President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

Nixon's DoJ also sued Trump and his dad for housing discrimination.

 

but they vote democrat so much fraud in our rigged system

 

https://nypost.com/2020/05/05/coron...QKjAEhUBJ2eaI--WXFtTuaeF1tggCFojHy2qY_phwrVs4

I have thought for a long time that public education and teachers don't have enough true friends on either side of the political aisle. Gov. Cuomo provided a reminder of that this morning, questioning the need to return to instruction in the classroom, switching to remote learning as a permanent option. This isn't exactly new for Cuomo, who once said that he was the only real advocate in education for students in New York because everyone else was just interested in their own paychecks. Because really, teachers make so much money, that is they only reason they would go into the field.

Cuomo is already using the situation to cut funding or education. Now it sure sounds like he is leading up to the idea of no physical classroom and one teacher holding virtual lessons for much larger groups of students. This shows a real ignorance of what teachers do, how they interact with students and how horribly many students react to online instruction.

 

“At least Hitler liked dogs. Donald Trump doesn’t even seem to like dogs.”

— Mike Godwin


(satirical quote)

 

LOLOLOL Bye Texas!

This weekend, too many people were acting as if this disease is beaten

 

Nixon really is an interesting case. I've been reading through back issues of the Times from 1970, the year of my birth. In terms of domestic politics, he really swam with the current a lot of the time, letting Agnew play the bad cop.

That being said, he really did plenty of lasting damage. Four more years of Vietnam, running with a southern strategy of racial polarization, and Watergate, the cherry on top of his continuous efforts to undermine civil society.

 

Who knew there were bourbon-flavored masks?

 

Your bloodlust is becoming a little too much, Goalmouth.

 

Trump's presidency is a hellish version of that Black Mirror choose your own adventure episode in which he always makes the wrong choice.

ignore pandemic/institute guidelines immediately
believe Xi/disregard PRC spin
assign incompetent son-in-law to key pandemic role/hire some competent
abandon pandemic fight/use federal government's unique powers to test and trace

 

Now, what could possibly go wrong here with the whole “If they die, they die” policy? Well …

Given his strategy to govern mostly for his base, Trump must walk an electoral tightrope to win in November. He cannot afford to lose voters motivated by economic issues. He also cannot afford to lose seniors, who supported him in 2016 by a nine-point marginover Hillary Clinton.

The coronavirus pandemic forces him to choose one. He can’t have both.

Unless science develops a miracle breakthrough, Trump must choose which to prioritize: saving lives or saving livelihoods. The sooner the economy reopens, the more people will die. Those deaths will not be randomly distributed: Older voters will be overrepresented among the casualties.

That fact is not lost on the United States’ older voters. By a 6-to-1 margin, Americans 65 and older say it is more important to address the spread of the coronavirus than to focus on the economy. That makes sense. A premature reopening could kill them. If Trump leans too much into an economic message that is inextricably tied to serious public health risks, he will fall off his narrow path to victory.

According to a Josh Kraushaar analysis of recent polling in the National Journal: “In mid-March, seniors were more supportive of Trump than any other age group (plus-19 net approval). Now, their net approval of the president has dropped 20 points and is lower than any age group outside of the youngest Americans.” If that collapse of support persists into November, Trump won’t just lose; he’ll lose in a landslide.​

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...s-win-pandemic-is-driving-wedge-between-them/

 

Good.

 

This needs to be rammed up his ass every day.