Somehow I don’t remember the continual civil unrest when Joe Biden was vice president. I don’t remember a thousand people dying every day from a raging, out-of-control pandemic.

JESUS POGO-HOPPING CHRIST, THIS IS DONALD TRUMP’S AMERICA! He is overseeing all this carnage! How can we let him beat Joe Biden over the head with it?

x “I have long condemned looting, violence, threats,” Sen. Amy Klobuchar tells @jonkarl when asked about Trump supporters confronted, intimidated by protesters. “It is happening under Donald Trump’s watch … we are not safe in Donald Trump’s America.” https://t.co/6jCbLennIs pic.twitter.com/7kY1mG5beE— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) August 30, 2020

AMY KLOBUCHAR: “I have long condemned looting, violence, threats, that’s not peaceful protests. And I don’t care who’s engaging in it, you condemn it. And of course Joe Biden has clearly condemned it. But let’s step back. This isn’t just happening in one place, it is happening all over the country. It is happening under Donald Trump’s watch. What is going on, we have innocent people like George Floyd shot by police. We have what happened in Kenosha. And then we have a president that literally stands on the people’s lawn, in violation of the Hatch Act, stands on the lawn with a bunch of pageantry and a bunch of fancy clothes with arias playing from the balcony and says, ‘Oh, do you want to be more safe?’ We are not safe in Donald Trump’s America. Not only have we seen an increase in hate crimes, not only have we seen increases in crime, but we have seen 3,600 people die during the Republican Convention, Jonathan. Now over 180,000 people that died from this coronavirus.”

You are not safe …

x Many of you asked for the chart I showed on the @newshour last night, comparing Covid-19 deaths/per million amongst modern, developed nations. Here it is: pic.twitter.com/DuQM42asaU

— William Brangham (@WmBrangham) August 29, 2020

x There *are* meaningful differences in these countries: they have distinct health-care systems… their people have different views of their government.. and they will (and are) still going to have outbreaks, but the point is: they took this pandemic seriously.

— William Brangham (@WmBrangham) August 29, 2020

Yes, we are dying because of Donald Trump’s incompetence, but also because Republicans have fought tooth and nail against a more efficient and equitable health care system.

x We visit the United Kingdom (single-payer), Switzerland (all private insurance), and Australia (hybrid of the 2) for comparisons. Their systems are *not* perfect, and none would be 100% transplants into the U.S., but how they achieve what we haven't been able to so far? TUNE IN!

— William Brangham (@WmBrangham) August 29, 2020

You are NOT SAFE when Donald Trump refuses to condemn — and, in fact, chooses to elevate — gun-wielding maniacs who are spoiling for a fight.

x When Trump glorifies one, we inevitably get the other. If you don’t see how uplifting the McCloskeys emboldens people like Kyle Rittenhouse then you’re not paying attention. pic.twitter.com/lwpPRPYjAo

— Sen. Mike Gianaris (@SenGianaris) August 26, 2020

You are not safe when MAGAs pour into your city, with the tacit approval of Donald Trump, looking to create more disruption:

x NEW: 1 man has been shot and killed in Portland. The man was wearing a hat with insignia for Patriot Prayer, a far-right group.https://t.co/vxK3J0NH2t

— Mike Baker (@ByMikeBaker) August 30, 2020

You are not safe when Trump’s media praetorian guards coddle murderers:

x Kyle Rittenhouse was trying to ‘maintain order,’ Tucker Carlson says https://t.co/fegMKsgD5o — Mercury News (@mercnews) August 27, 2020

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And no, you are not safe when a racist pr*sident seeks to divide us along racial lines.

Donald Trump infamously said, during his ipecac syrup inauguration speech, that “this American carnage stops right here and stops right now.” And yet here we are.

I’m willing to believe Donald Trump doesn’t know he’s president, because I don’t see a whole lot of lucidity in those delirious, ragey, sundowning eyes, but he is. Unfortunately. We’re going to let him bludgeon Joe Biden with all the bullshit that’s going down on his watch?



No fucking way.

Support Joe. This is a fight for America’s heart and soul, and we have to win.

This guy is a natural. Sometimes I laugh so hard I cry.” — Bette Midler on Aldous J. Pennyfarthing, via Twitter. Find out what made dear Bette break up. Dear Fcking Lunatic: 101 Obscenely Rude Letters to Donald Trump and its boffo sequels Dear Prsident A**clown: 101 More Rude Letters to Donald Trump and Dear F*cking Moron: 101 More Letters to Donald Trump by Aldous J. Pennyfarthing are now available for a song! Click those links, yo!