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malaise

(268,724 posts)
Thu May 21, 2020, 09:57 PM May 2020

If 100 people had died under my watch, let alone 100,000+

I would never run for office. Just the assumption of responsibility would prevent me from doing so. That the entire ReTHUG party is silent is frightening.
Dem 'ave fi get a beating!

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Yavin4

(35,423 posts)
2. Jimmy Carter had 52 people taken hostage, and he was painted as the weakest president in history nt
Thu May 21, 2020, 10:03 PM
May 2020

malaise

(268,724 posts)
5. Yep - this one is the weakest, the worst ever - one with neither a conscience nor
Thu May 21, 2020, 10:09 PM
May 2020

an ounce of empathy - an incompetent fool with a big mouth. And he's shameless to boot.

vercetti2021

(10,156 posts)
6. That was all planned
Thu May 21, 2020, 10:10 PM
May 2020

Raygun had it in to keep them until he won so he could be proclaimed a hero by everyone. GOP knows no bounds when it comes to scummy tactics

Stuart G

(38,414 posts)
14. Jimmy Carter was a "GREAT PRESIDENT" actually saved thousands of lives....read this at link
Thu May 21, 2020, 11:40 PM
May 2020

And guess what...Jimmy Carter does not brag about what he did..Hit the link and read...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213465790

OAITW r.2.0

(24,319 posts)
3. I'd be crushed.
Thu May 21, 2020, 10:04 PM
May 2020

Imagine going to bed, knowing your lack of action, as only POTUS can, resulted in 50,000+ unnecessary lives lost? A normal person would think he was living a nightmare. I don't know how he lives with that. Sure, he has a public persona, but I wonder about his private persona....his actions will continue to accelerate the cases/deaths....as he thinks his actions today will somehow make his election more probable?


When does he face himself?

DBoon

(22,340 posts)
15. He doesn't have a "private persona"
Thu May 21, 2020, 11:49 PM
May 2020

That is called a "soul". It is the part of you that evaluates your own actions, how they affect other people and whether they meet with your own moral standards.

Trump has none of this.

Glamrock

(11,787 posts)
4. Well, with all due respect my dear malaise
Thu May 21, 2020, 10:09 PM
May 2020

100k Americans aren't remotely equal to one ambassador and three state dept. employees. Benghazi was far worse than the the loss of 100k...



and just to be safe....

Glamrock

(11,787 posts)
11. I'm good man. On vacation at the mo...
Thu May 21, 2020, 10:18 PM
May 2020

Just hanging out at the homestead relaxing getting some work done. But so far, doing ok. Both of us are still working. I'm inching ever closer to managing my job instead of my job managing me...

How's you doin down there? I was hoping to maybe get down there this year and then.... Yeah, not going to fly to Jamaica at the moment.

Glamrock

(11,787 posts)
12. NO FLAG LAPEL PIN!
Thu May 21, 2020, 10:20 PM
May 2020

HE DIDN"T PUT HIS HAND ON HIS HEART DURING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM!
HE PUT HIS FEET ON THE ALTER OF DEMOCRACY....THE DESK IN THE OVAL OFFICE!
Etc,etc,etc,...

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
13. The picture that someone here on DU posted of LBJ after the Vietnam troop death count reached
Thu May 21, 2020, 11:26 PM
May 2020

40,000 is what one would see from a real President. Or the scene of President Obama uncontrollably crying at Newtown.

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