Which one is the lie? 100k+ not dead? 40 million not unemployed? No riots? There is a wall at the border? Can you be specific which one is factually wrong.
New York Times: “The resurgence of the virus, especially in states such as Texas, Florida and California that had begun to reopen, has introduced a far darker reality for many small businesses: Their temporary closures might become permanent.” “Nearly 66,000 businesses have folded since March 1, according to data from Yelp, which provides a platform for local businesses to advertise their services and has been tracking announcements of closings posted on its site. From June 15 to June 29, the most recent period for which data is available, businesses were closing permanently at a higher rate than in the previous three months, Yelp found. During the same period, permanent closures increased by 3 percent overall, accounting for roughly 14 percent of total closures since March.” “Researchers at Harvard believe the rates of business closures are likely to be even higher. They estimated that nearly 110,000 small businesses across the country had decided to shut down permanently between early March and early May, based on data collected in weekly surveys by Alignable, a social media network for small-business owners.”
I wonder how many because the owner or senior investor is deceased. Many businesses can hibernate, tell the landlord to feck off, blood from a stone etc. And employees on assistance but a failed reopen is understandably a problem.
There might be a golden opportunity coming up to amend the Constitution to prevent future abuses of power by the Executive. If the House and Senate both change hands in January and there are enough Republican Senators still traumatized by their experience with a mentally deranged Trump. If a proposal can get out of both Houses there is a possibility of it getting the necessary 3/4 vote in 38 of the 50 State legislatures to make it into the Constitution. Nancy Pelosi has already announced that statutory law re Presidential pardoning power is being worked on. We don't want any future Presidents commuting the sentences of felons who who traded their refusal to testify to the President's crimes in exchange for a commutation of their sentence. And we don't want future Presidents to get away with announcing they will refuse to cooperate with Congress in any way, they will not respond to any subpoena, and they will order executive branch employees to ignore Congressional subpoenas an refuse to cooperate. Our Founders wisely made Congress superior to both the Executive and Judicial Branches of Government. We don't want our Presidents ignoring the superiority of Congress. We have a President who has serious personality disorders. This was obvious to many as early as his primary campaign. Psychologists and psychiatrists warned us. And now his Ph.D. psychologist niece is confirming the previous diagnoses. She has diagnosed Donald's father as a "high functioning sociopath", and Donald, as "a sociopath" and "the most dangerous man in America" ; a man seriously afflicted with clinical narcissism and all the attendant problems that brings on. A minority of the U.S. House and a majority of the Senate are scared to death of what he might do to them if they cross him. It's not that we are suddenly in trouble now with the Covid pandemic upon us and the incapable Donald Trump in charge of our national response, we've been in serious danger all along, ever since Donald Trump got the nomination and there was any chance that he could be elected. He proceeded to wreak havoc on the U.S. State Department, create havoc in the Federal Bureau of Investigation and trash can both their findings and their reputation, eviscerate all semblance of impartiality and independence from the Department of Justice, and to appoint unqualified major campaign donors -- after he insisted he was so rich he would fund his own campaign -- to top positions in government agencies. These appointees had no special experience or qualifications to run the massive, and hugely important, agencies to which they were appointed. When some of his first appointees -- appointed on good advice -- proved to be quite competent at their jobs, e.g., Cohn*, Mattis*, etc., he fell out with them at the first sign they had no intention of serving as lap dogs to a demagogue President. Still other appointees, found to be in violation of U.S. laws, he praised and called "good men." Those under his administration who refused to pledge, de facto or directly, their personal allegiance and loyalty, either left on their own or were fired and replaced with "acting" agency heads; sometimes the replacements so drastically unqualified that they stood no chance of even the traumatized and captive Republican Senate's confirmation. The praises he had heaped on appointees before they left -- "fantastic" -- became accusations -- "very bad people," "the world's most over rated General," "dumb as a rock," etc., once they were gone. We Americans are eye witnesses to what happens when a narcissist Jackass and sociopathic, pathological liar who belongs in either an asylum or jail is put in charge of a great nation. ________________ *Gary Cohn later said of Trump, "[He] has an I.Q. of an inbred tanning bed," Mattis maintained his decorum, but let us know in no uncertain words that he strongly opposed President Trump's suggestion that U.S. Troops be used to keep protesting U.S. Citizens in line. Rex Tillerson called Trump, "a moron".
I disagree, future Dems should abuse power as much the fat turd has done, that's the only way Cons would agree to reform anything.
As far as Chumpie pardoning Stonie I seem to recall a certain Ollie ... Oliver North pardoned by Daddy Dubya who was VP when North did the deeds he was convicted of.
Stephen Collinson: “Rarely has a president shown himself to be so unequal to a tragic national emergency.” “Hundreds of Americans are dying daily and tens of thousands are getting infected from a once-in-a-century virus. States and cities are closing down again, threatening to trigger a ruinous new economic slump. Doctors and nurses lack sufficient protective gear as they battle the deadly pathogen. And with testing swamped by waves of disease, one top official is warning of the ‘the most difficult time’ ever for US public health this winter.” “Yet this is what is on Donald Trump’s mind: Joe Biden didn’t fix the country’s roads and bridges, crowds of bikers and boaters in MAGA hats prove that election polls are wrong, and the border wall is almost finished (except it isn’t). Oh, and by the way, where is Hunter Biden?” Jacqueline Alemany: “He invoked his opponent’s name nearly 30 times on a range of topics, and despite his claims otherwise, sounded like an underdog on shaky ground throwing spaghetti at the wall to find a new message that might stick.”