{"id":45834,"date":"2020-07-05T13:45:29","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T20:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=45834"},"modified":"2020-07-05T14:18:06","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T21:18:06","slug":"really-trump-is-afraid-that-electing-biden-would-lead-to-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=45834","title":{"rendered":"REALLY? Trump is Afraid that Electing Biden &#8216;Would Lead To Disaster&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States of America is currently undergoing one of the most troubling and turbulent times in its short history. The American people are suffering hardships that have not been imagined for decades. The list of leadership failures under <em>&#8220;president&#8221;<\/em> Donald Trump are almost too numerous to mention. But the consequences are far too too painful to ignore.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-fear-shadow.jpg\" alt=\"Trump Fear\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41448\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/3681166958564739\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Advs\/fb-share-tn.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"20\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international pandemic has hit the U.S. especially hard, resulting in the deaths of 130,000 people, many of which would have been avoidable if we had competent leadership. The economy is in recession, and 20 million people are unemployed. Our allies are either laughing at us or pitying us, while our adversaries are gladly exploiting opportunities to achieve hostile objectives they have long sought. And in the midst of these calamities, Trump has the unmitigated gall to tweet that the policies of President Joe Biden&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Would lead to disaster! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rDB69MKz6f\">https:\/\/t.co\/rDB69MKz6f<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1279506263370616833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 4, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Seriously? This makes you wonder just where Trump thinks his policies have led us. If we are not already in the throes of an epic disaster, then what would one look like? Biden would somehow have to put the Earth in the path of massive asteroid to satisfy Trump&#8217;s idea of disaster.<\/p>\n<p>The spark that triggered Trump&#8217;s latest tantrum was an <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/biden-promises-to-undo-most-of-the-trump-tax-cuts\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a><\/strong> in the ultra-rightist Washington Examiner. The article reported on remarks that Biden made to high-dollar donors at a recent fundraiser:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;In a donor meeting Monday evening, Biden said he was &#8216;going to to get rid of the bulk of Trump&#8217;s $2 trillion tax cut.&#8217; He added about President Trump&#8217;s 2017 tax law, enacted with a Republican Senate and a House then under Republican control, &#8216;A lot of you may not like that, but I&#8217;m going to close loopholes like capital gains and stepped-up basis,&#8217; mentioning the numerous wealthy people in attendance virtually.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Naturally Trump regards this as a disaster since it would adversely affect him and his upper-crust pals in the GOP (Greedy One Percent). But you have to give Biden credit for telling prospective donors &#8211; and the very people whose taxes would be raised &#8211; that this is what he intends to do. Fortunately, there are some in the high income group who understand the need to raise taxes in order to <em>&#8220;promote the general Welfare&#8221;<\/em> (as the Constitution says), and that they are the ones who can best afford it. In the end, the reduction of the deficit, and the benefit to the overall economy, will serve the interests of the wealthy as well. It&#8217;s working people who drive economic prosperity. Without consumers the corporations will wither and die.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s Tax Scam was never a good idea. It was intended to further enrich the already wealthy, and to entice them to contribute to Republican campaigns. The benefits of the tax cuts were distributed overwhelming to the rich. But in the wake of Trump&#8217;s catastrophic negligence, incompetence, and even deliberate malfeasance, many of the most reliable right-wingers are abandoning ship.<\/p>\n<p>Biden&#8217;s pledge to reverse Trump&#8217;s tax cuts include raising the top corporate tax bracket from 21% to 28%. Which is still below the 35% it was at prior to Trump&#8217;s cuts. However, it would help to bring the budget closer to balance and, of more immediate concern, raise funds to help the American people, small businesses, and local governments weather the pandemic storm. It&#8217;s exactly the sort of progressive agenda that&#8217;s needed at this critical juncture.<\/p>\n<p>As for Trump&#8217;s priorities, they remain precisely what they&#8217;ve been since the day he announced his candidacy by disparaging Latinos as criminals and rapists. His recent Independence Day speeches were <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=45828\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">littered with racist dog whistles<\/a><\/strong>, or more accurately, foghorns. Judging by the content of his speeches, the most pressing national problems are protecting the statues of Confederate traitors and suppressing the First Amendment rights of citizens protesting injustice and systemic racism. On these matters Trump believes that the if the people are allowed to exercise their rights&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This would be the beginning of the end. He has no clue, but he wouldn\u2019t be calling the shots!!! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cHnSh3p69N\">https:\/\/t.co\/cHnSh3p69N<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1279504269784289281?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 4, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear who Trump thinks would be <em>&#8220;calling the shots&#8221;<\/em> in the Biden administration, but his list would surely include Hillary Clinton, George Soros, and the ghost of Osama Bin Laden. For the record,  Kimberley Strassel, a Trump-fluffing Wall Street Journal columnist, misrepresented Biden&#8217;s remarks. Biden was not asked if he would <em>&#8220;condemn&#8221;<\/em> the protesters, only what he thought should be done about the offensive monuments. And only a seriously deranged mind could interpret Biden&#8217;s answer to be the ominous foreshadowing of <em>&#8220;the beginning of the end.&#8221;<\/em> Luckily for Trump, that&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=45820\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">exactly the kind of mind he has<\/a><\/strong>. And it has led us unarguably to the disaster that he now says he fears.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States of America is currently undergoing one of the most troubling and turbulent times in its short history. The American people are suffering hardships that have not been imagined for decades. The list of leadership failures under &#8220;president&#8221; Donald Trump are almost too numerous to mention. But the consequences are far too too [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[219,152,1,1200,8,16],"tags":[554,1141,1140,377,1143,407],"class_list":["post-45834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-election","category-general","category-politics","category-propaganda","category-wankery","tag-donald-trump","tag-economy","tag-election","tag-joe-biden","tag-racism","tag-taxes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-fear-shadow.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-bVg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":47338,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=47338","url_meta":{"origin":45834,"position":0},"title":"Closing Rant: Fox News Publishes Trump Op-Ed Filled with Flagrant Lies","author":"Mark NC","date":"10\/30\/2020","format":false,"excerpt":"With four days left before election day, Donald Trump somehow managed to get Fox News to publish his closing arguments in an op-ed on their website. 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