We pulled our "fact checkers" out.
We ignored the past.
We reduced our preparedness.
We didnt bother restocking the cupboard.

Now we blame China, who should never be wholly trusted on anything.

Now we blame the WHO who have no real power.

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Ok great it isn't. How is this relevant to anything that I previously stated?

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if the WHO has no real power then why do they need to be funded by us?

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

They aren't solely funded by us.

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I understand that.

So if they have no real power why do they need partial funding from us?

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

I agree with that but when presented with similar situations as Trump both Obama and Bush reacted completely differently. They prepped in ways that were similar to the way that South Korea prepared.

They took the initial threat seriously. They beefed up the Govt agencies in preparation for such an event. They listened to the experts on the ground. They also had experts on the ground in China too.


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Oh yeah I'm sure our fact checkers got a real nice look at things locked in their hotel rooms under armed guard.

But I thought he was spreading a debunked conspiracy theory? Looks like MANY owe him an apology.

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Why dont you go read their mission statement

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So you got nothing. Got it.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

I don't know about that. I think they all handled it in the way they thought was right with the info they had. It'd be difficult to deal with an illness that nobody knows much about or how to treat it. This one is magnified because it's Trump and it's more contagious and more severe than those others. No govs were shutting down their state or asking for 40k ventilators for whatever reason in the past.

I don't know the WHOs involvement in the past but China and the WHO have not been honest about this from the start and they are continuing on that path now. I don't fault the elected officials for saying it was fine to go out thru the first week of March or so. They didn't know what they didn't know. I don't think of the presidents did anything well or terrible in their respective cases, it just kind of is/was.

You and MANY act as if they're some sort of governing body.

They're not.

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I have never said anything about them being a governing body. I just do not understand why it is so important for us to continue to drop tax payer money into a group that has no real power and has pretty much screwed this whole deal up.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

And why such a big deal if we stop funding them then.

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

Dropping their funding isn't enough. They need to be eradicated and written into the history books as the perpetrators of crimes against humanity.

It's almost like calling down hellfire on UNICEF.

Your rage is misplaced.

But you know that.

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Yeah, I'd also love the hear those Chinese Doctors who blew the whistle on the virus. Wonder what happened to them?

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An Ode to the Texas man who shot an Antifa terrorist:

Oh, he might have went on livin'
But he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the Ranger
With the big iron on his hip

They were cremated and their soot landed on Japan when it rained.

If anything it's being downplayed by Trump's supporters because its Trump. There is no doubt that their reaction would be completely different if it were Biden, Hillary, or Clinton. That is what they have always demonstrated. The same people that complained about the alleged corruption of the Clinton Foundation didn't so much as bat an eye when it was proven that Trump stole from his own charity. Not once. I'm fairly certain that if I were to conduct a search regarding that issue you would be in that group. Just like they overlooked his defrauding of people as part of Trump University.

The people that excuse Trump for everything will always be expected to excuse his behavior on anything. He wasn't provided with misinformation. He didn't act on the information that was provided at the time. South Korea's reaction validates this. Bush and Obama's reaction to similar pandemics validates this. The reaction of people in Trump's own administration validates this.

He had to be informed by a talk show host as to its severity. Capable, Competent Presidents never would have needed that.

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Now that is really a big lie(s) from LTG/Crest. The fault in all of this is China and its accomplice, the WHO.

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An Ode to the Texas man who shot an Antifa terrorist:

Oh, he might have went on livin'
But he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the Ranger
With the big iron on his hip

It's really quite surprising that you failed to make a relevant point.

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The point was made. The point is that you lie regularly LTG/Crest. Now run to your board "daddy" Crest/LTG.

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An Ode to the Texas man who shot an Antifa terrorist:

Oh, he might have went on livin'
But he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the Ranger
With the big iron on his hip

Still nothing of relevance. And still pathetically ignorant and out of touch. Must be your "daddy" at work aye?

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That is a good assessment. In something like this, people do make mistakes and hindsight is 20/20.

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An Ode to the Texas man who shot an Antifa terrorist:

Oh, he might have went on livin'
But he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the Ranger
With the big iron on his hip

Clearly the Jet is a great fan of the WHO and China. Any thing to blame Trump for.

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An Ode to the Texas man who shot an Antifa terrorist:

Oh, he might have went on livin'
But he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the Ranger
With the big iron on his hip

Jet keeps going farther and farther down the path of Communism in his hatred of Donald Trump. He gets more and more irrational by the hour. Its really ridiculous.

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An Ode to the Texas man who shot an Antifa terrorist:

Oh, he might have went on livin'
But he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the Ranger
With the big iron on his hip

The US provides roughly 2% of the WHO's funding.

Its not "nothing", but it's not something that is a show-stopper like everyone is making it out to be.

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We Now Know That JOE BIDEN has been COMPROMISED by CHINA! (let that sink in)

Election 2020-The Largest Fraud in the History of Mankind.

*If you believe that Biden won, you also believe that Epstein killed himself*

Not really. He says nice compliments to world leaders but that's about it. The thing with Trump is that too many people pay all the attention is what he says and not enough attention to what he does. He does a whole lot of good things and that is what is really important. He gets things done. Many former presidents promised a ton of things and never delivered. Trump promised a lot of things and he delivered on most of them along with some that he didn't promise like the Right to Try Act .

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An Ode to the Texas man who shot an Antifa terrorist:

Oh, he might have went on livin'
But he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the Ranger
With the big iron on his hip

Its not a trivial amount of money. The US paid almost $900M dollars in 2018-19 in voluntary funding while China only paid about 10% of that.

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An Ode to the Texas man who shot an Antifa terrorist:

Oh, he might have went on livin'
But he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the Ranger
With the big iron on his hip

Seems like the Misleading WHO was leading on this back in January.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/as ... story.html

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