So Trump was the one who made COVID political?Ibanez wrote: ↑Mon Jun 28, 2021 5:21 amIf he had been a leader and not made COVID political, he could've weathered the storm. Trump's personality doesn't allow him to actually lead people. He just leads himself. He made it a R v D them instead of saying we need to do what's best for the country. We aren't sure but we're going to try something drastic to stem the tide.BDKJMU wrote: ↑Sat Jun 26, 2021 6:38 am
Enabled by the China Virus.
Without the China Virus:
-Ecoonmy 2020 is roaring vs crashing.
-Biden can’t use the China Virus as an excuse to hole up in his basement amd has to cone out and campaign.
-Is no nationwide mass mail in of ballots, no mass overnight ballot dumps. Would have been mostly in person voting. Biden destroyed Trump on mail in, Trump destroyed Biden on in person voting. Mass mail in, esp states without adequate systems in place, a lot easier to commit fraud.
HIs constant fighting with his own administration is just one reason he looked like he didn't know what he was doing. That sort of public feuding doesn't inspire confidence. Have your professional disagreements but don't advertise and repeat them ad nauseum during a time when before are afraid and people are dying.
And your comment about fraud - if it was so easy then why hasn't any widespread fraud been uncovered?With all of the visibility on it - you'd think the many many audits would've uncovered irregularities.
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He was one of the people. He also, IMO, failed from a leadership perspective. But that was soooooooo 2020.AZGrizFan wrote: ↑Mon Jun 28, 2021 8:25 amSo Trump was the one who made COVID political?Ibanez wrote: ↑Mon Jun 28, 2021 5:21 am
If he had been a leader and not made COVID political, he could've weathered the storm. Trump's personality doesn't allow him to actually lead people. He just leads himself. He made it a R v D them instead of saying we need to do what's best for the country. We aren't sure but we're going to try something drastic to stem the tide.
HIs constant fighting with his own administration is just one reason he looked like he didn't know what he was doing. That sort of public feuding doesn't inspire confidence. Have your professional disagreements but don't advertise and repeat them ad nauseum during a time when before are afraid and people are dying.
And your comment about fraud - if it was so easy then why hasn't any widespread fraud been uncovered?With all of the visibility on it - you'd think the many many audits would've uncovered irregularities.
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Made the China Virus political.Ibanez wrote: ↑Mon Jun 28, 2021 5:21 amIf he had been a leader and not made COVID political, he could've weathered the storm. Trump's personality doesn't allow him to actually lead people. He just leads himself. He made it a R v D them instead of saying we need to do what's best for the country. We aren't sure but we're going to try something drastic to stem the tide.BDKJMU wrote: ↑Sat Jun 26, 2021 6:38 am
Enabled by the China Virus.
Without the China Virus:
-Ecoonmy 2020 is roaring vs crashing.
-Biden can’t use the China Virus as an excuse to hole up in his basement amd has to cone out and campaign.
-Is no nationwide mass mail in of ballots, no mass overnight ballot dumps. Would have been mostly in person voting. Biden destroyed Trump on mail in, Trump destroyed Biden on in person voting. Mass mail in, esp states without adequate systems in place, a lot easier to commit fraud.
HIs constant fighting with his own administration is just one reason he looked like he didn't know what he was doing. That sort of public feuding doesn't inspire confidence. Have your professional disagreements but don't advertise and repeat them ad nauseum during a time when before are afraid and people are dying.
And your comment about fraud - if it was so easy then why hasn't any widespread fraud been uncovered?With all of the visibility on it - you'd think the many many audits would've uncovered irregularities.
Extremely difficult to prove..
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Re: 2020 General Election
You beat me to it..AZGrizFan wrote: ↑Mon Jun 28, 2021 8:25 amSo Trump was the one who made COVID political?Ibanez wrote: ↑Mon Jun 28, 2021 5:21 am
If he had been a leader and not made COVID political, he could've weathered the storm. Trump's personality doesn't allow him to actually lead people. He just leads himself. He made it a R v D them instead of saying we need to do what's best for the country. We aren't sure but we're going to try something drastic to stem the tide.
HIs constant fighting with his own administration is just one reason he looked like he didn't know what he was doing. That sort of public feuding doesn't inspire confidence. Have your professional disagreements but don't advertise and repeat them ad nauseum during a time when before are afraid and people are dying.
And your comment about fraud - if it was so easy then why hasn't any widespread fraud been uncovered?With all of the visibility on it - you'd think the many many audits would've uncovered irregularities.
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Re: 2020 General Election
Attacking what Trump did and making the Coronavirus political aren't the same thing. You're just a biased partisan.BDKJMU wrote: ↑Mon Jun 28, 2021 11:29 amMade the China Virus political.Ibanez wrote: ↑Mon Jun 28, 2021 5:21 am
If he had been a leader and not made COVID political, he could've weathered the storm. Trump's personality doesn't allow him to actually lead people. He just leads himself. He made it a R v D them instead of saying we need to do what's best for the country. We aren't sure but we're going to try something drastic to stem the tide.
HIs constant fighting with his own administration is just one reason he looked like he didn't know what he was doing. That sort of public feuding doesn't inspire confidence. Have your professional disagreements but don't advertise and repeat them ad nauseum during a time when before are afraid and people are dying.
And your comment about fraud - if it was so easy then why hasn't any widespread fraud been uncovered?With all of the visibility on it - you'd think the many many audits would've uncovered irregularities.
Wrong- that was the left who attscked everything he did.
Extremely difficult to prove..
And if the fraud is difficult to prove then why did Trump, Powell, Guliani, MyPillow Guy all say they have proof? Are you suggesting that they're lying?
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Even if someone on the left made it political first, Trump was the leader of the country. He should've been the bigger man. A leader. Or do you have an excuse for him not acting like a man?
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Is being a loser a valid excuse?
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Why would Trump suddenly change his spots???
“Be the bigger man…” That IS hilarious.
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I personally liked the goalpost shifting so Trump was to blame regardless of what he did. Ibanez is post partisan like Kalm.
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Trump didn’t make COVID political. The left and their media mouthpieces did that. 110%Ibanez wrote:If he had been a leader and not made COVID political, he could've weathered the storm. Trump's personality doesn't allow him to actually lead people. He just leads himself. He made it a R v D them instead of saying we need to do what's best for the country. We aren't sure but we're going to try something drastic to stem the tide.BDKJMU wrote: ↑Sat Jun 26, 2021 6:38 am Enabled by the China Virus.
Without the China Virus:
-Ecoonmy 2020 is roaring vs crashing.
-Biden can’t use the China Virus as an excuse to hole up in his basement amd has to cone out and campaign.
-Is no nationwide mass mail in of ballots, no mass overnight ballot dumps. Would have been mostly in person voting. Biden destroyed Trump on mail in, Trump destroyed Biden on in person voting. Mass mail in, esp states without adequate systems in place, a lot easier to commit fraud.
HIs constant fighting with his own administration is just one reason he looked like he didn't know what he was doing. That sort of public feuding doesn't inspire confidence. Have your professional disagreements but don't advertise and repeat them ad nauseum during a time when before are afraid and people are dying.
And your comment about fraud - if it was so easy then why hasn't any widespread fraud been uncovered?With all of the visibility on it - you'd think the many many audits would've uncovered irregularities.
Trump’s fault was his antagonistic nature and the fact that by the time COVID broke out of China, the media was conditioned to viewing everything he said as a conspiracy. But Trump told the truth about COVID and its origins as we understood them at the time.
The whole debacle surrounding COVID is more a commentary on the media than it is Trump. And it isn’t a warning or an indicator. It is just a confirmation that our media is transparently slanted leftwards. At this point CNN, MSNBC, and a few others are just the public affairs arm of the DNC.
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A leader is capable of being a bigger man. If Trump wasn't capable of being a bigger man (and I agree he wasn't) then he wasn't a leader.AZGrizFan wrote:![]()
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Why would Trump suddenly change his spots???
“Be the bigger man…” That IS hilarious.
Trump did great during the good times but his incompetence was front and center during a crisis.
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100% correct.CID1990 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 28, 2021 4:49 pmTrump didn’t make COVID political. The left and their media mouthpieces did that. 110%Ibanez wrote:
If he had been a leader and not made COVID political, he could've weathered the storm. Trump's personality doesn't allow him to actually lead people. He just leads himself. He made it a R v D them instead of saying we need to do what's best for the country. We aren't sure but we're going to try something drastic to stem the tide.
HIs constant fighting with his own administration is just one reason he looked like he didn't know what he was doing. That sort of public feuding doesn't inspire confidence. Have your professional disagreements but don't advertise and repeat them ad nauseum during a time when before are afraid and people are dying.
And your comment about fraud - if it was so easy then why hasn't any widespread fraud been uncovered?With all of the visibility on it - you'd think the many many audits would've uncovered irregularities.
Trump’s fault was his antagonistic nature and the fact that by the time COVID broke out of China, the media was conditioned to viewing everything he said as a conspiracy. But Trump told the truth about COVID and its origins as we understood them at the time.
The whole debacle surrounding COVID is more a commentary on the media than it is Trump. And it isn’t a warning or an indicator. It is just a confirmation that our media is transparently slanted leftwards. At this point CNN, MSNBC, and a few others are just the public affairs arm of the DNC.
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None of that proves that Trump politicized COVID first.UNI88 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 28, 2021 4:50 pmA leader is capable of being a bigger man. If Trump wasn't capable of being a bigger man (and I agree he wasn't) then he wasn't a leader.AZGrizFan wrote:
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“Be the bigger man…” That IS hilarious.
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Which is the public affairs arm of corporate America just like the RNC.CID1990 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 28, 2021 4:49 pmTrump didn’t make COVID political. The left and their media mouthpieces did that. 110%Ibanez wrote:
If he had been a leader and not made COVID political, he could've weathered the storm. Trump's personality doesn't allow him to actually lead people. He just leads himself. He made it a R v D them instead of saying we need to do what's best for the country. We aren't sure but we're going to try something drastic to stem the tide.
HIs constant fighting with his own administration is just one reason he looked like he didn't know what he was doing. That sort of public feuding doesn't inspire confidence. Have your professional disagreements but don't advertise and repeat them ad nauseum during a time when before are afraid and people are dying.
And your comment about fraud - if it was so easy then why hasn't any widespread fraud been uncovered?With all of the visibility on it - you'd think the many many audits would've uncovered irregularities.
Trump’s fault was his antagonistic nature and the fact that by the time COVID broke out of China, the media was conditioned to viewing everything he said as a conspiracy. But Trump told the truth about COVID and its origins as we understood them at the time.
The whole debacle surrounding COVID is more a commentary on the media than it is Trump. And it isn’t a warning or an indicator. It is just a confirmation that our media is transparently slanted leftwards. At this point CNN, MSNBC, and a few others are just the public affairs arm of the DNC.
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No it doesn't. He didn't politicize COVID-19, it just show how inept he was at leadership when it matteredAZGrizFan wrote:None of that proves that Trump politicized COVID first.UNI88 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 28, 2021 4:50 pm A leader is capable of being a bigger man. If Trump wasn't capable of being a bigger man (and I agree he wasn't) then he wasn't a leader.
Trump did great during the good times but his incompetence was front and center during a crisis.
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It goes to show that Republicans don't care really, as long as they can get the W. They'd elect a rotting fish if it got enough electoral votes.
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You're telling me Trump never interjected partisan politics into his COVID response? Please.CID1990 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 28, 2021 4:49 pmTrump didn’t make COVID political. The left and their media mouthpieces did that. 110%Ibanez wrote:
If he had been a leader and not made COVID political, he could've weathered the storm. Trump's personality doesn't allow him to actually lead people. He just leads himself. He made it a R v D them instead of saying we need to do what's best for the country. We aren't sure but we're going to try something drastic to stem the tide.
HIs constant fighting with his own administration is just one reason he looked like he didn't know what he was doing. That sort of public feuding doesn't inspire confidence. Have your professional disagreements but don't advertise and repeat them ad nauseum during a time when before are afraid and people are dying.
And your comment about fraud - if it was so easy then why hasn't any widespread fraud been uncovered?With all of the visibility on it - you'd think the many many audits would've uncovered irregularities.
Trump’s fault was his antagonistic nature and the fact that by the time COVID broke out of China, the media was conditioned to viewing everything he said as a conspiracy. But Trump told the truth about COVID and its origins as we understood them at the time.
The whole debacle surrounding COVID is more a commentary on the media than it is Trump. And it isn’t a warning or an indicator. It is just a confirmation that our media is transparently slanted leftwards. At this point CNN, MSNBC, and a few others are just the public affairs arm of the DNC.
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And DeSantis is as well.Ibanez wrote: ↑Tue Jun 29, 2021 5:17 amYou're telling me Trump never interjected partisan politics into his COVID response? Please.CID1990 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 28, 2021 4:49 pm
Trump didn’t make COVID political. The left and their media mouthpieces did that. 110%
Trump’s fault was his antagonistic nature and the fact that by the time COVID broke out of China, the media was conditioned to viewing everything he said as a conspiracy. But Trump told the truth about COVID and its origins as we understood them at the time.
The whole debacle surrounding COVID is more a commentary on the media than it is Trump. And it isn’t a warning or an indicator. It is just a confirmation that our media is transparently slanted leftwards. At this point CNN, MSNBC, and a few others are just the public affairs arm of the DNC.
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Every "leader" in 2020, R or D, played politics with a public health emergency. Denying that is just stupid. Politicians will play politics, of course, but not all politicians turned it into, " Us vs Them." Plenty of Rs and Ds are guilty of that.
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True. And some will continue to play it, dictating the narrative, and taking credit that may not be deserved.
Politics I suppose.
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We've got the chaos and dysfunction we deserve.
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Tough to argue.
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What goes to show? THAT is what you got from my post?
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I got that from watching politics since I was in High school. The Democrats aren't any better. We don't care about the quality of candidates and our elected leaders. Yet we want them to be better than they are.
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