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Old 3rd April 2020, 05:34 AM   #321
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Old 3rd April 2020, 06:29 AM   #322
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Originally Posted by Darat View Post
It is not a deliberate decision. It is rather a reflection of his very limited vocabulary, for him hoax is one of the few words he knows he can use when something is in his view "bad" or "negative". That is why he seems to use it inappropriately.
He has the best words. He went for quality, not quantity.
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Old 3rd April 2020, 07:25 AM   #323
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Originally Posted by Horatius View Post
A big part of the problem is that Trump is making up his own definition of "hoax", just like he makes up his own version of reality.
See also: Fake news

What does that mean? Nowadays, it's meaningless. It's not referring to news that is fake...
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Over at townhall.com today there's an article about Dan Crenshaw (R- Tex) and his comments about lack of preparedness. He echoes a complaint that I've seen recently a few times, which is that the Strategic National Stockpile was not replenished following the H1N1 epidemic. The Obama administration didn't do what needed to be done, according to the current narrative.

I've seen this often enough, and it struck me as odd, so I decided to look it up, and found this article: https://www.propublica.org/article/u...ed-coronavirus

Summary: The Obama White House budget proposals included money to replenish the stockpiles. The GOP House of Representatives stripped that funding out.
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Originally Posted by Meadmaker View Post
Over at townhall.com today there's an article about Dan Crenshaw (R- Tex) and his comments about lack of preparedness. He echoes a complaint that I've seen recently a few times, which is that the Strategic National Stockpile was not replenished following the H1N1 epidemic. The Obama administration didn't do what needed to be done, according to the current narrative.

I've seen this often enough, and it struck me as odd, so I decided to look it up, and found this article: https://www.propublica.org/article/u...ed-coronavirus

Summary: The Obama White House budget proposals included money to replenish the stockpiles. The GOP House of Representatives stripped that funding out.
Somehow, this did not come as shocking news to me. Trump screaming about how he "inherited a broken system" and how the Obama administration didn't replenish the stockpile when it was the Republicans who refused to approve the budget to do so. So not
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Originally Posted by timhau View Post
He has the best words. He went for quality, not quantity.
The best words. The very, very best words.
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Old 3rd April 2020, 01:57 PM   #327
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Originally Posted by a_unique_person View Post
The best words. The very, very best words.
The covfefe of words!
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Originally Posted by Stacyhs View Post
Somehow, this did not come as shocking news to me. Trump screaming about how he "inherited a broken system" and how the Obama administration didn't replenish the stockpile when it was the Republicans who refused to approve the budget to do so. So not
Yet another example of the Right wing defunding and breaking government programs and then pointing it out proof that government doesn't work.
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Old 4th April 2020, 12:01 AM   #329
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Originally Posted by Stacyhs View Post
I have never said he wasn't downplaying the virus. Never.

This was my first post on this subject and it's remained consistent:

#1: Was the statement false? At the risk of being called a 'Trump apologist' (which I most certainly am not as I despise him), I'd have to say it is, at the least, misleading as used in the ad. Trump clearly was referring to the Democrats using the virus, not the virus itself, as a hoax.

If I'm not getting this then neither are Politico, FactCheck.org, Snopes, or PolitiFact. Yet somehow I'm now the one who is 'defending Trump' and 'hair-splitting' because I dared to say that the ad was misleading because Trump never called the virus itself a hoax.

Holy crap...I'll just be sure to fall into line and goose step along with everyone else from now on.
I don't think anyone thought Trump was saying there is no virus and the Chinese were making it up. The 'hoax' was that he needed to react to it. He clearly felt it would not reach America and America didn't need to do anything.

He was wrong.
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Originally Posted by Stacyhs View Post
Somehow, this did not come as shocking news to me. Trump screaming about how he "inherited a broken system" and how the Obama administration didn't replenish the stockpile when it was the Republicans who refused to approve the budget to do so. So not
What's more, even if it were true, Trump had 3+ years to do something about it.
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What's more, even if it were true, Trump had 3+ years to do something about it.
C’mon, those golf balls don’t hit themselves.
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Originally Posted by timhau View Post
What's more, even if it were true, Trump had 3+ years to do something about it.
With a Republican House and Senate.
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What's more, even if it were true, Trump had 3+ years to do something about it.
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Originally Posted by timhau View Post
What's more, even if it were true, Trump had 3+ years to do something about it.
Yeah after the better part of 4 years in power he could have done something, you know aside from disbanding the pandemic preparedness team and trying to turn a national crisis into a political point scoring contest.
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Yeah after the better part of 4 years in power he could have done something, you know aside from disbanding the pandemic preparedness team and trying to turn a national crisis into a political point scoring contest.
In fairness to Trump, it was Bolton who disbanded the team. Trump probably never knew it existed.
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In fairness to Trump, it was Bolton who disbanded the team. Trump probably never knew it existed.
In fairness to Bolton (ugh), Dolt 45 lies all the time, so there's no certainty of that at all - and really, he should have known, given that he was alerted to it's importance.
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In fairness to Trump, it was Bolton who disbanded the team. Trump probably never knew it existed.
So he's going to re-instate the team soon, right?
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As someone two counties south of you...

The fact there are more factors in play than Trump could have an impact on in absolutely no way mitigates the harm he has caused by his incompetence and malice. Not even has caused already, but continues to cause. Other people being irresponsible isn't a reason not to oppose and try to figure out how to be effective against Trump and the GOP wrongdoing.
I will give Trump just a little bit of rope here, because the early going was a slew of misinformation coming out of China and the WHO. Trump didn't prepare anything because we were all being told there was nothing to prepare for. The SARS scare of 2003-04 turned out to be nothing, so that's what EVERYONE (ie: not just Trump) was expecting.

I'm even extending this pass to our governor, King Andy Cuomo, who I absolutely despise. No one really expected this level of intensity in the early going. Even our medical briefs at our fire department were rather low-key and mainly simple discussions on mitigating spread of germs.

I'm not opposing blame for Trump's slow response. But I DO recall people bashing the living crap out of him for OVERreacting. This coming from the blue side. There are several articles from blue media sources in late January predicting doom and gloom as they felt Trump was going to overreacted to this.

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Your reasoning just doesn't hold. Those idiots you see not following social distancing, how does that excuse Trump not allowing supplies to be managed nationally? How does that excuse Trump pushing treatments that have not been vetted? How does that excuse Trump and the GOP dismantling systems and information that would have helped contain this very threat?
Trump is at fault for listening to his wacko advisors, but that's does not absolve people from person responsibility. So my reasoning is just fine. You can blame Trump if you like, but on the whole, people aren't listening to him anyway. The only ones I hear downplaying this virus are the extreme right wingers.

My reasoning is completely justified based on the reactions of the people in my home state. These people, in a Trump-hating, blue state are completely ignoring it's blue governor to stay the F home. The people in Buffalo, NY, are posting photos of crowded pizza joints, illegally open bars, crowded Walmarts, etc. These aren't Trump people. This is a blue state with blue voters with a blind hatred of our current President. How can you trash Trump for mismanagement when these people are making it impossible to manage?

Granted, Trump says some downright stupid crap and I'm not a fan of his slow response to this crisis. But seriously, how can you lay all the blame on him when the people that hate him aren't even doing what is necessary to stop the spread?

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And how are those people not following social distancing impacted by Trump downplaying the danger, outright lying about measures, and saying those who were warning of the dangers and failings of this virus and his response were engaged in a 'hoax'?
Again, this goes back to the early going when China was flat out lying about the severity of the virus. Not a pass for Trump, because I don't know why him and his staff were taking any advice from China at face value. But neither the WHO or the CDC were sounding the alarm in the early going.

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Even your exact example is made worse by Trump, and the Trump-GOP. He does suck. They are being dumb. He does share a lot of the blame. And tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of Americans are going to die, who did not need to die, because of it.
Disagree. The two coastal epicenters also downplayed it. Here is the timeline of the Cuomo/Trump response starting from March 1st. This was a team effort to a botched response. Laying this all on Trump, GOP, and redneck Trumpers is simply not accurate.

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The reds and blues don't share equal blame, not even close. This false equivalency is in itself harmful.
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See above. Yes, they do share blame. The hatred for Trump is only feeding a confirmation bias.

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Follow the evidence. The evidence condemns Trump and his GOP. That the factor you focus on is non-partisan (it actually probably isn't) doesn't change that.
The evidence is that both sides suck. Politics play over public health on ALL sides. Just because you hate Trump, it doesn't rewrite what brought us to this point.

Regardless of any of Trump's failures, PEOPLE ARE NOT LISTENING...TO ANYONE! By this point, everyone is aware of the facts and what is being asked of them and it STILL isn't happening. Where do you want to place blame now?
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There are several articles from blue media sources in late January predicting doom and gloom as they felt Trump was going to overreacted to this.
I missed those articles, apparently.

I remember complacency. I don't remember any fear of overreaction. I remember a lot of fear of underreaction, and complaints Trump wasn't doing enough. That was the "hoax" that Trump talked about, and that was all over right wing media.

Maybe if I watched MSNBC or routinely read salon.com, I might have seen this, but I don't remember any of it.
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I will give Trump just a little bit of rope here, because the early going was a slew of misinformation coming out of China and the WHO. Trump didn't prepare anything because we were all being told there was nothing to prepare for. The SARS scare of 2003-04 turned out to be nothing, so that's what EVERYONE (ie: not just Trump) was expecting.
Big nope, factually incorrect and everything that flows from your belief that Trump 'was being told there was nothing to prepare for' is fatally flawed. US Intelligence agencies and his own cabinet was trying to convince him of how serious the threat was back in early January. Cuomo wasn't being given briefings from US Intelligence on this the entire year. Trump was. I can blame Cuomo for not having enough foresight, but when SO MUCH of that was failure to foresee how HORRIBLE the administration and federal government response would be, I can't even pretend for the sake of harmony that it's not a ridiculous comparison.

Further, lots of people keep claiming that Trump was 'heavily criticized' that what he did do was 'racist over-reaction' yet can never actually cite anyone important arguing that.

Again, it just doesn't matter how stupid the 'very blue' people around you (who re-elected Chris Collins while it was clear he was committing felonies in office) are being. It doesn't lift a bit of blame from Trump's maladministration. Your argument is a literal tu quoque.

And we can blame Trump more because he's the one with the governmental power. I won't blame people for not using power they don't have, but I will blame people for not using a power they do have. I can blame the people not following the protocols that would help combat this AND I can blame Trump for not issuing these protocols nationally, dismantling our institutions and forcing our competent officials, ending the pandemic coordination with China, disbanding the pandemic response council, not renewing the national stockpile with the additional money the GOP gave him, not renewing the maintenance contract on the ventilators in the federal stockpile leaving many of them inoperable, not coordinating the supply chains, not helping companies by relieving their fiduciary responsibilities by using the DSA, sabotaging the ACA to get MILLIONS off of health insurance, I mean how long a list do you want? There's even more! I mean, those fifteen cases were going to go to zero very quickly because that what Trump was being told, even though the expert at that exact same conference said that was not going to be the case.

They all play politics? Try reading the stuff Trump has written and then make that claim with a straight face again. Not even the stuff he says off the cuff; premeditated on White House letter-head writings.

No, 'both sides' don't suck equally. One is orders of magnitude worse than the other. It doesn't matter how much false balance people wish existed, the evidence is clean. This isn't a close call. Call it whatever you want, the facts are the facts. Trump and his enablers deserves more blame than 'the other side'.
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Trump was asked about the Pandemic Team shortly after it was disbanded - he could have reinstated it.

Trump's cardinal sin of his entire presidency is to not staff the government with competent people or, in many cases, anyone at all.
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It is a much more peaceful and quiet world around me, thoroughly enjoying this pandemic
This statement should be added to the dictionary definition of "psychopath" as an exemplar.
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Over at townhall.com today there's an article about Dan Crenshaw (R- Tex) and his comments about lack of preparedness. He echoes a complaint that I've seen recently a few times, which is that the Strategic National Stockpile was not replenished following the H1N1 epidemic. The Obama administration didn't do what needed to be done, according to the current narrative.

I've seen this often enough, and it struck me as odd, so I decided to look it up, and found this article: https://www.propublica.org/article/u...ed-coronavirus

Summary: The Obama White House budget proposals included money to replenish the stockpiles. The GOP House of Representatives stripped that funding out.
Just like they did funds for embassy security, then Benghazi happened and guess who they blamed?
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I will give Trump just a little bit of rope here, because the early going was a slew of misinformation coming out of China and the WHO. Trump didn't prepare anything because we were all being told there was nothing to prepare for. The SARS scare of 2003-04 turned out to be nothing, so that's what EVERYONE (ie: not just Trump) was expecting.
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Big nope, factually incorrect and everything that flows from your belief that Trump 'was being told there was nothing to prepare for' is fatally flawed. US Intelligence agencies and his own cabinet was trying to convince him of how serious the threat was back in early January.


And just to make this point even clearer, one of the big reasons the US has spent so much money and time on building up a world-wide intelligence service is because we know for a fact that a lot of countries, specifically including China, lie all the time. We simply cannot rely solely on the information they give us. We have people in place who's whole job is to try to see through the BS, and provide the president with the most accurate information they can.

For the president to then ignore that information, in preference to believing what China was telling him, is a complete waste of everything we've ever invested in that intelligence service. It's literally the exact opposite of what should have happened.
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Big nope, factually incorrect and everything that flows from your belief that Trump 'was being told there was nothing to prepare for' is fatally flawed. US Intelligence agencies and his own cabinet was trying to convince him of how serious the threat was back in early January. Cuomo wasn't being given briefings from US Intelligence on this the entire year. Trump was. I can blame Cuomo for not having enough foresight, but when SO MUCH of that was failure to foresee how HORRIBLE the administration and federal government response would be, I can't even pretend for the sake of harmony that it's not a ridiculous comparison.

Further, lots of people keep claiming that Trump was 'heavily criticized' that what he did do was 'racist over-reaction' yet can never actually cite anyone important arguing that.

Again, it just doesn't matter how stupid the 'very blue' people around you (who re-elected Chris Collins while it was clear he was committing felonies in office) are being. It doesn't lift a bit of blame from Trump's maladministration. Your argument is a literal tu quoque.

And we can blame Trump more because he's the one with the governmental power. I won't blame people for not using power they don't have, but I will blame people for not using a power they do have. I can blame the people not following the protocols that would help combat this AND I can blame Trump for not issuing these protocols nationally, dismantling our institutions and forcing our competent officials, ending the pandemic coordination with China, disbanding the pandemic response council, not renewing the national stockpile with the additional money the GOP gave him, not renewing the maintenance contract on the ventilators in the federal stockpile leaving many of them inoperable, not coordinating the supply chains, not helping companies by relieving their fiduciary responsibilities by using the DSA, sabotaging the ACA to get MILLIONS off of health insurance, I mean how long a list do you want? There's even more! I mean, those fifteen cases were going to go to zero very quickly because that what Trump was being told, even though the expert at that exact same conference said that was not going to be the case.

They all play politics? Try reading the stuff Trump has written and then make that claim with a straight face again. Not even the stuff he says off the cuff; premeditated on White House letter-head writings.

No, 'both sides' don't suck equally. One is orders of magnitude worse than the other. It doesn't matter how much false balance people wish existed, the evidence is clean. This isn't a close call. Call it whatever you want, the facts are the facts. Trump and his enablers deserves more blame than 'the other side'.
You're trying to justify the point that people aren't responsible. Trump and his troop DID screw up. That's not what I'm getting at.

RIGHT NOW, people of all types are making this worse. It's not the Trumpers spreading this, it's everyone...and I'd say it's spread is caused by more blue than reds.

You can't have it both ways. Trump screwed up, yes, but people are well aware of the risks now and I see a blatant, arrogant, and ignorant disregard of fellow humans simply to go out and pick up the last roll of toilet paper or last box of poptarts.

The title of this thread implies that the Trumpers have to be saying something stupid. Maybe they are. My first post was pointing out the hypocrisy here. I see, first hand, how people are reacting.

Based on my experiences dealing with the blue and red public is that everyone is stupid even with the facts staring at them in the face.

I am curious on how much different this may have been had Trump, proactively or retroactively, acted in a more responsible manner. Based on the completely irresponsible and stupid population I see daily, I'm not seeing how it could be different.

And it doesn't really matter now, but while I cannot find any articles, I do recall very vividly CNN affiliates on SiriusXM channels ripping into Trump for overreacting early on. They trash him constantly for every breath he takes, so I tend to find it necessary to defend him now and then. The situation here is one of those times.

Permit me to use an analogy:
Trump fumbled the ball, but now the public just keeps kicking it away from him. We'll never find the endzone as long as the public continues to be irresponsible.
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Also in the right wing buzz there is an awful lot of talk of hydroxycholorquine. Here's a headline today over at townhall.com.

Michigan Governor Cracks Down on Possible Life Saving Drug Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
One dead already, how many more idiot Trumpettes to come?
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Originally Posted by Sabretooth View Post

RIGHT NOW, people of all types are making this worse. It's not the Trumpers spreading this, it's everyone...and I'd say it's spread is caused by more blue than reds.
Accurate stats are hard to come by, but the few polls that I see suggest that the "reds" are more likely to discount the danger and complain about and/or reject social distancing requirements.

On the other hand, I've seen an awful lot of press in the last week about gatherings in Detroit in defiance of the social distancing orders. Detroit is a huge center of coronavirus activity right now, and there aren't a lot of Trump voters there.


To your overall point, though, I believe you are correct. Right now, at this moment, I don't see horrible handling by Trump and company, which means that right now the people who continue to spread it are to blame, and those people are not public officials, or strongly political.
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He claimed the democrats were politicizing the virus through exaggeration while he was stirring up a gaggle of morons by . . . politicizing the crisis while downplaying its severity.

Who is hoaxing here?

ETA: I'd go with pathological liar.
We've known that about Trump for years. Unfortunately his lies appeal to the 3Ds.
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Originally Posted by johnny karate View Post
The ellipses imply you have a point to make.

Do you?
CBS made a mistake, therefore Giant Liberal Media Conspiracy, there Trump and the right-wing nutters are correct.

Childish nonsense but what else would you expect?

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So he has permitted all US citizens who were in China and Iran to return to the USA. Bringing with them COVID from China and/or Iran. Bingo, outbreak.

How patriotic is that!
You expect rationality from Trumpettes?

The USAians should have stayed in China, less infection in the airports (thanks to Trump's overcrowding friendly policies) and they'd have gotten better medical care.
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There's also the travel ban from parts of Europe, racist as well?
No, just really, really stupid.

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Not as stupid as stuffing US airports with returnees and creating a perfect
incubator for more Covis018 cases, that was a masterstroke of stupidity.

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Personally, I know that banning travel into the US from highly infected areas of the World was a smart thing to do and it saved lives.
Then why didn't Trump do that?
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And why were countries like the UK originally exempt?
And Ireland.
I assume it was because Trump, or whichever Trumpette actually composed the order, was grossly ignorant of what "Free Travel" means,
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Originally Posted by Sabretooth View Post
Permit me to use an analogy:
Trump fumbled the ball, but now the public just keeps kicking it away from him. We'll never find the endzone as long as the public continues to be irresponsible.
You are wrong, but nice try. Trump fumbled the football and is trying to blame the coach, meanwhile Covid is scoring multiple touchdowns while Trump is trashing the team's coach and tossing grenades at his own team's defense.
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March 14th, and the UK was not exempt.
Bollocks. You're either very, very ignorant of reality or just lying.
Trump issues this order on 11MAR (not 14MAR as you inaccurately state)


The full timeline of Trump's travel bans is (FYI):
31JAN China and Hong Kong SAR
29FEB Iran
11MAR Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland
Note that the UK and Ireland are not included. Trump further stated that the UK was going a "good job" with the outbreak.
13MAR Those returning to the USA were funneled to thirteen airports which experienced overcrowding, inability to handle the numbers and day long delays.
16MAR UK and Ireland added to ban list.
19MAR US State Department issues "Do Not Travel" notice.
21MAR US borders with Mexico and Canada closed.
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Yet another example of the Right wing defunding and breaking government programs and then pointing it out proof that government doesn't work.
Sad. Many such cases.
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One of Trump's truly stupid remarks today:
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President Donald Trump sparked confusion Saturday by claiming a study suggested that people with the autoimmune disease lupus were not as affected by coronavirus—presumably because they commonly use the drug hydroxychloroquine—but then immediately backtracked, saying “maybe that's correct, maybe it's false, you’re going to have to check it out,” and his own medical advisor downplayed any connection.
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Trump seemed to infer that people with lupus were not becoming infected with coronavirus because they were already taking hydroxychloroquine for lupus.
•There appears to be no evidence to back up that claim—in fact, according to The Lupus Foundation of America, people with lupus are more vulnerable to infections like coronavirus.
•At the same press conference, White House health advisor Anthony Fauci said that while the connection between lupus and coronavirus is being looked at, “we don’t have any definitive information to be able to make any comment about that.”
Once again, Trump opens that tiny little mouth when he doesn't know what he's talking about. At the same time, he accuses the media of fake news and spreading rumors.

Why on earth does he think we should "check out" his claim? Why not just keep his mouth shut instead of spewing out crap even he admits he doesn't know is true or not? Oh, wait...stupid question. Self-isolating is getting to me.
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And Ireland.
I assume it was because Trump, or whichever Trumpette actually composed the order, was grossly ignorant of what "Free Travel" means,
Or knew where he had golf courses.
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Bollocks. You're either very, very ignorant of reality or just lying.
Trump issues this order on 11MAR (not 14MAR as you inaccurately state)


The full timeline of Trump's travel bans is (FYI):
31JAN China and Hong Kong SAR
29FEB Iran
11MAR Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland
Note that the UK and Ireland are not included. Trump further stated that the UK was going a "good job" with the outbreak.
13MAR Those returning to the USA were funneled to thirteen airports which experienced overcrowding, inability to handle the numbers and day long delays.
16MAR UK and Ireland added to ban list.
19MAR US State Department issues "Do Not Travel" notice.
21MAR US borders with Mexico and Canada closed.
Geeze, try looking for your source here:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/president...coronavirus-2/


It's on page 5 and the date of the order is March 14th as I have said before and I'm now saying again with the direct supporting evidence of my statement linked above at whitehouse.gov, not some pundit website, this is a US Government official website.

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Originally Posted by ChrisBFRPKY View Post
Geeze, try looking for your source here:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/president...coronavirus-2/


It's on page 5 and the date of the order is March 14th as I have said before and I'm now saying again with the direct supporting evidence of my statement linked above at whitehouse.gov, not some pundit website, this is a US Government official website.

Chris B.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/president...l-coronavirus/

So what really happened is that on March 11, an order was issued where the UK and Ireland were exempt. On March 14, the order was revised, and the UK and Ireland were no longer exempt.

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