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Centipedeboy 4 points ago +8 / -4

Why is this good? I mean that seriously? Trumps economy was his strongest argument for re-election.

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wharfthrowaway 16 points ago +16 / -0

risk management. had we left all ports open and we got fucked by the disease, that alterantive would be worse. We're only closing up for a little bit til we can figure out if this virus is winding down or not.

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Mother_of_gains 9 points ago +9 / -0

The media was going to try to do their whole death by a thousand cuts with this.

Trump took this draconian measure for two reasons A) fuck the EU and B) to force the media to either agree with the move, or begin to downplay the virus to give Congress the power to overturn it.

Trump doesn't like to see average Americans lose value on their 401Ks, so he's trying to move the media onto another story.

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NuclearDreams 9 points ago +10 / -1

The coronavirus fucks everyone. The only one who wins in a coronavirus-crazed world are socialists who make empty promises for a one-party healthcare system that will clear up the virus right away. And that candidate was flushed down the drain before this virus started killing people in the states.

It's time to leave the economy behind and focus on bringing us together as a nation to fight this. The economy will suffer for a time, but it's like that one episode of South Park: the economy isn't some magnanimous force that we don't understand. It's just people going to the store and going out and buying shit. If people stop being afraid of catching the Wuhan Flu and just proceed through life like normal than nothing will even change.

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Baelor_The_Bellend [S] 8 points ago +8 / -0

It's more of a "no more illegal immigration" post, not about he economy. However, the economy as a whole is just fine. The DOW is NOT the US economy. You have to look at Unemployment, job growth, manufacturing growth, exports, GDP, etc. All of which have been mostly unaffected by some flu or the real problem with stocks- oil war in Saudi Arabia. Some old man dies and the DOW crashes- not the US economy. The stock market is not the US economy.

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americathegr888 2 points ago +2 / -0

It's more of a "no more illegal immigration" post,

Fixed to what we actually need. Legal immigrants vote 70-90% left. The 75 million who have already come here vote 70-90% left and want communism. 63% of legal immigrant families are on welfare.

No more legal immigration either, very important.

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Work2gethrBiglyOrDie 7 points ago +7 / -0

People are more forgiving of overreaction than millions of dead bodies for the MSM to stick on Trump.