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grumpyduck

(6,246 posts)
Tue Apr 21, 2020, 01:41 PM Apr 2020

This is overboard-thinking, but is POtuS starting a mini-Holocaust?

Given that older people seem to be more in danger of dying from Covid-19, and given his (its?) refusal to take action and listen to experts, and his (its?) politicizing a worldwide tragedy, and all this bullshit about dying for the economy, is it remotely possible that he (it) deliberately wants to eliminate a specific segment of the population?

I know this goes way beyond tin-hat time, but it does make me wonder.

Ironically, given the status quo, it would seem that a good chunk of the people who will die are his own supporters who refuse to take the precautions suggested by medical experts.

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cwydro

(51,308 posts)
1. It's not "older" people per se who are getting the worst of this.
Tue Apr 21, 2020, 01:44 PM
Apr 2020

It’s POC and Native Americans, as well as those with underlying health conditions.

People of all ages are being affected and dying of this.

grumpyduck

(6,246 posts)
2. Okay, thank you and I sit corrected, but
Tue Apr 21, 2020, 01:47 PM
Apr 2020

POC and Native Americans, and those with underlying health conditions, are also a specific segment of the population.

Reminds me of the "Master Race" idea pushed by Hitler before and during WWII: ethnic cleansing.

mitch96

(13,924 posts)
5. Black and brown vote mostly Dem and THATS what he is targeting.. People who vote
Tue Apr 21, 2020, 02:17 PM
Apr 2020

against him....... it's all about him after all...
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BComplex

(8,064 posts)
3. I understand what you're saying, grumpyduck, and I agree it resembles that to me.
Tue Apr 21, 2020, 01:49 PM
Apr 2020

I don't think we're alone in that assessment.

FirstLight

(13,362 posts)
6. well, considering the Surgeon General was shut down for pointing out the racial disparities...
Tue Apr 21, 2020, 02:19 PM
Apr 2020


Probably

...and we are nowhere NEAR done with this virus rampage through the population
 

Neerav B. Trivedi

(205 posts)
4. This makes sense
Tue Apr 21, 2020, 02:12 PM
Apr 2020

Since he wants to get rid of the Entitlement Programs like Medicare and Social Security. Oof!

FightingIrish

(2,716 posts)
7. Every day it looks like more than just Trump's incompetence is behind this.
Tue Apr 21, 2020, 02:23 PM
Apr 2020

He had a chance to correct the huge blunder that got us here. All he’s done is make it worse. Now he has Bill Barr threatening governors trying to protect their citizens. He’s inciting his followers to go against the guidelines his own task force established. He is blocking efforts to increase testing and making it more difficult to obtain PPE. He is banning immigrants who make up 1/6 of our healthcare workers. He is pushing ineffective therapeutics that are more harmful than helpful.

If his intent was to reduce our population, I can’t think of how he could do it more effectively. He is effectively culling the herd of inconvenient and expensive Americans. Sure, he’s killing his own cult followers but he only needs them if we have a real election or if he needs them to rise up against his democratically elected replacement.

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
9. If we look at all the tRUMP/reTHUG/cultist efforts during the last 3 years (and before) to
Tue Apr 21, 2020, 03:21 PM
Apr 2020

end The ACA/Obamacare, cut social programs like food stamps, Social Security Retirement/Disability, Medicaid and Medicare then we can see that what's happening now is merely a continuation of their
policy to cause harm and death so that they can feather their own nests. We gotta beat these people
down so far that they can never rise up again.

ck4829

(35,088 posts)
10. What are you going to do about it? If you accept this rhetoric then waiting until November to cast
Tue Apr 21, 2020, 03:23 PM
Apr 2020

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a single vote which may not actually change anything is not acceptable.

Not an acceptable response if it's just that.

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