His inaction and obfuscation caused thousands and thousands of people to die from COVID.
He publicly condoned shooting unarmed protesters, and let his DOJ kidnap people in unmarked vans.
He left the Paris climate accords.
These are catastrophic.
He publicly condoned shooting unarmed protesters, and let his DOJ kidnap people in unmarked vans.
He left the Paris climate accords.
These are catastrophic.
Edit: forgot to say numerous people close to him and his campaign have gone to jail. Steve Bannon, Michael Cohen, Paul Manafort, Roger Stone...etc.
Source? Sounds like conspiratorial nonsense.
glen greenwald: http://archive.is/58vqu
matt taibbi: https://archive.li/acKAO
> The idea that this is simply a continuation of an Obama-era practice is "preposterous," said Denise Gilman, director of the Immigration Clinic at the University of Texas Law School. "There were occasionally instances where you would find a separated family — maybe like one every six months to a year — and that was usually because there had been some actual individualized concern that there was a trafficking situation or that the parent wasn’t actually the parent."
> Once custody concerns were resolved, "there was pretty immediately reunification," Gilman told NBC News. "There were not 2,000 kids in two months — it’s not the same universe," she added.
That's not to say that the Obama administration didn't do some other cruel things to migrant families in an effort to deter them. Some of which got smacked back down by the courts, too. But separating families as a matter of policy was not one of those policies.
This single action by Trump imperils all of humanity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermediate-Range_Nuclear_For...
https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/08/02/what-does-the-demise-of...
I do not believe that Biden is capable of enacting any policy that will lead to the (simple) social behaviors that can stop the disease in its tracks. He can do some policy on the edges.
But if we do stop the virus, it won't be because of Biden, it will be because of the actions of a huge number of people, across the political spectrum, and a grand unification of people. We will need to build a massive virus stopping machine, and such projects are never the result of one person, anymore than the space shuttle being attributable to a single person.
I think it's possible, but I do not think it's likely.
Nancy Pelosi was walking around Chinatown in SF after it was well known that there was an outbreak going on overseas.
The NYC department of health advised that it was perfectly safe to attend Chinese New Year celebrations shortly after.
When POTUS stopped international travel earlier than the media decided it was a legitimate issue, his political opponents called him a racist. Then you'll argue, "but but the nyc outbreaks trace to Europe!!" And I'll argue back that China has industrial factories in Italy, and ask you how the virus got to Italy/Europe in the first place. And you still won't get it. It's like the left just constant ignores common sense and hides behind reddit-teir "you got a source for that" nerdery.
All of this happened less than a year ago. It is well within living memory.
Literally nothing you said here has any relevance to effective policy for stopping Covid19. Nothing. Somehow, in our modern society, you have been able to consume a very large diet of information, and have been misinformed about its basic suitability as information.
There's only one way to stop this thing: by paying attention to evidence and our best understanding, and to put aside our silly political games that have not bearing on reality. Or worse, political games that think they are the reality.
I hope that as part of the healing process, science starts having a seat at the table in these discussions.
You're seriously going to claim that the US wouldn't have had a better response to a pandemic had they actually had a pandemic response team?
You really think that would've all played out the same? I assume you didn't vote for Trump, and your opinion is based in facts and logic, and not a misguided attempt at defending his laughably embarrassing attempts at downplaying a pandemic ravaging our nation.
PS: Where's that vaccine he promised? Or were you one of the ones that thought the virus was just going to "magically disappear" after the election?
They also stopped Ebola from spreading, which is at least an order of magnitude worse than COVID.
That team operated internationally with the cooperation of local governments. When it was disbanded, many people warned the administration that it was leaving a huge public health gap, and that the decision would result in unchecked pandemics.
We’re lucky to have ended up with a COVID pandemic, and not something much worse.
Pure unmitigated ignorance.
The death rate is 50%, which is 100x higher than COVID’s 0.5% (which has been lowered to 0.125% with improved hospital care).
In the absence of a coordinated pandemic response, I count that as “worse”.