3 Months Of Hell: U.S. Economy Drops 32.9% In Worst GDP Report Ever

Capt Gregory Prickett - Just fuck off. You are now going beyond all reasonable discourse and embarrassing yourself. Well, at least I feel embarrassed for you if you aren't capable

Capt Gregory Prickett - Pardon me while I speak to those who have the misfortune of stumbling upon your response. Take a lesson from my error, I made the mistake of responding to Capt Prickett. It's a waste of time that I recommend highly you avoid. His hubris is boundless. He makes pronouncements from the lofty perch of his intellect that mere mortals such as you and I are supposed to accept and give thanks. Take for example, "The reason for the deaths is incompetence by Trump". Ignore his total lack of respect for the President. Even though I disagreed with every other President on one issue or another during my adult lifetime, I never failed to respect the office. I always used the honorific with their name. Capt Prickett doesn't demonstrate that respect for our current President any more than he respects us. Now, let's deal with the statement in its entirety. There is no support offered for his contention. We are simply to take his word for it that President Trump is responsible for every pandemic death. Based on what? Did he cause the pandemic? No, I haven't seen any evidence that he cooked it up any more than he caused halitosis or athlete's foot. Did he not attempt to contain its spread? Yes, he quickly enforced a quarantine that his political opposition opposed. Why did they oppose it? For political effect is all I can see. Actually, quarantine has long been used in dealing with infectious disease, helping to prevent its spread until medical scientists can come up with a cure/vaccine/whatever. Well, quarantine was the go to standard until it became politically incorrect when AIDS/HIV first appeared. No, hubris isn't new to Capt Prickett. He's a long time practitioner. Just don't get him started on religion. He is the most aggressive proselytizer on RP

Capt Gregory Prickett - Here he goes again. President Trump made the economy tank. Can you respect people that dumb? No President drives the economy. The US economy is the aggregate of our individual economic activity. Granted, the government can either get in the way or get the hell out of the way, but it produces nothing. Government is a cost. Granted it is a necessary cost until it overspends. Some think that the President can set the "mood" but look how that worked for FDR. Everyone loved him. He was the greatest cheerleader of all time and it's widely accepted that he helped prolong the Great Depression with all his meddling (spending). Now comes Capt Prickett complaining that I'm avoiding the topic of the post. The irony is off the charts.