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In reply to the discussion: Let me say this up front: yes, I know how this sounds but--- [View all]ooky
(9,014 posts)45. Also, there is no rational explanation why he is being allowed to continue in his job.
I don't know if this is happening because he is trying to kill us or because he is so stupid, but it does seem reasonable that in either case that it would be stopped. This is like a major corporation's board of directors watching a pathetically incompetent CEO destroy their company and letting it continue to happen while all the directors and the chairman say nothing. It really is that bad and that obvious. It's very strange.
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believe me, I've thought along those lines often (since the day he was installed).
NRaleighLiberal
Apr 2020
#1
Could be both advice he is given by Russian cutouts and Trump's own financial self interests
joost5
Apr 2020
#63
Good point. He started taking the covid seriously when he saw bodies being hauled out of a familiar
Walleye
Apr 2020
#19
He's exactly what people voted for -- An ignorant white winger. Hope that changes in Nov.
Hoyt
Apr 2020
#6
I suspect the facts will eventually reveal a thoroughly corrupt administration, more concerned
sop
Apr 2020
#9
That was the embedded cause behind much of the Neo-Con programs run under Shrub.
Ford_Prefect
Apr 2020
#102
"Broken record" here, but: cruelty is the whole point for 100,000,000 fellow-citizens
FiveGoodMen
Apr 2020
#69
THANK YOU !!! If it was random stupidity there would be some decisions in America's favor !
uponit7771
Apr 2020
#16
He has no conscience. If it doesn't help him, other wealthy males and big business...
CousinIT
Apr 2020
#18
He's a psychopath. They thrive on chaos. The more dead the happier he'll be.
littlemissmartypants
Apr 2020
#23
To paraphrase a line in the movie Support Your Local Sheriff: I've been around tRUMP now
abqtommy
Apr 2020
#25
All of these things are true, republicans could step in and change it immediately. They're not:
onecaliberal
Apr 2020
#29
Republicans and big business execs actually want the spiky curve, not the flattened one.
tclambert
Apr 2020
#32
Also, there is no rational explanation why he is being allowed to continue in his job.
ooky
Apr 2020
#45
trump wants to know what's in it for him before every action, it's all that matters.
MerryBlooms
Apr 2020
#66
I have believed for quite some time that Trump takes his marching order from Putin.
Lonestarblue
Apr 2020
#98
Please also remember that all decisions made by trump also havor Putin and Russia
Gothmog
Apr 2020
#111