alywest
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From the standpoint of the treatment of covid-19 I can’t understand how you can defend him. First he goes on the world stage promoting HCQ like he’s got some sort of secret information and now they’re quietly saying oh yeah, that prolongs the heart’s qt interval and can lead to arrhythmia in 90% of patients. Yet somehow it was fast tracked by the FDA to be given to dying covid patients?You don't. Because he needs no defending. Trump's the same guy talking like us with UV light and with disinfectants, and who gets caricatured in media with Chlorox bleach on his face and with Lysol cocktails. Even in own circle of ignorant friends, I know it's not a fight I want to engage in. Fauci is on his team - a team that's always going to include the establishment, simply because Trump still needs the establishment on his side. The problem is that the establishment players on his team - doesn't want to play Trump's team ball.
Picture being in Trump's shoes and the only people you are given to choose from for your team is plucked from the other team. That shows the degree of control the deep state has, its tentacles all over. Given this situation, I give Trump a lot of credit for being able to not only survive, but still be able to get the sympathy and understanding of his supporters. The people who complain the most about Trump failing - are those who I believe to be the most out of touch with reality.
The reality is that you don't go start a presidency with the team you already know. You tend to get the people with the "supposed" qualification - experience. Experience is a terrible basis, but that's still a safe choice. And with his team of "experienced" people on board, Trump gets a reality check. The experience counts for little when the experience is about doing things the wrong way - dishonest, self-serving, or of serving the vested interests, and not the people. In Trump's last year of his first term, having seen his cabinet, and having seen the agencies at work, you can count with your fingers how many people there are that Trump can count on to carry out his policies.
Even with good people, Trump still faces a congress of obstructionists. He continues to face stubborn opposition from congress, from the federal court system, and on top of it, he had to weather the manufactured impeachment proceedings against him. It didn't help his case that media, old and new, ranging from MSNBC to Google, are arrayed against him. Even now, I believe the COVID situation was created to keep him from regaining the initiative that was fresh off his winning the presidency.
It is clear as day to me how enormous the challenge is to anyone who attempts to do what Trump is doing. I don't even know we can have another president who can use the boomerang to great effect on his enemies. The term fake news was fake media's attempt to destroy Trump. Trump outflanked them and used it against fake media. Fake media in the past had no need to blatantly censor and expose their hypocrisy, but Trump left them no choice. Fake media had to resort to outright lies, and this led to even Trump's usual critics not even taking the ***t storm. See Tim Poole and Jimmy Dore, a center-left and a progressive, respectively, becoming a defender of the president as it was their way to expose the rot in their own party, in cahoots with the deep state. Recently, Michael Moore even produced a film exposing the green energy hoax, as the hoax was simply too unbearable to even countenance that being on the side of Trump with regard to green energy is much much the less of two evils, if both are to be seen as evils.
There is more hope if Trump is running the show. You never know how the chips will fall, and there are better chances that the ducks will all fall in a row with him than with any other president, of either party. Whatever these ducks are.
Now he’s quietly allowing Remdesivir to be the standard of care without ever publicly stating why it has suddenly replaced HCQ (or of course that he was clearly WRONG about HCQ, heaven forbid!) If he supposedly operates with transparency as POTUS then he should be willing to admit a mistake was made. Not to mention his absolutely absurd statements on disinfecting humans which he claimed was sarcasm and then attempted to turn it on the media by saying it was their fault that he stood at his podium and made irresponsible and clearly not well considered statements. So which is it? Are we supposed to take him at his word or learn how to discern the fact from fiction in his statements because he doesn’t want to stand behind them after the fact?
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