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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat also sucks about the coronavirus kicking off a recession is that
it will be used as an excuse as to why trump gets creamed in November. Conservatives will say "if it wasn't for the coronavirus, trump would have blah, blah, blah... The only reason Biden won was because of blah blah". Not that he was the shittiest president in the history of presidents. Not that he tried to destroy our democracy.
we can do it
(12,205 posts)drmeow
(5,028 posts)Jim__
(14,089 posts)Most people I know who have jobs with a lot of responsibility, don't have time to play golf every weekend. Next to the conservatives' posters full of excuses, we can hang a poster of this jackass swinging a golf club.
edhopper
(33,639 posts)something was bound to catch up with him.
Who cares what the losers say.
docgee
(870 posts)edhopper
(33,639 posts)Caliman73
(11,752 posts)The reality is that the panic and the economic problems, though not entirely under a president's control, can be made better or worse by his behaviors. Trump has no skill at management or communication. He is the worst type of person to deal with an emergency. He could have jumped in and been proactive about this situation, but his denial and lack of focus made this situation what it is.
Let the Republicans say whatever they want, as long as they are saying it as the minority party, about the former, one term, failed Trump.
Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)Mister Ed
(5,945 posts)"Yeah, that virus was tough for him handle, all right. It didn't read his tweets. It didn't watch Fox News. It didn't care if he gave it an insulting playground nickname. How the hell was he supposed to fight something like that?"
Johnny2X2X
(19,193 posts)It was already going to happen, this just hastened its onset.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/08/19/out-economists-predict-us-recession-by-survey-finds/
uponit7771
(90,367 posts)lame54
(35,331 posts)We will be lucky if we get to vote
Trump's perfect excuse for cancelling the election
0rganism
(23,975 posts)give me the conservatives making excuses for a loss any day over conservatives doing their gleeful potty dance around a win.
uponit7771
(90,367 posts)customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)What sucks about a recession is the little people that it hurts. Oh, yeah, the rich folks (some of them, anyway) are going to lose a bundle in the stock market, but it's the people at the bottom who are going to be the ones out on the street.
I've got enough going for me now to be able to weather this recession out, but I sure do remember the time when I was standing in line for government cheese and milk powder because I lost my job during a recession.
I could give a flying fuck what Republicons say or think.
LymphocyteLover
(5,662 posts)his policies made it worse-- cutting CDC funding, for God's sake!!!!
LymphocyteLover
(5,662 posts)person as president