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Of course the United States isn't prepared. Trump has sabotaged the medical prevention and response system in such a way that the next pandemic will get us another million dead, at least.

We've never had an external enemy do as much damage to this country as Trump.

I'm filing this under "traitor".

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2026-05-09 12:54 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-05-09 12:55 PM | Reply

We weren't prepared under him the last time.

Now we're even less so with RFK in charge at HHS and all the MAHA idiots in charge at various levels, an economy being systematically wrecked that will be incapable of taking any supply shocks and global diplomacy so terrible cooperation will be hard to come by.

Another pandemic will be hunger games in the US.

#3 | Posted by jpw at 2026-05-09 02:29 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Hell, I'm no expert, but I know, like you, they are not prepared.

It took a lot of pressure to get Trump to do SOMETHING when COVID hit. And considering he'd already disbanded the "Pandemic Response Unit" who were experts on dealing with epidemics and pandemics, we know he isn't up to the task and couldn't care less.

#4 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2026-05-10 02:25 AM | Reply

MAGA elected Trump twice, so they clearly don't care about much of anything to do with health and human services.

#5 | Posted by Hughmass at 2026-05-10 07:23 AM | Reply

"Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy - it's a feature of religion or totalitarianism."
Secretary of Health & Human Services Kennedy, Jr., 2025

"Supposing we hit the body with a tremendous - whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful ligh. And I think you said that hasn't been checked, but we're going to test it? And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body, either through the skin or some other way. And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute - one minute - and is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside, or almost a cleaning?Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it would be interesting to check that."
President of the United States Trump, 2020

#6 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-05-10 07:36 AM | Reply

go ahead and admit that you leftist humps are gonna lie, cheat and deceive people

into thinking the virus from the boat....which is old and a lot known about it FOR MANY YEARS

according to guest on CBS this morning is gonna be catastrophic.......if we don't vote by

mail.

NOT gonna work this time humps.

#7 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-05-10 12:12 PM | Reply

Another pandemic will be hunger games in the US.

#3 | Posted by jpw

you have a small child I seem to remember.....ever read "chicken little" to him...

or are you making him live it,

#8 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-05-10 12:13 PM | Reply

#7

bwaaa....you don't realize how stupid this makes you sound.......

#277 | Posted by shrimptacodan

You don't realize how someone as close to the bottom of the barrel as you are doesn't really have the ability to call someone else stupid...

#284 | Posted by jpw at 2026-01-12 05:04 PM

=
registered here now ?.....oh my.....what will I do....what WILL I do....
#192 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-01-24 06:05 PM | Reply | Flag:

You truly are the most worthless, inane, stupid piece of ---- here. Just wanted to remind you. Many agree with me. **

#220 | Posted by cbob at 2026-01-24 07:05 PM Flag: Newsworthy 3

** at least 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 people agree with cbob

=
#172 | Posted by shrimptacodan
You really are like a woman. You get everything you want; your party in total control, dead libs in the street.
And you STILL complain.

If you can't crack a beer and enjoy getting everything you wanted, then go take a Midol and make me a sandwich. Bitch.

#177 | Posted by horstngraben at 2026-01-26 10:07 AM


This is how STD ** views himself online:

And this is how everyone else (on-line and in R/L) views STD **:
** - I figured out why you chose a name to be shortened to STD. You have an ABI caused during your birth because your mother had a venereal disease. Calling yourself STD makes you feel close to her, doesn't it?

#121 | Posted by Chantresse at 2026-01-23 02:47 PM

:-)

#9 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-05-10 12:14 PM | Reply

'who were experts on dealing with epidemics and pandemics'

like FAUCI>..........BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

#10 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-05-10 12:15 PM | Reply

#7 Flag:

#11 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-05-10 12:15 PM | Reply

#10

STD ** is stupid in a way that is almost majestic. His stupidity is not the ordinary kind, the forgivable, relatable kind that all of us carry in patches and compartments. His is total. Unified. A stupidity that has achieved something like integrity. There is not one chamber of his mind operating at even a remedial level of insight. He has been wrong about everything, always, without exception, without a single accidental correct answer slipping through, which statistically should be impossible and yet here he is, a living rebuke to probability. If you put him in a room with a hundred doors and told him the exit was behind one of them, he would find the ninety-nine wrong ones first, in sequence, and then stand in front of the last door and walk into the wall beside it.**
** - I figured out why you chose a name to be shortened to STD. You have an ABI caused during your birth because your mother had a venereal disease. Calling yourself STD makes you feel close to her, doesn't it?

#121 | Posted by Chantresse at 2026-01-23 02:47 PM

:-)

#12 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-05-10 12:18 PM | Reply

Posted by A_Friend

--I'm honored you took time away from playing " I can't pay my rent this month,

can I pay it off some "other" way "....with your cousin....to post more sludge from

the recess of your gonorrhea infected brain.

#13 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-05-10 12:18 PM | Reply

#13

STD ** is stupid in a way that is almost majestic. His stupidity is not the ordinary kind, the forgivable, relatable kind that all of us carry in patches and compartments. His is total. Unified. A stupidity that has achieved something like integrity. There is not one chamber of his mind operating at even a remedial level of insight. He has been wrong about everything, always, without exception, without a single accidental correct answer slipping through, which statistically should be impossible and yet here he is, a living rebuke to probability. If you put him in a room with a hundred doors and told him the exit was behind one of them, he would find the ninety-nine wrong ones first, in sequence, and then stand in front of the last door and walk into the wall beside it.**
** - I figured out why you chose a name to be shortened to STD. You have an ABI caused during your birth because your mother had a venereal disease. Calling yourself STD makes you feel close to her, doesn't it?

#121 | Posted by Chantresse at 2026-01-23 02:47 PM

:-)

#14 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-05-10 12:20 PM | Reply

registered here now ?.....oh my.....what will I do....what WILL I do....
#192 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-01-24 06:05 PM | Reply | Flag:

You truly are the most worthless, inane, stupid piece of ---- here. Just wanted to remind you. Many agree with me. **

#220 | Posted by cbob

cultist are forced to submit

#15 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-05-10 12:37 PM | Reply

#15

STD ** is, in the final and most complete assessment, a disgusting anomaly.

A statistical outlier so extreme that evolution seems to be embarrassed by him, a glitch in the long project of civilization, a misprint in the human genome so catastrophic that it somehow achieved sentience and got a driver's license.

He is proof that the universe has no quality control.

He is what happens when the worst possible combination of traits clears every filter, slips through every gate, and arrives, blinking and unconcerned, into a world that never prepared for anything quite like him.

And the most horrifying part, the detail that keeps philosophers up at night, staring at the ceiling, reconsidering everything, is that he will never know any of this. He will never know what he is. He will go to his grave certain that he was, in fact, pretty good. Maybe even great.**

** - I figured out why you chose a name to be shortened to STD. You have an ABI caused during your birth because your mother had a venereal disease. Calling yourself STD makes you feel close to her, doesn't it?

#121 | Posted by Chantresse at 2026-01-23 02:47 PM

:-)

#16 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-05-10 12:43 PM | Reply

We all know enough about the Shrimp to understand that when he is especially threatened by a topic, he comes and pees on it.

We shoud pause a moment and consider how many people pee on Shrimp.

#17 | Posted by Zed at 2026-05-10 12:57 PM | Reply

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