The Trump Presidency: Part 20

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Meanwhile, while people were paying attention to how Trump's response to corona was putting the lives of millions of Americans at risk, we can also see how he was also putting the environment at risk.

From: https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry...navirus_n_5e755cf7c5b63c3b6490a703?ri18n=true
On Wednesday...the Trump administration widened what critics call one of its most aggressive assaults on science, auctioned drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico and greenlit the expansion of a mine. It started when the Environmental Protection Agency formalized its plans to expand on a controversial proposal to restrict the scientific research used to make regulations, broadening the scope to include non-regulatory divisions of the agency as well. By the afternoon, the Interior Department wrapped up an auction to sell oil and gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico...It proved to be a bust, bringing in approximately $93 million for just shy of 400,000 acres, the smallest total for an offshore auction since 2016...

Also in the past couple of days:
- Permission granted to expand a gold and silver mine on public lands in Arizona
- Continued work to remove rules that protected endangered bird species
- approval of a new gas pipeline
- The lawyer for a group advocating trophy hunting has been appointed head of the Fish and Wildlife Service's international affairs program
Wonder why the low amount for the drilling rights... could oil companies be expecting a shift away from fossil fuels? Do they expect Trump to lose the next election and be replaced by a Democrat who has more respect for the environment?
 
William Parcher said:
55%.

That has got to include some Liberal Democrats, yes? Or, could that number be strictly Conservative Republicans?
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Bit of a false dilemma, don't you think?

It's more likely that number taps into Independents rather than Democrats.

And, has already been mentioned, considering that Bush enjoyed approval numbers in the 80-90% range after 9/11, crowing about Trump having an approval rating slightly above 50% right after he announced free money for everyone is sadly hilarious.

I wouldn't by a product from Amazon that only had a 55% approval rating.
 
johnny karate said:
Bit of a false dilemma, don't you think?

It's more likely that number taps into Independents rather than Democrats.
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So you are saying that some Independents will approve of Trump on the virus, but Democrats simply won't?

I wouldn't by a product from Amazon that only had a 55% approval rating.
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How many of the one-star ratings are bogus?
 
Resume said:
I'm happy to be wrong. Show me some evidence that Trumps's original base and current approval percentage will not hold.
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A.Those won't be enough to get him rellected.
Look,he is never going to get under 40%. Just being the POTUS will get you 40% out of pure party loyallty.
Approval ratings goes up and down, and his is nto getting the kind of bonce.
idf you are rifht, then Democracy has proven itslef a failure,the people are too stupid to govern themeselves. What do you propose replacing it with?
 
dudalb said:
A.Those won't be enough to get him rellected.
Look,he is never going to get under 40%. Just being the POTUS will get you 40% out of pure party loyallty.
Approval ratings goes up and down, and his is nto getting the kind of bonce.
idf you are rifht, then Democracy has proven itslef a failure,the people are too stupid to govern themeselves. What do you propose replacing it with?
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I can't even understand that post. Please review before posting. That's my last comment on it.
 
Aridas said:
I don't. Even when it comes to schadenfreude, that's just not particularly good for it. Seriously, for many, possibly most of them, it's not them that is in much personal danger, and hoping that they have vulnerable loved ones and that their blindness harms those people just so that "those people" will feel bad is... in horrible taste, really.
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Perhaps, but the underlying sentiment is correct. Only when they themselves or someone they know and love is affected will those people give a rat's ***.
 
Good afternoon.
Watching the Covid-19 Breifing. Seconds after Pence said that only people with symptoms should be tested because they need those tests for those with symptoms, he said that he doesn't have symptoms but he is going to get tested as well as his wife.
 
Cabbage said:
I can respect that. What I really want to see are the Democrats and mainstream media hammering the responsibility on Trump, with or without spin. I haven't seen that so far, not to the extent that I would like to (like to the extent Fox News would in a mirror situation).
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That might just encourage more entrenchment, especially the spinned version. Sometimes it’s OK, or perhaps better, to let people come to their own realizations. Otherwise they can feel preached at, and the cognitive doors slam shut.

My brother just reflexively complains about Democrats, and yesterday told me Joe Biden had said something political. I just said, “He’s not the only one.” How much more did I need to say? “Your boy Trump has been doing that since Day One” seemed a little obvious. My brother’s reasonably bright; he’ll get there in the end. Probably.
 
If things are really as hopeless as some people here think, only logical thing to do is get ready for an armed revolt.
 
JPK said:
Good afternoon.
Watching the Covid-19 Breifing. Seconds after Pence said that only people with symptoms should be tested because they need those tests for those with symptoms, he said that he doesn't have symptoms but he is going to get tested as well as his wife.
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Haven't seen it, but what's scary is that I'm quite prepared to believe you ;)
 
"tremendous" response. "Tremendous" action. "No one ever thought this could happen". "We are doing great things". What a ******* tool.

ETA: "My action saved tens of thousands of lives. Maybe more."
 
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Heard him spouting some nonsense about sanitizing and reusing disposable respirator masks to help with the shortage.
 
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