Politics Coronavirus Politics Edition!

Mags, I use to have respect for you back int he days of Olive. Heard rumors about you when I came full time to this forum and was warned about your obsessive trump behaviour and now I get to see it first hand. Lighten up and quit trying to always instigate a right and left argument and try and just enjoy the forum instead of running rampant with your hair on fire always screaming the left is bad, the left is bad, the left is bad. Anyone that supports trump and his antics has no room to criticize others.

You have single handidly become the trump of this forum as you have further divided this forum more than it has ever been. Congrats.

 

Nice! Yeah, that was on the ballot for 2016 and he’s your president.
Guess what we can have on the ballot this election?

 

why have I become a thread title? am I over my post quota again?

 

FIFY

That title would pretty much sum up the OT section now.

 

As in....riverman is hanging on by a thread!

 

Ban me then.

 

Bimbos? Why do my ears perk up whenever I hear that word?

 

I think the American People need their elected officials to represent them more than having a few rapid test machines.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/02/us/coronavirus-updates.html?smtyp=cur&smid=fb-nytimes#link-47fa1bf5

Congress declines the administration’s offer of rapid testing.

A testing site in Seattle on Thursday.Ruth Fremson/The New York Times
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, said in a joint statement on Saturday that Congress would decline the White House’s offer to provide lawmakers with rapid-result testing machines, contending that the resources should be deployed to those in greater need.

“Congress is grateful for the administration’s generous offer to deploy rapid Covid-19 testing capabilities to Capitol Hill, but we respectfully decline the offer at this time,” the statement said. “Our country’s testing capacities are continuing to scale up nationwide and Congress wants to keep directing resources to the front-line facilities where they can do the most good the most quickly.”

Mr. Trump responded unhappily on Saturday evening, recirculating an unrelated tweet sent earlier in the day by Mr. McConnell’s office and commenting, “No reason to turn it down, except politics.”

“We have plenty of testing,” Mr. Trump wrote. “Maybe you need a new Doctor over there. Crazy Nancy will use it as an excuse not to show up to work!”

Alex M. Azar II, the secretary of health and human services, had offered late Friday night to send three rapid-result testing machines and 1,000 tests — the same kind currently used by the White House — to the Capitol ahead of the Senate’s return to Washington on Monday.

His offer came after the top physician in Congress warned Republican aides that with his current equipment, he would only be able to test those who were ill, and that it would take at least two days to get test results.

The House on Tuesday abandoned plans to return next week after the physician, Dr. Brian P. Monahan, warned that it might be risky for lawmakers to do so, citing the continued increase of cases of the virus in the capital and its surrounding suburban counties.

 

Why is it so hard for Trump to talk about other people with respect? Crazy Nancy, Pocahontas, sleepy joe, etc., etc. He literally tries to belittle and insult any and everyone. Seems like its rare I read a story that Trump is a part of where he’s not talking poorly of someone. Even if thats just media bias in what they print, he’s playing the part of giving them tons of material...

 

I think it’s on purpose to create a media hysteria. Forces the focus all on him. Negative or Positive press is still press.

 

It bothers me a lot... I know I guess *logically* he just likes the attention. Its one of the reasons I just could not ever vote for the guy. I hear a lot of people talk about how important it is to respect others, other opinions even if they’re drastically opposed to your own, and thats how I was raised, yet with Trump he’s like a disrespect bumper car in a traffic jam. I dont hate him (maybe Im too nice?), but I roll my eyes everytime I read / hear that stuff... He’s the president of a people that HE seems to be at war with. Heck I dont like the media very much, I have my issues with peoples politics and opinions and I think their is corruption all over in politics but the way he talks about other people whom he is supposed to be a leader of... it just bothers me a lot.

 

Its that hate begets hate thing. Im not sure what came first the chicken or the egg on this particular cycle but he hates on them, they hate on him. Then they wonder why people are divided when their leaders are so divided they cant even address each other with even a modicum of decency. Even his “compliments”, rarely come without a backhand strike. I would say the media and the democrats have at times been on a witch hunt for him (or at least given the appearance of it), and Id even say that at times the complaints against him are at the extreme of petty, but what has he ever done to try to massage that, or lead those people who are part of the country that he’s the president of. I get it, even if he did try there are many who absolutely hate him and were never going to relent, but if he looks like he’s trying to bring people together those people are the ones who look bad. Instead he is constantly berating journalists (whether they deserve it or not), constantly insulting people, and then tries to act like he’s a victim. I think no one at this point buys it because he is at BEST practicing and encouraging the behaviors of divisiveness.

Its not 100% on him, there are other politicians over in DC, and journalists and media members who are all part of the cycle, but at some point a leader at least IMO would say ok enough is enough Im going to lead by example in how we should treat other human beings. Instead he seems so engaged in the cycle he is either unaware of how to exit it, or is unwilling to.

 

Also @magnifier661 and everyone else sorry for the rant.

 

Why was this moved?

 

My phone and I really screwed that up.