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A friend just said "This Contravirus thing is an attempt to make the President look bad for the election. It's nonsense." Yikes.
by grecy 7y ago
A friend just said "This Contravirus thing is an attempt to make the President look bad for the election. It's nonsense."
Yikes.
- toast0 7y agoThat's crazy. March is much too early to try to ruin a November election.
- rconti 7y agoAnd, ironically, a strong response by the only candidate with the bully pulpit, would have been the best way to ensure re-election.
- kevin_thibedeau 7y agoThat would require strategic thinking and execution. Those people had their budgets cut two years ago and left. Only the sycophants remain.
- shalmanese 7y agoYeah, for those in the West who are virulently anti-CCP, last month was the best time in decades to topple their power. There was real indications that the simmering discontent would exceed the Chinese censor's ability to control and widespread public anger could have been harnessed into real regime change. All the West had to do was fuck up less than China and the CCP could have been gone for good. Now, the exact opposite has happened, any anti-CCP voices inside of China have completely lost their legitimacy as the West manifestly has handled the virus worse than China. At the end of this, Xi has basically cemented his status as dictator for life with unchecked power because he was the leader that saved China from the worst of the virus (even if it eventually spreads to China, everyone is much more prepared now and the death toll will be much lower). Never mind that the best predictive factor of how well you handle COVID 19 was whether your country was traumatized by SARS. Never mind that democracies like Taiwan were arguably more effective. Nobody in China is going to want a "Western" style government for the next 100 years because of COVID 19.
- craftyguy 7y agodonald is right smack in the middle of the most 'at risk' group for dying from this thing, so he could be felled by it before November.
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- pohr 7y agoI worked in News Media for a bit. It's full of the most brain-dead, partisan, over confident and self important folk you can find. Both on the left and the right. You have no idea what they will do to get the views. They will target content at hypochondriacs if it makes them a buck.
- ceejayoz 7y agoSo, Italy and China quarantined tens of millions of people... because they got freaked out by NPR? C'mon.
- bovermyer 7y agoThat's really unfortunate, but not surprising. Trump supporters seem to believe that he's incapable of wrongdoing, despite all evidence to the contrary.
- simonh 7y agoItaly shut down their entire country to make Trump look bad. Wow, that's some dedication to the cause.
- hashkb 7y agoNah, it's to distract from the Impeachment.