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In reply to the discussion: My son made a very important point today. If Trump had acted on Covid19 early, [View all]Snake Plissken
(4,103 posts)32. Numbnսts Trump was given an easy layup and instead he did a faceplant.
All he had to do was allow the experts to do their jobs and show a little sympathy to the victims like G. W. Bush did and he could have been a hero, instead , like the eternal dоuchebag that he is, he chose to make it all about himself and get in the way of the experts causing the situation to be far worse than it had to be ... to the point were we now have three times as many deaths as the next closest nation.
And it all started with Trump's unnecessary airport closure drama on Twitter that resulted in tens of thousands of infected people flooding our nation's cities from the international airports they landed in without being screened and continued on with him attacking any Governor who listened to medical experts that conflicted with his re-election prospects
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My son made a very important point today. If Trump had acted on Covid19 early, [View all]
Arkansas Granny
Jun 2020
OP
Absolutely agree. However, Trump is a simpleton who truly believes he knows better than the experts.
Doodley
Jun 2020
#1
Yeah, but then he and his buddies wouldn't be able to game the Stock Market and position themselves
TheBlackAdder
Jun 2020
#52
I actually expected that once CV started. I thought to myself, shit he's going to leverage this
Dream Girl
Jun 2020
#2
It's like taking the red phone call at 3:00 AM and then immediately going back to bed.
rgbecker
Jun 2020
#3
Basically, the premise is: If Trump wasn't Trump, he's be re-elected in a snap. nt
Xipe Totec
Jun 2020
#4
Yes. Your son makes an excellent point. Instead of attacking the CV head on, like any ...
SWBTATTReg
Jun 2020
#6
That is the Putin approach. Remember Putin saying they did not have any gays in Russia.
LiberalArkie
Jun 2020
#23
I think, and hope, he would have lost anyway. But, he wasn't capable of doing the right
Hoyt
Jun 2020
#7
I still would NOT have voted for him. Doing his job for once and protecting the American people is
SammyWinstonJack
Jun 2020
#29
His abdication of any responsibility to Covid 19 is just the latest. It's what he has always done.
Evolve Dammit
Jun 2020
#40
Don't lay it all on the feet at Trump as enabler Republicans in varies places from Fox News to
cstanleytech
Jun 2020
#53