Orange man good indeed. This is good policy and good politcs. Economic populism is what Trump needs right now, and if he can combine it with policies that help him shore up his slipping support among seniors, all the better.
If he can at the same time keep a serious approach to coronavirus and stay on message, he might still find an opening to turn this race around.

Nonetheless, if I were a Trump campaign official, I wouldnt be particularly thrilled about the premise of "he can still win if he stays on message".
All evidence form the past 4 years suggests that he will not stay on message, that he will not keep up a serious approach to the pandemic, and that he will find other ways to shoot himself in the foot too.

https://heavy.com/news/2020/07/bernell-trammell/



Bernell Trammell, a prominent Trump supporting black rastafari known for his rasta street preaching and political activism in support of Trump, was shot to death in Milwaukee



This post was edited by Goomshill on Jul 24 2020 10:39pm

RIP
Definitely a victim of some mostly peaceful protestors that were looking for bread

I actually like this move by trump..
irony is it's pretty damn socialist.. LOL

It's not explicitly in the Constitution, but "general welfare" is in the Preamble and Congress has the power to regulate interstate commerce. Case law supports the argument that the government can be a provider of healthcare. I guess I disagree on immigration because my family immigrated here in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The Irish and Italians were treated like complete dog shit yet the assimilated just fine. Everyone eventually assimilates.

Define mainstream media. There's a massive spectrum of print media and the news doesn't really have an unfair distribution (FoxNews has some of the most reach, Tucker is the most watched person on cable, etc.) You can listen to w/e the hell you want in this country and that's part of what makes it great.



Covid, in a vacuum, isn't necessarily bad for Trump's reelection prospects. If he had taken it seriously as a 'war time president,' we wouldn't even be dealing with it now. Hell, we might not have had to deal with BLM either since a lot of people were just pissed for being cooped for so long. I genuinely think that if we were in the same state as Europe is right now with covid, Trump would be a heavy favorite. Ultimately, it was an immense opportunity and he couldn't rise to the challenge.

I guess I misremembered re: Heller. For some reason, I thought it was 2010 but that's Citizen's United (also a big win for liberty!)

Other countries got their first cases the same week we did and handled it much better. We are basically racing Brazil for the title of worst handled pandemic.

If Trump had taken adequate action we probably still wouldn't be South Korea, but we could at least be Germany.

The Beast is missleading souls so much.

We are throwing around money and overheating the presses like our house is on fire on top of it.
We cannot even give handouts without feeding the wealthy.
"Blue collar billionaire" to the rescue again.

Covid case numbers are creeping up all across Europe... and Australia and Japan and Hong Kong and Singapore. Also keep in mind that the people in Europe only accepted longer/stricter lockdowns because of stronger social security entitlements that covered them during this period. All across the industrialized world, the outlook is not good at all at the moment. The fall is gonna be brutal on both the public health and the economic front - in all these countries, not just in the US.

Also keep in mind that the economic devastations are not even close to fully visible yet. If we wanna stay with the war metaphor: corona is a war that will, even in the best case scenarios, end with lots of loss of life and wealth, and little to no visible "victories". Sure, like any wartime president, world leaders got a sizable surge in popularity at the onset as long as they handled it with a bare minimum of competence (read: not Trump or Bolsonaro). Even Trump got a mini-bump in his approval ratings for 2 weeks or so. But this bump in their approval will quickly fade.

Presiding over this kind of war is ultimately a losing proposition, if you're a politician, you do NOT want to be in office when something like this happens. Approval of the heads of government will dip across the world during fall, just wait and see. Even if Trump had handled corona as well as European politicians, the situation would still have been a huge blow to his reelection prospects. He made things even worse for himself by completely dropping the ball, no doubt about that, but the notion that he'd be totally fine with a better response to the pandemic is very short-sighted.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Jul 25 2020 02:45pm

Trump is uniquely unsuited to bad times as a president. He is fundamentally incapable of being positive and so when everything is negative he just looks like an a******

Similarly he is not capable of listening to experts or coming up with policy and leading, so an actual crisis was always going to tank him

He happened to get a 2 on his roll, but he was going to fail even with a 10 (out of 20)

This post was edited by Thor123422 on Jul 25 2020 02:56pm