you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

[–]jjdub7Gay Male Guest Commentator 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

? Trump has literally made it a cornerstone of his presidency to extract the US from all foreign wars as quickly as possible and return to economic (bloodless) warfare e.g. Section 232 tariffs against China, renegotiating of trade deals.

Really. He was just nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize this morning. Genuinely curious why you think this.

As for COVID, he suspended all travel from China and Europe and likely stemmed the tide. As for the deaths - over half are in NYC and California, with both Newsom and Cuomo consistently making it a point to decline any aid offered by Trump. In related news, the CDC revised its death counts two weeks ago to say only ~9600 people died from COVID-19 alone. The vast majority of deaths were elderly (again in PA, NY, NJ, all states which forced nursing homes to accept convalescing COVID patients in the sole exception of the 14-day quarantine period mandated on exposure for the rest of the country.

What more would you have had Trump do to respond? He invoked the Defense Production Act to assure medical devices and vaccines could move through the pipelines as quickly as possible.

It's a novel pathogen. What do you think you can reasonably expect in terms of a federal government response (regardless of which side the administration aligns with)? If there was a simple answer this shit would have been over 4 months ago.

[–]BEB 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I literally have too much work to do trying to save women's rights to refute your points, all just on the borderline of spurious.

And seriously, I know a lot about the Middle East - I had to pay attention to events there for my job for years. There is no way in hell Trump should have been awarded anything. He assassinated Solemani. If you knew anything about the Middle East you would know that Trump took the powder keg that George W left behind and made it a lot worse.

[–]jjdub7Gay Male Guest Commentator 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Killing one militant is better than thousands of civilians.

If you knew anything about the Middle East

I know a lot about the Middle East

I literally have too much work to do trying to save women's rights to refute your points, all just on the borderline of spurious.

Just trying to have a discourse here. If you feel visceral antipathy towards Trump, that's understandable since he's of rather incorrigible character, but do you disagree on any of these items being positive developments?