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kpete

(71,963 posts)
Mon Jul 20, 2020, 12:11 PM Jul 2020

America Blew It. We Spent the Spring Trying to Build a Bridge - BUT - We built a PIER instead

America spent the spring building a bridge to August, spending trillions and shutting down major parts of society. The expanse was to be a bent coronavirus curve, and the other side some semblance of normal, where kids would go to school and their parents to work.

The bottom line: We blew it, building a pier instead.

There will be books written about America’s lost five months of 2020, but here’s what we know:

We blew testing…

We blew schools…

We blew economics…

We blew public health…

We blew goodwill….

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America Blew It. We Spent the Spring Trying to Build a Bridge - BUT - We built a PIER instead (Original Post) kpete Jul 2020 OP
"We"? . .. Iliyah Jul 2020 #1
"Ask not what your country can do for you....... MyOwnPeace Jul 2020 #2
We each have our own duty. None of us can control others. Hortensis Jul 2020 #3
That happens when you elect a blowhard malaise Jul 2020 #4
Trump blew it. The GOP leadership blew it. Initech Jul 2020 #5
The psychopath in the WH blew it. SammyWinstonJack Jul 2020 #6

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
3. We each have our own duty. None of us can control others.
Mon Jul 20, 2020, 12:43 PM
Jul 2020

I and mine are still alive, and we're doing our parts to keep others alive also.

Those who did blow it, though, blew it huge in 2016 and before. There was no excuse for letting the Republicans or pandemic disease loose on this country. There is never an excuse for choosing to believe liars and rewarding their efforts at election time.

But that's the past. 106 days to November 3. And in some states early in-person voting first starts way before that, the first 46 days before, in 60 days! And then there are all the mail-in dates...!

Our time's finally almost here again.

Initech

(100,040 posts)
5. Trump blew it. The GOP leadership blew it.
Mon Jul 20, 2020, 01:08 PM
Jul 2020

A more competent leader would not have allowed things to get this bad.

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