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(12,265 posts)Lars39
(26,108 posts)so we should do it!
His attempts to brand this the "Chinese" virus is twofold:
Trying to beat China while they're down, and to avoid it being labeled Trump virus.
spanone
(135,805 posts)blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)GreenPartyVoter
(72,377 posts)youve read Stephen Kings The Stand. (And if you havent, do yourself a favor and wait a decade.)
Sneederbunk
(14,286 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Only, "Republican pandemic" would be even more appropriate.
They didn't create the virus but they created the pandemic. Remember SARS and MERS? Both are big killers that broke through our offshore containment, arrived here, and were stopped cold by the systems in place.
The Trump admin dismantled those where they could and otherwise defunded, gutted and broke. Almost all of it was supported and supplemented by the Republican leadership, who could have applied existential-level pressure on Trump to stop COVID-19 before it got loose.
But chose not to. It's very important for Americans to realize that.
phatkatt
(1,376 posts)😂
Chainfire
(17,519 posts)To show ownership.
But yes, I do refer to it as the Trump's virus and everyone else should.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)And calling it the trump depression coming too if trump short changes the American people, which he will, then he'll devise ways to get it into his pockets. The small amount they're suggesting won't come close to stopping the economy's free fall from trump.it'll just make people more desperate than even.
Brother Mythos
(1,442 posts)And, unfortunately, it will be followed by "The Trump Recession," and perhaps even "The Great Trump Depression."
"So much winning."