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What is partisan about it?

January 26th:
People have wondered what Democrats would have done differently. There's your answer.
JANUARY twenty-****ing sixth.

Schumer calls on feds to declare coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency
By Daniel Cassady and Jackie Salo | January 26, 2020 | 4:20pm


The CDC issued its first warning on January 8th.
Trump held campaign rallies on the 9th, 14th, 28th, 30th, Feb 10th, 19th, 20th, 21st and 28th.

He GOLFED on Jan 18th, 19th, Fev 1st, 15th, Mar 7th and 8th.

During this entire time he continually called the whole thing a hoax, the flu, the common cold, he said we'd be done in a week, it would be a miracle, etc etc.
The first time he admitted it might be a crisis was March 13th.

Please defend this for us all, Perotista.
Tell us where the PARTISANSHIP IS in HATING this response which has killed untold numbers of Americans.
I say partisanship my rosy red ass...the man is a lunatic.

And it doesn't have a damn thing to do with him being a Republican and it doesn't have a damn thing to do with partisanship.

*Sunday, January 26, 2020

And he tops it all off by accusing Cuomo of stealing equipment and running a black market!

Maybe that's all true, Jeff, but the partisan republican response is that Trump is doing a great job!

Democrats think he's doing an awful job.

That's a big partisan divide. There IS a partisan angle and it's important. Once again Democrats are underestimating Trump, thinking this will surely bring him down. Blood on his hands...yada yada yada.

The states where most people are ignoring the warnings, where most think it's all media hype, are on the cusp of some very medieval sh!t in the next few weeks.

Check back then and see how well all our comments have aged.

So you're saying that in a few weeks Trump supporters will turn against him because a bunch of people are going to die? I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say nope. They will continue to love and adore him while blaming Pelosi for everything. That's how partisanship works.

Democrats will continue to hate him. Just as Democrats continued to love Obama as he sat on his duff and let the banks take away their homes.

Do you even remember the congressional fight over the CFPB and McConnell blocking almost every attempt to make the banks accountable?
Do you remember the fight over Dodd-Frank, or the lengths to which Republicans went to prevent even the most basic borrower protections against --- OMG never mind, this is just absurd.

You really don't even remember what we went through, it seems.
Moreso, you don't seem to remember what the Rethuglicans put Bamz through.

Our politics may be different, but we seem to be kindred spirits in the way we look at things. You're correct, those who love Trump will continue to love him no matter what he does or doesn't do. Those who hate him will always hate him, again regardless of what he does or doesn't do. I suppose one can substitute Democrat for anti-Trumpers and Republicans for pro-Trumpers. At least around 85% of each party.

I tend to gloss over both major parties and go to independents, the less partisan and non-affiliate folks. I study independents as they will generally let you know who wins an election or what those folks who aren't all that partisan think about issues, policy and legislation.

You have a good chunk of this group that are persuadable. That can swing wildly between parties from one election to the next. It's these folks one must convince to vote against Trump. Trumpers never will. On the other side, Trump and company must persuade this group to vote for him as anti-trumpers never will.

Trying to convince Trump supporters to leave him won't work. Just like trying to convince Obama supporters to desert him, didn't happen. But that group in the middle is up for grabs. Concentrate on that group, not the hard core Republicans, Trumpers or democrats, anti-Trumpers.

I think we are just now witnessing the amnesia that comes with three and a half years of stress at this level. People, even smart people, seem to be forgetting what life was really even like prior to Trump's ascent to near dictatorship.

Sure, dictatorship by proxy if you want to call it that, it's something of a cultlike power grab. Trump is on record openly talking about how he could crash the economy if he felt like it (2014) and so it's become so off the scale absurd that it should be funny.

I guess three and a half years has begun to normalize the brand so much that everything that happened in the recent past now seems a century ago.

The brand...yes...Trump has a brand. He has always had a brand, and it's always been the same brand. It's how he has always conducted business, and this is not much different a formula, only magnified, and his methods have the astonishing ability to instill a nationwide case of battered wife syndrome.
Don the Pimp has convinced many of us that the guy we had before was a no account shiftless no good [censored].

The Brand...

A little bit of good news that is part disaster capitalism, part goodwill, part luck and part timing.

Texas 'mom and pop' business flooded with [b]orders for helmet ventilators amid coronavirus crisis[/b]

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