Mega-Thread: Trump Focused Discussion

[Felya]

And WA has also been dealing with this a lot longer than Florida.

Yes, yet our number never reached that of Florida. Why is that? Florida, which is warmer than Washington.

They quelled the outbreak great but really have stagnated with really moving forward from there. So great job at saving lives with minimal gains economically. Not much to brag about they are still in the same shape at moving forward or FL is slightly ahead die to making hard decisions with the collective good out weighing the cost.

What? We are literally sending our supplies to Florida and set to open in June, without sacrificing the elderly. Florida has more than 3 times the cases WA does. Florida will open at similar time as us, but we are not sacrificing the elderly to do it. Yet, instead of doing what Inslee said, Trump called Inslee a snake. Why not do what Inslee did, instead of insulting him? WTF?

So what you want us to have reacted like CA. The freedom issue is with the idea that the government doesnt have as strong a hand in this country. Being a free nation makes it harder for people to understand these mandates. So thats the cost of the way our freedoms are here.

What freedom? Freedom to spread a disease? If we open too soon, everything will be closed and a lot of people will be sick. Both things will likely happen... what freedom do you have to get your nails did, if the shop has the entire staff sick?

And you have to admit if this were not an election year and the two sides werent so divided we would be in better shape. Our embattle political landscape has been what caused this. The side always looking to blame eachother vs actually working together. Had the liberals not constantly attacked the president and the senate maybe they would have taken their ideas with a grain of salt.

No, we would be in better shape with any president, other than Trump. When Trump calls warning a political hoax, while you are supporting sacrificing the elderly to god money, I think there is one obvious problem.

FYI, calling it a hoax, as everything else Trump has been accused off, doesn’t help your point. If Trump nearly 100k dead Americans is a hoax... what made everything else a hoax?

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Yes, we have people pushing for literal willful ignorance, because they swear the truth is political.

This is Trump's America, folks.

If this wasn’t political, democrats would be helping Trump cover up the truth? It’s very strange...

[unfilteredJW]

Yes, yet our number never reached that of Florida. Why is that? Florida, which is warmer than Washington.

Yeah, about Florida ::coughcough:: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ry/3083949001/

[Paranoid Android]

The only group that benefits from posting numbers daily is for political gain. We have enough data now to know how to handle this virus and the choices are limited. So you would rather see daily numbers because its a scare tactic. Im sorry but at this point thats all it is. We have reach the plateau in most area, saddly way after predictions said we would so now its time for democrats to move that goal post further down the road.

No, the numbers are a important and our idiot makes it a big deal.

Trump 24 days ago: "We’re going toward 50 or 60,000 [deaths]. As you know the lower was supposed to be 100,000 people."

Trump today: "We're going to lose over 100,000, perhaps, in this country. Now in all fairness, that's at the bottom level of the scale."

https://twitter.com/AaronBlake/statu...313774083?s=19

Unfortunately I am on my phone but Trump had one of his tweets (as he generally does) when he proclaimed the 17k deaths from swine flu was the worst death total ever.

So who has political about this again?

https://nypost.com/2020/04/17/trump-...-of-swine-flu/

The Trump tweet of 17k should be posted almost every day on this thread. As I stated earlier, it was Trump's ignorance for setting the bar at 17k as what he calls incompetence.

[Felya]

Yeah, about Florida ::coughcough:: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ry/3083949001/

Yeah, fucktard didn’t believe it was real, so they didn’t have the testing in place. It’s why we didn’t have tracing...

[Breccia]

You seem to just want to attack Trump with no looking into the future.

This is not a defense.

Trump started a trade war with China, without an endgame. He slapped a bandage over farmers by just handing them money, but even within the last week, Trump is making excuses for why Phase One is failing.

Trump's peace plan for the Middle East was to take Jerusalem from the Palestinians, then leave.

Trump's peace plan for the Middle East was to cede Syria to Russia, then leave.

Trump's peace plan for the Middle East was to cede Afghanistan to the Taliban, then leave.

Trump claimed the tax cut for the rich would pay for itself, when it had the exact opposite effect.

And Trump not only handwaved the virus outbreak and failed to act in time, but he also fired the branch of the CDC directly responsible for handling problems like this.

Trump supporters don't get to say "You're not thinking of the future". They chose to support someone who doesn't. If you were thinking about the future, you either wouldn't have supported an incompetent failed businessman, or you thought an incompetent would get you the results you wanted -- and if this isn't it, ask yourself why not.

[Felya]

Trump's peace plan for the Middle East was to cede Syria to Russia, then leave.

Since it’s topical, to add to this... Trump also went to Turkey to make a ‘deal’ about Syria. A deal that Trump called a great success, but violated by Turkey the next day. It involved backing away from our allies, the Kurds, to be decimated by Turkey. The reason it’s topical... Flynn had to register as a foreign agent, while on Trump’s staff, because he is a lobbyist for Turkey.

[Lenonis]

We need solutions not the blame game right now.

Says the Trump supporter. Maybe in order to be taken seriously you should have a chat with dear leader about this first?

[PrimiOne]

Why does the public need the numbers? What does it at all change? We are not free to make decisions based off them so what use are they? Wow we get to see that people are dying. Thats called a scare tactic. The government is the only one who needs the daily updates. Even if we open up now we have people to scared to go out.

You can't be serious , no, really, the truth is now a scare tactic. Making public the dimension of the pandemic is now a political strategy.

I don't have words.

The public needs the numbers because it's the way we can measure the actions of our politicians and without them we would have every-single-politician saying: "This is all great. I'm doing great.Vote for me next time" with no real way to judge that statement.

Why does the public needs unemployment numbers? What does it all change? We are not free to make decisions based off them.It's all scare tactic.
Why does the public needs deficit numbers? What does it all change? We are not free to make decisions based off them.It's all scare tactic.
Why does the public needs industrial manufacturing numbers? What does it all change? We are not free to make decisions based off them.It's all scare tactic.

Ah fuck it...I don't have time to lose with someone claiming truth is overrated on one hand and pretending to be a champion of freedom in the other hand.

[Felya]

Says the Trump supporter. Maybe in order to be taken seriously you should have a chat with dear leader about this first?

No time to blame... as Trump demands justice from ObamaGate, while not being able to explain what that means and trying to get his buddies off the hook for lying under oath.

[Breccia]

Says the Trump supporter.

Oh, right, yeah I missed that one. Yes, it's also impossible to be a Trump supporter and say "let's not blame people right now". Trump has blamed governors and China nonstop for his failures. Trump blamed Biden for the H1N1 outbreak. "Let's fix the problem and not blame others" is what guilty people say. Me? I can multitask.

[Lenonis]

Yes, it's also impossible to be a Trump supporter and say "let's not blame people right now".

Well it's possible. After all rank hypocrisy is now the GOP's brand.

[Breccia]

I don't have words.

I do.

If publishing the real numbers is political, than concealing them is political. He is admitting such, which is a bold move, considering most Trump supporters just choose to ignore facts all on their own. Admitting it's a calculated move to help the Party of Trump is refreshingly honest.

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Well it's possible. After all rank hypocrisy is now the GOP's brand.

Yeah, I posted that in a hurry and you're absolutely right. But as I keep saying, you can't be a Trump supporter without being a hypocrite.

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The only group that benefits from posting numbers daily is for political gain.

You're suggesting what Putin is doing.

More than half of Moscow’s deaths of coronavirus patients are not being included toward the overall death toll, according to a report in The Moscow Times, citing city officials.

The officials reportedly said more than 60 percent of deaths from “alternate causes” have not been recorded in the COVID-19 death toll, according to news outlet.

“Over 60 percent of deaths occurred from obvious alternate causes, such as vascular accidents, stage 4 malignant diseases, leukemia, systemic diseases linked to organ failure and other incurable deadly diseases,” Moscow's Health Department said in a statement to the newspaper.

Fuck that. The United States is supposed to be better than this. Stop suggesting we follow goddamn Soviet Dictator Russia.

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In the ongoing effort to play the Blame Game, Trump attacks Dr. Bright as "disgruntled".

I'd be disgruntled too, if I said "Hey, we need to move quickly to stop this lethal outbreak" and was fired shortly before being proven correct. Also, "disgruntled" does not mean "incorrect".

Looking forward to reading the transcript of Dr. Bright's testimony. Which is supposed to be today. Because unlike some people, not only am I looking for solutions, I am looking for holding the people whose actions led to this responsible. Actions have consequences.

[Trunksee]

Oh, right, yeah I missed that one. Yes, it's also impossible to be a Trump supporter and say "let's not blame people right now". Trump has blamed governors and China nonstop for his failures. Trump blamed Biden for the H1N1 outbreak. "Let's fix the problem and not blame others" is what guilty people say. Me? I can multitask.

So whats the solution? Do we sacrifice the elderly to survive economically and keep stability or for go our entire way of life for a long time see huge tax hikes and have to see huge jobless claims. Neither of these is an option but lets just keep attacking eachother. Did you watch the democrats asking Fauci questions yesterday? There was no attempt to gain anything knowledgeable. It was literally a political attack. Trump has been dumb in attacking the governors but this is Chinas fault so why not blame them?

[Odinfrost]

So whats the solution? Do we sacrifice the elderly to survive economically and keep stability or for go our entire way of life for a long time see huge tax hikes and have to see huge jobless claims. Neither of these is an option but lets just keep attacking eachother. Did you watch the democrats asking Fauci questions yesterday? There was no attempt to gain anything knowledgeable. It was literally a political attack. Trump has been dumb in attacking the governors but this is Chinas fault so why not blame them?

How about the option which does not result in a second or third wave before the year is over, and makes it risky to be above 60 for the same time period as a damned minimum?
Like, is it so hard to see that if the corona flares up to the same degree in two or three months, that the damages will be worse than just going hardcore now to make sure that no such flareup will happen?

[Breccia]

n? Do we sacrifice the elderly to survive economically and keep stability or for go our entire way of life for a long time see huge tax hikes and have to see huge jobless claims. Neither of these is an option but lets just keep attacking eachother.

First of all, yes one is an option, it's what Trump and McConnell are supporting -- sacrificing the elderly to survive economically. So already, your argument is flawed.

Second of all, even if those were the only two options, you're defending the person who put us there, because of his words and actions. You don't get to play that game.

Third of all, someone who supports Trump -- who personally signed the record-breaking deficits into law after the tax cut for the rich didn't pay for itself, doesn't get to say "Oh! Oh! This will cost money!" and clutch their pearls. Especially considering even in 2019 it was clear things were getting more expensive, not less expensive, and the results weren't paying off. If you're okay with paying more money for no results, you can't object to spending money for good results. That would be hypocrisy.

Fourthly, if you continue to support the person whose words and actions put us in this circumstance, you don't get to claim "all this fighting doesn't help" while supporting someone responsible for tens of thousands of American deaths (with more on the way) and millions upon millions of lost jobs.

And finallythly, you don't get to say "This is a political attack but also this is China's fault" in the same breath.

Stop supporting the lying incompetent loser who got us into this mess and demanding to be held blameless for supporting him. That shit doesn't fly.

[Belize]

Can we not spend pages arguing with a political shill that clearly has no intention of trying to understand any of the issues at hand? Thanks.

[Breccia]

CBS News has some new polls and, holy shit, do Americans need to dump on Trump.

62% of Americans trust Fauci. That includes 51% of Republicans. So, there's that.

Fauci has a 46% favorable/14% unfavorable/40% undecided rating. Fauci is polling higher than Trump right now. And that's including that Republicans' view went from 12% unfavorable to 31% unfavorable this month.

53% of Americans thought Trump was doing a good job with the outbreak in March. It was 48% in April and is now 43%. "Your Governor" is getting 66%.

38% of people trust Trump on coronavirus information. 62% do not. Not only do independents largely line up with that, more Republicans don't trust Trump than Democrats do trust Trump.

There is no salvaging this. Everyone knows Trump screwed up. Trump's response is to attack Fauci and Bright. And now, we can't be sure if he's doing so because they're polling higher.

[Thepersona]

If that was the case Florida wouldn't find the need to hide numbers.

Is there a way to force FL to report its real numbers?

Because even with the hiding and lying, people still die there.

[Breccia]

Is there a way to force FL to report its real numbers?

State and local medical examiners would have to report them directly to the press.

[unfilteredJW]

State and local medical examiners would have to report them directly to the press.

Which quite a few are thankfully.