Tweet from 73 year old Navy vet about trump's inadequate response to coronavirus

[iluvtennis]

Michael Proia@MikeJoPro
I am 73 years old with health issues and I am pissed off. Pissed at having to put whatever life I have left on hold due to an inadequate response by our President who choose to ignore reality in order to keep his reelection chances on track. He is not worthy of anyone's support.

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[gristy]

1. "who choose to ignore reality in order to keep his reelection chances on track"???

I swear this is a meme at this point. Repeated so often it must be true? Where is it coming from?

I can be charitable I guess, and say that people who say this and things like it (e.g., that he delayed testing because he didn't want to hurt his reelection chances) actually mean to say (but don't) is that "Dump ignores reality because in that warped, sick mind of his, he thinks that this will help his reelection chances".

[FiveGoodMen]

2. So, what's your point of view?

[aggiesal]

3. Where is it coming from? ...

From the White House!

From the very beginning, they tried to play it down.
Why? Because high numbers could cause a pandemic and ruin the stock market.

The DOW started dropping around Feb 20, 2020, and what did Pendejo45 say?
He criticized CNN and MSNBC for “panicking markets.”
He said at a South Carolina rally — falsely — that “the Democrat policy of open borders” had brought the virus into the country.
He lashed out at “Do Nothing Democrat comrades.”

On Feb. 26, he said: “We’re going down, not up. We’re going very substantially down, not up.” about the number of infected citizens.
On Feb. 27, he predicted: “It’s going to disappear. One day — it’s like a miracle — it will disappear.”
On Feb. 29, he said a vaccine would be available “very quickly” and “very rapidly” and praised his administration’s actions as “the most aggressive taken by any country.”

This guy is an IDIOT Supreme!

[LiberalArkie]

5. His followers down here still believe he is sent by God himself to save the country.

And I am not exaggerating

[OMGWTF]

6. The End-Timers are Creaming their Jeans that Shitler is pResident!

They want all of the most awful shit you can imagine to happen and they're hoping we're all going to die a long and horrible death while Jesus says "fuck you" to the rest of us as all of his followers are sucked up into heaven. My fundie mother is one of them. Scary.

[Mariana]

10. Yes indeed. All these problems are Obama's fault.

Trump has done everything right. It would be so much worse if Hillary was president.

/insane Trump fans

[aggiesal]

11. They're IDIOTS! n/t

[TomSlick]

12. Trumpers in my part of Arkansas are starting to ask questions.

We may talk slow but we ain't stupid - well, not so stupid we don't realized that it was a hoax last week and a national emergency this week.

[marble falls]

4. He said it just right. Don't quible. Trump did not treat this event seriously because ...

he was afraid it would ruin his re-election.

[Wounded Bear]

7. Yeah, "Leave the cruise ship out there because it will spike the numbers...

I like the numbers where they are."

It's always about him.

[tazkcmo]

16. Reality

Has a liberal bias.

[usaf-vet]

8. I'm a 73 year old USAF veteran. And I totally agree.

I am pissed off. Pissed at having to put whatever life I have left on hold due to an inadequate response by our President who chooses to ignore reality in order to keep his reelection chances on track. He is not worthy of anyone's support.

[NBachers]

9. It's worth going to see Michael Proia on Twitter and rec his posts. Here's his follow-up:

It is time that we as a nation insist on Trump's removal. He has betrayed us and failed to carry out his oath of office by flooding us with lies, hate and gross incompetence while using his office for personal gain. Stop all this nonsense. He is no President to any of us.

Hey gristy, does this fit in with your "programmed responses that someone is making up and everyone's repeating it" theme?

[Blue Owl]

13. Allow me to be the 100th Rec

[love_katz]

14. Kick and rec.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

15. It's the one, two, three punch that got us.

1) Eliminated Pandemic Response Unit because he says he's a businessman saving money by eliminating cost. (Went bankrupt repeadedly).

2) Denies reality by blaming warnings of pandemic on Dems, calls it a hoax. Likes stock market, hates people.

3) GOP totally submissive to an irresponsible madman.

[Lock him up.]

17. I wish the Deplorables would get that: Firing the Pandemic Unit...

...in an era of Bio-Chemical weapons (and pandemics) is akin to firing the NORAD Unit in an era of thermo-nuclear weapons!

Governements Are Not Private Businesses!

[SleeplessinSoCal]

18. We need to drive this until there's a tipping point.

Though all efforts may be for naught. Maybe going after the enablers of reckless behavior instead of Trump will be more effective. Like Collins:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/susan-collins-obama-era-vote-against-pandemic-funding-comes-back-to-haunt-her?ref=home

[iluvtennis]

19. + agree. nt