""I'm not saying Covid-19 isn't real... But Pay attention folks, there's much more going on here than what meets the eye.”
Oh, I love mysteries, lets see what proof Trey Gowdy has to substantiate such a wild and tin foil hat provoking claim!
"Is it a coincidence that just when the economy is booming…"
I mean, by some measurements, yes, it is. But its super subjective. How do you measure the economy? In quarterly statements? Yearly statements? How about, per capita wealth over the last 40 years?
- Is it that "The richest 1 percent now owns more of the country’s wealth than at any time in the past 50 years” https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/12/06/the-richest-1-percent-now-owns-more-of-the-countrys-wealth-than-at-any-time-in-the-past-50-years/ ??? I mean, things must be fantastic where the bottom 20% of the nation is in debt "Their net worth is underwater, meaning they owe more than they have. Combined, the average net worth of the bottom 40 percent of households is -$8,900."
- Is it that the United States GDP Annual Growth Rate went up for the fist year of Trump’s presidency? Oh, wait, sorry, its been going down since July 2018 — Is that Obama’s fault? https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/gdp-growth-annual (rate of growth is commonly accepted at how healthy and strong an economy is, because it doesn’t matter if you’re living on a pile of gold, if the gold is shrinking, you want it to get bigger, at ever faster rates over time to show you’re making more money faster and faster than before).
- Is it because there’s a low unemployment rate? Or is it that everyone, to make ends meet, has to work 2 or 3 jobs at a time to stay afloat? Shouldn’t a healthy economy mean that people have good jobs that don’t make them work 80 hours a week?
- I mean, for most people, they’re not even making more money then they were 60 years ago… https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us-workers-real-wages-have-barely-budged-for-decades/ wage growth in the USA sucks. Calculated against current dollar purchasing power, the average hourly compensation went from $20 an hour to $22 an hour since 1964. I mean, it can’t be a booming economy if you don’t get a raise, right?
“… , the stock market is setting record highs”
The stock market is not the economy https://www.marketplace.org/2019/09/30/the-stock-market-is-not-the-economy/ - the wealthiest 10% of American’s own 84% of stocks, the bottom 90% own 16%. Stock Market behavior does not represent the health of the economy. Also, you should look in to how HFT works (computers just buying and selling against each other, completely invalidating the true purpose of a market to provide capital to companies that prove their worth). You should also look in to what Stock Buy Backs are. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/buybacks-are-the-dominant-source-of-stock-market-demand-and-they-are-fading-fast-goldman-sachs-2019-11-06 && https://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-much-lower-would-the-stock-market-be-without-corporate-buybacks-2019-05-02
", we are winning the trade wars”, How do you define that?
What is winning a trade war?
Do you know that suicides sky rocketing in farm owners? Because…. We can’t sell our agricultural products to China any more. And that China is now buying its soy and wheat from Russia. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china-agriculture/china-approves-wheat-soy-imports-from-russia-idUSKCN1UL275 && https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3019187/china-and-russia-vow-deepen-trade-soybeans-after-tariff-war — because Trump put tariffs on things, china went where its was cheaper to buy it. And now the Farm sector is taking the brunt of it. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china-agriculture-insight/u-s-farmers-see-another-bleak-year-despite-phase-1-trade-deal-idUSKBN1Z20CK US Farm exports to China are down at 2008 levels after more than doubling after Obama took charge. https://fortune.com/2019/11/15/china-trade-war-us-farmers/.
Also, all those Tariff’s that trump put on Chinese products? Guess who pays them. We do. Not china : https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china-tariffs-explainer/explainer-trumps-china-tariffs-paid-by-u-s-importers-not-by-china-idUSKCN1UR5YZ
"school shootings have stopped”, Ha, well, yes, because schools are closed. But lets look at the numbers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States_in_2019 - 2019 vs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States_in_2020 - 2020
January 2019. 0 school shootings. Feb 2019. 0 school shootings March 2019. 0 school shootings. April 2019. 1 School shooting incident.
Jan 2020 - 1 school shooting Feb 2020 - 1 school shooting Mar 2020 - 0 April 2020 - 0
So, actually. School shootings have gone up this year.
And “Mass shootings” have gone up also the first 3 months. So thats just a lie.
"our nation is at peace”, With our selves? Or ? With someone else? Do you know where Yemen is? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemeni_Civil_War_(2015%E2%80%93present)#2020 - we seem pretty active this year. Our soldiers are still dying in Afghanistan : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_casualties_in_the_War_in_Afghanistan - more in the first 4 months of this year than last. year. And you can see the numbers of deaths are still pretty consistent since Trump took power.
"the Democratic party is a disaster and so is their likely nominee? (Biden). He hasn't a chance in hell & they're not about to let an outsider(Bernie) destroy their scheme.” Completely subjective claim that has no basis in fact or any possible way of knowing what will or won’t happen in November. I’m not a fan of Biden - but he’s polling higher than Trump is right now… And Trump isn’t happy about it. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/30/trump-brad-parscale-campaign-manager
"It looks like Trump is a sure bet for reelection after fending off 3 years of investigations and impeachment”, See above.
“… then all of a sudden world crisis pandemic. Stock market tumbles, companies are laying off employees, everything is closed and canceled, CEO's of giant companies are resigning and indictments are coming." I’m not sure where indictments are coming from, but … go on ...
"Now they say there are a couple ways a President doesn't win reelection. Those are an unpopular war or a poor economy. But there is something larger going on here driving this sudden outbreak right after Trump beats an impeachment. Especially the fact that it (Corona Virus) originated in China who we are in a global trade war with; brought on by Trump. Let's not forget Biden's back door deals with CHINA as well."
Ok, like I said, I’m not a fan of Biden, but do you know that Trump got about $200M from chinese sources in a refinancing deal worth close to $1B in 2012… So he owes a lot of that success to the Chinese central bank being willing to back him. (And, you should know that no US Bank would back any of his more recent deals before being president : https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/04/magazine/deutsche-bank-trump.html && https://www.quora.com/Why-wont-U-S-banks-lend-to-Donald-Trump-Should-that-give-the-nation-pause-with-its-spiraling-debt)
Now, compared to Hunter Biden, well, you should just read on the facts of Hunter Biden’s connections to China : https://www.factcheck.org/2019/10/trumps-claims-about-hunter-biden-in-china/ - Its not as bad as it sounds - even if it is indicative of someone taking advantage of his situation.
"China doesn't want 4 more years of Trump either. It all seems rather convenient for the nations and opponents of our current President and economy 5 months before an election. Couldn't have hit at a more perfect time.” Lets be honest - very few people want 4 more years of trump…
"With the Democrats running out of campaign talking points…” I mean, I’ve just given you a bunch of talking points? Do you want more?
"in light of no school shootings" Already shown to be a false statement.
"no migrant caravans at the southern border” https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/04/politics/migrant-caravans-trump-immigration/index.html - March 2019 — there were no “caravans”. And this is racist bile meant to stir up racists.
"fighting in Syria winding down”, Because we abandoned them : https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/27/americas-abandonment-of-syria — and in doing so, allowed ISIS to live longer : https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/19/trump-syria-isis-071499
"North Korea not firing missiles” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_North_Korean_missile_tests The last one was on March 2nd, 2020, so thats pretty recent.
" and Trump beating a sham impeachment.” It’s not a sham if he was impeached. Are you saying congress is breaking the law? What’s your proof of that? What’s your argument? Congress, as a body, as elected representatives has the right and power to impeach a president.
" The Corona Virus gave them one last hail Mary to try and point fingers at Trump with the clock winding down in 2020.” cracks his fingers…. Oh this is gonna a be good
"This is almost the perfect fascist playbook. Control the population with fear-mongering and panic, control the media, spread propaganda and the fan-favorite disarm the population.” WHERE DO I START
- Trump has been briefed multiple times by his national security team about the risk of the SARS COV2 virus that originated in China. He’s ignored all of those briefings up until it was too late. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/4/28/21239663/coronavirus-presidential-daily-intelligence-briefing && https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-classified-briefings-warned-about-covid-19-threat-2020-4. He had the chance to get ahead of the crisis and take charge of it.
- Trump him self is scaring the public and causing panic and fear mongering : https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-trump-disinfectant/trumps-covid-19-disinfectant-ideas-horrify-health-experts-idUSKCN2261N7 —https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/04/11/trump-coronavirus-reality-show-too-dangerous-air-live-column/5131010002/ — his statements about drinking bleach, using untested drugs and other crazy schemes to solve the problem have caused more deaths. Not made it better.
"Oh, and did anyone notice that while they are mad as hell at Trump for not sending aid to Ukraine, they THEMSELVES voted AGAINST giving ANY emergency aid to all Americans ?” What? The Democratic Party has been working hard to give aid to US Citizens. Its the Republicans who don’t want to give aid. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/21/mcconnell-slams-brakes-coronavirus-aid-199890 — https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/us/coronavirus-mcconnell-states-bankruptcy.html. ? this doesn’t jive at all with the truth.
"Sorry but I don't think we are all going to die. Remember when Ebola was what was going to kill us all, and the media kept showing the piles of body bags that were prepared for the fallout. Then a month later it was totally forgotten".
THATS BECAUSE WE HAD A PRESIDENT WHO TOOK IT SERIOUSLY. https://www.wired.com/story/ebola-czar-ron-klain-federal-coronavirus-response/ - (same guy: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/03/obamas-ebola-czar-on-how-trump-bungled-coronavirus-response.html) https://www.wgbh.org/news/politics/2020/03/13/how-obamas-handling-of-ebola-compares-with-trumps-handling-of-coronavirus — also, Ebola is a FAR different disease then SARS COV2, You’re sorta comparing apples to oranges.
You should also look at the history of how Trump was removed all of the pandemic protections Obama tried to put in place : https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-timeline-trump-failures-undercut-pandemic-response-2020-4
"The common flu has killed more people this year already and the media is SILENT!" False: “In the 2016-17 season, there were an estimated 29 million flu cases in the United States; and estimated 497,000 flu-related hospitalizations and 38,000 flu-related deaths. (For comparison, 36,560 people died in car accidents in 2018 in the United States.)” https://cnsnews.com/article/international/michael-w-chapman/cdc-estimate-45-million-flu-cases-61000-flu-associated - there are 68,566 confirmed COVID 19 deaths so far, this year in the USA. https://coronastats.co/
"A handful of deaths out of 320 million Americans and we are in panic tearing down our society and costing our economy billions in the wake. It all just seems fishy, a little too well-timed if you ask me.”
Trey Gowdy is an idiot.