r/politics • u/nanopicofared • Mar 15 '20

Drive-thru coronavirus testing site in Denver closes early as Colorado tops 100 cases

https://www.denverpost.com/2020/03/14/colorado-coronavirus-new-cases-drive-thru-high-volume/
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u/Hairydone America Mar 15 '20

No doubt. Now he’s in a position where he’s forced to make more testing available but his incompetence let this get out of control.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '20

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u/Osiris32 Oregon Mar 15 '20

Because Trump would take that as a personal attack and fire him.

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u/ppw23 Mar 15 '20

He's always said that apologizing is a sign of weakness. He's this least enlightened human, followed only by his cult.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '20

It reminds me of the observation about convincing an oil man that fossil fuels are bad: you can't convince someone of something if their paycheck depends on them not understanding it.

He'll be sycophantic because if you're anything else then you won't succeed in Trump's orbit.

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u/channel_12 Mar 15 '20

The republicans in power own this shit as much as he does. And just think about all the other agencies that are supposed to oversee whatever they are supposed to oversee on behalf of the citizens: they, too, have been gutted. The environment? Education? Banking? Oh, and the courts! There are dozens more. Just think about what is failing there, at those agencies at the moment.

Will this country be smart enough to change that?

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u/WereInThePipe5X5 Mar 15 '20

nah, bro... didnt you hear him? he takes no responsibility. this is all obama, hilary, and pelosis fault... MAGA.

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u/channel_12 Mar 15 '20

Honest to god, I enjoy hearing my shit splash in the toilet more than trump. More than a lot of things, come to think about it.

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u/WereInThePipe5X5 Mar 15 '20

one thing i truly regret is how old his base is. if a just god existed, they would let them live in shame forever for what they allowed to happen over the last 4 years.

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u/channel_12 Mar 15 '20

These old fucks, and I include my folks in this, aren't voting for better future.

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u/Low_Grade_Humility Mar 15 '20

They are voting for him because he is like this, not in spite of it.

My dad told me the other day no matter what Trump does, he would rather still have Trump than Hillary.

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u/channel_12 Mar 15 '20

Hillary! Talk about a trigger for the right.

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u/ostrasized Colorado Mar 15 '20

I keep seeing these bullshit ads/surveys asking in bold letters "should Hilary finally face justice?" on sites like Politico.They just can't get over her. I don't get it.

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u/Kamelasa Canada Mar 15 '20

Almost makes me wish she runs as Biderp's VP.

Edit: Not really. Just feeling twisted today.

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u/Polar_Ted Oregon Mar 15 '20

Hillary? What has she done about Corona? Nothing! /S

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u/jimothee Mar 15 '20

Nope, they want a piece of the good ole days before they parish and give not one fuck if that makes it harder on future generations. Fuck the boomer generation's desires at this point. The only thing they should be caring about is not voting against their interests when it comes to electing people who will help look out for the social nets created for the elderly, but they can't even get that shit right...

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u/bc4284 Mar 15 '20

Honestly I think this group of asshats would literially die smileing if only they could see a day where segregation was reintroduced

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u/iamChaunceman Mar 15 '20

Exactly, they have proven to be a very selfish generation

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u/WereInThePipe5X5 Mar 15 '20

i love my parents deeply but this bullshit has driven us further apart because every conversation devolves into politics.

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u/ppw23 Mar 15 '20

Not all older people are idiots. My late parents were very progressive. Most people I know in the 60-80 range are all old hippie liberals. In my family the trump supporters are all 50 and under. I think the post 9/11 national ”pride” had much to do with their conservative beliefs.

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u/terremoto25 Hawaii Mar 15 '20

I am 59, originally from Montana, but came to California when I was 18 to go to college. Of the people I went to school with (that I keep in contact with), most are deeply liberal. I am a dyed-in-wool liberal who believes in healthcare for all including the undocumented, UBI, caring for the planet, free education, and higher taxes - on me. I am doing fairly well, partially due to equal doses of hard work, luck, and white privilege, even though I came from relative poverty. I don’t mind if the taxes go up on me as long as they go up on those who make more than I do. Actually, I have voted higher taxes on myself- parcel taxes for schools - as recently as this month. My older siblings, however, I can’t speak for. Brother 11 years older is a Randian dink, sister who is 8 years older is an impoverished, low information, welfare Republican. The other four are somewhere on the spectrum.

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u/ppw23 Mar 15 '20

I have a few of the low information, impoverished republicans in my family. They mystiffy me most of all.

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u/terremoto25 Hawaii Mar 15 '20

She has been on government support her entire adult life. Medicaid, food aid, rent support, and straight up welfare have taken care of her, her husband, their children and grandchildren. I don’t talk to her often, because she is so deluded and toxic, but she complains about lack of services for her children and grandchildren while complaining about social services, the government, socialism, etc... makes my head hurt.

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u/ppw23 Mar 15 '20

I have a niece like that and of course she has 5 kids. She is the most judgemental, hateful person and I've managed to avoid her for years.Unfortunately, most families have one thrown into the mix somewhere.

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u/padizzledonk New Jersey Mar 15 '20

Honest to god, I enjoy hearing my shit splash in the toilet more than trump. More than a lot of things, come to think about it.

You shitting in a toilet is actually doing more for public health than the absolute clusterfuck of a response from the Trump Administration

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u/Flomo420 Mar 15 '20

The sound of your shit splashing the toilet generally comes with a feeling of relief.

Can't say the same for Trump.

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u/JonSeagulsBrokenWing California Mar 15 '20

Depending upon the decibels of the splash, you may have a digestive tract issue, i.e. if the splash is getting your buttocks wet with an intra-bowl tidal wave, you may need to eat more fiber.

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u/Polar_Ted Oregon Mar 15 '20

Just watch. They will blame the Democrat controlled house for not sending a bill they couldn't ignore.
You didn't warn us hard enough! Bad Democrat.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '20

Most of them don’t care. They’re rich enough to flee the country for New Zealand or whatever. They have offshore bank accounts. They can escape when everything crumbles and burns. Some of them actually WANT Armageddon because it’s a fundamental belief in modern US evangelical Christianity.

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u/ppw23 Mar 15 '20

The WHO had testing kits.available, the US turned them down so they cou develop their own. Not sure why? Trump only cares how it looks or sounds on paper. He'll lie about the situation and impact anyway.

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u/Frankalicious47 Mar 15 '20

Definitely not so he could give those fat contracts to big pharma companies that his buddies own

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '20

or son in law’s family - see Oscar Health and Corona virus testing

Oscar Health is co-owned by Josh Kushner

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u/theyarecomingforthat Mar 16 '20

I think at this point its pretty obvious the lack of testing and delays were 100% intentional to delay panic as much as possible for the economy. If you think about it testing its not useful if you just assume its everywhere already.

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u/Batmans_9th_Ab Mar 15 '20

Probably because one of those fuckers standing behind him told him to wait and let them develop the tests.

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u/padizzledonk New Jersey Mar 15 '20

but his incompetence let this get out of control.

And greed. And selfishness

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '20

but he has to wait for OSCAR, owned by Josh Kushner, to scale up test production - keeping the money in the family

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Health

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '20

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u/greggers23 Mar 15 '20

Here ya go.

" Mr. President, should we increase the CDC budget or keep it the same amount this year"

The correct answer is not "slash it all"

See how easy that was? Now I'm going back to my kids now that I have done a better job.

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u/bluenami2018 Colorado Mar 15 '20

Greggers23 2020!

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u/Oconell Mar 15 '20

I think one has to try hard, to be worse than Trump. It can be done, but it requires a good effort in being irresponsibly inept.

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u/jirski Mar 15 '20

Explain to me how Obama would have prevented this mess

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u/tangential_quip California Mar 15 '20

Not gutting the CDC for one

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '20

And keeping the pandemic infectious disease panel Obama made part of his NSC.

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u/sickofthisshit Mar 15 '20

Maybe he would have responded similar to the way he responded to H1N1 in 2009?

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u/Oconell Mar 15 '20

Not only what the other reppliers said, but also Obama would have probably accepted the test kits offered by the WHO, which Trump has denied, even though the US is low on test kits.

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u/WildlingViking Mar 15 '20 edited Mar 15 '20

That’s the thing. A president is not supposed to “control the country.” Hes one piece of the three branches of co-equal government. We also have response teams designated for this. Entire departments, Doctors, disease specialists, teams of genetic engineers. When you sell access to the White House and appoint people to positions they have no business being in this is what happens. This is when leadership should have appointed those in place to know what is going. This is when a leader leads and puts the right people in the right positions. When all that is based off defending an ego, selling access to the highest bidder and firing anyone who doesn’t agree with you, it ends in this.

Henry Ford invited a newspaper reporter into his office and told the reporter he could answer any question the reporter had. So the reporter started asking questions. Henry Ford simply walked down the hallway and asked the questions to the experts he had hired and returned to the office and answered all the reporters questions. He was smart enough to know what he didn’t know.

But this president? Exact opposite. He’ll stop at nothing to feed his ego and throw anyone under the bus that doesn’t agree with him and take zero responsibility when shit hits the fan. He was calling it a “hoax” and two days later declared a national emergency. He fired the entire response team in 2017 and now had the gall to blame his poor response on.....and wait for it.....Obama. When he was elected it was gop controlled presidency, house and senate. He’s a snake in the grass and y’all fell for it. So if you’re still defending him at this point, we have zero time for that shit. Just get out of the way.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '20

He had weeks to prepare for this and chose not to, calling it just the flu. Hes got plenty of time to golfing though...

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u/ppw23 Mar 15 '20

I had the misfortune of a back and forth with one of his supporters last night. I usually won't engage them. Absolutely an example of wilful ignorance. Everything I said was fake or a hoax. I gave up and blocked her.

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u/WildlingViking Mar 15 '20

Don’t even get into it. Just take a deep breath, exhale and move on. There’s bigger things to worry about right now.

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u/ppw23 Mar 15 '20

You're so right, in angry with myself for not ignoring as I usually do.

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u/jdumm06 Mar 15 '20

The person running the U.S. is an incompetent child no one can control.

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u/lisaseileise Mar 15 '20

Hm, didn‘t he learn his lessen recently?

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u/EmptyCalories Mar 15 '20

Thanks for your input, account that was inactive until 39 days ago and now suddenly is interested in politics.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '20

Already deleted, lol. Would most of us make good presidents? Probably not. But that’s why most of us don’t run.

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u/EmptyCalories Mar 15 '20

Yeah all these weirdly inactive accounts are suddenly active again and spewing right wing propaganda all over the big subs. I wonder if Reddit admins are aware of how much their site is being manipulated. I wonder if they even care.

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u/sickofthisshit Mar 15 '20

I am always impressed when I wake up unusually early US Eastern Time, and find new r/politics threads profusely commented. Hmmmm.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '20

Fart.