More than half of Americans actually think Trump is handling coronavirus well

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This is why we can’t have nice things.

He’s handling it well compared to what? A sponge? Three monkeys stacked on top of each other under a trench coat? A butt boil?

He’s lying at every opportunity, even when the truth would serve him better. He’s trying to hide the true number of infected in this country in order to try to save the stock market. Between this ass clown and a butt boil, I’ll still take the butt boil. At least the butt boil won’t lie to my face every damned time I look at it.

@anon21100188

Americans (and humans, I think, in general) have a pretty natural inclination not to criticize leadership during times of actual crisis.

I guess I’m the odd one out then. If I were asked, I would laugh into the pollster’s face just to start the ball rolling. After all of this, if I ever have anything decent to say about that man or his competency, shoot me. I’m clearly a pod person at that point.

@bb4me

Do they think they are going to keep getting $1000 checks from trump to buy their votes? It won’t happen past the election.

It won’t happen past June. And I feel that’s being generous. Add to that, expect it to be taxed.

@peterk

But if you made some massive screwup and worked overtime to fix it, suddenly you were the golden child.

I really dispair this will apply to Trump in the upcoming election cycle.

Except he’s not going to work overtime to fix it. He’ll lie and say he’s doing that, but he won’t do that. I’ll be shocked if this even cuts into his time spent on the golf course.

@Ryuthrowsstuff

So the chances any given person actually knows some one who is sick are pretty slim.

Before yesterday I didn’t know anyone. Last night my brother went in to the ER because of serious breathing problems over the last couple of days and they admitted him for testing. He doesn’t have strep or the flu. It’ll be 2-7 days before his results get back, but he said they are certain he has contracted covid-19. Luckily for him, he’s pretty young at 33. They should be releasing him by tomorrow. Gotta free up the bed.

@Ryuthrowsstuff

There’s only 15,000 or so cases diagnosed in the US so far. Out of 330 million people.

With limited testing and no big rush to get concrete numbers, that 15,000 confirmed cases number doesn’t prove anything about how far it has actually reached in the States. Let’s check back in next Friday and see how things are going. If we can ramp up testing, that number will make a huge jump, like what they are experiencing in New York.

@smulder

If we believe he’s doing a good job, maybe he’ll do a good job

That only works in a specific Disney movie to keep a fairy alive. If we all start believing he’s doing a good job, he will congratulate himself for doing a good job while continuing to do fuck all.

@anon3894935

I keep thinking there has to be some environmental factor to explain why the United States is demonstrably stupider than almost anywhere else on Earth.

I’m just guessing, but I feel like it has been due to the systematic attack on public education by the right for the past 40+ years, with the latest attack resulting in Betsy fucking DeVos being put in charge of education in this country. They want stupid people because stupid people are easier to control.