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hes actually stupid

"Why would a president have confidence in his own decisions"

???

btw Happy Potato Nigger Day everyone

thats not confidence, thats being idiotic lol

Idiotic how

Is "orange man bad" all you've got to say?

trump is not doing this at a 10

i was waiting for you to finish typing, and no because he asnt done shit to help the situation

Infact, I'd say the US is doing one of the worst jobs

that said, he has no reason not to say a 10

as gent said

?

he could maybe say that they could have done better

or something

What do you honestly expect

atleast try to act humble?

that is also an approach

that is not trumps character

And it's just not a good strategy

His job is to seem confident and in control, that's the biggest contribution he can make on his own

If he said "yeah, shit's fucked, lots of you will die" you'd find fault in that, I'm sure

i mean yeah

im not telling him to say that

its just obvious that everything is not perfect

at this point he just needs to try to stop people from beating eachother to dead over tp at walmarts across your country

and for him to act like it

is just wrong

How so

And how is it that trump himself did a poor job of handling this

Not perfect, yes. But bad how?

Trump cut travel from China very early

He has been making some reasonable decisions from the start

Hell, the fact that be beefed up the economy so much during his administration made it so it can withstand a time of crisis like this

how well is the economy doing right now?

Eh, you say that, but wasn't it the second biggest percent drop in history like 3 days ago?

Now, not great, them stonks are plummeting

I would love to know what people think he should have done based on the information he had at the start

That's expected right now

How can you blame the falling stock market on Trump when there is an international crisis happening

I hated that trump was trying to downplay coronavirus, you saw as much

But when he actually took action, he proved that he's going to deal with it sensibly

Trying to prevent panic and inspire confidence in our medical system

But everyone went and bought toilet paper anyway

To be fair, your medical system is fucked and so is mine

No country has the capacity for retards going to the ER en masse in a panic when they wake up with a runny nose

I'm mostly just happy I'm being paid to """work""" from home

But I don't hate the Netherland's response, other than the fact it's condemning your own citizens to die

There's a valid argument for the government to either take massive preventative action, or to take no action

all the countries in the middle (including the US) are questionable

I think Trump and his government have done way more than a lot of countries, but it falls short of the drastic measures necessary to actually flatten the spread

So it because a question of "why bother"

I mean, when was the last time america ever went "all the way" with anything

The only countries that have gone all the way, are dictatorships

Which aren't necessarily bad

But half-measures, (or 3/4 measures in the US's case) don't achieve anything

We're famous for doing that in our war

yep

But I think realistically, Trump couldn't have survived full measures No one would subject to full isolation for a month, back on March 01

FFS, people now are still asking "is this really that big of a deal"

Coping

It's a democracy problem

I agree that democracy is shit, but it's strange seeing it from you

It has benefits, but the current problem is a lack of faith in officials (sometimes rightfully so)

same problem in the lack of faith in the police, military, public sector, etc.

People are still under the false pretense that they can fix it by being civil and voting

If you can't trust dutifully elected officials, your system is broken

Isn’t a lot of the distrust coming from the fact that people tell us to not trust them

You can fix a system by voting or through action, but not if the flaws in the system don't appreciably trickle down No one is going to upheave a system, if their lives are pretty good in general

I think the media is a big part of it too Rusp, they feed that narrative

But in general, there's a nugget of truth there. a lot of career politicians who head important task forces

don't know shit

That's not even their fault tbh

People get into office with a select set of skills, but then they're expected to know EVERYTHING

So you have to hire a shit ton of advisers and whatnot to fill the gaps in knowledge, which leads politicians to moments of seeming ineptitude

Not to defend politicians

"""advisers""" (in the senate at least) are a joke

the only competent ones are the chiefs of staff, who are essentially handed a binder of instructions from the party on "how to be a politician"

The personal staffs aren't bad, but that's mostly because in politics, neoptism actually works (despite the optics)

Professional staffs are a meme though