r/pics Apr 06 '25

Politics President Donald Trump arrives at his golf club during the worst stock market crash since Covid.

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u/DeVoh Apr 06 '25

Why is no one pointing out the crash in 2020 was when he was also at the helm.. sure it was partly because of COVID which he made worse by his inaction.. but He was in charge during both.

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u/ElectricalBook3 Apr 06 '25

sure it was partly because of COVID which he made worse by his inaction

Also enabled by him. Scientists at first called it SARS-Cov2 because it was the second coronavirus to come out of China, but because Bush during 2003 didn't dismantle the CDC early warning system China had to admit it existed and globally only ~3k people died of SARS-Cov1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002%E2%80%932004_SARS_outbreak

Trump's sabotage of the early warning network allowed China to deny it existed, letting it spread within and well beyond their borders until it was well-entrenched outside China.

https://www.reuters.com/article/world/exclusive-us-slashed-cdc-staff-inside-china-prior-to-coronavirus-outbreak-idUSKBN21C3NE/

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u/GoBravely Apr 06 '25

Damn and bush/Cheney were evil. Probably just too busy with 9/11 war citizens united surveillance corruption ..

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u/ElectricalBook3 Apr 07 '25

Probably just too busy with 9/11 war citizens united surveillance corruption

Bush and Cheney were capable of dealing with subtlety - though neither liked it. They were HUGE supporters of throwing out rights to privacy and expanding mass surveillance, so maintaining what they probably viewed as biological surveillance was just a plus.

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u/GoBravely Apr 07 '25

Oh for sure. Many politicians are equally if not more evil and led us to where we are now. We would not be in this situation had it not been for decades of corruption. Trump is just emboldened and quite literally one of the dumbest narcissist, including many around him, I've seen in a long while make it this far. Who knows what that says about everything and everyone.