Can this country survive another 4 years of the Orange Imbecile?

[Nickdfresh]

Defund the police isn't a viable option and the current waves of violence is exactly the reasons why.

It may be a far better proposal to reform and restructure specific portions of police work, especially the non-violent elements. Turning off the funding won't fix anything without clear plans and transitions to fill the community needs.

Getting this virus under control will go a long way to helping calm shit down. Too much fear compounded by the pent up energy of the lock-downs just fired up a bunch of people with nothing better to do. Good news is science is kicking ass on therapeutics, vaccinations and treatments.

Few seem to know what defund the police actually means, and it's both those for and against it. The Camden, NJ sole example of defunding a dept. to liquidate it and start over, it actually turned out okay, but of course other county and state police took over for a while until the police were reformed, by all accounts it's better than the old one. The police unions are the biggest stumbling block because they just knee jerk-obstruct everything. Defunding the police was the workaround there but that obviously will not work everywhere...

[twonabomber]

You guys really think that if, in April, Trump said "wear a mask!" people would have?

I'm laughing again!

[FORD]

Well, he could have set a proper example by wearing one himself, which he refused to do, up until late June or so.

At the very least, he could have NOT repeatedly called it "a Chinese hoax". At least he finally dropped the "hoax" part, but it was after tens of thousands had already died.

Nobody expects Cheeto to know all the answers on this. He's not a doctor, he's not a scientist. Problem with the Orange Imbecile is that he ignores what the doctors & scientists DO say, if it in any way makes HIM look bad. And after the way he's botched the handling of this pandemic clusterfuck, it's pretty much ALL going to make him look bad, at this point (and deservedly so.)

Look at the last two nights of the RNC with his speech & Malaria's speech from the White House lawn. Hundreds of people sitting close together. Very few of them wearing masks, and nobody tested before being allowed to attend the speeches. There's no excuse for anybody - let alone the so called "leader of the free world" to be deliberately doing something so fucking stupid & reckless after 180,000 deaths in this country.

People who attended those speeches are going to die. Cheeto better hope they live in states where they can mail in their ballots in early, because odds are they will be dead (and ineligible to vote) by November 3.

[Nickdfresh]

You guys really think that if, in April, Trump said "wear a mask!" people would have?

I'm laughing again!

Well Trump called for a boycott of Goodyear tires and one of his retard minions slashed the Goodyear tires on his truck, so...

[Seshmeister]

Funniest line of the week goes to Ivanka with 183 000 dead Americans and 30 million unemployed,

“I recognize that my dad’s communication style is not to everyone’s taste. And I know that his tweets can feel a bit unfiltered,” she added. “But the results — the results speak for themselves.”

I know I shouldn't but that was genuinely LOL funny.

Someone put it quite well, last year the message was 'Vote for Trump, he is an asshole but he's our asshole and gets things done'. This year it is 'Vote for Trump, he is an asshole'.

[ZahZoo]

Any politician who's not an asshole generally won't hold office for long...

[Seshmeister]

There are degrees of it.

[Funkmonkey]

Any politician who's not an asshole generally won't hold office for long...

Very true. There has to be something fundamentally wrong with you to want to run for office.

[ZahZoo]

There are degrees of it.

Agreed. There's a wide range of personalities and positions on the various things any politician deals with. There's no pleasing everyone and they have to make difficult decisions constantly. No matter how thoughtful, intelligent and reasonable... someone will disagree with their position and dub them an asshole...

[Funkmonkey]

To actually want to endure a Presidential campaign requires deep psychological problems and breathtaking amounts sociopathy.

[FORD]

[Funkmonkey]

There's a shocker.