Posted on 03/16/2020 7:29:17 AM PDT by Kaslin
Until the coronavirus outbreak, most conservatives were pretty confident President Donald Trump would get reelected. The economy was doing great, which is a good sign an incumbent president will win reelection. But the coronavirus may change things. We may end up in a recession.
Although only 58 people in the U.S. have died from it so far, the country is taking drastic action to reduce the spread of it. The flu kills about 12,000 people in the U.S. each year, but the coronavirus is 10 times more deadly than the flu.
As a result, the extreme measures are hurting the economy and jobs. People are staying at home and avoiding travel and entertainment. Schools are shutting down. Retirees are losing their investments in stocks. Everyone has been affected to some extent. People panicking and overloading on supplies from grocery stores are making life difficult for others who cant get the essentials like toilet paper.
And theres no end in sight. Some experts predict two months, but they could be overly optimistic. Two months is a long time regardless for misery.
Trump didnt cause the coronavirus. But he is being blamed for everything in regards to handling it. Hes done an excellent job despite the naysaying from Democrats and the mainstream media. Hes taking drastic action.
Cutting off travel from China was the right thing to do. But Trump was accused of being racist. Then after he did it, they criticized him for not doing it fast enough. But Barack Obama moved far slower than Trump dealing with the swine flu.
And then when Europe became a hotbed for the virus, as new cases in China dwindled, Trump cut off travel from there. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, says 70% of the new cases of the virus are coming from Europe.
Newt Gingrich, who is currently living in Italy, observed, When you realize that the current 1,016 deaths in Italy with a population of 60 million would be the equivalent of 5,400 deaths in the United States instead of the 41 deaths we have had so far, you can see what milder, slower and less aggressive responses might have cost in lives.
Conservative columnist Rachel Marsden described the aggressive steps Russia has taken, which are working there. The country put up barriers, closing its border with coronavirus hotbed China in late January, banning high-risk flights, maintaining strict screening at border checkpoints and placing Russian expats evacuated from the Chinese city of Wuhan in quarantine for three weeks in Siberia. As a result, there have been only 17 reported cases of coronavirus, despite 51,000 reported tests.
Joe Biden attacked Trumps handling of the crisis, then turned around and plagiarized Trumps plan. This comes as no surprise, since Biden has a history of plagiarism. Tim Murtaugh, the communications director for the Trump campaign, said Biden raised the vile conspiracy theory that the President purposely allowed the coronavirus to spread. This is dishonest considering how aggressively Trump has moved to prevent that.
Same with falsely accusing Trump of calling the crisis a hoax and not treating it seriously. What he actually said was a criticism of the politicizing of the coronavirus by Democrats as their new hoax.
Trumps critics fault him no matter what action he takes. Jon Gabriel, the conservative editor of Ricochet, points out how the left criticized Trump for not getting tested for coronavirus right away. But after he got the test, they complained about why he was able to access the test before other people.
Trumps speeches are criticized for either being too ominous or not worried enough, no matter how carefully he tries to walk that fine line between the two approaches.
Mike Huckabee observed, So how has the other side responded? You know, the people with such high standards of character for others? Thus far, they have relentlessly attacked, mocked, criticized, second-guessed and undermined everything Trump has tried to do.
If the crisis is averted after a couple of months, theyll say Trump didnt stop it fast enough. No matter how many people die, even if a small number, they will say it could have been smaller. Trump cant win. When its all over, the Democrats will claim everything Trump did was wrong.
These vicious attacks are in contrast to previous outbreaks. The actor James Woods observed, I remember the H1N1 and SARS epidemics. Everyone supported our president then. There was no hysteria and the doomsayers kept their mouths shut. Thousands of people died and yet the press supported the astonishingly tepid response by the leaders of the time. Why the hysteria now?
Whats sad is liberal networks like CNN and MSNBC are so focused on nitpicking Trump that they are squandering time that could be spent giving people important information about the outbreak.
All the people significantly affected by this crisis especially those losing working hours may hold it against Trump. The Democrats will of course say the job interruptions could have been avoided. And if Trump had started to contain the virus faster, we wouldnt have had to avoid public places and businesses.
What its going to come down to is will Americans believe the Democrats and mainstream media and fault Trump for much of the epidemic, or will they see through the lies and realize he did an excellent job addressing it? Its going to be an uphill battle as the Democrats and media act as an echo chamber for each other. Trump is going to be in the fight of his life.
Nope.
Still possible that we have entered uncharted territory here, and that everything we have known is about to change.
Because of an Act of God event, and its Trumps fault?
Yes
I suspect the REAL targets of public ire will be the state governors that unilaterally ordered all their restaurants to shut down. Many will not reopen, and those thrown out of work and/or business will have a localized target to blame.
How do you figure?
Still possible that we have entered uncharted territory here, and that everything we have known is about to change.
We still have the Constitution. That determines when terms of office change, not Congress or the President or a panicked populace.
EXACTLY!!! Why not 8 times more deadly or 11 times more deadly. Its all bullish-t!!!!
There are many illiterate assholes in this country that vote and get their news from the MSM. Take a look at the shelves in the supermarkets around the country; many jerks after seeing this will blame the POTUS, with the markets tumbling, school closing, people out of work, many will lay it at the feet of Trump. Around 75 people have died, mostly unhealthy old folks, from this shit, while 14,000 Americans passed from the swine flu 10 years ago, no problem because Obama was at the helm. Trump definitely has a problem hopefully the truth will win out.
Thats the plan.
Drooling Communist (formerly known as Democrats) members of congress hope so
NOT A CHANCE!
Bernie and Biden both want to kill us.
The “nope” was just my response to your question asking if this is what I want.
What I was thinking is that Trump might cancel it himself due to this spiraling out of control in the near future.
It’s pure speculation on my part, obviously, but is that possible? I don’t know.
If the dems were president the Coronavirus would be allowed to run its course just like all other pandemics have been. We cannot sacrifice the lives and well being of hundreds of thousands for a few. Common sense.
Trump is getting bad advice IMO.
This might really gum up the election fraud operations.
What really would be funny is if all the illegals and assorted vote fraud criminals and corrupt voting machine techies decide to vote/count instinctively for very lives, which means voting for the dead Dems won't be an option.
The Rats will pay their field workers handsomely, unaware that the real votes for President Trump were actually counted for him, as well as the fake votes that were supposed to go to the party of satan.
The vote fraud would have still been perpetrated by the Dems not the Pubbies. Live by the fraud, die by the fraud. :)
*trump*
“With all due respect, I believe this is gonna be our finest hour.” (Apollo 13)
Trump’s finest hour, well, ONE of them since there are so many, how would one choose?
That’s assuming that the American public is so totally stupid that it blames Trump for the recession caused by the outbreak of a virus for which there is no cure.
If they are that stupid, then we’re doomed.
Is that how it works? The president is the sole person responsible for the sacred DOW index? The president is blamed for the consequences of any and all events over which he has no control? Well, the left is trying danmed hard to convince the people that’s true.
I swear, if a comet were heading for Earth and were going to hit in Puerto Rico and then extinguish all life on Earth, the headlines would be: NYTimes “Trump abandons Puerto Rico amid accusations of racism.” CNN “Watch the live feed as comet strikes an impoverished island and Trump does nothing.” WSJ “Dow plunges to zero as Trump scrambles to save the world.” New York Daily News “We’re dead thanks to Trump.” Teheran Times “Death to America, death to Israel” Sweden Daily News “No Nobel for you Donald”
My error.
What I was thinking is that Trump might cancel it himself due to this spiraling out of control in the near future.
Trump can't cancel the Constitution. If there is no election in 2020 then the government will be what I laid out come January 2021.
Of course not ,will only help him.
Most reasonable Americans respect strong decisive leadership
Whats Jesus got to do with it, do with it?? lol
Hmmm. Alright, I appreciate that information.
2020 gonna be a Hell of a year.
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