I heard a little Rush Limbaugh clip yesterday where he was lamenting how today's weakling Americans should be more like the Donner Party and take their licks without complaint. That's what the Republicans have in mind for you America: they want you to be more worthy objects of aesthetic contemplation.

As recently as 10 years ago, Donald Trump could form a complete sentence - something he hasn't demonstrated since he came down the elevator And which Joe Biden can still manage with some consistency.

Case closed.

er, escalator

Yeah, Biden is demented. He just hides it really well.

If one thinks that Biden is mentally impaired, but supports trump, one probably need a senior evaluation themselves.

I love it so much that we get to pretend the president is some kind of brain genius and a tough guy but nobody has ever seen him do 1 push up or would let him personally manage their 401k .

Mentioning that Biden's been accused of sexual assault by 1 person without mentioning that Trump's been accused by 25 people is ... well, please don't do that.

(source: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/a-running-list-of-the-women-whove-accused-donald-trump-of-sexual-misconduct_n_57ffae1fe4b0162c043a7212)

@3 -- Biden released his plan in early March. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/12/joe-biden-releases-coronavirus-plan-pushing-contrast-with-trump.html. That was before Sanders dropped out, so maybe you were focused on Bernie. He wrote an op-ed in the New York Times back in April (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/12/opinion/joe-biden-coronavirus-reopen-america.html), just a few days after Sanders dropped out. This is just the latest in a long series of thoughtful essays about the subject from the presumptive Democratic nominee. He isn't late to the game, you are.

You aren't alone. This is common, and happens every election cycle. People generally ignore what candidates say, once there is no longer a horse race. People blame the press for this, but it is really the fault of citizens. They are the ones that want to see a race. Otherwise, it is hard to explain such ignorance given the fact that Biden wrote an op-ed in the fucking New York Times.

Exceptions are when a candidate has a gaffe, or does something controversial. Trump has done that all along. The fact that the opposition's biggest attack on him is that "he talks funny" shows that Biden is doing the right thing.

Even if Biden wins, Trump has planted a bomb under the constitution. If Trump wins, he’ll hit the detonator. If Biden wins, it just postpones the inevitable. Every future wannabe dictator now knows: an administration that goes on the offensive against rule of law can’t easily be checked.

I have to comment on the article itself:

" And yeah, I know, Biden’s not your favorite candidate, his policies don’t go far enough"

Biden released policy papers this week on the two biggest issues of our time. I have to ask you, Matt, how exactly do his pandemic or global warming polices not go far enough?

@12 -- You link to a video to support your argument? Why the fuck would we sit through a video -- we can read.

I don't even know what your argument is. More testing and more tracing? Yeah, no shit. Biden has been writing about that for months. Everyone with any sense has. It is the only thing that has worked.

@1 -- The hypocrisy of that statement is laughable. The attack is consistent with Trump's campaign. He attacks the opponent for having the same weakness he has, as a way to say "they do the same thing". Consider these examples:

1) When news of Trump's "pussy grabbing" hit the airwaves, he gathered up lots of women who had been with Bill Clinton.

2) Right before the election, he accused the Democrats of election fraud, saying they were trying to steal the election. Of course, he was the one who encouraged voter suppression as well as Russian disinformation.

3) His attack on Biden's son was meant to cover his family dealings (which continue to this day) which are far more corrupt.

I'm sure there are more. But clearly, anyone who has heard the President over the last couple years has to assume that he has a screw loose. More than one person has said he isn't mentally fit for office. Maybe he never was, but age usually doesn't help. So I guess it should be no surprise that he accuses his opponent of the same thing, especially since that man has a speech impediment, and has been prone to gaffes.

Nice to see some actual leadership and strategy for solving problems. It's been awhile.

Keep posing with cans of beans, Trump!

@9

Manage my 401k?! I wouldn't let him in my house or near my children.

@20: What, just let the trolls starve? How cruel.

@24,

No, he's not. But we're operating within a fundamentally flawed system that we're seeking to reform. And he nevertheless looks like Abraham Lincoln compared to that physical manifestation of a loud fart that's currently sitting.

@18. OK Boomer...

If only I'd dropped out of high school and taught myself a STEM, I, too might have a brain big enough to understand that COVID-19 isn't something anyone should really worry about.

@32 I don't even have cable, brainiac. This isn't 2006 anymore.

Definitely should have taught myself a STEM, it's just terrible not being able to think the smart things about stuff like you do.

@34 The first problem with trying to implement that plan in the US instead of, say, S Korea is that the central government in the US is not just unwilling to spend more money on testing, but is actively opposed to increased testing at all.

The second problem is that Americans at present don't trust contact tracers, and in places in the US where contact tracing has been funded and implemented to a level where you can even start to measure the success of the programs, public compliance has been far too low to be effective.

And the third problem is that at this point, Republicans have politicized not just mask-wearing but the very idea that the disease is serious enough to merit government response to begin with. Funding and enforcing a national program -- any program at all -- will be met with stiff ideological resistance from the GOP base.

That leaves the states to set policy as best they can, and the kind of policy you point to only works if it's federal. The whole thing falls apart if your contact tracer in Vancouver, WA isn't authorized to collect and store data on citizens of Portland, OR.

A policy that treats everyone as potentially infected was not the first choice of any public health professional in the US. They've had to fall back to it not because liberals are a bunch of nervous nellies, but because the Trump administration has refused from the outset to do better-- or to do anything at all.

There were plans for this. Extensive, detailed plans that many people spent the bulk of their careers developing. The GOP tossed those plans out, and it takes a hell of a lot of nerve at this late date to come around telling people you've found a great set of ideas that nobody's ever heard of before to address the pandemic, but sadly the democrats just won't listen to reason.

From my ole Bud Ralph
over @Nader.org

“Calls Mounting For Trump to Step Aside From Covid-19 Bungling

Public Citizen’s open letter, co-signed by over twenty nonprofit civic organizations working for the public health, demanded that Trump and Pence immediately give up their disastrous daily mismanagement of the Covid-19 response. Trump’s bungling and ignorance have allowed the Covid-19 virus to spread faster at an alarming rate around the country.

Public Citizen’s letter to Trump and Pence asserted that their ‘callous disregard for human life during the still-raging coronavirus pandemic is appalling and must cease,’ and called for both of them to ‘immediately step aside from any further role in leading or communicating about the federal response to the pandemic, and to delegate full operating authority over the response to senior professional public health and medical experts within the agencies of the U.S. Public Health Service.’”

“More Republicans in the Congress are agreeing with this shift to scientific and managerial expertise. Trump’s chaotic, mindless, wrongheaded, ego-obsessed careening week after week is aiding and abetting the spread of the virus.

The Trump regime is not leading; it is obstructing the state efforts to combat the virus, over-riding or undermining the scientists and pushing lethal nostrums to desperate citizens.

Trump and his toadies are also failing to provide needed supplies, facilities, uniform safeguards and clear guidance to the state officials.”

trumpfy don't GIVE A FUCK
if he kills half a million
or Ten Million
Citizens.

You're just victims.
Get Over it.

DTMFA.