Looks like certain parts of the USA will be the test cases for what happens when you re-open businesses before the rate of infection has dropped to a very low level and before you can test, isolate, and treat.
I think
if one positive thing comes of all this...it will be that Trump will be shown the door this fall.
- His "pandemic bounce" approval rating has evaporated and he's actually at a fresh low..even his favourite ratings provider has him at a fresh low. This is NOT normal and not in line with every other world leader that is handling this seriously and properly and who are seeing their approval ratings skyrocket. This is typical in this sort of situation where the country rallies around it's leader. Even our own JT is at 70+% approval right now. Trump is at 43% again, and headed lower.
- Even republican governors are starting to break rank and are basically calling him a liar for most of his covid related claims now like "anyone can get a test" and "were sending states everything they ask for". I honestly think that as things get worse and worse down there and we see NYC repeat itself at big cities across the USA we're going to see a schism. As much as republican governors and such have been willing to rally around Trump, if things go to hell in a handbasket in the weeks and months ahead, I'm starting to smell the signs of a mutiny, and I think when it starts, if things are bad, it's going to be a steamroller where lots of other fed up republicans realize the floodgates are open and call out Trump.
- The sane people (who still amount to the majority versus the small percentage that voted him in) will be
insanely motivated to hit the polls after this whole dogs breakfast (ESPECIALLY if this premature and haphazard reopening prolongs things) come November. Even if his base turns out 100% (which we know won't happen, especially since a lot of them may be sick and/or bankrupt after
being sick) he won't be able to overcome the majority. This majority learned the hard way in 2016 that they can't sit on their hands any longer without bad things happening, and they've been living that nightmare now for 3.5 years. They WILL come out.
Canada Post is going to need a thorough review (and likely a flogging) after this mess clears.
I ordered a semi non-essential item from amazon (case to keep the kid's tablet for learning alive for more than five minutes) on Apr 6. Understandably, not at the top of Amazon's priority list, expected delivery May 6.
Amazon as a whole has been a mess recently. Order times are showing 3-5 weeks out for me now, and the whole "under promise and over deliver" thing doesn't seem to be holding true as an order I made in early April is still showing May 5'th for delivery.
Some people are speculating on Trumpy counting on a November second wave to disrupt the election. At this rate that might be a 5th wave. Will they learn from the 2nd wave or just keep oscillating between protests and death?
With Louisiana and Georgia delaying their primary votes, we answer six key questions about holding elections in a crisis. And no, a president cannot cancel an election with executive authority.
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He can't just cancel it without much effort, most of which isn't likely to happen.
And even if he does, he can't push it back more than a month or so anyways as per their constitution, which he claims to hold so dearly.
But face it he's never actually read.
The date of the general election is set by federal law and has been fixed since 1845. It would take a change in federal law to move that date. That would mean legislation enacted by Congress, signed by the president and subject to challenge in the courts.
To call that unlikely would be an understatement.
And even if all of that happened, there would not be much flexibility in choosing an alternate election date: The Constitution mandates that the new Congress must be sworn in on Jan. 3, and that the new president’s term must begin on Jan. 20. Those dates cannot be changed just by the passage of normal legislation.
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