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Trump is disbanding coronavirus task force. This is pure negligence. (Original Post) Laura PourMeADrink May 2020 OP
Declare victory and move on... lame54 May 2020 #1
He's in Arizona today and talking about resuming rallies. dixiegrrrrl May 2020 #13
K&R, Crime against humanity uponit7771 May 2020 #2
Seriously, what did they do? Distort facts, sell hydroxychloroquine panader0 May 2020 #3
Makes me think of another Hitler parallel captain queeg May 2020 #4
Well, it's those great German genes he has bragged about. LastDemocratInSC May 2020 #14
He is Mr. Negligence. spanone May 2020 #5
Over their heads with incompetence- find a scapegoat and move on RainCaster May 2020 #6
Trump made it about himself anyway. Buckeye_Democrat May 2020 #7
Good luck and best wishes to the Governors! Shermann May 2020 #8
Lol, a couple dozen corrupt political pretenders and a couple Hortensis May 2020 #9
In the future Trump says "How was I to know that 20,000 Americans were dieting every day" LiberalArkie May 2020 #10
They were all incompetent anyway. nt leftyladyfrommo May 2020 #11
Other than Fauci, they pretty much did fuck all anyway. smirkymonkey May 2020 #12

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
13. He's in Arizona today and talking about resuming rallies.
Tue May 5, 2020, 07:48 PM
May 2020


The daily televised task force thing was so trump could be in front of cameras.
Eventually, happily, he fucked that up and had to slink away, so no need for a staged "task force"
The big push for ending lockdowns was so he could do rallies and get more attention.
Period.

Be interesting to see how many show up for them...

panader0

(25,816 posts)
3. Seriously, what did they do? Distort facts, sell hydroxychloroquine
Tue May 5, 2020, 06:18 PM
May 2020

campaign for re-election. Besides Jared has so many other duties.
I wish Fauci would work for Biden. He'd have more job security.

captain queeg

(10,100 posts)
4. Makes me think of another Hitler parallel
Tue May 5, 2020, 06:21 PM
May 2020

Announcing victory and moving on in the midst of a campaign. Moscow in fall of 41, operation Blau in 42. He’d pull away resources once things started looking good and transfer them to his next great conquest. And I guess the fact that he considered himself a genius and no one could talk him out of it.

RainCaster

(10,842 posts)
6. Over their heads with incompetence- find a scapegoat and move on
Tue May 5, 2020, 06:23 PM
May 2020

After filling their pockets selling overpriced N95s and other PPEs.

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,852 posts)
7. Trump made it about himself anyway.
Tue May 5, 2020, 06:23 PM
May 2020

I'll only miss the cannon fodder it produced against him. Plus states have been clearly "on their own".

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
9. Lol, a couple dozen corrupt political pretenders and a couple
Tue May 5, 2020, 06:41 PM
May 2020

genuine experts who've put their reputations on the line to try to retain access so they they might have some influence, though apparently usually almost none.

Another way to look at it is that forming it was pure negligence, right?

And, after all, large numbers here have smeared the genuine experts for their efforts and insisted they should be gone. So the inevitable point arrives where Trump agrees.

And soo, those latter get what they wished for, which is perhaps less than they deserve. But, after all, who imagines replacing Fauci with some corrupt plumbing contractor, or whomever, who made a big donation to Trump would change Trump's decisions all that much?

Everything BUT Fauci's and Birx's desperate tightrope walks was always a sham. Good riddance.
And maybe it's best to cut elderly Fauci and Birx a break before they collapse from exhaustion and anxiety. They can try to poke Trump through the talk shows.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
12. Other than Fauci, they pretty much did fuck all anyway.
Tue May 5, 2020, 07:01 PM
May 2020

This has to be the most destructive and useless administration in the history of our country. If they aren't actively cocking something up, they are passively allowing it to fall apart.

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