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June 28, 2020
doubts about Trump grow among GOP: "He's an embarrassment," said R Kennedy, 72 "And I voted for him"
Yet now, as the nation confronts the coronavirus pandemic, an economic recession and mass protests against police brutality and racism, some voters in the longtime Republican stronghold of Mohave County have begun to have second thoughts about the president.
“He’s an embarrassment," said Ron Kennedy, 72. "And I voted for him."
A veteran of the Air Force, Kennedy said he had grown wary of the president's blunt style over the last few years. But the turning point for him came this month when protesters outside the White House were pushed back by authorities so Trump could walk to St. John's Episcopal Church to be photographed by news crews.
“It turned me off," Kennedy said. "Breaking up a peaceful protest just for a photo op.”
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“I just wanted to see what would happen," said Eaton, who told himself: “At the very least it’s gonna be a circus we can watch.”
But Trump's novelty has worn off, he said.
"The lack of leadership with this whole COVID thing, the lack of respect for the professionals that do this stuff ... the last four months have turned me way, way more against him," said Eaton, a firefighter. "There’s no way I would vote for him at this point. And a lot of guys I know feel the same."
Story continues
https://news.yahoo.com/god-guns-trump-country-simmering-224335706.html
June 28, 2020
https://prospect.org/coronavirus/unsanitized-the-reason-why-donald-trump-will-lose-is-important/
Americans habitually reject incompetence in their leaders. Before being feted as a kindly painter, George W. Bush was the most loathed man in the country, because he got us bogged down in a war based on lies, let an American city drown, and presided over a crushing financial crisis. He was bad at his job, in public. Herbert Hoover was bad at his job as millions suffered during a presidency shaped by the Depression. The nation rejected them. They’re in the process of rejecting Trump.
There’s a way for a hypothetical president to succeed in the next four months and eke out re-election: universal masking, massive support for testing and army field hospitals and contact tracing where needed, a wide-open money spigot to individuals financially affected. It’s actually a pretty simple formula.
Trump won’t do it. He’s taken the position that everything’s fine, and thinks that moving off that would show weakness. And even if he wanted to do what might seem simple for a replacement-level president, he’s so far below that standard as to make such steps impossible. This is why he should, actually, resign, as Chris Hayes called for yesterday. Instead we’ll have to settle for him being snubbed at the polls in four months.
Trump’s entire political career has been built on hucksterism and grievance. You can fool people with hucksterism for a long time, but not once slapped by reality. Then the sheen wears off. BSing his way through served Trump well in business, which we’re discovering is much more forgiving than government. But you can only whine for so long, as Biden noted yesterday, before it becomes pathetic. Trump can’t figure out how to attack the coronavirus, and without doing that work he cannot attack Biden. He knows he’s going to lose (Biden “is going to be president because some people don’t love me, maybe,” Trump said to Sean Hannity on Friday), because he’s incapable of the governing that would prevent it.
This is the important point. A president has to be president, not just play one on TV. They cannot just express competence, but actually succeed. The difficult truth is that Trump is carrying on a tradition. We’ve done very little to arrest our long-term crises for several decades. The next president needs to actually deal with them. FDR’s descendants wrote an open letter to Biden, urging outsized ambition to fill in the existing cracks exposed by this crisis. Passivity—at income and wealth inequality, at unequal treatment, at structural racism, at a raging pandemic but also the everyday failures we faced before—will only lead to disapproval and decline.
https://prospect.org/coronavirus/unsanitized-the-reason-why-donald-trump-will-lose-is-important/
"The reason why Trump will lose" and how he could eke out re-lection but wont'
But I’m not basing my prediction solely on polling. And I wasn’t someone who publicly claimed that Clinton would triumph in 2016. The main reason I say Trump will lose is that he’s bad at being president, and with the coronavirus he’s found a way to be bad in public.https://prospect.org/coronavirus/unsanitized-the-reason-why-donald-trump-will-lose-is-important/
Americans habitually reject incompetence in their leaders. Before being feted as a kindly painter, George W. Bush was the most loathed man in the country, because he got us bogged down in a war based on lies, let an American city drown, and presided over a crushing financial crisis. He was bad at his job, in public. Herbert Hoover was bad at his job as millions suffered during a presidency shaped by the Depression. The nation rejected them. They’re in the process of rejecting Trump.
There’s a way for a hypothetical president to succeed in the next four months and eke out re-election: universal masking, massive support for testing and army field hospitals and contact tracing where needed, a wide-open money spigot to individuals financially affected. It’s actually a pretty simple formula.
Trump won’t do it. He’s taken the position that everything’s fine, and thinks that moving off that would show weakness. And even if he wanted to do what might seem simple for a replacement-level president, he’s so far below that standard as to make such steps impossible. This is why he should, actually, resign, as Chris Hayes called for yesterday. Instead we’ll have to settle for him being snubbed at the polls in four months.
Trump’s entire political career has been built on hucksterism and grievance. You can fool people with hucksterism for a long time, but not once slapped by reality. Then the sheen wears off. BSing his way through served Trump well in business, which we’re discovering is much more forgiving than government. But you can only whine for so long, as Biden noted yesterday, before it becomes pathetic. Trump can’t figure out how to attack the coronavirus, and without doing that work he cannot attack Biden. He knows he’s going to lose (Biden “is going to be president because some people don’t love me, maybe,” Trump said to Sean Hannity on Friday), because he’s incapable of the governing that would prevent it.
This is the important point. A president has to be president, not just play one on TV. They cannot just express competence, but actually succeed. The difficult truth is that Trump is carrying on a tradition. We’ve done very little to arrest our long-term crises for several decades. The next president needs to actually deal with them. FDR’s descendants wrote an open letter to Biden, urging outsized ambition to fill in the existing cracks exposed by this crisis. Passivity—at income and wealth inequality, at unequal treatment, at structural racism, at a raging pandemic but also the everyday failures we faced before—will only lead to disapproval and decline.
https://prospect.org/coronavirus/unsanitized-the-reason-why-donald-trump-will-lose-is-important/
June 27, 2020
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The shift in the national mood has been swift and striking. After years of economic growth, only one-third of poll respondents give the economy positive marks. The virus has become so far-reaching that nearly one in five say they know someone who has died of it — including one-third of African-Americans, who have been disproportionately affected by the virus. Fifty-seven percent of registered voters believe the worst of the pandemic is yet to come.
Families that once debated educational choices now face discussions about whether attending school will even be an option. Once-routine trips to pick up a gallon of milk are loaded with the politics of whether to wear a mask. Protests of police killings have injected new and sometimes difficult discussions about race into daily conversations.
https://www.nytimes.com/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/27/us/politics/coronavirus-trump-mood-poll.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
new poll: mood of the country
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The shift in the national mood has been swift and striking. After years of economic growth, only one-third of poll respondents give the economy positive marks. The virus has become so far-reaching that nearly one in five say they know someone who has died of it — including one-third of African-Americans, who have been disproportionately affected by the virus. Fifty-seven percent of registered voters believe the worst of the pandemic is yet to come.
Families that once debated educational choices now face discussions about whether attending school will even be an option. Once-routine trips to pick up a gallon of milk are loaded with the politics of whether to wear a mask. Protests of police killings have injected new and sometimes difficult discussions about race into daily conversations.
https://www.nytimes.com/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/27/us/politics/coronavirus-trump-mood-poll.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
June 27, 2020
Patrons are asked to self-quarantine after about 85 people who visited a Michigan bar get Covid-19
People who visited a bar in East Lansing, Michigan, are being asked to self-quarantine because roughly 85 people contracted Covid-19 after visiting the establishment this month, a health official says.
That number is up from the 34 reported Wednesday and is expected to rise, Ingham County Health officer Linda S. Vail told CNN.
The Health Department is asking patrons who visited Harper's Restaurant & Brew Pub between June 12 and June 20 to self-quarantine, and report cases of Covid-19, the department said in a statement.
"Given the number of cases in this outbreak, we consider this a higher risk exposure than a typical visit to a restaurant or bar," Vail said. "There are likely more people infected with Covid-19 not yet identified."
The bar followed safety guidelines for employees, capacity guidelines and table spacing, the statement said.
The bar opted to close down temporarily to install air purifiers and to eliminate lines, a post says on its Facebook page.
85 cases and counting linked to Michigan bar that followed spacing guidelines
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/27/us/michigan-coronavirus-bar-harpers/index.htmlPatrons are asked to self-quarantine after about 85 people who visited a Michigan bar get Covid-19
People who visited a bar in East Lansing, Michigan, are being asked to self-quarantine because roughly 85 people contracted Covid-19 after visiting the establishment this month, a health official says.
That number is up from the 34 reported Wednesday and is expected to rise, Ingham County Health officer Linda S. Vail told CNN.
The Health Department is asking patrons who visited Harper's Restaurant & Brew Pub between June 12 and June 20 to self-quarantine, and report cases of Covid-19, the department said in a statement.
"Given the number of cases in this outbreak, we consider this a higher risk exposure than a typical visit to a restaurant or bar," Vail said. "There are likely more people infected with Covid-19 not yet identified."
The bar followed safety guidelines for employees, capacity guidelines and table spacing, the statement said.
The bar opted to close down temporarily to install air purifiers and to eliminate lines, a post says on its Facebook page.
June 27, 2020
Trump retweeted this. be prepared to hurl!
https://twitter.com/TONYxTWO/status/1276837303672082432
June 27, 2020
BREAKING: A woman walking a small white dog just gave Trump’s motorcade the finger as he entered his golf course.
BREAKING: A woman walking a small white dog just gave Trump's motorcade the finger as he entered his
https://twitter.com/funder/status/1276892291047833601BREAKING: A woman walking a small white dog just gave Trump’s motorcade the finger as he entered his golf course.
June 27, 2020
If you could describe the Trump presidency in one word, what would it be?
fucked, cluckerfuck, treasonist, vile, disaster, evil, failure already taken
https://twitter.com/NickPonticello/status/1276881705337450498
June 27, 2020
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https://nypost.com/video/florida-face-mask-law-mesh-mask-man-goes-to-walmart-as-protest/
Mesh-mask man goes to Walmart to protest Florida face mask law
June 26, 2020
A man paraded a mesh mask at a Walmart in Tampa, Florida, as a protest against his county’s “Hitler-type ruling.” He filmed the video outside the store after no one stopped to correct his face mask, which is normally worn for playing paintball or dirt-biking. “It’s not about safety,” Florida man Russ Ward claimed. “It’s about compliance, I was a good little sheep.” As coronavirus cases surge across the US and in Florida, the Hillsborough County Emergency Policy Group voted on Monday to make face masks mandatory inside businesses.
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A man decides to prove a point that masks are not for protection but compliance when he decides to use a mesh face mask rather than a filter mask in Walmart that is mandated in Tampa, Florida.
"I visited a local Walmart in a county that put an ordinance in place that mandates masks," the filmer, Russ Ward, said.
"I wore a mask that is designed for protecting your face in a paintball battle.
You can easily breathe through it.
I walked all around the store, talked to employees, and other shoppers, and every one of them could see my mouth." "It was almost like not wearing a mask at all.
Nobody cared.
That's because it's not about safety.
https://www.onenewspage.com/video/20200625/13147658/Man-wears-mesh-face-mask-to-prove.htm
Florida man wears mesh mask to protest "Hitler-type ruling"
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https://nypost.com/video/florida-face-mask-law-mesh-mask-man-goes-to-walmart-as-protest/
Mesh-mask man goes to Walmart to protest Florida face mask law
June 26, 2020
A man paraded a mesh mask at a Walmart in Tampa, Florida, as a protest against his county’s “Hitler-type ruling.” He filmed the video outside the store after no one stopped to correct his face mask, which is normally worn for playing paintball or dirt-biking. “It’s not about safety,” Florida man Russ Ward claimed. “It’s about compliance, I was a good little sheep.” As coronavirus cases surge across the US and in Florida, the Hillsborough County Emergency Policy Group voted on Monday to make face masks mandatory inside businesses.
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A man decides to prove a point that masks are not for protection but compliance when he decides to use a mesh face mask rather than a filter mask in Walmart that is mandated in Tampa, Florida.
"I visited a local Walmart in a county that put an ordinance in place that mandates masks," the filmer, Russ Ward, said.
"I wore a mask that is designed for protecting your face in a paintball battle.
You can easily breathe through it.
I walked all around the store, talked to employees, and other shoppers, and every one of them could see my mouth." "It was almost like not wearing a mask at all.
Nobody cared.
That's because it's not about safety.
https://www.onenewspage.com/video/20200625/13147658/Man-wears-mesh-face-mask-to-prove.htm
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