Originally Posted by
Salty_Aus
I'm being very specific.
Did Trumps blasé attitude and lies cause unnecessary deaths?
Don't we have Woodward tapes for the record?
My figure is an estimate, it's nearly impossible to quantify.
Perhaps it caused 50 deaths?
It's really not a matter of if, but how many. IMHO
Ridiculing the left when a few people wished him dead or celebrated, and wishing the same on Weinstein is clearly hypocritical. *shrugs*
Okay, you can shrug all you want.
I always find it good when murderers, serial rapists, or terrorists die. Just because Harvey didn't jump and grab women while hiding in the bushes doesn't make him any less of a rapist. As I said, he was actually worse. The guy is complete trash, and the world is better off without him.
Wishing death upon politicians, especially the President, is a completely different matter. People are elected to lead, and some do a good job, some do an okay job, and some do a bad job. And much of this is subjective. It's very poor form to wish death upon the politicians you don't like. You can try to rationalize why it's okay to wish death upon the ones you define as "evil", but that "evil" almost always comes down to policy decisions that certain people don't like.
I don't feel Trump maliciously caused any COVID deaths, nor do I believe any Democrats did. Trump should have led better during the pandemic and made it clear what people should and shouldn't do. Certain Democrats should have used common sense and not mandated nursing homes take COVID-positive patients. Democrats in general should have denounced the massive social protests and encouraged people to stay home and do it online. The media should have been honest about COVID, done real investigative research, and not sensationalized it for ratings or political purposes. People on the right shouldn't have tried to make COVID look like no big deal.
Lots of blame to go around. But I don't think any of it was fueled by evil -- just bias, selfishness, and bad decision making.
Reply With Quote
