TheOneWithAReallyLongName on Nostr: You can argue about the lockdowns if you want, but even if we ignore those, Trump's ...
You can argue about the lockdowns if you want, but even if we ignore those, Trump's dumbass still fucked up HARD. Before it even started, he'd slashed budgets for defending against a pandemic, which then promptly happened. Once it did start, he delayed a response because it was hurting blue voters more at first. Discouraged masks. Said it would just go away. Knew it was dangerous but publicly downplayed it. Promoted hydroxychloroquine as a remedy. Suggested INJECTING BLEACH. Demonized researchers that didn't back his stupid ass bullshit. Gave billions in PPP loans but made sure there was no oversight so the rich could plunder it, then forgave a ton of loans. He at least encouraged getting the vaccine, but by that point, he'd spent so much time minimizing the risk and fostering distrust in science, a ton of his followers wouldn't take the damn thing even when he recommended it.
Even if you wanna nitpick individual blunders, you can't argue the fact that the US had more documented deaths than any other country. Given we don't have the highest population, too, and by a wide margin, someone very, very clearly fucked up. And he was in charge, so it was his responsibility to get it right.
I'm glad you managed to get through covid unscathed, but with over a million deaths, not all of us were so fortunate. Some of us watched loved ones die. Some of us watched people who might have lived refuse to go to the hospital in favor of taking fucking horse dewormer. Some of us were filled with anxiety as we watched our oldest, least healthy, most vulnerable loved ones ignore it and gamble with their lives every day because they believed the stupid shit that came out of his mouth, and when they lost their gamble, we got to watch them die. Just because you got away clean doesn't mean it was nothing. Over a million fucking people died, and it could have been THOUSANDS less if Trump had just listened to experts, and then he'd have gotten reelected, but he couldn't stop himself from fucking it up.
As for Roe v. Wade, don't blame us for what you assholes did. Could more protections been put in place? Definitely. Does that excuse the fact that republicans are the ones making women and babies die avoidable deaths by the hundreds in Texas alone? No, it fucking doesn't.
Even if you wanna nitpick individual blunders, you can't argue the fact that the US had more documented deaths than any other country. Given we don't have the highest population, too, and by a wide margin, someone very, very clearly fucked up. And he was in charge, so it was his responsibility to get it right.
I'm glad you managed to get through covid unscathed, but with over a million deaths, not all of us were so fortunate. Some of us watched loved ones die. Some of us watched people who might have lived refuse to go to the hospital in favor of taking fucking horse dewormer. Some of us were filled with anxiety as we watched our oldest, least healthy, most vulnerable loved ones ignore it and gamble with their lives every day because they believed the stupid shit that came out of his mouth, and when they lost their gamble, we got to watch them die. Just because you got away clean doesn't mean it was nothing. Over a million fucking people died, and it could have been THOUSANDS less if Trump had just listened to experts, and then he'd have gotten reelected, but he couldn't stop himself from fucking it up.
As for Roe v. Wade, don't blame us for what you assholes did. Could more protections been put in place? Definitely. Does that excuse the fact that republicans are the ones making women and babies die avoidable deaths by the hundreds in Texas alone? No, it fucking doesn't.