Comments on: COVID19 Protests And Passing The Buck

By: Wil

Wil — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 20:48:49 +0000

NY Post:
Kentucky experienced its highest single-day spike in coronavirus cases after protests broke out in the state to lift lockdowns, according to reports.

Gov. Andy Beshear announced there were 273 new cases Sunday, bringing the total to 2,960, news station WCPO reported.

“We are still in the midst of this fight against a deadly and highly contagious virus,” Beshear said. “Let’s make sure, as much as we’re looking at those benchmarks and we’re looking at the future, that we are acting in the present and we are doing the things that it takes to protect one another.”

The Bluegrass State is among the regions that have seen demonstrators take to the streets last week to call for the end of lockdown restrictions.

By: Wil

Wil — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 19:38:16 +0000

Vox:
And Fox News is helping to get the word out about the protests, even promoting the protests on air. President Donald Trump spent part of Friday tweeting about them, just minutes after a protest segment aired on Fox News’ America’s Newsroom.

The displays are tapping into Trump’s main message on the coronavirus pandemic: governors are to blame for the crisis, not him. As the president ratchets up his reelection efforts, his argument is an effort to simultaneously put the brunt of responsibility for the coronavirus catastrophe on the shoulders of his political opponents while also maintaining that he holds “total authority” over the pandemic and the states facing it.

It’s an argument that resonates best in rural, redder parts of the country, which have not been hit as hard by the pandemic as blue, urban areas. Trump himself has said, “We’ll be opening some states much sooner than others,” despite pushback from legislators and business leaders alike about the current lack of mass testing.

And it’s a message of division, designed to pit Republican-voting areas of states against their Democratic-voting neighbors, even rural Republicans against urban Republicans. All this to activate white rural voters who supported Trump in 2016 and whom he’ll need again in 2020.

For some on the right, the plan seems simple: vilify Democratic governors and agitate for the end of shutdown orders. Then, “reopen the economy” and spur a massive turnaround in the nation’s economic prospects just in time for Trump to be reelected in November. If the pandemic recedes, he can claim he was entirely responsible; but if people continue to die, he can place the blame on Democratic governors.

By: Mr.BD

Mr.BD — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 17:20:03 +0000

In reply to Truthiz1. The great white hope. You got that right Truth.

By: Mr.BD

Mr.BD — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 17:19:11 +0000

These fools are just plain stupid like their leader is. Look at the guy with the Covid-19 is a lie sign. If it is a lie take off the mask then. They are taking their orders from Trump no doubt about it. I think a lot of it comes down to privilege. They think they can always have whatever they want and Trump taught them they could. But Covid does not care what they want. I say if these fools want to act like the virus went away because they decided it then go ahead. Let them gather around each other and contaminate each other. Like my grandmother would say they don’t believe fat meat is greasy but they gonna learn soon enough.

By: Truthiz1

Truthiz1 — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 14:49:52 +0000

Oh and there’s this……….

It’s clear to me that many, if not most of those yahoos are the same confederate-flag waving, tea-bagger, white nationalists/white supremacist, gun-toting, rabble-rousers we’ve seen before.

And they know that Trump is loser. But they have to believe in him. He’s their LAST great White hope.

They’ve got nothing else.