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Gothmog

(144,908 posts) Mon Mar 23, 2020, 07:14 PM Mar 2020

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8.25 million Americans need to die so that trump can be re-elected (Original Post) Gothmog Mar 2020 OP

If the toll is even a quarter of that, he is toast. LonePirate Mar 2020 #2

Except most will be in the republican demographic. GulfCoast66 Mar 2020 #3

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1. Any country that would cold-bloodedly sacrifice 8.25 million people for it's economy...

Mon Mar 23, 2020, 07:19 PM

Mar 2020

...has already been destroyed. There's nothing there to save.

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2. If the toll is even a quarter of that, he is toast.

Mon Mar 23, 2020, 07:21 PM

Mar 2020

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3. Except most will be in the republican demographic.

Mon Mar 23, 2020, 07:22 PM

Mar 2020

Especially as trying to avoid the virus becomes a strictly partisan divide.

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4. I would like to say I am shocked by this, but I can not. Disgusted, but not shocked.

Mon Mar 23, 2020, 07:35 PM

Mar 2020

According to this article from the other day the logic for this line of thinking says that the elderly are not the economy’s most productive citizens, and the economic impact of them dying earlier might even be positive.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/some-conservatives-willing-to-sacrifice-the-elderly-to-save-the-economy-from-coronavirus-op-ed/

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5. Tx Lt Gov Dan Patrick says grandparents would be willing to die to save the economy