Unit2Sucks said:
LMK5 said:
bearister said:
GBear4Life said:
bearister said:
tRump has grown weary with Fox News. Here he is at a Mar a Lago event with his new favorite reporter, Chanel Rion, of OANN (One America News Network):
Rion's question to tRump at the March 30 Task Force pressie:
Rion said:
"2,405 Americans have died from [the virus] in the last 60 days. Meanwhile, you have 2,369 children who are killed by their mothers through elective abortions each day. That's 16 and a half thousand children killed every week. Two states have suspended elective abortion to make more resources available...Should more states be doing the same?"
That's right, f u k you unborn babies! I know you have a nervous system, beating heart, a unique genetic profile, but f u k you and Trump durrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
I wasn't trying to start a moral debate about abortion. My point is tRump sees the role of the press as being his advocate like RT is for Putin. The point of Rion's question was to offer a total pivot away from tRump's mishandling of the federal government's pandemic preparedness and response.
If you think the Feds' response was not up to par, then you'll also have to include lots of other countries that are so often held up as model societies by the left: Germany; France; UK; Italy; Spain; Canada; and on and on. You should also expose New York for being not only unprepared, but poo-pooing the coronavirus threat quite recently. Here's Bill de "Blahsio" on March 10th, yes March 10th, telling New Yorkers to just go about their business during an MSNBC interview.
So New York City, the target of the 9/11 attacks and the number one terrorist target in America, was not prepared for a medical emergency. The governor, the newly-annointed future Dem presidential candidate, has been at the helm since 2011, yet also didn't prepare, but instead criticizes the federal branch. So New Yorkers, despite being the highest taxed people in the Union, did not get their money's worth from these clowns, despite their recent General Patton-like portrayals in the media.
There is no question that Cuomo and De Blasio made a huge mistake in not shutting down NYC earlier and nothing they can do now will make up for that failure.
This is similar to and does not in any way abrogate Trump and his administration from their many and well-documented failures.
The idea that the states are on their own and that they shouldn't rely on the federal government for aid is ludicrous. Could they have done more? Sure. By way of example, we all know Ahnold built up a california stockpile in preparation for something like this, and that when the state ran a massive deficit after George Bush wrecked the country, the state government chose to stop maintaining the stockpile. However, the federal government is better suited than any state for emergencies like this. That's why FEMA exists and the only reason you are hearing conservatives claim otherwise is to defend Trump for his continuing unconscionable failure.
Well said Unit2. Isn't it unfortunate that, from what I've seen here, you are the first Dem on this board to even elude to the massive missteps of New York's leadership? I mean, NYC was the target of 9/11 and remains the number one target in America for Christ sake. Why were they so unprepared?
I do agree the feds could have been more aggressive and yes, they are in a better position to mobilize after a disaster. It seems we haven't learned as much as we thought after Katrina. At the same time, you'd have to also question the response of France, Canada, UK, Italy, Spain, and others as their coronavirus numbers, relative to their size, mirrors ours, but I'm not hearing much discussion of these comparisons on this board nor in the media.
