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7. It's the kind of basic politics you learn in your first political job, as a mayor or something.

Reply to Matilda (Original post)

Wed Dec 16, 2020, 08:10 PM

Dec 2020

Just act like a leader and let the disaster experts tell you what needs to be done and just do it.

Even Rudy ghouliani understood this after 9/11.

But Donnie skipped all that and treated a virus like a political attack he could just bully away.

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Trump 'penned political suicide note' at every Covid press conference, former Australian PM says [View all] Matilda Dec 2020 OP

If only he kept his word even once. nt Xipe Totec Dec 2020 #1

Yet magats insist he's kept every promise. They're so simple minded. soothsayer Dec 2020 #3

Sad to say, if he had just pretended to do a little bit regarding Covid, he probably would have won Irish_Dem Dec 2020 #2

This is true soothsayer Dec 2020 #4

Just ask Scott Morrison Matilda Dec 2020 #5

The F-wad could not read the audience or events to save his own skin. Irish_Dem Dec 2020 #6

It's the kind of basic politics you learn in your first political job, as a mayor or something. unblock Dec 2020 #7

It's as if Adam Smith's invisible hand is afoot and making things... brush Dec 2020 #8

Yes, why? Thyla Dec 2020 #9

I don't understand Boris's reasoning either. Matilda Dec 2020 #10

The Australian PM is full of crap mdbl Dec 2020 #11

Agreed. It was the electoral college that got him into the Oval Office. CBHagman Feb 2021 #12