r/politics • u/harsh2k5 • 1d ago

Soft Paywall The Trump Administration Just Violated Another Court Order | It gets worse: The order found that the administration was covertly withholding millions in FEMA funds from blue states.

https://newrepublic.com/post/193650/trump-administration-just-violated-another-court-order
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u/CT_Phipps-Author 1d ago

Trump does thing he did during Covid.

And people act shocked.

I do not get it.

Did a huge chunk of the country just pretend Trump didn't do all these atrocities?

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u/Key-Decision8270 1d ago

The cult also pretends that Trump didn’t wreck the economy during his first term, or lose more jobs than any President since the Great Depression.

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u/trogloherb 1d ago

I said this in another post and someone responded “the economy tanked because of Covid!”

Well, yes, and no; the economy tanked because of Trumps lack of a timely response to covid.

“A lot of people are saying itll be gone by Easter!”

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u/Hector_P_Catt 1d ago

Yeah, the economy would have tanked no matter what, look at pretty much everywhere in the world. But the degree of economy-tankage could have been mitigated. Particularly by Trump. Don't forget, US intelligence was telling him how bad it could be in January of 2020, months before anyone else in the world knew. He chose not to say anything, and gave COVID a lot more time to spread before we did anything to stop it.

Had we had those extra months, who knows what might have happened differently? That was the time frame in which places like Italy just exploded with cases.

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u/count023 Australia 1d ago

a good chunk of the country blames Biden for Trump's COVID response now.

Just like Obama gets blamed for 9/11 and Katrina.

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u/GoodPiexox 1d ago

its more so they blame Biden and Dems for how Covid imposed on their lives, like having to spend more time with their kids etc.

I live in a blue state, the states above and below my state in similar population size are both red states. They both had twice as many covid deaths. When I have heard people bash how our governor handled covid I present those numbers, they dont care, they just remember they could not get their hair dyed or whatever.

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u/Individual-Guest-123 22h ago

I actually heard a num nut being interviewed last night who said that kids in red states bounced back faster than blue because they sent them back to class earlier.

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u/SunriseInLot42 1d ago

LOL, sure, the problem was “having to spend more time with their kids” or “could not get their hair dyed or whatever”, and not being arbitrarily thrown out of work or business, or their kids having months and months of school, activities, and socialization flushed down the toilet. 

Typical chronically-online Redditor response. I suspect you were “social distancing” loooong before March 2020, if you get my drift

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u/GoodPiexox 1d ago

over a million Americans died and what are you crying about? Little Jimmy had to learn from home and asked you questions that were difficult to answer?

Typical chronically-online Redditor response

LMAO a short look at your comment history shows this is a full on obsession for you. Covid is still living rent free in your mind, how many years of butthurt will it take just because they shut down your favorite late night restroom or whatever. You need a new hobby. Either way, your hypocrisy is hilarious.

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u/Recent_Tap_9467 1d ago edited 1d ago

Seems like a bad faith (or at best, highly emotional) poster to me, and not the first I've heard of obsessed with tearing down the response to COVID. 

I mean, it's one thing to not like lockdowns - I don't either and I'm doubtful these days if they were worth the cost - but at least I understand why they happened and would rather find another way than to just pretend everything is normal or peddle in psuedoscience like them.

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u/SunriseInLot42 19h ago

Nah, just someone who was pointing out how destructive and useless all of the flailing about with Covid theater was from the very beginning; it’s at least nice to be able to point those things out now instead of being auto-banned for daring to question the hysteria, and to point out how the Covid-anxious were wrong. 

The Covid lockdowns and school closures were wrong, made by hypocritical government officials who didn’t even follow their own rules. That doesn’t deserve a “oops, our bad” excuse, it deserves punishment that unfortunately will never come. 

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u/Recent_Tap_9467 18h ago

You realize you're just proving my point, right?

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u/SunriseInLot42 8h ago

It’s not bad faith when the anti-lockdown people were right. I get it that at least some of the people who supported such asinine measures are ashamed and embarrassed for supporting such idiotic policies, and have trouble admitting that their actions caused such disastrous problems

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u/Recent_Tap_9467 7h ago edited 6h ago

Still proving my point. 

Saying "b-but they were right" and using emotionally charged words like "such idiotic policies, such disastrous problems (because not getting a haircut, or even a kid not going to school in-person is somehow worse than them losing their aged family member or said family member falling dangerously ill)" - in addition to all you have already said - exposes you as someone I cannot take seriously.

Given also the complete disregard for health and safety the "protesters" (arguably terrorists) have shown while hospitals fill up, often to the point of shunning masking, it's also clear they were not acting in good faith. You can argue the lockdowns as we understand them should've made more room for leniency, but to argue they were idiotic and the people in charge deserving of punishment is just wild.

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u/SunriseInLot42 19h ago

How long were your kids out of school?

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u/Odd_Competition6876 1d ago

Typical chronically-online Redditor response. I suspect you were “social distancing” loooong before March 2020, if you get my drift

You're arguing with someone who was pretty clearly "social distancing" looooong before March 2020, if you get my drift

Lol from someone so chronically online they save their dumbass comments from weeks ago on their clipboard. Hypocrite.

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u/SunriseInLot42 19h ago

The real LOL is at someone having so little to do with their life that they spend it reading Reddit post histories

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u/FirstDayJedi 1d ago

A huge chunk of the country celebrated them.

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u/Guanaco_1 Washington 1d ago

They did. They memory holed 2020

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u/VeryVito North Carolina 1d ago

Absolutely. Jan 6 was a love-in, remember?

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u/NervousWolf153 1d ago

They probably don’t know - since they only ever look at Fox News and listen to red radio. Most negative Trump would never get reported.