Trump Increasingly Believes Reopening The Economy Will Be Worth It, Even If More Americans Die

[guillaumeb]

From the article:

Donald Trump increasingly believes that reopening the U.S. economy in the midst of a pandemic will be worth it, even though it will almost certainly mean that more Americans will die.

As MSNBC’s Chris Hayes said on Monday, there is a growing belief among the right-wing voices in Trump’s ear that it’s worth it to roll back social distancing restrictions that have essentially brought the economy to a standstill.

But allowing people to go back to their pre-coronavirus lives will only make matters far worse than they are right now, Hayes said.
“There is no option to just let everyone go back out and go back to normal if a pandemic rages across the country and infects 50 percent of the population and kills a percentage point – at the low end – of those infected and also melts down all the hospitals,” the MSNBC host said. “What kind of economy do you think you’re going to have under those conditions?”

To read more:

https://www.politicususa.com/2020/03/23/trump-increasingly-believes-reopening-the-economy-will-be-worth-it-even-if-more-americans-die.html

How do we read this? Why exactly is Trump willing to do this?

The short answer is that Trump cares only about himself, and winning in November to protect against legal action.

[RockRaven]

1. If he could just re-open his own properties, he's might lose interest in the rest.

It's always about him, him, him.

[Thunderbeast]

2. He believes that the only people who will die

are people he doesn't know or care about.

[guillaumeb]

3. And that group would be everyone not named Donald Trump. eom

[StarryNite]

4. He wants to cull the herd

Less old people, less people with health issues, less paid out in SS and Medicare. He sees this as a win. He wants a lot of us dead.

[bdamomma]

8. He wants people to die

and he just does not care. Will his followers die for him??? I suppose they would. Ignorance at its highest.

[guillaumeb]

9. It is not just Trump.

Many of the so-called business and GOP political leaders are sociopaths.

[PA Democrat]

20. He'll kill a lot of healthcare workers in the process as well, especially since there was

NO planning by the federal government to stockpile PPE. Many hospitals will be unable to provide care for ANY health emergency, health insurance premium will skyrocket, the financial impact on businesses will be extended.

Trump is a sociopath to even suggest this, and a STUPID sociopath at that.

[Johnny2X2X]

5. They're coming up with insane ways to justify it

Bringing up car accident deaths. Saying a bad economy will lead to suicides. Blah blah blah.

I don't think he has the power to over rule the states, but he's trying to make the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people OK. It's sick and it's evil.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

7. He may not have the power to overrule the states

but he doesn't need to. His MAGA cult will start breaking themselves out of isolation, making it difficult on governors and authorities to maintain it and likely sparking chaos once it becomes Trump vs. Governors over the economy.

[StarryNite]

25. His cult followers will do whatever he says.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

32. Of course.

[guillaumeb]

10. And if it happens, he will blame others.

It is his life pattern.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

6. How does the economy even function well (or at all)

if there are too many sick/dead people to run it? Trump obviously isn't thinking that a pile of dead bodies would be BAD for his-relection. Nobody else will even care about the economy no matter how "good" it is doing.

[guillaumeb]

12. SInce about 1980,

the economy has functioned well for the rich. The US mainstream media pretends otherwise, but when they speak of "the economy" doing well, they are speaking of Wall Street doing well.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

23. I can't even imagine Wall Street working well

with all of us peons they actually depend on too sick to work or dead

[guillaumeb]

24. True, this is one factor.

But much of Wall Street work involves money manipulation.

[eleny]

11. Not "increasingly" - He's been stalling since January

He didn't want to do anything from the start because of the markets.

[guillaumeb]

14. And his worries about his re-election.

It is all and only about Trump.

[eleny]

15. yup

[zackymilly]

13. ♫♫ So it's one two three, what are we hiding for?

♫♫Donald Trump don't care about you,
Next stop is ICU.

[guillaumeb]

16. Channeling your inner Country Joe?

Well said.

[eleny]

17. !

Go viral!

[Crunchy Frog]

18. How will the economy do if the U.S. becomes an international pariah?

[guillaumeb]

21. Consider that for Trump, and for many business leaders,

there is no long range plan beyond the next quarter. And given what we already know and see regarding climate change, this obsession with short term gain is suicidal.

[pat_k]

19. "... even if"?

Like there is a question about it??

He's just aching to fiddle while things go to hell.

Link to tweet

[guillaumeb]

22. Trump is not concerned with others dying.

Especially if he is suffering economically from the quarantine.

[LakeArenal]

26. OF COURSE IT'S WORTH IT!!!!

To him. And all the rest of stockholders.

[guillaumeb]

27. Your all caps reply convinced me. eom

[LakeArenal]

28. Yeah. Sound bites and catch phrases!!!

We need more of those.

[gibraltar72]

29. A point on the Dow is worth how many lives??

[guillaumeb]

33. For the sociopathic among the rich, our lives are worthless. eom

[sanatanadharma]

30. We all die, but why the killing frenzy?

We all die. It is the unresolved reality of humanity.
Every death is different; every death is singular even when masses go together.

If an elderly priest says "leave me, save the young", so be it perhaps noble in dying.
If a grand parents wishes to remain with the grand kids, so be it equally in living.

We all die.
We do not all choose to kill.
The killing frenzy of the regressive-republican-conservative-tribe is frightening.

Death panels, wheelchairs and cliffs, seem to be the Cliff Notes to capitalism 101

[guillaumeb]

34. The more who die, the less pressure on social programs.

The more who die before retiring, less pressure.

[degage]

31. Somone gave him the idea, he internalized it and it's over, done, final.

He has clearly decided that there will be less fallout from re-opening everything than keeping it shut. There is no going back when a person like Trump makes that sort of internal, decision. His "gut" tells him he's correct and he will go with that over anything anyone says.

I feel very bad for all the people and families who will be collateral damage due to this.