Per the President he wasn’t kidding when he said slow the testing down

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nickqt

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Right-wing authoritarians are thrilled with whatever their rightful authority figure says or does. That's what makes them right-wing authoritarians.
 

Jaskalas

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Our hospitals in Dallas are already very close to capacity. I am related to nurses working the ICU in 4 of the largest hospitals in Dallas and every one of them says that the ICU's are near bed capacity, but more importantly they are already past care capacity. They simply do not have enough staff to handle all the beds, because the hospitals actually laid off nurses last month because their numbers were down (because as most people were staying home there was considerably fewer hospitalizations overall).

May 26, 2020 - Baylor Scott & White will lay off about 1,200 and furlough others
Apr 16, 2020 - Tenet Healthcare furloughs 3,400 hospital workers, citing lost revenue from halt on elective surgeries

Christ, WTF was the payroll protection plan for, if not to prevent !@#$ like that.
 

eelw

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Representatives of his base. What’s so amazing about this kung flu speech? What’s so inspirational about it to be cheering so rabidly?
 
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The whole Kung Flu thing is an obvious and lazy attempt to troll.
Reminds me of an older guy my Dad knew when I was a kid. Dude called all women cops “Dickless Tracy’s” which at the time was sort of funny but only sort of funny once or twice. The humor got old real fast after hearing it one thousand times and hearing an old guy laugh about it wasn’t funny it was irritating.
 

interchange

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What's the 19? Some people can't explain the 19? Apparently neither can Trump. It's the year the virus appeared, 2019. I guess Trump is betting his people don't know that? Otherwise, it sounds pretty darned dumb.
 

TheVrolok

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Representatives of his base. What’s so amazing about this kung flu speech? What’s so inspirational about it to be cheering so rabidly?
Either they're racist, or just love trolling, or likely both?
 

Muse

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What money? About 500 million in loans are due.
Underneath, I've suspected, his motivations are to try to keep himself from going bankrupt... again. I haven't paid close attention, haven't taken a magnifying glass to his investments, but have heard what? Hotels, golf courses, casinos. Those have been pretty much shut down. He was very very likely heavily leveraged before the pandemic started happening. He's bleeding capital so fast, the red river is up to his, what? knees by now? He's "shshsh" don't tell anyone we have infections here, we want people to think everything's OK. Mingle, congregate, be unconcerned... [i.e. keep me from going bankrupt, and reelect me, please, the economy's fine, just fine...].
 
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Muse

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The whole Kung Flu thing is an obvious and lazy attempt to troll.
Reminds me of an older guy my Dad knew when I was a kid. Dude called all women cops “Dickless Tracy’s” which at the time was sort of funny but only sort of funny once or twice. The humor got old real fast after hearing it one thousand times and hearing an old guy laugh about it wasn’t funny it was irritating.
A boy who lived across the street from me (and turned into a full fledged juvenile delinquent) taunted a girl in junior high school who was named Tracy by calling her that, he was that big a dick. I wasn't laughing. Never heard it since. Don't know where he got it, maybe dreamed it up. Some people are just stupid.
 
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Muse

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ANYwise, it sounds pretty darned dumb.
He tries to appeal to the dumb. The dumb need a champion, he figures, and their votes count just as much as those of Nobel laureates. He's dumb, it so happens. When he knows he doesn't know he tries to tease a vote out of someone else who doesn't know. It's a lazy tactic. He's lazy. And dumb.
 

Muse

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it'll continue to get worse until trump is out of office because he thinks high positive numbers will hurt his reelection and he can't have that, now can he.
It also hurts his businesses: Hotels, casinos, golf courses and their facilities.
 
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Muse

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As has been probably pointed out, no need to ask the task force anything, just cut off the funding. So the testimony is true. And it's also true Trump's slowing down the testing, just via a different avenue.
And the lack of that info in the news cycle yesterday was disheartening. They should have filled in the blanks.

Yeah, he wouldn't let a ship with sick dock in the US, didn't want the positive case count increasing. Testing? We don't need no stinking testing. We don't want people to think this is anything to be concerned with. He brushed aside admonitions from those who said testing would help quell the pandemic, he was (still is) more concerned with the nervousness of the public to conduct business as usual. As usual, he wants things his way, screw the other stuff.
 
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blackangst1

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Has anyone come forward to say Trump asked them to actually slow testing?

edit: I DO think his comment about slowing down testing was a joke, and I thought it was funny in a dark way. However, instead of saying "I dont kid" (which I think was made to troll the left) he shouldve said "Of course I was kidding". That was moronic to say.
 
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Has anyone come forward to say Trump asked them to actually slow testing?

edit: I DO think his comment about slowing down testing was a joke, and I thought it was funny in a dark way. However, instead of saying "I dont kid" (which I think was made to troll the left) he shouldve said "Of course I was kidding". That was moronic to say.

As I tell my deplorable friends, I do not expect the President to spend his time trolling people. I expect the President to be prepared and to be capable of speaking concisely.
 

blackangst1

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Well they tend to specifically ask me a question.
Did someone ask me a question that I missed?

ps response will be delayed going into a 2PM appointment.

It was the first thing I posted:

Has anyone come forward to say Trump asked them to actually slow testing?
 

fskimospy

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It was the first thing I posted:

Has anyone come forward to say Trump asked them to actually slow testing?
As previously said, even if he didn’t that means he’s repeatedly lied to the country about attempting to inhibit the government’s ability to battle a deadly pandemic disease.

I really do wish you guys would pick a side between ‘he’s a straight shooter who does what he says’ and ‘nothing he says can be believed’.
 

ch33zw1z

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Trump: I said to slow down testing
Admin Spokesperson: No he didn't, it's a joke, lol j/k amirite?
Trump: No, seriously, I did

Non-trumpers: He said to slow down testing
Trumper: prove it!

What a joke this R admin is.
 

fskimospy

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Trump: I said to slow down testing
Admin Spokesperson: No he didn't, it's a joke, lol j/k amirite?
Trump: No, seriously, I did

Non-trumpers: He said to slow down testing
Trumper: prove it!

What a joke this R admin is.
It is amazing that at this point Trump has so little credibility that conservatives are now demanding we prove Trump’s own statements about his actions are true, and they are doing this while DEFENDING HIM.
 
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It was the first thing I posted:

Has anyone come forward to say Trump asked them to actually slow testing?

Didn’t realize it required to be answered

It doesn’t matter, the President said he wants to slow down testing because that will show fewer infections and he said he wasn’t kidding.
That’s it there is nothing else to understand.
 
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