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catbyte

(34,374 posts)
Tue May 19, 2020, 04:36 PM May 2020

I can't stress how much donald j trump sucks. What he just said about the VA & veterans...

makes me feel like my head is about to explode.



Trump calls study on HCQ treatment for vets with Covid “a phony study put out by the VA”
“(T)hey gave it … to people that were ready to die … everybody was old” and had “bad problems with hearts," diabetes
POTUS say researchers were “obviously not friends of my administration”
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I can't stress how much donald j trump sucks. What he just said about the VA & veterans... (Original Post) catbyte May 2020 OP
I swear I was just going to post about this. Mike 03 May 2020 #1
Truth always gets attacked by trump. pwb May 2020 #2
".. obviously not friends of the Anti-Christ.. " Cha May 2020 #3
What a dickwad. The Velveteen Ocelot May 2020 #4
He's sub human. spanone May 2020 #5
POS. Won't type the rest. Solly Mack May 2020 #6
True, science is not a friend of your maladministration central scrutinizer May 2020 #7
I've noticed, his contempt for a person or institution rises in direct proportion Mike 03 May 2020 #8
fat kalisi says they must bend the knee. pansypoo53219 May 2020 #9
Thank You for the post and your opinion. K and R Stuart G May 2020 #10
Soon, he will sink so low inanimate objects will hate him. Baked Potato May 2020 #11

Mike 03

(16,616 posts)
1. I swear I was just going to post about this.
Tue May 19, 2020, 04:40 PM
May 2020

I heard him say that but I didn't put two and two together until I was listening to Nicole Wallace and realized he was talking about our Veterans.

This makes my blood boil.

Wasn't there a little bit more of the quote, something like "They were very old, almost dead" or "practically dead." It was sickening. The full context makes it obscene.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,681 posts)
4. What a dickwad.
Tue May 19, 2020, 04:47 PM
May 2020

He judges scientific research on the basis of whether or not it supports some bee he already had in his bonnet, and if it doesn't he accuses the researchers of political bias. That's the prism through which he sees everything - if you don't agree with him, no matter what the issue, you're a biased Democrat and your position is therefore worthless.

And he undercuts his own opinion about hydroxychloroquine with his cruel comments about veterans who died after taking it - if a person with a heart problem takes it, it might kill them. It (apparently) doesn't cause heart problems in people with perfectly healthy hearts but it exacerbates existing arrhythmias. So the older veterans with heart trouble "who were ready to die" (and therefore expendable, in His Lardship's mind) are exactly the people who should not have been given it, and Trump is admitting that it's a dangerous drug for some people. But anybody else who says that, like a doctor, is obviously not a friend of his administration. IMO, his administration doesn't deserve friends.

central scrutinizer

(11,648 posts)
7. True, science is not a friend of your maladministration
Tue May 19, 2020, 04:51 PM
May 2020

Neither is truth, decency, justice, the Constitution, me, etc......

Mike 03

(16,616 posts)
8. I've noticed, his contempt for a person or institution rises in direct proportion
Tue May 19, 2020, 04:58 PM
May 2020

to how sacred we as a country (used to) hold it: NATO, WHO, UN, the Presidency as an institution, our agencies. And the opposite is true too. The people and institutions we deride, like dictators, authoritarians, twisted regimes and techniques like torture, he has unlimited praise for.

Trump is uniquely effed up.

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