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Common knowledge.

I’m not stoking fear, Card, and you know it. I’m not afraid. I’ve followed the science and CDC since the start, and would have done same had trump called on all citizens to do so. He can’t lead.

Probably 160,000 or so would not have died from the virus.

The deed was good. The motive is what I’m talking about. If trump knew the virus spread through the air, why did he hold the rally in Tulsa, removing the social distance signs and discouraging masks? Because he doesn’t care about anyone but himself. Was he on the floor shaking hands? No one got close to him without protection. Again, I’m waiting for a defense. Over 1000 views here, no defense yet offered.

Wear masks, limit crowds, testing, quarantine, and contact tracing. Kind of like Germany did.

So is Putin, Real. There is no defense in your world. Only excuses.

He wasn’t a leader then. It was good PR. He does nothing that will not benefit him personally.

Trump talked to Xi Jinping in the days before his lies. They knew. Pandemics are no one’s fault. The response to them is directly related to the quality of leadership on the national level.

Our deficit is approaching socialist levels under this failed president.

It was xenophobic. The horse was already out of the barn, and trump did the only thing he knows how to do - stoke fear that others are responsible for bringing this to our shores and make himself look heroic by shutting borders.

If you look at the countries with the worst statistics, you’ll find leaders who are attempting authoritarian rule, like trump. Bolsonaro in Brazil. Modi in India. Leadership matters. The top three countries in infections and deaths.

I’m sorry, Card, but you got your history wrong. I’m reading a book right now, “The Splendid and the Vile” by Eric Larsen. It is about the London Blitz and Churchill’s command of it. Chamberlain is the one who downplayed the threat. His lack of leadership failed miserably. Churchill started sounding the alarm as soon as he became Prime Minister. Look into what he was saying well before The bombing started. He did not lie to his people.

Hell, I’m not fit to be President. Weren’t no attack.

190000 dead behind his lies. Still no defense.

The job is the test. Trump’s failed.

Why?

And, still no defense.

You ain’t fit to be President, either.

Nobody died. Trump lies, people die, and he doesn’t care so long as he wins.

When I created this post, I stated I was looking forward to the defense of trump’s big lie. Crickets on that one. All any of you have done is throw the whatabouts, or deflect the question by ranting about abortion. That proves a rhetorical axiom: You can’t defend the indefensible.

Never said that. Said I’d be back. I just had to get away from the acrimony. It poisons, don’t you know?

I told you all in here that Donald Trump is unfit to serve as President. Please listen to Bob Woodward’s interview, recorded with trump’s knowledge, and try to defend his reprehensible course of action towards the virus given what he knew. He lied to all of us. If he’d have been straight with us we could have made it through this as Americans, together, and saved tens of thousands of lives and tens of millions of jobs. I look forward to your responses.

No, that’s how State TV reports it. It’s Donald Swamp who refuses to even acknowledge our fellow citizens’ deaths before the American public. That’s what leaders are supposed to do. Abject failure will be met with electoral repudiation. That’s basically what I said when I took off. I’ll be checkin’ in from time to time, but come November, I’ll be back. FOX said anything about the bounty Putin put out on our soldiers in Afghanistan to the Taliban? Swamp’s state department knew. Whether he had the time between rounds to hear about it is a whole ‘nother thing. What’s a Commander in Chief to do?

Hey guys. Just had to stop by a minute for a quick dose of apoplexy. National crises demand national leadership. I ‘tol ya’ll that Donald Swamp’s total lack thereof would sink his sorry ass. C-ya!

In Union There Is Strength I have watched this week’s unfolding events, angry and appalled. The words “Equal Justice Under Law” are carved in the pediment of the United States Supreme Court. This is precisely what protesters are rightly de- manding. It is a wholesome and unifying demand—one that all of us should be able to get behind. We must not be distracted by a small number of lawbreakers. The protests are defined by tens of thousands of people of conscience who are insisting that we live up to our val- ues—our values as people and our values as a nation. When I joined the military, some 50 years ago, I swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution. Never did I dream that troops taking that same oath would be ordered under any circumstance to violate the Constitu- tional rights of their fellow citizens—much less to pro- vide a bizarre photo op for the elected commander-in- chief, with military leadership standing alongside. We must reject any thinking of our cities as a “bat- tlespace” that our uniformed military is called upon to “dominate.” At home, we should use our military only when requested to do so, on very rare occasions, by state governors. Militarizing our response, as we wit- nessed in Washington, D.C., sets up a conflict—a false conflict—between the military and civilian society. It erodes the moral ground that ensures a trusted bond between men and women in uniform and the society they are sworn to protect, and of which they them- selves are a part. Keeping public order rests with civil- ian state and local leaders who best understand their communities and are answerable to them. James Madison wrote in Federalist 14 that “America united with a handful of troops, or without a single sol- dier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign am- bition than America disunited, with a hundred thou- sand veterans ready for combat.” We do not need to mil- itarize our response to protests. We need to unite around a common purpose. And it starts by guarantee- ing that all of us are equal before the law. Instructions given by the military departments to our troops before the Normandy invasion reminded soldiers that “The Nazi slogan for destroying us . . . was ‘Divide and Conquer.’ Our American answer is ‘In Union there is Strength.’” We must summon that unity to surmount this crisis—confident that we are better than our politics. Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people—does not even pretend to try. Instead he tries to divide us. We are wit- nessing the consequences of three years of this deliberate effort. We are witnessing the consequences of three years without mature leadership. We can unite without him, drawing on the strengths inherent in our civil society. This will not be easy, as the past few days have shown, but we owe it to our fellow citizens; to past generations that bled to defend our promise; and to our children. We can come through this trying time stronger, and with a renewed sense of purpose and respect for one an- other. The pandemic has shown us that it is not only our troops who are willing to offer the ultimate sacrifice for the safety of the community. Americans in hospitals, grocery stores, post offices, and elsewhere have put their lives on the line in order to serve their fellow citizens and their country. We know that we are better than the abuse of executive authority that we witnessed in Lafay- ette Square. We must reject and hold accountable those in office who would make a mockery of our Constitu- tion. At the same time, we must remember Lincoln’s “better angels,” and listen to them, as we work to unite. Only by adopting a new path—which means, in truth, returning to the original path of our founding ideals— will we again be a country admired and respected at home and abroad. — Jim Mattis, former defense secretary under President Trump who resigned in protest in 2018 Jump on it, acolytes of mayhem