Fl_Flash wrote:MrSparkle wrote:
He can instill hope by actually not speaking publicly or via twitter, anymore. There's a big fire at the school yard and the bratty 10 year old is pompously talking game in the center of it while a bunch of teachers are trying to put it out and everyone without a POTUS Health Insurance, real estate empire and security detail are getting burnt.
He has categorically mismanaged this on the most incompetent level for a US President in all of this country's history. The military people are shaking their heads, the medical industry is shaking its head, state governors are dumping on him, the media is frustrated, Wall St has no confidence in his speeches (it's been chaotic dumping with slight upturns, and more dumping), foreign leaders are shaking their head, his own chief medical officer is face-palming on camera.
Yet here you are FL Flash, getting this guy's back. When does it stop?
Here's my opinion - he should be golfing right now. I don't care if my tax dollars pay for his golfing until December. Get him off the podium and on the course. Create a roundtable of powerful replacements to manage the situation and the PR. I don't care if it's George W Bush and Dick Cheney.
See, why couldn't you have posted this instead of trying to be cute? I agree with you about him just shutting up. I think he'd actually win over some of the more moderate folks if he'd just stop engaging the press and saying stupid things. I don't mind Trumps IDGAF attitude towards the political machine, I do mind that attitude in how he conducts himself. He's not very presidential.
I don't disagree that this whole thing has been mismanaged. The degree to which I don't agree with. That's symantics. The market downturn - that was going to happen regardless of who is sitting in the oval office.
I find it curious that you'd state that I "have his back". I'm merely questioning the response to
this tweet. It was poorly worded but positive in nature and yet there are those who can't see beyond their own pre-conceived notions. It's OK to say something like "hey - that was a good thing he said. He shouldn't have said it in the way he did, but I like the message." It doesn't make you any more or less in one camp or another.
I respect the office of the President of the United States. I suppose I'm old-fashioned (I'm certainly getting old!). I haven't really liked a standing president going back to Reagan. I'm conservative in my political and economic thinking. I'm not enamored with either political party. Too much trench mentality. We've lost the ability to dialog and compromise.
I support your right to want Trump to take a golf vacation. It's your privilege to do so.
Fair enough. I'm pretty liberal but also agree with some conservative/capitalist economic concepts, and sometimes appreciate the classic GOP sentiment that "reality hurts" and life isn't a comic book of goods and bads that can be resolved by beating up the rich tycoons and spreading the wealth. But I also think the GOP party went from 'uptight' (in a militaristic and old-fashioned, respectable way) to dangerous to really, really dangerous with Trump/tea party.
As someone with close relatives, in-laws, etc. who bought the Trump kool-aid, I've learned to just keep my mouth shut at the family get-togethers. But one thing I'll say is there's a sad truth; younger people, most Gen X/Y/Z "get" the internet and modern media better, because we were learning about the internet in middle school. Baby Boomers overwhelmingly get their news from Cable TV and tweets. So it's hard when I hear opinions shaped from those secondary sources or opinion pieces, and I'm regularly reading totally opposite facts from primary sources, videos, etc. Not trying to pat my back ; I'll listen to my in-laws advice and expertise on a whole range of things, but current world, economic and political affairs? No thanks.
So it's been tough to have dialogue. I don't hate anybody for their political views, but I've lived through 6 presidential administrations, and I don't ever remember the general "table manners" and basic ethics and humanity becoming so injudicious, and having a large base that actually supports it patriotically with our flag. That's why it's even more frustrating as things just get worse, worse and worse - Trump is running a bankruptcy. The wall street crash was coming regardless of COVID-19. It was the same reckless bubble that happened in 2000-2008, but exponentially more accelerated. This COVID situation exposed the fragility, and instead of rolling up his sleeves and handling it like any person with a heart would, he is treating this like his 11 casinos and resorts which bankrupted; his share-holders, partners and employers all ate dirt. The Taj Mahal sold for 4 cents to the dollars. Trump made off with millions. You can bet the same exact thing is happening; the Trump and Kushner families and their infinite descendants will be set for life if a Depression hits.
The fact that he disbanded the pandemic team 2 years ago, disregarded all the warnings for 3 months now... then you have McConnell and the GOP pushing more of their agendas into a crisis bill (and I actually 90% supported their 600/1200/0 2018 income tax stipend check as opposed to AOC's cries for a huge bailout to every citizen), Barr continuing to push some shady judicial agendas during all this... and then you have the POTUS not taking responsibility, saying irresponsible things, reacting late to everything. It makes my blood boil.
