Not2BSubjugated
Callous Individualist
Fair enough that this is your point, but it's still a bullshit point. The fact that the governers have shut down for long enough for the economy to be where it is isn't a factual indicator of the virus's potency, it's only an indicator of those governers' perception of the virus's potency. It doesn't make Trump a hypocrite to believe that the governers overreacted to the virus and fucked up the economy more than they had to. It might make him wrong, but there's nothing self-contradictory about that belief. Nothing about what you've said here actually backs the premise of your OP.The point I am obviously making is that the economy and the virus are completely intertwined issues. Therefore Trump wanting new stimulus checks is hypocritical if he wants to pretend the virus isn't a big deal. If the economy was never shut down, we'd still be in the shitter because many more people would be currently dead than 135k.WTF does that have to do with what we're talking about? Our argument wasn't about whether it was right or wrong to shut down the economy, and at no point in anything I've posted in this thread did I venture an opinion on that matter. I said that the economy is where it is regardless of whether Trump acknowledges the threat of the virus. Even if he believed that Covid19 didn't exist and the whole thing was a lie cooked up by China and the Dems, it wouldn't force him to believe that the shutdowns had never happened and that everybody was still going to work like normal.Lol so let’s pretend we never did a shut down and every thing was just normal from the beginning. Just how much bigger do you think the death toll would be? I mean right now it is 130k. If we did NOTHING to slow the spread. How much higher would it be?The virus didn't take everybody's money away, genius. The shutdown did. Viruses, in the biological sense of the word, don't have the capacity to raid your bank account or lift your wallet.Because they are broke huh? So Trump arbitrarily decides people need money huh? Not because of the virus?If it turned out that all the news was false and all of Covid19 was an absolute hoax (and mind you, I'm not saying that I believe this to be the case in the slightest), that wouldn't change the damage that the shutdown has done to the economy.
Trump is pushing for more stimulus payments because people are broke, not because they're sick. Whether or not Covid19 is as much of a health crisis as they say is irrelevant to the reality of peoples' finances, and Trump's opinions on the matter don't dictate whether or not state governers are going to shut down again/extend ongoing shutdown rules. Don't confuse the concept of "related" with the concept of "directly causal." It'll fuck your perceptions all up.
Sure, the governers shut down because of the virus, but since Trump isn't the one deciding on whether or not to shut down, the fact that he doesn't consider the virus to be the threat that the MSM does isn't in any sort of confliction with his recognition that the economy is in the shitter.
Stop being willfully dense about this, I know you're not as dumb as you're playing.
Honestly the proposition that it's somehow impossible to simultaneously believe that the threat that the virus poses to our health is greatly exaggerated, AND that our reaction to it has hurt the economy, is so insanely God damn ridiculous that I'm having trouble believing that you actually believe it. These two thoughts aren't even REMOTELY contradictory.