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The president, who is goofing off at his golf resort as his administration's train wreck of a pandemic response goes from bad to worse, retweets an image posted by HIS OWN social media director that's reminiscent of Nero fiddling as Rome burned. Because neither has heard of Nero.
Link to tweet
He's really losing it.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)uppityperson
(115,681 posts)And I thought he was stupid before this.
Zoonart
(11,879 posts)Criminal negligence!
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)renate
(13,776 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,094 posts)We are so screwed.
underpants
(182,883 posts)Smallest violin.
Girard442
(6,085 posts)HarlanPepper
(2,042 posts)We may have more than 1 million Americans infected within the next 6-8 weeks. We have an economy teetering on the verge of recession. We will likely have thousands dead. Our lives disrupted in ways not seen since WW2.
Ive heard it all before about his base. No need to rehash. Its 35-40 percent of the country. It will likely remain that way. But that wont be enough to save him when the bell tolls. This is Trumps Katrina by a factor of 10.
htuttle
(23,738 posts)They don't wash their hands.
HarlanPepper
(2,042 posts)The cult is 35 percent of the country. I think that's the baseline. The rest of his 42 percent approval rating are low info "but the economy's good" voters who go with the direction of the wind.
The big problem he has is this no longer has the look of something that's going to come and go. I suspect corona will be leading every newscast and front page of every paper for many months to come, probably right up until the election.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)been a couple major dips but in the last months he hasn't dropped. I keep thinking any day...but not a blip. So disheartening.
Had dinner with wingnut MIL and FIL last night. Four of us were trying to tell them all about bad things trump has done. Nothing. They literally had never heard any of it. And a suggestion to at least watch CNN was met with a reaction similiar to if we had asked them to march for peace in the middle east.
Smart of the right to not only teach them lies and withhold truth but to scare them into thinking even CNN or BBC are all a bunch of dangerous supreme liars.
I think this is a huge challenge...getting truth to those who have been brainwashed.
tclambert
(11,087 posts)Older people who don't believe in science or follow the advice of experts, but rather listen to Trump's take on everything (and Fox Fakenews) have a much higher fatality rate from Covid-19. By November, Trump may lose a couple million of his voters.
CatWoman
(79,302 posts)Zoonart
(11,879 posts)He has to go now.
GopherGal
(2,010 posts)And he'll be puzzled as to why the market is down 5% today. (Given that we know that's the only thing he seems to care about.)
BobsYourUncle
(120 posts)even *played* a doctor on TV?
Zoonart
(11,879 posts)The GOP owns ALL OF THIS. Every Republican in office in this nation should be quizzed about this tweet. Every talking head should lead with this. WTAF?!
htuttle
(23,738 posts)The "bad" ending that didn't happen, I mean.
Native
(5,943 posts)question everything
(47,535 posts)SMC22307
(8,090 posts)and explained it to Trump. They know EXACTLY what they're doing with every tweet.
dalton99a
(81,590 posts)Hong Kong Cavalier
(4,573 posts)You know...that 'storm' they've been saying is coming for over three years now? The one where Mueller was actually a secret agent in place and working with Tangeranus to 'bring down the Democrat Pedophile Ring'.
*Plops*
Sorry. My eyes rolled so much they fell out.
Rabrrrrrr
(58,352 posts)Fuck you always to whatever hell is waiting for you.
SunSeeker
(51,715 posts)denem
(11,045 posts)Suffocating with pneumonia?
avlbeerfan
(52 posts)Where the hell is Pelosi and why is there not heat being rained down on Trump and Pence to try to slow the spread to avoid a peak hospital rush.
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)Don't ya' think that a country in shambles is an excellent opportunity for a Fascist dictator?
The more detestation and chaos, the weaker we are and the debacle is certainly not going to get him fired, at least until our hands are no longer tied and we can vote this Doctor of Death out of office and toss his Reaper Team of sycophants and addled appointees in the garbage where they belong.
Meanwhile, he will capitalize on our loss and the confusion that disasters can bring in order to further his plans to build a long-lasting regime. People can underestimate him if they want to, I just see it that way. It's not incompetence, it is willful negligence, like being a slumlord, (oh, gee, ah, hmmm) who lets the building rot and the tenants suffer while making a big profit off of it. He ought to know and Jr. is a professional slumlord, so...
thinkingagain
(906 posts)Zero
Yep that fits too
I am at work and morning dont post because Im working but I couldnt help my self
bdamomma
(63,922 posts)people will be paying for it. Does anyone think he will contract it?? Would he be susceptible to it?
Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)That is insane