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Baitball Blogger

(46,706 posts)
Wed Mar 4, 2020, 09:41 PM Mar 2020

Why are we surprised that Trump dropped the ball on the coronavirus testing?

Don't Republicans want to dismantle the federal government and allow the States to handle their own responses? Isn't that what the Right-wing Supreme Court justices are doing now? Refusing to rule on laws that will recognize rights that should be guaranteed to everyone, regardless of which state we live in. Instead, they're yielding back to the State courts.

No surprise without a leader who is ready to properly inform us of what is going on we have people who think the concern is hyped by the media. And a few others don't believe it exist.

I have his prediction to make: The day that this virus hits a vulnerable right-wing community with old retirees, their eyes will open. I don't wish this on anyone. But the Villages showed us how vulnerable these communities are when venereal disease spred at a high clip. What do you think they'll do when the coronavirus hits their community?

I would like to believe that will be the moment we all come together and recognize the danger that this Administration put us in; and that we see the inadequacy of Republican States rights.

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Why are we surprised that Trump dropped the ball on the coronavirus testing? (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Mar 2020 OP
They will still vote for trump. Chipper Chat Mar 2020 #1
If that's the case, I hope we're prepared when they begin blaming Democrats. Baitball Blogger Mar 2020 #2
Exactly. 2naSalit Mar 2020 #10
someone is surprised? NRaleighLiberal Mar 2020 #3
gmta. i was gonna say- who's surprised? mopinko Mar 2020 #4
Not many people around here are surprised... Wounded Bear Mar 2020 #5
Every time I listen to him he shocks me even more. Baitball Blogger Mar 2020 #8
I don't call it leadership... Wounded Bear Mar 2020 #12
I'm not. I'd have been astonished if he *hadn't* fucked it up. The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2020 #6
? who is surprised? Skittles Mar 2020 #7
I didn't expect it to be this bad. Baitball Blogger Mar 2020 #9
I did Skittles Mar 2020 #11
He is actually wishing this thing away! Baitball Blogger Mar 2020 #13
Trump's only priority is HIMSELF Skittles Mar 2020 #15
I have seen this before. Two different tracks of leadership. Baitball Blogger Mar 2020 #16
I absolutely expected it to be this bad. n/t Ms. Toad Mar 2020 #14

Baitball Blogger

(46,706 posts)
2. If that's the case, I hope we're prepared when they begin blaming Democrats.
Wed Mar 4, 2020, 09:44 PM
Mar 2020

Maybe we should resurrect public announcements?

Wounded Bear

(58,654 posts)
5. Not many people around here are surprised...
Wed Mar 4, 2020, 09:52 PM
Mar 2020

and I don't buy that the media is all that surprised. They may be acting like it, but Trump is just being Trump. It's how he ran his campaign, it was how he ran the transition, and it is how his whole administration has operated.

Anybody who is acting surprised now has been intentionally ignorant.

Baitball Blogger

(46,706 posts)
8. Every time I listen to him he shocks me even more.
Wed Mar 4, 2020, 09:57 PM
Mar 2020

But I get it now. These bully type of leaders who just want to run with their personal agenda believe anything that doesn't fit into that agenda will just eventually go away. So they can ignore it. And that's exactly what is happening with Trump.

It doesn't matter if it's local or the executive office. Republicans all have the same leadership qualities.

Wounded Bear

(58,654 posts)
12. I don't call it leadership...
Wed Mar 4, 2020, 10:12 PM
Mar 2020

they can bark orders and force compliance. Real leadership, IMNSHO implies an ability to get people who don't agree with you to go along, even if reluctantly. Trump, and most Repubs just like to give orders and they expect everybody to buckly under.

I decided a long time ago that Trump wasn't really faking it. I suspect Trumplodytes think he's really a nice guy in private. You know, his public face is all an act. Nope, I don't buy it. You can tell by how his wife and his son act when around him.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,693 posts)
6. I'm not. I'd have been astonished if he *hadn't* fucked it up.
Wed Mar 4, 2020, 09:54 PM
Mar 2020

The only question was the exact form of the fuck-up.

Everything Trump touches dies.

Skittles

(153,160 posts)
11. I did
Wed Mar 4, 2020, 10:03 PM
Mar 2020

the absolute dread I felt on election night in 2016 was the absolute certainty I had that if faced with a crisis, Trump would not just fail, he would make things much worse

Baitball Blogger

(46,706 posts)
13. He is actually wishing this thing away!
Wed Mar 4, 2020, 10:23 PM
Mar 2020

I've only seen that level of incompetence at the local level. Never expected to see someone in the oval office use it to such effect as Trump. Even blaming Obama for the lack of testing! WHAT!

Skittles

(153,160 posts)
15. Trump's only priority is HIMSELF
Wed Mar 4, 2020, 11:07 PM
Mar 2020

he will do whatever it takes to promote himself....watch for things to get much, MUCH worse

Baitball Blogger

(46,706 posts)
16. I have seen this before. Two different tracks of leadership.
Wed Mar 4, 2020, 11:27 PM
Mar 2020

Generally at the local level the government, as you expect to find it, is just a front. The real government is running in the background. Good ole boy networking and semi-private meetings.

Trump's response to the virus is exposing another kind of two tracked government. There is his response, which is nothing. And then everyone else is trying to fill in the void. Like the States testing for the virus on their own, without CDC approval.

This is what a government break-down looks like.

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