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The Enemy of America, by Brian Cates

If you’re hoping a lot of people die so that markets will crash and a president you don’t like won’t get reelected, what does that make you? From Brian Cates at uncoverdc.com:

If you’d told me just a few weeks ago that Trump Derangement Syndrome had reached the point that prominent American politicians and news media people would be openly rooting for a major pandemic to collapse the financial markets, I would not have believed it. Surely, they would never go THAT far, I would have thought.

And then I watched it happen before my eyes.

I watched ghouls in human form hoping a virus would kill hundreds, if not thousands of their fellow Americans so the Dow Jones and the NASDAQ would plummet, and this could be used to politically damage a President they didn’t like.

Let me tell you something- I don’t like President Obama. I didn’t when he was in office and I still don’t. But even when he was at his worst, my distaste for Obama would never have led me to wish for some disaster that would kill enough Americans so that it could be used to drive him from office.

Even when Obama’s mishandling of the entire Middle East led to bloodbaths in Egypt, Libya, Iraq, Syria, Yemen and elsewhere that killed hundreds of thousands of people, it never even occurred to me to hope for some disaster to strike my own country that was so bad it would hurt his reelection chances.

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