My gosh... this could have been an Onion satire. And its from the trump-friendly tabloid NY post, so who knows, but... Trump says he will ‘take a look’ at ‘Tiger King’ Joe Exotic pardon https://nypost.com/2020/04/08/donald-trump-on-joe-exotic-pardon-ill-take-a-look/
[Business Insider] Trump says 'nobody' could've predicted a pandemic like coronavirus. Here are all the times he was warned about it and refused to take action.
Link to survey and results: http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReport.aspx?g=f0224955-d73f-4868-a4ca-7880f4b0798d
The Momouth poll also shows dropping trump approval in his (mis)handling of the Coronavirus crisis... Link to survey: https://www.monmouth.edu/polling-institute/reports/monmouthpoll_US_040820/
This is a story albeit a month old that keeps on giving ... Trump ‘didn’t know people died from the flu.’ It killed his grandfather. In Atlanta on Friday, President Trump talked about the number of people infected with the novel coronavirus in other countries vs. the United States. He also compared coronavirus disease with influenza. “Over the last long period of time, you have an average of 36,000 people dying” a year, the president said, gesturing toward National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony S. Fauci, who nodded confirmation. Trump continued: “I never heard those numbers. I would’ve been shocked. I would’ve said, ‘Does anybody die from the flu? I didn’t know people died from the flu.’ … And again, you had a couple of years where it was over a 100,000 people died from the flu.” The president is correct. Seasonal influenza has killed 12,000 to 61,000 people in the United States every year since 2010, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There have been several years where more than 100,000 Americans were killed by particularly nasty influenza strains. One of those episodes was the 1958 pandemic, which killed 116,000 in the United States. Another was 1918. That is the year Trump’s paternal grandfather died. He died of the flu. In 1918, Friedrich Trump was a successful, 49-year-old businessman, husband and father of three living in Queens, according to Gwenda Blair in her 2001 book “The Trumps: Three Generations That Built an Empire.” One day in May, he came home from a stroll feeling sick. He died almost immediately. He was a victim of the first wave of the Spanish flu pandemic. A second, deadlier wave hit in the fall. All told, the pandemic killed at least 50 million people worldwide and 675,000 in the United States, according to the CDC. Friedrich’s eldest son, Frederick, was only 12 when his father died, but he and his mother would pick up the family business. It would be another 28 years before Fred and his wife would have their fourth child, a boy they named Donald. This same grandfather’s biography has come up as a sticking point before. Friedrich came to the United States at 16 from Germany and today would be classed as an “unaccompanied alien child,” experts told The Washington Post in 2018. Trump has come under fire for his administration’s treatment of unaccompanied minors and other children from Central America trying to enter the country via the southern border. In his 20s, Friedrich Trump made his way to the Pacific Northwest, where he made his fortune opening taverns, restaurants and hotels, usually in red-light districts, in Gold Rush-era mining towns. He also attempted a return to Germany in his 30s but was deported because he had avoided the military draft as a teenager. The president is at least partially aware of his grandfather’s biography. As recently as February 2019, he said in a speech, “My grandfather was up in Alaska for a long time. He was looking for gold. He was searching for gold. He didn’t find it, but he started opening up little hotels for those looking for gold. And it worked out.” At other times, he has said erroneously that his father, not his grandfather, was born in Germany. His father was born in New York. At the same news conference Friday where Trump appeared unaware of his grandfather’s cause of death, he cited another family member — a “super-genius uncle,” his grandfather’s youngest son — as having given him the family genes to understand the science of the coronavirus outbreak. “People are really surprised I understand this stuff,” he said. “Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability.”
Because trump will lie, about anything and everything. Regardless of importance, regardless of all the proof to the contrary.
Meanwhile... the trump reelection fundraising keeps on keeping on (somehow though, I don't think George will contribute)...
Who says we are fine with it? Another one of these posts man. Come on you are better than this. Just like your post yesterday basically accusing Democrats of wanting Hydroxychloroquine to not work. That's insane. We all have love ones who are vulnerable. We all realize it could be us in the ICU next. OF COURSE we would all love for there to be a miracle cure. Who cares what the drug is and who promoted it. OF COURSE all of us... and I mean ALL OF US would rather be living our normal lives, not watching our 401K's plummet, and have a functioning economy again. These posts insinuating that just show the disconnect from reality that your media installs into your brain. FoxNews and whatever garbage propaganda you consume has actually convinced you that liberals are so villainous that they root for a pandemic that kills 15,000 people, destroys the economy, and locks us in our homes for months on end, JUST BECAUSE they are all out to get Trump and muh culture. What a bunch of bullsh$t. It would be insulting if it wasn't so ignorant of reality.
Define 'fine' ? This shutdown is impacting us all and the 'liberals' and working class folk will be the ones in end that get the sh*it end of the stick. You can be assured of that. Many working class liberals are already on furlough and while the time with family might be something, the outlook is certainly not 'fine' unemployment is not the same income. Its not fine! maybe you can take joy in liberals doing what they are told, whats right, or science based..all thewhile in end liberals will bear the economic brunt. thankfully they are level headed and are not super spreading covidiot maga lovers. They may not be the 1% but they are smart enough to respect science not looking for divine hail marys. In that sense liberals are fighters and its funny what pussys this whole experience has proven to show the right being. I thought these dudes were cowboys and outdoormans and yet cant handle 2 seconds of this. No one is fine were just not jackass super spreading idiots. Oh and trump lovers ? Shocker!!
I saw a poll this morning that like 81% of people are okay with the stay at home orders. That isn't just "liberals" @Astrodome. That also likely includes many retail, and restaurant workers who lost their income because of COVID. And nobody is "fine" with it. It's just understanding the basic science that it's what is necessary to make this nightmare go away sooner rather than be with us for the foreseeable future.
