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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSOME tweets age wonderfully (read: horrifyingly) well, like this one from May 5, 2017:
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SOME tweets age wonderfully (read: horrifyingly) well, like this one from May 5, 2017: (Original Post)
tblue37
Apr 2020
OP
empedocles
(15,751 posts)1. Remarkable
DFW
(54,277 posts)3. I'll bet that was considered a fantasy prediction at the time!
Very prescient.
wnylib
(21,336 posts)10. Very logical. Cut the staff and funding
for handling epidemics and pandemics in a world where international travel is commonplace and what do you get?
Logically, this was very predictable. However, given Trump's skill at spin, honed over a lifetime of con games, dissembling, and shell games, it remains to be seen whether this will be his Katrina.
hkp11
(275 posts)4. Wow! That is an unbelievable prediction!!
The Repukes were leading both House & Senate at that time - Paul Ryan and rest in the house did this!! All the Repukes and Drumpf are responsible for these US coronavirus deaths!!!
dem4decades
(11,269 posts)5. Wait what? "Nobody saw this coming"
Cha
(296,831 posts)6. "..Horrifyingly.."
tblue37
(65,218 posts)7. Good correction! nt
StaySafe, tblue!
IronLionZion
(45,380 posts)8. "Nobody could have seen this coming"
when you fire people who are qualified and it's their job to see this coming.
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)9. Put this on billboards and saturate the red and purple states.
Anyone still alive should see this.
Blue Owl
(50,257 posts)12. Oh snap...