@wowfucktron
I was in support of Bernie in 2016, and then he basically submitted to Hillary and went off the deep end, ignoring his anti-establishment policies into a more "controlled opposition" stance and got really woke, and started to seem more and more of a hypocrite.
If they rigged it against Trump, they sure as hell rigged it against Bernie, and either bought him off or shut him up if he wanted any future political ambitions.
@youdontknowwho
Response part 2, electric boogaloo
Regarding covid, I don't think Trump is responsible for 400,000 American death. Just a substantial part of that number. He is the head of the government, the chief executive of the land. How does the President of the United States have no responsibilities at all in dealing with the largest domestic crisis in years? Out of his control? So he was elected to take care of problems arising from himself only? Anything that take more than flipping a switch is out of the question? Whatever happens to "The buck stops here"?
There's only so much a person can feasibly do to stop a force of nature. Can you blame the leaders of a country for the deaths caused by a large earthquake that suddenly arises? Or can you blame the people in charge when some unforeseen disaster like a typhoon or a hurricane rampages the coastline? Sure, you can warn the public, tell the to take precautions, but when you deal with such a large scale of people, it ultimately falls into their hands and the hands of fate to determine what happens, as there will always be those that view your Cassandra Truth with dismal and hand-wave it away.
The entire point of Albert Camus's "The Plague" is that all the attempts to counter the plague is ultimately futile because it's humans trying to control nature or project some sense of order upon it that it cannot adhere to. That's the point of a plague, is that it indiscriminately targets people seemingly arbitrary whether they are rich, poor, innocent, guilty, old, young, etc. You can try to curtail it, try to slow the spread, but it ultimately is a Sisyphean task as the adverse effects to human psychology, economic ruin, and general oppression leads to unrest and disdain, as people are unable to cope with their fates.
Note also that total deaths for 2020 is about ~ 3,187,086 as opposed to ~2,852,609 in 2019 and 2,839,205 in 2018. (
source secondary) Given this year had the entirety of US society such down from public life in response to the pandemic, an additional 0.1% fatalities is pretty damn good all things considered.
States would struggled regardless. People would die no matter what he did. But it didn't have to be that many. He could have done much better. He could have told his people that it's actually patriotic to wear a damn mask. He could have said "hey, this shit is serious" from the start rather than "keep doing what you're doing because it would go away like a miracle." He could have made an example for everyone and stopped holding super-spreader events with little to no social distancing. Heck, he could have just shut up and not encouraged people to drink bleach. Millions voted for him, believed him, trusted him, emulated him. He could have saved lots of people just by behaving responsibly. If only he could prioritize American lives over his own reelection prospect that he probably feared would be hurt because of the economic downturn. It turned out the economy still went to shit even with Americans dying daily around the country (at the rate of one death per 30 seconds).
The president, aside from the media's slander, did tell people to wear a mask and he did whenever he wasn't speaking publicly, and to socially distance. He was actively still working with health officials, but the World Health Organization is hard to follow given that they change very frequently due to what they can observe, and their observations are always in flux as an ongoing crisis tends to do with scientists.
If you're going to blame anyone, blame Xi Jinping, who neglected his duty and pretended it didn't exist during the first few months of the virus's existence.
The bleach thing was clearly a joke the Media took out of context, he repeatedly told the American people to do certain actions and to socially distance, and did everything he could to remain constitutional. To have the government expand their power and overreach to deal with a temporary crisis that we may never get back not only lacks foresight but lacks knowledge of how overreach occurs and that tyrants always find a way to justify their growing influence to the public, even if it means crushing the inalienable rights of the general population.
If only he could prioritize American lives over his own reelection prospect that he probably feared would be hurt because of the economic downturn. It turned out the economy still went to shit even with Americans dying daily around the country
Again, according to the constitution, it is the job of the states to deal with any matters not explicitly described, not the federal government. You can't have lockdowns, especially in big cities, and yet blame Trump, who before had record-low unemployment and one of the best economies since the recession, for it when the decision was made independently of any action he could have taken. Either you have COVID restrictions, or you don't.
Biden won't fix it, given he wants to extend the lockdowns, which will only make the corporations richer and more powerful, and shrink the middle class, closing small businesses and increasing tensions as people fall into further material decline, all for a virus with an incredibly high survival rate.
