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2020-02-25 Home Front: Politix
ALERT: Coronavirus merges with Trump Derangement Syndrome
Legal Insurrection via Instapundit
The way things have been going, the economy was on target to remain powerful through Election Day 2020, giving Trump a strong likelihood of reelection. Reflecting that reality, a record percentage of Americans are satisfied with their lives.

Enter coronavirus and the potential for a pandemic that causes worldwide suffering and economic damage tanking the stock market and the U.S. economy. The Trump administration has been very proactive, even though China has rebuffed help, including just requesting $2.5 billion specifically targeted at coronavirus response.

Enter Trump Derangement Syndrome, where the number one priority is defeating Trump. And if devastation to the stock market due to coronavirus is needed, well, Democrats and media supporters are practically giddy at placing the blame on Trump.

The stock market plunged today! 2020 is looking better and better for Democrats.

Ted Lieu tried to blame Trump for cuts to the Centers for Disease Control that have not taken place and would not have affected coronavirus response anyway:
Some "rights" NGO submitting that quarantine violates civil rights, and some Obama judge issuing an injunction against quarantine in 5 .. 4 .. 3
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-02-25 04:15|| || Front Page|| [7 views ]  Top

#1 Ooops
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-02-25 04:20||   2020-02-25 04:20|| Front Page Top

#2  Ooops

Better now, g(r)omgoru?
Posted by trailing wife 2020-02-25 06:11||   2020-02-25 06:11|| Front Page Top

#3 /\ Depends ?
Posted by Besoeker 2020-02-25 06:13||   2020-02-25 06:13|| Front Page Top

#4 When the media really, really, hopes for a body count to take out the President is it finally okay to question their patriotism?
Posted by rjschwarz 2020-02-25 11:07||   2020-02-25 11:07|| Front Page Top

#5 The stock market doesn't predict election results. The key is unemployment.

The unemployment rate is not going to spike in the next four months. Labor markets are too "sticky" for that.

Quit panicking. It's unseemly. Never Trumper-ish.
Posted by Lex 2020-02-25 11:13||   2020-02-25 11:13|| Front Page Top

#6  Depends ?

Leaky?
Posted by Skidmark 2020-02-25 12:06||   2020-02-25 12:06|| Front Page Top

#7 #2 Gracias
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-02-25 12:17||   2020-02-25 12:17|| Front Page Top

#8 The only thing I am majorly worried about with this pandemic is the panic that happens with it. That will shut down work, schools, transportation, etc. and cause some pretty severe economic slowdown.

Keep calm. Buy food/water just in case and carry on.
Posted by DarthVader 2020-02-25 12:25||   2020-02-25 12:25|| Front Page Top

#9 Bernie could win in a time of pandemics as his politics has a lot experience rounding people up and quarantining them from the rest of the population. Mostly it was done for having ideas the state disagreed with , but you can see the skills transfers.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-02-25 13:01||   2020-02-25 13:01|| Front Page Top

#10 'This might be bad': Top CDC official warns it's 'not a question of if but when' coronavirus spreads in the US and tells parents to prepare kids for school closures and 'significant disruption in our lives'
Posted by Skidmark 2020-02-25 15:04||   2020-02-25 15:04|| Front Page Top

#11 Skidmark, that CDC official is funny as I don't believe any kids have been infected so far. Seems to prefer old folks mostly. Someone is spreading fear for whatever reason.
Posted by rjschwarz 2020-02-25 15:17||   2020-02-25 15:17|| Front Page Top

#12 #11 kids get the flu too...
Posted by Woodrow 2020-02-25 15:39||   2020-02-25 15:39|| Front Page Top

#13 True but the stats out of China show 0% under ten have been infected, so far.
Posted by rjschwarz 2020-02-25 16:33||   2020-02-25 16:33|| Front Page Top

#14 Re #10, 11, "school closures and significant disruption,"

i.e., "KEEP IN THE VOTE!"
Posted by Maggie Clong8696 2020-02-25 16:38||   2020-02-25 16:38|| Front Page Top

#15 From Wikipedia: The Spanish Flu In 1918–1919, 99% of pandemic influenza deaths in the U.S. occurred in people under 65, and nearly half in young adults 20 to 40 years old. Some analyses have shown the virus to be particularly deadly because it triggers a cytokine storm, which ravages the stronger immune system of young adults
Posted by Texhooey 2020-02-25 21:36||   2020-02-25 21:36|| Front Page Top

#16 Skidmark, that CDC official is funny

Reported she is Rod Rosenstein's sister. Getting ahead of the virus or getting political?
Posted by Count Galeazzo Untervehr7098 2020-02-25 21:52||   2020-02-25 21:52|| Front Page Top

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