President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

They are using "your" in a singular sense here.

 

In the United States federal system, U.S. Senators have nothing to do with day to day administration or government activities inside their state. That function is reserved for Governors. This is usually covered in junior high history class.

 

Would be nice if we got around to it, then.

That's true, but only IF IF IF IF IF IF the story focuses on the objective reasons and doesn't start tossing around blame. Then you get into the "so and so doesn't care about curing this because so and so hates black people" nonsense. There may be some kind of racial sidebar to the story, but it's not a racial story.

 

The fact that a FATUS victory lap hashtag is trending after a muddle-headed octogenerian from a sparsely populated rural class warfare state with little to no accomplishments in 30 years in elected office ends a quixotic campaign for the world's highest office tells us everything we need to know about the legitimacy of a muddle-headed octogenerian from a sparsely populated rural class warfare state with little to no accomplishments in 30 years in elected office ending a quixotic campaign for the world's highest office.

 

Haven’t heard from dozens of local elected officials in my area until someone in the media started talking about racial disparities in the virus. As if the virus is predisposed to afflict any particular race. Which it’s not. 3 weeks into this all of a sudden the virus has a racial component. So all of a sudden certain politicians want to see data on victims based on race and zip code. Race is medically arbitrary and zip codes are too large to have meaning.

I didn’t start this fire but it’s atrocious that someone thinks it’s important

 

It's not some sort of medical curiosity that different races somehow have different physical reactions to a virus, it's that the wildly different outcomes expose once again that success in this country is not equal-opportunity. Institutional racism has hampered the ability to compete for entire communities and is currently killing people. That is important.

 

They've seen four years of Trump, for starters.

 

Please name a white person with sickle cell anemia.

I'll wait.

 

Yab, some of this not racial, although statistically it some of it damn sure is. Black men are statistically more prone to hypertension and strokes. Hypertension is a significant risk factor for Covid. Could it be eating a black folk diet? Maybe. Could it be that the guys who are getting it are not being careful, or are not as educated about it? Could be. Could it be that a medically underserved population is at greater health risk generally? Sure it could.

Could a number of those factors be affected by our culture's institutional treatment of people of color over the years? Of course they are. That's not the point either. The point is that the statistics say that when black people get Covid-19 that their severe cases tend to be more severe. That's noticeable and worth investigating.

 

He really has risen above petty partisan politics.