Hero Worship

~ Clarissa

I’m personally very indifferent on this subject but Trump’s supporters who are against foreign aid must be livid, right?

Nope. They are not. Because God forbid we have principles instead of hero worship.

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  1. This is a weird story, I guess Trump was concerned a fellow leader would get Covid. But of course Trump’s fans won’t care, anything their hero does is awesome. This sort of hero worship towards politicians is very cringe and immature, this is what happens when people don’t know civics or American history and think the president is a Messiah

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  2. Trump fans: not that concerned about covid, generally. Not sure why this would be a big deal?

    I’m mystified why it’s not a bigger deal among Trump supporters that Trump went along with the lockdowns, took credit for issuing an experimental medical treatment to the entire population, and presided over some very nasty rioting in multiple major cities (on that, I think the rationale is “those are dem cities and it’s their own fault for tolerating that– you’ll notice it didn’t happen in Florida… which IMO has some validity to it).

    But yeah… medical equipment. I don’t see it.

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    1. Why send anything overseas, though? This one clearly brought zero benefit for the US.

      But yes, the question of why he didn’t fire Fauci remains unanswered. Biden seemed to have no problem completing this task.

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    2. it does bother me that he continues to be so proud of the vaccine. And that he was so gullible.

      but Fauci wasn’t fired. He left so that it would be harder to hold him accountable.

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      1. I’m actually not upset with Trump over the vaccine. It was a great achievement at the time and he did deservedly take credit for bringing it ahead. Nobody could have foreseen that the vaccine would turn out to be a dud. It became clear it wasn’t working in February 2021 and that it was doing serious harm by May 2021. That’s not on Trump. The science failed but nobody could have known that in 2020.

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        1. “nobody could have forseen…”

          That is complete BS.

          The vast majority of new drugs never make it out of the testing stage, for good reasons. They decided to push this one straight to market, skipping most of the testing, because “emergency”. There was nothing to suggest it was somehow not subject to the gigantic failure rate of other not-yet-tested drugs.

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    3. Trump is undoubtedly not a righteous or possibly even a virtuous person. I’m a realist, not a fan. My state is going to go for the glass of water with a big D on it no matter what but I’ve lived as an ideological minority here long enough to see where their blind spots are.

      It is a big deal to many Trump supporters that he went along with the lockdowns, although people who were paying attention noticed that he actually tried to open up after that “two weeks to flatten the curve” and was vilified for it to the point that he backed off to let the states make those calls individually. That decision resulted in a period of uniformity tied to covid funding and then increasing variability over time as different states came out with different priorities. It was pretty much hell for those of us who lived in deep blue areas but I’m still glad that not everyone had to live the way we did.

      I followed the BLM and CHAZ fiasco locally with some interest, as there was a lot of concern over how far the rioting would spread. There were demonstrations along the I-5 corridor from Olympia to Bellingham, most of which were orderly as far as property destruction went, but we saw related garbage and graffiti in public parks and other spaces for months. Trump did offer assistance to the governor, county, and city officials and the offer was refused with prejudice. I don’t think that a president has the authority to intervene further without official invitations or federal declaration of emergency.

      There were plenty of reasons to be skeptical of the entire covid program but it was undoubtedly an accomplishment to have pushed the development of the platform that fast, even if sensible people ought to have paused before participating in it. I know too many otherwise competent but scientifically illiterate boomers to be in any doubt about how he could have been convinced that it was the greatest thing since pasteurized milk. It is interesting that the polling must still show that disavowing the shot is more politically costly than maintaining it as a success. The endorsement by RFK suggests that some critical thinking might have arisen since then. At the end of the day, however, he and Biden both said that they would not mandate the shot and only Biden got a chance to prove that he was lying. While I don’t necessarily think that the claims about Harris being involved in every decision-making process are true, the possibility that they are is enough to vote against anyone associated with that colossal violation of human rights.

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    1. This is quite a different “it”, though. It’s not fulfilling the obligations our country freely undertook to protect a friendly country’s territorial integrity. It’s sending medical equipment to an unfriendly country that detests and despises us without any prior obligation or agreement suggesting that we do it.

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    2. I’m intrigued by what you’re referring to as “it”. It seems like Clarissa is interpreting it as Biden administration’s support for Ukraine in her response below. But that happened after Trump’s term.

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      1. given that Putin didn’t invade during Trumps Presidency, seems like Ukraine did better under Trump than Obiden’s terms.

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        1. Definitely. Trump’s foreign policy was always excellent. No complaints on that front.

          Just not to see Jack Sullivan’s stupid, subservient face anymore would be a phenomenal benefit of another Trump presidency.

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