President Donald Trump shrugged off the havoc brought on by the COVID-19 outbreak in the U.S. on Thursday night.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1317263
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1317263
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Trump is the Fake aka Artificial POTUS because he is a Russian-Installed IMPeetus who lost over 3M votes in the popular vote and violated election laws to coordinate/collude with a foreign adversary to cheat in the election! Just ask Roger Stone!
Not content in defunding testing sites, Trump MAL-administration has just filed its brief in the SC case to invalidate ACA - in the middle of a pandemic!
How inhumane is that!
Per SCOTUSblog:
The United States just filed its brief in the major constitutional challenge to the Affordable Care Act that will be argued next term. The government says the entire ACA is invalid but leaves room for the court to leave in place certain provisions that don’t harm the plaintiffs.
https://twitter.com/SCOTUSblog/status/1276356102024843264
Addendum:
Per Joe Biden:
Former vice president Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, said during a campaign trip in Pennsylvania yesterday that it would amount to a double whammy for covid-19 survivors. He suggested insurers would view covid-19 as a preexisting condition, and without the ACA’s protections, would be free to deny survivors coverage (it’s not clear that would be the case).
“Those survivors, having struggled and won the fight of their lives, would have their peace of mind stolen away at the moment they need it most,” Biden said.
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For the economy: no, no it isn’t, unfortunately. Because the economic shock isn’t a marketing problem you can solve by bullshitting
For the virus: oh it’s coming back alright. Because public health mitigation is also not solved by bullshitting. I’m sensing a pattern!
Of course, “artificial problem” is narcissist’s shorthand for “not my responsibility”. I know deciphering Trump’s word salad is a fool’s errand, but I’m pretty sure that’s where his addled mind was trying to go on that one.
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So… It’s not real?
Got it.
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Is this some kind of wingnut code for “The dastardly Asians did it?”
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Well this is timely. I just finished reading this from the Guardian. This is what some survivors of COVID -19 will have to deal with.
And we can bet that no one in this maladministration has a clue about supporting the survivors in their recovery.
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Ah, come on now! That’s all artificial.
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Shorter Trump: Everything wrong is someone else’s fault, the Democrats, China etc. Everything else is just great… No Virus. No Unemployment.
"He's gonna be your president because some people don't love me, maybe" -- Trump sure sounds resigned to losing to Joe Biden pic.twitter.com/UQTrzJVSXR
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 26, 2020
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As catastrophes go, COVID is nothing when compared to Trump himself, so I can see where he’s coming from.
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President Donald Trump shrugged off …
That’s a good way to put it, as he seems to shrug off everything he doesn’t give a shit about, which is everything that doesn’t directly affect him. And so far this disease hasn’t directly affected him, but I really wonder with his seeming lack of precaution if he soon will get it, like Boris Johnson.
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I loathe this “person” with the heat of a thousand suns.
It is unfathomable that this willful callousness is a “winning combination” for a significant portion of our fellow Americans. There is not one drop of humanity anywhere to be found. Morally and emotionally an empty vessel except for that stinking pustule of vengeance and hate buried deep in his repitilian brain stem.
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With the record setting numbers of Covid-19 cases being racked up in the last week I wonder how he will characterize the record number of deaths that will follow in 2-3 weeks.
I don’t think artificial deaths will work.
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Trump has nothing left in his PR quiver but old arrows he’s used too many times before to travel straight or go far.
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“And it’s coming back much faster than anybody thought possible.”
Covid-19?
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I watch TV networks using Hulu Plus. There are a whole lot of anti-Biden ads, showing short videos of him fumbling for words and saying he’s 77 years old and he’s lost it.
Where are the comparable anti-Trump ads?
(Is it that the Dem consultants are asleep at the wheel? Or not getting sufficient kickbacks? Something is wrong because clips of Trump saying the virus is an artificial problem sure as hell should be shown. However, there are others, such as the one of Trump making fun of a disabled parson. I don’t get it at all.)
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It’s almost like a raving lunatic was elected to the Presidency…
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Let’s just hope he’s actually right about this:
For the second time this week, President Donald Trump appeared almost resigned to the idea that former Vice President Joe Biden will beat him in November, telling Fox News’ Sean Hannity that Biden “is going to be president because some people don’t love me.”
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Except has it stuck with Johnson?
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“So we’ve done a lot and we’re very proud of it and we had the best until this artificial problem ‘cause I call it an artificial problem,” Trump said.
I’ve read the virus is packed with neodecandate copolymer, acrylates and trimethicone, so yeah, I guess it is an artificial problem.
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When do his advisors just walk away. Calling COVID an artificial problem could not be on the script written by any sane or aware person. The comment is an idiotic but revealing as lib by Trump that washes away the talking points prepared for him. His staff know who the Lincoln Project folks are and must have envisioned their next video with that artificial quip in it.
When do they just say fuck this and hit the road.
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