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2020-04-27 Home Front: Politix

Pandemic Opportunities Arise for Trump but Will He Take Them?

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Posted by Clem 2020-04-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 Firstly, it is important to note that there is nothing inherently morally evil in exploiting a crisis for political gains

Huh?

Ok, admitted that "evil" is a strong word.
How about "slimy," "stupid," counter-productive"?

Or, "Chinese"?

Posted by Lex 2020-04-27 00:47|| 2020-04-27 00:47|| Front Page Top

#2 I did the same "huh?" as well, Lex, to that statement.

Posted by Clem 2020-04-27 06:42|| 2020-04-27 06:42|| Front Page Top

#3 Sorry but that statement is correct. The key is "inherently". All depends on the change made. Is it a change that is good for most everybody? Then why is it "evil"?

As with most everything, the devil's in the details.

Posted by AlanC 2020-04-27 08:16|| 2020-04-27 08:16|| Front Page Top

#4 Was it "evil" to shoot down Yamamoto's plane?

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-04-27 11:47|| 2020-04-27 11:47|| Front Page Top

#5 Was it "evil" for someone to give Stalin rat poison?

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-04-27 11:48|| 2020-04-27 11:48|| Front Page Top

#6 So to the point of the article, Trump does have some opportunities to exercise when he isn't battling reporters aimlessly.

Like reorganizing charters of the cabinet.
Health and Human Services has a lot of overlap with Housing and Urban Development. I would propose Housing and Human Services, then all things medical under The Department of Health to include anti-health issues like bad/poor food, smoking, diet management, air pollution, etc. The EPA should spread across Dept of Energy and Dept of Transportation.

Scream if you like but one of the problems is caused by the mixed messaging.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-27 12:54|| 2020-04-27 12:54|| Front Page Top

#7 He should get together with other western democracies and create a replacement for the WHO. Consider other tasks currently done by the UN and look into creating replacements so that we can starve the UN of funds without missing a beat on anything truly useful they *might* actually do.

With all of that he should find any holdovers from the last administration and purge them.

Posted by ruprecht 2020-04-27 21:57|| 2020-04-27 21:57|| Front Page Top

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