Trump's New War

Apparently claiming to end (fictional) wars wasn't getting him enough attention.

I guess he thinks the American people will support him if he kills enough brown people. That's the plan. That's the only item on his agenda.

What a disgrace.

Covid-19 Update

More than half a million confirmed cases in the U.S.

More than twenty thousand dead.

Just over six weeks since Trump claimed the virus would just "disappear."

Vote not just Trump but every member of the GOP out in November.

Trump the Incompetent

I remember being both appalled and deeply upset when Trump won the election.

This wasn't because I "hated" Trump, or "hated" conservatives.

It wasn't because I was "deranged."

It's because I knew -- like millions of other Americans knew -- that Trump was incompetent, that he knew nothing about how to run a government, and that if any sort of crisis came along, he would fuck it up.

And here we are.

How are the MAGA-Americans handling this? Or those who have been brainwashed by Fox News?

Denial and conspiracy theories. Nonsense and lies. Also, absolute bullshit.

Business as usual, in other words.

It wouldn't matter -- they're fools and idiots, and we could ignore them -- except we're all in this boat together.

1) Dude I occasionally chat with when walking dogs started on "doctors would close the country for two years" and "it's just old people dying, we're overreacting" and I told him to go fuck himself at top volume in a public park, so maybe I'm not as cool about this as I thought.

— John Rogers (@jonrog1) April 3, 2020

So What's Wrong With Trump?

Quora asked the question.

This guy answered it:

Originally Answered: Why do people hate Donald Trump as President?I’ll take a stab at this. Before you pass my answer off as “Another Liberal Snowflake” consider that 1.) I'm an independent centrist who has voted Republican way more often in my life than Democrat, and 2.) if you want to call someone who spent the entire decade of his 20’s serving in the Marine Corps a snowflake, I’d be ready to answer the question what did you do with your 20’s?

Why Liberals (And not-so liberals) are against President Trump.

A.) He lies. A LOT. Politifact rates 69% of the words he speaks as “Mostly False or worse” Only 17% of the things he says get a “Mostly True” or better rating. That is an absolutely unbelievable number. How he doesn’t speak more truth by mistake is beyond me. To put it in context, Obama’s rating was 26% mostly false or worse, and I had a problem with that. Many of Trump’s former business associates report that he has always been a compulsive liar, but now he’s the President of the United States, and that’s a problem. And this is a man who expects you to believe him when he points at other people and says “They’re lying” 

B.) He’s an authoritarian populist, not a conservative. He advances regressive social policy while proposing to expand federal spending and federalist authority over states, both of which conservatives are supposed to hate. 

C.) He pretends at Christianity to court the Religious Right but fails to live anything resembling a Christ-Like Life. 

D.) His nationalist “America First” message effectively alienates us and removes us from our place as leaders in the international community. 

E.) His ideas on “Keeping us safe” are all thinly veiled ideas to remove our freedoms, he is, after all, an authoritarian first. They also are simply bad ideas.

F.) He couldn’t pass a 3rd-grade civics exam. He doesn't’ know what he’s doing. He doesn't understand how international relations work, he doesn’t understand how federal state or local governments work, and every time someone tries to “Run it like a business” it’s a spectacular failure. See Colorado Springs’ recent history as an example. The Short, Unhappy Life of a Libertarian Paradise And that was a businessman with a MUCH better business track record than Trump. We are talking about a man who lost money owning a freaking gambling casino.
 

There's a lot more at the actual post -- he goes all the way through Z, and they're all legitimate.