I cringed everytime he said China virus, especially reading it in official white house correspondence. I would think to myself and say grow TF up and call it what it is. Trump s the first president to make me feel like I could've done a better job than him.
He certainly changes the discourse on who is qualified to be president. Up until his election, it was common to point to this or that president as "unqualified" because of their supposed limited relevant work experience.
Now, it's hard to imagine anyone less qualified (or capable) than Trump. Rando off the street could have done just as well, and probably better, assuming that they too didn't have a serious personality disorder.
You still see it on Reddit as well, people saying: "why is it bad he called it that, it came from China!"
As if the way the President talks doesn't affect people's behaviours. His "China virus" thing caused hundreds of Asian Americans to be harassed by nutcases because he gave them permission.
DeSantis is doing the same with the Lambda variant as well, pretending that the only reason it's in the country is due to illegal immigration.
That reminds me of a comedy act by Bill Burr, he was saying something about how Bush made him feel like he could be president too. “He’s like the guy who they grabbed from a backyard BBQ, and put em in a suit... like the first guy from my math class that actually did something with his life.”
Objective fact: It was a completely inaccurate claim as to the origin of the illness, that caused a sharp increase of hate-crimes against Spanish people and made non-Spanish people less likely to follow lifesaving protocol if they believed they did not know any Spanish people.
My feelings: if something’s name causes more hate crimes and more contagious illness deaths, then the name is bad.
You would have. I don't know you beyond that paragraph I just read but it's all I need to be 100% certain you'd be a far better US president than trump was.
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u/DropDeadEd86 16d ago
I cringed everytime he said China virus, especially reading it in official white house correspondence. I would think to myself and say grow TF up and call it what it is. Trump s the first president to make me feel like I could've done a better job than him.