Knockin' on Heaven's Door

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

A packed crowd of hundreds gathered in North Carolina for a Donald Trump campaign rally on Tuesday, with many people forgoing masks, in defiance of state guidelines capping gatherings at 50 people.

Ahead of the president’s visit to Winston-Salem, the chair of the local county commission, a Republican, urged Trump to wear a face mask. The state has a mask requirement in place to slow the spread of coronavirus.

“It’s been ordered by the governor,” said Dave Plyler, the Republican chairman of the Forsyth county board of commissioners, according to the Winston-Salem Journal. “When in Rome, do as the Romans do. When in North Carolina, do as the governor says.”

Trump “is a citizen of the United States, but he is also a guest in our county”, Plyler said. “Without a mask, he could get sick, and he could blame the governor.”

However Trump did not wear a mask, and used the event to mock his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, for following social distancing guidelines. “You ever see the gyms with the circles?” he said, an apparent reference to a Biden event held in a school gymnasium with attendees observing social distancing guidelines.

Nearly 178,000 people in North Carolina have tested positive Covid-19, with more than 1,000 cases reported on Tuesday – though the number of cases and deaths are slowly trending downward.

Recent polls have found Trump locked in a close race with Biden in North Carolina. As the coronavirus pandemic rages on, the president has often sought to focus on the economy and policing rather than the virus.

While supporters waited for Trump to arrive, Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door played over the loudspeakers, making for an inadvertently dark soundtrack.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/08/trump-rally-north-carolina-mask

 

[KeepTalking]

A packed crowd of hundreds gathered in North Carolina for a Donald Trump campaign rally on Tuesday, with many people forgoing masks, in defiance of state guidelines capping gatherings at 50 people.

Ahead of the president’s visit to Winston-Salem, the chair of the local county commission, a Republican, urged Trump to wear a face mask. The state has a mask requirement in place to slow the spread of coronavirus.

“It’s been ordered by the governor,” said Dave Plyler, the Republican chairman of the Forsyth county board of commissioners, according to the Winston-Salem Journal. “When in Rome, do as the Romans do. When in North Carolina, do as the governor says.”

Trump “is a citizen of the United States, but he is also a guest in our county”, Plyler said. “Without a mask, he could get sick, and he could blame the governor.”

However Trump did not wear a mask, and used the event to mock his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, for following social distancing guidelines. “You ever see the gyms with the circles?” he said, an apparent reference to a Biden event held in a school gymnasium with attendees observing social distancing guidelines.

Nearly 178,000 people in North Carolina have tested positive Covid-19, with more than 1,000 cases reported on Tuesday – though the number of cases and deaths are slowly trending downward.

Recent polls have found Trump locked in a close race with Biden in North Carolina. As the coronavirus pandemic rages on, the president has often sought to focus on the economy and policing rather than the virus.

While supporters waited for Trump to arrive, Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door played over the loudspeakers, making for an inadvertently dark soundtrack.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/08/trump-rally-north-carolina-mask

Momma take this mask from me
I don't need it any more
The Covid cloud is all around
Feels like I'm knockin' on heaven's door

 

[Swammerdami]

The Trump campaign is notorious both for playing copyrighted songs without permission, and for lacking any clue what a song is about. They apparently guessed from the title that Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A." was a patriotic song. Similarly, the Dylan song "Knocking on Heaven's Door" might have been chosen by some hack who knew nothing about the song's lyrics except one word in the title.

When histories of this catastrophic epoch are written decades from now, the sheer stupidity of Trump and his team will be a major theme. It is a source of continual amazement that 63 million Americans voted for this despicable moron.

 

[hurtinbuckaroo]

The Trump campaign is notorious both for playing copyrighted songs without permission, and for lacking any clue what a song is about. They apparently guessed from the title that Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A." was a patriotic song. Similarly, the Dylan song "Knocking on Heaven's Door" might have been chosen by some hack who knew nothing about the song's lyrics except one word in the title.

When histories of this catastrophic epoch are written decades from now, the sheer stupidity of Trump and his team will be a major theme. It is a source of continual amazement that 63 million Americans voted for this despicable moron.

What’s truly amazing is that at least 50 million are ready to do it again.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

I keep wondering why covid is not sweeping through the White House. Maybe there is a Satan and he is keeping Trump and his GOP colleagues alive to do his work.

 

[ideologyhunter]

"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one."
"We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object, and go mad in its pursuit...till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first."
-Charles Mackay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1841)