This should end any presidency.

[kpete]

Link to tweet

?s=20

[Wounded Bear]

1. You would think...nt

[riversedge]

76. If only. sigh

[Sherman A1]

2. It should, but we know

it will not.

[certainot]

48. it can if americans take advantage of this time to kill rw COVID-denying talk radio

RW radio is ready to push off the cliff and GOP senators know it is key to their reelections in november, has been for 30 years, more in some states than others. it always pushes their agenda and attacks their opponents — without their opponents even knowing. their chances, even in reddest states would be very questionable without that radio advantage. if dems go all out v hate talk radio the GOP will have to abandon trump. heres why.

if the GOP senators and reps, govs, etc. see americans boycotting the crap out of any advertisers on any rw station, and giving it the attention and blame it deserves for it’s part in delaying COVID response advertisers will start looking elsewhere. universities and pro sports will have to start looking for alts to broadcast sports on. even before it gets bad the ad industry will have to react preemptively — by having to ask if advertisers really want to support trump, global warming denial etc instead of bundling them on and shifting them around to cover those stations.

they are starting to get blame with a petition to the FCC to investigate COVID disinformation (freepress.net) and a lawsuit by a green candidate in wash vs fox - and dems need to pile on.

limbaugh is key to keeping message in line for all of it and for keeping the gop in line behind trump and he’s very questionable to continue with advanced lung cancer. the uncertainty around limbaugh probably already has the ad industry worried — the whole talk radio monopoly was built around him. mcconnell needs him to keep the talk radio army in line pushing that agenda, making excuses for their covid criminality, and blaming democrats. without limbaugh leading that a lot of the blowhards are going to start trying to save themselves and some may be looking to move into limbaugh slots.

GOP senators and especially mcconnell and trump need team limbaugh humming along making excuses for their treason and stupidity and if they see their talk radio advantage, the only real advantage they have, breaking up they will be forced to save themselves and dump trump.

[dhill926]

3. this is on the republican party....

complicit to the core...

[Under The Radar]

4. Need the kardashians to read the article on their show to get noticed

[jaysunb]

11. +1 n/t

[Guilded Lilly]

5. In a sane country, this presidency would have ended long ago. N/T

[Scarsdale]

17. In a sane country,

he would have been laughed off the T.V. when he rode down that escalator cheered on by PAID spectators. I do not know what happened to the SANE gop members who now fawn all over him. Lindsey Graham once said "If we elect Donald Trump, it will be the end of the republican party, and we will deserve it" He also called him a "kook" What happened? Was the Russian money THAT much? Somebody knows the answers to all of this. Moscow Mitch has a very lucrative deal with a Russian oligarch for a company being built in Kentucky, so he fawns over tRump to loosen sanctions on Russia. What did the delegation of gop members get when they travelled to Moscow the last 4th. of July?? They are all propping the large orange barnacle up, too. Someday, and I hope it is soon, we will be made aware of how badly we have been "taken" by the gop. His Orangeness is golfing today, for a much needed break!!

[dalton99a]

19. +1

[Guilded Lilly]

23. What you said and more. I still cannot wrap my head around...

the treachery/inhumanity/ cruelty/ idiocy/refusal of facts/embracing a sociopath of the GOP.

[Scarsdale]

30. There has to be more going

on behind the scenes, to have so many republican representatives kow-towing to this orange idiot. Will we ever find out? The gop are willing to look like total, complete idiots for this disaster of a president. WHY? They have to know they are risking their political future by not doing what is right for the country. What the HELL is driving them?

[japple]

34. I think they have been drunk on power. They helped put a stooge in the presidency and have played

along with his agenda and he thinks they are on his side. They are not on his side except when it helps them and their efforts to raid the treasury and enrich themselves. They think they will never be caught and will be supreme rulers forever.

[Odawg]

54. The republican/fox voter..

only see and hear what they want. They don't listen to news that isn't fox.

[lastlib]

57. What's driving them? Billionaires and corporations.

The GOPhers may get voted out now and again, but more will keep popping up as long as there are billionaires and corporations willing to shell out to push their message and agenda onto the "proletariat." Restore the Fairness doctrine, reverse Citizens United, enact meaningful campaign reform, adopt universal health insurance, restore labor unions to a prominent place for all, and restart financing public education, and maybe the superhighway to serfdom will be converted to a sidewalk.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

38. Lindsey also said, "My party has gone batshit crazy."

That was early in the campaign and long before the golf outing that turned him into a sycophant for the Grotesque Orange Pustule.

[blueseas]

46. Our upside down world

A reality TV star leading this country.

[SammyWinstonJack]

56. In a sane country....yes.

[Disaffected]

21. Au contraire,

never would have started.

Never would have won the nomination.

Never would have run for nomination.

Would be broke and in jail.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

41. His campaign should have ended with the "Grab them by the pussy" comment.

For chrissake, Access Hollywood had his voice on tape saying it. He went on television apologizing for it (or at least, as close to an apology that Trump has ever made).

And then two years ago he claimed that it wasn't his voice on the tape, that someone was faking it to make him look bad.

Anyway, if you can become president after that, and you have the entire Republican Party protecting you against any oversight -- even refusing to allow witnesses at an impeachment "trial" -- a little thing like fucking up the response to the pandemic is nothing.

"I can shoot someone on Fifth Street and not lose a vote." It's the same thing here: "I can kill thousands of people by refusing to do anything when a pandemic (which no one could have foreseen, but I knew it was a pandemic before anyone else, and anyway, I don't take responsibility for it at all) hits and not a single member of the Republican Party nor conservative media will criticize me for it."

The only way he's leaving the WH is via the election, and the Repugs and he are already working on rigging that. For example, there's a push to eliminate the use of mail-in ballots. Fat Donnie: "Each citizen should show up at the polls, show their ID, and proudly vote!" Fortunately, managing the voting process is a state function, so a campaign in favor of at-home voting should be successful.

The Repugs will use anything they can to suppress the vote, and they see the pandemic as just another tool in their toolbox.

[Eliot Rosewater]

27. 40% or more of our citizens will tell you nothing in that article is true.

The Putin orchestrated annihilation of our institutions has worked.

Have an idiot lie all day everyday and then tell people you cant know who to trust.

End...of...country.

[certainot]

50. and gw bush wsould never haave gotten close to the WH either - the problem/difference is

rw talk radio - not fox, which is part of the free speech/democratic feedback system - the talk radio monopoly is not.

talk radio can also be locally coordinated and is now busy blaming local democrats for all this, like they did with katrina.

and, of course, the most important reason trump became acceptable, stole the election, and is still in office - democrats ignore talk radio

[gibraltar72]

6. It is simmering.

[unblock]

7. putting jared in charge is an impeachable offense if ever there was one

how much more derelict of official duty does one have to put an unqualified family member in charge of saving millions of american lives?

[Chemisse]

47. One of many impeachable offenses being committed right now - as we speak.

Too bad there will not be time to impeach him once this crisis has passed.

[procon]

8. But.. but it fake news!

Trump tells them (often using several excuses during the same presser) not to believe the national news reports. He says the MSM makes up storied the make him look bad. Then he says blame China not him. Or it's some evil plot of the Democrats have concocted to make him look bad.

Whatever his excuse did jour, Trump says he's not responsible for anything except photo ops.

[Javaman]

9. Normally it would but the main platform repukes run on now is...

Spite

[Cosmocat]

37. YEP

Grievance politics on steroids.

They will EAGERLY burn it all down before the relinquish power.

[yaesu]

10. Its not a presidency in so much as its a criminal organisation run by a lifetime con artist

backed by mob money, the corporate elite, press, the entire US justice department, Federal courts and a corrupt, criminal crime family called the GOP. This criminal empire will be hard to shut down.

[DENVERPOPS]

24. It is like a political branch of the mafia

[happy feet]

31. [phone]

[Kitchari]

36. This

Exactly

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

12. Think I'll adapt prayer...

To a meditation...kneeling with my hands pressed together palm to palm in front of my center breathing deeply and mindfully I’ll repeat your mantra as long as I can.

“This should end any presidency.”

[Traildogbob]

13. The GOP's...

Competency is small enough to drown in a bath tub. Thanks tea baggers and Grover and fine Christian adulterer Newt. Drowning the whole dam country in dead bodies. God bless you and the United Staaaash of illiterate MurKKKa. Bein Best, winning and getting really damn great again, promises made, promises kept.

[ffr]

14. The results of which put in economic graphical form

Link to tweet

Meanwhile, the team of McConnell and tRump never have too much work on their hands that they don't have time to stack the benchs with ideological RW judges.

Trump Elevates Unqualified Judge as a Reward for Defending Kavanaugh

[smirkymonkey]

42. A face badly in need of a fist.

I hate that man with a passion. I can't stand that hideous, smiling face of his as he destroys this nation and I want to break his fucking thumb right off.

[mountain grammy]

15. He's a madman

That should end his presidency..

Everything he's said and done since day one should have ended his presidency.

Neary 90,000 Americans died of AIDS during the Reagan presidency. Looks like Trump will beat that. Republican presidents' incompetence kills American citizens. Could be half a million or more this time.

[tblue37]

35. Republican leaders consider him a useful idiot. nt

[mountain grammy]

53. Wonder how high the death count before they change their minds..

They never did with Reagan, because they didn't care about gay men, and they never did with Bush, but 9/11 was all about patriotism and with Katrina, becaue they don't care about poor people.

So far they're sticking with him, but he's really a sick man. This could turn on them big time.

[richdj25]

16. Sorry

Racism is an incredibly powerful drug in America. Been running long and strong for 400 years. White dominance is something deplorables will not give up so easily.

Many of you should know that, with your relatives and all.

[BlueWI]

75. THIS.

Voters over 55 and white voters put Trump in office.

No other demographic groups would have given this cruel joke of a presidency a winning majority.

Protecting race and class privilege took precedence over all else.

Shame on us as a country!

[NBachers]

18. All said above is true, but this headline is a "Holy Shit" marker of this artocity against us.

[Hamlette]

20. a link to the article online

I think, title is different but text seems the same.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2020/04/04/coronavirus-government-dysfunction/?arc404=true

[Pobeka]

22. "Once again, the government is caught unprepared". That is what GOP'ers will see below the headlin

And they will fixate on it -- see? The government is the problem, we should've had it all privatized then everything would be fine.

That should have read -- "Once again, GOP-led government is caught unprepared".

[gldstwmn]

25. Boom. I hope the media pummel him

with this. He's so desperate to restart the economy because it's his only shot.

[notdarkyet]

33. Front page CBS--the economy is fine in spite of 35percent unemployment.

[SouthernCal_Dem]

26. The consequences of electing a six time bankrupt reality tv game show host for president.

Well done, Republicans.

Well...fucking....done.

[SeattleVet]

28. Unfortunately, we no longer have a presidency, but a kakistocracy.

It would be nice to have an actual President again.

[NotHardly]

29. Too bad the U.S. government under Trump has been shown to be the pitiless POS it is...

denial, delay, and dysfunction by decree is what we have.

It is almost like Trump and his cabal Administration have figured out how to make money off the deaths of Americans and those within our borders. Like they are profiting, gouging, lying, and doing everything they can to be sure all of whom they have defamed as "useless eaters" might die in the plague so they can be richer ... hmmmm.

[Ferrets are Cool]

32. Everything he has done makes Watergate look like jaywalking. nt

[Baked Potato]

39. Well, it's definitely not looking good for him...

he still has time to pivot.

*sarcasm*

[Pepsidog]

40. Trump is doing nothing, his administration is doing nothing but putting out disinformation. We do

not have a federal government at the moment. The States are the only ones helping people.

[uponit7771]

43. Amen

[MrScorpio]

44. Mediocre White America doesn't care

They’ll just imagine that he’s doing a great job and all this is just an unwarranted attack on him. Don’t underestimate his cult.

[IcyPeas]

45. #70days is actually trending on Twitter

https://twitter.com/search?q=%2370days&src=trend_click

Link to tweet

[Generic Brad]

49. MAGAts not getting their stimulus checks will end his presidency

The majority of his hardcore supporters do not file taxes (either due to poverty or a defiant Libertarian streak) so they will not get their stimulus payments electronically deposited in their bank accounts. The methodology to identify citizens who have not filed taxes over the past two years has not been announced yet and the way for them to claim a paper check cut and have it mailed to them is still to be determined.

When the MAGAts don't get their stimulus checks, the bottom of his support will drop out and that will be the thing that finally ends his presidency.

[calimary]

51. You'd think so.

[PatrickforO]

52. Well, you'd THINK it would, for sure.

I'm thinking we'll have to wait until Nov.

[ProfessorGAC]

55. Well, One Glimmer Of Hope

This new poll says 40% of Rs think he failed to act quickly enough.

Only 55% think the response has been about right, or he's overreacting. The 1% are the fire Fauci crowd.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213238226

[Alex4Martinez]

58. 4% of world population, 26% of Covid-19 cases. Thank you Trump. eom

[hay rick]

59. Our democracy needs a ventilator.

[BrightKnight]

60. "There will be a lot of death." "I take no responsibility at all." nt

[yuiyoshida]

61. yOU WOULD THINK SO...

I bet FOX NEWS is telling everyone he is not only the right person for the JOB but the best President since ABE LINCOLN...

His base live in another reality..obviously

[Mr. Ected]

62. It would have ended Obama's presidency.

It would have ended Hillary's presidency. We would have demanded it.

OTOH, neither one of those Democrats would have acted with gross negligence like Trump has. It takes made up bullshit to tarnish our leaders.

[papa3times]

63. Joe fuckin Rogan

Just said he will vote Trump over Biden. Fuck him!!!

[Initech]

78. I always knew that guy was a toxic asshole.

And his reason is beyond stupid too. "We have to rely on Biden's cabinet." Uh... excuse me? Have you seen Trump's cabinet? It's a revolving door of psychopaths and crazy people. He has Betsy DeVos and Steven Mnuchin in his cabinet. Come on.

[dchill]

64. All because of their hatred for the first black president...

... and all of us who voted for him.

[uponit7771]

65. THIS !!!! Those who supported Obama became their threat

[dchill]

66. And they're willing to die to kill us.

As they say, it's hard to beat a suicidal terrorist.

[Cha]

67. YES IT SHOULD! RETWEETED!

[Cha]

68. "Your Govs should have been nice to me.."

Link to tweet

[LudwigPastorius]

69. I'm pretty sure MAGAts don't, or can't, read.

So, they'll still be voting for him come November.

[Nitram]

70. I saw this headline, and the devastating lead paragraph on the cover of my copy of the Post

this morning. To me, this is equivalent to "A Day That Will Live In Infamy!"

[MFGsunny]

74. + 1000 n/t

[spanone]

71. ⭐️⭐️⭐️K&R⭐️⭐️⭐️

[Tarheel_Dem]

72. It's criminal, and if we had a DOJ the public could trust, there would be investigations of....

certain news outlets that aided & abetted the crime.

[luvallpeeps]

73. He's done at least 10 things

this week alone that should end his presidency.

[Initech]

77. LOCK HIM UP! LOCK HIM UP!!!