Ok, let's see what you have.
What damage did he do in his last administration? Do you have a few hours?
Rated: False.
There are 5 OECD countries with worse rates than USA, and the obvious comparative of UK is very little different to America.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Trump not only instigated "Warp Speed" he actively got vaccinated and has been booed by his own crowds for that.
The Lancet report estimated that 180,000 died from his policies, and has been cited by Forbes, Business Insider, Scientific American...and many other non 'leftist' publications. Do you have any study refuting this?
Your point about his vaccination etc is certainly an interesting one, worthy of a thread of its own, but in no way negates my point. Anyone who has a clue about Trump knows that when it is in his *own self interest* he will do whatever is necessary to protect himself--which is what he did in that case. Because his public anti-vax and conspiracy statements are rarely what he 'really' believes, they are just made up to give him the strongest support from his cult members. Same reason he has flip-flopped on every issue from abortion to the legal system. It is all centered on protecting his ego--that is what malignant narcissists do!
Rated: false.
Suggesting he "fatally damaged" scientific progress is exaggeration of the highest order. I have no doubt he did harm, but fatal damage? Nah.
Ok, I concede I slightly misspoke, I meant to say if he *is* reelected, it will be fatal to any effort to halt or reverse climate change. I have an MS in Atmospheric Science, so if you'd like I can go on for hours on why AGW is a serious problem, but you haven't taken issue with me yet on that, you just claim I'm exaggerating. You're wrong.
Yeah, America was such a paragon of sane political discourse that Trump ruined it.
Pull the other one, it plays Merry Christmas.
I've been watching America slide into a pit of its own making for decades. How were Trump's actions worse than Reagans blatant interference in the Iran hostage situation he engineered to hurt Jimmy Carter?
I am not saying he started this 'slide'--I am saying he has accelerated it to a high degree, it is mountains to molehills. I was around for the Reagan administration. I disagreed with his policies, but he and Bush and others were nowhere in the same league as Trump, because they were
sane.
I and many others who are even more knowledgable on the subject can clearly see that T is mentally unwell--this is what makes him so dangerous.
Appealing to a future that may or may not exist. Yeah, that's totes legit evidence.
According to sources I read, Trump made something like 20 false statements a day during his presidency, but now every word is the literal truth.
I hope you understand how dumb that is
You mean like he carried through on his vow to lock Hillary up?
You seem unable or unwilling to understand his pathology. Let me try to educate with a typical example. Trump says he wants to be a dictator on day one. Then when the press pounces on this, he plausibly denies it by saying he was joking or whatever.
This is T's MO! His closest ally Michael Cohen has written at length about it, so have psychiatrists. What T says is neither truth nor fiction--it is whatever serves his interest in protecting his own fragile ego! He will say or do whatever accomplishes this. Look how he now brazenly denies saying that he called for Hillary to be jailed. He wants to create a virtual reality of 'alternative facts' and he uses this to control his cult members. Much like gang leaders or cult leaders or dictators of the past--it is very recognizable behavior. You should not ignore it,
All caps on the DAMAGE! You must be really serious.
I heard the same thing prior to 2016 but didn't see much damage. He definitely reinforced the rest of the world's opinion that Yanks are loud-mouthed, arrogant wankers, but it wasn't much of a shift.
I *am* serious--I'm nearly 6 decades on this planet and I've never seen anything close to the threat T poses to our very freedom and quality of life. It is complacency from those who don't get it, the fact that MSM gives him a pass on every sign of mental unfitness, it is that APATHY which potentially lead to this danger being realized. History proves this. I don't want history to repeat here. If you heard this prior to 2016, you must have been asleep since then. I even was willing to give Trump a chance in 2016, I tired to believe the lies about him being a good businessman and since I didn't care much for Hillary I thought maybe it would not be too bad. He proved me wrong very quickly. And that was when his mental and psychological health was at least somewhat stable. It was the loss in 2020 that sent him off the deep edge: malignant narcissists *cannot* handle defeat. His ego would not allow it. That is *why* he rooted for the riot on Jan 6--it is why he continues to deny the election results despite absolute certain proof to the contrary. It is this pathological inability to accept failure that will make him insanely dangerous if he is reelected. Please try to understand this!
