The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Eric the Green]

(04-25-2020, 12:32 PM)gabrielle Wrote:

(04-24-2020, 06:09 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(04-24-2020, 04:23 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(04-24-2020, 03:01 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(04-24-2020, 01:21 AM)taramarie Wrote: Speaking about poison, apparently trump suggested injecting with disinfectant into veins to combat covid as well as heat. Please guys tell me this is false i beg of you.

I found a BBC account of that press conference.  You probably read a blue press version of the briefing, where they went out of their way to look Trump look bad, but he kinda looked bad anyway.  He was doing his usual Happy Talk thing, trying to minimize the virus, so he went kinda wild with non main line medical cures.  Maybe he deserved to look bad.

Anyway, one article.  Form your own opinion.  Google ‘Trump disinfection heat’ to pick up a larger variety.

I can relate. I've got in trouble over sarcasm quite a few times over the years.

CNN us still pushing that it was not sarcasm.  It is typical these days that friendly partisans will give their own people benefit of the doubt, but that hostiles will push.

If he really was being sarcastic about a global pandemic that has taken over 50,000 American lives in a few weeks, that's even worse than if he was sincere.

Right. I hope this might knock off a point from his job approval rating. This gaffe is getting a lot of traction; deservedly so. But his base is incredibly obtuse, so I dunno.