Trump didn't keep Americans safe, and that's a fireable offense

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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/5/27/1947832/-Trump-didn-t-keep-Americans-safe-and-that-s-a-fireable-offense#read-more

Trump didn't keep Americans safe, and that's a fireable offense
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Daily Kos Staff
Wednesday May 27, 2020 · 10:20 AM EDT


The Vietnam War was once considered among the worst American catastrophes of the past century, with a little more than 58,000 dead Americans (and countless Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Laotian people). Sept. 11 scarred the nation for a generation, with a little over 3,000 dead. And all of that pales in comparison to the current pandemic, which will soon equal two Vietnam Wars.

Hapless deer-in-headlights and impeached President Donald Trump can’t decide how to handle the pandemic. No, not the responding to the pandemic part—that part he gave up on from the very beginning. No, he can’t decide who to blame. But whether it’s Democrats or his intelligence agencies or the Chinese, one simple reality cuts through it all: A president’s No. 1 job is to keep Americans safe, and he’s failed that to a degree we haven’t seen in more than a century. He has objectively failed, and done so in historic, catastrophic fashion.

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But what is his current favorite excuse for our nation’s mass death event? Something-something it’s China’s fault.

Whatever mistakes China made (and no one will claim the country handled the spread of the virus with the necessary competence and transparency), the fact is we had plenty of warning to prepare for COVID 19’s arrival. But from disbanding the pandemic preparedness task force, to ignoring the pandemic playbook left behind by the Obama administration, to gutting the CDC and FEMA, to using his bully pulpit to spread misinformation and undermine the nation’s response, Trump very much rolled out a red carpet for national infestation, economic devastation, and death.

Put another way: Trump didn't keep us safe.

He didn’t keep us safe from an act of God.

And if you want to believe that it’s China’s fault, he also didn’t keep us safe from their actions.

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It’s quite remarkable that a guy who spends all day watching TV and all weekend golfing during a mass-death event can’t fathom that it might cost him at the ballot box. But that’s where we appear to be heading.

And it’s well-deserved. A failure of this magnitude deserves the most resounding “YOU’RE FIRED” the nation can muster. It wouldn’t undo the damage he’s done, but it would still offer some measure of satisfaction.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/5/27/1947832/-Trump-didn-t-keep-Americans-safe-and-that-s-a-fireable-offense#read-more

[Ferrets are Cool]

1. Not for a wannabe dictator with the Senate condoning his every move. nt

[struggle4progress]

2. Previously concerned Republicans are sure he's learned his lesson

[Stuart G]

3. K and R nt

[Initech]

4. 100K dead (and counting) and our entire way of life has been upended for the foreseeable future.

Yeah that's definitely worth throwing Trump out on his ass for! And he can take McConnell and Kavanaugh with him!