of at least a half-million Americans is to argue — nonsensically — that the virus came out of the Wuhan virology lab and therefore something, something, something Trump is not responsible. He’s doing this with House Oversight Committee hearings this week.
Yes, he did. Saved you a click.
Yes. And he would do it again.
When you side with Trump, you’re siding with Genocide Denial.
Yes, emphatically YES!
There was a dramatic shift in tone from the Trump White House during the early COVID days once it was realized that the virus outbreak centered on urban areas.
And it was incredibly obvious to anybody paying attention.
And it was also painfully obvious that once it bit into rural areas, it was going to extract even more blood.
Trump lost GA by less votes than people who died of Covid before the election in GA.
I’m so glad trump isn’t skilled in anything, but it does suck that his poor handling of the pandemic meant that a lot of people earned Herman Cain awards needlessly
I wouldn’t say for political purposes. I’d say for lazy, ignorant narcissism-yet-inferiority-complex (call it self-loathing), mindless knee-jerk flailing with a five-seconds attention span that resets every five seconds.
Attempt at lazy instant gratification - RESET - Attempt at lazy instant gratification - RESET - Attempt at lazy instant gratification - RESET…
Over and over again. A million times over. Never-ending until that parasitic creature dies. With no care to the death and suffering any of this could bring to those “inferior to me”… and EVERYONE is inferior to that pig, EVERYONE will eventually be thrown under the bus. All for a five-second knee-jerkoff hollow satisfaction.That’s not quite politics. It’s something much sicker than that, if you can wrap your head around such a thing. The politics are just the fucking wallpaper on the dungeon.
I can’t get over how 1.1 million Americans died and people are acting like it was bullshit.
Imagine a war causing that many deaths. There would be statues and a memorial holiday. All I got was a slightly diminished sense of smell and grandma’s house.
Yup who knows how many people got long covid, chronic fatigue, do we even know all the effects?
Ever since I got COVID, I wake up at night coughing. Every night. It must be connected.
It’s not even a debatable point. The fact that it’s presented as such is irritating.
Its crazy that he got rid of the folks monitoring for that type of thing in like oct/nov 2019. I mean if you tried to pick a time to fuck us maximally you could not have done better.
This might be a hot take, but I think Trump is too dumb himself to have done this the way the article frames it. He is EMPHATICALLY responsible for the deaths of many, and for varied reasons, but he’s simply not intelligent or thoughtful enough to have planned anything further than a few days ahead for political points.
His puppet masters though… different story. I 100% believe that the massive pieces of shit surrounding him manipulated him into doing some truly horrific things that led to more deaths than needed.
You really think a racist/classist turd like Stephen Miller didn’t realize that the poor were obviously more at risk of infection and survival, and that the majority of those infected and dying would be in urban areas which largely vote Democrat? That little soulness asshat is probably more culpable for anything truly devious, like the kids in cages thing. He was gleefully laughing when asked about it the first time that was outed.
No, he didn’t “let people die”.
He actively contributed to those deaths.
Right wing media spent the entire pandemic fighting against distancing, masks, vaccines, against science. And pretending horse dewormer was a miracle solution for everything. But it turns out reality isn’t a political opinion, and millions of people died because of those lies.
When humanity was fighting against covid, Republicans were fighting on the virus’ side
But at the very beginning, there was one moment where they said we didn’t need masks, so all of your points are refuted! /s
I know you’re being sarcastic but I still want to punch you. So fucking sick of that shit.
In general, we were lucky that the epidemic wasn’t something worse. Imagine the governmental failure during an Ebola pandemic.
Something worse is coming, and based on what happened this time, I’m terrified.
it happens at least once every hundred years, doesn’t mean it won’t happen sooner but it will happen again
Thanks Obama for making us not have to deal with that.
And for having a pandemic response team/office, which Trump dismantled…6 months before COVID hit.
I want to punch myself every time I hear some idiot make this argument so I get it.
Will we ever be far enough removed from the pandemic that we can talk about how the federal government lied and ignored 100+ years worth of science on the efficacy of masking (including effective mask mandates during the “Spanish”/Kansas flu pandemic), without being accused of being an antivax conspiracy theorist?
I’m vaxed, waxed and ready to party, but it is a stone cold fact that they told people not to wear masks - and caused untold numbers of deaths - because they didn’t want the general public to reduce the current supply.
(Fauci also did an absolutely horrendous, I mean historically awful job dealing with the AIDS crisis, but I guess that’s for another time.)
It was a mistake. They screwed up. Talk about it all you want and learn from it. Don’t use it to justify not wearing a mask ever again regardless of all evidence presented.
I know you are not saying that.
My problem is the second part of that, so I have no issue with you.
I get frustrated trying to figure how this should go in the future because on the one hand infantilizing the citizenry is acting in bad faith. On the other hand, I lot of people seem to be incapable of critical thinking. The answer is probably somewhere between those extremes but I am not sure where.
Wish I could boost this more than once.
If there was a group opposite of Q then it has to be the majority of commenters located right here.
The thing you have in common is believing the most wild, outlandish, baseless conspiracies imaginable.
It would honestly be somewhat impressive if it weren’t so juvenile.
Oh fuck off.
Do you not remember the private planes being guarded by National Guard troops because the feds were stealing PPE?
Uhhhhh he was a politician, don’t they all?
The far right wants you to think all politicians are bad to make you stop thinking about politics.
To make you stop thinking about your rights.
To make you stop fighting.
No. Politicians may be selfish but they don’t want their neighbors to drop dead and infect their own family while doing so.
It’s reported that in March 2020 Trump assumed the blue states would get hit the worst and he could do nothing and sit back and criticize them for their failures, but then it spilled over and started devastating his constituents in red states, making him have to backpedal.
Pretty obvious Yes to the headline.
Or as Trump said, “it is what it is.”
Short answer:Yes Long answer: Yes, Absolutely.
Dumb question. Of course he did.
