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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe front page of The New York Times for May 24, 2020
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live love laugh
(13,104 posts)kpete
(71,988 posts)Link to tweet
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Liberty Belle
(9,535 posts)with no images, to drive home the tragedy.
LakeArenal
(28,817 posts)gibraltar72
(7,503 posts)I hope other papers do the same thing. When they get them all listed. Add the newest. Then start over.
grumpyduck
(6,232 posts)Gawd, just seeing the page full of nothing but names gives me goosebumps.
hlthe2b
(102,247 posts)TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)sop
(10,171 posts)procon
(15,805 posts)families that have been impacted by the death of someone they loved. I am at a loss for words to understand why there isn't a vociferous outcry across the nation. Every other sort of tragedy, both large and small, is the leading story for days and weeks. No one is outraged by the growing deaths, but everyone is willing to spend countless worthless hours debating social distancing and personal safety masks.
Our priorities have become unhinged. The most dire loss of life we've ever experienced is not as important as giving a soapbox to idiots who care nothing about their own risks as they flaunt their so called trampled rights to be free of intellect and reason.
PCIntern
(25,544 posts)You can take that to the bank.
lastlib
(23,224 posts)I'm sure.
(I wonder if Vladdy-Daddy pays by the body...... )
Snackshack
(2,541 posts)Last edited Sat May 23, 2020, 10:51 PM - Edit history (1)
The entire GOP is responsible for this. DT could not do this on his own. He has needed the GOP to cover / look the other way for him to do what he has done. The last two GOP administrations have caused more damage to this country then any enemy ever has. Their continued existence as a political party in a position to govern the United States of America needs to be seriously examined. This cannot continue, the country simply will not survive the continued incompetence (at best), malicious (at worst) actions of the GOP.
BigmanPigman
(51,590 posts)lastlib
(23,224 posts)Call them the GOPOD--The "Greedy old Party of DEATH"!
erronis
(15,241 posts)in disguise.
Watch for Rove and Gingrich and other operatives to be doing some new messaging.
Watch for the same moneybags/plutocrats to be funding this operation.
And the purpose will always be to destroy the right of the citizens of the US to have a equal vote in their future. Not a vote based on wealth or a denial of a vote based on gerrymandering, limiting access, and outright GOP fraud.
badhair77
(4,217 posts)but very appropriate.
sarge43
(28,941 posts)UpInArms
(51,282 posts)Heartbreaking
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Thank you NY Times, this shakes me to my soul. 😪
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)second deadliest virus in USA history. It will take that title due to incompetent national leadership.
I also believe that I am safe in saying that if Trump was president when H1N1 struck the USA, the death toll would have been far, far, far in excess of ~12,900 people. Trump is searingly incompetent, he forces sycophants to take actions and he takes NO responsibility when things go wrong.
KSNY
(315 posts)47of74
(18,470 posts)The US government should seize one of his golf courses and put a memorial naming every American who has died or who will die from the pandemic, along with their age and race.
Paladin
(28,255 posts)Wash. state Desk Jet
(3,426 posts)is wearing thin now, and people's tolerance to Trump's thin skinned shenanigan's is not out weighed by his obesity. Only the best words .
warmfeet
(3,321 posts)Our lives, apparently.
Vote for Joe, if you want to live.
dalton99a
(81,485 posts)kpete
(71,988 posts)for my post
peace
kp
crickets
(25,969 posts)aggiesal
(8,914 posts)... The most basic duty of government is to defend the lives of its citizens. Any government that fails to do so is a government unworthy to lead.
Full transcript here
Probably the only time Ive ever agreed with him!
sop
(10,171 posts)aggiesal
(8,914 posts)The ads just write themselves.
djacq
(1,634 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I can't even bear to go on Twitter anymore. The assholes who still support and defend him just enrage me.
Tommymac
(7,263 posts)Jarqui
(10,123 posts)Media: "Mr President, the front page of the New York Times of May 24, 2020 reported on the nearly 100,000 dead by posting many of their names. Would you call that 'fake news'?"
kpete
(71,988 posts)KS Toronado
(17,230 posts)Have shared far and wide with friends
Dukkha
(7,341 posts)the false equivalency unrelated death tolls that are touted to undermine Covid-19 deaths