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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI just burst into tears
My husband and I were watching the local evening news when the story of the man and wife who listened to impotus and took some variation of the chloroquine drug he was pushing to cure Covid-19. He died and the wife was being interviewed from ICU/critical care. All I could think of was impotus killed her husband and left her a widow. I looked at my wonderful husband and just broke down.
taking an additive used to clean fish tanks known as chloroquine phosphate, similar to the drug used to treat malaria.
MLAA
(17,165 posts)The real President Obama would never mention an unproven cure by name and leave any room for this kind of tragedy to happen
Initech
(99,915 posts)I'm not a violent person, but I would give literally anything to see that happen right now. He's going to get a whole lot more people killed because he's such a POS. Just a punch or a slap across the face, anything. I'm not picky.
MLAA
(17,165 posts)I think that might hurt him more than physical pain.
Hmmmm his hairpiece falls off, he literally shots himself during one of his televised propaganda briefings. I know not very creative, but Im so upset I just want him to suffer like the poor widow is suffering.
Initech
(99,915 posts)But he's such a blithering psychopath that I don't think him getting punched would do it. This might be the scariest thing to happen to the country if he gets his way. He would essentially be committing genocide.
A HERETIC I AM
(24,320 posts)For someone to be humiliated, it seems to me there has to be some level of concern or care in that person.
Trumpy is notably devoid of those characteristics.
Initech
(99,915 posts)But he continually pushes everyone else's buttons. He's simply put a psychopath. How do you humiliate a psychopath?
SilasSouleII
(357 posts)At the white house correspondiente dinner. That was his driver to get revenge on Obama.
A HERETIC I AM
(24,320 posts)He is always complaining how this or that person or entity is "unfair" to him.
I wonder exactly what he thought, while he sat there being the butt of Obama's rapier wit.
Other than "I'll show you, you.....blah blahblah"
Ponietz
(2,905 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)There are people right here on DU who are older and compromised who have talked about their futures, and there are nurses and doctors here, and people who have family members who are compromised.
In my life I know three people who have health conditions that put them in danger.
Theres a lot to cry about right now.
And Trump just compounds the worst parts on a daily, no, hourly basis.
MLAA
(17,165 posts)cry when I am very touched or happy. But this time the tears came out in a torrent of anger and I couldnt stop. My husband is like your three people, very high risk. Our concern for them is probably always there just below the surface and then come bursting up every so often.
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Flaleftist
(3,473 posts)This is such a fucked up situation.
BigmanPigman
(51,432 posts)become more bizarre, it does. Americans are dumber than dirt to listen to anything he says, yet they follow his every word as gospel.
MLAA
(17,165 posts)No matter how low he goes, the next day he goes lower. And no matter how low his voters are, they can still follow his ignorant amoral ass lower.
Jarqui
(10,110 posts)When the knowhow is there and we don't have the tools or people in place to deal with the volume that is about to hit and people over 65 have to be left for dead, I won't be able to watch such an avoidable, gut wrenching catastrophe
House of Roberts
(5,122 posts)A man thought aquarium cleaner with the same name as the anti-viral drug chloroquine would prevent coronavirus. It killed him.
MLAA
(17,165 posts)It just hit so close. And, of course she sounded so distraught and said it was because Trump told them it was good.
House of Roberts
(5,122 posts)What were these people thinking?
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)that their esteemed president has to say. He's the greatest danger to those who revere him the most.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)heard a report that isopropyl alcohol kills the coronavirus, and drank a bottle of it. Equally tragic, and equally stupid.
Happy Hoosier
(7,080 posts)That know that orange fucker is a liar. Now one died for their refusal to acknowledge it.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,746 posts)enough to do what that couple did. Aquarium cleaner? Really? I just hope that had not already reproduced.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)The fact that it happened to only this one couple shows that the stupid was not widespread. Sometimes, the highest aspiration a person can achieve is being a good example of a bad example.