06-01-2020, 01:17 PM
(06-01-2020, 06:51 AM)David Horn Wrote:Do you believe Trump then is guilty of what I referred to on another thread as the Nero Fiddle Syndrome?(05-31-2020, 02:43 PM)Isoko Wrote: Honestly, you cannot blame Trump for all these problems.
1) Pandemic wasn't his fault. Other Western governments were making the same mistakes. Look at Italy or even the UK. And Sweden? Just wow.
2) Riots happened under Obama as well and even Bill Clinton. That is the nature of the U.S.
3) Mass unemployment - that existed under Bush and even Obama. The latest unemployment is down to the quarantine and that is something that is going to hit the West hard. Nothing to do with Trump.
4) Recession is nature to the American and overall global economic system. Unless the system radically changes, nothing you can ultimately do about it.
Honestly I don't get the Trump bashing. He hasn't actually really done anything his predecessors didn't do. Aside from try to take a more hands on approach with North Korea. And he hasn't been as gung ho like Hilary would have been. We'd have had world war 3 if Hilary had been in charge....
Trump's faults are obvious. He watched as the pandemic grew outside the US and did nothing to prepare. Others were also remiss, but that's hardly a defense against nonfeasance. You're on somewhat firmer ground with your rioting comment, but Trump still managed to pour fuel on a fire with his comment: "when the looting starts, the shooting starts". Who does that? On the unemployment front, we see one of the least coordinated responses in the advanced world, and it will make recovery all the harder.
Trump is pathetic, and he knows it. It only makes him worse by the day as he tries to cover up the stench.