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Yeah i know but surely there's people waiting to knife him to get the presidency themselves?

I don't know US politics enough and appreciate the presidency isn't the same as prime minister so perhaps there's not the mechanism.
 

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:houllier: All that backtracking basically amounted to saying that disinfectant kills the virus apparently so I've come up with an idea that we could wash our hands, I've told my scientist to investigate and will get back to you on whether hand washing is a good thing.

It's bizarre how he gets away with this.
 

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To look into whether or not sun — and disinfectant on the hands — but whether or not sun can help us. Because, I mean he came in yesterday and he said they’ve done a big study. This is a study. This isn’t where he hasn’t done it. This is where they’ve come in with a final report that sun has a massive impact negatively on this virus. In other words, it does not live well with humidity and it doesn’t live well with sun, sunlight, heat. It doesn’t live well with heat and sun and and disinfectant. And that’s what I brought up, and I thought that was clear.
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fecking kill me now.

So, he’s going to check because a hard surface. This is a hard surface I guess maybe depending on whose hand you’re talking about, right? But this is a hard surface and disinfectant, disinfectant has an unbelievable — it wipes it out. You saw it? Sun and heat, and humidity and you wipe it out.
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Actually, kill him instead.
 

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Drawfull said:
LIke what the actual feck:

Here is a fuller report on the exchange that just took place in the Oval Office between Donald Trump and the small group of reporters gathered to see him sign the latest coronavirus financial rescue legislation.

From the pool:

Reporter: Can you clarify your comments about injection on disinfectant?

POTUS [President of the United States]: I was asking a question sarcastically to reporters like you just to see what would happen. Now disinfectant or doing this maybe on the hands would work. I was asking the question of the gentleman who was there yesterday, Bill [Bill Bryan, the acting homeland security undersecretary for science and technology], because when they say that something will last three to four hours or six hours, but if sun is out, or if they use disinfectant, it goes away in less than a minute. Did you hear about this yesterday?

POTUS: When I was asking a sarcastic — a very sarcastic question to the reporters in the room about disinfectant on the inside, but it does kill it, and it would kill it on the hands and that would make things much better. That was done in the form of a sarcastic question to a reporter.

Reporter: But you were asking your medical experts to look into it.

POTUS: To look into whether or not sun — and disinfectant on the hands — but whether or not sun can help us. Because, I mean he came in yesterday and he said they’ve done a big study. This is a study. This isn’t where he hasn’t done it. This is where they’ve come in with a final report that sun has a massive impact negatively on this virus. In other words, it does not live well with humidity and it doesn’t live well with sun, sunlight, heat. It doesn’t live well with heat and sun and and disinfectant. And that’s what I brought up, and I thought that was clear.

Jeff Mason [Reuters journalist]: Just to follow up on the comments from yesterday you said you were being sarcastic, but some people may have misunderstood you. Do you want to just clarify?

POTUS: I wish they […]

Jeff Mason: Do you want to clarify to Americans if you don’t want people to think that?

POTUS. Yes. I do think that disinfectant on the hands could have a very good effect. Now, Bill is going back to check that in the laboratory. You know, it’s an amazing laboratory, by the way. It’s amazing the work they do. So, he’s going to check because a hard surface. This is a hard surface I guess maybe depending on whose hand you’re talking about, right? But this is a hard surface and disinfectant, disinfectant has an unbelievable — it wipes it out. You saw it? Sun and heat, and humidity and you wipe it out. And this is from tests — they’ve been doing these tests for a number of months. And the result — so then I said, ‘Well, how do we do it inside the body or even outside the body with the hands and disinfectant I think would work.’ He thinks it would work. When you use it when you’re doing your hands. I guess that’s one of the reasons they say wash your hands, but whether it’s washing hands or disinfectant on your hands, it’s very good. So, they’re going to start looking at that. And there is a way of, you know, if light — if sun, sun itself that sun has a tremendous impact on or kills it like in one — it goes from what was it? Hours to like one minute instead.

So, I said you got to go back and look, but I’d like them now to look as it pertains to the human body. Not just sitting on a railing or sitting on a wall. I’d like to look as it pertains because maybe there’s something there. They have to work with — I’m not a doctor. They have to work with their doctors. but maybe there is something to light, and the human body, and helping people that are dying.

Jeff Mason: Just to clarify: You’re not encouraging Americans to inject disinfectant?

POTUS: No. Of course not…It was said sarcastically. It was put in the form of a question to a group of extraordinary hostile people. Namely, the fake news media.

Jeff Mason: Some doctors felt you needed to clarify that after your comments.

POTUS: Of course, all they had to do was see just — you know the way it was asked. I was looking at you.

Jeff Mason: No you weren’t sir. I wasn’t there yesterday.

Weijia Jiang: You were looking at Dr. Birx.

POTUS: What’s that?

Weijia Jiang: You were looking at Dr. Birx.

POTUS: I was looking at Bill. I was looking at the doctor. I was looking at some of the reporters. I don’t know if you were there. Were you there?

Weijia Jiang: I was there and I watched you ask her.

POTUS: You were there. You were there. You I never forget.

Jeff Mason: I wasn’t there yesterday.

POTUS: You were not?

Jeff Mason: No sir.

POTUS: Yeah. I didn’t think you were there.
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Extraordinary. The man truly has no shame.
 

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Drawfull said:
LIke what the actual feck:

Here is a fuller report on the exchange that just took place in the Oval Office between Donald Trump and the small group of reporters gathered to see him sign the latest coronavirus financial rescue legislation.

From the pool:

Reporter: Can you clarify your comments about injection on disinfectant?

POTUS [President of the United States]: I was asking a question sarcastically to reporters like you just to see what would happen. Now disinfectant or doing this maybe on the hands would work. I was asking the question of the gentleman who was there yesterday, Bill [Bill Bryan, the acting homeland security undersecretary for science and technology], because when they say that something will last three to four hours or six hours, but if sun is out, or if they use disinfectant, it goes away in less than a minute. Did you hear about this yesterday?

POTUS: When I was asking a sarcastic — a very sarcastic question to the reporters in the room about disinfectant on the inside, but it does kill it, and it would kill it on the hands and that would make things much better. That was done in the form of a sarcastic question to a reporter.

Reporter: But you were asking your medical experts to look into it.

POTUS: To look into whether or not sun — and disinfectant on the hands — but whether or not sun can help us. Because, I mean he came in yesterday and he said they’ve done a big study. This is a study. This isn’t where he hasn’t done it. This is where they’ve come in with a final report that sun has a massive impact negatively on this virus. In other words, it does not live well with humidity and it doesn’t live well with sun, sunlight, heat. It doesn’t live well with heat and sun and and disinfectant. And that’s what I brought up, and I thought that was clear.

Jeff Mason [Reuters journalist]: Just to follow up on the comments from yesterday you said you were being sarcastic, but some people may have misunderstood you. Do you want to just clarify?

POTUS: I wish they […]

Jeff Mason: Do you want to clarify to Americans if you don’t want people to think that?

POTUS. Yes. I do think that disinfectant on the hands could have a very good effect. Now, Bill is going back to check that in the laboratory. You know, it’s an amazing laboratory, by the way. It’s amazing the work they do. So, he’s going to check because a hard surface. This is a hard surface I guess maybe depending on whose hand you’re talking about, right? But this is a hard surface and disinfectant, disinfectant has an unbelievable — it wipes it out. You saw it? Sun and heat, and humidity and you wipe it out. And this is from tests — they’ve been doing these tests for a number of months. And the result — so then I said, ‘Well, how do we do it inside the body or even outside the body with the hands and disinfectant I think would work.’ He thinks it would work. When you use it when you’re doing your hands. I guess that’s one of the reasons they say wash your hands, but whether it’s washing hands or disinfectant on your hands, it’s very good. So, they’re going to start looking at that. And there is a way of, you know, if light — if sun, sun itself that sun has a tremendous impact on or kills it like in one — it goes from what was it? Hours to like one minute instead.

So, I said you got to go back and look, but I’d like them now to look as it pertains to the human body. Not just sitting on a railing or sitting on a wall. I’d like to look as it pertains because maybe there’s something there. They have to work with — I’m not a doctor. They have to work with their doctors. but maybe there is something to light, and the human body, and helping people that are dying.

Jeff Mason: Just to clarify: You’re not encouraging Americans to inject disinfectant?

POTUS: No. Of course not…It was said sarcastically. It was put in the form of a question to a group of extraordinary hostile people. Namely, the fake news media.

Jeff Mason: Some doctors felt you needed to clarify that after your comments.

POTUS: Of course, all they had to do was see just — you know the way it was asked. I was looking at you.

Jeff Mason: No you weren’t sir. I wasn’t there yesterday.

Weijia Jiang: You were looking at Dr. Birx.

POTUS: What’s that?

Weijia Jiang: You were looking at Dr. Birx.

POTUS: I was looking at Bill. I was looking at the doctor. I was looking at some of the reporters. I don’t know if you were there. Were you there?

Weijia Jiang: I was there and I watched you ask her.

POTUS: You were there. You were there. You I never forget.

Jeff Mason: I wasn’t there yesterday.

POTUS: You were not?

Jeff Mason: No sir.

POTUS: Yeah. I didn’t think you were there.
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this is amazing :lol:
 

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Drawfull said:
Is Pence any better? Genuine question, I have no idea. But that's who it'd be, right?
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Pence will probably pray the shit out of the virus. Organize mass prayers evangelical style and be done with it once and for all.
 

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He's just saying the death toll will be far below the 100k mark now. Looks like he's not touting the 60K figure anymore. In the Oval Office news conference, first he says he was being sarcastic then he goes on to explain again about what he was asking the doctors to look into just contradicting himself in front of the watching world. That McCarthy is just a spineless fecker just like the rest of his GOP enablers.
 

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RedPed said:
He's just saying the death toll will be far below the 100k mark now. Looks like he's not touting the 60K figure anymore. In the Oval Office news conference, first he says he was being sarcastic then he goes on to explain again about what he was asking the doctors to look into just contradicting himself in front of the watching world. That McCarthy is just a spineless fecker just like the rest of his GOP enablers.
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He's clueless. It is absolutely certain at this stage that it is gonna surpass 100k (even if the lockdown continues indefinitely, which is not gonna happen).

The scientists need to be a bit more honest and change their numbers. 150k (first wave only) is more realistic, if not downright optimistic. And until the vaccine happens, the number might increase a few folds.
 

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Revan said:
He's clueless. It is absolutely certain at this stage that it is gonna surpass 100k (even if the lockdown continues indefinitely, which is not gonna happen).

The scientists need to be a bit more honest and change their numbers. 150k (first wave only) is more realistic, if not downright optimistic. And until the vaccine happens, the number might increase a few folds.
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It's fine he'll just come out at that point and say that the death totals will be lower than 200k and he'll also say that he never said 50k or 100k.
 

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It's fine he'll just come out at that point and say that the death totals will be lower than 200k and he'll also say that he never said 50k or 100k.
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‘Well, what I mean, and a lot of people don’t know this, is with the ‘k’, the doctors were telling me those numbers in the metric system. Because they’re doctors.‘
 

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Organic Potatoes said:
‘Well, what I mean, and a lot of people don’t know this, is with the ‘k’, the doctors were telling me those numbers in the metric system. Because they’re doctors.‘
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And then you'll see the zombie brigade protesting against Arabic metric systems.
 

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Balljy said:
:houllier: All that backtracking basically amounted to saying that disinfectant kills the virus apparently so I've come up with an idea that we could wash our hands, I've told my scientist to investigate and will get back to you on whether hand washing is a good thing.

It's bizarre how he gets away with this.
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A very weak MSM and press.
 

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RedPed said:
He's just saying the death toll will be far below the 100k mark now. Looks like he's not touting the 60K figure anymore. In the Oval Office news conference, first he says he was being sarcastic then he goes on to explain again about what he was asking the doctors to look into just contradicting himself in front of the watching world. That McCarthy is just a spineless fecker just like the rest of his GOP enablers.
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Can you please leave Mick alone? He has had enough from Keane to last his entire life.
 

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Buster15 said:
Despite the fact that he is President of the USA and supposedly the most powerful man in the world, it seems to me that he hears tiny snippets of information.
And without any attempt to understand it, he then as libs and trots out this stuff as if he is really clever and understands everything.

Luckily, everyone knows that you should take absolutely no notice of anything he says.

Never seen a president like him for talking total rubbish.
I mean. Can you imagine Obama saying this?
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Just watched a doc on the Hubble telescope and there was a snippet of Bush talking and it became apparent that he was a better public speaker than Trump. Bush!
 

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Bleach has been a common Trump supporter thing before too


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Bush as a crazy as he was, still had competent personnel in his administration.
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He and his people dealt with 2 big things- 9/11 and Katrina.
After 9/11 they launched a massive invasion in Afghanistan which after 20 years is returning to the Taliban, and they then launched an invasion of Iraq which was and is a masssive disaster. The only positive of Iraq was that it went so badly they could not go to Iran like they wanted to.
Their Katrina response was awful in terms of aid provided, and also included indiscriminate shooting by police, and massive privatisations while people were literally drowning.

He had competent people - competent in their agendas rather than for others.
 

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I've said it before, but to really understand how utterly inept, incompetent, and truly dumb this motherfecker is you have to read a transcript from one of his speeches. Listening to him is bad enough, but it's only when you read a transcript can you truly appreciate it. Here's part of it:
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I used to think he didn't know what he was saying from one day to the next but that's giving him way to much credit.

He doesn't even know what he's saying from the start of a sentence to the end - a rambling drunk or a 96 year old man with dementia in a care home has better sentence cohesion.

It's almost pointless interviewing him now because if he's wrong or lies, he just says "fake news" or waffles and every reporter let's it go because they're too scared of losing their WH accreditation.
 
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