07-03-2020, 10:10 PM
(07-03-2020, 09:45 PM)bfine32 Wrote: I don't blame any one person for the COVID numbers. I get that may be hard to fathom, but it's how I view it. I cannot fathom how some can say: "The POTUS could have protected us".
I have made my thoughts on the bounties known, but how do you have undisputed truth that Trump ignored them. Because an anonymous source told the NYT?
Of course there's condescension in your posts, but as I said: It's easy to do from the outside.
You might take my bewilderment for condescension. I am utterly bewildered, sure.
If president Hillary had been informed about a Russian bounty and had done nothing in response, even chatting with Putin without even mentioning it, I have serious doubts your stance would be "oh, there is no undisputed truth behind all that. Let's assume the best possible about president Hillary and stop blaming her." Nah, I'd wager you'd be just as outraged as other conservatives and hopefully everyone else really.
Same goes with Covid. At some point, it is really weird how Trump can get a pass on that by anyone. Preident Hillary wouldn't have gotten one. If president Hillary on a day with record new infections had tweeted a heavily biased poll where 90% trust her and 10% trust Fauci - yeah Trump did that - you wouldn't give her a pass. And this little anecdote just pales in comparison. Every other western country did far better. Trump could have at least looked at their concept, done what thosed leaders did, which absolutely would have been in his power, or stopped scolding his own advisors, or not mock Biden for wearing a mask, or not lied about how the situation is great, how it's not a big deal, how it miraculously will go away, how medical workers scam the state for masks, how Kung Flu is a splendid name, how bis rallies without masks are just what the country needs right now, how only the best testing in the world is responsible for the high number of cases, how an unproven drug is recommended, how we might try injecting disinfectants... nah, nothing would be forgivable for Hillary. Nor would any of these press conferences where his lies and hyperbole reach a level of absurdity that really makes a laughing stock out of your country.
And nothing of these examples is hyperbolic. And you have to see that. That's why I'm so bewildered. If I would really just look down on you, I wouldn't be.