What’s on my mind?
“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country …” - Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States (in an essay originally published in Metropolitan Magazine, May 1918).
“Operation Warp Speed, launched in May, is a massive scientific, industrial, + logistical endeavor unlike anything seen since the Manhattan Project …” - @IvankaTrump, Nov. 9, 2020 tweet
The mid- July, 1945 Manhattan Project was the first detonation of a nuclear weapon - Wikipedia
“70 million pissed off republicans and not one city burned to the ground.” - @DonaldJTrumpJr, Nov. 7, 2020 pinned tweet
Numerous retweets about “voter suppression, irregularities, and fraud” as well as a website and phone number to “Tell us what you are seeing … Report a case.” - @EricTrump - Nov. 10 retweet
“It’s all starting to crumble” - @EricTrump - Nov. 10 tweet
“URGENT: We Will Not Win in Georgia Unless YOU Get Involved, Call the Governor NOW” - @seanhannity, Fox News journalist, Nov. 10 tweet
And this, on the Twitter account of Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States, Nov. 10, with a cautionary note from Twitter:
Trump has tweeted versions of this over and over. It’s the old story: When you’re a hammer, everything looks like a nail. When you're a cheater, everyone looks like a cheater.
And also this, from a Republican friend in Washington state.
“I knew a 28-year-old who got COVID and died on the 15th day. I knew a woman who was perfectly healthy and died in less than a week. The virus is real and it’s dangerous.”
Her brother and sister-in-law believe masks, social distancing and COVID are fake. Hardline Trump supporters, they also believe the election was stolen.
© Nicole Parton, 2020
