of at least a half-million Americans is to argue — nonsensically — that the virus came out of the Wuhan virology lab and therefore something, something, something Trump is not responsible. He’s doing this with House Oversight Committee hearings this week.

  • @moon_crush
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    Yes, emphatically YES!

    There was a dramatic shift in tone from the Trump White House during the early COVID days once it was realized that the virus outbreak centered on urban areas.

    And it was incredibly obvious to anybody paying attention.

    • Granite
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      And it was also painfully obvious that once it bit into rural areas, it was going to extract even more blood.

      Trump lost GA by less votes than people who died of Covid before the election in GA.

      • @derpo
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        I’m so glad trump isn’t skilled in anything, but it does suck that his poor handling of the pandemic meant that a lot of people earned Herman Cain awards needlessly

  • @[email protected]
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    1021 year ago

    No, he didn’t “let people die”.

    He actively contributed to those deaths.

    Right wing media spent the entire pandemic fighting against distancing, masks, vaccines, against science. And pretending horse dewormer was a miracle solution for everything. But it turns out reality isn’t a political opinion, and millions of people died because of those lies.

    When humanity was fighting against covid, Republicans were fighting on the virus’ side

    • @grabyourmotherskeys
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      261 year ago

      But at the very beginning, there was one moment where they said we didn’t need masks, so all of your points are refuted! /s

      • zalack
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        I know you’re being sarcastic but I still want to punch you. So fucking sick of that shit.

        • @grabyourmotherskeys
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          151 year ago

          I want to punch myself every time I hear some idiot make this argument so I get it.

        • Karyoplasma
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          In general, we were lucky that the epidemic wasn’t something worse. Imagine the governmental failure during an Ebola pandemic.

          • keeb420
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            Thanks Obama for making us not have to deal with that.

            • @[email protected]
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              And for having a pandemic response team/office, which Trump dismantled…6 months before COVID hit.

          • Flying Squid
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            Something worse is coming, and based on what happened this time, I’m terrified.

            • thisbenzingring
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              it happens at least once every hundred years, doesn’t mean it won’t happen sooner but it will happen again

  • BarqsHasBite
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    581 year ago

    I can’t get over how 1.1 million Americans died and people are acting like it was bullshit.

    • @BilboBargains
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      81 year ago

      Imagine a war causing that many deaths. There would be statues and a memorial holiday. All I got was a slightly diminished sense of smell and grandma’s house.

      • BarqsHasBite
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        51 year ago

        Yup who knows how many people got long covid, chronic fatigue, do we even know all the effects?

        • Flying Squid
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          31 year ago

          Ever since I got COVID, I wake up at night coughing. Every night. It must be connected.

      • nickwitha_k (he/him)
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        Look into why the government of Massachusetts had to borrow the New England Patriots’ jet to smuggle PPE to Boston.

  • keeb420
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    His administration stole supplies meant for liberal states and gave them to conservatives.

    So, ugh , yes.

    • @[email protected]
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      Worse, they sold much of it to the Sauds. Some of the very first shipments of masks and sanitizer.

  • @Decimit
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    Yes. And he would do it again.

  • @niktemadur
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    I wouldn’t say for political purposes. I’d say for lazy, ignorant narcissism-yet-inferiority-complex (call it self-loathing), mindless knee-jerk flailing with a five-seconds attention span that resets every five seconds.

    Attempt at lazy instant gratification - RESET - Attempt at lazy instant gratification - RESET - Attempt at lazy instant gratification - RESET…
    Over and over again. A million times over. Never-ending until that parasitic creature dies. With no care to the death and suffering any of this could bring to those “inferior to me”… and EVERYONE is inferior to that pig, EVERYONE will eventually be thrown under the bus. All for a five-second knee-jerkoff hollow satisfaction.

    That’s not quite politics. It’s something much sicker than that, if you can wrap your head around such a thing. The politics are just the fucking wallpaper on the dungeon.

  • Doug Holland
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    291 year ago

    Why is this even phrased as a question?

    • @whofearsthenight
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      A fun past time of the Trump years has been the articles and videos and such adjudicating whether or not Trump did something that usually we saw him do on TV, at a campaign rally, or through often multiple audio recordings.

      • Doug Holland
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        “It’s fake news! I never did that, never said that!” (except on the video…

  • @Raphael
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    When you side with Trump, you’re siding with Genocide Denial.

  • @Sterile_Technique
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    Not political reasons, just personal greed. He was busy being a bean salesman when we needed a president.

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    If somebody can be vaccinated for a serious communicable disease but refuses, they’re basically telling me that they’re an idiot, and/or they don’t really care about others (despite whatever arguments they may make to the contrary). That isn’t someone I want in my social circle.

    If someone has demonstrated that they don’t care whether I live or die, I don’t feel bad for ignoring their phone call at 2 AM.

  • MinusPi (she/they)
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    181 year ago

    Yes. All billionaires do this every single day they don’t donate the majority of their wealth.

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        31 year ago

        He could certainly sell his assets if he felt the need. No one has to live in a luxury hotel.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          Tell that to the twice impeached former president. He not only put himself up in what he considered luxury, but he also placed the secret service in that same hotel at the tax payers expense while charging extortionate rates, just because he could.

        • @[email protected]
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          I have doubts that it even approaches 1B if he sells it all. And that is assuming he actually could sell and it’s not all tied up in various money juggling maneuvers or solely his (as far as hotels, resorts, etc)

  • ivanafterall
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    It’s not even a debatable point. The fact that it’s presented as such is irritating.

  • @[email protected]
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    131 year ago

    He did, and it cost him the election. I know more than a few people who voted for him the first time, but switched to Biden due to Trump’s COVID denial.

    • Bizzacore
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      And just imagine how much of his base died, that would have voted for his reelection!

    • @fox2263
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      Can you imagine if he had handled COVID well? He’d still be there! 🙈