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Re:Bill Gates calls for nationwide shutdown by bamboozled on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @10:20AM (#22748739)
The leader of the free world is still coming to terms with the economic damage on the horizon, not to mention there will be nothing left of his personal brand once / if he does the right thing.

As with climate change, the solution has been broadsided by petty politics.

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Re:Bill Gates calls for nationwide shutdown by kick on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @10:25AM (#22748821)
"The Leader of the Free World" is such an unnecessary term. It started out as propaganda and hasn't gotten more true since about any POTUS.
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Re:Bill Gates calls for nationwide shutdown by johannes1234321 on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @10:37AM (#22749000)
I would interpret the GP as I treat any reference of such a title and Trump: As satiric. Some predecessors might have tried to fill such a title and living up to it. For Trump it is a non-goal.
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Re:Bill Gates calls for nationwide shutdown by kick on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @10:57AM (#22749271)
It's not just Trump. If you're interpreting their comment as satirical solely because of the reference to Trump, you're missing the point of my own. No one in charge of the United States has ever deserved that title, nor tried to live up to it. It was never anything but well-aimed propaganda. That it's lived past the Cold War (and, do note, was coined in reference to someone far more damaging to freedom than Trump) is ridiculous.
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