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majdrfrtim

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April 19, 2020

Hey MAGAts protesting to "open the economy"!! If you survive SARS-CoV-2 infection

are you going to have a "pre-existing condition"??

If the SCOTUS kills so-called Obamacare this fall --which you've salivated over for more than a decade now "to own the libs" -- enjoy paying top dollar for *your own* medical care, since YOU won't be able to find affordable insurance covering pre-existing conditions!

Way to "own the libs"!!

April 19, 2020

He's back to, "I inherited a broken system [from Obama]."

He needs to be barraged by the questions, "What-- EXACTLY -- was broken?

Was it the "pandemic response teams" in the NSC and elsewhere? HOW were they 'broken'? EXACTLY *how* has your response to this foreseeable crisis -- PREDICTED BY THE PEOPLE YOU CLAIM LEFT YOU A 'BROKEN' SYSTEM -- been better because they were disbanded AND NOT REPLACED?

Was it the "pandemic playbook" the Obama Administration left you that was 'broken'? EXACTLY *how* was it 'broken'? Was it so *broken* that it prevented you from 'fixing' it? Was it so terribly 'broken' that you could not simply throw it away and start over?

He needs to be held to account for how, if he "inherited a broken system," it's still 'broken' in his fourth year in office.

April 13, 2020

He's claimed, "I'm a 'wartime president,'"

yet he's gone out of his way to ensure we CANNOT (perhaps ever?) know where the 'enemy' is hiding in otherwise-plain sight because he has -- from the very start --- deliberately prevented the government from testing and contact tracing anyone who might be infected so that asymptomatic individuals could be physically isolated away from their families and anyone else.

To wit: why did his government deliberately de-fund, dismantle, and dismiss the pandemic response teams in the NSC and throughout the government in 2018? The *job* of those folks was to have begun an all-of-government response as soon as NSC received credible Intel (possibly November 2019, in this case, but surely December) that a novel infectious agent had been reported somewhere in the world. With that bureaucracy in place, we might have had a functioning testing apparatus and operation in effect well before even South Korea.

But no! "The Kenyan" was responsible (in his eyes) for setting up those teams, so they had to be shut down.

Granted, I didn't join the military until my 50s (no prior service) and then only had four OCONUS deployments (each time, without a weapon), but even *I* know that deliberately ensuring we cannot know where the enemy is, and where the enemy is massing to strike next, is hardly a winnable 'wartime' strategy.

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