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Reporter tells NPR that Trump deliberately slow-walked virus testing to ease his re-election

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  1. doombug

    doombug Well-Known Member

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    So another tin foil hat conspiracy worthy of the Rachel Maddow show. Ok then.
     
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  2. FreshAir

    FreshAir Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Republicans are the outsourcers, even Trump's family businesses outsourced rather then hire American - don't blame that on the left, blame that on Corporatism and greedy rich people like Trump

    Trump could have banned china from selling their 5g devices here, but did not, could of had American made and created American jobs - Trump wimped out and caved to China

    [​IMG]

    but that is anouther topic
     
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    Ericb760 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Deep Throat was an unnamed source for 40 years.

    Was he "fake news"?

    The fact is that anonymous sources are the backbone of investigative journalism, and always have been until they reflected badly on Emperor Bone Spurs.

    Can you be any less naive?

    MOD ALERT: I am not calling the poster naive. I am pointing out the apparent naivete of not understanding the rich historical value of the press using anonymous sources.
     
    Ericb760, Mar 13, 2020
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  4. Ericb760

    Ericb760 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    It's like they don't even understand that the sh!t he says is recorded.

    Blows my mind....
     
    Ericb760, Mar 13, 2020
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    Dispondent Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Better than opening up testing for the chicken littles who don't have the virus and having them congregate in places they would then come in contact with it...
     
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  6. FreshAir

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    Trump saying anyone could be tested was another lie, especially when doctors could not get anyone tested that they felt needed testing
     
    FreshAir, Mar 13, 2020
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    Dispondent Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    According to you folks everything Trump says is a lie. Why should anyone take you seriously now? Maybe if you folks didn't cry wolf for three years things would be different...
     
    Dispondent, Mar 13, 2020
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    Aggressive lockdowns at the borders, POE's, airport's, and port controls prevent the disease from entering the US. We should have been a hundred times more aggressive with a total lockdown.

    All that the test kits really do is provide data. The treatment is the same whether it's flu or coronavirus, that is, palliative measures and hope for the best.
     
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    Ericb760, Mar 13, 2020
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    In other words:

    This report is "about as credible" as 99% of what passes as "News Content" at Breitbart?

    Got it.:salute:

    As far as the Story in the OP?

    Anything (Literally, Anything) is possible when Trump i involved.
     
    Andrew Jackson, Mar 13, 2020
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    Trump lies are lies, you may not like it when the left calls him on those lies, but they are still lies

    if Trump did not lie so much he would not have such a credibility problem
     
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    Dispondent, Mar 13, 2020
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    Trump is light years faster than Obama was during the 2009 flu.
     
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    No one, not progressives, not conservatives, would have agreed to that when it actually would have mattered, i.e. before any confirmed cases in the US.
     
    Ericb760, Mar 13, 2020
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    The collusion delusion pushers have the cred problem.
     
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    Who would ever believe Trump?

    A Mentally-Unfit 24/7 Pathological LIAR?

    Puzzling. :smh:
     
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    They don't have a dog in this fight.

    So, yeah, I'll believe them over Fox News.

    You are free to continue to deny how much your dear leader lies to you.
     
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    That you rely on foreigners for your information is all I need to know about you...
     
    Dispondent, Mar 13, 2020
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    So you tell us how many cases we have and how many we will have.
     
    Paul7, Mar 13, 2020
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    They sure do.
    [​IMG]
     
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    True. People want to believe that it won't come here, until it's here.

    After seeing the first patient I saw in Wuhan on a gurney in a plastic isolator the siren went off for me and I was pretty sure it would come here and everywhere. Watching them build a 1000 bed "hospital" in ten days was the confirmation.
     
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    Did you even read the website I cited?

    It's not like they just made sh!t up.

    You do realize that everything Trump says is actually recorded and can be proved or disproved, right?

    Since you don't trust our northern ally, how about an American perspective?

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/

    https://www.salon.com/2019/12/16/tr...in-office-after-lying-more-than-ever-in-2019/

    https://arcdigital.media/trumps-silliest-lies-are-the-most-important-24ccae1a3ad

    I like this one: Obama's lies vs. Trump's:

    https://www.nytimes.com/interactive...bama-who-is-worse.html?searchResultPosition=3
     
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    What about the transport of goods and resources from foreign nations?
     
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    Actually they were busy crafting their dead on arrival articles. They sent them to the Senate January 15 and Wuhan was quartined December 31... Yay Democrats!!!!
     
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    My guess is that containers wouldn't have be disinfectant sprayed after a salty ocean voyage, but the boxes inside would have to be sprayed as they came out, and goods sprayed with disinfectant at each level of opening something up.
     
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