What do you mean with this statement?
At least 6 feet
Oh, it began way before Trump we all know this but now one of the insiders is so sick of the crap he wrote a book or perhaps he is trying to save his soul.
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Trump insulting a NBC reporter during a briefing. Not a good example of a statesmanās attitude. In the old days he probably had the guy quartered and that for asking IMO a perfectly normal question. The poor man is left in shock and flabbergasted.
I doubt he was shocked. He must have known he was never going to get straight answers to that sort of question ā he was poking the bear, so to say.
One might even suspect he was pleased with the result on a professional level, even if dismayed personally.
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It could be that the NBC reporter did a deliberate action and then he was a good actor. It is true that some will do anything to reach the newspaper head lines.
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I take the position that he was behaving as a proper journalist, letting the man convict himself out of his own mouth. Incidentally, one of his colleagues had just died from the virus.
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It was a bullshit question with an inflammatory lead-in. His final question:
So, what do you say Americans who are scared, I guess? Nearly 200 dead and 14,000 who are sick and millions as you witness who are scared right now, what do you say to Americans who are watching you right now who are scared?
WTF does he think is the purpose of these daily briefings with the whole task force? To talk directly to the American people who are scared and answer their questionsā¦
@Dutchie hit it right on the head:
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Iāve never seen so many sick in the head people not want to stand behind their leader and rather see him fail in this crisis, all just to be able to say I TOLD YA SO, on the behalf of millions of dead people.
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No. I want him to lead us and stop making things worse. At the moment heās who weāve got, and he ought to step up his game and stop stirring the pot, or get out of the way. I fear he will do neither but Iād love to be surprisedā¦
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Donāt hold your hopes up.
āWe face not only a crisis of leadership, but a crisis of democracy in which members of both parties accept calamitous government as normal and inevitable.ā
Why doesnāt everyone just chill out with the political nonsense of disparagement before this thread gets shut down completely? Move on.
This is not directed at you, just for us all.
The corona measures are so drastic that in the end they could completely shut down the economy. And if banks of a country go bankrupt, people also start to doubt the government of that country (so-called doom loop). Just like corona, the whole world is then infected and everything that we consider economically normal is no longer. The credit crisis will be a celebration compared to this system crisis. Such a crisis will lead to a long-term economic depression, with hunger, social unrest, political tensions (both within countries and between countries). It is armageddon. I sincerely hope this will not happen but on the other hand we have to be realistic.
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Then why did you reply to me? Recommend you take a count of your man steamers posts when deciding who to direct this comment towards.
Weāre learning. Are we learning fast enough? I donāt know.
Dont forget about the success demonstrated by countries that were fighting this in December. We will come out of this. Unfortunately, there is a mortality rate. Thatās what we are shutting down and fighting for. Those people. Hell, I might even be one. You never know. Most people that had this disease said dont panic.
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Add this one to your count:
Maybe because politics and disparagement at the very top is the reason the nation is teetering on economic, social, and political collapse. Not talking about it doesnāt change the facts, or improve the situation, it just feeds the source of the problems.
āstanding behindā a failed leadership is what happened to to Germany, Italy, the Soviet Union and Japan. It is what is happening to the citizens of North Korea and the USA today.
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This attitude is common. I get it. But hereās the thing. COVID is one kind of pandemic. The worse one is amnesia.
Weā e been through this all before. 20 years ago another POTUS was elected, and he got us into a needless war. And a lot of people said, āTrust POTUS. He knows more than we do. Nowās not the time for politics. March with him.ā
And we did. Right off a cliff. Thousands dead. 100,000ās maimed. A trillion dollars gone up in smoke. For bupkis. And, oh yeah, an epic recession as a parting gift.
I voted for that guy. I had misgivings. But I got on board with him. I went along. So now Iām just as guilty as him.
No more. You think all those maimed people just went away, or weāve paid off that trillion dollars yet? You got amnesia? You want to march off a cliff again? Have fun. Not me. I remember.
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Why are you surprised? TDS hasnāt even reached a crescendo.
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You might say it is multiplying exponentially. Like a virus.