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Nevilledog

(51,055 posts)
Sat Aug 8, 2020, 12:45 PM Aug 2020

Photo Of Trump Exiting Air Force One Has Americans Spitting Mad: "He's Robbing Us Blind!"

https://politicaltribune.org/photo-of-trump-exiting-air-force-one-has-americans-spitting-mad-hes-robbing-us-blind

If there’s one thing that literally everyone other than the ultra-rich and maybe celebrities have in common during the pandemic, it’s that we’ve all been learning to go without things. We’ve gone without our favorite people, our favorite foods, trips to our favorite stores — or in some cases, ANY stores — and it’s all been because we normal people don’t have the money and we don’t have special privileges.

Sure, we’ve lived vicariously through actors doing interviews and videos via Zoom, pretended we were our Food Network celebrity heroes by making up bizarre and inedible recipes that belong among the posts of Facebook’s favorite “Flavortown”-themed group, and downloaded computer wallpapers with pictures of the tropical resorts we wished we were vacationing at instead of our apartments.

But really, what we’ve wished is that Home Goods was open or that we could go to Target and not run back to our cars when we hear someone cough.

Living in constant fear of catching the first pandemic virus that mainstream America was actually in danger of catching has been a frustration utterly compounded by the fact that Trump has gotten literally every aspect of the response to this crisis disastrously, hideously wrong.

But even worse than that has been watching him act as though nothing is wrong. I mean, we know he knows there’s a problem, or he wouldn’t have everyone around him tested for COVID twice a day. But in order to project a commanding sense of domination over Mother Nature, Trump simply pretends the virus doesn’t exist for him and goes about his business — doing all the relaxing things we wish we were doing, instead of trying to remember not to stand up and show the Skype meeting that we still have pajamas on the bottom with our shirts and ties.

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Photo Of Trump Exiting Air Force One Has Americans Spitting Mad: "He's Robbing Us Blind!" (Original Post) Nevilledog Aug 2020 OP
Well written and cogent. Ferrets are Cool Aug 2020 #1
If we all had an advance team testing everyone we might come in contact with, tanyev Aug 2020 #2
That. onecaliberal Aug 2020 #7
Trump is a Jabba the Hut of privilege Martin Eden Aug 2020 #3
If too much testing Traildogbob Aug 2020 #4
Oh my god please give someone the balls to ask that orange maggot. onecaliberal Aug 2020 #8
Can the Biden admin charge Trump personally for this shit after the fact? thx in advance uponit7771 Aug 2020 #5
Boeing gets $16 million to make C-32 look more presidential Klaralven Aug 2020 #6
First class ass, all the way. Kid Berwyn Aug 2020 #14
Trump is playing a very dangerous game of Russian Roulette with the virus right now. Initech Aug 2020 #9
He could easily have access to convalescent plasma nuxvomica Aug 2020 #10
He is a demonic presence. PatrickforO Aug 2020 #12
"Only a monster would do such a thing" DBoon Aug 2020 #18
His stunted imagination prevents many things his character allows nuxvomica Aug 2020 #19
No, he really isn't. Mariana Aug 2020 #16
Whoa. Did you folks see the last comment in the post? PatrickforO Aug 2020 #11
$25,000 an hour to fly 22 miles? PatSeg Aug 2020 #13
AF1 World's Most Expensive Golf Cart alterfurz Aug 2020 #21
I know that whenever any president PatSeg Aug 2020 #22
Is that toilet paper still stuck to this shoe? With a t.p. scarcity, it's such a waste on that Illumination Aug 2020 #15
yup LiberalLovinLug Aug 2020 #17
KR! Cha Aug 2020 #20

tanyev

(42,540 posts)
2. If we all had an advance team testing everyone we might come in contact with,
Sat Aug 8, 2020, 01:16 PM
Aug 2020

we could all go on as if the virus didn’t exist, too.

Traildogbob

(8,703 posts)
4. If too much testing
Sat Aug 8, 2020, 01:34 PM
Aug 2020

Causes Covid, why hasn’t he and his entourage had Covid multiple times. Please, one reporter ask him, with all the testing you get, aren’t you afraid it will give you Covid? Asking for a nation.

 

Klaralven

(7,510 posts)
6. Boeing gets $16 million to make C-32 look more presidential
Sat Aug 8, 2020, 01:55 PM
Aug 2020
https://www.flightglobal.com/fixed-wing/boeing-gets-16-million-to-make-c-32-look-more-presidential/129265.article

A C-32, also known as a Boeing 757-200, operates as Air Force One into the Morristown, NJ airport, which is too small to land a 747.

Kid Berwyn

(14,848 posts)
14. First class ass, all the way.
Sat Aug 8, 2020, 02:51 PM
Aug 2020


Thank you for the heads-up on the wasted $16 million. A hearty welcome to DU, Klaralven!

Initech

(100,054 posts)
9. Trump is playing a very dangerous game of Russian Roulette with the virus right now.
Sat Aug 8, 2020, 02:02 PM
Aug 2020

And how he does not yet have it is a mystery for the ages.

nuxvomica

(12,418 posts)
10. He could easily have access to convalescent plasma
Sat Aug 8, 2020, 02:36 PM
Aug 2020

He's no superman but he is a person of extraordinary privileges who could be getting the plasma from military personnel administered by military doctors, all in the strictest secrecy. Only a monster would do such a thing while encouraging others to dispense with protective practices, though, so that remains only a wild, unproven theory so harsh in its judgment that it would rank him among history's worst villains.

nuxvomica

(12,418 posts)
19. His stunted imagination prevents many things his character allows
Sat Aug 8, 2020, 05:23 PM
Aug 2020

For example, a stronger imagination would've predicted the devastating economic effects of his frightfully lackluster response to the pandemic. Beyond the furtive trips to Walter Reed, the hematoma on his hand, the seemingly cavalier attitude to personal safety, there is really nothing to indicate he is doing these treatments. If he were, it would likely be only at Putin's suggestion.

Mariana

(14,854 posts)
16. No, he really isn't.
Sat Aug 8, 2020, 03:43 PM
Aug 2020

He's at much less risk of catching it than Jill and Joe Blow, who have to go out into the world without the benefit of having everyone they might come into contact with tested ahead of time.

PatrickforO

(14,566 posts)
11. Whoa. Did you folks see the last comment in the post?
Sat Aug 8, 2020, 02:37 PM
Aug 2020

"I’m gonna go out on a limb here and guess that like me, the rest of these commenters can’t wait to see him deplane in front of the prison he’ll be spending his life in."

Yes, I'm one of those that can't wait. In light of the 'Friday Night Massacre' at the USPS, the guy is uprooting what is left of our republic and getting ready to topple it over. He cannot be brought to justice soon enough, and we still have a long ways to go until the election.

PatSeg

(47,351 posts)
22. I know that whenever any president
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 10:19 AM
Aug 2020

moves any distance outside the White House, it will be expensive, but he takes it much too far, while enriching himself when he goes to his own properties.

Excellent meme!

 

Illumination

(2,458 posts)
15. Is that toilet paper still stuck to this shoe? With a t.p. scarcity, it's such a waste on that
Sat Aug 8, 2020, 03:09 PM
Aug 2020

big protruding butt of his...

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