#vote 2020

[sm-baby]

anyway, you guys should vote for [REDACTED FOR VOTE BIAS]

#minecraft #mineblr #mob vote 2023 #mob vote #Minecraft live #minecraft armadillo #minecraft penguin #minecraft moobloom #minecraft alex #minecraft steve #minecraft crab #ToT #art #comic #minecraft allay #mobvote 2020 #minecraft iceologer #a commissioner of mine dragged me into the subject of players and now I just wanted to play with the different alexes and steves out there #btw i dont know how to tell yall that this is SO canon in my Minecraft canon #there is indeed a 'minecraft audience' #youtubers are VERY canon in my minevcraftverse

[tomorrowusa]

Four years ago today (March 13th), then President Donald Trump got around to declaring a national state of emergency for the COVID-19 pandemic. The administration had been downplaying the danger to the United States for 51 days since the first US infection was confirmed on January 22nd.

From an ABC News article dated 25 February 2020...

CDC warns Americans of 'significant disruption' from coronavirus

Until now, health officials said they'd hoped to prevent community spread in the United States. But following community transmissions in Italy, Iran and South Korea, health officials believe the virus may not be able to be contained at the border and that Americans should prepare for a "significant disruption." This comes in contrast to statements from the Trump administration. Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf said Tuesday the threat to the United States from coronavirus "remains low," despite the White House seeking $1.25 billion in emergency funding to combat the virus. Larry Kudlow, director of the National Economic Council, told CNBC’s Kelly Evans on “The Exchange” Tuesday evening, "We have contained the virus very well here in the U.S." [ ... ] House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called the request "long overdue and completely inadequate to the scale of this emergency." She also accused President Trump of leaving "critical positions in charge of managing pandemics at the National Security Council and the Department of Homeland Security vacant." "The president's most recent budget called for slashing funding for the Centers for Disease Control, which is on the front lines of this emergency. And now, he is compounding our vulnerabilities by seeking to ransack funds still needed to keep Ebola in check," Pelosi said in a statement Tuesday morning. "Our state and local governments need serious funding to be ready to respond effectively to any outbreak in the United States. The president should not be raiding money that Congress has appropriated for other life-or-death public health priorities." She added that lawmakers in the House of Representatives "will swiftly advance a strong, strategic funding package that fully addresses the scale and seriousness of this public health crisis." Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer also called the Trump administration's request "too little too late." "That President Trump is trying to steal funds dedicated to fight Ebola -- which is still considered an epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo -- is indicative of his towering incompetence and further proof that he and his administration aren't taking the coronavirus crisis as seriously as they need to be," Schumer said in a statement.

A reminder that Trump had been leaving many positions vacant – part of a Republican strategy to undermine the federal government.

Here's a picture from that ABC piece from a nearly empty restaurant in San Francisco's Chinatown. The screen displays a Trump tweet still downplaying COVID-19 with him seeming more concerned about the effect of the Dow Jones on his re-election bid.

People were not buying Trump's claims but they were buying PPE.

I took this picture at CVS on February 26th that year.

The stock market which Trump in his February tweet claimed looked "very good" was tanking on March 12th – the day before his state of emergency declaration.

Trump succeeded in sending the US economy into recession much faster than George W. Bush did at the end of his term – quite a feat!. (As an aside, every recession in the US since 1981 has been triggered by Republican presidents.)

Of course Trump never stopped trying to downplay the pandemic nor did he ever take responsibility for it. The US ended up with the highest per capita death rate of any technologically advanced country.

Precious time was lost while Trump dawdled. Orange on this map indicates COVID infections while red indicates COVID deaths. At the time Trump declared a state of emergency, the virus had already spread to 49 states.

The United States could have done far better and it had the tools to do so.

The Obama administration had limited the number of US cases of Ebola to under one dozen during that pandemic in the 2010s. Based on their success, they compiled a guide on how the federal government could limit future pandemics.

Obama team left pandemic playbook for Trump administration, officials confirm

Of course Trump ignored it.

Unlike those boxes of nuclear secrets in Trump's bathroom, the Obama pandemic limitation document is not classified. Anybody can read it – even if Trump didn't. This copy comes from the Stanford University Libraries.

TOWARDS EPIDEMIC PREDICTION: FEDERAL EFFORTS AND OPPORTUNITIES IN OUTBREAK MODELING

Feel free to share this post with anybody who still feels nostalgic about the Trump White House years!

#covid-19 #coronavirus #pandemic #public health #donald trump #trump's incompetent response to the pandemic #covid state of emergency #2020 #trump recession #51 days of trump pandemic dawdling #obama pandemic playbook #2010s ebola outbreak #nostalgia for trump administration #republicans #election 2024 #vote blue no matter who

[qqueenofhades]

Thoughts and prayers to all the pundits who really wanted the "Black voters don't like Biden," "Democrats don't like Biden," "the Democrats are divided/won't have their coalition," "Biden is historically unpopular for an incumbent," and all the other narratives to keep going all the way to the election. Oop.

#politics for ts #now mind you i am sure they will keep trying #but yeah maybe also they're full of shit #(for context biden just whooped the shit out of the SC dem primary with 97% of the vote and 13% more black voters than 2020) #(be interesting to see how much trump pulls in a couple weeks) #(also be nice if the Very Smart Pundits could shut up a few days seeing as once more They Were Super Wrong)

[mossspond]

Goudy's auto and body 2020

#voted best place to work in 2020 #oc #cooper #garry #goudy #aldine #moss.art #furry #anthro #artists on tumblr

[stlangels]

I am shaking with fucking rage listening to this state of the union i think maybe two other faces have made me instantly get this angry.

I am not your "fellow American." I refuse to be American if this is what it means to be American. I am human before I am an American.

I refuse to die before I see a free Palestine. I will see a free Palestine in my lifetime. I refuse to die before I can see a free world. I will see everyone free in my lifetime because I refuse to die without seeing it. It's probably impossible but I don't care because I have to see it. I'm sick of seeing anything else.

#I cannot accept this place as it is bit I do love this place. I love the lands the people and the places I lived in and have seen. I want th #This is the first election I vote in and its the only one I've been around for that I couldn't even beg to predict. And either outcome is e #the same kind of evil we've been for over a hundred years. The evil place I was born into. #I haven't had faith in America since 2020 #when the illusion snapped. But as every year comes and goes I manage to lose even more faith in this place that I've hated for 3years and 9 #I have to live to see a free world. I have to see it with my own two eyes. I have to see people free from fear. I don't know how to live wi #and your freedom #and our freedom #and their freedom. I want to see a world where children are happy. I want to see the world I keep dreaming about #where everyone is taken care of. #grahambles

[everythingshinesunderthesun]

I usually try very hard not to talk about US politics because it's not my ballpark, and heated appeals to people's humanity isn't my brand, but I'm seeing a worrying amount of this type of rhetoric these past couple days so I feel like I need to give it my best shot here.

This is to say that if you're in the "the Dems are just as bad as the Reps so I'm not going to vote" crew, I think I should legally be allowed to beat you to death with my fists.

I don't have any love for Biden and his ilk either — and as a matter of fact, I don't really give a shit about what happens in America beyond how it affects my homeland (which is more than I'd like) — but I also had to watch while the US government locked up children from my country like zoo animals because some of you got it into your head that voting for Hillary would've been "cringe", and the ensuing four years of sitting around with your thumbs stuck up your asses talking about how "you would never let this happen again". I'm not in the mood for a part two.

Has Biden fixed the immigrant detention centers? No, but his administration has made conditions materially better for the prisoners, which is good. Listen to me. This is good. Yes it's not ideal but small improvements to the lives of real people that exist in the real world right now are more important than your hypothetical post-revolutionary utopia. If you disagree with me, shut up. Again, I should be allowed to beat you to death.

I know everyone who says this kind of stuff is certain that The Revolution is going to happen "any day now guys", but until then, go vote. I promise you the Bolshevik Uprising will not be meaningfully delayed by you taking an hour out of your day to stand in line and fill a ballot.

#i hate to be this aggro but i can't explain to you all the way i felt watching 2016-2020 play out from down in mexico #i woukd very much appreciate it if we could never let anything like that happen ever again #if i can convince even one person to go vote I figure it's worth it

[kakashihasibs]

I feel it's a bit ironic that the vote blue no matter who crowd are calling people who are considering withholding their vote from Biden (bc of what he's doing in the middle east) "selfish and individualistic" bc if i vote for biden again it will be for selfish and individualistic reasons.

If i refuse to vote biden it'll be bc I'm thinking about everyone. I'll being thinking about our foreign policy -- of the international community. The ONLY reason I'll vote for biden is bc I'm selfishly afraid of what will happen to ME if i don't.

#i truely hate the vote blue no matter who crowd #the most brainless spineless cowards in the US #and before you blame me for trump 1) you're an idiot and 2) i voted ~blue~ in 2016 and 2020

[greencarnation]

lesser evil for who? because i don't think it's the lesser evil for the gazan children being massacred or for the millions world wide who have been ravaged by us imperialism regardless of who was in the white house. the system is rotten to its core and simply voting blue once every 4 years will never save us

#“it will be even worse for gaza under trump!!” so? that means biden is cool? #fuck off #i remember how scared i was of trump winning the 2020 election and i was talking to my partner (an iraqi kurd) and he pretty much just said #lfmao idc they will fuck us over either way 💀💀 #and i was like. oh #changed my perspective a bit #so again lesser evil for WHO #and when do we stop choosing between evils and fight for something better #fuck biden and fuck voting blue #palestine #gaza #israel #free palestine #politics #geopolitics #joe biden #donald trump #american politics #biden #trump #vote blue #stop clinging to the scraps of lesser evils and force yourself to confront reality #then start pushing for better #genocide joe #butcher biden

[pumpkinautumnly]

So since kokichi got banned in Russia how about we should ban a another character but from trolls & then turn him into a prime minister of Russia.

#doodle #john dory #john dory 2024 #john 2024 #trolls band together #fanart #brozone #vote for john dory #kokichi 2020 #trolls #danganronpa #trolls 3 #idk #artists on tumblr #drawing #artwork #idk what to post

[yohankang]

so many dramas that should be my favorites this year and yet. nothing hits

#like?? we had evilive. the worst of evil. the killing vote. vigilante. (still need to watch final eps of 3 of them but shh) #and somehow i couldn't get into any of them???? #tbh i've only seen like 15 dramas this year... #in 2019-2020 i only watched thai bls lol so i won't talk about that #but 2021 was crazy good for kdramas and 2022 had some of my favorites too #but this year??? :/// #i mean i absolutely loved d.p. 2 but that's technically a 2021 series #my favorite this year is probably bloodhouds... there's hardly any competition tho (if i don't count d.p.) (everyone please watch d.p.) #eh. is it the time to come back to western shows. #(i binged 2 seasons of loki last week tho and i wasn't impressed asdfghjhs is there no hope for me) #okay but do you guys have shows that like. blew your mind this year? #k.txt

[deadpresidents]

Why do you think people were so foolish at the 2016 election not to recognise the risks of Trump getting on and throw away their vote or not vote at all?

While I certainly think it's silly to waste your vote or cast a protest vote and wish that more of the people who don't vote would take advantage of their right and privilege to do so, I am more concerned and disgusted by the 62 million Americans who voted for Trump in 2016 and the nearly 75 million who voted for him in 2020. Those people are actively destroying our country, and that's worse than any protest vote or non-voter.

#2016 Election #2020 Election #Donald Trump #President Trump #Voting #Elections

[tomorrowusa]

Just so nobody can say this is out of context, here's a vid of the entire interview.

The Obama administration successfully contained the Ebola outbreak in the United States. The death toll for Ebola in the US was under a dozen. So before leaving office, the Obama National Security Council created a 69-page handbook on how to deal with a pandemic. Trump and his flunkies ignored it with disastrous results.

Trump team failed to follow NSC’s pandemic playbook

The US death toll from COVID-19 is in seven digits. Other industrialized countries with advanced technological infrastructure such as Canada, Taiwan, Germany, and New Zealand had lower fatality rates per capita.

Trump largely ignored the virus until well into March when it had a chance to spread across the US.

The missing six weeks: how Trump failed the biggest test of his life The president was aware of the danger from the coronavirus – but a lack of leadership has created an emergency of epic proportions

The Trump administration, at best, was in denial; at worst, it sabotaged the pandemic response.

Trump White House made 'deliberate efforts' to undermine Covid response, report says

Trump zombies who claim the economy was marvelous under Trump conveniently forget about everything that happened after February of 2020. Trump's early bungling of the pandemic plunged the economy into recession. The COVID supply chain problems and the economic stimulus required to prevent a depression led to the spurt in inflation which is finally receding.

People who are nostalgic about taking hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin, drinking bleach, and sticking UV lights up their butts must be excited about the opportunity to vote for Trump again.

#donald trump #botched pandemic response #covid-19 #coronavirus #public health #anniversary of trump's awful covid-19 response #gross incompetence of the trump administration #the trump recession #trump tanked the economy #trump is a loser #vote blue no matter who #election 2020 #election 2024

[qqueenofhades]

I realise it's all much too early to say etc etc, but this cracked me tf up. Philly, I love you. Please do your Republican-killing magic again.

#hilary for ts #politics for ts #the endorphin high i got as those philly votes rolled in in huge blue batches in 2020.. #unparalleled

[saywhat-politics]

A judge in Delaware has ordered a jury trial in Dominion Voting Systems' blockbuster lawsuit against Fox News, setting the stage for one of the most consequential defamation decisions against an American media company in decades. 

Lawyers for Fox and Dominion faced off in court during a two-day hearing for summary judgment last week, with each side unsuccessfully arguing the court should rule in their favor and forgo a jury trial that is expected to span weeks and could further bring to light internal discussions at the network following the 2020 election.

#fox news #dominion voting systems #trial #2020 presidential election

[bodyhorrorbeatdown]

Body Horror Beatdown, Match 32, Round 1

Vote for your favorite:

Propaganda under the cut.

Tusk

All that separates man from animal are the stories he tells.

"dude gets his legs mutilated, his femurs (p sure it was femurs, part of his legs) fashioned into tusks and stuck in his face, and gets a suit made out of a patchwork of human flesh all to make him look like a walrus just so the dude who did it to him can feel less bad about eating his walrus buddy. Iirc a bunch of other stuff was done to this poor guy to make him more walrus-like (I believe his mouth got fucked up somehow so he can't speak anymore, and I think his arms were made shorter?? I forgor 💀) and then he just has to Live Like That"

Possessor

No Body Is Safe

"Not the goriest, but deals with the horror of your body turning against you and not feeling at home within your own body. *spoiler* There’s a great bit where the person who the main character is possessing rips off the face of the main character and wears it over his own face. It’s a surreal, psychological bit all taking place within their minds, but the imagery is great."

#bodyhorrorbeatdown #body horror beatdown #gore #body horror #round 1 #polls #tusk #tusk 2014 #possessor #possessor 2020 #kevin smith #brandon cronenberg #this is the last match of this round! #once voting concludes on this i'll figure out who's moving onto round 2 #which will have 32 competitors and 16 matches i think

[suncaptor]

like do you not see how protesting and being uncommitted about Biden right now is not about being ignorant about the concept of harm reduction but actually trying to reduce the harm of the very real current situation happening right now or do you just not care.

#incoherents #us politics #i usually assume people just sort of think trump supports israel even more when they say these things and are thinking about hypotheticals #but to not see the reason why people are protesting and threatening their vote over Biden right now and instead just being like wjat #you gonna firebomb a walmart #like people are not trying to overhaul a system or ignore the fact they exist in the system but do any potential pragmatic means #of influence they have at all #like this is so fucking different than 2020