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Shermann

(7,398 posts)
Sat Oct 3, 2020, 02:28 PM Oct 2020

Missiles for Biden's arsenal

Assuming there will be another debate, I've assembled two:

The President boasts a lot about the China travel ban in February. The reality is that a proper Federal response to the pandemic would require countless decisions to be made on a daily basis for months if not years. These decisions have to consistently be made correctly far more often than not, and followed up by prompt and effective actions coordinated at the state and federal level. You cannot be successful during a national emergency making one decision and then taking a month off to congratulate yourself. This was another "Mission Accomplished" moment by the Republicans when the hard work and sacrifices hadn't even begun yet.

The President also boasts a lot about the greatest economy the world had ever seen back in February. I find this analogous to somebody returning from Las Vegas boasting about the huge stacks of chips they had at the blackjack table before losing it all. The reality is that the President didn't take the right preventative measures to protect those stacks. He was focused too much on the money and failed to mitigate the various risks which were pointed out to him years earlier, some by my administration. This included the risk of a pandemic. Trump gambled with our future in an uninformed, reckless way and lost big.

These will explode Trump's two favorite talking point bunkers.

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