Get COVID-19 at Trump's Tulsa Rally? Tough

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Thursday June 11, 2020 · 3:39 PM PDT

2020/06/11 · 15:39

I’m on the Trump campaign’s email list, just so I can keep tabs on what line they’re taking. Their latest missive invited me to attend Trump’s big Make America Great Again! rally in Tulsa on June 19th — Juneteenth, of course. All I have to do is register online for two free tickets and promise not to bring any homemade signs or large bags into the arena and I’ll be welcome to join in Making American Great Again. (Not sure why we still need to Make America Great Again! three and a half years into the Trump regime, but life has its little mysteries.) There is so very much wrong about all of this, but the touch I loved was came at the bottom of the registration form:

“By clicking register below, you are acknowledging that an inherent risk of exposure to COVID-19 exists in any public place where people are present. By attending the Rally, you and any guests voluntarily assume all risks related to exposure to COVID-19 and agree not to hold Donald J. Trump for President, Inc.; BOK Center; ASM Global; or any of their affiliates, directors, officers, employees, agents, contractors, or volunteers liable for any illness or injury.”

In the words of Donald J. Trump, “I don’t take responsibility at all.”

It’s enough to make you sick. Well, to make us all sick.

The saddest thing I've read today

bjhunt

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Friday September 30, 2016 · 5:16 PM PDT

2016/09/30 · 17:16

“Trump is for Winners.” That was the name of a letter to the editor that Tara Trower Doolittle of the Austin American-Statesman described in a recent column. It seems someone in Snyder in West Texas sent in a letter telling why Donald Trump is the right man for America. It was the saddest thing I’ve read today — the saddest thing I’ve read in a long time. Doolittle quotes the letter:

“People who hate America and our God want to run this country, or ruin it, just because they didn’t learn the lesson every American should have learned. I’ll tell you how I learned it.

When I was a kid, seventh grade. This other kid wet his pants in class. I remember this so clearly. For just a second, I felt horrible for this kid, I wanted to hide him or make the pee invisible or something. But then almost everyone else – the cool kids especially — started laughing at him and saying, over and over, “Loser, loser!!!” Some of the guys went over and whacked him in the back of the head when the teacher wasn’t looking. But it was when the cool girls started teasing this loser that he just lost it, started sobbing, ran out of the room. And by then I was laughing right along with everyone else. I realized — this is my point — that it is easier and better to go along with the crowd when the crowd is right, and the crowd is right if the person they’re picking on runs away. That proves it! That is how I know, to this day, what is right to do. Strength proves itself. It proves itself by being easy to spot, and by clobbering weak people. I do not want to be a weak person. I do not want America to be weak.”

That’s what we’re up against: a moral emptiness that doesn’t just tolerate cruelty but celebrates it; a need to be a “winner” so desperate that it latches onto a blustering bully like Donald Trump and calls him a hero; a fear of being “weak” so all-consuming that it turns its self-doubt and self-hatred on the most vulnerable available target.

It makes me sad that such people are out there. It makes me mad that Donald Trump channels their ills into his political aggrandizement. And it all makes me work that much harder to defeat him and elect Hillary Clinton.

Another pledged delegate for Obama from NC?

bjhunt

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Thursday May 15, 2008 · 9:18 AM PDT

2008/05/15 · 09:18

It looks like Barack Obama may be entitled to another pledged delegate from North Carolina, with Hillary Clinton losing one, for a net shift of two. Relying on the votes reported on election night, CNN and NBC have been reporting Obama as getting 65 of the the 115 pledged delegates, with Clinton getting the remaining 50. The AP has left two delegates unallocated pending a more complete count, giving a split of 64-49, and CBS has left one unallocated, giving a split of 65-49. The Green Papers generally have the most complete and reliable count (and are the source of the DemConWatch numbers given on the Daily Kos front page); they've got it at 66-49.

But -- the count isn't complete yet, and it looks like Obama may be in line to get at least one more delegate.

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