Drlee wrote:Putin is advising him magnificently.
Do you actually believe that sort of thing?
Drlee wrote:Now his oligarchs are going to get the end of Social Security and Medicare which is what they wanted all along.
Social Security and Medicare depend on payroll taxes. If you keep people out of work, you're going to starve the system. Public transit is funded mostly by ridership fares. Subsidies cannot run the system. If people can't work, they won't be taking public transit. Highways are funded by gas taxes. If people aren't burning gasoline, the state isn't collecting revenue. That's how the system works Drlee.
Drlee wrote:He will get four more years and by that time democracy as we know it will be over.
Governors are ruling by edict right now. Democracy is over in California, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan and a number of other places. That's why this election will be interesting. People who seriously oppose dictatorship will not be voting Democrat in this election. You're still afraid of what you think Trump MIGHT do, yet you are unafraid of shutting down businesses, letting rioters riot, and banning people from going to church.
Doug64 wrote:Exactly right, every time Trump hinted at taking any domestic action beyond handing out goodies/cash and offering advice, various governors (mostly if not universally Blue State) threatened to sue. And they’d have probably won in court, which is probably why Trump backed down each time.
Trump plays them pretty masterfully, and they don't realize it because their political bias is tied to the notion that people who do not agree with them are stupid
ipso facto. For example, Trump's lawyers are suing on the mail-in ballots where the states are allowing ballots coming in after election day. That in effect changes the election day. So Trump trolls them and says on Twitter, "Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???" Then they say, "No. You can't change the election day. It's decided by law." They are right, but they are falling right into his trap, which is simply to hold a free and fair election on one day.
Doug64 wrote:Calling it the China virus is just following the time-honored tradition of naming diseases after initial locations of their outbreaks (among others—people for various reasons, animals, etc.). China is a big place, though, which is why I prefer Wuhan virus.
I agree. It's the Wuhan coronavirus.
"We have put together the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics."
-- Joe Biden