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I know I talk alot of shit about trump, and I really dont like him much. But I must admit, he has done an amazing job handling the coronavirus so far.
Here are some of the things he has done that I am fairly pleased with:
1) Every year he has been in office he signed into law year-after-year budget increases for the CDC
2) He quickly barred incoming flights from both china and europe once cases became significant
3) he quickly issued a state of emergency and orderer the deployment of a US navy quarantine ship to help
4) His administration approved covering all costs for mandatory medical testing and quarinting for COVID-19 patients...
5) He issued a 1,000$ UBI to all american citizens to help alleviate financial problems.
He definitely did a better job than the last few presidents did when handling H1N1 and SARS.
Supporters and apologists of Trump can't be attacked at a moral, human level. And, yes, give credit where credit is due. However, the obvious shortcomings of Trump and his administration HAVE to be accepted, not sugar-coated, and scrutinized by ALL. This includes many Trump supporters whom he screwed over by installing nothing but lobbyists and billionaires who promote nothing more than *crony capitalism*. I say this as a captialist, the system can't continue to be rigged -- no matter if you're left, right, or center.
Your main point about installing lobbyists and billionairs for cronyism is valid, and certainly something Trump is guilty for. But to be fair so were the clintons, hillary, Bush, all the presidents.
Hell even sanders lived on welfare his whole life, destitute and poor, then became a career politician and is now a multi-millionaire...
Not that it makes it right but your literally describing every politician and president with very few exaceptions.
this isn't really true. he didn't live off of welfare, he held many jobs - and "career politician" is very different from being a crony capitalist.
just because other people are bad doesn't mean Trump isn't far far worse. I don't like Clintons or Bushes or Gores (Nader 2000!) or even Obamas that much because of their crony capitalism... but each of them are far far better than Trump.
He held jobs, but was so unskilled or poor at doing them he lived off welfare. I didnt mean to imply he was never hired for anything, only that he was a failure at those ventures for most of his life.
When I compare Obama and Trump all I keep coming back to in my mind is Obama murdered US citizens (incluing a 16 year old child) without any due process or checks of any kind. Even Trump hasnt reached that level of evil yet (though he has done some bad stuff too).
