Just a hypothetical
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talkpoliticsLet me modify the current situation, and imagine how Trump would've handled it if it weren't a pandemic. Suppose it wasn't a pandemic. Suppose it was some different kind of crisis.
In fact, suppose scientists had come to Trump in January of this year, and warned him that they had detected a two-mile-wide asteroid on a collision course with Earth, due to impact in October of this year.
Here is Donald Trump: "No, there's no asteroid! This is just the latest Democratic hoax! It's a witch-hunt! There is nothing bad going to happen! And even if there IS an asteroid on a collision course with Earth, it will veer away, at the last minute, like a miracle! Just wait and see! This is all about the Democrats trying to rig the election! Mail-in voting! Voter fraud! Millions of illegal aliens will vote! It's going to be the biggest political swindle in history! And there's no asteroid! And even if an asteroid DOES hit, it will be very, very minor, and we will have it completely under control, in just a few days. And if it kills a couple million Americans, well, it is what it is. But it'll probably just hit the Chinese. And even if the asteroid totally destroys the Earth... the United States will come out better than any other country..."
Yeah. You pretty much KNOW it would have gone that way.
Democrats: "If we send up a bunch of rockets with controlled explosions, we could deflect it away from us."
Libertarians: "Yes, but how would we pay for it?"
GOP: "What asteroid?"
In fact, suppose scientists had come to Trump in January of this year, and warned him that they had detected a two-mile-wide asteroid on a collision course with Earth, due to impact in October of this year.
Here is Donald Trump: "No, there's no asteroid! This is just the latest Democratic hoax! It's a witch-hunt! There is nothing bad going to happen! And even if there IS an asteroid on a collision course with Earth, it will veer away, at the last minute, like a miracle! Just wait and see! This is all about the Democrats trying to rig the election! Mail-in voting! Voter fraud! Millions of illegal aliens will vote! It's going to be the biggest political swindle in history! And there's no asteroid! And even if an asteroid DOES hit, it will be very, very minor, and we will have it completely under control, in just a few days. And if it kills a couple million Americans, well, it is what it is. But it'll probably just hit the Chinese. And even if the asteroid totally destroys the Earth... the United States will come out better than any other country..."
Yeah. You pretty much KNOW it would have gone that way.
Democrats: "If we send up a bunch of rockets with controlled explosions, we could deflect it away from us."
Libertarians: "Yes, but how would we pay for it?"
GOP: "What asteroid?"
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Date: 5/8/20 13:05 (UTC)I LOL'd because that is EXACTLY what he would say, omg.
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Date: 8/8/20 05:16 (UTC)"Sir, this is a rock, there are no skulls."
"BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD, SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!"
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Date: 5/8/20 23:08 (UTC)"Space isn't sending us its best objects."
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Date: 8/8/20 05:15 (UTC)I used to think it was a ridiculous idea that scientists could warn people of a blindingly obvious thing that on the surface seemed to offer some solutions and they'd be laughed and and dismissed and now....