Posted on 10/03/2020 6:51:49 AM PDT by DoodleBob
With more than 208,000 Americans dead from the novel coronavirus, it was already apparent that Donald Trump had failed the country. With his positive diagnosis, it’s now clear that he even failed himself. See this with clear eyes: Our nation’s commander-in-chief is presently in isolation by way of his incompetence, paranoia, and denialism.
This is not an accident. Unlike untold numbers of Americans, such as medical workers and first responders, who have contracted the deadly virus despite taking precautious, President Trump ignored science and prudence and commonsense. He taunted medical fate. Trump and his White House staff have ignored the most basic public health best practices: Masking. Social distancing. Avoiding crowds.
The president has held indoor rallies. He has gathered masses of people on the White House lawn, multiple times. He has mocked people wearing masks in order to avoid unknowingly spreading the virus. He badgered states to “open up” despite not having contained the coronavirus.
President Trump didn’t unwittingly contract coronavirus. He courted it. And, Republicans, eager to demonstrate their loyalty, followed his lead. They similarly held indoor events. They posted pictures to social media of themselves maskless, in crowds, as if to prove their defiance of basic science.
To say President Trump “failed” in his job to protect America isn’t quite right. Because he didn’t even try. What he did, instead, was focus on his reelection campaign to the exclusion of all else. People pleaded with him for months to take the virus seriously, and he refused. He lied to the public about it. He mocked those who were concerned by its progress. And he tried to pressure others—both within his administration and leaders at the state level—to do the same.
Donald Trump is the reason our country has been plunged into economic, medical, and institutional chaos.
And here it is important to make a distinction: Because unlike so many others, Donald Trump is not a victim of the coronavirus. He brought it on himself.
As he sits in isolation, facing the ramifications of his behavior, no one should hesitate to speak this basic truth.
Of course, everyone wishes Trump, his wife Melania, and other Trump staffers who have coronavirus well. We’ll hold them in our prayers. But, the country shouldn’t be in this situation.
And we wouldn’t be, if it weren’t for Donald Trump.
NeverTrumpers fancy themselves as being free of "partisan loyalties or tribal prejudices." They're just leftist suckups with a flair for writing and affinity for suits, and hope that by doing so their organs will be harvested last. In reality Antifa et al will shoot them first.
If China was truthful, the world would not be in this situation!
Lecture from a statist slut.
Is Ted Cruz still diddling her?
If China was a glass lake a lot of things would be better...
Get tough or die.
Such hate. Covid denial? What is that?
They misjudge the mood of the country. What would non-denial look like? Never ending lockdown? We all just stay in our basement and destroy the country?
I’ll take the courageous approach. I have had the China Virus. I recovered. I think I prefer that and being able to be free than having tyrants use this to destroy our freedoms.
Denial? Denial of what, basic human rights?
But hey, as long as you get to hate Trump.
“If China was truthful, the world would not be in this situation!”
How would the history of the pandemic have been changed if China had been truthful?
I mean, what steps would have been taken that weren’t, when would they have been taken, and would the Senate have convicted Trump in early February if he did take them?
China. China. China. China. China. China. China. China.
Dear amanda carpenter ..... when did you not show your ignorance ?
Prepare yourself for the (probably correct) analysis that the Barrett announcement was a superspreader event.
Hey Amanda being an NWO traitor has its consequences!! Remember that!!
...... Like it or not ... The immature .... “I Told You So”...... Statements will be the focus of the rest of this Election Cycle ....
untold numbers of Americans, such as medical workers and first responders, who have contracted the deadly virus despite taking precautious...
So, what good are the precautions ?
The Dems are all aquiver.
When covid broke they were predicting up to a 2 million dead, hospitals overflowing, people dying in hospital hallways.
Because of those fears, hospital ships and temporary hospitals were built that would hold tens of thousands. Ventilator production was ramped up, and even morgues were built to hold all the dead.
Do the anti-Trumpers remember THAT?
And that 2 million dead we were gearing up for never happened.
Because we dealt with that early on.
That should be how team Trump addresses this matter.
Well, the good news is that Barrett has already had it.
Saw where Roma says she got it from a family member.
Democrats/Never Trumpers want us all to believe that COVID19 is a death sentence. Trump’s going to prove them wrong.
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