Trump vs Biden 2020, Day 64 of the Pennsylvania count (pt 5) Read OP

hotmail.com wrote: »

Yeah I agree. How does anyone in Ireland give a toss about what's happening in South Dakota or Nevada.

It doesn't add up.

Death tolls are enormous in Belgium and Italy and I'm guessing many here haven't even bothered to look at the reasons for their death tolls.

Oh but Trump...

There's an entire thread focusing on Sweden over on the COVID forum, along with discussions on lots of other countries (there is an Italian guy giving regular updates on Italy), given this is a US election thread, then people will of course be talking about how stupid trump is at being a president.

However, what is your point? That people only talk about US deaths as some sort of point scoring? That people can't highlight how badly the current US administration has done in response to a pandemic, and seemingly, doubled down on dealing with it in various stupid ways? If an Irish/French/Italian politician recommends injecting disinfectant and using UV radiation inside the body, you can bet it would have it's own thread somewhere (sarcastically I'm sure).

We'll see how Biden does by following the medical experts, however, I think we can all agree that it's almost impossible to do worse than the trump administration (post pandemic, the biggest problem Biden will have is dealing with the crazy amount of debt trump has built up with his useless big government low tax policies).

ExMachina1000 wrote: »

Trump will live on forever in this thread and the few others on the site.
You might not hear from him but you will always hear about him.
Unfollow is surely your next step?

There's a distinct possibility he won't have any media presence at all for a few years, social or conventional, so there's always hope

ExMachina1000 wrote: »

They only care because Trump or Boris is running the show. Doesn't seem like anyone gives a toss about Italy, Belgium etc. Must be no relations living in these countries.
Bolsenaro was another one who was getting slated. Must be a few grannies living in Brazil.

It's very transparent. All show

The leaders you mention got personally "slated" because of the nonsense they came out with during this pandemic & how they behaved [aside from their countries responses & how their leadership damaged them]. The whole shower of them caught the virus too. That didn't help.

Bit of a failure to understand others there.
I think you are judging them by how you approach everything in politics (zero sum games, team blue wins, team red loses etc).
As regards Irish people's interest in the US or UK response in particular the reasons for that are fairly obvious.

ExMachina1000 wrote: »

They only care because Trump or Boris is running the show. Doesn't seem like anyone gives a toss about Italy, Belgium etc. Must be no relations living in these countries.

*Checks thread title*

Umm.....

eagle eye wrote: »

Letting skiers home without self-isolating, letting Italian rugby fans come here, Cheltenham, not listening to NPHET when they recommended level 5 the first time?

That's a long way from ridiculing people for wearing masks, denying covid is an issue at all (despite knowing early on that it was a major one) , claiming hoax, abusing the head of the medical team on Twitter and in press conferences because he doesn't play down the pandemic and toe the line among a catalog of other **** blaming everyone and refusing to entertain any motion of responsibility himself.

Making mistakes is not even in the same conversation as that ****.

The whole system of American presidents not having to attend any level of government outside of their own cabinet of potential yes men they surround themselves with is stupid imo. They should be a +1 in the senate or the house and have to attend and be part of it, being subject to be questioned at times mo.

ExMachina1000 wrote: »

None of the faux concerned posters have a history of anti Trump posting pre covid. Almost as if it's just a coincidence

I've called him a despicable racist a$$hole since before he announced his presidency, so personally I can't relate to that statement.

For others however, his gross incompetence brought him into sharp focus and has made him the poster boy of "how not to handle a pandemic".

Btw - do you solely come on here to slate people who criticise Trump? You don't defend him. Other than that, all I see is whataboutery...

LOL

Crying because Trump and Johnson get criticism.

ExMachina1000 wrote: »

None of the faux concerned posters have a history of anti Trump posting pre covid. Almost as if it's just a coincidence

I thought your "they" was wider than a few posters and encompassed all (or most) people who have been critical of the US response to Coronavirus but not as aware of or critical of death rate/failures in other countries (i.e. "they" in general focus on the US because they hate Trump).
I don't bother to keep track of or remember other people's posts apart from ones where I've personally engaged with them, or perhaps "thanked" etc.

I criticised Trump pre-pandemic because he is objectively quite awful and should never have gotten within an asses roar of such a powerful position as US president. How he behaved and how his administration failed the US (and to some extent the whole world given how powerful & influential the US is) during this crisis illustrated how unsuited he was.

edit:His behaviour after the election is even more damning as regards unsuitability.
It's very dangerous to give athoritiarians who have no respect for or belief in the "system"/democracy large amounts of political power. The US just about got away with it this time.

ExMachina1000 wrote: »

None of the faux concerned posters have a history of anti Trump posting pre covid. Almost as if it's just a coincidence

Well I cant speak for anybody else but I've been calling him as arsehole since he ran in 2016.

everlast75 wrote: »

Rudy's year continues to decline...


https://twitter.com/BeschlossDC/status/1335680175783219209?s=19

The White House is the hottest disease zone in the world

everlast75 wrote: »

Rudy's year continues to decline...


https://twitter.com/BeschlossDC/status/1335680175783219209?s=19

Rudy is 76 and doesn't look healthy at the best of times. Good luck to him.

Tbh I'd thought he already had it by now, he looked like **** a few weeks ago at that press event (melting hair dye one), then his son tests positive the next day.

No surprise there. Was only a matter of time really. Surprised it took as long as it did really.