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Snake Plissken

(4,103 posts)
Wed Sep 30, 2020, 07:22 PM Sep 2020

If someone told you on the day after the election in 2016 that in four years ...

We would have a record setting deficit, an addition $7 trillion dollars of debt, a negative GDP, 29 million Americans collection unemployment and 210,000 Americans would die in six months from a pandemic that Trump called a hoax

... nobody would have been surprised.

The experiment of electing a failed frozen steak salesman turned reality TV game show host turned out exactly as expected

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If someone told you on the day after the election in 2016 that in four years ... (Original Post) Snake Plissken Sep 2020 OP
The only question was..... paleotn Sep 2020 #1
I think the 29m unemployment and 207k deaths are unexpected. Claustrum Sep 2020 #2
The Obama administration predicted a pandemic. yardwork Sep 2020 #5
I thought we would living drmeow Sep 2020 #3
Exactly. Most of us knew Trump was a disaster. yardwork Sep 2020 #4
Conned by a con idiot boy bdamomma Sep 2020 #6
K&R ck4829 Oct 2020 #7

Claustrum

(4,845 posts)
2. I think the 29m unemployment and 207k deaths are unexpected.
Wed Sep 30, 2020, 07:26 PM
Sep 2020

No one could predict the pandemic. I knew he would screw up the economy but I couldn't imagine the country closing down and people's feeling toward staying outside changes overnight. So I didn't expect the unemployment number to be this high.

yardwork

(61,608 posts)
5. The Obama administration predicted a pandemic.
Wed Sep 30, 2020, 07:37 PM
Sep 2020

Epidemiologists have been anticipating a coronavirus epidemic for decades. Trump's people were warned. He dismantled the CDC task force.

drmeow

(5,018 posts)
3. I thought we would living
Wed Sep 30, 2020, 07:33 PM
Sep 2020

in a post nuclear disaster zone after spray tan Mussolini started a nuclear war

bdamomma

(63,849 posts)
6. Conned by a con idiot boy
Wed Sep 30, 2020, 07:47 PM
Sep 2020

and our biggest adversary.

He needs to get his ass and the rest of his fat self thrown in prison.

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