Combine that with the real likelihood of a 9/11-type event due to collapse of the FBI and boy oh boy will Trump fans have a lot to answer for.

We had a 9/11-type event and many many many smaller scale terrorists events WITH a "non-collapsed" FBI!

I'm not sure what "9/11 type" event your referring to.

Saying there are still terrorists attacks, so we should gut the FBI is like saying the flu is still a thing so we should gut the CDC.

Well, maybe 9/11 itself?

That happened (the planning stages at least) before 9/11.

Hmmm... I sort of inferred a "since 9/11" but I concede that's not actually spelled out in the comment I'm replying to, so fair enough.

They'll answer for nothing, they'll blame globalists for the terrorists and renegade fauci labs for any virus.

This.

100% Reichstag fire.

When you increase the odds of catastrophe, you are also increasing the need for more authoritarian responses.

disingenuous answer not becoming of yc

This is a factual answer. We need to keep the facts here on HN, other sites are being drowned in propaganda.

To clarify: The deeply unserious way our current President tackled Covid-19 is why it got so bad in the first place. Once the Democrats took over, the plague was eradicated in short order, with vaccines, organization, and correct information. And NIH and Darpa funding is what allowed that vaccine to be created in the first place. Spare me the BS about operating warp-speed...the pharmas were doing that anyway. It was the critical mRNA research (now banned BTW) that allowed the creation of the vaccine. Facts are funny things.

Operation Warp Speed was Trump. It was a success.

What, pray tell, is disingenuous?

Sure, the comment is a bit pointed, but isn’t the GOP the party of “F%#k Your Feelings”?

What part of my comment was false?

"Obviously the work of a real genius who understands the power of using very bright lights inside the body to fight COVID." you joking?

Are you suggesting that’s false?

>After the administrator, William N. Bryan, the head of science at the Department of Homeland Security, told the briefing that the agency had tested how sunlight and disinfectants — including bleach and alcohol — can kill the coronavirus on surfaces in as little as 30 seconds, an excited Mr. Trump returned to the lectern.

>“Supposing we hit the body with a tremendous — whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light,” Mr. Trump said. “And I think you said that hasn’t been checked, but we’re going to test it?” he added, turning to Mr. Bryan, who had returned to his seat. “And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body, either through the skin or some other way.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/health/sunlight-coronavir...

I’m basically quoting him.

If you really want to split hairs, perhaps I should have wrote “the work of a very stable genius”.

Quotes and sources below:

Trump mused about whether disinfectants could be used to treat the virus in humans – asking whether there is “a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning.” [0]

Trump “would qualify as not smart, but genius .... and a very stable genius at that!”[1]

"Suppose that we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful light," Trump said at the White House coronavirus press briefing, adding: "Supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way." [2]

[0]https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/23/politics/fact-check-coronavir...

[1] https://apnews.com/article/2bb960fda0264c488d454632628cb193

[2] https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-wants-bring-light-insi...