US Election 2020

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Sl8er said:
Had a quick look through those lies -obviously I'm not going to read everything.
Scrolled through and read some randoms...and it's all pretty much:

"I slept with 2000 women"
"In fact: trump only slept with 1678.3 women"
(Don't ask about the .3 ...this guy is obviously a freak :D )

No one said he was a good guy. Everyone knows who and what he is...yet still voted him in.
Everyone knows he's a creep...and so everyone knows what to expect.
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Your argument appears to boil down to the following: people know of Trump's flaws, but his supporters don't care, so one shouldn't talk about it.

Why does it bother you that observers tally his lies? Is it because it creates a moral dilemma when you are reminded that the man you support is a serial liar?
 
If Joe Biden gets the Democrat nomination, which seems likely, Trump will probably, out of desperation, continue to pursue his Hunter Biden conspiracy, in order to try to tarnish Biden's integrity.

Bloomberg's campaign manager has said in an interview that if Trump does this, Bloomberg will fund investigations into Trump's children, in particular, Ivanka's business dealings in China, where Trump seemed to have played a role in her being granted various patents in that country. He added that there will be scrutiny of their financial and business affairs the likes of which they have never experienced.
 
lumeer said:
Your argument appears to boil down to the following: people know of Trump's flaws, but his supporters don't care, so one shouldn't talk about it.

Why does it bother you that observers tally his lies? Is it because it creates a moral dilemma when you are reminded that the man you support is a serial liar?
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I would have to care for it to bother me :D
I don't support trump...like, at all ;)

I just find the hypocrisy fascinating.

"Rolling blackouts" about to start...oh joy.
 

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Conservative Columnist Says Trump's Turning Into 'Baghdad Bob' Over Coronavirus

Max Boot compares the president to the Iraqi official known for his comically false disinformation.
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Conservative columnist Max Boot called out President Donald Trump on Monday for delivering misinformation instead of the calm and steady leadership needed as the nation faces the twin crises of the coronavirus outbreak and sinking stocks.

“Panic is spreading even faster than the coronavirus because there is no leader to reassure a jittery public,” Boot wrote in The Washington Post,

Boot noted that Trump already lacked credibility before the crisis. Now, Trump “has stayed true to incredible form.” Last month when speaking about the outbreak, Trump claimed to have “shut it down” and predicted “close to zero” cases in the U.S. within a couple of days. And just last week, Trump claimed: “We closed it down; we stopped it.”

Boot even compared Trump to Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, the ex-Iraqi information minister better known as “Baghdad Bob” for his consistent denials about the grim reality of the situation during the U.S.-led invasion in the early ’oughts:
“This is a time that calls for the candor and reassurance of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s ‘fireside chats.’ Instead, we have a president who is emulating ‘Baghdad Bob’ — the Iraqi minister of information who was claiming complete victory even as Saddam Hussein’s regime was collapsing in 2003.”
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Baghdad Bob - let the tweets begin.
 
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Stalled Intelligence Report Warns of Pandemic Dangers

An intelligence report postponed by President Trump’s administration warns the U.S. is unprepared for a global pandemic, officials say.
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The Trump Administration Is Stalling an Intel Report That Warns the U.S. Isn’t Ready for a Global Pandemic

An annual intelligence report that has been postponed without explanation by President Donald Trump’s administration warns that the U.S. remains unprepared for a global pandemic, two senior government officials who have reviewed a draft of the report tell TIME.

The office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) was scheduled to deliver the Worldwide Threat Assessment to the House Intelligence Committee on Feb. 12 and the hearing has not been rescheduled, according to staffers and members of the House and Senate intelligence committees. The DNI’s office declined requests for a comment on the status of the report. Democratic staffers say they do not expect the report to be released any time soon.
 
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Trump struggles to explain why he disbanded his global health team

According to Trump, "you can never really think is going to happen," but the NSC's team existed precisely because officials recognized the possible threat.
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One of Donald Trump's most important missteps in dealing with the coronavirus outbreak happened before anyone had even heard of COVID-19. In fact, the president's first error came back in 2018.

It was two years ago when Trump ordered the shutdown of the White House National Security Council's entire global health security unit. NBC News had a good report on this recently, noting that the president's decision "to downsize the White House national security staff -- and eliminate jobs addressing global pandemics -- is likely to hamper the U.S. government's response to the coronavirus."


It was against this backdrop that a reporter asked Trump late last week about whether he was prepared to "rethink having an Office of Pandemic Preparation in the White House." The president replied:

"I just think this is something, Peter, that you can never really think is going to happen. You know, who -- I've heard all about, 'This could be...' -- you know, 'This could be a big deal,' from before it happened. You know, this -- something like this could happen.... Who would have thought? Look, how long ago is it? Six, seven, eight weeks ago -- who would have thought we would even be having the subject? ... You never really know when something like this is going to strike and what it's going to be."
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It's worth emphasizing that this is Trump's second explanation related to his decision to disband his global health security team. "I'm a business person," he explained two weeks ago in response to a similar question. "I don't like having thousands of people around when you don't need them. When we need them, we can get them back very quickly."

As it turns out, the administration cannot actually reassemble such a team "very quickly," though Trump, still unfamiliar with how much of the executive branch works, may not have known that.

It set the stage for this new argument: Trump dissolved the White House's pandemic team because he had no idea he might need a pandemic team.

Except, that's not an especially satisfying answer. The whole point of having a team focused on epidemiological threats is (a) viral outbreaks can happen; (b) one never knows when they'll happen; and (c) countries want to be prepared when they do happen.
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Trump, not the brightest bulb in the chandelier.
 
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