Prickly City by Scott Stantis for October 28, 2020

It’s only been Halloween every day since 2016…

230,000 Americans dead from the virus.

Advancing to herd mentality.

Trump Disiciples celebrating covid deaths.

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Yeah. Different.

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#TraitorTrump

As if 2019 wasn’t dundant enough, 2020 had to be redundant!

I was going to say: Like the mail, three days late.

Actually it will be Saturday

In the beginning of July Kansas’ Democratic Governor issued a state wide mask mandate.

The Republican controlled legislature countered by passing a law that gave mask mandate authority to the counties and not the Governor.

None of the “Red” counties have a mask mandate while the “Blue” counties do have a mask mandate.

“The KU researchers demonstrated Kansas counties without the mask order experienced a surge in coronavirus infection rates that climbed from about 10 cases per 100,0000 in July to nearly 40 cases per 100,000 in October. The number of cases for counties covered by the mask order plateaued since July at around 20 cases per 100,000.”

https://shawneemissionpost.com/2020/10/25/ku-study-concludes-county-mask-mandates-in-kansas-have-stalled-major-rise-in-covid-19-104860/

Masks are not 100% effective against the spread of the coronavirus BUT THEY HELP SLOW THE SPREAD!

Be smart. Wear a mask, mandate or not.

Trump’s rallies have left a trail of Covid clusters across the United States.

One county in Wisconsin sees 67 per cent increase in cases in the two weeks after event.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2020/10/22/trumps-campaign-made-stops-nationwide-then-coronavirus-cases-surged/3679534001/

Be smart. Wear a mask, mandate or not.

Well it doesn’t look like we will have a COVID vaccine before the election. Maybe by January, maybe. But here’s the thing. The vaccines currently in phase 3 trials do not kill the virus, they suppress the symptoms. Suppressing the symptoms will save lives but you can still have enough of a virus load to spread the disease.

https://www.aol.com/article/finance/2020/10/27/fauci-early-covid-19-vaccines-will-only-prevent-symptoms-not-block-the-virus/24664896/

Be smart. Wear a mask, vaccine or not.

It really is disconcerting when I notice that Winslow hovers over his feet… Same when Harry makes a non-fascist statement.

Trump is angry that the campaign isn’t being waged in the universe he tried to manufacture for it, one in which the most serious threat to civil society right now is organized violent left-wing terrorism.

Trump has devoted extraordinary resources to the creation of this universe. Last spring his campaign dumped at least $20 million into ads depicting the terrifying police-free dystopia that Joe Biden would allegedly create. Many of his senior law enforcement and national security officials lent official credence to an absurdly exaggerated depiction of the leftist threat.

The Biden response to this was to point out that Trump’s “law and order” rhetoric is a smokescreen for deliberately stoking white backlash while working to encourage and politically profit from violent civil strife. This was illustrated with ads suggesting that Trump encourages white supremacy and vigilante violence by his supporters.

Of course, all of that is exactly what Trump has been doing, as senior adviser Kellyanne Conway revealed when she admitted to the calculation that violence helps him politically. Yet this wasn’t supposed to be exposed. He was supposed to get away with stoking white backlash while making the debate all about exaggerated impressions of leftist violence.

And so, when Trump rages about being pressed on his flirtation with white supremacy, and insists we should be talking about antifa instead, he’s raging that he isn’t being allowed to dictate this campaign’s reality with impunity.

Indeed, the new Department of Homeland Security threat assessment — an official government document, as opposed to public statements from political appointees — concludes that white supremacist extremists pose the deadliest domestic terror threat. The fact that Biden is winning the “law and order” argument suggests reality is trumping the president‘s recasting of it.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/10/16/trumps-rage-nbc-town-hall-exposes-an-ugly-truth-about-2020/

Lesley Stahl gets security protection after death threat over Trump ‘60 Minutes’ interview: report (nydailynews.com)

When the toughest question she asked was, “Are you ready for some tough questions?”, I’m thinking it was the recipient and not the line of questioning that was the problem.

The party of f- your feelings is very mad someone gave their dear leader a tough interview. He is a poor man’s idea of a rich man, a weak man’s idea of a tough man and dumb man’s idea of a smart man.

Being overly concerned with ‘tough’ image and alpha male memes is a 100% reliable way to spot very fragile people. See also: ammosexuals