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Atticus

(15,124 posts)
Sun May 24, 2020, 08:25 PM May 2020

Perhaps someone in the White House Bund should explain to Herr Trump that

opening the doors of American businesses does not mean that customers will come through those doors in numbers sufficient to cover expenses. And, his "order" to reopen churches, synagogues and mosques did not fill the pews or prayer rugs in most places.

People are justifiably and reasonably scared that the highly contagious and deadly Corona virus is still surging through the countryside. Big cities; small towns, inner cities; farm country---the people understand that "it ain't over". And, THAT, as they say, is on you, Trump.

100,000 of us---and counting---have died and nearly 40 million of us---and counting---have lost our jobs. And, when you strut around waiving those tiny hands and pursing that sphincter-like mouth as you spew lie after lie after lie about what a great job you've done and how healthy and prosperous we'll all be after we re-elect you, listen carefully and you'll hear the muffled rumble as millions and millions and millions of voters mutter--- "bullshit!"

The spike is coming---mid-summer or so. And, there will be no "executive order" to "re-close". There will be no need for one. Businesses that can't meet payroll, pay their utility bill's or meet their loan payments will make the gut-wrenching decision themselves to shut their doors---most of them for good. And, THAT, too, is on you. It did not have to happen.

It has taken a while---too long in my opinion---but most Americans now see clearly that your dithering ignorance in response to this tragic pandemic is truly most accurately described as a clusterfuck of such epic proportions that no non-obscenity will serve to describe it.

He is cornered, folks, and, like a rat that feels the wall against his back, he will soon turn and start slashing at anything and anyone within reach. Buckle up. To use another animal analogy, the monkey has only just begun to fling his poop.

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no_hypocrisy

(46,010 posts)
1. There never was an executive order to close the country to begin with. Trump can't say he won't
Sun May 24, 2020, 08:28 PM
May 2020

issue an executive order to "re-open" the country as he never did it in the first place. The states' governors made that decision, not Trump.

C_U_L8R

(44,983 posts)
4. Trump has no idea how to build consumer trust and confidence.
Sun May 24, 2020, 08:35 PM
May 2020

It's the exact opposite of everything he's been doing.

pecosbob

(7,533 posts)
5. Packing people into churches will only help boost church donations...it won't help the economy
Sun May 24, 2020, 08:37 PM
May 2020

The two thirds of the nation that is staying home won't be contributing much to the economy anytime soon. No way that the economy can even begin to recover by November. The single biggest determinant factor of re-election is the economy. Trump is fucked.

RainCaster

(10,815 posts)
6. Without testing and vaccine, nothing will come back
Sun May 24, 2020, 08:39 PM
May 2020

DFT has given us the limpest of excuses for CV19 testing. On that alone, he is a cuck.

In top of that, I have no faith in his ability to manage the vaccine development. He can't manage a 2 bit PR campaign for some dumbshit idea on TV. How could that moron ever hope to manage a group of truly smart people on a global scale who are working to solve a truly awful problem?

PatrickforO

(14,558 posts)
7. You're right. But what gets to me is that his approval rating is STILL
Sun May 24, 2020, 11:20 PM
May 2020

over 40%.

How in sam-hill could that even BE? I really don't get that.

Of course, I'm biased. I disliked Trump from the get-go, and cringed when he was elected knowing that if we had some kind of crisis, he wouldn't have a clue.

But the COVID pandemic? It is mind boggling how badly this one man screwed up. Mind boggling.

KT2000

(20,567 posts)
8. He won't even tell people to wear masks
Sun May 24, 2020, 11:29 PM
May 2020

So many where I live do not wear masks and act like there is nothing to worry about. How can we open if people will not adhere to virus hygiene. The culture war will assure the worst will happen.

Brainfodder

(6,423 posts)
10. Death Count Donnie should get that first part himself out of this, but it will be weird when...
Mon May 25, 2020, 02:10 AM
May 2020

Republican tears flow, and not for this jackass, for themselves when they FINALLY realize they've been taken for total fools? Wrong, as if they can be embarrassed!

RW Media if they have those temperaments they display occasioning like Lindsay Graham has, imagining destruction of all of Fox News major studios, radio stations that pushed the ilk, destroyed, they are likely small and easy enough to track down?

I imagine the now RWNJs taking it too all the rich conservatives they can track down, even getting a website of people to KOS and creating a national scoreboard out of it!

They might do all that, but I am picturing them taking trophies and all eventually caught because of them and all the bragging and such on their social media, sounds about their speed?




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