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The Con is meeting with leaders of the biggest banks while (Original Post) malaise Mar 2020 OP
This message was self-deleted by its author democratisphere Mar 2020 #1
Trump is right Chainfire Mar 2020 #2
Trumps using our money trying to bribe them duforsure Mar 2020 #3
Bribery wont work this time... Volaris Mar 2020 #11
Trump is fixated on a financial crisis, completely procon Mar 2020 #4
It hit me the other night malaise Mar 2020 #5
I don't think Trump can care about people. procon Mar 2020 #6
+1,000 malaise Mar 2020 #7
He thinks his Best Words can turn things around lame54 Mar 2020 #10
Those aren't the millions Trump cares about lame54 Mar 2020 #8
He needs to do both. maxsolomon Mar 2020 #9

Response to malaise (Original post)

Chainfire

(17,474 posts)
2. Trump is right
Wed Mar 11, 2020, 03:11 PM
Mar 2020

People are born and die every day. Money is forever! Trump knows where his power comes from.

It looks like the market is not happy with his responses yet.

duforsure

(11,885 posts)
3. Trumps using our money trying to bribe them
Wed Mar 11, 2020, 03:14 PM
Mar 2020

Then give them another sweetheart deal which we again will pay for it, and have our programs defunded and slashed , for the ones affected the most with this virus, the seniors. All on SS should get an immediate 10% raise before anything else.

Volaris

(10,269 posts)
11. Bribery wont work this time...
Wed Mar 11, 2020, 08:00 PM
Mar 2020

Wall street bankers arent dumb. They understand science, math, and (prolly) poli-sci calculations with the best of them, it's one of the ways they MAKE money.

They arent gonna let themselves be bribed into ignoring the deaths of potentially tens of thousands of people and the result being the loss of a for profit healthcare system when we get pissed off and finally DEMAND universal healthcare.

procon

(15,805 posts)
4. Trump is fixated on a financial crisis, completely
Wed Mar 11, 2020, 03:26 PM
Mar 2020

ignoring the underlying greater impact of the exploding medical crisis and the potentially lethal spread of the pandemic Covid 19 virus.

malaise

(268,717 posts)
5. It hit me the other night
Wed Mar 11, 2020, 03:46 PM
Mar 2020

The real swamp is the corporate grip on all policies - this is a public health crisis which required social good solutions not for profit solutions

procon

(15,805 posts)
6. I don't think Trump can care about people.
Wed Mar 11, 2020, 04:09 PM
Mar 2020

Something inside of him is broken, he's not normal and he does not respond like any reasonable person would.

Now that he's facing this world wide crisis, his defects will become even more pronounced. Remember how he treated American citizens who were trapped on cruise ships, scared, sick and dying, even denying them a port to dock because he was more worried that it would make his numbers look bad.

Now that this Corid 19 had been officially classified as a global pandemic, Trump is still singularly focused on money, and meeting with bankers today. Meanwhile, all those cruise ship passengers are being shipped off to military bases to be quarantined and he can't even make a simple statement about his fake concern for their health.

malaise

(268,717 posts)
7. +1,000
Wed Mar 11, 2020, 04:52 PM
Mar 2020

Money and being a TV president - it's all a reality show to him - realities like epidemics and pandemics have no meaning to this defective lunatic.

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