronavirus in the U.S. surpassed 60,000, led by a continued surge of infections in New York, as lawmakers worked to soften the economic consequences of the pandemic that has shut down wide swaths of the country.

World-wide there were more than 458,000 cases Wednesday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. More than 20,800 people have died, and in a grim milestone, Spain on Wednesday surpassed China's death toll from the virus. Infections in Italy rose to 74,386, closing..."

March 26, 2020

Florida Cases surge spring breakers express regret,(article says 55,000 cases,780 deaths)

Source: NBC News: (last very paragraph, 20,000 deaths )

March 25, 2020, 4:03 PM CDT

By Ben Kesslen:

2nd Paragraph:

Now, as the United States is at about 55,000 cases of the coronavirus, including more than 780 deaths, and is on track to become the new epicenter of the pandemic, he has revised his message: "Don't be arrogant and think you're invincible like myself."



Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/florida-coronavirus-cases-surge-spring-breakers-express-regret-n1168686

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later story 6:55pm ET..an hour ago:

Wall Street Journal...article says 60,000 cases in U.S, 458,000 in world., (see headline) at this link:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-lockdown-begins-in-india-as-global-cases-pass-420-000-11585133981
direct quote:

"The number of confirmed cases of the new coronavirus in the U.S. surpassed 60,000, led by a continued surge of infections in New York, as lawmakers worked to soften the economic consequences of the pandemic that has shut down wide swaths of the country.

World-wide there were more than 458,000 cases Wednesday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. More than 20,800 people have died, and in a grim milestone, Spain on Wednesday surpassed China's death toll from the virus. Infections in Italy rose to 74,386, closing..."

....................... Unbelievable!!!!!!

March 25, 2020

Andrew Cuomo should follow the path of Winston Churchill, not Rudy Giuliani: CNN

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/24/opinions/andrew-cuomo-follow-churchill-not-giuliani-philp/index.html

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Opinion by John Philp, Tuesday March 24 6pm

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is winning praise for his forceful, no-nonsense response to his state's coronavirus disaster, inviting comparisons to Rudy Giuliani's leadership after September 11. But Giuliani was fighting a battle -- and quickly squandered his capital. We are in a war and need a dogged leader with long-term vision.

We need Cuomo to be Winston Churchill.

Up against a bewildering, metastasizing enemy, Cuomo has so far shown decisive, forceful leadership. During a Friday press conference, he announced he was putting his state "on pause" with an executive order that directed almost all workers -- except those deemed essential -- to stay home. "This is the most drastic action we can take," Cuomo said. It was typical of his recent appearances -- factual and frightening, but delivered with a reassuring dash of paternalism.

He continued in that same vein on Tuesday, tweeting, "We are not willing to sacrifice 1-2% of New Yorkers. That's not who we are. We will fight to save every life we can."

Cuomo has won praise from across the political spectrum. "This may prove to be the finest moment of Andrew Cuomo's public life," boasted New York Times editorial columnist Mara Gay. "He's providing the leadership necessary in what is a very trying time," Marc Molinaro, a Republican who ran against Cuomo for governor in 2018, told The Wall Street Journal. President Donald Trump even allowed Cuomo to share in some reflected glory. "We're both doing a really great job," Trump said

....................................rest of article at link above..........................................................

Note for clarification purposes: This is the opinion of the writer, not mine.

March 25, 2020

Biden Tells Trump to Stop Talking (takes some time to load) 1min 55 seconds

Sorry I deleted the other posts..My errors, this is worth watching and listening. Sorry again..

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/03/24/joe-biden-trump-coronavirus-tapper-intv-the-lead-sot-vpx.cnn

March 25, 2020

John Denver, Annie's Song.(Pictures with song are beautiful) 2min:55secs, please enjoy

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March 24, 2020

Two sentences to prove Trump is a liar

Yes, some people need proof that Trump lies, and is dangerous...This is the "PROOF" and, it's easy to understand & remember. Sometimes we need PROOF to convince people of obvious truth..

Use these 2 sentences when you argue about Trump as a leader with someone who is not sure about Trump. (Yes, there are still people support Trump.) ...That he is totally wrong, never apologizes for his lies, is very dangerous, and finally, is stupid to say something like this................................
Also,.... this is easy proof to remember and it is just 2 sentences.
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February 24 Trump said: "The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA. We are in contact with everyone and all relevant countries."

Joe Biden tweeted these today on March 24, Tuesday, one month ago.

This was posted by ..highplainsdem in our Democratic Primaries Forum today, 1pm .......................
........................................check it out:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1287684641

March 24, 2020

Americans' Revulsion for Trump Is Underappreciated: The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/the-democrats-dont-understand-their-own-strength/608611/?utm_medium=offsite&utm_source=yahoo&utm_campaign=yahoo-non-hosted&yptr=yahoo

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6am, 3/24/20... Stanley Greenberg, The Atlantic


The release on Friday of an ABC News/Ipsos poll indicating that 55 percent of Americans approved of Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus—12 points higher than the previous week—prompted another round of fatalistic chatter in certain quarters of the political establishment. Shocked by Trump’s victory in 2016, some left-leaning commentators and rank-and-file Democrats alike have been steeling themselves for his reelection in 2020, noting that most presidents win second terms; that, at least before the pandemic, the economy was humming along; and more recently that, during moments of national disaster, Americans tend to rally around the leader they have.

But these nuggets of conventional political wisdom obscure something fundamental—something that even Democrats have trouble seeing: The United States is in revolt against Donald Trump, and the likely Democratic nominee, former Vice President Joe Biden, already holds a daunting lead over Trump in the battleground states that will decide the 2020 election. By way of disclosure, I am a Democratic pollster; for professional and personal reasons alike, I want Democratic candidates to succeed. But no matter what, I also want candidates and party operatives to base decisions—such as where and how to campaign—on an accurate view of the political landscape. At the moment, Democrats are underestimating their own strength and misperceiving the sources of it.

Every time Americans have gone to the polls since Trump took office, they have pushed back hard against him. The blue wave that began in state elections in 2017 grew bigger in the 2018 midterms and bigger yet in 2019. Trump focused the Republican Party’s whole 2018 congressional campaign on immigrant caravans and the border wall, and he lost. Trump held rallies in support of the Republican gubernatorial candidates on the last nights before elections in the deep-red states of Kentucky and Louisiana, and they lost. The GOP losses right through the end of 2019 were produced by dramatic, growing gains for Democrats in the nation’s suburbs. Democrats took total control of the Virginia legislature, where the party held on to all the suburban seats it had flipped two years earlier and gained six more.

Even so, a CBS News poll taken late last month found that 65 percent of Americans and more than a third of Democrats believed that Trump would win reelection. Trump has been confidently stalking Democrats, holding exuberant rallies in each of the early caucus and primary states.

But Democratic voters took over the nominating process and changed everything. No group of voters felt more threatened by Donald Trump than African Americans, and no group was more determined to see him defeated. When a stunning 61 percent of black voters in South Carolina chose Joe Biden, other Democrats got the message. Turnout surged on Super Tuesday, led by Texas with a 45 percent increase over 2016 and Virginia with a 70 percent increase, for the highest turnout in state history. The increase was led by African Americans and voters in the suburbs. Two weeks later in Michigan, Tim Alberta declared in Politico, “Democratic turnout exploded,” led by a 45 percent increase in the state’s richest count

Trump has nationalized our politics around himself and his job performance, and that has created a nine-point headwind for the Republican Party. While the pessimists obsess over any of Trump’s most favorable polls, particularly in the Electoral College battleground states, Trump has never raised his approval rating above the low 40s in FiveThirtyEight’s average of public polls; 52 to 53 percent disapprove of his performance in office. And that remains true during the current crisis.

(rest of article at link)

March 23, 2020

If Trump is promoting a useless drug, then in my opinion, it is an impeachable offense.

..If Trump has been told it is useless by experts who know, then that is it, and that is all.

March 23, 2020

McConnell's bill gave huge funding to corporations without safegards, Schumer says

Chuck Schumer discusses this at the link below, please watch & listen

...Schumer has pointed out that there were no safeguards in the proposed bill to make sure that the money that would be given to corporations would be paid back. He said in a video that has been posted here at DU, that the proposed bill would give billions of dollars to corporations without provisions and penalties if the corporations did not pay back the money. That is the reason that there was a hold on that bill. McConnell thought that he could push the bill through without the Democrats reading it or reading that section of the bill. I watched that video, and it is clear that McConnell knew exactly what he was doing for corporations and not as Schumer said, "for working people." McConnell wanted to use his leverage to force through a bill that basically gave corporations huge payouts. That makes me dislike McConnell even more, if that is possible.

You can hear and see what Schumer said at the link below, If you have time, please listen and watch this (the entire video is 7min 24 seconds), and, that speech defines McConnell:

(video was originally posted by egbertowillies earlier today at 12:40pm)

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017573107