An Imperative Responsibility

I saw a Twitter post today that went like this:

"After Ken Starr issued his report on the Clinton sex scandal, more than 100 newspapers demanded Clinton resign."

"We are approaching 100,000 deaths largely caused by the actions of Trump and not a sing paper demanded Trump to resign."

I posted the tweet from @dgordon52 on my Facebook page, asking with 92,000 dead, where is the editorial outrage? Frankly, there isn't any. Not one newspaper or magazine called for Trump to resign. A friend responded to my post saying:

"Because it's the same shit, different day, after all the scandals, Mueller report, impeachment, and still we are not united. Why bother?"

She has a point. I've been thinking for weeks now that Biden is the presumptive Democratic nominee to run against Trump. However, who is getting the most press coverage [again]? Trump, that's who. The media cannot restrain themselves from reporting everything Trump says or does. And that is all news organizations, not just the so-called liberal media.

So what if the media just ignored Trump entirely? What if the press gave even 50% more attention to Biden to help his campaign along. Instead, what we hear about Biden is the Tara Reade allegation and now all of the reviews of the Obama administration by Lindsey Graham and other Republicans. I mean, they are digging deep to smear Biden, and they aren't finding anything.

I support Biden primarily because primary voting gave him the nomination. I like his empathetic message to people that he hears our outrage against Trump and his shenanigans. So, let's take another look at the orange menace that currently resides in the White House.

Trump thinks it is ok that 92,000 people in the U.S. alone have died from COVID-19. Sandford Stadium in Georgia holds 92,000 people. To Republicans, an entire stadium of dead people is acceptable.

Well, it's not acceptable. One death is not acceptable. Trump is such a narcissistic being that everything is all about him. He initially called the coronavirus a hoax meant to take down his presidency. Well, it's not a hoax, and the Trump administration cannot justify those deaths in any way.

Then there is Mitch McConnell, who is evil and loves pushing Koch-inspired agendas. I detest McConnell more than Trump because the former precisely knows what he is doing, where the latter is too stupid to understand what he is doing. McConnell, as much as Trump, makes COVID-19 a political issue. Instead of helping Americans, McConnell is peppering the judicial system with conservative judges who he hopes will vote the conservative agenda. For McConnell, that is more important than saving American lives. Also, it wasn't just McConnell's refusal to allow hearings for Merrick Garland; it was his absolute pride in blocking the nomination.

McConnell ignored the warnings of 17 intelligence agencies that Russia interfered in the 2016 election. Then, he said he didn't believe what the intelligence agencies told him. The Washington Post reported the following:

"The Dems were, 'Hey, we have to tell the public,'" recalled one participant. But Republicans resisted, arguing that to warn the public that the election was under attack would further Russia's aim of sapping confidence in the system.

... McConnell (R-Ky.) went further, officials said, voicing skepticism that the underlying intelligence truly supported the White House's claims. Through a spokeswoman, McConnell declined to comment, citing the secrecy of that meeting.

This November, it is imperative that we vote blue. The Republicans, led by Donald Trump and Koch Brothers' money, must lose power. Based on their actions over the past eight years, they don't deserve to be in control.