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The reason it feels like you didn't find what you thought you remembered is because you didn't actually find the thing you were thinking of. Again, you were thinking of Blacklisted by History - Wikipedia.--Percy

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You did not use the term "leftist" accurately because Snopes isn't leftist, and you *are* using at as a smear and as an excuse for ignoring information.

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I’m pretty sure she think the latter IS the correct usage.

This seems to be a devious use of non-reverse psychology by Democrats, in an attempt to enhance the dying off of Republicans. Or would it be reverse reverse psychology?OSLT.Moose

Well, it seems evolution will take care of republicans.

I accept at face value that the polls are telling us that how seriously someone takes the coronavirus threat depends upon their political affiliation. Those who trust Trump's information or that of many of his zombies in Congress do not take the threat anywhere near as seriously as those who don't and who instead get their information from a reliable source of health information such as Dr. Fauci or the CDC or many of the state governors.Some examples: --Percy

Looks like an interesting book but that isn't what I thought I remembered either. The one I found comes closer because I think it was about a Russian source.

Seems to me Trump's press conference treated the virus very seriously. Nobody really knows what to expect, though, we're all hunkered down and waiting for all the cases to manifest that have infected people without symptoms so far.

This history of Trump's pronouncements of how we're not in any serious danger from the coronavirus is taken from Opinion | A Complete List of Trump’s Attempts to Play Down Coronavirus - The New York Times: --PercyEdited by Percy, : Typo.

March 6:
Too late, dammit. You already ran!

Like firemen who sit around much of the time, we do need an emergency preparedness team for health emergencies, as our present circumstances are vividly demonstrating. Trump was blowing hot air. This is just Trump blowing more hot air. When you eliminate firemen jobs they go off and find other jobs. It is the same with the people on the emergency preparedness team. Also, the analogy with firemen breaks down in the nature of the work. The emergency preparedness team provides their benefit from the preparations they make before emergencies. Once the emergency has already happened it is too late to get much benefit from a newly regathered emergency preparedness team. All they can do at that point is say stuff like, "Well, what you should have been doing a few months ago was such-and-so." Now *you're* blowing hot air. No one has any idea what these policies are, and Trump is likely making it up. When are you going to stop letting this guy pull the wool over your eyes? How many times is enough for you? I'm guessing infinity.--Percy

And you'll never know what these policies were, because Trump was making it up. If you truly believe he wasn't making it up then just try to find out what these policies were and report back to us. Blaming Obama for things is Trump's main go to refuge from criticism.Trump puts most of his energy into managing the news cycle to his advantage instead of leading the country through the crisis. He's reacting, not leading. He figures out what to do by watching Fox News and talking to his cronies instead of listening to experts.Here's some of what Ben Rhodes, former Deputy NSA advisor, said in a recent interview about the emergency preparedness team (https://thehill.com/...-trump-obama-left-him-a-global-health):

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I think, importantly, what Obama did leave Trump is a global health infrastructure that we had set up informed by the lessons of the Ebola outbreak
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And what we did is set up, in the White House, ... an office that was responsible for managing pandemics, managing global health threats that was shut down two years ago by President Trump.
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And when you don’t have an office like that, you don’t have dedicated people inside the White House who are ensuring that information is acted upon. When you see an outbreak in a place like Wuhan, China, you want people in the White House who are thinking about what needs to be done right away so that you don’t get behind the curve, which is what happened in this White House.

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--Percy

And since you and the Left in general put all YOUR energy into bashing the man it's no wonder if so much of what he says is on the defensive. But he HAS been blamed for a lot of stuff Obama did. Not that I expect anyone here to acknowledge that.I'm just amazed he's able to function so well with all the artillery that batters him every minute of every day.Edited by Faith, : No reason given.

I can only echo DrJones* comments. He doesn't know or maybe forgot? What criteria are you applying to assess leadership?--Percy

Well, but of COURSE you "can only " bash Trump, there is nothing else possible for you.So he delegated responsibility to others and forgot about it, SO WHAT?

If Trump is being bashed then it's by the facts, not by the left. When someone lies or misleads then the true facts should be brought to people's attention, and that's all that's happening. Perhaps you have some alternative facts from your fantasy world that refute what I said? So blaming Obama is your go to deflection strategy, too. Let us know when you're prepared to deal in facts. I'm just amazed at both you and him for your ability to cram so many errors into such short periods of time.--Percy