COVID-19 response in Trump’s own word's

The Quarantine Zone
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(From today’s Daily Kos):

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That really tells the whole story, doesn’t it?

Thanks for posting such a succinct summary of the [DEL]clusterfuck[/DEL] situation.

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I should not read stuff like that just after eating. Don’t know if I have enough anti-nausea meds to handle it.

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Holy fuck. Any of the past presidents since I’ve voted in the late '80s would’ve called in the task force on New Year’s Day at the very least. The wimpiest man in the world who lives off insults and inherited money was never equipped to be a leader in the first place.

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And now that Trump’s realized we have a crisis on our hands, Fox News has turned on a dime. Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.

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Well, we used to have a Pandemic Response Team. It disappeared in 2018 and hasn’t been replaced. Regardless of it being gone because they quit or were fired, the point remains it’s gone.

At least they changed their mind. I’ve been surprised at how many right wingers I know that are on board with what’s been going on lately. I assume this is why they all seemed to have made a 180 from ‘it’s just the flu’ to ‘yeah, I guess we have to deal with this’.
I’m not entirely sure why Fox and Friends made the 180, but I guess it doesn’t really matter.

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Yeah yesterday I heard a clip of him talking at a press meeting and he said “I’ve called this a pandemic before anyone else was using that word.” Words cannot express how angry this makes me. This man should not be President.

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So, I guess NO POLITICS was just a suggestion.

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More what you’d call ‘guidelines’ than actual rules. :wink:

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In practice, it’s impossible to keep politics out of it. Our nation’s handling of the situation is a necessary part of the conversation.

Also, people are are really angry at the Trump administration, and with good reason, and expressions of that anger are going to come out.

It’s up to to mods how strictly they enforce the rule, and personally I hope they’re not strict due to the reasons stated above. Having the rule in place gives them needed backup if they need to clamp down on a discussion that’s gone off the rails.

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Depends on the thread. Anything identified as “Breaking News” or “Factual Only” will respectively have MPSIMS or GQ rules applied (i.e.: no politics).

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Politics? What politics? A minority of US voters in a rigged system had a luzer installed, a so-called businessman who promised to run the nation like a business. That means cutting quality and wages, over-rewarding investors, firing under-producers and bothersome folks, lining his own pockets, and never admitting error in a [del]bankruptcy filing[/del] kilobuck bailout proposal. No politics, only the usual.

Ambrose Bierce defined the presidency as “the greased pig in the field game of American politics.” How appropriate.