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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.....
Solomon
(12,305 posts)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)Putin is just loving this. This is a carefully constructed script, make no mistake.
DanieRains
(4,619 posts)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)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)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)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.
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)CloudWatcher
(1,831 posts)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).... 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)Stole the money for his fucking wall. Criminals should be ALL tried for Treason.
Botany
(70,291 posts)... 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.
LiberalArkie
(15,686 posts)CrispyQ
(36,226 posts)"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)...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)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 cant wait for the live talk show, Al interviewing three Republican Zombies.
Its a good interview. For a change
not_the_one
(2,227 posts)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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