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Sad but true.

I started this thread to remind people of the cost in human terms of Donald J Trump's politicization of the pandemic because dumbass Covid Donnie stupidly thought it would only hit blue states and big cities because it hit New York and Washington State first, and then moved on to the rest of the Northeast. The 225+k deaths are only the tip of the iceberg on human costs, however. Tens of thousands of Americans have suffered long term physical and neurological effects from Covid-19. We still don't know how many will be permanently disabled by it and how many may recover eventually. Tens of thousands American families have been hit with huge medical bills for family members who had severe cases of Covid-19 and landed in the hospital for weeks or months. The average Covid-19 hospitalization with complications costs about $20k more than health insurance generally covers. Millions of Americans have lost their jobs or their businesses, all of the state governments are facing huge deficits because of the costs of dealing with the pandemic amid cratering tax revenues, and entire industries like live entertainment and travel and tourism have been devastated. Meanwhile, Covid Donnie continues to claim Covid-19 is no big deal and that "we're turning the corner" while more Americans suffer. If you don't wish to be reminded of the cost of Covid Donnie's actions, don't read this thread. Demented and evil. Any ignorant ****head can get elected POTUS because if you put enough lipstick on a pig, enough fools will mistake it for a pretty girl to want to dance with it. Serious crises separates the pigs from the pretty girls. A sane individual sitting in the Oval Office amid a pandemic, even if he were a pig with lots of make-up, would have sense enough to defer to and follow the lead of the public health experts. He would care about the American people and the American nation enough to "do the right thing". Many of us have seen in our own lifetimes that even reprehensible politicians like Richard Nixon can suck it up and "do the right thing". All of us have seen a POTUS respond to crises the way we expect our presidents to respond: George W Bush rallied the country after the 9/11 attacks and then in 2008, he acted swiftly and brought Dems and Republicans together to prevent economic collapse. I've said this before and I'll repeat it. He's a sociopath at best. Nobody and nothing matters to Trump except his personal gratification. He could be much worse. His embrace of Qanon and other conspiracy theories might be either a result or a cause of what appears to be paranoia. He seems to be out of touch with reality. He cannot seem to separate fact from fiction. He seems to inhabit an alternative universe. He's Nero fiddling while Rome burns. Trump also seems to suffer from delusions that he's this all powerful, all knowing being who can do no wrong. He thinks that everybody loves him and agrees with him. He wants to be Vladimir Putin but he's more like Idi Amin or Pol Pot, willing to sacrifice millions for his self gratification. I think all Bills fans can relate to this. We've spent so many years waiting for the Bills to really "turn it around" and when they finally look to have done, we can't really be a part of it as fans. Football translates great to TV, but it's a poor substitute for the comaraderie of tailgaiting before the game and actually being there and cheering the Bills on to wins, especially after not have much to really cheer about for so long.

Exactly right. 👍

If you're a Trumplet or alt Rightist or some other assorted Rightie who gets his/her "news" from Right Wing twitter feeds, then you do probably "really believe Covid will go away as a story the day after the election" because you really believe that the mainstream media is using the coronavirus pandemic news to help Joe Biden. It doesn't matter to you that more than 225,000 Americans have died from Covid-19 because they were old or overweight or smokers or asthmatic or cancer patients/survivors or diabetics ...

I think that the most improbable part of the laptop story is that Hunter Biden would bother to have a laptop repaired or that he would take a laptop containing sensitive material to a mom-and-pop computer repair shop where he didn't know the proprietor personally. People with the kind of money Hunter Biden has don't repair old laptops, they trash them and buy new. They also send their assistants to run their errands rather than doing them themselves. Hell, people with the modest money I have aren't all that likely to have a laptop repaired.

You obviously don't watch much football. The Carp have been playing significantly better than the Pats or Jests. I think that they have more talent than either, especially at QB, and Brian Flores has been coaching lights out. He seems to get the most out of the talent he has, and his teams play tough. The Bills escaped Miami with a 3 point win in week 2. I think they'll need to be playing better than they have recently to beat the Carp again in the season ender.

The MSM doesn't have to portray Covid Donnie as the pathological liar, misogynistic bully, and pathetic coward. He does that all by himself. He decided to take advantage of the opportunity for free air time to get his message out to millions of 60 Minutes viewers, and he revealed the truth that he has no "message" except that he's a pathological liar, misogynistic bully, and pathetic coward with absolutely no substance. After telling Leslie Stahl that he wanted Obamacare gone and had a "great" health care plan to replace it that he would reveal "soon" and after he walked out on the interview, Covid Donnie sent his sycophant Kayleigh McEnany out with a huge tomb that was supposed to be the outline of his health care plan but turned out to be nothing more than a collection of exec orders and other bull manure but not even a rough outline of a health care plan.

Yes, yes there is, and yes they did. Originally the site address was a "secret" among selected snowflakes but it's since been posted in at least two threads that I've seen.

Be smart and get your flu shot. Be smarter and wear a mask and practice social distancing. October 24, 2020 - Covid Donnie continued to insist that the US is 'turning the corner" in the pandemic, including at a stop in Lumberton, NC where he mocked Biden's prediction of worsening conditions because of the rising number of new coronavirus cases. October 24, 2020 - US recorded 83+k new cases of the coronavirus cases, the second highest number ever. October 23, 2020 - US recorded a record of 83+k new cases of the coronavirus. The number of hospitalizations is the highest since June. October 22, 2020 - The National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University reports that between 130,000 and 210,000 deaths from coronavirus could have been avoided with a better response from the US government policies and crisis messaging. (Avoidable Covid-19 Deaths) October 13, 2020 - The U of Washington's IHME projects that more than 363,000 Americans could die of the coronavirus by January 1, 2021 and more than 394,000 by February 1, 2021 with the seasonal flu making the coronavirus more deadly. October 25, 2020 - 225,239 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 344. October 24, 2020 - 224,899 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 905. October 23, 2020 - 223,995 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 944. October 22, 2020 - 223,051 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 830. October 21, 2020 - 222,221 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 1141. Average daily deaths from coronavirus, October 21-23, 2020: 832 Average daily deaths from coronavirus, October 14-20, 2020: 726 Average daily deaths from coronavirus, October 7-13, 2020: 851 Average daily deaths from coronavirus, September 30-October 6, 2020: 707 October 20, 2020 - 221,078 Americans have died of coronavirus. October 13, 2020 - 215,995 Americans have died of coronavirus. October 6, 2020 - 210,909 Americans have died of coronavirus. October 1, 2020 - 21,311 Americans died of coronavirus in the month of September, an average of 710 per day. October 1, 2020 - 207,808 Americans have died of coronavirus. September 1, 2020 - 185,594 Amercians have died of coronavirus. July 1, 2020 - 127,299 Americans have died of coronavirus.

This bull manure is true only in the alternative universe inhabited by Covid Donnie and his loyal true believers like yourself.

I'm sure the folks at the Lincoln Project are shaking in their shoes. Politicians and their adult children who feed at the public trough by working for Daddy are fair game for just about anybody to say anything about them.

About 80% of Americans now live in areas classified as "urban", which is, IIRC, means a municipal area of 50K residents or more. Numerous states have traditionally been dominated by 1 or 2 big metros starting in the 1960s when the SCOTUS required apportionment of all local and state representatives be based on one person, one vote. These include California, Illinois, Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Washington. As population has shifted to the South and the West, these states have also become dominated by their big metros, primarily because that's where the migrants have settled but also because the rural areas everywhere in the country are emptying out. Now states like Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina, Texas and Virginia have also come to be dominated by their large urban metros. This maps shows pretty well where Americans currently live: US Population Density Map

Mark Short, VP Mike Pence's chief of staff, plus at least 2 other VP staffers, have tested positive for Covid-19. Mike Pence will continue his campaign tour instead of quarantining for 14 days as CDC guidelines recommends because being a politician running for office makes him "an essential worker". WH Chief of Staff Mark Meadows apparently tried to suppress the news of these positive tests.

Be smart and get your flu shot. Be smarter and wear a mask and practice social distancing. October 24, 2020 - Covid Donnie continued to insist that the US is 'turning the corner" in the pandemic, including at a stop in Lumberton, NC where he mocked Biden's prediction of worsening conditions because of the rising number of new coronavirus cases. October 24, 2020 - US recorded 83+k new cases of the coronavirus cases, the second highest number ever. October 23, 2020 - US recorded a record of 83+k new cases of the coronavirus. The number of hospitalizations is the highest since June. October 22, 2020 - The National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University reports that between 130,000 and 210,000 deaths from coronavirus could have been avoided with a better response from the US government policies and crisis messaging. (Avoidable Covid-19 Deaths) October 13, 2020 - The U of Washington's IHME projects that more than 363,000 Americans could die of the coronavirus by January 1, 2021 and more than 394,000 by February 1, 2021 with the seasonal flu making the coronavirus more deadly. October 24, 2020 - 224,899 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 905. October 23, 2020 - 223,995 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 944. October 22, 2020 - 223,051 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 830. October 21, 2020 - 222,221 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 1141. Average daily deaths from coronavirus, October 21-23, 2020: 955 Average daily deaths from coronavirus, October 14-20, 2020: 726 Average daily deaths from coronavirus, October 7-13, 2020: 851 Average daily deaths from coronavirus, September 30-October 6, 2020: 707 October 20, 2020 - 221,078 Americans have died of coronavirus. October 13, 2020 - 215,995 Americans have died of coronavirus. October 6, 2020 - 210,909 Americans have died of coronavirus. October 1, 2020 - 21,311 Americans died of coronavirus in the month of September, an average of 710 per day. October 1, 2020 - 207,808 Americans have died of coronavirus. September 1, 2020 - 185,594 Amercians have died of coronavirus. July 1, 2020 - 127,299 Americans have died of coronavirus.

That should cheer up the Trumplets.

De-Nial ain't a just a river in Egypt. Trumplets share the same alternative universe as their hero where they all deny any facts that they don't like.

Sour grapes, NB. You'd like him to disappear because he reminds even Trumplets what a lying, stupid, sociopathic turd Covld Donnie is.

Nope. I think you missed the great bruhaha on PPP a couple of weeks ago (I don't remember you taking part in it on either side) when some of the Trumplets and most of the alt righties got their panties in a wad because moderate and leftist posters became more active on PPP and refused to be bullied into leaving. Several of the most disgruntled set up their own site where they can share their conspiracy theories and hatreds, and pretend the entire world believes as they do without having anybody challenge their bull manure.

I'm not the one imagining some nefarious conspiracy on the part of the Clintons. You need to get your paranoia under control, dude.

Be smart and get your flu shot. Be smarter and wear a mask and practice social distancing. October 23, 2020 - US recorded a record of 83+k new cases of the coronavirus. The number of hospitalizations is the highest since June. October 22, 2020 - The National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University reports that between 130,000 and 210,000 deaths from coronavirus could have been avoided with a better response from the US government policies and crisis messaging. (Avoidable Covid-19 Deaths) October 13, 2020 - The U of Washington's IHME projects that more than 363,000 Americans could die of the coronavirus by January 1, 2021 and more than 394,000 by February 1, 2021 with the seasonal flu making the coronavirus more deadly. October 23, 2020 - 223,995 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 944. October 22, 2020 - 223,051 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 830. October 21, 2020 - 222,221 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 1141. Average daily deaths from coronavirus, October 21-23, 2020: 972 Average daily deaths from coronavirus, October 14-20, 2020: 726 Average daily deaths from coronavirus, October 7-13, 2020: 851 Average daily deaths from coronavirus, September 30-October 6, 2020: 707 October 20, 2020 - 221,078 Americans have died of coronavirus. October 13, 2020 - 215,995 Americans have died of coronavirus. October 6, 2020 - 210,909 Americans have died of coronavirus. October 1, 2020 - 21,311 Americans died of coronavirus in the month of September, an average of 710 per day. October 1, 2020 - 207,808 Americans have died of coronavirus. September 1, 2020 - 185,594 Amercians have died of coronavirus. July 1, 2020 - 127,299 Americans have died of coronavirus.

Risperidone might fix that paranoia for you.

But the US military would unleash itself against a cadre of heavily armed domestic terrorists bent on starting a civil war by kidnapping and murdering government officials if it came to that. Just as the FBI and the DHS did recently in Michigan. The idea that these private militias represent "the people" is bull manure. They don't. They never have. They represent some people who think like they do, but mostly they represent their own skewed worldview.

Treason maybe. How many state secrets do you think Covid Donnie's spilled to his pal Vlad Putin? It wouldn't matter much if Putin conned the info out of hm. More likely would be some kind of corruption charge(s) based on using the Presidency to profit himself and his family.

CNN does. They found that Covid Donnie spewed lies almost non-stop, especially on issues important to the American electorate like the coronavirus pandemic.

That Trump has to defend Texas is simply amazing to me. Texas hasn't voted Democratic in a Presidential election since 1976. The current average of polls for the 2020 election have Texas leaning Republican with Trump leading 48.6% to Biden 46.4. That's 2.2%. In 2008, Texas voted Republican by almost 12%. In 2012, Texas voted for the Republican candidate by almost 16%. In 2016, Trump carried Texas by 9% points.