Mike Luckovich for June 23, 2020

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    DD Wiz Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    Tя☭mp☠ fails a competency test and the American people pay a massive price in loss of life, jobs and economic security and public trust.

    The spread of COVID-19 (COVFEFE-45?) is almost 100% the sole and exclusive fault of Donald Trump.

    Trump did not create the virus or cause the pandemic to start, but he is the one responsible for taking a manageable infectious disease and turn it into a raging, out-of-control engine of death, exploding into a national emergency.

    Before the virus hit, Trump promptly dismantled every proactive measure enacted by Obama and that had previously been available to him:

    • Dismantled Obama’s Pandemic Preparedness Office

    • Threw away the pandemic playbook Obama left for him

    • Terminated the SARS vaccine research*

    • Recalled all on-the-ground foreign inspectors, including one stationed in Wuhan, China

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    When the virus hit, Trump DID NOTHING FOR MONTHS, promising it would just go away to zero “like a miracle.”

    • Ignored warnings from advisors

    • Denied the severity of the possible pandemic

    • Played golf and held massive, crowded rallies

    • Refused access to testing that would cause numbers to look bad

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    *COVID-19 is a variant of SARS, technically, SARS-CoV-2

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    Concretionist  almost 4 years ago

    Pffft. Fake test. Besides he won’t scribble on it unless you let him use a sharpie.

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    Monster Hesh  almost 4 years ago

    https://twitter.com/AshleyRParker/status/1275232506053361665

    "In a White House meeting, Trump — unprompted — suddenly began waxing on about a cognitive test he took in 2018, boasting about how well he’d done, and how he’d been able to repeat five words in order. Then, he challenged Biden to take the same test.

    It was the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MOCA) test. Someone in the replies to this tweet (where you can see the test itself) describes it as “mostly a test to make sure that the subject isn’t actually a potted plant in disguise.” And Tiny Toadstool’s shrieking about it like it proves beyond all that he’s Best At Smart.

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    Dtroutma  almost 4 years ago

    Use Sharpie blots.

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    feverjr Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    Why aren’t the CDC and NIH screaming bloody murder? Where’s their leadership? It does no good to do all the research and not apply it. How did suppressing a virus become solely political? There are Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for handling outbreaks and they have to be enforced rigorously to eradicate a disease. Putting politics in the mix may doom us to living with this virus for years. Who will need a pension if you won’t live much beyond your working years….?

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    mourdac Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    I wonder if PINO Trump’s failed to take intelligence tests using the same logic as COVFEFE-45 testing….

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    Spun_G  almost 4 years ago

    Bolton’s book gives us the competency level of our Commandeer-In-Thief.

    He’s done enough walkbacks (after his tongue or tweets burst out) to wear a streak through the Oval Office rug.

    If a person really does not know what the truth is, how would they consider themselves as lying? There is none so blind as……

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    Cpeckbourlioux  almost 4 years ago

    If only…if only he could read enough to even take a competency test. But of course, with his attention span, he wouldn’t get past page one. Or question one: Your Name.

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    jvo  almost 4 years ago

    Trump would never write his name unless he was paid to do it…….up front.

    No guarantees of anything after that.

    But he will claim that 100% of his test results were correct, and that he passed it with flying colours.

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    The Love of Money is . . .  almost 4 years ago

    Trump can only pass a picture test by coloring within the lines.

    In November the remainder of us will try to do the same on a ballot.

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    Michael G.  almost 4 years ago

    Remind me, someone, please. Exactly what are his “personal triumphs and accomplishments”, his “qualifications”, for the office he has turned into a privy?

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    Radish the wordsmith  almost 4 years ago

    Congress authorized 14 billion for testing months ago, Trump is still hanging onto the money.

    Only testing could have slowed or stopped the virus and the Trump admin refused to test the nation or even come up with a coherent plan.

    The Trump admin allowed covid to spread to every corner of the country.

    Trump Gate = 122,000 deaths, 45,000,000 Americans unemployed

    Billionaires have made over 500,000,000,000 dollars.

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    Richard S Russell Premium Member almost 4 years ago

     World Records in Ball Dropping

    2001-08-06 • Presidential Daily Brief: “Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US” • Bush did nothing.

    2001-09-11 • 5 weeks after PDB • 9/11 attacks • Death toll: 2,977

    2020-01-07 • Presidential Daily Brief: “Analysts concluded [coronavirus] could be a cataclysmic event.” • Trump did nothing.

    2020-03-11 • WHO declared a global pandemic.

    2020-04-15 • Trump suspended US funding of WHO.

    2020-06-23 • 24 weeks after PDB • US death toll: 122,634

    For comparison • Korean War (33,686) + Vietnam War (58,220) + Afghan War (7,970): 99,876

    Now past • WW1: 116,516

    Future targets • WW2 (418,500) • Civil War (~620,000)

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    Radish the wordsmith  almost 4 years ago

    Oregon church cited Trump to ignore state rules on public gatherings — now it has 236 COVID cases

    https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/oregon-church-cited-trump-to-ignore-state-rules-on-public-gatherings-now-it-has-236-covid-cases/

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    Alberta Oil Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    Testing only confirms you have a problem.. whether you want to know the numbers or not.. the COVID-19 virus continues to sicken more and more folk and the number you can not ignore is of those that die.

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    Radish the wordsmith  almost 4 years ago

    Trump says US ‘did a great job on coronavirus’ as cases rise and death toll hits 122,000

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-twitter-today-us-coronavirus-cases-death-toll-covid-19-a9581491.html

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    Radish the wordsmith  almost 4 years ago

    Barr Barr the elephant boy says he can’t testify before congress due to the virus.

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    Curiosity Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    The only things he has ever been anything remotely near competent at are conning people out of money and votes.

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    paranormal  almost 4 years ago

    3 1/2 years late on the competency exam!

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    Godfreydaniel  almost 4 years ago

    Besides the obvious problem, Li’l Donnie will need two hands to hold the clipboard AND two more hands to hold the pen!

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    pamela welch Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    We all know he’ll flunk!

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