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Eko

(7,399 posts)
Sun Mar 15, 2020, 05:52 PM Mar 2020

I 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.
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I cant believe a republican friend just said this. WTF. We are doomed. (Original Post) Eko Mar 2020 OP
Trumplodytes are in fine form lately... Wounded Bear Mar 2020 #1
"Why didn't you call the Fire Department yesterday?" SCantiGOP Mar 2020 #35
"Lately"? Pffft defend him is all they ever do. nt live love laugh Mar 2020 #79
It's their MO RhodeIslandOne Mar 2020 #92
Tell your friend to go eat a pangolin jls4561 Mar 2020 #2
Ha! SammyWinstonJack Mar 2020 #67
Hahahaha D_Master81 Mar 2020 #3
My parents (Trumpers) are blaming the blue states and blue cities for inadequate response Claustrum Mar 2020 #4
No matter what the problem always a Democrat's fault D_Master81 Mar 2020 #7
Never speak I'll of a fellow Republican? czarjak Mar 2020 #28
Wow.. Hey another Cult45er totally lacking in critical thinking skills. nt WePurrsevere Mar 2020 #5
That really is stupid. Mz Pip Mar 2020 #6
The virus didn't exist 4 months ago. Mariana Mar 2020 #13
In calling it COVID-19: they are referring to its discovery in 2019. IggleDuer Mar 2020 #23
Late December 2019 is less than four months away, less than 3. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2020 #31
December 2019. nt. Mariana Mar 2020 #37
November 2019 FreeState Mar 2020 #68
I was reading online responses to wnylib Mar 2020 #77
Indeed DENVERPOPS Mar 2020 #46
Your one anecdotal republican friend has no bearing on anything. gristy Mar 2020 #8
look for the stats on repukes refusing to self-distance Skittles Mar 2020 #18
Anybody who deliberately coughs in a person's face or tries to infect them is guilty of assault. Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2020 #32
well, as long as they keep their mingling amongst themselves, BlancheSplanchnik Mar 2020 #74
Of course it has bearing. Eko Mar 2020 #22
Sounds like a good candidate with which to practice your social distancing. RockRaven Mar 2020 #9
Oooh. Obama! . . . Journeyman Mar 2020 #10
Sounds like those GOPers who think Obama is responsible for 9/11. Hoyt Mar 2020 #11
Oh come on, he is responsible for the Black Plague. Doreen Mar 2020 #72
You know he created AIDS and was a friend of Hitler, right? nt essme Mar 2020 #87
Well he traveled back in time to plant a fake birth anouncement DBoon Mar 2020 #95
That person is lost forever because brain dead now lunasun Mar 2020 #12
Yep. And that's a whole other virus. dchill Mar 2020 #56
Patient Zero alterfurz Mar 2020 #96
He is SO Patient Zero. dchill Mar 2020 #97
I can believe it. Different Drummer Mar 2020 #14
SHow him this.. and it's 101 Brainwashing by the demon.. Cha Mar 2020 #15
fucking bdamomma Mar 2020 #16
Anything but blame that orange pustule in office for 3 plus years. brush Mar 2020 #17
someone at church screamed that this is a farce and is just the flu. AllaN01Bear Mar 2020 #19
Holy shit. ramen Mar 2020 #20
and this is the reason I don't have any tRumpster friends & have divorced tRumpster family. nt yaesu Mar 2020 #21
They'll stop their ranting and raving at Obama and democrats when they realize that ... SWBTATTReg Mar 2020 #24
why Obama didn't use time machine is beyond me AlexSFCA Mar 2020 #25
Best reply so far. Eko Mar 2020 #27
Like In Independence Day... ProfessorGAC Mar 2020 #94
Neither did Reagan, and Trump's had 3 years to remedy the situation bucolic_frolic Mar 2020 #26
What do you expect) LisaM Mar 2020 #29
I'd thank him for admitting that President Obama was/is the most sinkingfeeling Mar 2020 #30
why didn't he have test kits for a disease that didn't exist? mucifer Mar 2020 #33
Did you ask if he thinks Obama was so smart , he could predict this unknown virus in the future??? TNNurse Mar 2020 #34
Why is he still your friend? Downtown Hound Mar 2020 #36
I did that as well, including my dentist MLAA Mar 2020 #40
I've had to step Turin_C3PO Mar 2020 #43
It's harder with family than it is with friends, I'll grant you that. Downtown Hound Mar 2020 #50
What? Eko Mar 2020 #44
If a "friend" sent that to me right now, my response to him would be something along the lines of, Downtown Hound Mar 2020 #49
Is that how you treat your friends? With insults and judgmental self-righteousness? Doodley Mar 2020 #58
No, because the friends I choose to have are not people that I would ever have to say things like Downtown Hound Mar 2020 #59
The fact that you can get all of that from one sentence is amazing. Eko Mar 2020 #86
Your friend. Enjoy him. n/t Downtown Hound Mar 2020 #88
I will. Eko Mar 2020 #89
This message was self-deleted by its author democratisphere Mar 2020 #38
How did you answer? 😬 MLAA Mar 2020 #39
Here, Eko Mar 2020 #42
Oh wow....they didn't know? stillcool Mar 2020 #41
You know, it's time. It's time to divide the United States into 2 or 3 separate Nay Mar 2020 #45
Humanity is a wondrous thing. johnnyknj Mar 2020 #47
It's that fucked up empathy thing we all have (and they don't). House of Roberts Mar 2020 #53
And why didn't Obama.... SergeStorms Mar 2020 #48
No, but your galactically stupid Republican friend might be. The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2020 #51
What is the shelf life for any virus vaccine? House of Roberts Mar 2020 #52
The correct response to your friend's remark: hay rick Mar 2020 #54
Sounds like another inhabitant of Dumbfuckistan. calimary Mar 2020 #55
You should practice social distancing Maggiemayhem Mar 2020 #57
Is your friend a racist like trump ? stonecutter357 Mar 2020 #60
No. Eko Mar 2020 #83
Does he know trump is a racist ? stonecutter357 Mar 2020 #84
He is not sure. Eko Mar 2020 #85
Oh. Just any old test kit would work on any virus. I did not know that. Yeah, we should have had brewens Mar 2020 #61
When he argues against Democrats and for Republicans what does he think he is arguing? athenasatanjesus Mar 2020 #62
Did you give an answer or was your ghasted too flabbered? Warpy Mar 2020 #63
I know a Trumper who blames Obama for the last recession. Flaleftist Mar 2020 #64
Nothing will ever change with these assholes. warmfeet Mar 2020 #65
keep in their heads in the sand and not putting on their critical thinking caps, so very sad. iluvtennis Mar 2020 #66
Idiocracy was a documentary of 21st century America paleotn Mar 2020 #69
America, charting new frontiers in stupidity DSandra Mar 2020 #70
Yep, there's a bunch of stupidity sakabatou Mar 2020 #71
They are brainwashed lemmings. Beacool Mar 2020 #73
My neighbor said he hopes he gets the virus during tick season so he could have ... marble falls Mar 2020 #75
It's amazing how fast heckles65 Mar 2020 #76
Yeah!! Why didn't Obama/Biden already have a vaccine!!!! Bengus81 Mar 2020 #78
They get this tripe strait from the propaganda network liberal N proud Mar 2020 #80
why are you still friends? n/t orleans Mar 2020 #81
Because while they might be ignorant in some things Eko Mar 2020 #82
Beam me up, Scotty. There is no intelligent life on this planet. backscatter712 Mar 2020 #90
Right, test kits for a virus which did not exist at the time. TruckFump Mar 2020 #91
Trump always blames other people, so I guess his idiot supporters raccoon Mar 2020 #93
Everything is beyond this person. dchill Mar 2020 #98

SCantiGOP

(13,874 posts)
35. "Why didn't you call the Fire Department yesterday?"
Sun Mar 15, 2020, 06:37 PM
Mar 2020

Then you have been prepared for the fire at your house today."

Did the person realized how effing stupid they were?

Claustrum

(4,846 posts)
4. My parents (Trumpers) are blaming the blue states and blue cities for inadequate response
Sun Mar 15, 2020, 05:55 PM
Mar 2020

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)
7. No matter what the problem always a Democrat's fault
Sun Mar 15, 2020, 05:57 PM
Mar 2020

That’s the 11th commandment in the Bible I’ve heard.

Mz Pip

(27,454 posts)
6. That really is stupid.
Sun Mar 15, 2020, 05:56 PM
Mar 2020

How can there be stockpiles of tests for viruses that didn’t exist 4 years ago?

Mariana

(14,861 posts)
13. The virus didn't exist 4 months ago.
Sun Mar 15, 2020, 06:03 PM
Mar 2020

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!"

FreeState

(10,585 posts)
68. November 2019
Sun Mar 15, 2020, 07:50 PM
Mar 2020
https://www.livescience.com/first-case-coronavirus-found.html

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)
77. I was reading online responses to
Sun Mar 15, 2020, 08:31 PM
Mar 2020

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.

DENVERPOPS

(8,879 posts)
46. Indeed
Sun Mar 15, 2020, 06:48 PM
Mar 2020

If only: IGNORANCE WAS PAINFUL............

Now, once again, we know how trump got to stay president......

gristy

(10,667 posts)
8. Your one anecdotal republican friend has no bearing on anything.
Sun Mar 15, 2020, 05:59 PM
Mar 2020

Much less on determining as to whether we are all doomed or not.

But yes, I do agree he is stupid.

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,060 posts)
32. Anybody who deliberately coughs in a person's face or tries to infect them is guilty of assault.
Sun Mar 15, 2020, 06:35 PM
Mar 2020

There will have to be charges brought and convictions to get their attentions.

Eko

(7,399 posts)
22. Of course it has bearing.
Sun Mar 15, 2020, 06:23 PM
Mar 2020

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)
9. Sounds like a good candidate with which to practice your social distancing.
Sun Mar 15, 2020, 05:59 PM
Mar 2020

Practice makes perfect.

Doreen

(11,686 posts)
72. Oh come on, he is responsible for the Black Plague.
Sun Mar 15, 2020, 08:09 PM
Mar 2020

I heard he was the one who crucified Jesus.

Of course its his fault.

bdamomma

(63,941 posts)
16. fucking
Sun Mar 15, 2020, 06:08 PM
Mar 2020

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.

AllaN01Bear

(18,634 posts)
19. someone at church screamed that this is a farce and is just the flu.
Sun Mar 15, 2020, 06:20 PM
Mar 2020

under obama this would never have happened .
and the idiot fired the wh pandemic response team.
and they complain we dems politicise this .

ramen

(793 posts)
20. Holy shit.
Sun Mar 15, 2020, 06:20 PM
Mar 2020

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?

SWBTATTReg

(22,191 posts)
24. They'll stop their ranting and raving at Obama and democrats when they realize that ...
Sun Mar 15, 2020, 06:26 PM
Mar 2020

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).

ProfessorGAC

(65,322 posts)
94. Like In Independence Day...
Mon Mar 16, 2020, 07:49 AM
Mar 2020

...even the president doesn't know about the alien time machine at Area 51!

bucolic_frolic

(43,426 posts)
26. Neither did Reagan, and Trump's had 3 years to remedy the situation
Sun Mar 15, 2020, 06:26 PM
Mar 2020

for the virus that started last October

LisaM

(27,848 posts)
29. What do you expect)
Sun Mar 15, 2020, 06:32 PM
Mar 2020

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)
30. I'd thank him for admitting that President Obama was/is the most
Sun Mar 15, 2020, 06:32 PM
Mar 2020

powerful person to ever exist. He should have developed tests for undiscovered and nonexistent viruses years ago.

TNNurse

(6,931 posts)
34. Did you ask if he thinks Obama was so smart , he could predict this unknown virus in the future???
Sun Mar 15, 2020, 06:36 PM
Mar 2020

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)
36. Why is he still your friend?
Sun Mar 15, 2020, 06:38 PM
Mar 2020

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.

Turin_C3PO

(14,110 posts)
43. I've had to step
Sun Mar 15, 2020, 06:46 PM
Mar 2020

back from my aunt and uncle. They’re very smart people who, nonetheless, still support Trump. My grandpa does too but he’s 87 and I’ve been close to him all my life. I give him a pass. Maybe I shouldn’t but I do.

Downtown Hound

(12,618 posts)
50. It's harder with family than it is with friends, I'll grant you that.
Sun Mar 15, 2020, 06:55 PM
Mar 2020

You get to choose your friends, you don't get to choose your family.

Eko

(7,399 posts)
44. What?
Sun Mar 15, 2020, 06:46 PM
Mar 2020

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)
49. If a "friend" sent that to me right now, my response to him would be something along the lines of,
Sun Mar 15, 2020, 06:53 PM
Mar 2020

"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.

Downtown Hound

(12,618 posts)
59. No, because the friends I choose to have are not people that I would ever have to say things like
Sun Mar 15, 2020, 07:17 PM
Mar 2020

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)
89. I will.
Sun Mar 15, 2020, 10:27 PM
Mar 2020

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.

Response to Eko (Original post)

stillcool

(32,626 posts)
41. Oh wow....they didn't know?
Sun Mar 15, 2020, 06:43 PM
Mar 2020

The NSC pandemic unit was soooo close...and then their buddy Trump shut it down

Nay

(12,051 posts)
45. You know, it's time. It's time to divide the United States into 2 or 3 separate
Sun Mar 15, 2020, 06:47 PM
Mar 2020

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)
47. Humanity is a wondrous thing.
Sun Mar 15, 2020, 06:53 PM
Mar 2020

How rational people can be friends with people that stupid is miraculous.

House of Roberts

(5,192 posts)
53. It's that fucked up empathy thing we all have (and they don't).
Sun Mar 15, 2020, 07:04 PM
Mar 2020

We just can't help feeling sorry for them.

SergeStorms

(19,204 posts)
48. And why didn't Obama....
Sun Mar 15, 2020, 06:53 PM
Mar 2020

cure cancer, for chrisakes! The nerve of that man. Thank Dog for Donald Trump!

EXTREME

House of Roberts

(5,192 posts)
52. What is the shelf life for any virus vaccine?
Sun Mar 15, 2020, 07:02 PM
Mar 2020

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)
54. The correct response to your friend's remark:
Sun Mar 15, 2020, 07:04 PM
Mar 2020

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.

brewens

(13,640 posts)
61. Oh. Just any old test kit would work on any virus. I did not know that. Yeah, we should have had
Sun Mar 15, 2020, 07:29 PM
Mar 2020

a couple hundred million stashed in that case.

athenasatanjesus

(859 posts)
62. When he argues against Democrats and for Republicans what does he think he is arguing?
Sun Mar 15, 2020, 07:34 PM
Mar 2020

Which side would have test kits before a crisis is one of the main arguments.

Warpy

(111,410 posts)
63. Did you give an answer or was your ghasted too flabbered?
Sun Mar 15, 2020, 07:35 PM
Mar 2020

There were, in fact, a limited supply of SARS tests on the shelf. This virus is not SARS.

warmfeet

(3,321 posts)
65. Nothing will ever change with these assholes.
Sun Mar 15, 2020, 07:44 PM
Mar 2020

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.

DSandra

(999 posts)
70. America, charting new frontiers in stupidity
Sun Mar 15, 2020, 08:00 PM
Mar 2020

Is it time for America to separate into the U.S. of Canada and Jesusland?

marble falls

(57,405 posts)
75. My neighbor said he hopes he gets the virus during tick season so he could have ...
Sun Mar 15, 2020, 08:15 PM
Mar 2020

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)
76. It's amazing how fast
Sun Mar 15, 2020, 08:30 PM
Mar 2020

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)
78. Yeah!! Why didn't Obama/Biden already have a vaccine!!!!
Sun Mar 15, 2020, 08:40 PM
Mar 2020

And...even in pill form on the shelves of your local CVS.

TruckFump

(5,812 posts)
91. Right, test kits for a virus which did not exist at the time.
Mon Mar 16, 2020, 12:38 AM
Mar 2020

MAGAts are a totally new form of stupid.

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