Q2 2020 GDP growth: -32.9%.... Yes, you've read it right.

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  1. The Mello Guy

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    Including Herman Cain (RIP)....but maybe he’s a never trumper who killed him self to make trump look bad
     
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    FYI, Trump didn't shut down the economy, but don't let facts get between you and your dishonest ignorance.

    Here in Virginia, our Democratic governor is responsible for the scorched earth policy that resulted in shutting the entire state down regardless of whether or not specific areas required such extreme measures. To make matters worse, him and the Democratic-controlled General Assembly failed to ensure that the Virginia Employment Commission could handle the tsunami of unemployment claims BEFORE Governor Coonman put all those people out of work. Because of that, we still have thousands of Virginians who have never received the federal and state unemployment benefits they are entitled to and thousands more have had their benefits cut off and can't get a hold of anyone at the VEC to identify and resolve the problem.

    Will Virginia residents and businesses survive the worst governor and legislature in the Commonwealth's history?

    A lot of them won't...
     
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    Trump is not to blame for the virus.
    Trump does need to accept the economic numbers that have been generated during the response to the virus ... just as
    Obama had to accept the economic numbers for the response to the 2007-08 recession and two foreign wars.

    Crap happens while a President is in office. Obama didn't start the recession of 2007-2008, but he had
    to accept responsibility for the response to that crisis.

    Trump didn't start the virus. But he will have to accept responsibility for the economic numbers that occur during
    the response to that crisis.
     
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    How many of they "actually" died from Covid? And not a illness related from Covid? That makes a very big difference, also Recovery rate?
     
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    So you guys didn't expect this when you were screaming shut down shut down? Seriously you guys couldn't think that far ahead?
     
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    For that 1500, 0%
     
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    Something like 45 Million folks lost their jobs, or cannot operate their businesses. They remain closed, and yet, for the most part, the infection rate continues unabated. Does this constitute a win for you?
     
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    And for everyone else its like 98%
     
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    for two weeks. how long has it been now?
     
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    That's cute. Would you have accepted Obama coming before the American public and saying, "I don't accept
    an responsibility for the economic numbers during the recovery of the recession because the governors were
    creating their own economic recovery plans. It's all their fault."

    Sorry - doesn't work that way.
     
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    Are you seriously trying to make a distinction between death from covid and death from an illness related to covid? The **** is wrong with you?

    That's like saying, "he didn't die from AIDs, he died from pneumonia that his body was unable to fight because of the AIDs."
     
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    Oh I don't know, maybe because when it comes to poltical world those stats change and mean something?
    Why don't you answer the question?
     
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    45 days is not two weeks.
     
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    Tell the families that, I’m sure they’ll feel better
     
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    I did. Now do not ****ing use that excuse again.
     
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    So you rescind all of those calls that keeping folks from China out because as so many on your team suggested, it was racist... So where is your voice now? China is having another bout, where are you calls for their isolation from the world community that they infected once already?
     
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    Of course I expected this. Anyone who can do basic arithmetic expected this. But it wasn't done out of spite. It was done because some of us value human life outside the womb too.

    Again, if we had paid up front by preparing for the pandemic, this cost could have been mitigated. But we didn't, so we paid it all at once. That's what happens when you don't prepare for something.
     
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    Im sure they do
     
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    Who says they influence? That didn't, and doesn't stop them from spreading their inflammatory message of fear does it?
     
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    So you wanted the governors to open back up sooner, why didn't you speak up? I guess maybe you thought closing down but some how the toothfairy would deliver cash to all those businesses....
     
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    Miami/Dade emergency rooms are at 130% of capacity right now. That's not a happy place.
     
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    I did not say that I wanted the country to open up sooner. I am trying to help that dude understand that CNN is not responsible for the economy shutting down.
     
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    Yea ok, so how many people died from Covid and not something else brought on by Covid? Helps when you can critically think you know.
     
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    Who's speech is being silenced by taking media off the essential list? Every one of them can still stand on the street corner and preach. Who's speech do you feel wouldn't be heard?
     
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    LOL... CNN scream for lockdown for safety, they scream about the horror of the economy because of it. They are advocates, not informers.
     
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