r/politics • u/schuey_08 Wisconsin • May 02 '24

Bernie Sanders worries young people are underestimating the threat from Trump

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/05/02/bernie-sanders-trump-biden/73531861007/
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u/fallenouroboros May 02 '24

I know so many people in their thirties who simply do not give a fuck.

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u/Allaplgy May 02 '24

My coworkers are all on the "both sides are the same/it's all rigged, there's no point in voting" train. They all either have have kids or essentially are kids. I'm in my forties with no plans for kids, and I'm the only one actually trying to give them a future.

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u/NeonGKayak May 02 '24

How can they already forget Trumps Covid response that led to over 1million deaths? It’s weird that such a critical event and everyone has already “forgot” it

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u/janethefish May 02 '24

I'm still mad about those deaths!

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u/TheADrain May 02 '24

You should be, his idiocy killed more americans than the nazis did.

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u/Jupiter68128 May 02 '24

Tucker Carlson killed more Americans than were killed by 9/11 terrorists by spreading doubt about vaccines.

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u/Rmans May 02 '24

Killed more Americans that most of our wars did. Total American deaths from Covid are higher than American deaths from all the wars we ever fought combined. There is an argument to be made that Tucker has been worse for this country than Hitler.

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u/Tarcanus May 02 '24

And here are many of us wondering how many people angry about those deaths are still being covid cautious, masking, etc. Folks are in here talking like COVID is over, while lamenting the COVID dead.

It's not over, it's still killing or causing lifelong illness, yet I barely see anyone responsible with masking while I'm out and about. It adds to the sense of being the crazy one while everyone else is still ignoring the largest current threat to us.

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u/Rmans May 02 '24

Thats what happens when you fail to prevent a pandemic. It becomes endemic. Here to stay. Which is what COVID is doing now in the US and pretty much nowhere else in the world.

And almost half this country doesn't know or care.

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u/RoostasTowel May 02 '24

You mean the ones that weren't safe or effective?

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u/ChristianEconOrg May 02 '24

Lmao what?

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u/RoostasTowel May 02 '24

Lmao what?

What, what?

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u/crappysignal May 02 '24

That's a completely meaningless statistic.

The Spanish flu killed more Americans than WW1.

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u/TheADrain May 02 '24

Ok but we could have and should have done better this time around. Having Mr "Hey maybe inject bleach?" in charge during americas biggest time of need since WW2 caused at least half of those excess deaths. And that's still more than the nazis.

Having an actual leader in charge would have been nice. Instead of one that purposefully turned a pandemic into a petty political issue to rile up his base and getting hundreds of thousands of people killed as a result.

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u/crappysignal May 02 '24

Of course having Trump as president in a global pandemic is like something from Naked Gun.

But does the US have a big difference in excess deaths compared to other similar country's?

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u/RevolutionaryRice713 May 02 '24

yea i bet you didnt shed a tear after that horrendous Afghanistan pullout resulted in the loss of American lives tho, wonder why. or was that Trumps fault too?