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Topic	Trump's time in office
darkknight109 10/29/20 5:51:25 PM #17:	Zeus posted... First, the areas initially hit hardest were far-left enclaves where, if Trump said "wear a mask!", most citizens would decry him as fascist and do the OPPOSITE on general principle. Fake news. Also does not explain the current status, where nearly all of the COVID hot-spots are conservative bastions. Zeus posted... If Trump mandated stay-at-home, masks, etc, almost every governor in the country would block him and many of the first would be the liberal states whining about him now... Fake news. Zeus posted... and his orders would almost certainly be reversed by the courts. Which is why the courts have reversed the orders of governors who mandated shutdowns or masks... Oh, no, wait, those orders have been found to be well within a governor/president's scope of powers and the courts have largely left them in place. Zeus posted... Third, previous administrations had depleted (and not replaced) the supply of PPE This is laughable. The reason why the PPE stock was not replenished was because Tea Party Republicans refused requests by the Obama administration for budget to restore the PPE stockpile and train medical responders. Republicans stripped out funding equivalent to $321 million dollars since they retook the House in 2010. https://www.propublica.org/article/us-emergency-medical-stockpile-funding-unprepared-coronavirus Suggesting that it was all the Democrats' fault is laughably wrong considering Republicans' persistent and ongoing efforts to kneecap pandemic preparedness over the last decade. Trump himself disbanded the Global Health Security and Biodefence unit Obama created in 2015 specifically to deal with pandemics like COVID and either reassigned or fired its entire staff. Zeus posted... Trump was faced with a problem largely created by administrations like the Obama/Biden one Trump had two years of unopposed control of both houses of congress and the courts. At no point did he even attempt to restore the funding that Republicans stripped away in 2010 or return the national stockpile of PPE to sufficient levels of readiness. This pandemic occurred at the end of his term, not the start. Any lack of preparedness is entirely on him. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! <cite>darkknight109 posted [p:946468267] in Trump's ti... [t:79071083]...</cite> <quote>Zeus posted... </cite> <quote>First, the areas initially hit hardest were far-left enclaves where, if Trump said "wear a mask!", most citizens would decry him as fascist and do the OPPOSITE on general principle.</quote>Fake news. Also does not explain the current status, where nearly all of the COVID hot-spots are conservative bastions. Zeus posted... </cite> <quote>If Trump mandated stay-at-home, masks, etc, almost every governor in the country would block him and many of the first would be the liberal states whining about him now...</quote>Fake news. Zeus posted... </cite> <quote>and his orders would almost certainly be reversed by the courts.</quote>Which is why the courts have reversed the orders of governors who mandated shutdowns or masks... Oh, no, wait, those orders have been found to be well within a governor/president's scope of powers and the courts have largely left them in place. Zeus posted... </cite> <quote>Third, previous administrations had depleted (and not replaced) the supply of PPE</quote>This is laughable. The reason why the PPE stock was not replenished was because Tea Party Republicans refused requests by the Obama administration for budget to restore the PPE stockpile and train medical responders. Republicans stripped out funding equivalent to $321 million dollars since they retook the House in 2010. https://www.propublica.org/article/us-emergency-medical-stockpile-funding-unprepared-coronavirus Suggesting that it was all the Democrats' fault is laughably wrong considering Republicans' persistent and ongoing efforts to kneecap pandemic preparedness over the last decade. Trump himself disbanded the Global Health Security and Biodefence unit Obama created in 2015 specifically to deal with pandemics like COVID and either reassigned or fired its entire staff. Zeus posted... </cite> <quote>Trump was faced with a problem largely created by administrations like the Obama/Biden one</quote>Trump had two years of unopposed control of both houses of congress and the courts. At no point did he even attempt to restore the funding that Republicans stripped away in 2010 or return the national stockpile of PPE to sufficient levels of readiness. This pandemic occurred at the end of his term, not the start. Any lack of preparedness is entirely on him. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror!</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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