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Black voters are fired up and turning out:
Two weeks before Election Day, Black Americans have voted in striking numbers, helping to drive historic levels of early voting as mail ballots have flooded election offices and people have endured huge lines to cast ballots in person across the country.
In interviews in 10 states where early voting is underway, Black voters said this year’s presidential election is the most important of their lifetime — some calling it more consequential even than 2008, when those who were old enough went to the polls in record numbers to make Barack Obama the country’s first Black president.
They spoke of a sense of urgency to protect the nation’s democracy, and their role in it, which they believe a second Trump term would erode beyond repair. Many said they view the president as a racist who cannot bring himself to disavow white supremacists or the year’s spate of police killings of unarmed Black Americans, and they believe the country is less safe for themselves and their families.
Maybe someday -- maybe-- it will dawn on a few of these people that their Republican officials care more about pleasing narcissistic nitwit Donald "COVID Donnie" Trump than saving their lives:
“It’s not a job for government,” Burgum (R) declared.
The novel coronavirus is hammering middle America this fall, with records shattered daily in states that had escaped the worst of the pandemic this spring and summer. Case numbers also are rising again in other states where the virus was thought to be under control after months of widespread illness.
Yet even as health authorities in small cities and rural towns plead for help in tamping down deadly outbreaks, many Republican governors are resisting new measures to stop the spread. Some are even loosening rules already on the books.
Sounds like they're not listening to the scientists, just like their Dolt- in- Chief, who actually said Joe Biden will listen to the scientists if elected (horrors!!). Thank you, sir!
The most vile, crooked pile of shit ever to occupy the White (Supremacist) House is gaslighting again, using projection to assign his characteristics to his opponent:
Supporters at a campaign rally for President Trump on Sunday chanted "lock him up" as Trump attacked Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden.
The chant erupted after Trump accused the former vice president of using millions of dollars to help his son escape trouble in Ukraine by ousting a top Ukrainian prosecutor — a familiar refrain for Trump on the campaign trail and one that has been repeatedly debunked.
"They're corrupt people. But Joe Biden is from a failed and corrupt political class," Trump continued before repeating allegations against the Bidens printed in a controversial story by the New York Post.
Speaking of this technique, here's a good read from a while back on how its used by narcissists like COVID Donnie.
COVID Donnie handler Vladimir Putin got his money's worth:
Back in 2016, German Chancellor Angela Merkel greeted Donald Trump’s victory with an extraordinary warning: that she would work with the US president on the condition that he respect democratic values. Things did not improve from there.
Four years later, Trump’s abrasive foreign policy moves, often unveiled in all-caps tweets, have alienated not just Germany but much of Europe.
Even if Democratic challenger Joe Biden wins the November 3 election, experts said there will be no magical healing of the EU-US rift.
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