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DanieRains

(4,619 posts)
Tue May 26, 2020, 04:42 PM May 2020

Just Got Into It With A Customer / Friend This Nightmare Is 100% Trump's Fault

Our intelligence told the Israelis in November this was coming.

Trump called it a hoax and did nothing while it spread unchecked for months.

Trump's administration removed most of the scientists in China who were looking for this crap (according to Biden).

We have the most doctors, ventilators and everything else, and have by far the most dead. Why?

Failed Leadership.

He couldn't argue.....

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Just Got Into It With A Customer / Friend This Nightmare Is 100% Trump's Fault (Original Post) DanieRains May 2020 OP
Because this is absolutely Trump's fault. Solomon May 2020 #1
Yes, and a third Wave if his followers have anything to do about it. flying_wahini May 2020 #8
I Kept Telling Him This Is Failed Leadership DanieRains May 2020 #2
"It's just politics" is Rebootlickins' standard fallback rationalization coti May 2020 #3
I Was Ready For That It's Just Politics Crap Everything Is Just Politics Every Single Thing DanieRains May 2020 #5
Philip K. Dick said that reality... Dave Starsky May 2020 #16
+1, I talked to two MAGA Cultist and they agree that Trump sat on his ass when all this began uponit7771 May 2020 #4
Just Politics -- Just Government CloudWatcher May 2020 #6
Not only did Trump & Kushner know about C-19 in... Botany May 2020 #7
And how tRump and his minions stole the supplies that were set aside for this and flying_wahini May 2020 #9
And the Trump administration gave an 812 million $ Botany May 2020 #10
Don't forget to the Trump administration we are just 'human capital stock' LiberalArkie May 2020 #11
Plus they view the Commons as theirs. CrispyQ May 2020 #14
trump admin removed most of the scientists in China who were looking for this crap (per Biden)... iluvtennis May 2020 #12
Check out Al Franken's podcast interviewing Paul Krugman "Arguing With Republican Zombies mahina May 2020 #13
I have decided that the turd thought THIS (virus) was his PNAC. not_the_one May 2020 #15

Solomon

(12,305 posts)
1. Because this is absolutely Trump's fault.
Tue May 26, 2020, 04:53 PM
May 2020

Obama left so much in the cupboard that Trump cut pandemic funding and personnel. He was given a playbook and ignored it. He was offered tests and declined to take it. We had plenty of notice that a virus was on the other side of the planet headed this way. I could on and on with all the reasons why it's his fault. I for one am enraged about the needless death and destruction. It will take years for the economy to recover.

And as if that isn't enough, he'll doom us with a second wave.

flying_wahini

(6,527 posts)
8. Yes, and a third Wave if his followers have anything to do about it.
Tue May 26, 2020, 06:48 PM
May 2020

Putin is just loving this. This is a carefully constructed script, make no mistake.

 

DanieRains

(4,619 posts)
2. I Kept Telling Him This Is Failed Leadership
Tue May 26, 2020, 05:18 PM
May 2020

And the clown won't even wear a mask, I said.

My friend said "thanks for the politics". I said politics stops here and I held up my hand like a chop, and said reality starts here. If Trump did something good I would give him credit. He hasn't. He has totally failed.

coti

(4,612 posts)
3. "It's just politics" is Rebootlickins' standard fallback rationalization
Tue May 26, 2020, 05:30 PM
May 2020

It allows them to dismiss facts and turn any issue at all around on those who do care about facts, attacking their motivations.

 

DanieRains

(4,619 posts)
5. I Was Ready For That It's Just Politics Crap Everything Is Just Politics Every Single Thing
Tue May 26, 2020, 06:06 PM
May 2020

I always use that "special" word.

R-E-A-L-I-T-Y

Reality.

Someone can smoke a rock of crack the size of a beach ball, and it doesn't change reality.

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
16. Philip K. Dick said that reality...
Wed May 27, 2020, 01:17 PM
May 2020

Is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

I think about that a lot, in this time where people seem to want reality to be whatever the loudest voice says it is.

CloudWatcher

(1,831 posts)
6. Just Politics -- Just Government
Tue May 26, 2020, 06:28 PM
May 2020

New Zealand. Population 4.8 million. Deaths from the virus? 21.

Not 21 today, total.

Not 21k, just 21. Twenty One.

That's about 4 deaths per million people.

We're at over 300 deaths per million.

The big difference is we are a country infested and governed by fools.

USA! We're #1!

Yeah. Right. Whatever.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/new-zealand/

Botany

(70,291 posts)
7. Not only did Trump & Kushner know about C-19 in...
Tue May 26, 2020, 06:46 PM
May 2020

.... November and do nothing about it but they looked to make money off of it too. First by investing in H.C.Q., then by trying to sell their own C-19 test kits, and then by sending 18 tons of P.P.E. to China in February of 2020 because Trump owes China lots of money.

The mother fucker sold out America.

flying_wahini

(6,527 posts)
9. And how tRump and his minions stole the supplies that were set aside for this and
Tue May 26, 2020, 06:54 PM
May 2020

Stole the money for his fucking wall. Criminals should be ALL tried for Treason.

Botany

(70,291 posts)
10. And the Trump administration gave an 812 million $
Tue May 26, 2020, 07:01 PM
May 2020

... contract to some "start up" to make drugs to treat coronavirus in January of 2020 all the time claiming that it was all a hoax.

Sometimes the size and scale of this "thing" is overwhelming.

CrispyQ

(36,226 posts)
14. Plus they view the Commons as theirs.
Wed May 27, 2020, 11:35 AM
May 2020

"Our stockpile" has become "our Treasury." It will be the biggest heist in history if he isn't removed from office soon.

iluvtennis

(19,757 posts)
12. trump admin removed most of the scientists in China who were looking for this crap (per Biden)...
Tue May 26, 2020, 07:31 PM
May 2020

...not according to Biden. Per this article, removal happened in July 2019.

Trump says China “should have told us” about coronavirus. He removed the official meant to do that.
A US epidemiologist was embedded with the Chinese CDC. The Trump administration discontinued the position.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/3/23/21190713/coronavirus-trump-china-cdc-embed-quick

mahina

(17,505 posts)
13. Check out Al Franken's podcast interviewing Paul Krugman "Arguing With Republican Zombies
Tue May 26, 2020, 08:04 PM
May 2020

The NYT columnist and Nobel Prize winner discusses how Republicans operate in bad faith on issues like climate, tax cuts, deficits, income and wealth inequality, and now, the pandemic.

https://alfranken.com/listen/paul-krugman-on-arguing-with-republican-zombies

I can’t wait for the live talk show, Al interviewing three Republican Zombies.

It’s a good interview. For a change

 

not_the_one

(2,227 posts)
15. I have decided that the turd thought THIS (virus) was his PNAC.
Wed May 27, 2020, 01:07 PM
May 2020

Disclaimer, my "decisions" have absolutely no affect on anything, real or imagined... They are nothing more than a pile of shit thrown against a wall to see if it will stick...

Just like W and Cheney did nothing and let 9-11 happen, which then allowed them to enact all sorts of UN-American policies, including torture... the turd sat on his ass and KNOWINGLY let the virus spread unchecked.

All his options were good...

If the virus didn't develop into a pandemic here, he could take the credit for saving the country from a deadly pandemic. He already had the economy ruse going in his favor by paying off the rich and wall street.

If the virus DID develop into a pandemic, and he handled it appropriately (by doing absolutely NOTHING) he could later USE IT to gain complete control.

He knows he can't fairly win the election, and if he doesn't win he will be prosecuted for the crimes he has committed while in office, and possibly before.

This crisis (he thinks) will allow him to take complete control, if necessary through martial law (because a loss by him could ONLY come from the result of a "rigged" election), and delay or cancel the election.

THAT is the only thing that will keep him out of jail.

He is currently stirring shit about rigged elections. He knows that he is losing by such a huge margin that Putin is not going to be able to, believably, cheat him a win through the EC. So he is on the rampage about mail-in voting (which he himself did) being "voter fraud".

As a last resort for an actual election, he has installed his own USPS fixer, Louis DeJoy, as postmaster general. HIS guy now has access to every mail-in ballot. Yes, it would be difficult to arrange, but as long as they have ONE trumper in every post office, those ballots could be tampered with.

If THAT too, fails....

His last, and final option to avoid jail... Flee to Saudi Arabia. Jared has that all lined up.

Putin has gotten what he needs (sanctions removed, our legislative process reduced to utter chaos). The turd would just be a nuisance. He would have to look at the amazing Moscow skyline out of a 4th floor window. (Wait, that MAY be a reasonable option for the turd.... )

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