Trump Has Abdicated in the Face of Disaster

[kpete]

David Graham: “Almost a quarter million Americans have died from COVID-19. Some 77,000 are now hospitalized, about a fifth of those in the ICU. The country has been reporting roughly 150,000 cases a day for a week, and the numbers seem likely to rise. Hospitals, and the people who work in them, are overwhelmed. The pandemic has been a catastrophe for months, but it seems to be reaching its worst moment in the United States, despite promising advances in vaccine development.”

“The nation cries out for leadership, yet amid one of the worst crises to face the country in decades, President Trump is nowhere to be found.”

“Before November 3, the question of what Trump might do in the likely event of a loss was a topic of speculation: Would he cling to office, denying the results of the election? Or would he quit and slink away? The answer, we now know, is both: He has abdicated nearly all of the work of the presidency, but without either putting a temporary successor, such as Vice President Mike Pence, in charge, or allowing the formal transition to President-elect Joe Biden to begin.”

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https://politicalwire.com/2020/11/19/trump-has-abdicated-in-the-face-of-disaster/
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/president-has-abdicated/617139/

[Chainfire]

1. Trump was right

When he told us that after the election, Covid would just disappear.

[PatSeg]

2. Yeah, in his mind

[mahina]

3. How so?

[Celerity]

4. He is doing it on purpose, he wants as many as possible to die, wants as much chaos as possible.

The worse it gets, the more he will have a rationale to drop the constitutional nuke bomb, declaring a National State of Emergency, which gives him vast new powers, almost dictatorial.

[BComplex]

5. As Nancy Pelosi said: With trump, all roads lead to russia.

Destabilization in the USA benefits our enemies, and hurts our allies.

[Aristus]

6. Shoot. Trump abdicated in the face of having to do some honest work for once in his life.

n/t