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kpete

(71,986 posts)
Fri May 8, 2020, 10:45 AM May 2020

Trump needs just enough of an economic bounce by Nov to help him slither through piles of corpses

........He needs to get us to believe, at least for a few months, that we can safely return to our jobs, (assuming they are still there) if we stay six feet apart, get our temperature checked at the door and wash our hands repeatedly. Trump needs just enough of an economic bounce by November to help him slither through the piles of corpses.

All of this is justified by the well-traveled framework which pits our livelihoods against our health. We hear again and again that it’s an inevitable trade-off—that to get our jobs back we must accept more deaths. As Trump recently said, “There’ll be more death, that the virus will pass, with or without a vaccine. And I think we’re doing very well on the vaccines but, with or without a vaccine, it’s going to pass, and we’re going to be back to normal.” Trump surrogate, Chris Christie, got more to the point by saying we just have to get used to the rise in deaths if we want to save “the American way of life.”

We have to face up to the chilling truth: To win reelection Trump is willfully allowing the virus to kill more and more of us, especially our most vulnerable—the old, the infirm, the poor, and the essential low-wage workers.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/heres-the-simple-and-cruel-logic-of-trumps-re-election-bid/

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Trump needs just enough of an economic bounce by Nov to help him slither through piles of corpses (Original Post) kpete May 2020 OP
and I swear to gawd, if he does slither by and get in again..... a kennedy May 2020 #1
I encourage my fellow progressives and democrats to shut their spending down until Hotler May 2020 #2
Totally agree CanonRay May 2020 #3
K&R, won't happem (link) uponit7771 May 2020 #4
Hopefully, the average voter is smart enough to see ... GeorgeGist May 2020 #5
Trump gets relected if generous stimulus measures pass congress. tman May 2020 #6

a kennedy

(29,655 posts)
1. and I swear to gawd, if he does slither by and get in again.....
Fri May 8, 2020, 10:47 AM
May 2020

well, I swear I won’t be responsible for my actions.

Hotler

(11,420 posts)
2. I encourage my fellow progressives and democrats to shut their spending down until
Fri May 8, 2020, 10:51 AM
May 2020

after the election. Our biggest weapon next to our votes is the spending power of our wallets and pocketbooks. Let the repugs start up the economy. We cannot give the orange one a win.

GeorgeGist

(25,319 posts)
5. Hopefully, the average voter is smart enough to see ...
Fri May 8, 2020, 12:35 PM
May 2020

that articles such as this are unmitigated CRAP.

tman

(983 posts)
6. Trump gets relected if generous stimulus measures pass congress.
Fri May 8, 2020, 12:41 PM
May 2020

That's the paradox, but he'll get full credit.

Does that mean we shouldn't pass them? No.

I've been saying for weeks....This WILL be a close race folks. Ignore national polls.

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