{"id":28200,"date":"2020-04-02T22:41:01","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T03:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=28200"},"modified":"2020-04-02T22:41:01","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T03:41:01","slug":"why-any-trump-supporter-should-stop-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/04\/02\/why-any-trump-supporter-should-stop-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Any Trump Supporter Should Stop Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With one chart, any Trump cultist reader is confronted with a question: <em>Do you believe the President is an inveterate liar?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If yes, then you must explain why you embrace such a liar, and, BTW, who taught you that it&#8217;s OK to lie nearly as often as you take a breath? I&#8217;m not kidding, nor am I being provocative. That&#8217;s simply how it is with him.<\/p>\n<p>And if you <strong>don&#8217;t<\/strong> think he&#8217;s a liar, then you have a far, far bigger problem. Here&#8217;s the <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>chart of doom<\/strong><\/em><\/span> (I apologize for its clumsiness, I have not mastered <em><strong>Datawrapper<\/strong><\/em>):<\/p>\n<p><iframe id=\"datawrapper-chart-LOma8\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" title=\"Trump Campaign Rally Timeline\" src=\"\/\/datawrapper.dwcdn.net\/LOma8\/1\/\" height=\"487\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" aria-label=\"Interactive line chart\"><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">!function(){\"use strict\";window.addEventListener(\"message\",function(a){if(void 0!==a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"])for(var e in a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"]){var t=document.getElementById(\"datawrapper-chart-\"+e)||document.querySelector(\"iframe[src*='\"+e+\"']\");t&&(t.style.height=a.data[\"datawrapper-height\"][e]+\"px\")}})}();\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s this? This is a timeline of Trump&#8217;s reelection campaign rallies, along with two dated tags: The one where he proclaims he knew it was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/trump-claims-he-has-always-known-coronavirus-is-a-real-pandemic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">terrible pandemic all along<\/a> (17 March 2020), and, giving him the benefit of the doubt, a tag only one month before, 17 Feb 2020. What do they show?<\/p>\n<p>They show campaign rallies in Phoenix, Colorado Springs, Las Vegas, North Charleson, and Charlotte, with a total estimated attendance of <strong>62,000<\/strong>. The dates were taken from Wikipedia, the link is in the chart; the estimated attendances were found in various sources, either <strong><em>Heavy.com<\/em><\/strong> (which is either pro-Trump or neutral, I couldn&#8217;t really tell) or local news sources.\u00a0But the point, of course, is that a campaign rally is a prime place to spread the virus that causes <strong>COVID-19<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right. If President Trump is not the inveterate and compulsive liar that the records show that he is, then he purposefully and maliciously lured his own supporters into a situation where a debilitating and sometimes deadly virus can infect them. And then they could go out and infect all of their friends and relatives.<\/p>\n<p>For my outraged Trump-supporting reader, this is not a pack of lies to enrage you, and, unless you have personally visited a New York City hospital and verified the reports of ICUs being overwhelmed and hundreds dead are all lies, you&#8217;re stuck, before God and anything you may hold holy, with a harsh and grating question, and it&#8217;s not <em>why you&#8217;re not planning to drop out of the Trump cult tomorrow.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>IT&#8217;S WHY AREN&#8217;T YOU CALLING FOR TRUMP&#8217;s IMMEDIATE RESIGNATION?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s how serious &#8211; and simple &#8211; of a moral question this has become.<\/p>\n<p>I suggest my conservative readers who&#8217;ve made it this far just accept that he&#8217;s a compulsive liar, and try to figure out how you can live with that fact, instead. The other proposition &#8211; that he deliberately ignored the good health of his supporters &#8211; should make you physically ill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With one chart, any Trump cultist reader is confronted with a question: Do you believe the President is an inveterate liar? If yes, then you must explain why you embrace such a liar, and, BTW, who taught you that it&#8217;s OK to lie nearly as often as you take a \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/04\/02\/why-any-trump-supporter-should-stop-now\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28201,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28200\/revisions\/28201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}