What..... the..... actual..... fuck?????

This guy is senile.

Trunp doesn't know how to take responsibility for his failures. When he loses in November he will probably blame everyone but himself. 

I'm not sure what you mean by backpedaling on the virus.  He seems to be running into the breach to me.  Sad part is that he actually was doing a very good job through May (no matter the narrative).  The country beat back the virus pretty well and, the New York cluster aside, most states got off relatively light because they shut down early.

Then the riots happened and the media decided the virus didn't matter for a few weeks.  Instead of Trump chastising them and reminding them of the dangers he accepted their judgement.  This did two things.  First, it took the rioters and protesters off the hook.  If Trump had stayed on message, right now he could be blaming them for the re-emergence of the virus.  Second, when the media inevitably got their amnesia and decided that the virus threat again, it allowed them to blame Trump, who had stopped taking the threat seriously and, by then, deserved ownership for it.

Sadly, the reason that Trump was good those first two months was out of self-interest.  He was being judged on his performance, so he performed well.  As best he was able, he was Santa Claus to the states, he was listening to the experts, and he did have his eye on the long term.  The split with the riots let Trump think that the virus was something that was politicized.  He then believed that it was in his self-interest to take a side and somehow personalize the issue.

In any case, the bottom might well be about to fall out on him.  Would be nice if he could somehow be persuaded to drop out before the Republican convention about 40 days from now, but I doubt it.

Man, dont do it. Dont stop talking to people or cutting relations with them because of political/religious or whatever reasons. We are already too divided and its just getting worse. I have friends that are literally communists and even a few anarchists, and being a religious person I even have friends that basically hate religions. Never ceased my relationships with none of them because of it. We just dont talk about it and instead focus on things we enjoy.

What happened in my country since 2013 is just sad, even people inside families dont talk to each other any more and even some cases of parents vs sons/daughters.

I respect your decision but really, it just makes things worse. 

The citizens of Catalonia tried voting on a referendum themselves that politicians didn't want. It didn't go so well. I'd hope the US government wouldn't be so heavy handed in their dealing of it, but with the reputation of the US police being what it is... don't hold your breath!

Although even if they did allow it, it wouldn't hold any legal weight or actually change anything so... eh.

Plus proportional representation isn't really possible for the presidential election. There's only 1 president. You can't have them be 40% democrat, 30% republican and so on

Still it would surely be better to just have the senate use proportional representation instead.

Personally, my ideal system for the presidential election would be to just have it as a winner takes all election, although based on voter preference (ie. if nobody gets 50% then the weakest candidate is removed and their votes are changed to those people's 2nd choice until there's a winner). And also for it not to have any party system. So you vote for the individual candidate, rather than the party. That would allow multiple candidates from the same party to run, without harming each other too much and also give independents a chance to win. While their power would still be limited by the make-up of the senate.

Still it would surely be better to just have the senate use proportional representation instead.

Personally, my ideal system for the presidential election would be to just have it as a winner takes all election, although based on voter preference (ie. if nobody gets 50% then the weakest candidate is removed and their votes are changed to those people's 2nd choice until there's a winner). And also for it not to have any party system. So you vote for the individual candidate, rather than the party. That would allow multiple candidates from the same party to run, without harming each other too much and also give independents a chance to win. While their power would still be limited by the make-up of the senate.