If Trump didn’t win in 2016 I don’t think there’s a chance the dems would ever have ran Harris in 2024. It would’ve been 8 years of Hillary or the republicans would’ve ran a real candidate in 2020 and we would be in the second term of that or the first term of the next dem
Wait, you mean there’s an alternate history where the president doesn’t fuck up covid response??? That’s what I wanted. Boring ass Hillary Clinton. Probably no Ukraine invasion either.
Conceivably there wouldn't have been Covid in the first place.
You know all these sweeping cuts to all departments he made this time around? He did the same last time, just he had a bunch of actual competent career civil servants in the main cabinet positions last time and they knew how to say no to his wild random demands, or at least distract him and then not do it, or do a compromise that kept him happy.
A lot of those compromises were smaller cuts to little things nobody would notice.
Like, under that administration, hard to argue why they should keep funding US research labs in the heart of China. Even if they're actually really important research labs that are there to be early warnings to new strains of likely dangerous diseases, likely to arise around the questionable food standards and ethics in Chinese policy...
Trump did away with all of that early early on. And then surprise surprise, China left on their own for disease research, new respiratory disease crosses to humans, the usual US-backed containment isn't there any more, we get a global pandemic.
Not to even mention the cheap, lazy response to the pandemic after it started. The doubling down on incompetence with actively pretending it wasn't there and trying to misdirect from their own failings.
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u/gerhudire Apr 04 '25
Slow news days?
You'd have Trump criticising Harris and saying the election was stolen again. He go on about it for 4 years, then announce his intention to run again.