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| After 4 years... still... a nowhere man.... |
Tick.... tock...... Tick.... tock..... The clock ticks down to 12 days before Election Day - November 3, 2020. Meanwhile, some 30 million votes have already been cast - by mail, absentee, or early voting - state by state. I write this on the eve of the last of three scheduled debates - tonight.
Debate two was cancelled due to Trump contracting Covid. Along with Melania, his son Baron, and a variety of debate-prep staff, Trump was hospitalized for days. Debate Two - refused by Trump - was transformed into a TV Town Hall by Biden. Trump set up a "competing" Town Hall on TV at the very same time as the Biden Town Hall. The Trump viewer count shrunk to 13 million while Biden scored more than 14 million viewers. Biden polling rose while Trump's counts decreased. Trump polling fell again... and Senate Republicans became nervous regarding being "pulled-down" by a negative response to the Trump candidacy. Time to bail out, grab a life-preserver, and survive the "Blue Wave." Mc Connell and his conspiratorial Republican-Trump colleagues are separating themselves from the Trump Campaign, announcing their local representation and independence from Trump's rhetoric and mis-statements, and hope that they can keep the majority in the Senate and form the "Red Wall" that blocked Obama in the second term and will do the same in applying the policy brakes when Biden sits in the Oval Office. In McConnell's view - Trump is a "nowhere man."
How did Trump get there? What has he failed to do? What awful things has he done? The list is MASSIVE.... And, the Republicans in the Senate supported his policy, his positions, and the hurt that Trump inflicted on the American people. It's time to stand up, speak out, and vote them ALL out. Lets look.....
Since January 2020, Trump has ignored the invasion and the rapid spread and mortality of Covid-19. He ignored briefings and refused to prepare for a national health emergency. Trump stood idly by while the death toll rose... disregarding advice from the CDC, Dr. Fauci, and the rising panic of the medical community. Unlike Obama's response to SARS, ZIKA, and Ebola with a complex plan and response and the Bush administration response to AIDS and Ebola, Trump simply took no responsibility, no leadership, and took no action. The result was frustration in the medical community, jammed emergency rooms, the rapid spread of the aggressive and deadly virus, and a complete failure that resulted in more American deaths in ten months than the warfare deaths that resulted throughout the 20th Century - added together. 5 TIMES MORE DEATHS IN 11 MONTHS THAN IN 11 YEARS IN VIET NAM...OR ALL THE WAR DEATHS AMERICANS SUFFERED IN THE 21st CENTURY!
So, what is the Trump response? ZERO! In fact, the reverse applies. Trump has trashes and took every opportunity - via the Congress and/or the Courts - to eliminate medical coverage for American citizens. Chopping off Medicaid, threatening Medicare, and eliminating a variety of sections of the ACA (Obamacare) via legislation and court challenges, right now Trump has a case before the US Supreme Court that would repeal the ACA if his case should be successful.
You may recall that Trump and his allies have been before the US Supreme Court twice before on the ACA. In each case, they lost by ONE VOTE - Republican Chief Justice John Roberts, siding with the Democratic appointees. In this pending case, with the passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg last month and the pending appointment of Amy Barrett next week, this case proceeds before the Court the following week for verbal argument and decision following. Without RGB, what might be your guess as to the outcome? The loss of coverage due to Trump's Supreme Court repeal of the ACA and its coverage of all with pre-existing conditions. All this .... in the face of a rapidly growing Covid19 advance, illness, and mortality. In his place, would you eliminate health coverage in the face of a growing and deadly virus???
MEANWHILE.... THE AMERICAN ECONOMY COLLAPSES!
Trump wanted to run on the basis of an American Economy growing steadily. That followed the collapse of the economy under George Bush. The manufacturing sector fell, the Stock Market crashed and the auto industry in the Northwest in 2007 and 2008. The stimulus plan initiated by the Obama/Biden administration began the long road back and ended the recession with repeating US GDP and job growth year after year, including 2016. In fact, the Trump Presidency takes credit for continued growth that began with Obama/Biden, not Trump. What was the Trump initiative? TAX REFORM? Even before that Act.... Trump only paid $750 (2016, 2017) on an income of millions/billions!
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| Compare the job growth data from WWII to date. Note the successes and failures... |
What was the Trump Tax Act of 2017? A BOON for the wealthy and the large corporations! Corporate profit taxes were cut in half and increased profits dramatically. The Stock Market rose as did the Trump bank accounts! No increase in the Minimum wage, and, with the inaction in response to the viral invasion, some 40,000,000 in job losses, initial help as demanded, and complete inaction with threats to healthcare generated right now. No funding for schools, towns, cities, states, counties that lost revenue due to the recession along with and others responsible to handle the outcome of the illness and the job losses resulting. No thought. No Plan. No action. No caring for others. That's Trump for you. Caring for yourself, your friends and the allies of the Monarch - Republican Lords of the Senate and Republican Barons in the House. If I were you, come Election Day I would trade "Trickle Down" Trump for "Bubble Up" Biden!
Not caring must lead to a consequence for Trump.... It's not a promotion for his lying and corrupt administration with more convictions of those close to him... and pardons for those who support his efforts.... It's not a reward for illegal and improper insistence of chasing, kidnapping, and killing off those who disagree, expose, and oppose your mistakes. It is the lesson learned from the "Apprentice." For those who's actions damage the entity that you were appointed to work for and advance, as the Trump TV series demonstrated week after week......
YOU ARE FIRED!!!
It's time.... Stand Up! Speak Out! AND... VOTE!!!
DONALD.... THE NOWHERE MAN.... YOU ARE NOWHERE.....
AND YOU ARE FIRED!!!
Bobby J
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