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Back in 2016 the Obama team tried to do everything they could to help Trump's people take over.
They left a playbook outlining the best way to deal with a pandemic.
Trump's people ignored it.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/obama-team-left-pandemic-playbook-for-trump-administration-officials-confirm
IIRC from Michael Lewis' book Obama did this because W Bush did it for him and he appreciated it greatly.
Just pointing this out to show how really fucked it is to ignore that playbook
It was the norm to help transition things smoothly
That pandemic preparedness was nonpartisan, Bush did the same. Donald got rid of it out of spite. Yet another example of how he is too fragile for the job.
Donald was gifted a nonpartisan crisis in an election year, and he is so fucking stupid and fragile that he turned it into a wedge issue. Hundred of thousands of Americans died over his fragility.
This is how brainwashed his MAGoos are.
During the pandemic I posted about how he was doing a terrible job reassuring people. Someone posted that it wasn't his job to mollycoddle the population.
He can do no wrong in their eyes.
Paralleling how GWB's admin treated previous work on bin Laden and Al Qaeda.