This is not the behavior of a healthy campaign, but behavior has been the dilemma from the jump
It did not have to be this way, and in the face of such a towering failure, Donald Trump has chosen once again to take Steve Bannon’s advice and “flood the zone with shit.”
The COVID-19 pandemic is far from over, has only gotten started in the middle of the country, and will become worse by orders of magnitude so long as some people continue to believe the greedy, reckless words of this administration
Florida and Georgia have blown their economic doors wide open to COVID, and have tampered with their infection numbers to dupe the public into believing they will be safe
Trump Administration Misleads Public
If the federal government actually starts helping people, Trump and his allies fear that capitalism will lose its stranglehold on the nation
Trump has been treating the delivery of federal aid to the states like his own personal spoils system: rewarding loyalty, punishing critics, and demanding to be praised for doing his job whenever he actually does it, but especially when he doesn’t
Take care of yourself and your family, and do not listen to the president when he tells you all is well. All is not well, yet this too shall pass, and I’ll meet you on the high ground
April 20, 2020, may not be remembered as the day when marijuana briefly became a more valuable commodity than petroleum
Millions of Americans are making actual, often painful sacrifices every day to help bring the COVID-19 pandemic to heel, and Trump doesn’t seem to give a single damn
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