Some figures in...
May. 14th, 2020 08:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnny9fingers... about Obamacare being good for people:
www.snopes.com/ap/2020/05/13/study-ties-obamacare-to-fewer-cancer-deaths-in-some-states/
Who would have thought it? How strange. Anyway, we will have the figures for Trump's first term soon. I'm sure they will be better, bigger, huger or whatever description Trump uses to show us all what a brilliant POTUS he is. The best ever. Dealing with the biggest problems better than anyone else.
Mitch McConnell told a couple of fibs about Obama not having prepared for a pandemic, or having a plan. Every single vanity-driven example of destruction of US capacity because Obama put it in place is now being shown up in this crisis. It's all coming back to bite him on the ass, as our American cousins say.
Who thinks that if Obama had been in charge the US would still have had quite as bad an outcome? (Mind you the Red states would just have ignored him anyway.)
In fact, given the polarisation of US opinion and politics, is there any leader who could have steered America through this crisis? Without a leader who can unite the US no-one is going to be able to get the US to co-operate with itself, never mind other nations.
The one thing I will say is that Americans do have three extant ex-presidents who seem to get on reasonably well on a personal basis; none of them were without sin, so to speak; though Obama probably has cleaner hands than Clinton or Bush depending on your viewpoint. And I bet they all care about what is happening to America; and though they can never have office again, they still wield influence in their parties.
America needs better than this. Both parties have to stop putting vain and stupid people in positions of power. We need able folk in charge, not fucking celebrities or personalities devoid of education or even good sense. Able strategists, tacticians, administrators and like-minded boffins were traditionally relegated to backrooms. So you get Nero in charge and the efficient chaps running around putting out fires. This is, to go all Malcolm (Tmesis) Tucker, completely-fucking-backwards. Put Nero in his playpen with appropriate toys, and fucking deal with the problem without recourse to his stupidity.
www.snopes.com/ap/2020/05/13/study-ties-obamacare-to-fewer-cancer-deaths-in-some-states/
Who would have thought it? How strange. Anyway, we will have the figures for Trump's first term soon. I'm sure they will be better, bigger, huger or whatever description Trump uses to show us all what a brilliant POTUS he is. The best ever. Dealing with the biggest problems better than anyone else.
Mitch McConnell told a couple of fibs about Obama not having prepared for a pandemic, or having a plan. Every single vanity-driven example of destruction of US capacity because Obama put it in place is now being shown up in this crisis. It's all coming back to bite him on the ass, as our American cousins say.
Who thinks that if Obama had been in charge the US would still have had quite as bad an outcome? (Mind you the Red states would just have ignored him anyway.)
In fact, given the polarisation of US opinion and politics, is there any leader who could have steered America through this crisis? Without a leader who can unite the US no-one is going to be able to get the US to co-operate with itself, never mind other nations.
The one thing I will say is that Americans do have three extant ex-presidents who seem to get on reasonably well on a personal basis; none of them were without sin, so to speak; though Obama probably has cleaner hands than Clinton or Bush depending on your viewpoint. And I bet they all care about what is happening to America; and though they can never have office again, they still wield influence in their parties.
America needs better than this. Both parties have to stop putting vain and stupid people in positions of power. We need able folk in charge, not fucking celebrities or personalities devoid of education or even good sense. Able strategists, tacticians, administrators and like-minded boffins were traditionally relegated to backrooms. So you get Nero in charge and the efficient chaps running around putting out fires. This is, to go all Malcolm (Tmesis) Tucker, completely-fucking-backwards. Put Nero in his playpen with appropriate toys, and fucking deal with the problem without recourse to his stupidity.
