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Republicans strike again... (Original Post)
catbyte
Sep 2020
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still_one
(91,965 posts)2. The question is will people find it is plausible that trump wanted to protect people from panicking?
Laelth
(32,017 posts)3. We panicked, regardless. The nation ran out of TP.
We should have panicked. If all of us did, we might have all worn masks and reduced the death toll by taking the pandemic seriously.
-Laelth
Claustrum
(4,845 posts)4. We panicked more because the president and the government was/is lying to us
We are seeing deaths around us while they keep telling us everything is fine. So we panicked more and distrust a lot of people and things around us. It's every man/woman for him/herself.
We should have been united to fight against the virus and we could have come out on top like other countries did. Instead, we became one of the worst hit country in the world.
still_one
(91,965 posts)5. My post was musing about how dumb the American public might be if they accept trump's excuse for
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