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The GOP could not have devised a better virus if they had tried.
Wipe out the non-white, non-GOP voting population.
Ready yet to say this is a feature, not a bug, of the Trump and GOP inaction, TPM? That they’ve latched onto it as a means of fighting the demographic shifts that constitute an existential threat to their power and dominance? Or still too chicken?
This is the epitome of the Trumpian Southern Strategy combined with Trumpian Psychopatic Cruelty!
This is devastating…to anyone regardless the color of their skin…
BUT in Trump/Rethugs soulless spirit and maggoted brains,
It hurts BIPOC MORE than White people, so its a win!
So very wrong!
Never mentioned in these articles are the huge numbers of American families that are financially ruined, regardless of whether or not the victims survive and regardless of their ethnicity, due to these very, very expensive hospital stays.
Fun Fact: The number of families financially ruined in every other Western industrialized country due to COVID-19 hospitalizations = 0.
I’m sure Trump will have something nice to say.
costing a lot of folks a lot
Brown people feel pain? Who knew?!
Summary: Larry Hogan ® Maryland: 76% Phil Scott ® Vermont: 75% Andrew Cuomo (D) New York: 71% Gina Raimondo (D) Rhode Island: 71% Charlie Baker ® Massachusetts: 70% Gretchen Whitmer (D) Michigan: 65% Kristi Noem ® South Dakota: 54% Greg Abbott ® Texas: 38% Brian Kemp ® Georgia: 36% Doug Doucey ® Arizona: 30% Kim Reynolds ® Iowa: 28% The poll, conducted over a two-week period this month among 19,052 adults across all 50 states, found that governors who have been the most hesitant to rush reopening their own economies have been rewarded by voters who are also nervous about…
They can’t white wash this one.
“The estimated second-quarter decline in the nation’s gross domestic product marked the sharpest such drop on records dating to 1947.”
And McConnell and company can’t get out of their on way.
They white washed Ukraine.
They white washed paying porn stars to stay silent.
They white washed emolument violations.
They white washed Russian bounties on U.S. soldiers.
They white washed pardoning soldiers convicted of war crimes.
In Trumpworld everything can be white washed. History proves it.
When has trump ever had something nice to say?
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It didn’t have to be this way,leadership,leadership would have at least stemmed it in some way.
So since that went AWOL,we are paying the price all groups of people.
He has said nice things about Putin and Kim Jung Un.
Michael Flynn is also a favorite.
And the Flynn thing is surprising to me. Flynn is not rich, not powerful, and hadn’t been a friend of Trump’s as long as Roger Stone. There’s piece missing from this puzzle.
He must have a story trump doesn’t want told.