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i keep seeing such reactions, but never any examples

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He is the President of the United States of America.

He has to be a politician on some level. However, he isn’t a career politician so he doesn’t play by the same rules.

He, Pence and all of the teams involved are doing their absolute best.

This is NOT a time to play politics when lives are at stake. The Governors out there who are criticizing wouldn’t have a chance in hell of bringing a team together like this administration has.

For craps sake, you have the politicians in NYC in mid March encouraging people to get out in the public and the democratic front runner wanting open borders.

Reckless behavior and thinking. Being “woke” tends to take a back seat when lives are at stake.

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Go listen to what he said not what the MSM are saying.
He did not say he told Pence not to talk to certain governor’s. He said Pence was talking to all governors. He also said that certain governors who were taking shots at him were doing so for partisan reasons and that if it was up to him he would not be calling them. He would wait for them to call him and ask for support. Because when those governors are taking pot shots at him in partisan ways they are also taking pot shots at all the government agencies that are on the ground working in those states to help with the crisis. That those governors should be thanking all those government works and putting the partisan crap aside.

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Saying something hateful doesn’t get negated by an emoji.

You’re helping to spread the hate from the left, emoji notwithstanding, just like others from the right are helping spread the counter-hate.

And everyone thinks their own ■■■■ doesn’t stink.

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You have a lot higher praise for “the team” than I do.

Much of what they are doing is still reactive and playing catch up.

Businesses are getting a bunch of conflicting messages and need help sorting through their requests and supply chains to make the speciality equipment. Led to the embarrassing case, for example, of Fruit of the Loom developing masks out of the same fabric they use to make underwear which is of no use to any hospital anywhere.

Led to Trump criticizing GM for not building ventilators at a plant they don’t even own anymore, and then invoking the DPA when GM was already starting to make the ventilators anyway.

The experts at the forefront of the team aren’t too bad.

The behind the scenes efforts are still pretty scattershot.

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grab em by the ■■■■■
I like my hero no captured
■■■■ hole countries
mocking a journalist with a medical condition

more recently;
don’t call the gov.s doesn’t matter what happens.
Celebrating that people have COVID or are in isolation.

There are literally thousands of things worse that noticing we are #1 in the world for COVID cases.

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Trump is President.
Hillary is a private citizen.

A wee bit of a difference.

But hey, we’ve gone from 15 cases to almost zero, right?

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When you start attempting to clean up all the untruthful thread titles from your lib cohorts, you’d have some credibility on the matter.

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The libs have that stuck in their brains, and they’re sticking with it.

Damn the actual truth.

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I know what he said. Such talk is completely unhelpful.

A true leader would rise above all shots being taken at him and just do the job.

Even in the worst crisis of his presidency he can’t take any criticism and feels he must lash out every single time.

It’s ridiculous.

Politics won’t stop even when people’s lives are at stake.

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That much is clear. 'Cause the team you appear to cheer for is on the absolute wrong side of this because common sense takes a backseat to being “woke”.

You mean like Cuomo being told he needed ventilators but chose to spend it on solar panels? Now, he is being reactive and expecting the Fed to help him play catch up.

So what? You don’t think that business leaders can’t sort through the information at hand and make a decision without government?

Embarrassing for them not to check out what the standards were first.

Yet, GM is retooling and making ventilators, aren’t they.

Arm chair quarterbacking.

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Hi, Guv!

Thanks for visiting my head today!

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:rofl:

A true leader will call out the BS of the shots being taken and still do the job anyway.

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I don’t have an opinion on who is wrong or who is right, but there is a little more to that phrase.

When they are called heroes, most war veterans say “the real heroes never came back.” John Kelly, the President’s chief of staff said the same thing.

“The soldiers that didn’t come back were the heroes. It’s a roll of the dice. If a bullet has your name on it, you’re a hero. If you hear a bullet go by, you’re a survivor.”

Bob Feller

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/07/19/trump_on_mccain_he_is_a_war_hero_because_he_was_captured_i_like_people_who_werent_captured.html

Republican wildcard Donald Trump tells the audience at the Family Leadership Summit in Iowa his thoughts on Sen. John McCain, who called a room full of Trump supporters, “crazies.”

Trump fires back, saying in 2008 he “raised a million dollars for the guy, that’s a lot of money… he lost, he let us down. He lost, so I never liked him as much after that. I don’t like losers.”

At that point, moderator Frank Luntz interrupts, asking Trump if McCain deserves respect simply for his record in Vietnam.

No way, says Trump. “He insulted me, and he insulted everyone in that room… He is a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured… perhaps he was a war hero, but right now he’s said a lot of very bad things about a lot of people.”

Trump continued, saying McCain “graduated last in his class at Annapolis [Naval Academy]… You’re not supposed to say that somebody graduated last or second to last, because you’re supposed to be very nice.”

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Trump is President while Hillary is not.

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I’m confused as to why you think me protecting my employees is funny. Please feel free to explain what your course of action would be both from the perspective of an employee and an employer.

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Your duplicity does not get a free ride, Mr. “republican”.

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Don’t roll in the mud with him.

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So many misconceptions about my position…so little time.

Start with the false assumptions that private industry should be able to solve any problem that comes their way…even problems they’re not designed to tackle. That shows way too much faith in private industry as the answer to every problem.

Start with this idea I believe in some kind of “wokeness”…an utterly absurd non sequitur.

Start with the idea that states should bear the brunt of the costs ahead of time for a pandemic that would be a once in a blue moon occurrence and would require a coordinated national, state and local response…because in a pandemic, if any link in the chain is broken…if any one local area’s response is weak…it threatens everyone. That Cuomo didn’t buy ventilators in 2015 is a silly charge…that’s what a strategic stockpile is for.

It’s not “armchair quarterbacking”…it’s being able to identify that the approach chosen to fight this issue is totally mismatched the problems the issue presents. And that the people chosen to head up some of the logistics and approaches are wholly unqualified individuals who in many cases are philosophically opposed to the role the federal government must play to have the most effective response.

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Your position is founded in the misconception that you actually know what’s going on behind the scenes.

What you know is what the media have fed us. Season that with the media’s hatred for this administration (as well as yours) and your opinions aren’t really worth the pixels it takes to display them.

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