Leave those loveable Goths alone, they never harmed anyone.
Current Affairs Donald Trump POS: Judgement cometh and that right soon
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Leave those loveable Goths alone, they never harmed anyone.
Seems very unhinged even more than usual. It must be tiredness from being the stable genius that he is. Must be hard knowing everything that he does.
Who's he shouting at anyway? What's he even talking about.
Seriously has he forgotten how to use a phone, to call the actual person this is directed at. Mad how he uses twitter to communicate to his own administration
Charlie Sweet
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Am genuinely freaked out that someone like Trump is in a position of power at such a time as this. Unlike the UK or Ireland there seems even less curbs on his individual power. It literally appears as if he can wake up in the middle of the night and trot off a message or two whilst half asleep or drugged up.
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Don't worry, I'm sure our loveable Aussie friend will be back in another guise shortly to let us all know how that particular tweet was a work of political and strategic genius
Irrespective of his many other failures as a human being and president, anyone who uses all caps in their tweets should not be a head of state
TN Toffee
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Aside from the fact that he's communicating with his constituents via Twitter, which I find unbelievably beneath his office, I actually agree with him. Something I honestly thought I might never say.
I don't know what people's saving habits are in the rest of the world, but for many Americans, they're non-existent. Consider this...ALMOST HALF OF AMERICANS WOULD BE UNABLE TO COVER AN UNEXPECTED $500 EXPENSE. By shutting all or most of the country's commerce down for any amount of time (possibly more than another week), we're headed for a financial calamity at light speed. I know this virus is bad, and some of the scenarios for where it could go if we don't get a handle on it are pretty grim, but equally or more grim are the prospects of what happens if we continue to force people out of work.
Right now, we're forcing people to sit idly by as they lose everything they've worked for their whole lives to earn; their homes, their businesses, etc, all because of an illness, that as of right now, has killed 15,000ish people worldwide. If this continues, millions of people are will lose their homes by summer, or if they haven't actually been foreclosed on, will have been cast into a financial hole that they will NEVER realistically be able to get out of. Everything else could very easily spiral from there. These past couple weeks have really laid bare just how delicately poised even our modern society is over the edge of catastrophe.
I don't know if any of guys have ever listened Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast, but one thing he references a lot is how from time to time throughout history things have happened that knock us back a few rungs on the civilization ladder. For example how people in the Dark Ages would come across things that the Romans had built and not even understand a civilization advanced enough to have constructed them. I sincerely hope that's not where we're headed.
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The potter's wheel's a good example, so simple,but disappeared from Britain when the Romans left.
TN Toffee
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Hadn't ever though of it on that micro of a level. He's always described it more in terms of Dark Age peoples seeing infrastructure like aqueducts and bridges, and concluding that God must have placed them there simply because their minds couldn't conceive a civilization of humans advanced enough to have constructed them.
He's so out of his depth. This crisis just amplifies it all.
TN Toffee
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From day one this was my biggest concern about Trump; some sort of global crisis with him at the helm. While things were humming along smoothly, all his bull**** was aggravating, but usually didn't affect me all that much. No person on this earth could truly be fully "prepared" for a situation like this, but when considering the expression "Cometh the hour, cometh the man", unless we're talking about porn stars, Donald Trump is not the name that comes to mind.
Lets be honest, that's just not correct either.
Oh I guess there really is a tweet for everything...
Very convenient for Trump that the hot spots are mostly blue states.
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But the right thing to do isn't to send everyone back out into the normal world and let the disease run its course. We can't go "if they die they die" to people. The way to handle this is for the government to load up a bazooka with as much money as they can and indiscriminately fire it all over the place. Just get enough money into everyone's hands that we can make it through this without sacrificing people because no one has savings. Figure out repayment later. It isn't really important when the government can basically borrow unlimited money for free.
Then from there we have to finally restructure are hopelessly broken system that doesn't allow most Americans to have any type of reserve to handle something like this. It isn't that Americans don't save, it's that they can't. And that's because wages have stagnated while a booming economy pumps money into corporations and the 1%. We fix that and this kind of thing can be weathered a lot easier by the every day person, should it happen again.
And weirdly I ultimately agree with you that Trump is right. There very well might be a point where we have to say is it worth not restarting the economy? But we are sooo far from being there, or at least we should be, that it isn't even really worth discussing yet. I mean some states have barely even shut down anything yet. We've got to probably do at least 2 months of this to prevent a serious death toll.
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