COVID19 Update - Day 197

US Tests: 94,293,851*

US Cases: 6,897,596*

US Deaths: 193,912*

Worldwide Cases: 31,778,331*

Worldwide Deaths: 974,436*

* - Numbers are a lower bound.  True numbers are being suppressed by the Trump administration

Unbelievably --- even though we're still in the middle of a pandemic which has claimed more than 193,000 lives, and even though Trump is clearly guilty of gross malfeasance and neglect in allowing that to happen --- the pandemic has almost completely vanished from the news.

And sadly, I would have to say that it's justified.  Because Trump continues to crank the malfeasance up to eleven:

When asked by Playboy’s senior White House reporter Brian Karem on whether there will be a peaceful transferral of power after the election, citing the unrest that has erupted in Louisville and many cities across the country during protests against police brutality, Trump offered a noncommittal reply.

“Well, we’re going to have to see what happens,” Trump said.

The President went on to gripe “very strongly about the ballots” because they are a “disaster,” as he continued waging his crusade against states expanding access to mail-in voting amid the COVID-19 pandemic, which he baselessly claims will lead to voter fraud.

Pressed again by Karem about whether he can ensure that there’s a peaceful transferral of power if he were to lose the November election, the self-proclaimed President of “law and order” largely ignored the question by continuing his rant against mail-in voting.

“Get rid of the ballots and you’ll have a very peaceful — there won’t be a transfer, frankly. There will be a continuation. The ballots are out of control. You know it,” Trump said. “And you know who knows it better than anybody else? Democrats know it better than anybody else.”

There are no circumstances under which a sitting president should ever say that we need to 'get rid of the ballots', especially right before an election.  It's immediately disqualifying.  And although it's been said many times, many ways --- if any other president had said this, the calls for his resignation would be deafening, and he would almost certainly have to step down.

Trump needs to be impeached.  Again.  It doesn't matter that the election is less than 6 weeks away.

Call your representative and demand Trump's immediate impeachment.  Keep calling until you get through.