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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (162088)	4/30/2020 10:31:01 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 358629

>> It's the nobody's-that-stupid argument. I'm not saying "Nobody's that stupid". As I have pointed out I had a half uncle who drank Sterno because he had no booze. Killed him. Plenty of people are that stupid. Donald Trump is not stupid. He lacks neither intelligence nor common sense. I realize you may not believe that, however, the proof of that fact is self-evident if one considers it outside your own political context. >> Even if Trump is not stupid enough to fail to grasp that disinfectants are for things, not people, he is obviously stupid enough to blather about such nonsense to a national, live audience during a crisis. Right. He caused himself political damage by speaking about a topic he was inadequately informed about, in an effort to look more informed than he was. No doubt about that. But it hardly warrants the kind of inflammatory dust up it received. Surely, you can comprehend how someone who is not medically trained, searching for the right word would choose "disinfect" meaning to "get rid of the virus". Such topicals as Neosporin are commonly referred to as "disinfectants"; while not used inside the body, one could reasonably say, "Why can't they make a disinfectant for use inside a wound?" And in fact there are such products, but they're not called disinfectants. This is just not a topic worthy of criticism, and I think that is the point Birx angrily made on one of the Sunday AM shows. "Why are we still talking about this when we have important business to tend to?" She posed a good question, and suggests more about the Democrat voters/Far left media than it does about Trump.