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Re:For Years WallStreet Spent More on Buybacks Than It Earne... by frandroid on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @10:42AM (#22617161)
If he's not crucified by his base for letting the disease go rampant, he won't get crucified for anything else. In any rational country his approval ratings would be in the teens, not the forties, right now.
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Re:For Years WallStreet Spent More on Buybacks Than It Earne... by ses1984 on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @04:17PM (#22620806)
But being crucified for letting the disease go rampant would be totally reasonable and his base isn't that.
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Re:For Years WallStreet Spent More on Buybacks Than It Earne... by aguyfromnb on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @11:16AM (#22617530)
>If he's not crucified by his base for letting the disease go rampant

For his small part in this, it was mismanaged, certainly. But if you think that the reason Covid-19 is spreading is because "Trump let it happen", you have an interesting view of how the institutions work.

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Re:For Years WallStreet Spent More on Buybacks Than It Earne... by sdenton4 on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @11:56AM (#22618045)
Firing the pandemic department certainly doesn't help... For starters.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team/

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Re:For Years WallStreet Spent More on Buybacks Than It Earne... by frandroid on Thursday March 19, 2020 @10:14AM (#22627656)
He's been in denial for weeks, event calling it a Democratic Party hoax to try to take him down, instead of starting to take early measures.
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