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AnnaLee

(1,039 posts)
7. Perhaps
Thu Sep 10, 2020, 04:31 PM
Sep 2020

But what about the exhilaration he can get from the power over others life or death. I somehow think he would get satisfaction knowing he holds the key to people's lives. (Think ventilators, testing, PPE, etc.) Each time the Federal government could have managed the logistics and supply, even prior to the pandemic, Trump chose not to for really no reason at all except to show people he controlled the very breath they breathe.

dem4decades

(11,288 posts)
2. Collateral damage for Stock market gains. But he doesn't even thank them for their service.
Thu Sep 10, 2020, 04:26 PM
Sep 2020

Trump supporters that die from Covid are "suckers" and "losers".

Progressive dog

(6,902 posts)
8. I think that he did and
Thu Sep 10, 2020, 04:32 PM
Sep 2020

I am serious. He shows no remorse and continues to advocate measures certain to spread the virus.

LizBeth

(9,952 posts)
13. He was jubilant at the start with Washington and NY getting slammed and he working to keep supplies
Thu Sep 10, 2020, 04:50 PM
Sep 2020

out of their hands and sending to Republican states like Florida who had not been hit yet. He was giddy with the blue deaths in the big city. I mean, it is not something I am going to just forget.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
9. Let's judge Trump intentions by the results he achieved
Thu Sep 10, 2020, 04:35 PM
Sep 2020

Yes. Trump wanted there to be a lot of deaths. As Robert Palmer once sang, "The truth is irrefutable."

Cha

(297,210 posts)
10. The Puppet acts like it.. Lying about
Thu Sep 10, 2020, 04:38 PM
Sep 2020

the trump virus is totally self serving.. if people died, so what?

LizBeth

(9,952 posts)
12. I have been kinda pulling this direction the last month. No extended unemployment, kids go to school
Thu Sep 10, 2020, 04:48 PM
Sep 2020

stoke the riots, feed covid because in big cities, Dems dying???? Blows the mind if it is not purposeful.

stillcool

(32,626 posts)
14. if he chose to, he could turn the response...
Thu Sep 10, 2020, 05:03 PM
Sep 2020

around on a dime. He chose not to. And his fellow Republicans in D.C., and in Republican controlled states have been on board since the get-go. They too could have chosen to save lives, but chose not to.

Grins

(7,217 posts)
15. YES!
Thu Sep 10, 2020, 05:11 PM
Sep 2020

This was brought up tangentially by NYT’s Peter Baker after a bad Fox poll was released on Covid and likely voters.

The more deaths the more fear means a higher percentage of D’s will not risk in-person voting vs. the percentage of R’s who feel the same.
(As I recall, that difference was about 13%)

That % difference put the margin of victory in play. Trump could win on deaths!

littlemissmartypants

(22,656 posts)
17. He's a psychopath. Of course he did and he still does.
Thu Sep 10, 2020, 05:21 PM
Sep 2020

I don't see him jumping in trying to rescue any American from injury or death. Do you?

He's a psychopath / sociopath and he's thriving on the power he has to cause harm. It's what they do.

We should all be terrified and doing everything we can to make sure that he loses his power and suffers for his evil ways.

I am amazed and disgusted by anyone too naive and ignorant to see this, especially politicians everywhere. This is no joke. He's deeply and truly evil.

We are truly in the fight for the soul of our nation, for our lives and the lives of our loved ones.

I have been sick to my stomach every day since he was elected. He MUST be removed by any means necessary. And I mean Any.

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