{"id":210613,"date":"2020-08-04T08:13:55","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T13:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/?p=210613"},"modified":"2020-08-04T08:16:52","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T13:16:52","slug":"nero-fiddled-while-rome-burned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/blog\/nero-fiddled-while-rome-burned\/","title":{"rendered":"Nero Fiddled While Rome Burned"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It\u2019s doubtful that Nero fiddled while Rome burned (the instrument known as the \u201cfiddle\u201d hadn\u2019t yet been invented), but President Trump is most certainly fiddling with our election process while Americans are still dying of the COVID-19 virus by the thousands and our economy is going to hell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Make no mistake; turning the election into a potential crisis is just one more of Trump\u2019s diversionary tactics.  Trump sent federal officers into American cities in a desperate attempt to convince the American people that protestors supported by the \u201cradical left\u201d were a greater threat to their safety than COVID-19, even as deaths from what has surely become the \u201cTrump virus\u201d were once again climbing.  Now, as the COVID outbreak gets worse, the economic data from the second quarter showed GDP decreasing at an annualized rate of a third (32.9%), the sharpest drop in our history, Trump is now trying to distract our attention by threatening <\/strong>the election process\u2014threatening <\/strong>to postpone the November election and raising the prospect of voter fraud posed by voting by mail (supposedly a Democratic scheme to steal the election).  Above all, he is threatening<\/strong> not to abide by the election results if he loses\u2014i.e., he won\u2019t get his fat sorry ass out of the White House come January 20th.  All his life, Trump has been threatening<\/strong> people to get his way, and the American people are no exception!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump is threatening not to get his fat sorry ass out of the White House come January 20th<\/sup><\/strong>!<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In addition to risking a constitutional crisis, our country is being threatened<\/strong> with four more years of an incompetent, ineffectual racist who is good for no one but corporate America and the top 1%, while the rest of us are held hostage and slowly killed by his virus.  Almost every country in the world (with the exception of Brazil, whose President Bolsonaro is in a state of hapless denial eerily similar to Trump\u2019s), has done a better job of protecting its citizens than the U.S., and one can\u2019t help but suspect that Trump and his enablers don\u2019t really care how many Americans die.  We now know that senior advisor (Trump\u2019s inept, thieving son-in-law!) Jared Kushner\u2019s \u201cplan\u201d to manage the pandemic was aborted back in the spring when it was determined that most of COVID\u2019s victims were people of color clustered in \u201cblue\u201d states, and thus not Trump voters. (If Hilary Clinton had her \u201cdeplorables,\u201d Trump definitely has his \u201cexpendables.\u201d) Now that the pandemic is making itself felt in the \u201cred\u201d states of the South and Midwest, it may be dramatically impacting Trump\u2019s \u201cbase,\u201d but what\u2019s done is done\u2014the Trump virus is long-since out of the bottle!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Trump shamelessly launched his attack on America\u2019s right to vote immediately following the death of Congressman John Lewis, a man who risked his life to help pass the Voting Rights Act of 1965.  As we approach the November election with no sign of the Trump virus abating, it\u2019s clear that many Americans–disproportionately people of color who tend to be Democratic voters\u2014will be afraid to vote in person, no doubt suppressing their vote. The logical solution, of course, is to let them vote by mail, something Trump and his allies adamantly oppose, claiming it will lead to rampant voter fraud, despite there being no evidence to support the claim.  If Trump is allowed to stop vote by mail, or successfully challenge its legitimacy, he could very likely steal the election and be in the White House four more years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s doubtful that Nero fiddled while Rome burned, but President Trump is most certainly fiddling with our election process while Americans are still dying of COVID-19\u2014what has become the \u201cTrump virus\u201d\u2014by the thousands and our economy is going to hell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":210619,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210613"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210620,"href":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210613\/revisions\/210620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegallantpelham.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}