Trump's Lies Are Killing His Supporters as COVID Starts to Sweep Rural America

[babylonsister]

Last edited Thu Apr 16, 2020, 12:17 PM - Edit history (1)

https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-lies-are-killing-his-supporters-as-covid-starts-to-sweep-rural-america/

Trump’s Lies Are Killing His Supporters as COVID Starts to Sweep Rural America
By William Rivers Pitt,
Truthout
Published April 16, 2020

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What happens when this thing really and truly burns through rural America? It has already begun, and because of all those Trump supporters standing shoulder to shoulder at capitols and churches to shout their defiance of science and the “Deep State” into the virus-polluted air, it will get worse.

It will get worse within days, if the pattern holds, and there is no reason to expect otherwise. The match has been lit. In two weeks, these rural areas — which have lost so many of their their hospitals thanks to decades of conservative budget cuts — are going to be locked into the same nightmare the urban areas have been dealing with since March, but with far less medical infrastructure prepared to confront it.
How many people who listened to their president and his Fox News mouthpieces, who jammed the churches because the president said it was safe, will be dead by June?

It begs the deadly, wretched question: How many Trump voters are going to die between now and November? How many people who listened to their president and his Fox News mouthpieces, who jammed the Michigan capitol steps and the megachurches on Easter because the president said it was safe, will be dead by June?

Quite a lot, I fear. This is the very living essence of tragedy and farce. Trump has labored mightily to convince his people that this is all some sort of ruse to keep him from being re-elected, and millions of those people have swallowed it whole.

This is a snake eating its own tail in real time while the snake-handler-in-chief cheers it on … except we are not talking about snakes. These are people, all of whom are somebody’s children, many of whom have children. They trusted Donald Trump, and that will get many of them killed while subsequently prolonging a pandemic that has already infected 2 million lives worldwide.

I wonder if they will still think it was worth it come the summertime. I wonder if they will want a word with Mr. Trump once the virus he called a hoax has its way with them.

[Eyeball_Kid]

1. Trumpy fools some of the people ALL of the time.

That won’t change. Trumpy has them emotionally trapped. They’ll die before they see the truth.

[The Magistrate]

2. You Call To Mind, Sir, Mr. Thurber's Gloss On Mr. Lincoln's Wisdom

"You can fool too many of the people too much of the time."


"Defeat of a hated enemy is something to be for."

[malaise]

3. Get thee to the greatest page

RFN!

[gibraltar72]

4. You can fool 42% of Americans 100% of the time.

[hot2na]

44. Those 42% aren't being fooled

They are fooling themselves. They have invested decades waving the flag for the conservative worldview. Now that their worldview is crumbling before everyones eyes, they retreat to their safe havens on FOX, OANN, Limbaugh, etc.

The jig is up and the info is out there but they do not wan't to see it.

[GusBob]

5. *the fuse has been lit*

He used to have DUers preview these things for him

[Freethinker65]

6. Yep. And many will be sent to be treated in liberal urban areas...

Those urban areas that the patient loves to hate. Where they will be treated professionally with the best care available. And many will be attended to by educated minority healthcare workers that will perform their jobs with professionalism and compassion.

And when those rural Trump supporters return home, many will still believe everything Trump has to say.

[samsingh]

7. if the states open up as the repugs want next month it's going to be a disaster

Within 2 months, much of the country will be infected.

There is no easy solution for drumpf here. He seems to be willing to risk the country in a desperate attempt at reelection

[GopherGal]

12. Not so difficult for Drumpf

There is no easy solution for drumpf here. He seems to be willing to risk the country in a desperate attempt at reelection

I don't think this is a hard choice for a man so consistently free from scruples as Hair Furor.

[Harker]

22. No re-infection for his re-election!

That has a ring to it.

[lagomorph777]

50. It's win-win for Turd. At least he get to kill thousands of people.

He cackles with glee at the daily death toll. It's the biggest perk of being a dictator.

[bdamomma]

56. horrible

pitchforks and more pitchforks.

[Baclava]

8. #YouFirst!

[2naSalit]

9. K&R

[SoonerPride]

10. Thinning the herd. And these are the sheeple after all.

So good bye dummies.

Better luck in your next life.

[bdamomma]

57. they

will be leaving their shoes behind

[not_the_one]

11. When the rural turd voting covid patient needs a ventilator to live,

we will have to say, so sorry, no can do. Le Turdus sent your ventilator to Putin. Obviously the russians need it more than you do. But please vote for Der Fuhrer in 2020. As he says, you have no other choice. Please wait until after the election to die.

So Sad. Bigly.

Tots and pears.

NO. I am NOT being sarcastic. I am venting my pure, unadulterated HATE for the man, onto the people who stuck that blood sucking leech onto our body politic.

[dalton99a]

14. +1. Despite repeated warnings (from Republicans), they made Trump president

with special assist from Vladimir Putin

[Aristus]

13. I Really Don't Care, Do U?

n/t

[npk]

34. Yep tRump and his clan really don't.

I suspect he knows and sees the writing on the wall. He knows he is finished and will go down to Biden in November. It's scary because I always wondered what a selfish, sociopath like tRump would do when he realized he would not be re-elected. I just didn't imagine he would realize that in the middle of a global pandemic. Now I fear so many rural tRump voters will die and tRump will just let them, because at this point he couldn't careless.

[PunkinPi]

43. The ones I care about are the frontline workers and innocents that they could spread to,

the morons themselves, not so much.

[Tipperary]

78. You are a medical professional and say that?

I really am glad no doctor or nurse I have ever known would not “care” about a patient because of their political views. Sad.

[Aristus]

82. Saying is one thing; doing is another.

If they walked in to my clinic, I'd give them 100%.

DU exists so we can vent about these feckless thugs and the harm they're doing to people who don't deserve it.

[procon]

15. Trump will remain exempt from any blame or

responsibility. No matter how many good old boys will die, Trump's cult will remain forever loyal to him. Other foes will be blamed, and some hapless scapegoat will be found from their dog eared list of traditional favorite enemies.

Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

[still_one]

16. Of course, and I have no doubt that the nazi regime in the WH organized the insane protest

in Lansing Michigan to reopen the economy, ignoring the fact that Michigan is the third largest numbers of its populace impacted by the virus

[cilla4progress]

17. +1

to all above posts.

[Butterflylady]

18. I hate to be inhuman

But, it's their choice, so be it!

[Skittles]

63. don't think like that

remember, these folk have kids, and parents, and maybe even Democratic friends

[ffr]

19. "a pandemic that has already claimed 2 million lives worldwide?" No.

It has infected 2 million people worldwide, but it has claimed 141,915 lives worldwide to date.

[ffr]

20. Your bold paragraph isn't a copy/paste

Here is what it says: This is a snake eating its own tail in real time while the snake-handler-in-chief cheers it on … except we are not talking about snakes. These are people, all of whom are somebody’s children, many of whom have children. They trusted Donald Trump, and that will get many of them killed while subsequently prolonging a pandemic that has already infected 2 million people worldwide.

[babylonsister]

21. It was a

copy/paste. Will must have updated it, so I did in the OP. Thanks for correcting that.

[keithbvadu2]

26. Web newspaper articles, editorials and such are not absolutely trustworthy for historical/recent ref

Web newspaper articles, editorials and such are not absolutely trustworthy for historical/recent reference.

They can get changed to reflect new/updated facts or political correctness.

The print copy is solid but the internet copy can suddenly be different.

[ffr]

27. Good job!

[tblue37]

33. That we know of. nt

[matt819]

23. Only one thing to say, really

?quality=90&strip=all&w=618&h=410&crop=1

Or is that too mean?

[GoCubsGo]

24. It was just a matter of time.

I'm surprised this didn't happen sooner, given their unwillingness to adhere to social distancing and other edicts, or outright defiance of them. It's only going to get worse once this latest batch start getting sick. And, many of them will get this thing.

[bucolic_frolic]

25. They embrace the dark side, they love death and funerals

and think it will never happen to them because of their righteousness. They think they are incinerating liberals. Who's to stop them? They are so pig-headed they will do what they want. They are narcissists just like their hero, they crave attention.

[Mercurian]

28. Rural SE NC here

We have one hospital to serve the County. As of Wednesday we had twenty confirmed cases and 59 quarantined as 'probable'. We're a Red state, but our Governor is Blue so we're probably not high on the test kit priority list.

[dawg]

29. I live in a rural area, and these people are putting my loved ones' lives at risk.

Mine too. (I like to think that I'm relatively young and healthy, but, being in my fifties, I ain't no spring chicken anymore.)

My town isn't really shut down. The restaurants are drive-through only, but most workplaces are still open (albeit with modest additional precautions).

Once Trump and Brain(less) Kemp give the go ahead, everyone (except a select few) will go right back to normal. Unless the virus is extremely sensitive to heat and humidity, we are abso-fucking-lutely guaranteed a second wave. Hell, for us, it'll just be a continuation of the first wave. Our curve won't even have had a chance to flatten in the first place.

I'm getting really resentful.

[infullview]

30. It begs the deadly, wretched question: How many Trump voters are going to die between now and Nov.?

Hopefully enough.....

[Dukkha]

31. So I think I'm supposed to feel bad for them?

But not a frog's fat ass chance of it. Darwinism at its finest.

[murielm99]

32. Will Pitt has been banned from this website.

Why post any articles from him here?

[ProfessorGAC]

35. I Stand With Muriel

Got your back, M.

[sheshe2]

58. He is a Stellar guy.

Called Obama a POSUCS for his own screw up of his wife's medical condition and Meds before he moved from MA to NH. Massive thread that was kicked and recommended and was given very good advise from DUers here. He did not take that advise and doubled down on his Obama hatred with another massive thread. Even his mother, a poster here, told him to self delete.

Stated clearly that he would not vote for Hillary. He helped give us trump.

Threatened a homeless woman.

All on this board, a Democratic board.

[ProfessorGAC]

59. Agreed

I remember every one of those events.
And, he told me I didn't understand, despite the fact that I've had MS for 23 years. (Fewer years back then of course.)
I agree with you two.
I don't think his pontificating should be posted here.
He had his chance.

[sheshe2]

60. Unbelievable.

And, he told me I didn't understand, despite the fact that I've had MS for 23 years. (Fewer years back then of course.)

I am so sorry, ProfessorGAC, no compassion for others that suffer, yet all about him. Reminds me of trump...' it is all about me...not my fault'.

Best to you and yours in these times.

[ProfessorGAC]

61. His Wife Got Diagnosed

When he did that famous POS... rant, I told him to settle, because MS is not a death sentence.
He went off on me by PM!
Is it possible that his wife's case was worse than mine? Sure! MS is a capricious, highly scattered malady.
But, I thought I was trying to help and get him to back off the Obama bashing.
No such luck. Pretty insulting.
After the PM, I went after him on another of his rants.
Got my first hide ever.
So, I'm the bad guy. Go figure.
He did have a small cult of personality here, in the early days.

[murielm99]

72. I am sorry.

I so wish there was a cure for MS. I would not wish it on anyone.

[ProfessorGAC]

73. I Have A Quite Mild Case

Burning in the feet, blind in left eye, but basically nothing worse than it was 20 years ago.
Apparently, about 1 in 12,000 patients go into spontaneous abatement for anywhere from 7 years to the rest of their life.
Apparently, I'm one of the more fortunate.

[NurseJackie]

36. He's a purple prose champion! So many words words words without saying much.

[lapucelle]

95. That sums it up pretty well.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213295895#post94

[NurseJackie]

38. He's the one who called Obama a P.O.S.U.C.S. ... right?

What an asshole!

[sheshe2]

46. Also announced he would not for for Hillary.

[babylonsister]

40. Because his articles are worth reading imo.

Nobody is forcing anyone to read them.

[Cha]

52. Pitt also called "President Obama a POSUCS" as well as being stupid

enough to say he "..wouldn't vote for Hillary.. ". How's that working out for him.. and the rest of us?

& yeah I won't be reading it

[Hortensis]

55. But maybe read them without posting on DU since he was banned

multiple times for good cause? A lot of people here remember his efforts to keep people from voting for Obama and Hillary and want him to stay gone. Do you really think filthy articles like, "Hillary Clinton: The Neocon in Democrat's Clothing" didn't undermine voters' belief in her as a lifelong liberal Democrat? And help elect Trump?

Well, he's been at it again with a third presidential candidate: Joe Biden. Google Truthout and any top Democrat's name to make what he's up to pop far more visibly than checking current website offerings. Try...Pelosi just for fun.

But time allows us to check for truth with the benefit of hindsight and determine whether political writers are wise men or fools and/or subversives. Even those who once believed Pitt's description of Obama as a "Trojan Horse" president inserted into the WH by Big Business should now be able to recognize that insidious slander for what it was, AND to recognize the recurring theme being pushed about our Democratic nominees.

How about this one: "Super PACs Are Pouring Millions Into Backing Joe Biden." Recognize the recurrent deceit being instilled into receptive brains AND the massive lie itself? About the presidential candidate who ran and won on almost no money?

NO to this hostile agent, please.

[Auggie]

42. William Rivers Pitt is a damn fine writer. I'm always interested in his opinion ...

whether I agree or disagree.

[lapucelle]

94. Ummm...

Big numbers. And remember, “days” as we understand them only get counted around our own sun. A “day” in the fathomless turn of this pinwheel that stretches beyond all known sight and sound may have only just begun. Tick.

On at least one of our own “days” in this unmeasurable ocean of time, you were afforded the opportunity to cast a ballot for Bernie Sanders, to knock on doors for him, to hold his sign aloft.

Remember the bird at Bernie’s podium four years ago? Consider, now, the cosmic chances that came together to make such a thing possible. A long combination of astronomy, anthropology, biology, physics, ornithology, politics and simple beauty clockworked that moment into existence.

It is an astonishment that bends light to be here, now, within this mote in the temporal eye of all existence. Look at the stars tonight. Look, and realize how lucky you are to be part of this pinprick of time, to share it with Bernie Sanders and everything he stands for. Four and a half billion years of the planet never heard of him. You did. That is more than luck. It’s a blessing from the universe.

https://truthout.org/articles/sanders-impact-lives-on/

[Auggie]

96. Ummm ... what?

[lapucelle]

97. Didn't someone say something about a "damn fine writer"?

Ummm this...

It is an astonishment that bends light to be here, now, within this mote in the temporal eye of all existence. Look at the stars tonight. Look, and realize how lucky you are to be part of this pinprick of time, to share it with Bernie Sanders...

[Auggie]

102. Pure poetry ...

[lapucelle]

104. When Carl Sagan said it, yes indeed. Appropriated and contorted

into a political paen, not so much.

I believe our future depends powerfully
On how well we understand this cosmos
In which we float like a mote of dust
In the morning sky...

How lucky we are to live in this time
The first moment in human history
When we are in fact visiting other worlds

[Beringia]

103. Good writing to my mind

[lapucelle]

105. When Carl Sagan compared our planet to a mote of dust

and reminded us how lucky we are to live in this time, it was elegant brilliance.

Appropriated, overly-embellished, and repurposed to pay homage to a politician, it's just embarrassing.

http://www.songlyrics.com/symphony-of-science/a-glorious-dawn-lyrics/

[NurseJackie]

98. Oh good lord! Are you shitting me? How pathetic! He's become a caricature of himself!

[lapucelle]

99. Don't you realize how lucky you are to be part of this pinprick of time?

[NurseJackie]

101. This is big! Really big!!! Someone should tell Neil deGrasse Tyson...

[lapucelle]

49. And Truthout is a marginal source funded by dark money.

Factual Reporting: MIXED
Country: USA

Funded by / Ownership
Truthout is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that is funded through donations.

Overall, we rate Truthout strongly Left Biased based on story selection and political positions that favor the left. We also rate them Mixed for factual reporting due to publishing a false story as well as promoting anti-GMO propaganda.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/truth-out/

Caveat lector...

[Arazi]

64. Bravenak gets posted here all the time as well. Never saw you complain about her

Or any of the rest jumping to bash Will Pitt now

[murielm99]

67. Bravenak?

Please elaborate.

[Arazi]

69. Yes. She's got a blog that's been posted here without complaints

Bravenewsblog

Ismnotwasm just posted an article by her last week.

Bravenak was one of the worst shitstirrers here for a few years and was also banned. Tbh, she was far far worse than Will. Ever.

[murielm99]

70. So that gives you the right to post Will Pitt's drivel?

Whataboutism at its finest! LOL

I have interacted with Pitt. I find him an arrogant lout. I cancelled my membership in Truthout years ago.

I have never interacted with Bravenak.

[Arazi]

79. I haven't ever posted anything by Will Pitt

[TexasTowelie]

75. I would be thrilled if Bravenak's account was reinstated.

She told far more truth than William Rivers Pitt and Truthout ever did. However, if she was reinstated the attacks on her would start immediately. I would probably be on a jury for one of her posts within a day, just like I was on juries for her posts frequently back in 2015 and 2016.

How dare a woman of color have an opinion. I saw that in the office when I worked and I saw it on DU. BTW, check my profile--I'm a white male.

[Arazi]

80. She's been banned from Twitter multiple times for being a flamethrower

Has nothing to do with her color. She's a flamethrower

[TexasTowelie]

81. I don't care if she has been banned by Twitter.

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Pitt has his platform on Truthout, but I would much rather read Bravenak's opinions than Pitt's opinions, the guy that said President Obama was a POSUC and who criticizes Democrats on a regular basis. I have no respect for him whatsoever.

REINSTATE BRAVENAK!

[sheshe2]

84. ...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/118722819

[sheshe2]

83. However, bravenak:

Never called Obama as POSUCS.

Never refused to vote for Hillary.

Never threatened a homeless woman.

Never trashed Our sitting President or our GE candidate.

[murielm99]

86. This is what I remember about Bravenak:

She posted things here that people did not like. Someone dug deeply enough to find out her real identity and address. They sent her threatening things in the snail mail. She is the mother of minor children. That is completely uncalled for!

I would not like it if I learned there were people threatening Will Pitt. However, he makes no secret of who he is.

[betsuni]

87. Since when is a Democrat who would never call President Obama a Trojan horse Republican

or a "piece of shit used car salesman" and promote the "both sides" nonsense a problem on a site for Democrats? It isn't. She's the base. Nothing to complain about. She was very kind, one of the few members here who was nice to me when I first joined, gave me the benefit of the doubt and didn't assume I was a sock or troll. She was nicer than I could ever be to some people.

Bravenak was a Bernie Sanders supporter until she wasn't and never insulted or name-called anyone not supporting Sanders. Much better wit than Pitts, more interesting, better writer too.

[MineralMan]

37. Although William Pitt sometimes makes some sense in his writings,

His execrable performance after Barack Obama took office demonstrates that he is not a writer whose judgment should be trusted. He attacked President Obama crudely and obscenely from the very beginning of his first term in office, and even more viciously after the ACA was adopted.

For his performance, he was banned from DU, and rightly so. He called our President a "piece of shit used car salesman" after he misunderstood the ACA with regard to some issue. He was incorrect in what he said, but there is no forgiving that sort of an attack on a Democratic President.

His writings have no place here because of that, in my opinion. I say that, meaning no disrespect to you as a long-time, prolific poster on DU. I would simply request that you post no more from that source.

[babylonsister]

41. Check the byline and if it

insults your sensibilities, you can go read something else.

I like the way he writes and thinks (usually, except when it seems he doesn't), and make no apologies.

[MineralMan]

54. I saw the byline and did not read it.

Apparently, you intend to post more from that author. So, I'll just skip your posts as well, I guess.

[Cha]

53. Exactly, MineralMan.. Mahalo!

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=13297768

[Skittles]

62. I LIKE HIM

William is GOOD GUY

he was upset and lashed out because of a recent serious health diagnosis of his wife but you know that

time to FORGIVE already

[MerryBlooms]

66. Some expect to be forgiven, but don't extend the same in return.

Funny how that works.

[Skittles]

68. WHATEVER

[MerryBlooms]

71. I wasn't referring to you.

[Hortensis]

106. Skittles, google Truthout and Biden OR Obama OR Hillary OR Pelosi,

check his writings right up to TODAY and say he should be forgiven. Imo, he should be sentenced to 10 years in a cell with Trump. And that's if this is all just personal malice, not even if he's a paid agent for one of our enemies. Smearing Democrats is a lot more than merely an avocation for him. He puts a great deal of work consistently into it.

[MineralMan]

76. Your choice.

Not mine.

[LanternWaste]

91. No one is arguing otherwise

But I get it... we often want to appear clever.

[MineralMan]

92. I did not suggest anyone was.

[abakan]

39. There is a price to pay for willful ignorance

He may need all those lambs come election time. Not a wise move to kill your supporters, donny.

[Owl]

45. Excellent article.

K&R

[IronLionZion]

47. William Rivers Pitt

[ARPad95]

48. 39-year-old farmer from rural New York county fighting for his life

"Travis Duffy should be spending the day working on the farm he manages, while getting ready for the birth of his son in about five weeks.

Instead, the 39-year-old Canastota man is in Upstate University Hospital’s intensive care unit, fighting to stay alive and beat the coronavirus. The virus has a stranglehold on him, and Duffy’s family and girlfriend say it’s hour by hour.

Travis, who has had asthma since he was a child but is otherwise healthy, is on a ventilator and has pneumonia, said his sister, Jessica Duffy. He has been flipped on his belly to help him breathe, she said.

They are all praying for his recovery, and hoping he will qualify for experimental plasma therapy as soon as possible.

His girlfriend, Kilee Coye, 25, has tested positive for the virus, and has some symptoms. She is 35 weeks pregnant. While she doesn’t have a fever, she has lost her sense of smell and taste, and has a cough, headache and some vomiting."

[full story at link below]

[link:https://www.syracuse.com/coronavirus/2020/04/cny-farmer-39-with-coronavirus-fighting-for-his-life-pregnant-girlfriend-sick-with-virus-too.html|

If it's happening to an under 40-year-old farmer in rural New York, it's definitely going to happen to others (Trump supporters or not) in rural areas of America.

[bdamomma]

51. Wicked

denial and gaslighting, hmm..... Putin should know huh? tRump is a tyrant that wears a suit.

[andym]

65. Pitt is overall wrong: The kill rate is not high enough to affect Trump's support

among his rural supporters. They already have their scapegoats: liberal governors, WHO and China. Not only that some are willing martyrs for the cause-- like the Texas Lt governor who was willing to sacrifice himself for his grandchildren's economic benefit.

[totodeinhere]

77. This brings up a question I have had for some time. Is it safer right now to be in an urban area

or a rural area?

On the one hand, urban areas have a lot more people close together so there are more opportunities for the virus to spread. But urban areas tend to have more medical facilities and more health care personnel.

On the other hand rural areas are less densely populated so hopefully the virus will not spread so readily because there are fewer people . But rural areas have fewer hospitals and clinics and fewer doctors.

The way things are going we might have answers to these questions soon enough.

I live in a rural area myself. So far out of a population of 60,000 people in my county there have been 11 confirmed cases and one death. At the present time nobody with covid-19 is hospitalized in our local hospital so their facilities have not been overrun yet. The hospital says it is ready for this and there is no shortage of medical supplies. I hope they are telling the truth but I wonder if they just might be saying that so that people aren't scared.

[murielm99]

85. I live in a rural area, too.

We have 28 confirmed cases and 1 death in our county. The hospital closest to me has only four ICU beds. We use another hospital and health care system to the north of us. They are affiliated with Madison WI as well. I don't know how any of them feel about their levels of preparation.

The thing that worries me here is non-compliance with the stay at home rules. Some of these MAGATs deliberately flout them. They mock the virus, and laugh at people who wear masks. I sometimes see them congregating in parking lots.

The largest city in our county has a population of a little less than 10,000 people. Some of the cases are from that city. I think the others may be from nursing homes.

I intend to stay home as much as possible. I hope you do the same. Be safe.

[babylonsister]

89. What I found informative but

really scary is the little town of Albany, GA. When people congregate for church, weddings, funerals, etc., that could impact an entire town.
I hope rural areas are now more aware; Albany wasn't so lucky.

Days After a Funeral in a Georgia Town, Coronavirus ‘Hit Like a Bomb’
A mourner came to Albany, Ga., to attend the funeral of a retired janitor. After a pause while the infections incubated, the virus swept through the community.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/30/us/coronavirus-funeral-albany-georgia.html

[DFW]

88. Trump needn't worry

The survivors will still vote for him if their pastor is still alive to remind them to.

[NNadir]

90. Maybe Pitt thinks this will help Jill Stein.. n/t.

[lapucelle]

93. This didn't age well.

https://truthout.org/articles/centrists-will-still-be-split-on-super-tuesday/

[NurseJackie]

100. He's taken the Michael Moore tactic on fortune telling...

He's taken the Michael Moore tactic on fortune telling... basically, if you make enough predictions then you're likely to be right one time by accident. Then, he can forever point to that ONE TIME (out of a thousand) that "he was right" as some sort of justification that his experience and knowledge and wisdom should be trusted. All because of "one time" he just happened to be right.

William Pitt strikes me as someone who's a pompous ass, near as I can tell.