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Re: Official Donny, Drumpf, Trump Thread

Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2020 11:42 pm
by flockofseagulls104
Bob78164 wrote:
Tue Feb 25, 2020 4:20 pm
Estonut wrote:
Tue Feb 25, 2020 4:16 pm
silverscreenselect wrote:
Tue Feb 25, 2020 3:40 pm
Then how is it that Democrats picked up a net of 40 seats in the House in the last election?
You and Bob## keep bringing that up as if it's meaningful. From what I've read, that happens most of the time. It would have been more of a surprise if they had not.
Then you've been reading the wrong things. Some swing would have been consistent with history, though in light of the continuation of the Obama recovery, one would expect the swing to be muted. A swing of 40 seats means that large sections of the country are recoiling from the Republican Party. --Bob
The obama recovery?
You forget about his magic wand comment? So he wants to take credit for an economy he declared dead and made a joke about? No, bobby. He didn't build that.

https://www-forbes-com.cdn.ampproject.o ... last-26%2F

Re: Official Donny, Drumpf, Trump Thread

Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2020 4:21 am
by silverscreenselect
flockofseagulls104 wrote:
Tue Feb 25, 2020 11:42 pm

The obama recovery?
You forget about his magic wand comment? So he wants to take credit for an economy he declared dead and made a joke about? No, bobby. He didn't build that.

https://www-forbes-com.cdn.ampproject.o ... last-26%2F
Interesting selection of dates there Flock:
But although it is true that America's economy has, on the whole, performed admirably well under Trump, with unemployment numbers hovering near historic lows, one of the notable dark spots over the last year has been manufacturing jobs—particularly those in the upper midwest. Last week, the Federal Reserve reported that U.S. manufacturing was in a recession for all of 2019. This wasn't slow growth; the sector actually became smaller. The slowdown was relatively mild, with factory production shrinking by about 1.3 percent. But it was the worst performance since 2015, the year that Trump started his presidential campaign. Under Trump, the manufacturing economy has returned to the Obama era.

Manufacturers have a clear culprit in mind for the sector's poor performance. As The Washington Post notes in a report on the Federal Reserve data, the uncertainty and increased costs surrounding Trump's trade war, which was billed as a way of supporting American factory jobs, has instead wreaked havoc on an export-heavy sector that relies on the global flow of goods to operate. Trump's interventions were intended to prop up U.S. manufacturing. But they backfired, harming the people he claimed to help—who also happen to be some of the people who played a crucial part in his election.

And while manufacturers did add jobs during the first two years of Trump's presidency, the largest share of those jobs weren't in the nation's old industrial heartland, but in the sunbelt and the West. In states like Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, manufacturing employment has fallen. As Reuters reported last year, there were signs of serious manufacturing sector weakness in five of the six states that flipped from twice supporting President Obama to backing President Trump in 2016.
So, Trump inherited a growing economy under Obama, which, for the most part, has continued. The one area of policy he actively changed was his tariffs, and look what happened.

https://reason.com/2020/01/22/trump-cam ... recession/

Re: Official Donny, Drumpf, Trump Thread

Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2020 7:45 am
by earendel
silverscreenselect wrote:
Tue Feb 25, 2020 3:40 pm
And keep going with that "Bernie's a Communist" line. That worked in 1972, not 2020. Most people in this country by now either weren't around for the Cold War or don't care. And those who do care, like you, were never going to vote for any Democrat under any circumstances.
Much as I hate to get involved in this discussion, I have to point out that according to Gallup, independent voters view "socialism" negatively and think it is incompatible with American values. The poll found that only 45% of independent voters would vote for a "socialist" compared to 76% of Democrats. A Washington Post poll taken last summer found that, given a choice between Donald Trump and a "socialist" Democratic candidate, 50% of independent voters went for Trump; overall, Trump would win over such a candidate 49% to 43%. This is a problem. Independent voters went 46% to 42% for Trump over Hillary Clinton; by contrast, in the 2018 House elections 54% of independent voters went for Democrats. Bottom line: Independent voters are likely to be the difference-makers in the 2020 presidential election, and they don't like the term "socialist" when applied to a candidate.

Re: Official Donny, Drumpf, Trump Thread

Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2020 9:28 am
by silverscreenselect
earendel wrote:
Wed Feb 26, 2020 7:45 am
A Washington Post poll taken last summer found that, given a choice between Donald Trump and a "socialist" Democratic candidate, 50% of independent voters went for Trump; overall, Trump would win over such a candidate 49% to 43%.
Bernie Sanders isn't my first choice, …. but there is a big disconnect between what Americans think about "socialists" and what they think about Bernie Sanders. And Trump wouldn't be running against a "socialist"; he'd be running against Bernie Sanders, and the general public likes Bernie Sanders a lot more than they like Trump.

This recent Reuters poll (Feb7-10) shows the following favorable unfavorable, overall and among independents

Trump 46-54 (of that 54, 43 were very unfavorable) Independents: 33-67 (of that 67, 42 were very unfavorable)
Biden 50-49, Independents: 57-43
Warren 47-53, Independents: 40-59
Sanders 53-46 Independents: 62-38

Further, Sanders is almost as well known as Trump. 87% said they were very familiar or somewhat familiar with him, including 88% of independents. So, people, including independents, know and like Bernie. Also, Trump and his supporters' tendency to run off at the mouth about everyone they oppose has reduced their credibility tremendously among the non-Kool Aid drinkers.

The final result was that Sanders would beat Trump 45-41, including 46-28 among independents. He did as well or better than the other Democrats polled in a one-on-one against Trump.

https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/m ... 202020.pdf

It won't be easy to beat Trump considering the crap that's going to be flying out for the next six months. But Sanders has something Obama had, Hillary didn't, and none of the other Democrats have demonstrated so far, and that's an organizing ground game. That's how he won Nevada going away. I do think Bernie will have to learn to deflect questions like the Castro question, and I think his choice of a Vice President will be very important (not to put this too delicately, but it's highly likely Bernie would be, at best, a one term president). But it's definitely doable, and none of the other Democrats have shown much strength this year. Joe Biden still has never won a single primary or caucus. People like Elizabeth Warren's toughness and favor her policies over Bernie's, but she still can't get any traction and keeps finishing fourth or fifth.

Re: Official Donny, Drumpf, Trump Thread

Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2020 8:40 am
by silverscreenselect
Here's one from Flock and Spock's favorite source of information, Mark Steyn (guest hosting Rush Limbaugh's show):
Mark Steyn wrote: Why is San Francisco the first [major city to shelter in place]? Because they’ve got all the gay guys there. It's a big gay town, San Francisco, and they're the ones with all the compromised immune systems from all the protease inhibitors and all the other stuff. And they don't want all the gays dropping dead on the San Francisco mayor's watch. So that's why they've got all that sheltering in place there.

And even if it dropped, they all dropped dead on the San Francisco mayor's watch, if there was a big gay apocalypse, you know, the way this thing is going now, it would be Trump who would get blamed for it anyway. He'd be -- it would be his homophobia that would have struck down all these people in San Francisco.

Re: Official Donny, Drumpf, Trump Thread

Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2020 8:41 am
by silverscreenselect
silverscreenselect wrote:
Wed Feb 26, 2020 9:28 am
It won't be easy to beat Trump considering the crap that's going to be flying out for the next six months. But Sanders has something Obama had, Hillary didn't, and none of the other Democrats have demonstrated so far, and that's an organizing ground game. That's how he won Nevada going away. I do think Bernie will have to learn to deflect questions like the Castro question, and I think his choice of a Vice President will be very important (not to put this too delicately, but it's highly likely Bernie would be, at best, a one term president). But it's definitely doable, and none of the other Democrats have shown much strength this year. Joe Biden still has never won a single primary or caucus. People like Elizabeth Warren's toughness and favor her policies over Bernie's, but she still can't get any traction and keeps finishing fourth or fifth.
I just saw this comment when I posted about Mark Steyn. I admit this one hasn't aged very well.

Re: Official Donny, Drumpf, Trump Thread

Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2020 10:15 am
by flockofseagulls104
silverscreenselect wrote:
Wed Mar 18, 2020 8:40 am
Here's one from Flock and Spock's favorite source of information, Mark Steyn (guest hosting Rush Limbaugh's show):
Mark Steyn wrote: Why is San Francisco the first [major city to shelter in place]? Because they’ve got all the gay guys there. It's a big gay town, San Francisco, and they're the ones with all the compromised immune systems from all the protease inhibitors and all the other stuff. And they don't want all the gays dropping dead on the San Francisco mayor's watch. So that's why they've got all that sheltering in place there.

And even if it dropped, they all dropped dead on the San Francisco mayor's watch, if there was a big gay apocalypse, you know, the way this thing is going now, it would be Trump who would get blamed for it anyway. He'd be -- it would be his homophobia that would have struck down all these people in San Francisco.
Tell, me, what batphone source did this 'quote' come from? I'll bet it's a Media Matters special. They have a legion of 20 something overweight guys who live in their parent's basement that listen for anything from republican or conservative media that can be used to induce outrage in people like you. It works great.

Re: Official Donny, Drumpf, Trump Thread

Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2020 10:51 am
by silverscreenselect
flockofseagulls104 wrote:
Wed Mar 18, 2020 10:15 am
Tell, me, what batphone source did this 'quote' come from? I'll bet it's a Media Matters special. They have a legion of 20 something overweight guys who live in their parent's basement that listen for anything from republican or conservative media that can be used to induce outrage in people like you. It works great.
So you're saying that if someone who doesn't like Steyn, Limbaugh, or Trump posts something outrageous that one of them says that it's somehow "batphony." I did hear it from a liberal source, but it included the actual audio clip, sourced to Media Matters. See link below for the Media Matters audio. I notice you didn't have any problem with spreading around those Project Veritas recordings from a couple of Bernie Bros, which are far more likely to have been doctored or suggestively edited than what Mark Steyn said. I'm sure Limbaugh will post the transcript on his website in the next day or two.

It's really not hard to find outrageous things that right wingers like Trump, Limbaugh, and Steyn say. The only thing that's tough is winnowing them down to a manageable number.

https://www.mediamatters.org/rush-limba ... se-its-big

Re: Official Donny, Drumpf, Trump Thread

Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2020 11:49 am
by flockofseagulls104
silverscreenselect wrote:
Wed Mar 18, 2020 10:51 am
flockofseagulls104 wrote:
Wed Mar 18, 2020 10:15 am
Tell, me, what batphone source did this 'quote' come from? I'll bet it's a Media Matters special. They have a legion of 20 something overweight guys who live in their parent's basement that listen for anything from republican or conservative media that can be used to induce outrage in people like you. It works great.
So you're saying that if someone who doesn't like Steyn, Limbaugh, or Trump posts something outrageous that one of them says that it's somehow "batphony." I did hear it from a liberal source, but it included the actual audio clip, sourced to Media Matters. See link below for the Media Matters audio. I notice you didn't have any problem with spreading around those Project Veritas recordings from a couple of Bernie Bros, which are far more likely to have been doctored or suggestively edited than what Mark Steyn said. I'm sure Limbaugh will post the transcript on his website in the next day or two.

It's really not hard to find outrageous things that right wingers like Trump, Limbaugh, and Steyn say. The only thing that's tough is winnowing them down to a manageable number.

https://www.mediamatters.org/rush-limba ... se-its-big
Just wondering: Is this any more or less outrageous than thef way so called serious news reporters and liberal pundits have characterized and stereotyped trump and his supporters on a daily basis for 3 years? I know you don't think so, and taken face value, I don't think Steyn's comments, as quoted here, are something I would consider at all acceptible. But Mark Steyn is a satirist. I would be willing to bet that this was a small part of a simile he was making to something he considered outrageous on the left. Why? Because most of his satirical remarks make a lot of sense and are funny and/or ironic. This quote makes no sense in it's presented context and isn't the least bit amusing by itself. I could be wrong, but I bet I'm right.

Re: Official Donny, Drumpf, Trump Thread

Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2020 12:55 pm
by silverscreenselect
flockofseagulls104 wrote:
Wed Mar 18, 2020 11:49 am
But Mark Steyn is a satirist. I would be willing to bet that this was a small part of a simile he was making to something he considered outrageous on the left. Why? Because most of his satirical remarks make a lot of sense and are funny and/or ironic. This quote makes no sense in it's presented context and isn't the least bit amusing by itself. I could be wrong, but I bet I'm right.
You realize that most people who listen to Limbaugh or Steyn have no idea what satire is.

Re: Official Donny, Drumpf, Trump Thread

Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2020 1:19 pm
by flockofseagulls104
silverscreenselect wrote:
Wed Mar 18, 2020 12:55 pm
flockofseagulls104 wrote:
Wed Mar 18, 2020 11:49 am
But Mark Steyn is a satirist. I would be willing to bet that this was a small part of a simile he was making to something he considered outrageous on the left. Why? Because most of his satirical remarks make a lot of sense and are funny and/or ironic. This quote makes no sense in it's presented context and isn't the least bit amusing by itself. I could be wrong, but I bet I'm right.
You realize that most people who listen to Limbaugh or Steyn have no idea what satire is.
Yeah, right. Go blow your nose.

Re: Official Donny, Drumpf, Trump Thread

Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2020 8:54 pm
by Bob Juch
Esquire wrote:Presented without comment: the eight senators who voted against the coronavirus relief package on Wednesday.

Marsha Blackburn (R-TN); Jim Inhofe (R-OK); James Lankford (R-OK); Mike Lee (R-UT); Rand Paul (R-KY); Ben Sasse (R-NE); Tim Scott (R-SC), and Ron Johnson (R-WI).

Re: Official Donny, Drumpf, Trump Thread

Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2020 8:54 pm
by Bob Juch
Esquire wrote:Presented without comment: the eight senators who voted against the coronavirus relief package on Wednesday.

Marsha Blackburn (R-TN); Jim Inhofe (R-OK); James Lankford (R-OK); Mike Lee (R-UT); Rand Paul (R-KY); Ben Sasse (R-NE); Tim Scott (R-SC), and Ron Johnson (R-WI).

Re: Official Donny, Drumpf, Trump Thread

Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2020 7:22 am
by silverscreenselect
Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) wrote:[G]etting coronavirus is not a death sentence except for maybe no more than 3.4 percent of our population
Glad you're keeping this in perspective Ron. And the black plague wasn't a death sentence except for maybe no more than 25 percent of the world's population at the time.

Re: Official Donny, Drumpf, Trump Thread

Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2020 8:51 am
by jarnon
silverscreenselect wrote:
Thu Mar 19, 2020 7:22 am
Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) wrote:[G]etting coronavirus is not a death sentence except for maybe no more than 3.4 percent of our population
Glad you're keeping this in perspective Ron. And the black plague wasn't a death sentence except for maybe no more than 25 percent of the world's population at the time.
Ron could also point out that all those folks are going to die sooner or later anyway.

Re: Official Donny, Drumpf, Trump Thread

Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2020 11:55 am
by silverscreenselect
Donald Trump 3/19/20 wrote:We were very prepared [for coronavirus testing]. The only thing we weren't prepared for was the media. The media has not treated it fairly.

Re: Official Donny, Drumpf, Trump Thread

Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2020 12:37 pm
by flockofseagulls104
silverscreenselect wrote:
Thu Mar 19, 2020 11:55 am
Donald Trump 3/19/20 wrote:We were very prepared [for coronavirus testing]. The only thing we weren't prepared for was the media. The media has not treated it fairly.
Very true. The media clings to it's narrative even in a crisis. Most of them, like the ass clowns on this bored, are more interested in finding things to blame on trump than being helpful and relevant.
"Don't you think 'china flu' is racist, mr president?". A very helpful, relevant question. Did they ask that about ebola?

Re: Official Donny, Drumpf, Trump Thread

Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2020 12:53 pm
by silverscreenselect
flockofseagulls104 wrote:
Thu Mar 19, 2020 12:37 pm
silverscreenselect wrote:
Thu Mar 19, 2020 11:55 am
Donald Trump 3/19/20 wrote:We were very prepared [for coronavirus testing]. The only thing we weren't prepared for was the media. The media has not treated it fairly.
Very true. The media clings to it's narrative even in a crisis.
And as usual, Flock and Trump are wrong. That happens when your sources of medical information are Fox News and Rush Limbaugh.
Reuters wrote:South Korea’s swift action stands in stark contrast to what has transpired in the United States. Seven weeks after the train station meeting, the Koreans have tested well over 290,000 people and identified over 8,000 infections. New cases are falling off: Ninety-three were reported Wednesday, down from a daily peak of 909 two weeks earlier.

The United States, whose first case was detected the same day as South Korea’s, is not even close to meeting demand for testing. About 60,000 tests have been run by public and private labs in a country of 330 million, federal officials said Tuesday.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-heal ... SKBN2153BW

The difference was that South Korea was interested in the health of its citizens and Donald Trump was interested in the health of his re-election chances and the stock market. And it's interesting that the President who is so intent on dismantling all sorts of Federal regulations and has used executive orders to beef up border walls since the first week of his term now claims he was totally helpless to speed up testing due to various regulations.

Re: Official Donny, Drumpf, Trump Thread

Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2020 1:12 pm
by flockofseagulls104
silverscreenselect wrote:
Thu Mar 19, 2020 12:53 pm
flockofseagulls104 wrote:
Thu Mar 19, 2020 12:37 pm
silverscreenselect wrote:
Thu Mar 19, 2020 11:55 am
Very true. The media clings to it's narrative even in a crisis.
And as usual, Flock and Trump are wrong. That happens when your sources of medical information are Fox News and Rush Limbaugh.
Reuters wrote:South Korea’s swift action stands in stark contrast to what has transpired in the United States. Seven weeks after the train station meeting, the Koreans have tested well over 290,000 people and identified over 8,000 infections. New cases are falling off: Ninety-three were reported Wednesday, down from a daily peak of 909 two weeks earlier.

The United States, whose first case was detected the same day as South Korea’s, is not even close to meeting demand for testing. About 60,000 tests have been run by public and private labs in a country of 330 million, federal officials said Tuesday.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-heal ... SKBN2153BW

The difference was that South Korea was interested in the health of its citizens and Donald Trump was interested in the health of his re-election chances and the stock market. And it's interesting that the President who is so intent on dismantling all sorts of Federal regulations and has used executive orders to beef up border walls since the first week of his term now claims he was totally helpless to speed up testing due to various regulations.
Thank you for proving my point.

Re: Official Donny, Drumpf, Trump Thread

Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2020 2:46 pm
by silverscreenselect
flockofseagulls104 wrote:
Thu Mar 19, 2020 1:12 pm
Thank you for proving my point.
I'm not sure what your point is, if you ever had one.

Re: Official Donny, Drumpf, Trump Thread

Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2020 9:39 pm
by silverscreenselect
In a rare smart move, this evening Donald Trump fired Michael Atkinson, the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community whose unforgivable sin was doing his legal duty and forwarding the whistle blower's complaint about Trump's conduct in the Ukraine scandal to Congress. Firing Atkinson wasn't right or smart, but doing it in the middle of the night on a Friday night while the country was preoccupied with the coronavirus crisis may have been a smart move on his part that will enable him to dodge the usual amount of criticism that his improper actions bring. When you're contributing to the deaths of thousands and billions of dollars of damage to the economy, what's an illegal firing in comparison?

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/03/politics ... index.html

Re: Official Donny, Drumpf, Trump Thread

Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2020 10:40 pm
by a1mamacat
silverscreenselect wrote:
Fri Apr 03, 2020 9:39 pm
In a rare smart move, this evening Donald Trump fired Michael Atkinson, the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community whose unforgivable sin was doing his legal duty and forwarding the whistle blower's complaint about Trump's conduct in the Ukraine scandal to Congress. Firing Atkinson wasn't right or smart, but doing it in the middle of the night on a Friday night while the country was preoccupied with the coronavirus crisis may have been a smart move on his part that will enable him to dodge the usual amount of criticism that his improper actions bring. When you're contributing to the deaths of thousands and billions of dollars of damage to the economy, what's an illegal firing in comparison?

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/03/politics ... index.html
Can they impeach him again, for different crimes? Then he can really be number 1.

Re: Official Donny, Drumpf, Trump Thread

Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2020 4:46 pm
by jarnon

Re: Official Donny, Drumpf, Trump Thread

Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2020 8:42 am
by silverscreenselect
I guess this is as good a place to post this as any. The results were released yesterday from the Wisconsin primary held on April 7. Joe Biden won big over Bernie Sanders, but the real news was the election for State Supreme Court Justice. Dan Kelly, appointed by former governor Scott Walker and endorsed by Donald Trump, lost by 10 points to Jill Karofsky, a more liberal candidate (judicial races in Wisconsin are officially non-partisan, but candidates' views are often well-known). Two other Walker-appointed lower court judges also lost big in their elections. This happened despite the fact that the conservative state Supreme Court and the US Supreme Court both voted on ideological lines to overturn the governor's decision to postpone the primary and extend absentee voting. As a result of these court decisions, the city of Milwaukee only had five polling locations open (normally about 180 in an election) and many would-be absentee voters hadn't received their ballots by the deadline to return them.

It's good to know that democracy is alive and well in Wisconsin despite efforts by the coronavirus and the Republican Party to kill it.

Re: Official Donny, Drumpf, Trump Thread

Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2020 7:44 am
by Bob Juch
Donald Trump as Wartime President
By Tom Danehy

So...Donald Trump is a wartime President. I can see him, like James Madison, fleeing the White House just before the British burned it to the ground in the War of 1812. Or, maybe like Franklin Delano Roosevelt, risking his entire political career to help save Britain from falling to the Nazis and then successfully fighting a war against both Germany and Japan. Come on, you just know that Trump would have been just like the Charles Lindbergh character in HBO's ultra-scary The Plot Against America. Trump would have sucked up to Hitler ("a strong leader"), turned his back on England and the European Jews, and then crowed about how he kept America out of "somebody else's war."

My favorite story of a president during wartime involves Abraham Lincoln shortly after the fall of the Confederate capital of Richmond. It was April 4, 1865, so the war was still officially on. The Confederate troops that had been guarding the capital had evacuated the city and Jefferson Davis was in full flight mode. But it was still an incredibly unsafe place to be. Lincoln and his son, Tad (who was celebrating his 12th birthday), went down the James River, got off the boat and just walked through the streets of Richmond.

Freed slaves tried to bow down to him, but Lincoln insisted that they stand up and shake his hand. Seriously, can you imagine Donald Trump doing anything like that?

Lincoln was an actual badass, unlike Trump, who's just an ass. Lincoln fought in a real war (the Black Hawk War in 1839), while Trump was a draft dodger. In the early days of the Civil War, Lincoln grew so impatient with his reluctant-to-fight generals, he said, "If (General George B.) McLellan is not using the Army, I should like to borrow it for a while..." Trump is just a blowhard who would be (and obviously is) terrified of any kind of an actual fight.

I have always been a news junkie, so when Trump started doing those daily crap-a-thons about the pandemic, I watched. I knew immediately that they would be mini-political propaganda rallies, but I sincerely hoped that he could, at least a little bit, rise to the occasion. This wasn't a petty monetary beef with NATO (a beef he continuously misrepresents or simply doesn't understand). It wasn't a mutual pleasuring with some third-rate dictator who can't get the time of day from real world leaders. This is a life-or-death situation with Americans dying by the thousands.

After he completely blew the initial response by first joking about the virus, then downplaying it, and always lying about it and himself, I told myself that I would still give him another shot at manning up. This was a beach ball being floated across the plate. All he had to do was say, "Hey, I messed up, but now I see how serious this is and I'm going to do everything I can to fight this." He would have hit it out of the park.

Instead, he immediately reverted to Little Bitch mode. I knew it all along. I take no responsibility. Blame the Chinese. Blame the Europeans. Blame the Mexicans. But mostly, blame the Democrats. I'm No. 1 on Facebook. (He actually has half as many followers as Barack Obama.)

Being a cockeyed optimist, I spent all of 2017 expecting Trump voters to realize that they had conferred dangerous powers upon a seriously flawed human being. But that didn't happen. He lied about almost EVERYTHING and they cheered. He copped to committing felonious sexual assault and they cheered. He sided with white supremacists and they cheered loudly.

In 2018, he started destroying the fabric of American government as though he were some drunk bastard trying to play speed Jenga. He lied to and stole from the American people and still two out of five cheered.

In 2019, they realized that their side had lost the midterm elections because too many people who didn't look like them had voted, so they set about to deny citizens their right to vote. Anything to keep their Giant Tub of Goo in office.

It has become all too apparent that the average Trump voter is beyond help. They don't care about America; they care about "their" America—white, vulgar and intentionally stupid. But I have a logic problem for those Trump voters who possess triple-digit IQs. It's only for them. Trying to explain logic to the average Trump voter would like trying to explain the workings of the Large Hadron Collider to a baseball bat.

For the few who might understand, here we go. When Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, did Wyoming declare war, followed by Louisiana, Ohio and then Vermont? Or did the United States declare war? If we're at war with the virus, then the entire country is at war. And the country's leader needs to be leading, not dumping responsibilities (and lots of blame) on state governors who don't sufficiently kiss his ass.

So what is it, Trump lovers who can actually read this? Is he a "wartime president" or is he a cowardly, self-serving shirker at the time of his country's greatest need?

History is already guaranteed to declare him the worst president in the history of America. His current actions will certainly doom his petty soul to eternal damnation.