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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI cant believe a republican friend just said this. WTF. We are doomed.
Last edited Sun Mar 15, 2020, 06:24 PM - Edit history (1)
Why the obama administration didn't have test kits available for future problems is beyond me.The abject stupidity is beyond me.
Added: The doomed part was facetious.
Wounded Bear
(58,758 posts)quick to defend him.
SCantiGOP
(13,874 posts)Then you have been prepared for the fire at your house today."
Did the person realized how effing stupid they were?
live love laugh
(13,181 posts)RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)Shift blame constantly, change direction.
jls4561
(1,267 posts)SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)D_Master81
(1,823 posts)Yeah Obama why couldnt you have carried trumps water on this too?
Claustrum
(4,846 posts)They are saying the democrats in charge aren't doing enough and letting coronavirus run free. I almost went into a 30 minutes rant but I stopped after 3 sentences of Trump's words to downplay the virus thus far.
D_Master81
(1,823 posts)Thats the 11th commandment in the Bible Ive heard.
czarjak
(11,310 posts)WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)Mz Pip
(27,454 posts)How can there be stockpiles of tests for viruses that didnt exist 4 years ago?
Mariana
(14,861 posts)I've been calling this all along. The Trumpsters will never turn against their idol. As they're gasping and struggling to take their final conscious breaths, they'll be saying, "It's Obama's fault! Hillary would have been worse!"
IggleDuer
(964 posts)N/T
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,060 posts)Mariana
(14,861 posts)FreeState
(10,585 posts)A 55-year-old individual from Hubei province in China may have been the first person to have contracted COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus spreading across the globe. That case dates back to Nov. 17, 2019, according to the South Morning China Post.
wnylib
(21,718 posts)editorials in my local newspaper this morning. Some well informed posters there, but also some frightening ignorance and stupidity.
One guy said the 19 stood for the 19th coronavirus discovered. That was his "proof" that we have survived coronaviruses before so this one is no different. Therefore, it is all Democratic hype to smear Trump in the election.
With this kind of stupidity, what chance do we have of containing it?
Another poster pointed out the origin of 19 and that there are hundreds of coronaviruses, but each is different. He gave more info, statistics, etc. but responses were politically oriented.
Hard to explain the science to people who can't understand it and are emotionally commited to Trumpism.
If only: IGNORANCE WAS PAINFUL............
Now, once again, we know how trump got to stay president......
gristy
(10,667 posts)Much less on determining as to whether we are all doomed or not.
But yes, I do agree he is stupid.
Skittles
(153,256 posts)it boggles the mind
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,060 posts)There will have to be charges brought and convictions to get their attentions.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Eko
(7,399 posts)There is someone out there that is so stupid they would think that. The doomed part was facetious as it was not the subject of this email and should have been apparent.
Thanks,
Eko
RockRaven
(15,057 posts)Practice makes perfect.
Journeyman
(15,042 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Doreen
(11,686 posts)I heard he was the one who crucified Jesus.
Of course its his fault.
essme
(1,207 posts)DBoon
(22,414 posts)Obama is one clever dude
lunasun
(21,646 posts)dchill
(38,583 posts)alterfurz
(2,475 posts)dchill
(38,583 posts)Like the world has never seen!
Different Drummer
(7,661 posts)Trumpers will say/do anything to defend It.
Cha
(297,908 posts)bdamomma
(63,941 posts)brainwashed by this POS.
Evil beyond words, totally destroying and taking revenge on all of us. But his cult members continue to believe every word he says.
I hope the stock market crashes again.
brush
(53,957 posts)AllaN01Bear
(18,634 posts)under obama this would never have happened .
and the idiot fired the wh pandemic response team.
and they complain we dems politicise this .
Do they think that this administration has test kits and cures ready for diseases that don't exist yet because of the stock market, can I guess?
yaesu
(8,020 posts)SWBTATTReg
(22,191 posts)democrats, republicans, and independents start dying (heaven pls. no, my own prayers!), regardless of political bent...time to put the crap aside and get serious.). That's the problem that allowed this to go on so long, that they ignored the peril at their own risk (rump and cronies) and why we're seeing so many of them come down sick already...they're ignored it.
It looks like rump and republicans kind of finally got the message to step aside and let far more competent people step forward (Dr. Fauci, others).
AlexSFCA
(6,139 posts)Eko
(7,399 posts)Thanks!
ProfessorGAC
(65,322 posts)...even the president doesn't know about the alien time machine at Area 51!
bucolic_frolic
(43,426 posts)for the virus that started last October
LisaM
(27,848 posts)This is a gang that put laid more blame.foe deaths in Benghazi than more than 3000 deaths on 9/11. They accept zero responsibility for anything.
sinkingfeeling
(51,485 posts)powerful person to ever exist. He should have developed tests for undiscovered and nonexistent viruses years ago.
mucifer
(23,590 posts)TNNurse
(6,931 posts)Damn, that is impressive for him to think that well of him. Who knew??
You could also ask if he thinks "test kits" are universal to any disease. Because that would show he is really really ignorant.
Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)You are who you hang with. I ditched my Trump cultist friends within days of him winning the presidency, and I find I don't miss them at all. Every once in awhile I check their facebook feeds, and they are just as dumb and ignorant as ever. Good riddance.
People need to pay a price for destructive behavior. If we just keep indulging them in it and pretend like everything is okay while their stupidity gets people killed, then at some point we're responsible for not standing up to them and very forcefully letting them know that what they're doing is not okay.
Food for thought.
MLAA
(17,350 posts)Turin_C3PO
(14,110 posts)back from my aunt and uncle. Theyre very smart people who, nonetheless, still support Trump. My grandpa does too but hes 87 and Ive been close to him all my life. I give him a pass. Maybe I shouldnt but I do.
Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)You get to choose your friends, you don't get to choose your family.
I am not who I hang with, don't be preposterous. I am not indulging them by any means, what makes you think I am? Same for standing up to them, what makes you think I am not.
Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)"You clearly have absolutely zero sense of responsibility, morality, basic common sense, intelligence, or decency. Do not contact me again under any circumstances until you've developed those qualites as a person. It's bad enough I have to share a country with so many selfish, idiotic morons like you. There is no way in hell I am sharing my friend circle with them. Goodbye and good riddance."
But that's just me. But like I said, until these assholes actually face some real consquences for being the idiots they are, then they will continue to do so. And if they continue to do so, then you're not really standing up to them.
Just my two cents.
Doodley
(9,161 posts)Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)Last edited Sun Mar 15, 2020, 08:08 PM - Edit history (1)
that to. I make sure they are quality people with good values and sound heads before I let them into my friend group.
Eko
(7,399 posts)We all bow down to you.
Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)Eko
(7,399 posts)Hopefully one day I can be as perfected as you to where all my friends believe as I do. Thank you for being the example for all of us to follow.
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MLAA
(17,350 posts)stillcool
(32,626 posts)The NSC pandemic unit was soooo close...and then their buddy Trump shut it down
Nay
(12,051 posts)countries. Let the wingers have one, the science- and fact-based have another, and a third for people who can't make up their goddamned minds. I'm so sick of this shit.
johnnyknj
(37 posts)How rational people can be friends with people that stupid is miraculous.
House of Roberts
(5,192 posts)We just can't help feeling sorry for them.
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)cure cancer, for chrisakes! The nerve of that man. Thank Dog for Donald Trump!
EXTREME
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,927 posts)House of Roberts
(5,192 posts)When they do manufacture vaccines for flu virus, the current vaccine is usually effective for maybe one third of the infected population.
You can't really develop an effective vaccine without cultures of what you are fighting, and then you have to deal with mutations.
hay rick
(7,650 posts)The Obama administration didn't have test kits ready for future problems because the Bush administration didn't leave them with any test kits for future problems. Fight stupid with stupid.
calimary
(81,557 posts)Maggiemayhem
(811 posts)stonecutter357
(12,698 posts)stonecutter357
(12,698 posts)Eko
(7,399 posts)He thinks it becoming more of a possibility though.
brewens
(13,640 posts)a couple hundred million stashed in that case.
athenasatanjesus
(859 posts)Which side would have test kits before a crisis is one of the main arguments.
Warpy
(111,410 posts)There were, in fact, a limited supply of SARS tests on the shelf. This virus is not SARS.
Flaleftist
(3,473 posts)Yes. They are that stupid.
warmfeet
(3,321 posts)Incremental change is just not cutting it. A larger jump may be required. I have no republican friends, that is a deal breaker for me. Others can be more accepting. I cannot, apparently.
iluvtennis
(19,891 posts)paleotn
(17,994 posts)DSandra
(999 posts)Is it time for America to separate into the U.S. of Canada and Jesusland?
sakabatou
(42,195 posts)Beacool
(30,253 posts)They believe anything spewed by RW media and the liar-in-chief.
marble falls
(57,405 posts)corona with Lyme. I was surprised how busy the restaurant is next door. We may flatten the curve but these Trumpers are going to lengthen it.
heckles65
(549 posts)it went from "it's a hoax!" to "it's a disaster and it's all the Democrats' fault." -About the time the buying panic depleted toilet paper supplies, and the emergency became undeniable.
Bengus81
(6,936 posts)And...even in pill form on the shelves of your local CVS.
liberal N proud
(60,349 posts)orleans
(34,088 posts)Eko
(7,399 posts)on a whole they are a good person.
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)TruckFump
(5,812 posts)MAGAts are a totally new form of stupid.
raccoon
(31,130 posts)Will do the same thing.