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    Posted: March 09 2020 at 12:15pm

So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!

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When will people figure out this isn't the same as the Flu

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Just when I think the GOO can't get any more stupid - he does!


Certainly not you,  you orange buffoon!  But it would be nice if you tried.

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The larger problem is that he'll probably be out of office by the time the true scale of this is known January 2021.  Nor will his followers bother to look up flu deaths between 2018 to 2019.  It was only estimated to be 8200 Americans, with 14,000 worldwide.  WHO posts Covid-19 deaths as being over 4,000 and we haven't even ended the first quarter.  

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Hell!  WHO won't even call pandemic!

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I was reading about this tweet a few minutes ago....he has received and deservedly so...a ton of pushback on it. Maybe there are some smart folks out there afterall….but folks like my 89 year old father who worships Trump, will only read the tweet and say...see....the FLU IS WORSE....ughhh….(and my father is a computer scientist...and logical in many ways, except when it comes to Trump)

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Notwithstanding fake news or testing issues, etc; when people drop down in the streets will be evidence-based confirmation of the problem over and above seasonal flu.

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Be really funny if Chump and all his Brats get it......lol

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Originally posted by carbon20 carbon20 wrote:




Be really funny if Chump and all his Brats get it......lol

Finding humor in someone and their children getting the virus huh. That's rather a rather telling sign of moral deficiency.

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Tell someone that gives a S..t

It's only fake news



I'm sure chump and his brats care about me and mine


 NOT


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....this is the score card thus far in this flu season.


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No countries lockdown because of Flu? 

Why is that? 

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I share a trace of Carbon's attitude.

I don't want anyone to get it.  But if Trump were one of the infected,  he might change his tune.  A dose of enforced empathy could save some lives.  

So please God not anyone!  If it must be someone, at least let some good come out of it.

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Of course, were he to die, Pence would be President.

Trump just joined my prayers-for list.

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Originally posted by Emswally Emswally wrote:

When will people figure out this isn't the same as the Flu

I think that it is the exponential increase that many people just cannot understand.  When we get close to the same number of deaths as the flu and then a few days later the number is unbelievable...  That is when they will get it, but of course it will be too late.

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Originally posted by AI AI wrote:

Originally posted by carbon20 carbon20 wrote:




Be really funny if Chump and all his Brats get it......lol

Finding humor in someone and their children getting the virus huh. That's rather a rather telling sign of moral deficiency.

I'm with you Carbon and was thinking much the same. I doubt Trump would survive. He lives on junk food and Coke, and years of fake tan can't have done his liver any good. The guy really is an idiot.

Those who got it wrong, for whatever reason, may feel defensive and retrench into a position that doesn’t accord with the facts.
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Anyway let's look on the bright side, Trump is such a denier in the very existence of this disease that he'll probably infect his whole cabinet before it finally gets him. A clean sweep.

Those who got it wrong, for whatever reason, may feel defensive and retrench into a position that doesn’t accord with the facts.
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Thank you Kiwimum

THEONLY PERSON WITH A MORAL DEFICIENCY IS PUSSY GRABBING CHUMP.....

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Originally posted by carbon20 carbon20 wrote:




Be really funny if Chump and all his Brats get it......lol

It's sad to see what was once a respected forum where people shared, and cared devolve into this crap....administrators bully, and stoke political division, people openly wish ill and harm to others, and the oppositions family.....simply because of political faction.

It's sad to see the morally bankrupt banter about pretending to be stewards of the high road..........no one needs glasses to see you. 

I want to apologize to those offended, bullied, or who otherwise take undeserved punishment and mocking from the administrators. 

Obviously, Albert is losing control here........

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Chump thinks he can belittle and put down anyone he Is a nasty excuse for a human being if you can't take don't give it out..... 

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even your own Republican's think Chump is DERANGED.....something we all could see a mile off

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I think we should ALL refrain from name calling

Originally posted by "BBC" "BBC" wrote:

President Trump is used to fighting from his bunker when a crisis arrives - and let's face it, the past three and a bit years haven't lacked drama. But the coronavirus is quantitatively and qualitatively different from anything he has faced. With the Robert Mueller investigation (remember that?), there were names. People: lyin' Jim Comey, Bob Mueller, little Jeff Sessions, Michael Cohen, Andrew McCabe etc. And during the impeachment trial there was a whole host of people that Donald Trump could swing a haymaking left hook at: shifty Schiff, nervous Nancy, cryin' Chuck Schumer. As Donald Trump will tell you, he's a great counter-puncher.


Quote From the outset of the coronavirus outbreak, Donald Trump has sought to play down its seriousness and overestimate America's preparedness. He said the spread was under control. It isn't. He's said that the number of cases may soon go down to zero. They haven't, and it was not the advice he'd been given. He suggested that people with symptoms should go to work if they felt well enough. They shouldn't. 


He has also argued that he didn't want the benighted cruise liner, the Grand Princess, because it would add to the total of coronavirus cases in the US - when it's not his fault they were on a cruise liner. "I like the numbers being where they are. I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault," Trump told Fox News. His concern from this seems not to be preserving the safety of American citizens (the thing he swears an oath to do at his inauguration), but keeping a lid on the numbers by keeping those with the virus - literally - at sea.

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Sad. This will turn off so many by by such attitudes and language. Most don’t care what politician you are for/against. Many care about others finding resources and the think tank that may help saves some lives. Politicians are just that, politicians.

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The Independent: Trump earns first ever 'manipulated' tag on Twitter for misleading Biden video as Facebook attacked for not doing anything.

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Originally posted by pheasant pheasant wrote:


It's sad to see the morally bankrupt banter about pretending to be stewards of the high road..........no one needs glasses to see you. 


Funny, I said the same thing about this administration when they ripped children away from their parents over a misdemeanor, put them into a system unprepared for the influx... lost hundreds of the children and they still don't know who these children are.  Then when called to the carpet over it, incarcerated children in cages without proper food, clothing, sanitation or medical care...

That being said -  tell me honestly if you think the chief executive can approve all this done to children, do you really think he cares about you at all?

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Originally posted by WitchMisspelled WitchMisspelled wrote:

Originally posted by pheasant pheasant wrote:


It's sad to see the morally bankrupt banter about pretending to be stewards of the high road..........no one needs glasses to see you. 


Funny, I said the same thing about this administration when they ripped children away from their parents over a misdemeanor, put them into a system unprepared for the influx... lost hundreds of the children and they still don't know who these children are.  Then when called to the carpet over it, incarcerated children in cages without proper food, clothing, sanitation or medical care...

That being said -  tell me honestly if you think the chief executive can approve all this done to children, do you really think he cares about you at all?

Double check your sources, please don't drink the Kool-aid, Obama put the kids in cages, those pics were from his term...2 years ago this was debunked......rules for radicals playbook, accuse the other side of doing what you did...classic playbook.

I wasn't going to take a bite of the poison apple.....but there i go, the door was opened.......like a moth to a flame  

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Obama... nope.  He didn't.  I thought it was only a matter of time before his name came up.  I'm not going to go back and forth with you over this.  But simply say... we're not talking about Obama.  We're talking about Trump.  

*edited to correct myself*

Obama during the spike of waves of illegal immigrants did use chain link enclosures.  Fine.  Call an enclosure a cage.  But the law to transfer the children to HHS within 72 hours was honored.  It didn't leave them in squalor for weeks/months.  

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GOP blasts Democrats for using 2014 'kids in cages' photo to promote migrant hearing© Getty Images

The Democratic-led House Oversight Committee on Tuesday promoted a hearing on migrant detention facilities by tweeting a photo taken during the Obama administration, prompting Republicans to accuse Democrats of "playing politics" with their criticism of conditions at the southern border.

Republicans and the Trump campaign seized on the since-deleted tweet ahead of Wednesday's hearing.

"Continuing to prove that Dems are only playing politics with the border crisis, House Democrats promoted a hearing on 'kids in cages' with a photo taken in 2014," Tim Murtaugh, director of communications for Trump's reelection campaign, tweeted. "As in, during the Obama Administration. Don’t bother looking for their tweet - it’s been deleted."

Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-Tenn.) accused the committee of misleading Americans, adding that people would not "forget this deceitful action."

"You all know that’s a picture from 2014, right? Remind us who was President then," the House Oversight Committee Republicans tweeted from their official account.

The criticism came after the Oversight Committee's official Twitter account promoted a Civil Rights and Civil Liberties subcommittee hearing for Wednesday that was said to focus on "kids in cages" and the "inhumane treatment at the border."

The image accompanying the post featured migrants lying on the floor in cages. But as lawmakers and the Trump campaign pointed out, the photo was taken in 2014, during the Obama administration.

The Associated Press reported in 2018 that the news service took the photo in 2014, adding that liberal activists had shared Obama-era images that year to showcase the Trump administration's immigration policy.

The House Oversight Committee deleted the tweet shortly after it was promoted.

A Democratic aide to the committee said in a statement to The Hill that “the photo was an error, and it has been removed,” but defended the Obama Administration’s treatment of migrant families at the border.

“But there is simply no comparison between the actions of the Obama Administration and the Trump Administration,” the aide continued. “The Obama Administration did not separate children from their families and create dehumanizing conditions as a way to deter immigration and asylum, which is the stated policy of the Trump Administration.” 

“The Obama Administration separated children only in an extremely small number of cases when there was a true danger to the child’s safety.” 

The Trump administration has come under increasing scrutiny in recent weeks over the treatment of migrants at detention facilities near the U.S.-Mexico border.

A report released from the Department of Homeland Security's internal watchdog found "dangerous overcrowding" and "prolonged detention of children and adults" at facilities in the Rio Grande Valley.

The House Oversight Committee on Wednesday announced that it would hold additional hearings on the separation of immigrant children on the southern border.

--Updated 5:58 p.m

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Originally posted by WitchMisspelled WitchMisspelled wrote:

Obama... nope.  He didn't.  I thought it was only a matter of time before his name came up.  I'm not going to go back and forth with you over this.  But simply say... we're not talking about Obama.  We're talking about Trump.  

You all want to stir the S**t pot, then "were not going to talk about this" ?

Told you, this crap about politics never ends well......it needs to stop....or shall i continue?

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Woah Folks, Woah!

Firstly, I admit it, I can't stand Trump.  But am I seen as bullying?  I hope not.  If I am tell me.

Second, all politicians lie, ALL of them.  All news sources have agendas and will twist the truth to their own ends.  The only one I have ever caught out in an actual lie was Fox news, but that could be simply because I had personal knowledge of the subject in question.  I'm not omniscient, the others may just be lucky enough not to be caught yet.

Thirdly, Kids were definitely separated from their families on the border in 2018.  That was under Trump's administration.  This came from a news source I almost trust - well distrust less than the rest - I have had direct dealings with the BBC and they told the truth even when it was difficult for them. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44518942


I am not as sure about this next news source, but It did prove Biden to be either misinformed or lying.  Under the Obama administration, people on the border WERE caged.  But there were no policies to separate families. 

So the Trump administration are also lying when they say the Obama administration separated families.

Putting it another way Obama's people behaved intolerably badly.  Trump's people are even worse.

And as for politicians, news channels and press secretaries - they all LIE.  it's the mainstay of their job.


So could we be a bit more polite here please?  The real enemy is the virus, not each other.


I will try to join in.

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His lips or pen are moving.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote WitchMisspelled Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2020 at 4:46am

Sorry Technophobe... one more thing.

That photo used that was NOT deleted is first used in June 2019. Just sayin'...

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Oh I know, Witchy.  Trump has the morals of an .....  um ..... Oh I can't think of an animal nasty enough.......  Got it! Humbolt squid!


Before you get cross with me, or Pheasant, just remember what truly nasty comments look like:


documented.

In the summer and fall of 2014, Trump posted close to 100 tweets criticizing and, for lack of a better word, weaponizing, the Obama administration's response to the Ebola crisis. Trump's tweets included the observation "I know for sure that our leaders are incompetent." He called Obama "stupid" and suggested that he "personally embrace all people in the US who contract Ebola!" He also callously tweeted that an American medical worker who had contracted Ebola while abroad shouldn't be allowed back home, arguing that the person should instead "suffer the consequences!"

Trump also criticized Obama for playing golf during Ebola, and yet pictures surfaced over the weekend of Trump playing golf with baseball players at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida. During the 2014 crisis, those who were exposed to the virus and went on to participate in everyday activities like taking the subway or bowling were "SELFISH," according to the then-reality TV star. 


https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-tweets-about-obama-coronavirus-ebola-reveal-hypocrisy-his-crisis-ncna1153666

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote carbon20 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2020 at 5:35am

Think I said before, all post regarding politics should be in on the political thread, that way if you dont want to read it or  be offended

By what others think of chump


 Dont Read It....


 "easy as"

I can't help how i feel about  the "man"

I refuse not to comment on someone who I dislike,and feel that  he doing the American people an injustice,

its a FREE SPEECH,thing,

And for  all we know some on here could be trolls,

the type of person that is employed by political parties to push agenders,

as an Aussie, I say it as I see it ......

"it's easy to fool people,harder to get them to accept they been taken for A FOOL.....


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote pheasant Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2020 at 6:03am

Like i said before it all belongs in the political forum.

I'ts toxic here in the news section.

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Ageed   

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote FluMom Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2020 at 6:49am

The Trump haters just can’t  quit.  If they could they would blame him for Covid19.  i did not like Obama but never would have brought the wrong  things he did to this forum.  I quit looking here when people were so hateful I could not come here.  I was hoping people would ban together here during this time.  


I agree this stuff needs to go to the political thread or whatever you call it. 

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