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And Europeans haven't demonstrated hatred of each other over the last 2000 years? In the last 106 years, Europeans did their best to annihilate each other twice. Italian/Swedish is a common mix in the Jamestown area where about 50% of the population have some Swedish ancestry, while Italians have been a major ethnic group in Jamestown since the early 1900s. While Lord Protector of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales in the mid-17th century, Oliver Cromwell dispossessed thousands of Irish Catholics and replaced them with Scottish Protestants. That was all part of the widespread religious warfare throughout Europe in the 17th century, and the source of "The Troubles" that erupted in Northern Ireland in the late 20th century. Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns is a prize winning book on "the Great Migration", which saw millions of Southern Blacks leave the South for the Northeast, Midwest, and Far West between 1915 and about 1970. So, do you want a medal???? The fact is that until the early 1920s, EVERYBODY who came into the US was LEGAL because there were no laws limiting entry into the US except for illness, disability, or mental incapacity, in which case you were sent back to Europe. For several decades after the 1920s, the US allowed largely unrestricted immigration into the US from Western Hemisphere countries. It was only in the 1980s that all those descendants of European immigrants in Cali, Arizona, and Texas began worrying that those brown people from south of the Rio Grande who picked their crops and cleaned their houses for slave-labor wages were staying in the country rather than returning to Mexico and points south.

To summarize -- "Ah ain't no racist, but them Nigrahs are just so ungrateful fo' us freein' them from slavery 155 years ago!"

The ironic thing is that doing the right thing -- not politicizing Covid-19, insisting that states only open when they met the metrics established by the various public health experts, and leading by example by simply wearing a mask, not encouraging mass indoor gatherings, etc -- would have made Trump appear to be a competent leader dealing with a great crisis rather than a meglomaniac who doesn't care how many Americans suffer so he can be re-elected. That he was too stupid and too narcissistic to put anything above his own wants has demonstrated to the American people just how unfit for the office of POTUS Trump is.

Since I'm not a Trumplet, I've got a whole lot more cylinders in my brain than 1. I was simply responding to the OP's whining about hiding earnings.

July 9, 2020 -- the positivity rate for coronavirus in NY over the last 7 days has fallen to 1.13% while the positivity rate in Arizona for the same period is 26.81%, in Florida 19.06, and in Texas 15.59. Multiple states report record deaths and coronavirus hospitalizations. Trump continues to claim that the rising coronavirus cases are because of increased testing despite the fact that the number of positive case are rising faster than the rising number of tests. Trump -- "We did everything right." "We saved millions of lives."

However will tax cheats, criminals, and other ne'er-do-wells hide their $$$ if they can't use cash to hide their transactions?

Trump was an undergraduate at Fordham when he transferred to Penn to finish his undergraduate degree. That's what he needed the SATs for. Did he actually complete his degree at Penn? He would have needed to score well on his GREs to be admitted to Wharton. Did he actually attend and graduate from Wharton? Trump's bragged on his great academic record but he's never produced his college transcripts, so who knows?

When I took the SATs in the 1960s in NYS, they were offered in HS in smaller cities and some larger suburbs. In rural districts, where there weren't all that many students, sometimes students had to go to a neighboring high school or local community college to take them. In larger cities and metros, they were offered in central locations, sometimes high schools but frequently at local colleges. Moreover, Trump wasn't in HS when he took the SATs to get into Penn; he was a student at Fordham University.

Someone with half a brain would be a major improvement. Exactly. Every time Covid Donnie opens his mouth, he demonstrates his total unfitness to be POTUS. He's a walking, ranting political ad for Biden.

July 7, 2020 - US sets single day record of 55,274 new cases of Covid-19 while Covid Donnie claims "we're in a good place" in regards to the pandemic.

If it wasn't "real", why did Trump and his sycophants try so desperately to prevent the book from being published?

None of which even remotely resemble the one in which the United States of America exists in 2020.

In what alternative universe?

What has any of that to do Covid Donnie's lies about the seriousness of the Covid-19 pandemic?

The last time I looked, 1% of 3 million -- nearly the number of confirmed covid-19 cases in the US as of today -- is 30,000. There have currently been more than 130,000 deaths from Covid-19 in the US for a death rate of about 4.4%, which is a much higher death rate than in several European and Asian countries. You might look up exactly what IFR -- infection fatality rate -- means before you use it. It's a ratio that uses estimates of the number of undiagnosed cases as well as actually diagnosed cases to measure the severity of an infectious disease. It does NOT mean that only x of diagnosed cases are likely to result in death. Most importantly, "harm" is not a synonym for "death". That's only the worst outcome. About 20% of individuals who test positive for Covid-19 end up in the hospital. About 20% of hospitalized individuals end up in the ICU. Several studies of asymptomatic Covid-19 victims has shown a significant percentage suffer lung damage similar to that of "walking pneumonia". Many individuals who contract Covid-19, even younger people, take weeks or months to recover. Pregnant women who contract Covid-19 are likely to end up in the ICU. The good news is that Covid-19 does not seem to spread in utero, so babies can be born virus free. Most rational people who have half a brain recognize that Covid Donnie and his sycophants inhabit an alternative universe.

Of course it was a "mistake" ... whoever did it left Melania Trump (then Melania Knauss) in the cropped photo but with Covid Donnie's hand around her waist apparently blacked out.

According to Trump, "99% of Covid-19 cases are harmless" despite soaring hospitalization rates threatening to overwhelm health care systems in several states including Texas and Florida. The families of the 129,576 victims of Covid-19 might also disagree.

Luckily my dog isn't bothered by loud noises ... the noise has led my cats to retreat to the house before dark, though, which is rare on warm summer evenings.

I've heard lots of what sound like M80s in neighborhood but no sirens. It's early yet, though.

Do you know what fickle means?

Carter is nothing like Trump. Carter's failures as POTUS stemmed from simply not being good enough to deal effectively with the challenges that he faced in office. That's not traitorous or criminal or evil. After leaving office, he gained stature for his many humanitarian endeavors in this country and around the world. His has always been a voice for compassion, and he'll be remembered as a good man if not a good POTUS. Trump's failures as POTUS stem from his narcissism and stupidity. He'll be remembered as the worst POTUS, easily outdistancing James Buchanan and Warren G. Harding, who chose to ignore the worst crisis the country has faced in the last seventy years in order to stoke racism and division in his quest for a second term.

Trump was "protesting, rioting and looting"? I thought he was simply doing what he always does: demonstrating his unfitness for the office of POTUS.

Has every race in America been enslaved for 250 years, deprived of their rights as American citizens for another 100+ years, and subjected to widespread racial violence up to the present day? The Black national anthem, "Lift Every Voice and Sing" is a poem written by James Weldon Johnson in 1905 and set to music by his brother J. Rosalind Weldon. It was named the "***** national anthem" by the NCAAP in 1919. It's included in more than 30 different hymnals and is sung in numerous churches across the country, and not just in black churches. That you and so many white Americans have never heard of the existence of a "Black national anthem" is a reflection of how much of the history of Black Americans has been buried.

Obama didn't visit there in the midst of a worsening pandemic that's already killed more than 129,000 Americans despite the warnings of public health officials.

July 4, 2020 - 129,437 Americans have died from Covid 19 July 4, 2020 - Covid 19 cases are rising in 37 states July 4, 2020 - Covid 19 cases are dropping in only 1 state, Vermont' July 4, 2020 - Despite protests from Washington, DC mayor, Muriel Bowser that it will spread the corona virus, the Trump administration will still hold the Fourth of July celebrations on the National Mall.