Dear Steele,

More than 38,600 new infections were reported in
the US, surpassing records set in April.

Republicans criticize Trump's decision to end funding
for 13 COVID-19 testing sites.

How is this man allowed to continue to stay in office?
In Australia we would have kicked him out long ago.

Hi Foxy,

Yes it is shocking. There is little doubt the US deaths will pass the 200,000 mark within a few months.

Yet I guarantee the same old crowd will be defending Trump. I really don't think there would be a death toll figure which would cause any of them to cease their cultish admiration of him. What is particularly disconcerting is that many of them are Australians. It is a weird time to be alive.

Dear Steele,

What I find even more disconcerting from some of
the comments on this forum is the fact that
there appears to be so many angry conservatives
claiming to love this country while hating
almost everyone in it.

Foxy & Steele,

I wonder if a lot of the defence of Trumpf by the ratbags is not FOR him, per se, but AGAINST the Democrats, Henry Clinton, Pelosi, and Biden in particular - basically anyone who is critical of the Republicans and the extreme Right.

And Trumpf fits in nicely with all that, saying what they want to hear, in all its cock-eyed contradictions, e.g. suck up to China, attack China, insult China, go easy on China, whatever suits at the time.

And of course, anything said by anybody which differs from that messy mix is an enemy, anybody with some sort of consistent set of principles, such as some of the Democrats.

So incompetence doesn't matter; principles don't count; winning is everything.

Joe

'So incompetence doesn't matter; principles don't count; winning is everything. '

describe Marxist democrats to the tee Joe. Keep removing your hatred and you might see a little more clearly.

Runner,

I don't have a lot of hatred - disgust maybe; amazement and amusement, shock, contempt, impatience, resignation, a sense of futility, but not much hatred. I'll leave that to the Manichaean Believers. The Either-Orers.

I do fear that Trompf has turned the great US into just another sh!thole, with the EU advising against travel there. The US's fair-weather president has a talent, seen usually only in five-year-olds, for covering his eyes and 'therefore' seeing no problems, while the Covid-19 virus rages almost unchecked across his country.

Just at a time when any country desperately needs an intelligent leader, such as we have here, the US is inflicted with a half-wit. I suspect that Australia will come out of this virus-crisis with far fewer casualties AND far less deficit, and far more quickly than the US, or the UK for that matter. Your president has ruined his country, perhaps for decades to come.

I hope not because that might give China an enormous advantage for world domination, although I also suspect that their economy is also in crisis, but there you go.

Joe