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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOnly three events in American history have have taken more lives than the present Coronavirus.
The Great Civil War, WWII, and the Flu Epidemic of 1918.
And Donald Trump gives himself an A+ for how he has handled it! Can you believe that shit!
He wants people to believe it is nothing.
Just unbelievable!
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Only three events in American history have have taken more lives than the present Coronavirus. (Original Post)
kentuck
Sep 2020
OP
Well, there's also the absolute massacre that colonizers and settlers performed on indigenous
WhiskeyGrinder
Sep 2020
#14
Miguelito Loveless
(5,532 posts)1. Give Trump time
Hell be #1 soon.
Blue Owl
(58,589 posts)2. He's a legend in his own demented, feeble mind
DFW
(59,875 posts)3. Trump himself is believable
That 50 million people think he is wonderful is a real stretch, though.
lpbk2713
(43,255 posts)4. This is something Joe should put in his campaign ads.
It's a real wakeup call.
TheProle
(3,940 posts)5. AIDS has taken 700,000 American lives.
Rice4VP
(1,235 posts)7. Over almost 40 years
LisaL
(47,365 posts)12. Covid took 200,000 over less than a year.
So if this goes on for forty years, do the math.
Cha
(317,695 posts)6. trump is LYING to his CULT who don't give
a shite.
Everyone else is Voting for Biden.. mostly.
Maraya1969
(23,444 posts)8. Actually that is only two. Covid would make number 3
misanthrope
(9,423 posts)9. What was the Lesser Civil War?
Yankees/Dodgers?
malaise
(294,130 posts)10. He's a fucking monster
That is all
kentuck
(115,276 posts)13. By Trump's standards, WWII was just a small skirmish.
And the Flu Epidemic of 1918 was nothing more than a common cold, blown up by the "fake news".
WhiskeyGrinder
(26,656 posts)14. Well, there's also the absolute massacre that colonizers and settlers performed on indigenous
people from before America's founding throughout its history.
anamnua
(1,498 posts)15. Hey, OP has the makings of a great campaign ad. NT.
anamnua
(1,498 posts)16. He will probably be tutored
to respond that the far worse Spanish flu took place during the tenure of a Democratic president blah, blah, blah
