Like it or not Trump has to be a politician some times and appeal to the broadest base. If we really are going to MAGA we need to drag as many along as possible. He can go back to the fire and fury Trump when the rallies start again and I think the first will be sometime next month in whatever red state has had the best reopening. As far as him defending the shutdowns they were necessary in the beginning but the blue govs quickly took that inch and stretched it to a thousand miles. But all the red states and a few of the less crazy blue are opening back up as the handful of really badly run blue states keep piling on restrictions like in michigan. Those states are only going to hurt themselves now that the majority of the country will be back to business in the next few weeks. As long as the reopening goes smoothly then the D's just completely rekt their chances to hold the house and gain senate seats. Trump will win the presidency as they have no one to run against him but we MUST win back the house and as many senate seats as we can pilfer.
The federal SUGGESTIONS for a couple of weeks, weren't too hard to understand or deal with. The State MANDATES after the "curve" was already flattened, are indefensible. I guess what I'm talking about is more of the latter. During the daily press conferences, I watched them all for a long time, but after a while I had to stop because I kept getting so irritated with no one calling out the blue state tyrants. Same now, really.
Trump has been quite vocal about the blue states going overboard but it's mostly from tweets. He has did all caps FREE X STATE several times. Right now there is so much chaos going on across the board he has to put on the politician mask or give the media and his critics too much ammo. Even Trump has limits on how much fire he can stoke and get away with it. Again since those handful of blue states won't unduly effect the national economic rebound he and his advisors probably figured give the blue states as much rope as they want to hang themselves this november. Even the michigan D's are protesting their gov now so she is toast next election. Same with the other govs who keep piling it on.
I live in Germany, I wore my scarf 2-3 times in the mall, but I don't do it any more. Most people don't give a shit anyway, they do it because they are told to, not because it is reasonable. There is also a fine of ~30€ for not wearing masks in certain inside spaces like malls, but police have to catch you, and they are basically never in there.
Wearing masks and ~social distancing~ are nothing but idiotic virtue signals.
If you don't bother to wear fully enclosed hazmat suits, don't bother doing anything at all, because the virus will catch you anyway. It's most likely that most people are already reached by the virus already and simply had no or mild symptoms. I know some people including my boss who had some mild symptoms but said he didn't have covid - because apparently it's not severe enough to be that (which is a major fallacy). That's what happens to what, 99%+ of people. And 0.01-0.03% of people die, who were on the brink of death already anyway.
Solution: Continue life as before and ignore the wuflu. Unless you are old and sick, then you should have been taking care of such things anyway, even before the wuflu.
We have an added problem. The tyrant governors of blue states are sending wuflu patients into old folks homes to pump up the death tolls, they are also reporting a high number of wuflu deaths that are actually by other causes.
I’m not aware of any other nation that is manufacturing masses of wuflu deaths to use as campaign tactics.
The reason why it's so crazy in the USA is this: Europe is largely in the grasp of socialists. They have no reason to disrupt their system - they walk the slow march towards more and more socialism, and the bump in authoritarianism is just another Tuesday to us. Our "back to normal" will be a life with still high levels of authoritarianism.
In the USA you have the resistance against socialism in charge - and as such your socialists do everything to disrupt the system and blame it on you & Trump. The fact that the very socialists cause it won't matter, the media will frame it as "America & Trump failed" and "Trump's failed economy" (and the previous successful one was of course Obama's...).
In other words: The dominating socialists in Europe are relatively timid and calm. There is no reason to go insane. Yours however - given the resistance - go absolutely insane and vicious.
Leftists are like toddlers - they need their pacifier (= government power and control) in order to be silent. Otherwise they screech, harm themselves, scratch the walls and go rampage. The only thing that can soothe their unstable minds is power.
This is why all those who resist the socialists are called bad, stupid and evil by the media. But leftists are pampered by the very same people no matter how bad, stupid and evil they are - and they actually ARE. I have yet to see the media endorse a right-wing person or condemn a left-wing person for being too evil (who does not turn on them, but does what leftist generally like - but go too far (but there is no "too far" for them anyway!)).
Regarding symptoms, you are correct. My wife got it, had shortness of breath, lost taste and smell, cough, etc. I know that, if tested for the antibody, either my whole family would have them or it isn’t nearly as contagious as they claim. We did absolutely nothing to quarantine her from the rest of us.
I had that weakness you get when fighting off a cold or other illness in the evenings every other day for about a week or so, with some mild headaches. Nothingburger.
It’s the concession our better governors are making to the media over opening. At least Governor Abbott of Texas acknowledged this with his executive order that no county or city can require anyone to wear a mask. Not that Austin and Houston comply with that part...
I’m in Austin... yesterday was in a grocery store not wearing a mask and got loudly berated by a masked idiot who was shaming me for being “selfish.” The store’s policy was “encouraged but not required,” and as you mentioned, our based governor has already said nobody is required to wear one.
The other funny part... there was a 70-80 year old black woman there with her daughter who was probably 40-50. They were both not wearing masks either. I would bet a bazillion dollars that this Karen did not say ONE WORD to them. (I am a white woman) 😂 What do you think?
I’m close to Austin, but not IN it. I stopped going in to Austin for most things when they legalized vagrancy, but now I will drive 30 miles out of my way to avoid spending a dime there. It’s sad, I’ve lived in central Texas since elementary school and Austin was always the center of it all.
Good for you. I posted the other day how a woman in Walmart wasn’t wearing a mask and I complimented her. I then took mine off. She is a nurse and said she hasn’t worn one at all and hasn’t been hassled. Far western suburb of Chicago.
Yeah too many people are saying we need to open with masks and social distancing. Like no that's not opening that's complying with bullshit
So true. That's not open, and myself and I'm sure many people will not participate in situations where shit like that is being enforced.
Like it or not Trump has to be a politician some times and appeal to the broadest base. If we really are going to MAGA we need to drag as many along as possible. He can go back to the fire and fury Trump when the rallies start again and I think the first will be sometime next month in whatever red state has had the best reopening. As far as him defending the shutdowns they were necessary in the beginning but the blue govs quickly took that inch and stretched it to a thousand miles. But all the red states and a few of the less crazy blue are opening back up as the handful of really badly run blue states keep piling on restrictions like in michigan. Those states are only going to hurt themselves now that the majority of the country will be back to business in the next few weeks. As long as the reopening goes smoothly then the D's just completely rekt their chances to hold the house and gain senate seats. Trump will win the presidency as they have no one to run against him but we MUST win back the house and as many senate seats as we can pilfer.
The federal SUGGESTIONS for a couple of weeks, weren't too hard to understand or deal with. The State MANDATES after the "curve" was already flattened, are indefensible. I guess what I'm talking about is more of the latter. During the daily press conferences, I watched them all for a long time, but after a while I had to stop because I kept getting so irritated with no one calling out the blue state tyrants. Same now, really.
Trump has been quite vocal about the blue states going overboard but it's mostly from tweets. He has did all caps FREE X STATE several times. Right now there is so much chaos going on across the board he has to put on the politician mask or give the media and his critics too much ammo. Even Trump has limits on how much fire he can stoke and get away with it. Again since those handful of blue states won't unduly effect the national economic rebound he and his advisors probably figured give the blue states as much rope as they want to hang themselves this november. Even the michigan D's are protesting their gov now so she is toast next election. Same with the other govs who keep piling it on.
He’s talking about shutting down the border, dude
Yes? I was responding to the original post that is now deleted about how he didn't like Trump giving legitimacy to the shutdowns.
Didn’t he?
I live in Germany, I wore my scarf 2-3 times in the mall, but I don't do it any more. Most people don't give a shit anyway, they do it because they are told to, not because it is reasonable. There is also a fine of ~30€ for not wearing masks in certain inside spaces like malls, but police have to catch you, and they are basically never in there.
Wearing masks and ~social distancing~ are nothing but idiotic virtue signals.
If you don't bother to wear fully enclosed hazmat suits, don't bother doing anything at all, because the virus will catch you anyway. It's most likely that most people are already reached by the virus already and simply had no or mild symptoms. I know some people including my boss who had some mild symptoms but said he didn't have covid - because apparently it's not severe enough to be that (which is a major fallacy). That's what happens to what, 99%+ of people. And 0.01-0.03% of people die, who were on the brink of death already anyway.
Solution: Continue life as before and ignore the wuflu. Unless you are old and sick, then you should have been taking care of such things anyway, even before the wuflu.
We have an added problem. The tyrant governors of blue states are sending wuflu patients into old folks homes to pump up the death tolls, they are also reporting a high number of wuflu deaths that are actually by other causes.
I’m not aware of any other nation that is manufacturing masses of wuflu deaths to use as campaign tactics.
The reason why it's so crazy in the USA is this: Europe is largely in the grasp of socialists. They have no reason to disrupt their system - they walk the slow march towards more and more socialism, and the bump in authoritarianism is just another Tuesday to us. Our "back to normal" will be a life with still high levels of authoritarianism.
In the USA you have the resistance against socialism in charge - and as such your socialists do everything to disrupt the system and blame it on you & Trump. The fact that the very socialists cause it won't matter, the media will frame it as "America & Trump failed" and "Trump's failed economy" (and the previous successful one was of course Obama's...).
In other words: The dominating socialists in Europe are relatively timid and calm. There is no reason to go insane. Yours however - given the resistance - go absolutely insane and vicious.
Leftists are like toddlers - they need their pacifier (= government power and control) in order to be silent. Otherwise they screech, harm themselves, scratch the walls and go rampage. The only thing that can soothe their unstable minds is power.
This is why all those who resist the socialists are called bad, stupid and evil by the media. But leftists are pampered by the very same people no matter how bad, stupid and evil they are - and they actually ARE. I have yet to see the media endorse a right-wing person or condemn a left-wing person for being too evil (who does not turn on them, but does what leftist generally like - but go too far (but there is no "too far" for them anyway!)).
Regarding symptoms, you are correct. My wife got it, had shortness of breath, lost taste and smell, cough, etc. I know that, if tested for the antibody, either my whole family would have them or it isn’t nearly as contagious as they claim. We did absolutely nothing to quarantine her from the rest of us.
I had that weakness you get when fighting off a cold or other illness in the evenings every other day for about a week or so, with some mild headaches. Nothingburger.
they take two steps forward and propose to walk back half an inch. FUCK THEM.
Fuck masks I can’t even breathe in them and they infringe upon my constitutional rights!!!!!!
It’s the concession our better governors are making to the media over opening. At least Governor Abbott of Texas acknowledged this with his executive order that no county or city can require anyone to wear a mask. Not that Austin and Houston comply with that part...
I’m in Austin... yesterday was in a grocery store not wearing a mask and got loudly berated by a masked idiot who was shaming me for being “selfish.” The store’s policy was “encouraged but not required,” and as you mentioned, our based governor has already said nobody is required to wear one.
The other funny part... there was a 70-80 year old black woman there with her daughter who was probably 40-50. They were both not wearing masks either. I would bet a bazillion dollars that this Karen did not say ONE WORD to them. (I am a white woman) 😂 What do you think?
I’m close to Austin, but not IN it. I stopped going in to Austin for most things when they legalized vagrancy, but now I will drive 30 miles out of my way to avoid spending a dime there. It’s sad, I’ve lived in central Texas since elementary school and Austin was always the center of it all.
Good for you. I posted the other day how a woman in Walmart wasn’t wearing a mask and I complimented her. I then took mine off. She is a nurse and said she hasn’t worn one at all and hasn’t been hassled. Far western suburb of Chicago.
Nice! I also have been talking to people who are fellow non-mask-wearers (aka "normal people") and thanking them. 🇺🇸