which makes his lies even more insidious since they spread his misinformation

Believe a syllable of it, I damn sure wouldn’t use it as guidance for my family or myself.

I hope the remaining relatives sue the Con - either way Don the Con is history - this will be his last big Con

Did you see the crowds at the Farmer’s Market in Brentwood? Think they were all republicans? I don’t.

How about when the Comfort arrived in NYC yesterday? Think they were all republicans? I don’t.

I wish we could stop being like this during this awful time.

that every bad thing they see on the TV only happens to other people, and not to them, because they're Americans!

It can even be happening to fellow Americans, but it could never happen to them! I sit outside and watch the traffic go by, and I swear there's just as many cars on the road now as there was before the 'shelter in place' orders. It blows my mind! What's wrong with these people?

How many Trump supporters were gleeful about people in New York, San Francisco, and Detroit dying?

The fish rots from the head.

early on, withhold testing to keep infection numbers low

when the deaths start to spike in red states, test like crazy to get the infection numbers up and reduce mortality rate

a completely PR-driven pandemic response

all of them. they are republicans.

making all the decisions. Mostly little twink Jared. Neither one has any political experience just like big orange daddy, they are DUMB. Jared is seen by tRump as a whiz kid. He failed the test for Harvard, then his daddy made a large donation, after that he made it. Same way Dubya made it into Yale. Jared is all for his family making profits, no matter how much damage is done to the country. These two never belonged in the WH, except for visits. Older, wiser, experienced people have been shoved aside because of those two. When this nightmare of an administration is over, I hope we get ADULTS into office. It is long past time for people with experience trying to work in this administration to speak up. Expose this cabal.

Tragically, the casualties are pretty much baked-in at this point.

It took weeks for him to backtrack. Now it's too late for too many.

Works for me.

Messaging is EVERYTHING.

They should definitely be called Trump's Dead. He is dragging the corpses behind him now.

I have several in my family...
They don't blame Trump and are stating that nobody could have forseen a pandemic of this scope.
(Nobody, that is except for the scientists, researchers, CDC, Pandemic Response Team, WHO, health-care workers, anyone who cared to pay attention, etc. etc.)

This is twice that a Republican administration squeaked into office, had open contempt for its Democratic predecessor, were warned about some very specific dangers, and tossed all that aside because they knew better.

And then the very thing they'd been warned to be on guard against happened.

"Oh, we didn't know that then." Sorry, if I knew because I read beyond mainstream media and US media, then anyone could have known. Politics is not my day job.

The concepts of community and win-win are alien to them.

Already at maximum furious weeks ago.

Remember though, media is talking down to us, but informing people with 6th grade reading levels.

I keep forgetting that, filter it in those terms to keep your sanity please.

Blue state/NYC deaths = no biggie

Red state deaths = time to get concerned

Suspected it for decades. When I said it people blew me off. Truths coming out now.

because of the distance and lack of resources

Now full of "haves" who "bugged out" of already or soon to be saturated cities and who will fill up our hospitals, which are hard up for funding no matter how you look at it, so that there will be NO availability for we "have nots" who live here full time.

And they pay very little in state/local taxes if anything. How you might ask? Farm subsidies. Many have lots of acreage and will put maybe ten cows on it and call it a ranch which has special tax breaks through the Farm Bill. Same if they grow five acres of something considered a "crop". Truly the bare minimum for the maximum in tax relief and taxpayer cash.

Now asshole45 has decided to not send help to our state, whose summertime population is 2-10 times higher when tourists and trophy homers are here. Great. Save the rich, kill the poor... insidious.

where waiting lists for housing for we "have nots' Is up to three years right now. I spent ten months living in my car a couple years ago while trying to find housing.

I hope some kind of adjustment comes from this nightmare.

If you are a legitimate business owner running a consumer manufacturing business, you are at a distinct disadvantage to the insurance agency or rock/gravel business owners that buy 10 acres in the countryside, put 6 pet goats on it and call it a farm. They get huge tax averaging breaks that other business people don't get, so it is easier for them to smooth cash flow year to year over discrete five year periods, for example.

1 hr trip if calling an ambulance.

They're both 80 with a lot of preexisting conditions. I expect one or both won't be here next year.

NOW they're saying they are worried about the potentially fatal consequences for these people, after having been told about them for the last month? That's like saying you're now worried that the people you tossed off a ship in the middle of the ocean last month might drown.

It's the Trumpanzees who said this just just like the flu, and that libs were creating a crises out of nothing

it's in rural areas of Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, Florida, and more.

Dude's been telling them it's a liberal hoax and RW media has been telling them to rebel against stay at home orders so it's already spreading fast. Rural areas love social events, church, sports, and more. Grandchildren will spread it to grandparents.

and they believed him.

He told them not to worry, he had things under control. And they believed him.

He told them they could go to church on Easter, and they believed him.

Of course many of them are going to die now. It's too late.

...

Note that they are taking this so seriously that there is no Jim Jones-style Doomsday Cult for this yet.

I don't like to think there is such an intelligence gap in America. Maybe it's cultural? Too much emotion, not enough science? Superstition trumps logic? What can't be explained is, to them, religion? I just don't know, have no idea. The world was less divided in the age of Leonardo.

cult leader about to be on full display as it filters down to his willfully ignorant followers. There are really no words to express the depth of evilness, willful incompetence and monstrous lies beneath the orange makeup.

...of the fact that if tRump had done this the right way and started mitigating this crap when he first knew about it months ago, when the experts were already beginning to raise the alarm, maybe it would have spared a lot of their loved ones - and ours.

If we lose 200K Americans, and most of them are older. I'm not sure who will be left to watch Fox.

And, isn't this "politicizing a pandemic", by definition? They get away with everything.

Who ignored warnings and went out anyway will suffer the most from this pandemic. I don't wish this even on them , but if you believe all the BS and propaganda trump puts out, you're in danger of getting this. Red states will be worse to from their red Governors from delaying actions are also being seen now as major failures. I think they are hiding trump damaging numbers for him too.

Really don't want to wish ill on anybody. Not even the red-staters or the trump-lovers. Not even them.

But I think just their behavior that has been well-documented and widely noticed, and described in this thread, for example, is dooming them to greater troubles. Higher numbers of confirmed cases and deaths. MUCH higher probability of all that. Because they cling to what their dear leader has assured them as he continues to lie through his teeth. They've embraced that whole "it's a hoax," "it'll go away - it's a miracle," "we have it under control" and more. Many of them are still clinging to that, I suspect.

NOBODY wants bad news. (That's what happens to OTHER people.)

And NOBODY wants to admit they were wrong... (It CAN'T be true! Our President wouldn't LIE to us, would he? He's been sent by God!)

... much less that they've been HAD. ROYALLY HAD.

I guess it's just almost impossibly hard when one's false god falls from an imaginary Olympus.

there's a whole bunch of MAGAts that have been/are blaming the libtard/blue states for this whole mess anyhow.
Have you seen the maps going around showing where "sanctuary cities" are located and comparing that map to the map showing concentration of COVID-19?
Yep - its their "proof" that it is a Democrat hoax and the libtards are responsible for it all happening, just to bring down "Dear Leader."

Over the past three to four years,many clinics and Hospitals were closed because of economic issues or unable to keep or hire Doctors and Nurses.

Our Rellies living out on the Prairie have a hour plus drive for medical care. And that seems to be the norm. And if it is something serious,it is a two hour plus ride to a major care facility.

Mick Mulvaney, just departed chief of staff.

What fucksticks - this virus does not care what party you belong to or where you live or... Just stop with the political hedging and do your fucking jobs. Or resign and get out of the way so more capable people can help. What is wrong with you people???

The people dying are, of themselves, of no concern at all.

Blue, red, purple. They worried about votes, not voters.

I remember that from a conversation with my father. We were discussing whether a person could have zero 'good' qualities and I mentioned Hitler. My father replied with, "Hitler loved dogs". I was still a kid, maybe 12 or 13, and that stuck in my head like a nail. It still bothers me to this day.

I think Trump has fewer 'good' qualities than Hitler. I don't think he'd think twice about killing millions of people. We already know he hates certain demographics. But, he doesn't like dogs.

Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe the fact that Hitler saw dogs as more deserving of love and compassion than Jews is worse. Trump hates anything with a pulse equally. They both had horrible hair.

So...I know what I'll be thinking about all day.

Because nothing's better than getting tax money for people who no longer exist.

Are you f-ing kidding me? You know, even with everything I’ve seen and know, I really found what seemed to be a willingness to allow us to die so insane, so evil that I was beginning to wonder if it was an invention of my newly jaded mind. But it’s true. We are less than human to them. I am SO angry right now. I’m going to stop, because if I don’t, I may never be able to.
Stay safe, everyone.
Oh, and if I die from this, please, someone who practices law, I want you to file a lawsuit for manslaughter in my name. My son will be an orphan. I’m serious. It’s in writing in my nightstand drawer and my family is aware.
God, I am PISSED.

The mere fact that anyone in his milieu is equating deaths to votes is wrong. Wrong, wronger, wrongest.

Even in states loyal to him where millions have no Health insurance, where Medicaid was not expanded because they opposed Obama.

Ignorance is going to kill, and many Trump states/voters are going to get hit the hardest.

Latest figures on the Johns Hopkins site show the virus ripping through all the Southern coastal states, and up into red mid-west states.
The numbers are piling up everywhere, as is the body count.
Trump never could comprehend the way an epidemic works. It moves outward from the center(s) until every area in the nation is involved.

The virus is a-political; a full service monster that attacks humans of any and all types.
All Trump thinks about are polling numbers. As long as the so-called red states where showing very few confirmed infections, there was no need for him to take action.
In fact, the only action he has been taking was designed to keep the numbers low by not testing, and punish blue states by delaying assistance.

But his angry words and mean-spirited actions are no match for this virus' determination to spread everywhere.
Between the long incubation time, high number of asymptomatic carriers, and head-up-rectum responses by a number of Governors, this virus is the perfect stealth missile.

It's winning the war on all fronts.

I suspect we'll be seeing "Jonestown" type images from the red states when this starts happening.

The Trump Massacre of 2020.

until he realized the virus would spread far and wide and deep into redneck, bible belt and flyover hinterlands and infect, you know, his base.

These avaricious bastards in the rethuglican party will be the idiots who all look about the land when the melting ice sheets are flooding their vacation resort homes and their Palm Desert golf courses are on fire with all the burning oil and chemical pipelines exploding and wonder what the hell happened. I've been continuously flabbergast that these idiots haven't yet grasped the notion that they all live on the planet they are cavalierly trashing as fast as they can fill their wallets with all the loot they are pillaging from Mother Earth.

Something is only a problem when it effects them.

Fucking pricks