Read this again. LOL What do you think happens in the mafia? The mafia is a government within a government. With that they have even more threats and it often requires even more savvy than dictators that have their own countries to govern. You're talking to someone that has studied both. I don't make assumptions. You consider Dotard a master of the human psyche? Saddam was a crafty strong man, you weren't paying attention there. His biggest fault was not being a good military strategist but how he attained power and kept it was savvy. Kin Jung Un is a false equivalence. His entire country has been brainwashed for many years. That's what religion does. It makes things easier for the ruling dictator.
Dude dictators do it. You really think murdering your enemies is that easy? They can kill you. Sure Beavis and Butthead can kill but there is a lot more than just murdering people. There are many more factors. You have to get close to them for one. If you kill them before the right timing their allies could kill you. There is power dynamics, spy games, strategies, developing loyalties of others. ect....among politics and money. If it was as simple as murder then the top hit men would always run the mafia, they didn't. If you understood everything that Lucky had to do to become chairman of the mafia and reconstruct it and run the national crime syndicate, and run New York like a king. You would look back at this post and laugh.
Again, you don't READ. Obama declared H1N2 a PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY on April 26, 2009, when there were only 20 swine cases nationwide and no deaths. A couple days later he made a request to Congress for $7 bil in aid for a vaccine and research funding. H1N1 was declared a global pandemic by the WHO on June 11, 2009. Obama called H1N1 a public health emergency SIX WEEKS before the Word Health Organization called it a pandemic. 6 months later, Obama declared H1N1 a national emergency after 1000 Americans had died. Regardless, what the fuck does ANY of this have to do with Trump and his response to the corona virus?? If Trump hadn't been running around earlier claiming COVID19 was a hoax perpetrated by Dems to hurt his reelection chances, people right now wouldn't be so critical of him. Trump is the POTUS. He's the ONLY one responsible for finding a solution.
Just saying, running a country without the luxury of murdering your political enemies is much harder than running a criminal syndicate. I feel like you're elevating the mafia and organized crime into something they weren't. They were nowhere near as powerful or influential as the drug cartels in Central and South America, which basically run some countries.
We were talking about whether or not Trump was 'smart' enough to be a dictator and somehow you brought the mafia into it. My point is still the same, it doesn't take great intelligence to be a dictator because they're allowed to utilize a tool all democracies cannot, the ability to murder their rivals and citizens in general. You forget that most dictators govern through fear, not intellect. I guarantee you more mobsters fear Gambino than respected him, and at the core of that fear was potential retaliation against them. Trump knows how to use the weight of the federal government to make himself richer. He knows how to threaten other countries to get political dirt on his rivals. He especially knows how to solicit help from a rival nation to help him win an election. As of right now, Trump has made himself the most powerful POTUS we've ever had. I think he could handle being a dictator.
You couldn't answer the question. What dictator doesn't kill? As a dictator 45 would have to kill people right here on American soil. That takes balls and smarts to pull off and survive, avoiding death and jail. You down played the mafia while having no idea of how much money they made. Their economy was bigger than that of a small country. It's a government within a government. This is about being a dictator. They all kill. It takes savvy to retain power as a dictator and 45 doesn't have it. He understands leverage but that's about all. It takes much more than that.
Why not both. You're crazy. Fear also comes from knowing that he wasn't a dumbass. Otherwise you could just have killed him. He wasn't immortal. Bro you need to read more.
Not to mention that the mortality rate for H1N1 is much, much lower than the mortality rate for COVID-19. Whenever people pull the whataboutism card out of their asses, they always seem to leave that part out. Same goes for the flu, which also has a lower mortality rate than COVID-19.
The liberal media once again being biased by *checks notes* letting Donald Trump speak in front a microphone to reporters by answering questions. If only Trump put half as much effort into actually doing his job as he does blaming other people for his failures...
Why the hell is Obama's name being brought up? He has been out of office for 3 years. Even if he dropped the ball during the H1N1 outbreak the fact that this administration didn't learn from the previous administration's "mistakes" is 100% Trump's fault.
Trump is on his way to becoming a pure autocrat, not a classic dictator, unless he found a way to dissolve Congress and void the U.S> Constitution. I just don't think he could consolidate enough power behind him to become a Keep spinning the bullshit. Trump: Keep ’Em On the Ship. I Don’t Want Our Coronavirus Numbers To Go Up. https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-d...i-dont-want-our-coronavirus-numbers-to-go-up/
Back on March 6th, the virus was infecting China and Italy in record numbers. This is why he had flights from China restricted. He got enormous flack from Dems for restricting Chinese Nationals from coming into the country in late January. (One million had already come in for Chinese New Year). Obviously, back then, the Port was not equipped to handle the influx of coronavirus patients. So of course he didn't want a doubling of increased patient numbers - why would he? Why would any country at the time? They were being quarantined on the ship. Yet despite that, if you listen to him, he said it was up to the city to take them in or not. He respected that. The city/ies declined. I believe it was California. We are now much better equipped to receive and as he stated, by following STRICT medical protocols. The two ships are now allowed to dock that NO OTHER country has allowed. NONE. Next is letting them come on shore. Be appreciative. Unless you think we should let them stay out to sea for more months?
President Trump just announced at his press conference that Apple informed him they have begun producing plastic face masks for nurses and doctors at a million per week. And that 3M has informed the President that they will now be making 55.5 million masks a month for Americans.
I dont think its wise to look to government to help us as a people, just not hurt us, an i will never forget him saying that far right activists trying to preserve confederate statues including some neo-nazis were "very fine people"