August 6, 2020: Trump is for Vote-by-Mail, but also Against It.

8/6/20: I pray that Mr. Trump goes down to defeat in November; but that doesn’t mean I don’t hope for good news for the country.

Trump loves vote-by-mail in Florida.

 

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We’re all in the same boat together. It’s not leaking. We’re not about to sink. But the guy rowing next to us has the disease.

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Recently, the daily reports from the Centers for Disease Control showed a decline in new cases of coronavirus. I was hopeful on August 2, when we dropped to 47,576. That was down more than 21,000 compared to the last day in July. Then I was disappointed to see that we had nearly 50,000 cases on both August 3 and August 4. Then, on August 5, we had 53,685. 

Today: we hit 55,836. 

CDC also reported an additional 1,037 dead for August 4, 1,320 on August 5, and 1,340 on August 6. 

Even worse, you never know from which direction the virus might be coming. In Ohio, where numbers have been rising despite a successful shutdown in the spring, a man who attended church infected at least 53 members of his congregation. They went home and infected 37 relatives, friends, and neighbors. “It spread like wildfire, wildfire,” Gov. Mike DeWine explained.

 

We’re all in the same boat together. It’s not leaking. We’re not about to sink. But the guy rowing next to us has the disease. 

So wear a mask.

 

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HAVE WE MENTIONED climate change lately? Of course we have. NASA, relying on satellite imagery, announces that two ice caps in Canada, formed during the Little Ice Age, or 5,000 years ago, have melted away. 

Mark Serreze, director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), told CBS that he first visited the ice caps in 1982. At that time, “they seemed like such a permanent fixture of the landscape.”   

Now: “To watch them die in less than 40 years just blows me away,” he says.  

Have you ever heard of NSIDC, Trump fans? Has Trump? Unlikely, because he’s clueless on the topic of climate change. 

It’s here. It’s going to get worse.

 

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AS FOR THE PRESIDENT, he’s not worried about climate change, because he’s a dimwit. He is, however, worried about getting beat by Joe Biden. Today he warned supporters that if Biden were elected, he would eat all their children. 

Well, okay, not quite. 

He did say this of his challenger, a practicing Catholic (who you know has seen the inside of a church more often that Trump ever has): “Take away your guns, take away your Second Amendment. No religion, no anything,” Trump predicted, if he went down to defeat. Biden would, “Hurt the Bible. Hurt God. He’s against God. He’s against guns. He’s against energy.” 

You have to wonder why Trump didn’t just keep going. Why not claim, “Biden will take away your kittens and puppies. He’s against ice cream and cake on birthdays. He’s against underwear.” 

It would have made equal sense.

 

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THE PRESIDENT also finds time to do a 40-minute radio interview with Geraldo Rivera. He tells his radio host that he thinks he’s done a “fantastic” job of handling the pandemic. 

(As of this moment, more than 150,000 Americans have died and almost 5,000,000 have been infected.) 

As for other countries – they’re lying about their pandemic figures. “We see what’s happening by satellite,” he tells Rivera, which seems an odd way to describe it. “They don’t report.” 

As always, the Liar-in-Chief is projecting. 

 

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IF YOU DON’T KNOW already that Trump is a giant hypocrite you need look at only two stories combined, reported in tandem, by CBS News. First, we learn that Team Trump is suing the State of Nevada in an attempt to stop officials from expanding a vote-by-mail program. Under the plan all active registered voters in Nevada would be sent mail-in ballots for the November 3 election. The Trump campaign claims the measure “makes voter fraud and other ineligible voting inevitable.” 

If the state’s decision stands, Nevada will join seven other states that have plans to send ballots to all active, registered voters. 

Now, consider Florida, where Trump himself is registered to vote. Trump tweeted on Tuesday that he was encouraging mail-in balloting in the “Sunshine State.” His reasoning, such as it was: 

Whether you call it Vote by Mail or Absentee Voting, in Florida the election system is Safe and Secure, Tried and True. Florida’s Voting system has been cleaned up (we defeated Democrats attempts at change), so in Florida I encourage all to request a Ballot & Vote by Mail!

 

See if you can guess what the key word in that tweet really is? If you can’t guess, Trump soon makes it clear. Florida, he says in a press conference, has “a great Republican governor.”  

Nevada: Democratic governor. 

Different story.