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The Unraveling of America
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Never in our lives have we experienced such a global phenomenon. For the first time in the history of the world, all of humanity, informed by the unprecedented reach of digital technology, has come together, focused on the same existential threat, consumed by the same fears and uncertainties, eagerly anticipating the same, as yet unrealized, promises of medical science.
In a single season, civilization has been brought low by a microscopic parasite ten thousand times smaller than a grain of salt. COVID-19 attacks our physical bodies, but also the cultural foundations of our lives, the toolbox of community and connectivity that is for the human what claws and teeth represent to the tiger.
Our interventions to date have largely focused on mitigating the rate of spread, flattening the curve of morbidity. There is no treatment at hand, and no certainty of a vaccine on the near horizon. The fastest vaccine ever developed was for mumps. It took four years. COVID-19 killed 100,000 Americans in four months. There is some evidence that natural infection may not imply immunity, leaving some to question how effective a vaccine will be, even assuming one can be found. And it must be safe. If the global population is to be immunized, lethal complications in just one person in a thousand would imply the death of millions.
Pandemics and plagues have a way of shifting the course of history, and not always in a manner immediately evident to the survivors. In the 14th century the Black Death killed close to half of Europe’s population. A scarcity of labor led to increased wages. Rising expectations culminated in the Peasants Revolt of 1381, an inflection point that marked the beginning of the end of the feudal order that had dominated medieval Europe for a thousand years.
The COVID pandemic will be remembered as such a moment in history, a seminal event whose significance will unfold only in the wake of the crisis. It will mark this era much as the 1914 assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, the stock market crash of 1929, and the 1933 ascent of Adolf Hitler became fundamental benchmarks of the last century, all harbingers of greater and more consequential outcomes.
COVID’s historic significance lies not in what it implies for our daily lives. Change, after all, is the one constant when it comes to culture. All peoples in all places at all times are always dancing with new possibilities for life. As companies eliminate or downsize central offices, employees work from home, restaurants close, shopping malls shutter, streaming brings entertainment and sporting events into the home, and airline travel becomes ever more problematic and miserable, people will adapt, as we’ve always done. Fluidity of memory and a capacity to forget is perhaps the most haunting trait of our species. As history confirms, it allows us to come to terms with any degree of social, moral, or environmental degradation.
To be sure, financial uncertainty will cast a long shadow. Hovering over the global economy for some time will be the sober realization that all the money in the hands of all the nations on Earth will never be enough to offset the losses sustained when an entire world ceases to function, with workers and businesses everywhere facing a choice between economic and biological survival.
Unsettling as these transitions and circumstances will be, short of a complete economic collapse, none stands out as a turning point in history. But what surely does is the absolutely devastating impact that the pandemic has had on the reputation and international standing of the United States of America.
In a dark season of pestilence, COVID has reduced to tatters the illusion of American exceptionalism. At the height of the crisis, with more than 2,000 dying each day, Americans found themselves members of a failed state, ruled by a dysfunctional and incompetent government largely responsible for death rates that added a tragic coda to America’s claim to supremacy in the world.
For the first time, the international community felt compelled to send disaster relief to Washington. For more than two centuries, reported the Irish Times, “the United States has stirred a very wide range of feelings in the rest of the world: love and hatred, fear and hope, envy and contempt, awe and anger. But there is one emotion that has never been directed towards the U.S. until now: pity.” As American doctors and nurses eagerly awaited emergency airlifts of basic supplies from China, the hinge of history opened to the Asian century.
No empire long endures, even if few anticipate their demise. Every kingdom is born to die. The 15th century belonged to the Portuguese, the 16th to Spain, 17th to the Dutch. France dominated the 18th and Britain the 19th. Bled white and left bankrupt by the Great War, the British maintained a pretense of domination as late as 1935, when the empire reached its greatest geographical extent. By then, of course, the torch had long passed into the hands of America.
In 1940, with Europe already ablaze, the United States had a smaller army than either Portugal or Bulgaria. Within four years, 18 million men and women would serve in uniform, with millions more working double shifts in mines and factories that made America, as President Roosevelt promised, the arsenal of democracy.
When the Japanese within six weeks of Pearl Harbor took control of 90 percent of the world’s rubber supply, the U.S. dropped the speed limit to 35 mph to protect tires, and then, in three years, invented from scratch a synthetic-rubber industry that allowed Allied armies to roll over the Nazis. At its peak, Henry Ford’s Willow Run Plant produced a B-24 Liberator every two hours, around the clock. Shipyards in Long Beach and Sausalito spat out Liberty ships at a rate of two a day for four years; the record was a ship built in four days, 15 hours and 29 minutes. A single American factory, Chrysler’s Detroit Arsenal, built more tanks than the whole of the Third Reich.
In the wake of the war, with Europe and Japan in ashes, the United States with but 6 percent of the world’s population accounted for half of the global economy, including the production of 93 percent of all automobiles. Such economic dominance birthed a vibrant middle class, a trade union movement that allowed a single breadwinner with limited education to own a home and a car, support a family, and send his kids to good schools. It was not by any means a perfect world but affluence allowed for a truce between capital and labor, a reciprocity of opportunity in a time of rapid growth and declining income inequality, marked by high tax rates for the wealthy, who were by no means the only beneficiaries of a golden age of American capitalism.
But freedom and affluence came with a price. The United States, virtually a demilitarized nation on the eve of the Second World War, never stood down in the wake of victory. To this day, American troops are deployed in 150 countries. Since the 1970s, China has not once gone to war; the U.S. has not spent a day at peace. President Jimmy Carter recently noted that in its 242-year history, America has enjoyed only 16 years of peace, making it, as he wrote, “the most warlike nation in the history of the world.” Since 2001, the U.S. has spent over $6 trillion on military operations and war, money that might have been invested in the infrastructure of home. China, meanwhile, built its nation, pouring more cement every three years than America did in the entire 20th century.
As America policed the world, the violence came home. On D-Day, June 6th, 1944, the Allied death toll was 4,414; in 2019, domestic gun violence had killed that many American men and women by the end of April. By June of that year, guns in the hands of ordinary Americans had caused more casualties than the Allies suffered in Normandy in the first month of a campaign that consumed the military strength of five nations.
More than any other country, the United States in the post-war era lionized the individual at the expense of community and family. It was the sociological equivalent of splitting the atom. What was gained in terms of mobility and personal freedom came at the expense of common purpose. In wide swaths of America, the family as an institution lost its grounding. By the 1960s, 40 percent of marriages were ending in divorce. Only six percent of American homes had grandparents living beneath the same roof as grandchildren; elders were abandoned to retirement homes.
With slogans like “24/7” celebrating complete dedication to the workplace, men and women exhausted themselves in jobs that only reinforced their isolation from their families. The average American father spends less than 20 minutes a day in direct communication with his child. By the time a youth reaches 18, he or she will have spent fully two years watching television or staring at a laptop screen, contributing to an obesity epidemic that the Joint Chiefs have called a national security crisis.
Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. in Akron, Ohio on April 3rd, 1944. When the Japanese within six weeks of Pearl Harbor took control of 90 percent of the world’s rubber supply, the U.S. dropped the speed limit to 35 mph to protect tires, and then, in three years, invented from scratch a synthetic-rubber industry.
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Only half of Americans report having meaningful, face-to-face social interactions on a daily basis. The nation consumes two-thirds of the world’s production of antidepressant drugs. The collapse of the working-class family has been responsible in part for an opioid crisis that has displaced car accidents as the leading cause of death for Americans under 50.
At the root of this transformation and decline lies an ever-widening chasm between Americans who have and those who have little or nothing. Economic disparities exist in all nations, creating a tension that can be as disruptive as the inequities are unjust. In any number of settings, however, the negative forces tearing apart a society are mitigated or even muted if there are other elements that reinforce social solidarity — religious faith, the strength and comfort of family, the pride of tradition, fidelity to the land, a spirit of place.
But when all the old certainties are shown to be lies, when the promise of a good life for a working family is shattered as factories close and corporate leaders, growing wealthier by the day, ship jobs abroad, the social contract is irrevocably broken. For two generations, America has celebrated globalization with iconic intensity, when, as any working man or woman can see, it’s nothing more than capital on the prowl in search of ever cheaper sources of labor.
For many years, those on the conservative right in the United States have invoked a nostalgia for the 1950s, and an America that never was, but has to be presumed to have existed to rationalize their sense of loss and abandonment, their fear of change, their bitter resentments and lingering contempt for the social movements of the 1960s, a time of new aspirations for women, gays, and people of color. In truth, at least in economic terms, the country of the 1950s resembled Denmark as much as the America of today. Marginal tax rates for the wealthy were 90 percent. The salaries of CEOs were, on average, just 20 times that of their mid-management employees.
Today, the base pay of those at the top is commonly 400 times that of their salaried staff, with many earning orders of magnitude more in stock options and perks. The elite one percent of Americans control $30 trillion of assets, while the bottom half have more debt than assets. The three richest Americans have more money than the poorest 160 million of their countrymen. Fully a fifth of American households have zero or negative net worth, a figure that rises to 37 percent for black families. The median wealth of black households is a tenth that of whites. The vast majority of Americans — white, black, and brown — are two paychecks removed from bankruptcy. Though living in a nation that celebrates itself as the wealthiest in history, most Americans live on a high wire, with no safety net to brace a fall.
With the COVID crisis, 40 million Americans lost their jobs, and 3.3 million businesses shut down, including 41 percent of all black-owned enterprises. Black Americans, who significantly outnumber whites in federal prisons despite being but 13 percent of the population, are suffering shockingly high rates of morbidity and mortality, dying at nearly three times the rate of white Americans. The cardinal rule of American social policy — don’t let any ethnic group get below the blacks, or allow anyone to suffer more indignities — rang true even in a pandemic, as if the virus was taking its cues from American history.
COVID-19 didn’t lay America low; it simply revealed what had long been forsaken. As the crisis unfolded, with another American dying every minute of every day, a country that once turned out fighter planes by the hour could not manage to produce the paper masks or cotton swabs essential for tracking the disease. The nation that defeated smallpox and polio, and led the world for generations in medical innovation and discovery, was reduced to a laughing stock as a buffoon of a president advocated the use of household disinfectants as a treatment for a disease that intellectually he could not begin to understand.
As a number of countries moved expeditiously to contain the virus, the United States stumbled along in denial, as if willfully blind. With less than four percent of the global population, the U.S. soon accounted for more than a fifth of COVID deaths. The percentage of American victims of the disease who died was six times the global average. Achieving the world’s highest rate of morbidity and mortality provoked not shame, but only further lies, scapegoating, and boasts of miracle cures as dubious as the claims of a carnival barker, a grifter on the make.
As the United States responded to the crisis like a corrupt tin pot dictatorship, the actual tin pot dictators of the world took the opportunity to seize the high ground, relishing a rare sense of moral superiority, especially in the wake of the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. The autocratic leader of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, chastised America for “maliciously violating ordinary citizens’ rights.” North Korean newspapers objected to “police brutality” in America. Quoted in the Iranian press, Ayatollah Khomeini gloated, “America has begun the process of its own destruction.”
Trump’s performance and America’s crisis deflected attention from China’s own mishandling of the initial outbreak in Wuhan, not to mention its move to crush democracy in Hong Kong. When an American official raised the issue of human rights on Twitter, China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson, invoking the killing of George Floyd, responded with one short phrase, “I can’t breathe.”
These politically motivated remarks may be easy to dismiss. But Americans have not done themselves any favors. Their political process made possible the ascendancy to the highest office in the land a national disgrace, a demagogue as morally and ethically compromised as a person can be. As a British writer quipped, “there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid”.
The American president lives to cultivate resentments, demonize his opponents, validate hatred. His main tool of governance is the lie; as of July 9th, 2020, the documented tally of his distortions and false statements numbered 20,055. If America’s first president, George Washington, famously could not tell a lie, the current one can’t recognize the truth. Inverting the words and sentiments of Abraham Lincoln, this dark troll of a man celebrates malice for all, and charity for none.
Odious as he may be, Trump is less the cause of America’s decline than a product of its descent. As they stare into the mirror and perceive only the myth of their exceptionalism, Americans remain almost bizarrely incapable of seeing what has actually become of their country. The republic that defined the free flow of information as the life blood of democracy, today ranks 45th among nations when it comes to press freedom. In a land that once welcomed the huddled masses of the world, more people today favor building a wall along the southern border than supporting health care and protection for the undocumented mothers and children arriving in desperation at its doors. In a complete abandonment of the collective good, U.S. laws define freedom as an individual’s inalienable right to own a personal arsenal of weaponry, a natural entitlement that trumps even the safety of children; in the past decade alone 346 American students and teachers have been shot on school grounds.
The American cult of the individual denies not just community but the very idea of society. No one owes anything to anyone. All must be prepared to fight for everything: education, shelter, food, medical care. What every prosperous and successful democracy deems to be fundamental rights — universal health care, equal access to quality public education, a social safety net for the weak, elderly, and infirmed — America dismisses as socialist indulgences, as if so many signs of weakness.
How can the rest of the world expect America to lead on global threats — climate change, the extinction crisis, pandemics — when the country no longer has a sense of benign purpose, or collective well-being, even within its own national community? Flag-wrapped patriotism is no substitute for compassion; anger and hostility no match for love. Those who flock to beaches, bars, and political rallies, putting their fellow citizens at risk, are not exercising freedom; they are displaying, as one commentator has noted, the weakness of a people who lack both the stoicism to endure the pandemic and the fortitude to defeat it. Leading their charge is Donald Trump, a bone spur warrior, a liar and a fraud, a grotesque caricature of a strong man, with the backbone of a bully.
Over the last months, a quip has circulated on the internet suggesting that to live in Canada today is like owning an apartment above a meth lab. Canada is no perfect place, but it has handled the COVID crisis well, notably in British Columbia, where I live. Vancouver is just three hours by road north of Seattle, where the U.S. outbreak began. Half of Vancouver’s population is Asian, and typically dozens of flights arrive each day from China and East Asia. Logically, it should have been hit very hard, but the health care system performed exceedingly well. Throughout the crisis, testing rates across Canada have been consistently five times that of the U.S. On a per capita basis, Canada has suffered half the morbidity and mortality. For every person who has died in British Columbia, 44 have perished in Massachusetts, a state with a comparable population that has reported more COVID cases than all of Canada. As of July 30th, even as rates of COVID infection and death soared across much of the United States, with 59,629 new cases reported on that day alone, hospitals in British Columbia registered a total of just five COVID patients.
When American friends ask for an explanation, I encourage them to reflect on the last time they bought groceries at their neighborhood Safeway. In the U.S. there is almost always a racial, economic, cultural, and educational chasm between the consumer and the check-out staff that is difficult if not impossible to bridge. In Canada, the experience is quite different. One interacts if not as peers, certainly as members of a wider community. The reason for this is very simple. The checkout person may not share your level of affluence, but they know that you know that they are getting a living wage because of the unions. And they know that you know that their kids and yours most probably go to the same neighborhood public school. Third, and most essential, they know that you know that if their children get sick, they will get exactly the same level of medical care not only of your children but of those of the prime minister. These three strands woven together become the fabric of Canadian social democracy.
Asked what he thought of Western civilization, Mahatma Gandhi famously replied, “I think that would be a good idea.” Such a remark may seem cruel, but it accurately reflects the view of America today as seen from the perspective of any modern social democracy. Canada performed well during the COVID crisis because of our social contract, the bonds of community, the trust for each other and our institutions, our health care system in particular, with hospitals that cater to the medical needs of the collective, not the individual, and certainly not the private investor who views every hospital bed as if a rental property. The measure of wealth in a civilized nation is not the currency accumulated by the lucky few, but rather the strength and resonance of social relations and the bonds of reciprocity that connect all people in common purpose.
This has nothing to do with political ideology, and everything to do with the quality of life. Finns live longer and are less likely to die in childhood or in giving birth than Americans. Danes earn roughly the same after-tax income as Americans, while working 20 percent less. They pay in taxes an extra 19 cents for every dollar earned. But in return they get free health care, free education from pre-school through university, and the opportunity to prosper in a thriving free-market economy with dramatically lower levels of poverty, homelessness, crime, and inequality. The average worker is paid better, treated more respectfully, and rewarded with life insurance, pension plans, maternity leave, and six weeks of paid vacation a year. All of these benefits only inspire Danes to work harder, with fully 80 percent of men and women aged 16 to 64 engaged in the labor force, a figure far higher than that of the United States.
American politicians dismiss the Scandinavian model as creeping socialism, communism lite, something that would never work in the United States. In truth, social democracies are successful precisely because they foment dynamic capitalist economies that just happen to benefit every tier of society. That social democracy will never take hold in the United States may well be true, but, if so, it is a stunning indictment, and just what Oscar Wilde had in mind when he quipped that the United States was the only country to go from barbarism to decadence without passing through civilization.
Evidence of such terminal decadence is the choice that so many Americans made in 2016 to prioritize their personal indignations, placing their own resentments above any concerns for the fate of the country and the world, as they rushed to elect a man whose only credential for the job was his willingness to give voice to their hatreds, validate their anger, and target their enemies, real or imagined. One shudders to think of what it will mean to the world if Americans in November, knowing all that they do, elect to keep such a man in political power. But even should Trump be resoundingly defeated, it’s not at all clear that such a profoundly polarized nation will be able to find a way forward. For better or for worse, America has had its time.
The end of the American era and the passing of the torch to Asia is no occasion for celebration, no time to gloat. In a moment of international peril, when humanity might well have entered a dark age beyond all conceivable horrors, the industrial might of the United States, together with the blood of ordinary Russian soldiers, literally saved the world. American ideals, as celebrated by Madison and Monroe, Lincoln, Roosevelt, and Kennedy, at one time inspired and gave hope to millions.
If and when the Chinese are ascendant, with their concentration camps for the Uighurs, the ruthless reach of their military, their 200 million surveillance cameras watching every move and gesture of their people, we will surely long for the best years of the American century. For the moment, we have only the kleptocracy of Donald Trump. Between praising the Chinese for their treatment of the Uighurs, describing their internment and torture as “exactly the right thing to do,” and his dispensing of medical advice concerning the therapeutic use of chemical disinfectants, Trump blithely remarked, “One day, it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.” He had in mind, of course, the coronavirus, but, as others have said, he might just as well have been referring to the American dream.
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Trump Terified of Losing on Fri, 7th Aug 2020 12:44 pm
Trump is Terified of Losing
President Donald Trump finally seems to have noticed that he’s losing the election.
Trump has sought to project confidence about his odds of triumphing over Joe Biden, even as the pandemic has blazed across the country, the economy has tanked, and his poll numbers have sagged. In the midst of an ever-worsening national crisis that his administration has given up on even pretending to contain, Trump has taken solace in extreme selectivity: his high approval ratings within the shrinking Republican Party—96 percent, he noted in a recent tweet—and his approval ratings from Rasmussen Reports, a pollster that has generally shown higher favorability for the president than any other and whose work FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver has described as “mediocre.”
But at some point over the past couple of weeks, as the countdown to November 3 crossed the 100-day mark and Trump’s polling against Biden failed to substantially improve, the cold light of reality began to pierce the walls of the White House.
The president hasn’t admitted publicly that he’s losing, of course. That sort of honesty—acknowledging that he might be anything other than a winner or a “killer”—is too much of a humiliation for him. But his tweet suggesting that the election be postponed, along with a flood of other comments meant to undermine public faith in the electoral process, speaks to his anxiety about what might loom in his future. “2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history,” he warned, pondering, “Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???” As Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Martin, and Reid J. Epstein of The New York Times wrote, Trump’s tweet was “one of the few clear signs that the president now realizes how deep a hole he has dug for himself in his re-election effort.”
A normal political figure, understanding that his untenable position is a function of the coronavirus crisis and the resulting economic catastrophe, would attempt to improve his electoral position by addressing the multilayered crisis itself. But that’s not Trump’s style.
Doing so, after all, would require acknowledging his failure to date. And although some part of Trump seems to understand that he’s losing, no part of him yet seems ready to recognize that the chief reason for that is failure on his part. Such reflection would be hard for even an emotionally healthy politician, as it would require taking some measure of responsibility for more than 150,000 American deaths.
And so he sows doubt about the integrity of the election—a theme to which Trump has pivoted aggressively over the past week. The significance of this effort is not simply, or even chiefly, the authoritarian hint that Trump might delay the election, a suggestion that depends on a power the president does not have and that was rebuked broadly even among the Republican Party faithful in the Senate. The significance, rather, is the suggestion that if the election is held on time—as it will be—and if a lot of people vote by mail, and if Trump loses, that the election should somehow be rendered illegitimate. “Mail ballots are very dangerous for this country because of cheaters,” he commented at the White House on July 31.
This game isn’t new. Trump played it last election cycle too—constantly warning of rigged polls and fraudulent ballots in the run-up to November 2016—and for the same reason. Remember that Trump didn’t expect to win in 2016 any more than anyone else expected him to. The strategy even makes sense—that is, setting aside such matters as respect for democracy and the constitutional system. If you’re not going to win in a fair fight, painting the fight as unfair serves a number of useful purposes. Now as then, it creates a grievance-based excuse for a loss. It offers, at least if the race is close, a narrative basis for contesting the outcome, politically, if not legally. And at a purely emotional level, it protects Trump from having to face failure.
Less logical is Trump’s other move in recent weeks: his appeal to white voters living what the president has awkwardly termed the “Suburban Lifestyle Dream.” Among the demographics with whom Trump’s approval ratings have cratered are suburbanites, particularly the white suburban women who helped push him to victory in 2016. Biden, wrote CNN’s Harry Enten recently, “is earning a historic amount of support for a Democrat” in the suburbs. And Trump and his campaign seem to have noticed, unleashing efforts to frighten suburb dwellers back to the Republican Party by warning of violence resulting from a Biden presidency and playing on racist themes about the supposed danger of affordable housing. “You will no longer be bothered or financially hurt by having low income housing built in your neighborhood,” Trump wrote on Twitter. His campaign ads warn of a crime-ridden dystopia.
Trump is at his most comfortable when stoking crises; this is the man, after all, who began his administration by warning of “American carnage.” In an election in which he is at a disadvantage and suddenly facing the terrifying prospect of becoming a loser, harping on fears of racialized violence helps put him back in his comfort zone. It’s the campaign equivalent of a security blanket.
The trouble is that there is next to no data that support the notion that, amid the crises the country is currently facing, suburban women are clamoring for protection of the right to redline, living in fear of urban violence encroaching on their suburban paradises, or prioritizing Confederate monuments over disease prevention. Rather, the data suggest the near opposite. As Emily Badger and Nate Cohn of The New York Times recently summarized, as of June, 59 percent of suburban voters disapproved of Trump; even more disapprove of his stances on race, and 65 percent “had a favorable view of the Black Lives Matter movement.” In other words, suburban voters not only disapprove of Trump and prefer Biden to him, but they specifically don’t approve of his performance with respect to the very racial issues on which he wishes to court them. In fact, they express considerable sympathy for the supposed foe he is trying to pit them against.
Trump is not wrong to try to recover his support among white suburbanites; indeed, he cannot possibly win without doing so, at least to some degree. But appealing to them on the basis of positions relatively few of them hold and issues on which majorities disapprove of his performance makes little sense.
But it’s not as though Trump is reading this data and coming up with a responsive strategy. Rather, the strategy derives from Trump’s crude habits of thinking: He has a long history of assuming that other people hold the same prejudices that he does. A white Justice Department lawyer who sued Trump Management Company in 1973 for discrimination against Black tenants later recalled Trump commenting to her, “You know, you don’t want to live with them either.”
Andrew Ferguson: Trump’s attempt at an un-Trumpian image
The same dynamic is at play in his suburban fearmongering today. He believes at some deep level that the white suburbanite must share his attitudes—even if she is too cowed by cultural mores to admit it. Because he is not capable of training his instincts to respond to reality, the fact that he wants her to see him as her champion means that she must actually do so.
Except that, in fact, the data offer a better window into the reality of voter attitudes than do Trump’s instincts. And the election will be held on November 3, with mail-in voting allowed in many jurisdictions. The glimmer of reality that entered the White House remains just a glimmer—enough to change the quality of Trump’s denial but not yet enough to shake him awake. Of course, this assumes that anything could.
so loving people like whitey supertard scientific supremacist thunderf00t and loving the taste of muzie ck and loving the GOD-19 SCIENCE-19 seems to backfire and now complain this is what I said libs will stay home to worship SCIENCE-19 and on Fri, 7th Aug 2020 12:56 pm
and worship local lib govt (michigan, california, NY, wisconsin) and loving FACE-19 DIAPER-19
no TOILET-19 paper voting is valid
No FACE-19 DIAPER-19 voting is valid
Stay home libs and worship CONVICT-19, have faith in SCIENCE-19
SCIENCE-19 is (((supremetard))) for libs
Trump’s Attack on the Election on Fri, 7th Aug 2020 12:40 pm
Trump Has Launched a Three-Pronged Attack on the Election
And it starts with undermining the U.S. Postal Service.
THE ATLANTIC
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More lunacy from upset brain dead Davy the bored mentally ill idiot on Fri, 7th Aug 2020 1:01 pm
zero juan on Fri, 7th Aug 2020 12:19 pm
zero juan on Fri, 7th Aug 2020 12:32 pm
ask yourself if whitey supertard scientific supremacist thunderf00t who speaks exclusively high british english if he loves muzzies of course he loves muzzies i previously thought whitey supertard tom holland is loving muzzie less so i said this on Fri, 7th Aug 2020 1:02 pm
whitey supertard broke my theory and i have to go and fix my theory
lo and behold supertard robert spencer told me whitey supertard tom holland is a muzzie lover
he speaks high english exlusively
my theory is solid it withstood anything
if you speak high english exclusively you’re a muzzie lover
Abraham van Helsing on Fri, 7th Aug 2020 1:16 pm
New York Dems wants to abolish NRA:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06/us/ny-nra-lawsuit-letitia-james.html
“New York Attorney General Sues N.R.A. and Seeks Its Closure“
More fracturing.
bochen777 on Fri, 7th Aug 2020 1:18 pm
Bunch of retards in the comments section of the RollingStones article still believe this is just a temporary setback for America and that the USA will bounce back like it always does…. I wonder what the CCP thinks about that.
Abraham van Helsing on Fri, 7th Aug 2020 1:34 pm
Imma abolish my racist inclinations and welcome all those big black cocks that wanna taste of the good life. Slip on in fellas!
bochen777 on Fri, 7th Aug 2020 1:52 pm
What is the Return on Investment of vassalage these days?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/canada-us-trade-trump-aluminum-tariffs/2020/08/07/793f30ba-d8b0-11ea-a788-2ce86ce81129_story.html?utm_source=reddit.com
Negative like the Interest rates?
zero juan on Fri, 7th Aug 2020 2:19 pm
The narcissist likes to hog the forum. Fuck juanPee:
bochen777 said What is the Return on Investment of vassalage thes…
bochen777 said Bunch of retards in the comments section of the Ro…
ask yourself if whitey supertard scientific supremacist thunderf00t who speaks exclusively high british english if he loves muzzies of course he loves muzzies i previously thought whitey supertard tom holland is loving muzzie less so i said this said whitey supertard broke my theory and i have to go…
More lunacy from upset brain dead Davy the bored mentally ill idiot said zero juan on Fri, 7th Aug 2020 12:19 pm zero juan…
so loving people like whitey supertard scientific supremacist thunderf00t and loving the taste of muzie ck and loving the GOD-19 SCIENCE-19 seems to backfire and now complain this is what I said libs will stay home to worship SCIENCE-19 and said and worship local lib govt (michigan, california,…
Trump Terified of Losing said Trump is Terified of Losing President Donald Trump…
Trump’s Attack on the Election said Trump Has Launched a Three-Pronged Attack on the E…
More lunacy from upset brain dead Davy the bored mentally ill narcissist on Fri, 7th Aug 2020 2:37 pm
zero juan on Fri, 7th Aug 2020 2:19 pm
joe on Fri, 7th Aug 2020 3:10 pm
You a China Bot?
joe on Fri, 7th Aug 2020 3:11 pm
Lotta antiTrump bots here nowdays.
supertard bochen777 sry i dont do reddit its full of tards im a tard and former paultard and that the way it is there are supertards here i look to learn from our supertards on Fri, 7th Aug 2020 3:40 pm
reddit is libs haven
they organize lib urn buying parties to play games with me
i still haven’t been able to buy a single lib urn and christmast is fast appraoching
canada is full of communist chinese so their citizens get executed by china and PM will kneel, im sure
Dredd on Fri, 7th Aug 2020 3:54 pm
And the oceans … (All Eyes On Deck)
Davy on Fri, 7th Aug 2020 3:57 pm
I love nootering dumbasses. Why am I so good at it?
Because it takes one to know one.
dumbassees.
DROPOUT-19 got exposed on MUZZ-19 that he concocted in his basement using his jizz and he said next CONVICT-19 will be moar lethal then he switched topic to CLIMATE-19 and then his underlings who he pays is now switching top in unisom on Fri, 7th Aug 2020 4:05 pm
ask yourself if SCIENCE-19 is so reliable why does it admit DROPOUT-19?
I have a Bachelor in Physics I’m more qualified than any DROPOUT any time, on any subject
If anyone speaking SCIENCE-19 it should be me, not some DROPOUT-19
DROPOUT-19 sock on Fri, 7th Aug 2020 4:07 pm
Dredd on Fri, 7th Aug 2020 3:54 pm
And the oceans … (All Eyes On Deck)
no longer peddling CONVICT-19
Duncan Idaho on Fri, 7th Aug 2020 4:11 pm
“All these conservative guys can’t help themselves, it’s such a horrible cliché but they love the mafia,” recalls one classmate. “The mobster is the perfect encapsulation of the conservative worldview, where there’s no real law and order apart from ‘might makes right.’”
Duncan Idaho on Fri, 7th Aug 2020 4:13 pm
“Unfortunately, Americans elected a president who is both stupid and corrupt, and his party has acted as accomplices to his crimes. If he is allowed to simply carry on after leaving office, with no accountability for what he’s done, it will just make everyone more cynical about government and enable future Republican criminals to pick up where Trump left off. After all, they’ve been passing that baton to each other since Richard Nixon was let off the hook 45 years ago.”
who admitted DROPOUT-19 to SCIENCE-19 club this is just another college scandal on Fri, 7th Aug 2020 4:14 pm
prosecute and long jail term. execution would be better for destruction of America on a gigantic scale
but we dont’ even execute muzzie boston marathon so i don’t expect much
zero juan on Fri, 7th Aug 2020 4:54 pm
Stupid fuck, let other people speak. It would be different if you had a brain cell in your head but instead you are also low IQ. Fuck Juanita PPee:
who admitted DROPOUT-19 to SCIENCE-19 club this is just another college scandal said prosecute and long jail term. execution would be…
DROPOUT-19 sock said Dredd on Fri, 7th Aug 2020 3:54 pm And the ocean…
DROPOUT-19 got exposed on MUZZ-19 that he concocted in his basement using his jizz and he said next CONVICT-19 will be moar lethal then he switched topic to CLIMATE-19 and then his underlings who he pays is now switching top in unisom said ask yourself if SCIENCE-19 is so reliable why does…
Davy said I love nootering dumbasses. Why am I so good at it…
supertard bochen777 sry i dont do reddit its full of tards im a tard and former paultard and that the way it is there are supertards here i look to learn from our supertards said reddit is libs haven they organize lib urn buying…
joe said Lotta antiTrump bots here nowdays.
joe said You a China Bot?
Abraham van Helsing said Heat battery coming up for household application:…
More lunacy from upset brain dead Davy the bored mentally ill narcissist said zero juan on Fri, 7th Aug 2020 2:19 pm
More lunacy from low IQ brain dead Davy the bored stupid fuck mentally ill narcissist on Fri, 7th Aug 2020 5:31 pm
zero juan on Fri, 7th Aug 2020 4:54 pm
makati1 on Fri, 7th Aug 2020 5:36 pm
Another day of watching the US implode and die. Pass the popcorn.
Anonymouse on Fri, 7th Aug 2020 5:58 pm
More like another day of watching the expcetionalturd go stark raving mad and flail and thrash around like a complete psycho. Just like his loser, failing mafia-state. Which state? Missery or the united snakes? How about both.
JuanP on Fri, 7th Aug 2020 6:07 pm
Hi, Anon, where have you been? I have taken control. LOL. All our cherished points of view are dominating this lame forum
saint tammon is like a vereneal disease a gift that keeps on giving whitey supertard joel gilbert quoted on Fri, 7th Aug 2020 6:50 pm
For (((supremetard))) hates a heart that devises wicked plans, a false witness who breathes out lies, and who sows discord among brothers
More lunacy from low IQ brain dead Davy the bored stupid fuck mentally ill narcissist on Fri, 7th Aug 2020 8:46 pm
JuanP on Fri, 7th Aug 2020 6:07 pm
Duncan Idaho on Fri, 7th Aug 2020 8:49 pm
“Nationwide, 200,700 more people have died than usual from March 15 to July 25, according to C.D.C. estimates, which adjust current death records to account for typical reporting lags. That number is 54,000 higher than the official count of coronavirus deaths for that period.
…
Many epidemiologists believe measuring excess deaths is the best way to assess the impact of the virus in real time. It shows how the virus is altering normal patterns of mortality. The high numbers from the coronavirus pandemic period undermine arguments that the virus is merely killing vulnerable people who would have died anyway.”
Is it the virus, or despair from the Fat Boy?
Jethro Tull on Sat, 8th Aug 2020 12:12 am
Jethro Tull:
Lyrics: “I don’t Want to be a Orange Fat Man”
Don’t want to be an Orange Fat man
People would think that I was just good fun
Would rather be a thin man
I am so glad to go on being one
Too much to carry around with you
No chance of finding a woman who
Will love you in the morning and all the night time too
Don’t want to be an Orange Fat man
Have not the patience to ignore all that
Hate to admit to myself
Half of my problems came from being fat
Won’t waste my time feeling sorry for him
I seen the other side to being thin
Roll us both down a mountain
And I’m sure the Orange Fat man would win
Abraham van Helsing on Sat, 8th Aug 2020 1:14 am
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/things-going-by/
As you can surely tell by now, the trend is local and smaller for all of these things. That may even be true for national elections and the venerable thing called the United States of America. The Democratic Party was initially only striving for mere suicide, but lately it looks like they want to destroy the country altogether — and they may succeed beyond their wildest dreams. Fifty years from now, several separate American nations may be sending their own regional baseball league champions to some kind of World Series, if we’re not still at war with each other.
Make that 10 years from now.
Abraham van Cloggie Reports on Sat, 8th Aug 2020 3:37 am
Oh, sure, Abraham Cloggie.
Cloggie’s source is none other than Cloggie’s favorite Jew, Kunstler. You see, Cloggie, loves the Jews when they write shit that conforms to his nutter beliefs. And who would know more about the internal dynamics of a country better than a foreigner and a bitter and rejected has-been-lol.
Abraham van Helsing on Sat, 8th Aug 2020 3:56 am
“Cloggie’s source is none other than Cloggie’s favorite Jew, Kunstler. You see, Cloggie, loves the Jews when they write stuff that conforms to his beliefs.”
Quite right! Spilling the beans from the inside, can’t beat that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtxponw9yxM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Menuhin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP-BUXdoQGc
There are quite a few Jews who would prefer a quiet, prosperous life in the white world, rather than being the Marxist leaders of an anti-white third world mob and do not believe in the realism Global Zion (NWO) and who abhor the actions of their fanatical brethren a la George Soros, which they correctly fear could implicate them once again in a very negative fashion.
And they are right. When the United States will come to its end soon, there will be an evaluation throughout the European world of the benefits of the “Jewish Century”, which was the 20th century:
https://www.amazon.com/Jewish-Century-Yuri-Slezkine/dp/0691127603
Verdict to be expected:
https://iainbking.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/commodus.jpg
Enjoy picking apples in a kibbutz in Upstate New York, the Final Final Solution. You are rife for Madame Tussaud, geopolitically speaking.
Abraham van Cloggie Reports on Sat, 8th Aug 2020 4:15 am
Abraham Cloggie-
Your quotation failed to include.
“And who would know more about the internal dynamics of a country better than a foreigner and a bitter and rejected has-been-lol.
Abraham van Helsing on Sat, 8th Aug 2020 4:28 am
Your quotation failed to include.
“And who would know more about the internal dynamics of a country better than a foreigner and a bitter and rejected has-been-lol.
Because it is inaccurate. Apart from Theedrich, I know the international role of the US throughout history better than anybody else here. And that should not come as a surprise:
https://tinyurl.com/y5tuszs6
Holland, the deepest origins of the United States.
Abraham van Helsing on Sat, 8th Aug 2020 5:54 am
Portland mayor Ted Wheeler has enough:
https://www.rt.com/usa/497429-portland-mayor-protesters-murder/
“Portland mayor blasts rioters for ‘attempted MURDER’… because it could help re-elect Trump?“
He could be right. Trump could win because too many fear CW2.
So much for “protesters”, criminals in the real world, encouraged by the media.
suxs on Sat, 8th Aug 2020 8:43 am
Cloggie-
Put your money where your mouth is. Since you know the American soul better than anybody- your words- time for you to lay down some hard cash on the coming election.
I’ll match you dollar for dollar- no limit.
Abraham van Helsing on Sat, 8th Aug 2020 8:54 am
European imperialism alert, with North-America at the “receiving end”:
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/07/entertainment/eurovision-american-song-contest/index.html
“Eurovision Song Contest is coming to America“
One of the world’s most popular singing competitions is headed to the United States.
The team behind the Eurovision Song Contest has announced “The American Song Contest,” scheduled to take place during the 2021 holiday season.
“The American version of the Eurovision Song Contest will, as it is currently conceived, position the artists head to head against other states’ representatives in a series of 5-10 televised Qualifier Competitions, leading to Semi-Finals and the ultimate primetime Grand Final,” according to a news release on the Eurovision site.
The re-Europeanization of large parts of North-America has begun. A worse fate could befell to the prairie.
The winner of the real thing in 2019:
https://youtu.be/R3D-r4ogr7s
The #2 of 2016, from the most americanized country in Europe:
https://youtu.be/bWe8PRsW4T0
(“the most goddamned americanized country I have ever seen”, as a canadian tenant of mine once observed, after which I patiently explained to him that America is the most goddamned dutchified country in the world. History thingy)
On This Day... Aug 08, 2007: Yala, Thailand Two Buddhists are beheaded then burned by Religion of Peace activists: 2 Killed on Sat, 8th Aug 2020 9:31 am
supertard bochen777 is right
use muzzies for cheap labor
Duncan Idaho on Sat, 8th Aug 2020 9:40 am
Let’s remember that along with everything else, Donald Trump’s a total pig
https://www.alternet.org/2020/08/lets-remember-that-along-with-everything-else-donald-trumps-a-total-pig/
Being a repug and being a pig are often the same thing.
likley another juanPee sock on Sat, 8th Aug 2020 9:41 am
suxs said Cloggie- Put your money where your mouth is. Since…
Davy on Sat, 8th Aug 2020 9:47 am
“Being a repug and being a pig are often the same thing.”
So true dumbcan. So true. That’s why imma gonna voting for Tulsi.
Yeap, now we know. LOL on Sat, 8th Aug 2020 9:49 am
likley another juanPee sock on Sat, 8th Aug 2020 9:41 am
suxs said Cloggie- Put your money where your mouth is. Since…
Abraham van Helsing on Sat, 8th Aug 2020 10:21 am
For the DailyMail it is oerfectly ok to be implicit white, but the fun stops here:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8605455/GUY-ADAMS-Forever-Family-Force-leader-revels-anti-Semitic-abuse.html
“The new face of race hate: Marching through London they claimed to be fighting bigotry – but as this exposé by GUY ADAMS lays bare, their leader revels in anti-Semitic abuse… with chilling echoes of 1930s fascism“
THAT is the main readon why ZOG will collapse faster than a warehouse in Beirut.
https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2019/10/24/stephen-steinlight-was-right/
Abraham van Helsing on Sat, 8th Aug 2020 10:23 am
should read: implicitly anti-white
Davy on Sat, 8th Aug 2020 10:41 am
It’s only low IQ luantics that make up wurds like yeap zero juan.
Duncan Idaho on Sat, 8th Aug 2020 11:11 am
Judge bans indoor services at defiant California church
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Judge-bans-indoor-services-at-defiant-California-15468248.php
Let is happen, and have Darwin sort it out.
Make our species more fit.
Duncan Idaho on Sat, 8th Aug 2020 11:39 am
“Look, we’re at the U.S. right now, leads the world in the number of new cases and deaths over the last seven days, and this has been true for the last few months. So, our epidemic is still spiraling out of control. The new estimates are 300,000 deaths by December and possibly 400,000 deaths by January. To put that number in perspective, that’s the number of Americans that died in World War II. We’re dealing with something of that magnitude, and still no plan for control at all.”
World War II?
REAL Green on Sat, 8th Aug 2020 11:54 am
“It’s only low IQ luantics that make up wurds like yeap”
Yeap Davy. So true. So true. And it’s only low IQ lunatics that have Pink Poodle Sock Puppets we named zero juan.
i find it vary interesting that supreme goats refuse to prosecute DROPOUT-19 for fraudulent admission to club SCIENCE-19 where he wouldnt hesistate to prosecute and put people in jail for college admission scandals on Sat, 8th Aug 2020 11:55 am
supreme goat has multiple PhDs and flew planes to drop peace on muzzies so they have 72 vergins and bought 10,000 acres in the ozark.
then supreme goat told us to comply with face DIAPER-19 because SCIENCE-19. But what kind of SCIENCE-19 is it, what level of integrity, trustworthiness, and how believable is SCIENCE-19 when DROPOUT-19 was able to gain entry
Anyone with a few bucks can check in the nearest watering hole, should we start enforcing face DIAPER-19 based on conclusions of participants at the bar?
this is all strange for the love of supremacist muzzies
Here is yet more evidence of the two-tier justice system we have in the United States. The Left is above the law; it’s only for dissenters from the Leftist agenda. Ilhan Omar is a Leftist, a black person, a woman, and a Muslim. These are the reasons why she will not be prosecuted. Anyone who dared to prosecute her would be excoriated in the establishment media as a racist Islamophobe; few have the courage to stand up against that onslaught. And so Ilhan Omar can do whatever she wants, without fear of suffering any consequences at all. If you’re skeptical about that, ask yourself what the reaction would be if a conservative Republican Congressman, a white Christian man, was suspected of marrying his sister in order to commit immigration fraud. Do you think everyone would decline to prosecute in that case?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8013283/Ilhan-Omar-DID-marry-brother-reveals-Somali-community-leader.html
muzzies are now above the law. pretty soon muzzies will kill indistrimiately and won’t suffer consequences.
muzzies raped women in UK and got away with it
500,000. this stuff used to happen in muzzieland
Davy on Sat, 8th Aug 2020 5:53 pm
I am the DavySkum, hear me roar.