As U.S. tops global tally of coronavirus cases, Trump is at odds with reality We have now surpassed China for Coronavirus cases and our population is lower. Go figure. Just proves how well their leadership has tackled this virus with their mandatory quarantines and preparedness. The lack of interest in this pandemic by Trump has taken its toll with loss of life, coupled with all the lies that lead the people in the wrong direction with their preparedness. He told his base it was a hoax for Gods sake, and they said it doesn't exist. Add that with the failure to not declare the defense production act, 9/11 and Pearl Harbor are going to look like a scratch in comparison, if Trump doesn't act, or gets the hell out of the way. Having bidding wars with companies to make masks is insane for example. They are bidding over making money, while people die. To hell with that failure. The defense production act has to happen yesterday. Trump with this ultimate failure of his, has done enough damage already. Can you believe it, he wants everybody to get together to go find the easter bunny, a few Sundays from now because it will be beautiful. In the mean time, people are dropping like flies, because we either are in short supply, or have no masks, gloves, or ventilators. But ha, let's all walk out of church together on easter Sunday and have an easter egg hunt. What a sick, selfish. monster he is.
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Yeah, China can also walk people out of the city, and shoot them, to contain the virus. China can also block off entire cities, and starve them to contain a virus.
China can force a hundred people to build a hospital in a week, for $1 a day.
You morons need to be a bit more careful when celebrating the brilliance of China, and the limited ability of the US government which operates under a fundamental belief in the rights of individuals.
Pretty stupid argument.
Rights of individuals gathering in large crowds is getting them sick, and in many cases dead. I'm not sure what "rights" you get to enjoy after that? But, you are right about one thing though, I damn sure am going to be a "bit more careful" about listening to anything you have to say. I, like you, enjoy my rights, and to hell with being stupid and giving them up to coronavirus. I'm going to exercise my rights by using my brain. Thanks for the advise.
But you understand that every single abusive dictator in the world, has used your logic right there, as why they are allowed to harm the public.
By your logic, we should just re-institute slavery, and make everyone wards of the state. After all, if people have rights, they could do something that causes harm! So lets get rid of all those dangerous rights they have.
If you want to be a slave for life, so you can avoid a cough, that's your choice to do so. Don't impose your dictatorship on me, thanks.
The US has a military presence in 70% of the nations on the planet as we support 73% of the world's dicatorships. Are you this stunningly unaware?
The pandemic shows yet again that we people have no representation in our political system, by design. Our political class simply does not care, has no need to, and our political system selects for charlatans to be in those positions and leave us to the whims of concentrated capital. That’s their role in society; that of the little Eichmann.
Our “exceptional” self-aggrandized american “way of life” has been exposed to be the fraud it has always been now. Our “representatives”, our “leaders”, pimps really, hid from the public that a pandemic was coming while they informed the donor class; the substantial people and these pimps all got their insider trading wrapped up, sodomizing the 401k working and underclasses like they bipartisanly sodomized children in the Epstein/Maxwell (who was allowed to slither back off into the shadows so as not to further embarrass the aristocracy) child sex trafficking operation over decades.
What’s the feckless, impotent self-serving response of our ruling aristocracy? Double down on more of the SOS and await a different outcome; evermore societal wealth redistribution upward, fewer of the masses to deal with after the first of the COVID-19 retroviral waves rolls through society, and blame China for the inevitable ramifications of how we organize our society. We left ourselves wide open. Our societal priorities have consequences. They’ve come home to roost. Those who made the decisions will be impacted least, they will get priority access to testing and treatment, and they have tax payer funded healthcare. Win win as the moneychangers like to say.
We have a military presence in 70% of the nations on the planet, supporting 73% of the world’s dictatorships. We have the most expansive incarceration apparatus ever known to humankind locking down 25% of the world’s incarcerated population versus our comprising 5% of global population. We have militarized “law” enforcement. The entire population is under constant mass corporate state surveillance. We have for profit internment/concentration camps up and running, easily anyone can be targeted for inclusion, americans being so easily turned on one another. The corporate state media machine has been monopolized down to half a dozen multinational corporations spinning spectacle and illusion at a level of efficiency Edward L Bernays could never have imagined given the technology of his day. We can whip up an endless stream of illegal unconstitutional wars without end, Amen, Amen, while no one asks "how we gonna pay for that?". But America simply cannot get it’s shit together on this pandemic, and this was by bipartisanly achieved over time via neoliberal economic fantasy and a lean six sigma approach to life itself.
It has never been clearer who our economic/political system serves, it has never been we the people. We are all tacitly complicit in cooperating with and participating in a death cult for Wall Street returns paradigm. We the people know what our "representatives" are. Predators.
The US has a military presence in 70% of the nations on the planet as we support 73% of the world's dicatorships. Are you this stunningly unaware?
So couple of things there.
First, you are supporting dictatorship in the US.... so why would you care if we support or don't support, other dictatorships?
Second, I said evil dictatorships. Not all governments are evil, even if they are affectively a dictatorship.
Third, You whine about the US military having a presence in 70% of the nations.... but then decry Trump who has actively tried to reduce our military presence around the world.
Fourth, we only have operational military bases in 60 some countries. Not 70% of the nations of the world. The ignorant left-wing, is including military personnel that are deployed, often as liaisons to the military operating in those countries. This is mutually beneficial, so that we do not mistake movements by another country as being hostile, or them mistaking our movements as being hostile.
Fifth, you can make the argument that we should not have those 60 some operational military bases. The counter is that us pulling back already, has had negative impact on world peace. Tensions between Japan and China have already risen quite a bit, with Japan having already made changes to the limitations on the scope of Japan's military in combat roles. I can almost guarantee that if we had troops stationed in Ukraine, that Russia would not be in the Ukraine today. And if we pulled out of South Korea, North Korea would already be at war. And we already know that if we had not deployed troops into Columbia, that Venezuela would have attacked Columbia, and there would have been war in South America.
You can make the argument we should reduce our world presence, but that would be an uphill argument to make, given how clearly our forces have maintained peace.
The pandemic shows yet again that we people have no representation in our political system, by design.
Bull crap. Every time I turn around, the public is getting pretty much what they ask for. Name something the public wanted, and didn't get?
sodomizing the 401k
The number of stocks I own today, is greater than it was last year, or even a month ago. No one can still your property. No one has lost anything.
they bipartisanly sodomized children in the Epstein/Maxwell (who was allowed to slither back off into the shadows so as not to further embarrass the aristocracy) child sex trafficking operation over decades
Then next time you have a Bill Clinton, who is openly, and provably raping people.... vote him out.
Next time you have a guy drive his car into a pond, and kill an intern he left in the car, while he stumbled drunk back to his apartment, and didn't call police until the next day, vote him out.
You can't blame government, when it is the public who are supporting these people.
Next time a guy robs a convenience store, attacks a police officer, and grabs for his gun and get's shot... praise the police officer. You can't march through New York, chanting we want dead cops, and then complain about criminals in public office.
If you want someone to blame, look in the mirror.
Our “exceptional” self-aggrandized american “way of life” has been exposed to be the fraud it has always been now
Really? Because last I looked, we still had millions of immigrants trying to get into this country. Why are they trying to get here, if this is a fraud?
Have you been to Europe? I have. We have a better standard of living here with our "Fraud way of life", than they do.
The only people who think the American way of life is a fraud, are stupid people who don't know how the rest of the planet lives.