Posted on 03/16/2020 7:29:17 AM PDT by Kaslin
‘Only those with IQs less than room temperature would hold DT responsible for the current mess.’
Yea but today that’s half the country...and many of them have just been recently’ educated’...so to speak!
If it does, many here will be responsible for contributing to the panic.
Since the Democrats’ plan seems to be to nominate a senile candidate and throw the borders open as wide as possible, I’d say it’s a no.
While I think you are too optimistic about the number dead I agree with you.
i hope not but who wants Biden??? the more he speaks the worse he looks
Trump is not responsible for the virus, but the messaging of this response has been gawd-awful. Calm briefings about testing minutia and how only the sick and elderly are at risk, followed by repeated mega-bombs about drastically changing our daily lives.
Yesterday’s briefing: “The CDC will be issuing new guidelines”. Yeah, the new guidelines are to shut-down everything with more than 50 people in it.
They would have been much better off just spitting that out in the first place.
It is causing a whole lot of people to think they’re hiding something.
The American people will vote for the individual they have the most confident in. Right now that is President Trump.
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Yes, and by that standard, either Biden or the Commie will lose in a landslide.
There will be an election, but as you note, we are currently at the mercy of the "Ughknown".
Re: markets - The markets are being driven in part by a sentiment of fear. When that changes, the markets will start to recover.
Fear is coming from many angles. Some elected leaders at the state and local level look fearful and I believe a lot of that is due to their temperament - when everything is humming along - no problem. When a big problem comes along, well, there's a problem. Re: Main Street - when businesses can open again and run in a semi-normal fashion.
Somewhat related, saw a post on HA that is being attributed to being made at Ace of Spades:
"When this is all over and the smoke clears, we will have plenty of time to find those who not only caused the panic, but took advantage of us and our fellow citizens when they were most in need. At that point we can raise the black flag and start slitting throats."
This is the kind of thing that can have a major impact on an incumbent re-election chances.
Re: 68 - President Trump’s re-election will ride in large part on how we addresses and handles this crisis. Many eyes are on him.
I wish him success, as should we all.
Presidents are often held accountable four things that weren’t their fault. The great depression wasn’t Herbert Hoover’s fault.
I implore all to cover this good man in DAILY prayer.
"When this is all over and the smoke clears, we will have plenty of time to find those who not only caused the panic, but took advantage of us and our fellow citizens when they were most in need. At that point we can raise the black flag and start slitting throats."
Time for a music break!
I sure hope you're right. I believe the general assessment to date is for the most part, no one could've seen this coming or could've done anything to prevent it.
How Trump manages it, will be the measure of his Presidency--if people perceive his actions as appropriate, effective, and normalcy returns in an appropriate amount of time, he will be re-elected.
Of course we all know, the media will do everything they can to hang this from Trump's neck as "his Katrina." They are salivating with the prospect of making him look as bad as possible, even if that means taking the entire economy and country to its knees.
I've seen this claim, too. I think the data set is much more limited with COVID-19, so I'm not sure they can fully extrapolate that magnitude.
No
The great depression was all around the world, and it cost President Hoover his job.
You’re expecting the majority of folks to ask themselves logical questions? Expect to be disappointed.
There’s a very clear cause and effect relationship here unlike normal economic downturns in which the president can be semi-plausibly blamed for the problem.
Exactly. Since he took a not great economy when he was elected to a booming one, there’s no one more competent to do so again as needed after all this mess ends.
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