Trump supporters and conspiracy theory - Part 2

[Rick Plant]

President Trump is down in the polls. The Republican National Convention is mostly canceled. And now, some Republicans are contemplating the unthinkable: Would they be better off losing in November and rebuilding for 2024?

“The thought is starting to cross people’s minds,” said a Republican strategist who requested anonymity to speak candidly. “One way or the other, there will be life after Trump.”

This remains a small minority position among Republicans. Trump’s popularity with rank-and-file party members endures. Even a recent Fox News poll that contained mostly bad news for Trump showed 73% of his supporters were happy with their choices, compared to 62% of presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s. But Trump has never been particularly strong with the GOP’s governing and consultant class, dating back to 2016, and his relationship with them has waxed and waned with his political fortunes.

The theory is that if Trump is defeated, Democrats led by an aging and diminished Biden will pursue an unpopular left-wing political agenda and inherit the pandemic, economic downturn, and civil unrest. Republicans would likely recover in the midterm elections in 2022, possibly regaining a chamber or two of Congress. This could put the party in a strong position to turn the page on Trump in 2024.

This is roughly how it played out for the GOP in the midterm elections of 1994, 2010, and 2014 in response to the Democratic presidencies of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. But they failed to defeat Clinton and Obama for reelection, so both Democrats served eight years despite their party's down-ballot losses.

Obama secured Obamacare and put two liberals on the Supreme Court, though the Senate GOP blocked a third. Clinton won a tax increase Republicans later partially repealed, a crime bill with a since-expired assault weapons ban, and also added two liberals to the Supreme Court. Even so, his welfare reform, a capital gains tax cut, and the balanced budget were more to Republicans’ liking. The Clinton healthcare bill was defeated before Republicans won their first House majority in 40 years. If Biden wins, the question would be whether something like Medicare for All or two additional liberal justices would happen before the next GOP electoral triumph.


“The argument is basically whether the country could withstand the Left's agenda for two years, especially if Schumer gets rid of the filibuster, if Biden wins, and the Senate goes down,” said a second Republican strategist. “Versus, can we wait another four years for the party to start to recover from Trump.”

One fear Republicans had of Trump’s 2016 candidacy was that he would reduce the party’s share of the Hispanic vote to something approximating its frequently single-digit percentage of the black vote. While Trump receives poor marks in most polls for his handling of race relations, that hasn’t happened. Trump slightly improved on Mitt Romney’s 2012 performance with minority voters, and Republican candidates continued to win between a quarter and a third of Latinos, even in the otherwise disappointing 2018 midterm elections

Benedict Donald and his right wing media are hatemongers and fearmongers. They have no issues and can only use scare tactics. They are trying to paint this dire picture of what a Biden Presidency would be, but we are in the most dire and disastrous state currently. Over 150,000 Americans are dead, 4.4 million infected, 51 million unemployed, people can't pay their bills, businesses are closing, manufacturing and economy is in a recession, civil unrest and  Trump's secret police are beating and gassing American citizens in our streets. 80% of the country don't like how it's going. This is hell on Earth currently.         

We already had 8 great years under Obama/Biden with the greatest economy on record and record job creation. Biden helped keep Americans safe and protected us from Ebola and won't cozy up to dictators and will take on Putin. Those great days will return again. People don't recognize this fascist America with a wannabe authoritarian dictator where death and disease overwhelms the population  with a failure that does nothing but let people get sick and die.

Everything Benedict Donald doesn't like he says is automatically "illegal", or "fake" which is the clearest sign of his dictatorial, fascist tendencies which he desires to be . By declaring that it’s illegal for anyone to make fun of him on Twitter, Benedict Donald is effectively declaring that our First Amendment no longer exists. That's why this fascist authoritarian wannabe dictator will be defeated in a massive landslide.

Twitter has algorithms that rank trends based on how frequently something is tweeted. This is a reflection of how much people hate Benedict Donald.

[Rick Plant]

Yeah, the Fake New PARROTS around here have No Idea this stuff is going down due to their Fake News Sources imposing a BLACKOUT on Real News such as this. PHYSICAL Voter Intimidation is being imposed on Trump Supporters and the Fake News endlessly goes on-and-on about Repub's attempting to suppress the vote via polling laws. This same Fake News BLACKOUT is gonna occur when the Durham/Barr CRIMINAL Investigation hammer comes down. The only point at which Fake News will be Forced to cover Durham/Barr will be when bodies Currently on their Fake News Payroll start getting thrown into the Slammer.

What about the Storing Parrot that peddles fake news? Another one of your bogus claims bites the dust again. We already knew this one was fake but it's confirmed once again. This is why nobody takes you seriously and you only provide comedy value.


Hydroxychloroquine flunks Phase III trial in mild-to-moderate Covid-19

The study adds to the growing body of evidence that the drug, promoted early in the pandemic by President Trump, is ineffective, despite its getting a briefly renewed lease on life earlier this month thanks to a retrospective analysis.

Results of new clinical trial published late last week have found that hydroxychloroquine – the malaria and autoimmune disease drug that President Donald Trump promoted as a potential “game changer” early in the Covid-19 pandemic – not only failed to improve outcomes in those with mild-to-moderate disease, but also produced a higher rate of cardiac and liver side effects.

Results of the randomized, controlled, open-label Phase III trial, which took place at more than two dozen sites in Brazil, were published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Thursday. The study randomized 667 patients to receive hydroxychloroquine or the drug plus the antibiotic azithromycin on top of standard of care or standard of care alone. When patients were measured on the seven-point ordinal scale of improvement in disease, those in the two hydroxychloroquine groups showed no improvement compared with patients who received standard of care alone. Moreover, those receiving hydroxychloroquine more frequently experienced Qt prolongation and elevation of liver enzymes.

"Among patients hospitalized with mild-to-moderate Covid-19, the use of hydroxychloroquine, alone or with azithromycin, did not improve clinical status in 15 days as compared with standard care,” the authors wrote.

The results add to the growing body of evidence not supporting treatment of Covid-19 with hydroxychloroquine, an analogue of chloroquine, which has also been explored without success in Covid-19. Last month, the Food and Drug Administration revoked an emergency use authorization that it had granted to the drug in late March, a move that had been criticized as motivated more by politics than by science.

The drug nevertheless saw a briefly renewed lease on life earlier this month when researchers at the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit published a retrospective analysis of 2,541 hospitalized Covid-19 patients in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases showing that 13% of those treated with the drug died, compared with 26.4% of those who did not receive it. However, while several right-wing media figures celebrated the data, a review in the same journal pointed to numerous confounding factors that called the purported benefit into question.

And two weeks ago, a post-publication peer review in the International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents strongly criticized the original paper that spurred interest in the drug, published earlier this year, pointing to numerous methodological flaws rendering it “nearly if not completely uninformative” and denouncing it as “fully irresponsible.”

https://medcitynews.com/2020/07/hydroxychloroquine-flunks-phase-iii-trial-in-mild-to-moderate-covid-19/

[Colin Crow]

How ironic that someone who commented slavery was a "necessary evil" should be called Cotton.

[Paul May]

Trump Pushes Fake COVID Cure From Fringe Doctors, Banned by Facebook

Justin Baragona

President Donald Trump exhibited his new serious tone toward the coronavirus crisis on Monday night, sharing a viral video of fringe doctors touting the controversial anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine as “a cure for COVID.”

The video, which also featured the doctors dismissing mask-wearing, was eventually taken down by Facebook for “sharing false information” about the virus, after racking up millions of views in a matter of hours. Several right-wing outlets and personalities, however, continued to promote the clip of the doctors’ press conference on Twitter, eventually reaching the president’s timeline.

Besides retweeting the clip several times, Trump—who recently said his retweets tend to get him “in trouble”—went on to share several other posts promoting hydroxychloroquine, which the FDA has rescinded for emergency use for the virus.

Numerous studies and clinical trials have found that the drug has shown no real benefit in treating coronavirus patients. Experts also have warned of potentially deadly side effects.

Trump then shared a tweet directly from Dr. Stella Immanuel, one of the physicians who took part in the press conference. Immanuel is also a preacher who once wrote a book claiming that there is a Satanic plot to take over the world and recently challenged CNN anchors and top infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci to provide her with urine samples. (The video tweeted by Immanuel, along with several others the president shared, were later taken down.)

She also didn’t take kindly to Facebook removing the video of her saying masks don’t work and that hydroxychloroquine is a magic cure for the virus.

“Hello Facebook put back my profile page and videos up or your computers with start crashing till you do,” she tweeted late Monday night. “You are not bigger that God. I promise you. If my page is not back up face book will be down in Jesus name.”

The president also shared tweets attacking Fauci on Monday night, despite insisting recently that he had a “very good relationship” with the doctor after White House officials publicly blasted him.

At least one of the accounts the president retweeted on Monday night was from a follower of QAnon, the conspiracy theory that alleges a “deep state” cabal of pedophiles is plotting against Trump.

[Paul May]

Team Trump’s Mounting Fear: His Base Will Abandon Him

 Sam Stein, Asawin Suebsaeng

With fewer than 100 days to go until Election Day, President Donald Trump and his chief political advisers are barely lifting a finger to expand his coalition of potential voters. Instead, they are desperately attempting to turn out Republicans, prevent his base from fracturing, and ward off conservative defections that would seal his fate as a self-described one-term “loser.”

It’s an election strategy that has left others in the Republican Party equal parts perplexed and paralyzed—fearful of the president’s wrath but also confused about why he isn’t making any sustained effort to expand his electoral coalition.

“The president has tremendous power in what to talk about. And he has kinda gotten off-track, in talking about what the media wants him to talk about,” said Barry Bennett, a Republican operative and lobbyist who served as a senior Trump adviser during the 2016 race. “He should be tweeting pictures of people going back to work… Let’s see some pictures of those people… The media is not gonna help him tell the good news. He’s gotta do it himself. And he should use his platform for that.”

Despite such consternation, and his own porous polling, Trump has shown no desire to change. Instead, he’s stubbornly let personal grievance dictate many of his public utterances. That mind-set was evident this weekend, when Trump authored a single tweet bashing three pillars of right-wing influence: guardians of former President Ronald Reagan’s legacy; the last Republican House speaker; and the most powerful conservative cable-news network.

“I thought, ‘Damn, he jammed a lot in there in one broadside,’” one GOP strategist lamented of the tweet. “The base is the piece he can control the most. But there are times where he sees his base as a larger portion of the Republican voting bloc than it is. There are a lot of gettable Republicans outside of the cultural issues that he plays on.”

Trump’s tweet may have been born out of a frustration that the Reagan Foundation, Paul Ryan, and Fox News weren’t being sufficiently subservient and appreciative of his presidency. But it also was a reflection of a broader anxiety within the upper echelons of Trumpworld that the president’s conservative base—which Trump and the party have long touted as rock-solid and fiercely loyal—may be starting to rupture amid the coronavirus pandemic, a weakened U.S. economy, and protest movements in the aftermath of the police killing of George Floyd. It is a concern that some close associates of the president have raised to him directly.

“I told him that he should believe the [public] polling, and that it shows that the way things are going, some of his base may abandon him by the election,” said a Republican who spoke to Trump about the issue earlier this month. “That is what the numbers are saying.”

This source added that the president shrugged off the suggestion and said that this person was being “ridiculous” for entertaining the notion that his base would ever fracture.

Part of Trump’s confidence in the endurance of his base is owed to the fact that he caters so much to it. In several key policy arenas, the president has jettisoned any and all pretense of reaching beyond Trump diehards. Earlier this year, he and his senior staff made it clear that they intended to run in part on criminal-justice reform, and to strafe Joe Biden, the presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential nominee, for his “tough on crime” past. It was an effort supplemented with a $10 million Super Bowl ad buy and aimed at depressing Biden’s Black voter turnout. But shortly after the Floyd killing, Trump and top officials were completely bored with even the idea of the most modest of police reforms and chose to fully embrace an iron-fisted posture.

“I’m not sure there are many undecided people in this country, so it’s more a question of tending to your base and turning them out,” Bennett added. “I get why he doesn’t like the Fox polling. But tweeting about that isn’t going to get you any votes.”

On occasion, Trump and his team have tried at least symbolically to move beyond that base-first mind-set. In his 2016 campaign, he made repeated overtures to traditionally working class Democratic voters to back him on the basis of the trade deals that their own party had cut. After his election, he tried to recruit Democrats for his Cabinet, with Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) meeting with him during the transition and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) oft-rumored for various posts. Trump even got West Virginia’s governor, Jim Justice, to swap parties—a feat the president managed to pull off again with Rep. Jeff Van Drew during the impeachment proceedings.

But those efforts have either fizzled or become less serious. Manchin never took the bait. And Gabbard not only kept her distance, she quickly endorsed Biden despite rampant speculation that she’d play a spoiler role this cycle.

On Dec. 19, 2019, the Trump campaign formally launched “Democrats for Trump” to, in its words, “engage disaffected Dems.” In the email announcing the group, then campaign manager Brad Parscale directed those interested to www.Democrats.DonaldJTrump.com.” Today, that page is nothing more than a sign-up form. There is not a single name of a Democrat supporting the president’s re-election, and the totality of the case made for Democrats to make the switch is a few lines bashing “Coastal elitists and left-wing radicals.”

Trump’s refusal to modify his base-only approach has had ramifications down the ballot. Senate Republicans, GOP operatives concede, could theoretically stand to benefit from presenting themselves to voters as a bulwark against a likely Biden presidency. But they’ve been remarkably reluctant to do so. And those strategists argue that it’s because they have concluded that their own fates are tied to the enthusiasm of Trump’s base.

“To the extent these [Senate] races remain a presidential referendum by proxy, Republicans carry all of Trump’s baggage in the eyes of his haters without necessarily generating the same enthusiasm or recognition among his supporters,” said Liam Donovan, a former aide at the National Republican Senatorial Committee. “Unless and until it becomes a choice between the candidates—or a check on full Democratic control—the Senate majority will only go as far as the president’s performance can carry it.”

But beyond the electoral calculations, there are mathematical ones. Even if Trump and congressional Republicans were to make overtures across party lines, it’s unclear if anyone would be receptive. The Daily Beast spent the weekend soliciting input from voters who backed Hillary Clinton in 2016 but were considering voting for Trump in 2020. Only a handful of individuals said they were in that camp.

“As godawful as Trump is as a human being and as much as I hate to see how he weakens our international standing in the world, I think he’s more likely to keep things manageable—within reason,” said Norm Bradshaw, of Seattle. “Because we do not need a cultural revolution. We need a business and government working together to ensure jobs, livelihoods, [and] security in the quickly automating society.”

Aaron McDowell, who resides in Sunnybrook, Pennsylvania, said, “I voted for Hillary Clinton because I thought it was time for a woman president. But now that’s not on the table.”

He explained, “So since I agree with Trump on the economy and he cut my taxes, I’m going with him because hopefully he’ll do it again.”

[Rick Plant]

It's crap like this that makes this idiot unfit for office. Always lying about everything and his lies have killed over 150,000 Americans and counting. This is why Benedict Donald is going to lose in a massive landslide.

Trump lied about being asked to toss out the Yankees’ first pitch on opening day – because he was jealous of Fauci




Just before Dr. Anthony Fauci tossed out the first ball of Major League Baseball’s opening day last Thursday, President Donald Trump announced the president of the New York Yankees, Randy Levine, had invited him to toss the first pitch for the New York team on August 15.

He was one-hundred-percent lying.

Well, maybe 95 percent.

Trump apparently had been asked years prior, as in, “You should come and do that some day,” what some would call an open invitation. There had not been a formal invitation, no date set, and until he made that announcement, the Yankees had neither been asked nor told.

But he did it, The New York Times reports, because he was jealous of Dr. Fauci.

“Randy Levine is a great friend of mine from the Yankees,” Trump told reporters on Thursday, just one hour before Fauci threw the first ball. “And he asked me to throw out the first pitch, and I think I’m doing that on August 15 at Yankee Stadium.”

“There was one problem,” the Times explains. “Mr. Trump had not actually been invited on that day by the Yankees, according to one person with knowledge of Mr. Trump’s schedule. His announcement surprised both Yankees officials and the White House staff.”

Trump “had been so annoyed by Dr. Fauci’s turn in the limelight, an official familiar with his reaction said, that he had directed his aides to call Yankees officials and make good on a longtime standing offer from Mr. Levine to throw out an opening pitch.”

On Sunday, for reasons unknown, Trump “canceled,” so to speak, making a big deal out of his “change” of plans.

"Because of my strong focus on the China Virus, including scheduled meetings on Vaccines, our economy and much else, I won’t be able to be in New York to throw out the opening pitch for the @Yankees on August 15th. We will make it later in the season!"

Regardless, his tweet “canceling” was quickly panned by many on social media, who could tell he had been lying from the start.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/trump-lied-about-being-asked-to-toss-out-the-yankees-first-pitch-on-opening-day-because-he-was-jealous-of-fauci/


Trump is 'trapped by reality' and he ‘looks like a fool’: Former senator




Former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) explained that President Donald Trump’s world is collapsing around him because he’s been lying to himself for so long that now he’s being forced to face the reality of the coronavirus pandemic.

A new report from the Washington Post revealed that Trump only started to care about the pandemic when he was shown maps and data that his voters in Republican states were dying from the virus.

“This is a president who just refused to listen to the science,” McCaskill explained. “He refused to accept the science. And two realities are present now: One, it didn’t disappear; and Two, it moved from blue states to red states. And now he is blocked, boxed, trapped. Instead of leading, he is folding. He is capitulating. And that’s what these voters are seeing in these red states. And particularly the elderly voters in Georgia, in Texas, in Florida, in North Carolina.”

She noted that states are finally realizing that Trump blew it and now everyone is “in big trouble.”

“And he really has no way out of this mess, because it’s a matter of leadership, the chaotic leadership is costing lives and the people in these states know it,” McCaskill continued.

Another Washington Post report cited the Trump University scandal, where he was so desperate to deny a problem instead of fixing it. He’s since used the tactic many, many times, even during the COVID-19 crisis.

“Why did the country have to be Donald Trump’s version of what a normal person might have dealt with in therapy?” asked MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace.

“Because he never thought about this, as a moment of leadership, to do the right thing based on science and protecting the health of Americans,” McCaskill answered. “He always looked at it as, ‘how can this help me? How can I avoid having this impact my re-election?’ It is — I mean, look at the conventions. this is a perfect example, Nicolle.”

She explained that early on Democrats listened to the science and began looking for other options. Trump flailed everywhere, moving his convention from North Carolina to Florida before he was finally forced to cancel it.

“There has not been chaos around the Democrats,” said McCaskill. “There hasn’t even been that much coverage of the Democrats canceling their convention. Meanwhile, Trump has wasted millions of dollars, weeks with the Charlotte and then Florida and ‘Oh, we’re going on and we’re going to have a big — we’re going to build stages outside and it’s going to be great!’ And then he’s trapped by reality. And he looks like a fool. And that’s happening in Florida.”

Watch video in the link below:

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/trump-is-trapped-by-reality-and-he-looks-like-a-fool-former-senator/



CNN host mocks Trump for 'strange' lies about throwing out first pitch at a Yankees game




Donald Trump claimed last week that he would be throwing out the first pitch at an upcoming Yankees game in New York — but it turns out that he never even bothered to consult the Yankees before making the announcement.

CNN’s John Berman and Alisyn Camerota mocked the president on Tuesday for apparently fabricating an offer to throw out the ceremonial pitch, which was reportedly sparked by jealousy over watching Dr. Anthony Fauci throw out a pitch at a Washington Nationals game.

The hosts noted that the president must be particularly jealous that Fauci even got his own baseball card, which quickly became a big seller after it went on sale last week.

“Well, John, now President Trump’s going to want a baseball card,” Camerota said.

“He’ll probably use the Defense Production Act or something to make billions of cards,” Berman joked. “He’ll be so upset that Dr. Anthony Fauci has the top-selling Topps card. Who knows?”

Berman then reflected on how strange it was that the president felt the need to lie about this in the first place.

“It’s really crazy that the president, in the briefing room, went up there and lied about being specifically invited on August 15th,” he said. “That’s just strange.”

Watch the video below:

[Paul May]

One word to describe this mental midget - UNFIT.