He used dog whistles and populist rhetoric together in ways the public never saw before. This caused them to identify with him. That's all it takes, full stop. After that their Ego defends the Identity unto its dying breath. No amount of delusion or detachment from reality is too big for the human mind.
Ok, seriously, thats not true.
This is not just appealing to your electorate, EVERY candidate does that. It's the quality of the electorate that is shocking, nothing like the people who elected bush or even Dubyah... jesus, i got friends who voted bush sr. But i think you have to be mentally defective to vote trump. AND then not realize what horrible job he is doing, too.
I will say the 3,000 number seems to be a pretty wild guess. I'm bet it was more than 2-3 dozen, but the 3,000 and where it's based from seems to be a crap shoot at best. I really don't think we'll ever have a very concrete number.
Here's a decent article explaining it all and the wildly varying totals.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/29/us/puerto-rico-growing-death-toll/index.html
The actual exact number isn't really the point as it's certainly at least hundreds. Which is well into "awful tragedy" territory.
This core issue is how Dump will take something truly horrible and terrifying and say it was actually pretty good and anyone who says he did a terrible job is out to get him.
I get that entirely. That's not my point at all. I'm just saying that the "3000" number being thrown around really doesn't have much merit. I don't have faith in any number being reported right now as being "accurate".
But we could have known if there was a better response. There were many reports of deaths in the hundreds almost immediately after the storms, but the administration chose to ignore these reports and claimed that only "6-18" people died. This allowed them to drag their feet with the relief efforts because they were already doing a great job.I get that entirely. That's not my point at all. I'm just saying that the "3000" number being thrown around really doesn't have much merit. I don't have faith in any number being reported right now as being "accurate".
The actual exact number isn't really the point as it's certainly at least hundreds. Which is well into "awful tragedy" territory.
This core issue is how Dump will take something truly horrible and terrifying and say it was actually pretty good and anyone who says he did a terrible job is out to get him.
The methodology employed in the independent study is valid and conservative. As an example, if someone was trapped in the wreckage and died a week later this would be a "hurricane death", according to the study. As they didn't die until the hurricane passed it would seem that it wouldn't count for Trump. Likewise, natural disasters create a spike in disease which is directly attributable to the event. The disease killed people but the sole causative factor was the hurricane.
Do you know how many people died of the flu pandemic as defined by most US standards for certification of death? Very few. To argue that the 19th pandemic didn't cause worldwide death would get one laughed at by the very people who filled out those forms. You see the flu didn't kill them but the pulmonary events associated with the Pandemic.
Regardless of corruption his disconnection from reality demonstrated over a long period of time makes him a real and proper candidate for the 25th.
My God in heaven. This guy has to be the world's biggest douchebag
Donald Trump Says 3,000 People Did Not Die in Puerto Rico Because of Hurricane Maria, Some May Have Died From Old Age
https://www.essence.com/news/politics/donald-trump-denies-3000-puerto-rican-deaths/
I've been there. He needs the Mussolini treatmentThere's few people whose ugly, nasty death I would celebrate....this fucker is getting there.
At the least he should have to go live in a hard-hit area of PR for a year. He can explain to all those American citizens how only 16 people died and the effort was "A+".
Trump tweet this morning:
"This was done by the Democrats in order to make me look as bad as possible when I was successfully raising Billions of Dollars to help rebuild Puerto Rico. If a person died for any reason, like old age, just add them onto the list. Bad politics. I love Puerto Rico!"
It was Puerto Rico's fault. Two flaws"Trump Calls Storm Response in Puerto Rico, Where 3,000 Died, ‘One of the Best’"
For once Donny told the truth. It WAS his best. 3000 dead is the best he can do. We should be thankful it wasn't 5000 dead.
