While in Michigan, one week after radical right terrorists were arrested for plotting to kidnap and do an extrajudicial execution of Governor Whitmer, President Trump attacks Whitmer and then echos a “lock her up” chant.
This is vile, disgusting, authoritarian depravity.
This is absolutely inexcusable behavior by any measure. I don’t care what side of the political spectrum you're on. This is objectively depraved lunacy.
Shame on Trump for stirring up violence and shame on his supporters at that rally for cheering it on.
Enough already. Enough.
We’re better than this. We’re better than him. Trump deserves to lose in a historic, humiliating landslide. This isn’t about partisanship. It's about decency. It's why so many conservatives are also opposing him.
Trump is a terrible human being and should never hold power again.
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Saying “don’t be afraid of Covid” is the exact opposite of what he should be saying to the country right now. This man is reckless. After getting this virus he's taking it even less seriously. Absurd.
There is absolutely nothing that can happen to Donald Trump to make him have a moment of decency. Nothing.
Just because he has access to the best care in the country doesn’t mean the rest of America does. What a dangerous, foolish message to send to the Americans.
This horrifying piece confirms my theory that Trump attacked mail in voting to get his base to vote in person so he could declare victory the night of the election & claim the delayed, mostly Dem tallies are fraudulent. But it may have backfired and Dems are now voting in person.
The early in person voting lines is why I think Trump’s mail-in voting lies and attacks on the USPS backfired.
This new nickname will surely make voters forget the fact over 180k people have died due to a pandemic Trump mishandled and the economy remains in tatters.
This is seriously insane. People are really out here falsely claiming that anyone who had another underlying condition when they died of COVID-19 doesn’t count as a COVID-19 death?
They would’ve been alive if they didn’t get COVID-19. That was the cause of their death…
How does Daniel Cameron, who hasn’t gotten justice for Breonna Taylor, appeal to black people?
How are false smears of socialism effective?
How is Melania‘s speech a home run if it was hypocritical?
Optics journalism.
For the most part, journalists have learned lessons from 2016. But every now and then, they dip back into their reflexive bag of false objectivity & attempt to treat this like it’s not an aspiring authoritarian regime.
This kind of nonsense is exactly why we founded @RanttMedia.
Fox News is praising Biden. Bret Baier said that it is the best he’s seen him on the stump & Chris Wallace said Biden blew a hole in Trump’s narrative about Biden’s abilities.
Wallace said Trump is now going to have to run against a candidate, not a caricature.
Fox News' Dana Perino said that Biden hit a home run and gave the best speech of his life.
So far, every single person on Fox, including Brit Hume
and Karl Rove, praised the speech. Rove said if he was a Republican strategist, they'd be worried.