I'm rooting for sane government that values lives over politics (Reply #16)

In the discussion thread: Are you rooting for a stock market collapse over #Coronavirus just to hurt Pres @realDonaldTrump? [View all]

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Sat Feb 29, 2020, 08:11 PM

flibbitygiblets (7,220 posts)

16. I'm rooting for sane government that values lives over politics

But I'm not holding my breath we'll get that in time. Lives will be lost needlessly due to the incompetence. PENCE is in charge of preparing us as a nation for the coming pandemic. I'm not religious, but God help us.

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84 replies	Author	Time	Post
Are you rooting for a stock market collapse over #Coronavirus just to hurt Pres @realDonaldTrump? [View all]	yuiyoshida	Feb 2020	OP
Of course not, that is nonsense.	mahina	Feb 2020	#1
The financial hit is worth it if it takes down Trump	budkin	Feb 2020	#2
Having gas at about $5 a gallon	Dagstead Bumwood	Feb 2020	#5
Yeah, that'd be great.	cwydro	Feb 2020	#9
Didn't think it necessary	Dagstead Bumwood	Feb 2020	#17
Good. Sorry, but I have seen people here hoping for that.	cwydro	Feb 2020	#19
I focus all of my negative thoughts and wishes	Dagstead Bumwood	Feb 2020	#22
With you on that!	cwydro	Feb 2020	#25
Well, more than just one person...	Wounded Bear	Mar 2020	#40
focus harder! n/t	orleans	Mar 2020	#46
I'm re-watching	Dagstead Bumwood	Mar 2020	#48
I know we're sorta friends and all (maybe not after this) but I'm rooting for $10/gallon gas	mr_lebowski	Mar 2020	#78
I'm not in favor	customerserviceguy	Mar 2020	#60
Neither am I	Dagstead Bumwood	Mar 2020	#81
If people were serious about reducing fossil fuel usage, it needs to be much higher than $5	MichMan	Mar 2020	#71
I paid 1.95 at the pump today.	Dagstead Bumwood	Mar 2020	#82
Sell! Sell! Sell!	Shermann	Feb 2020	#3
I've been expecting the market drop, and been accused of 'rooting for it'...	Wounded Bear	Feb 2020	#4
Same here.	LuvNewcastle	Mar 2020	#39
Despite how incompetent the Trump Administration is	yuiyoshida	Mar 2020	#84
I'm sure not, but I've seen that on DU.	cwydro	Feb 2020	#6
It has crossed my mind, but no.	Polly Hennessey	Feb 2020	#7
Insane... I lost $5500 on my RSUs	lapfog_1	Feb 2020	#8
Looks like you're getting your answer in several responses to this thread.	cwydro	Feb 2020	#10
I'm rooting for COVID-19 to get Drumpf and Pence, actually. n/t	rzemanfl	Feb 2020	#11
What rzemanfl said.	Sugar Smack	Feb 2020	#15
Wall Street is full of crooks	GusBob	Feb 2020	#12
If rooting for something caused it	intrepidity	Feb 2020	#13
If Coronavirus causes a stock market collapse, that means more disease and more deaths.	Cousin Dupree	Feb 2020	#14
I'm rooting for sane government that values lives over politics	flibbitygiblets	Feb 2020	#16
Only ones I see spreading things like this	Andy823	Feb 2020	#18
Fuck no. nt	jmg257	Mar 2020	#74
of course not, but that will be the bee ess the Trumpigists will be spreading.	Thomas Hurt	Feb 2020	#20
Sixty percent of Americans make less than forty thousand dollars a year	pecosbob	Feb 2020	#21
Because the feeling is mutual...nt	Wounded Bear	Mar 2020	#41
No! My husband is quite ill and we've	Laurian	Feb 2020	#23
I'm not too worried about the stock market	captain queeg	Feb 2020	#24
*YES I AM, ABSOLUTELY*. I don't think Trump can be beaten in November if the stock market	progree	Feb 2020	#26
I don't want to see people	stillcool	Feb 2020	#27
Nope...	2naSalit	Feb 2020	#28
I'm, that's a big no. That is where my IRA money is	bottomofthehill	Feb 2020	#29
No one wants the stock market to crash.	eilen	Feb 2020	#30
Lots of gleeful posts here on DU everytime it drops	MichMan	Mar 2020	#59
I want it to crash hard	Calculating	Feb 2020	#31
Hell No if the stock market collapses it will carry over in to the economy and affects jobs housing	lunasun	Feb 2020	#32
Make no mistake,that POS would NEVER give presser on a Sat.....	Bengus81	Feb 2020	#33
I'd rather a hamburger got him	Joinfortmill	Feb 2020	#34
No, but when millions of people warned what a disaster the Retrumplicans would be	maxrandb	Feb 2020	#35
What goes up must come down	TexasBushwhacker	Feb 2020	#36
+1000	smirkymonkey	Mar 2020	#42
Couple the stock buy backs with a big helping of irrational exuberance	TexasBushwhacker	Mar 2020	#47
Not really	Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin	Feb 2020	#37
Stock market	rownesheck	Feb 2020	#38
No. I want a stock market collapse so I can make money from it.	roamer65	Mar 2020	#43
A long overdue correction to this bloated, overvalued stock market is a good thing.	ooky	Mar 2020	#44
Wall Street has been enjoying their ill gotten gains for awhile	RhodeIslandOne	Mar 2020	#45
Ugh. Fox News is the fucking worst!	Initech	Mar 2020	#49
I wish Bloomberg would buy Fox News.	walkingman	Mar 2020	#54
Not at all, but all the same, it had no business being as high as it was	DFW	Mar 2020	#50
My pension is invested in the stock market, so, no. nt	tblue37	Mar 2020	#51
If that's what it takes. We can recover from another collapse with good leadership. The markets	brewens	Mar 2020	#52
No - I'm hoping the market recovers without the FED - everything is so politicized these days.	walkingman	Mar 2020	#53
Only if it beats quick results.	Cartoonist	Mar 2020	#55
No, I want Trump to hurt Trump and his enablers...	WePurrsevere	Mar 2020	#56
Actually I was rooting for a host of God's seraphim	Vogon_Glory	Mar 2020	#57
I'm rooting for a half a dozen	SallyHemmings	Mar 2020	#58
That's why we have	yuiyoshida	Mar 2020	#61
I'm rooting for people to see what a menace Trump is when crisis strikes	SiliconValley_Dem	Mar 2020	#62
"If the gains of 2019 are erased & it causes people to rethink their support of this psychopath..."	progree	Mar 2020	#63
I think you can count the Coronavirus	yuiyoshida	Mar 2020	#64
Investors don't seem to be all that worried at this point -- S&P 500 futures up 0.50%	progree	Mar 2020	#66
Frankly with the incompetence of the Trump Administration	yuiyoshida	Mar 2020	#67
Yes. My biggest worry is the very small number of people who have been tested.	progree	Mar 2020	#68
Did you think the crash in 2008 was a good thing ?	MichMan	Mar 2020	#70
I'm not rooting for a crash that severe, which was the worst collapse since the Great Depression	progree	Mar 2020	#75
No!	bobGandolf	Mar 2020	#65
fuck no	Demonaut	Mar 2020	#69
um, no.	Javaman	Mar 2020	#72
better question: is the GOP supporting Trump's lies	scrabblequeen40	Mar 2020	#73
No, I'm retired and can't afford it.	The Velveteen Ocelot	Mar 2020	#76
No.	exboyfil	Mar 2020	#77
"Even a whiff of that from our leadership would lead to an electoral wipe out."	LenaBaby61	Mar 2020	#79
No	Mz Pip	Mar 2020	#80
Nope... though I did buy some more	whistler162	Mar 2020	#83

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