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Covid deaths may be Trump’s most unforgivable failing (hurl alert)
Irish Independent via Press Reader ^ | 28th October 2020 | Irish Independent Editorial Staff

Posted on 10/28/2020 3:58:32 PM PDT by Ennis85

about a whole lot more than Donald Trump, or Joe Biden.

The election has been classed as a contest between old decency and raw, rumbustious America First rhetoric. The characters of both men have been instilled in their campaigns.

One, contradictory, argumentative and bristling with brash confidence. The other, plodding pragmatic and relentlessly reliable.

Trump, the maverick outsider last time out, now has to stand on a record which can be scrutinised no matter how many rinses it gets in the spin-cycle.

Biden too has a long shadow going back over decades. He has been in the environs of Democratic aristocracy long enough to be classed as a blue-blood among rank and file.

Considering 60 million Americans have already voted, it is something of a misnomer to call November 3 “Election Day”, but it will be no less historic or epoch-defining for all that.

It has already been described as the most polarising election ever – the “United States” has seldom been less so. Passions have be inflamed and racial tensions are at dangerously explosive levels.

The 45th president of the US has spent the past four years priming “the base”. He had felt a roaring economy would propel him smoothly to a second term on Capitol Hill. The Make America Great Again momentum would obliterate all in its way once the bandwagon got rolling.

Then came the pandemic.

The red-hot economy froze and millions were laid off. Only days ago, Mr Trump raged that all he heard about on television was: “Covid, Covid, Covid, Covid, Covid.”

No end of Twitter storms or mass rallies could counter the overwhelming evidence of an invisible virus, nonetheless getting the upper hand.

It has done precisely the same wherever it is allowed to run amok. Last week, the US hit a new record, registering more than 83,700 cases in a single day. Mr Trump was exposed as having no strategy to control the devastating spread. It followed he could not therefore deliver a promised economic recovery.

Mr Trump had also boasted to the faithful he would beat “Sleepy Joe”, although he has yet to deliver a cohesive argument against the Democratic nominee. The “Lock him up” chants at mask-less rallies were unlikely to reverberate too raucously in a country which has seen more than 225,000 Americans die.

It is not surprising an electorate might seek a credible explanation as to why a country endowed with wealth, experts, advanced biomedical researchers and a peerless biotech industry could be the nation with the highest death toll from the virus.

Time will soon tell whether his most unforgivable failing with voters was his unwillingness to take seriously the most acute domestic challenge his country has faced in recent history.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020elections; copyrightviolation; covid; fakenews; irishindependent; trump
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To: Ennis85

Hmm....do all the leaders of the various European countries get the blame for the deaths there?


21 posted on 10/28/2020 4:27:45 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: Ennis85

Too bad they’re not concerned with all the babies they’ve been murdering since they legitimized abortion.


22 posted on 10/28/2020 4:28:26 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: Ennis85

The original Prediction was that two million Americans would die from Covid. That means 1,800,000 owe their lives to St. Donald the Healer.


23 posted on 10/28/2020 4:28:42 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (The greatest threat to world freedom is the Chinese Communist Party and Joe Biden is their puppet.)
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To: Ennis85

How is Ireland doing with the pandemic? England?? Norway, Sweden, Germany, France, Spain???? The Global Press... Almost as stupid as our America Media.


24 posted on 10/28/2020 4:28:45 PM PDT by ReleaseTheHounds ("The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher)
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To: Ennis85

Those daggum staying at home with nothing to do but get drunkass drunk irish are at it again. I apologize for my many cousins. SMH


25 posted on 10/28/2020 4:37:33 PM PDT by drSteve78 (Je suis deplorable. WE'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE)
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To: The Iceman Cometh

Biden makes the arguments against himself.

No plan for addressing the ChiCom plague? Ever hear of Operation Warp Speed?

As of October 10, “DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland on Saturday reported 1,012 new cases of COVID-19, the highest number in a day since the start of the pandemic and almost double the average for the past week.” -Reuters

Who do you blame for that? When we develop a vaccine as a result of President Trump’s timely actions, we will share it with you, even after this rather lame article.


26 posted on 10/28/2020 4:40:18 PM PDT by SpinyNorman (Microagressions are most strongly perceived by macro-pussies.)
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To: OttawaFreeper

It’s even more concentrated than that: in NY state, the best estimate is that there have been 33,000 COVID deaths so far, with just over 22,000 occurring in the New York City area. That’s more than 2/3 of the state cases occuring in a handful of counties in the urban core. The same thing happened in New Jersey: the half dozen counties immediately adjacent to New York City had the lion’s share of the cases.

New York was a trainwreck. And the media took NYC as a proxy for the rest of the country, creating a totally distorted view. That’s not an accident, of course, but it bears repeating when they gin up their hysterical shrieking about the “data” and the “science”.


27 posted on 10/28/2020 4:43:02 PM PDT by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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To: glennaro
Don't forget Tommie The Commie Wolf and his mentally ill Sec of Health, Dr " Don't Call Me Dick" Levine.

Per population, probably worst of the lot.

28 posted on 10/28/2020 4:50:56 PM PDT by Eagles6
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To: Ennis85

For the social distancing and mask cooperation to work, it would require a totalitarian government. The American people refuse to be put under the might of government.

As for the masks, look at the pathetic pieces of cloth most people depend on for protection. Most leak covid laden droplets that shoot straight up from our poorly sealed nose area. That area is coated over the top area of our face and hair WITH OUR LUNG EXPIRATION. We rub our eyes and our fingers get contaminated with it as we sort through those tomatoes for that ripe one. As we walk through the grocery store our breath laden droplets coat the store merchandise and that person bending down to check the price of the cheap merchandise on the bottom shelf. As we walk up to the debit card reader, we punch in our entries as our chimney of droplets rain down and our contaminated fingers on the keypad. No one bothers to provide a cloth to wipe down the keypad with sanitizer. As we walk out of the store, anything we have touched has similar contamination which we coat our car keys, the steering wheel and anything we’ve touched before reaching over for our personal bottle of sanitizer. The American population are sitting ducks for COVID-19.


29 posted on 10/28/2020 5:18:25 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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To: Ennis85

Boring attempt that will backfire.


30 posted on 10/28/2020 5:18:41 PM PDT by conservativepoet
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To: Ennis85
Not only is Trump responsible for Covid deaths, Trump causes global warming, infanticide, glacial formation, the sinking of the Titanic, the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, and fire ants. Trump is the cause of late mail, lack of adequate punctuation, the heartbreak of psoriasis, and feminine itching. Trump is the cause of fixed greyhound races, the metric system, errors in longitudinal measurements, and smaller portions. Trump is the cause of angry wives, Speedos on fat people, mismatched socks, and mold on cucumbers. Trump is the cause of the Zombie Apocalypse, interstellar planetary collisions, muteness in albinos, and killer bees. Trump is the cause of gingivitis, off-key chorus singing, air inversions, and incremental floods. Trump is the cause of fans that quit, entropy, soap shards in the shower, and fat girls. Trump is the cause of cold oatmeal, excessive blogging, sweat stains, and misfires in 9mm ammunition. Trump is the cause of cabinet doors that do not line up, cracks in the sidewalk, the scourge of heroin, and every plane crash since 1972. Trump is the cause of John McCain, senility, traitorism, and infiltration by the left (but I repeat myself). Trump is the cause of low toner, high transmission rates, delivery service price increases, and gaudy shirts. Trump is the cause of splinters, earth tremors, Gamma ray emission by the element Lawrencium, and the lack of hobbits in real life. Trump is the cause of Facebook monitoring, trigger happy SWAT teams, pencil-neck geeks, and the Yellowstone Caldera. Trump is the cause of Russia, France, Sweden, and Zambia. Trump is the cause of carbon buildup, broken bungee cords, bad lap dances, and a lack of friendly greetings in cities. Trump is the cause of paper cuts, whirlpools, thunder, and machine disconnects. Trump is the cause of honey badgers, rigidity, painful exercise, and linear contraction. Trump is the cause of Nancy Pelosi, botox overdoses, pure insanity, and Alzheimers (but I repeat myself). Trump is the cause of regression analysis, micro-stamping, failed unions, and misaligned microwave towers. Trump is the cause of blurry lenses, spider bites, stains, and legless crocodiles. Trump is the cause of missing keyboard keys, unexpected phone calls, broken pottery, and squeaking doors. Trump is the cause of warning labels on appliances, erectile dysfunction, waterspouts, and potholes. Trump is the cause of canker sores, narcissistic Presidents, leaking toilets, and crack addiction. Trump is the cause of corroded pennies, locomotive derailments, internet trolls, and wardrobe failures. Trump is the cause of ADHD in the clergy, Blue Screens of Death on personal computers, the French Revolution of 1789, and thorns. Trump is the cause of bad Muppet shows, holes in circus nets, the NFL going all-queer, all-the-time, and Sandra Fluke's birth-control deficit. Trump is the cause of Israel's problems with Syria, excessive salt in the Pacific Ocean, the disappearance of Malaysian Air flight 370, and infomercials. Trump is the cause of low-calorie diet soda, smudges on the Xerox, dry technical text, and animal abuse. Trump is the cause of glass shards, bad pudding, hair cancer, and sun-dried dead worms. Trump is the cause of porcelin stains, droughts, turbulence above 10000 feet, and power brown-outs. Trump is the cause of low scores on Angry Birds, weak tea, Michael Jackson's early demise, and Micheal Jackson. Trump is the cause of bad combovers, Chris Matthews, alcoholism, and spittle (but I repeat myself). Trump is the cause of the Koch Brothers, micturition syncope, solar eclipses, and dead lithium batteries. Trump is the cause of Quiznos spongmonkeys, badly behaved Colonels, Boris Badenov, and the shipwreck of the Minnow. Trump is the cause of failed sitcoms, knots you cannot get undone, overly-rare hamburgers at restaurants, and Miley Cyrus. Trump is the cause of squeaking hinges, malformed carrots, bent coathangers, and slippery decks. Trump is the cause of the 2014 Midterms, tarnished silver, wobbling fans, and tangled power cables. Trump is the cause of off-hook phones, shattered ceramics, dull scissors, and dogeared books.

Hope that helps heaps.

Love,

Laz

31 posted on 10/28/2020 5:22:43 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The NYT commits acts of violence with their words.)
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To: Ennis85


32 posted on 10/28/2020 5:25:44 PM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler ("All men and women created by - go - you know, you know - the thing")
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To: Ennis85

Did Trump cause the other one million deaths across the globe? How many deaths were caused by CCP deception?


33 posted on 10/28/2020 5:39:39 PM PDT by odawg
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To: Ennis85

Trump has caused Increased climate change the last 4 years, climate change caused more COVID deaths.

It’s a fact, check your science textbook...


34 posted on 10/28/2020 7:14:31 PM PDT by Hypo2
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To: PigRigger

Justin Trudeau has been personally responsible for 10,000 deaths because of the increase of temperatures in Canada, due to climate change..

Mind you, the majority of those deaths have been in warmer regions of Canada.


35 posted on 10/28/2020 7:20:35 PM PDT by Hypo2
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To: Hypo2

And the most populated regions too...


36 posted on 10/28/2020 7:21:38 PM PDT by Hypo2
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To: Gay State Conservative

I’m grateful to God my ancestors left that green sh!thole.


37 posted on 10/28/2020 11:42:25 PM PDT by jmacusa (If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
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To: Ennis85

Whoever is president caused whatever calamity happens during his presidency? Reagan Directly caused aids? Bush directly caused 9/11? Kennedy Directly caused his assassination?


38 posted on 10/28/2020 11:46:48 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Ennis85

The so-called ‘Best Scientists” projected 2.5 million deaths if no mitigation was done. How can a tenth of that be a failure unless the left is politicizing it?


39 posted on 10/29/2020 9:55:01 AM PDT by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton
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To: Galatians328

“The jobs and the economy are much more important than some old and sick people dying, we have millions more where they came from.”

Trump, being a responsible leader, cares about all those things. They’re not mutually exclusive, even if propagandists on the Left pretend they are.

And jobs and the economy do a great job keeping people alive and healthy. That’s why the Third World is called the Third World. Poor people in poor countries tend to get sick and die.


40 posted on 10/29/2020 10:02:30 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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