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Originally Posted by WWJDnow
Donald Trump, through his steadfast leadership, has kept America safe from the coronavirus while the rest of the world is dying. Even without his many other accomplishments--more than any other President in our history--this is enough to guarantee a rightful place on Mt. Rushmore.
But that isn't enough. It would not be fair to keep the faces of Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Roosevelt on the monument. Never in a million years could those fine gentlemen, for all of their virtues, have borne the burdens of the office with as much grace, wisdom, dignity, and energy as President Trump has. They simply do not belong in his company.
if you're wondering what we could do with the extra space that removing these four images would create, why not privatize it? After all, it would be prime billboard space.
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Originally Posted by WWJDnow
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Amen! As you mentioned in another thread Trump proved "we're lower than the world" and Europe too. Have Reagan and the Bushes earned a spot on Mount Rushmore? They're no Trump but they had some accomplishments in their own rights.
Also we're the freest country in the world (note that locking up the most amount of people and having the highest incarceration rates doesn't restrict our freedom. It's only criminals that get locked up. It helps the good people be more free as they don't have to worry about criminals).
It's like gun deaths. We accept that we will have more gun deaths as a sacrifice for our freedom, and it's a sacrifice well worth making. Under normal conditions, we might have gun deaths at 400-500 times other countries in exchange for our freedom, but Trump has gotten that number down to 100 times the gun deaths of other developed nations.
And covid deaths, we accept that we may have a few more covid deaths in exchange for our freedom to not where masks and to hold mass gatherings, and that's again a cost well worth paying. Anything else is communism (
https://twitter.com/davenewworld_2/s...06240287248384 )
While I don't think we should be using deaths as a percentage of population, I do want to point out how great we're doing on that metric. Given our amazing freedoms, I'd expect to have 1,000-2,000 times the death per population as countries like South Korea where they have draconian and unreasonable restrictions on freedoms.
South Korea has around 300 covid deaths and 51M people or 1 death per 170k people. US on the other hand has around 331M people and 166k deaths or one death per 2,000 people! With all our amazing freedoms we only have around 100 times the death! That's a very reasonable number IMO.
You can't compare the death rate of other countries to US in the same way that you can't compare the cost of a jumbo jet to the cost of a bicycle. You're paying more because you're getting more. I can't wait to proudly proclaim "We only have 100 times the death rate of South Korea!" That's an absolute victory over covid-19 and a celebratory stat in my book!
In fact, to compensate for our vastly greater freedoms, I think every death/case stat in USA should be divided by 1,000 when comparing to other countries. That would give us a more fair comparison to work off of. I call this the Freedom index
™.
Here's our gun deaths per 100,000 people with the Freedom Index
™ taken into account:
* as per ( https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsan...m-gun-violence )**US deaths divided by 1,000 to account for FI
Here's a similar chart for covid deaths per 100k population.
* As per ( https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality)
** US deaths divided by 1,000 to account for FI
Once you factor in the freedom you'll see US is actually doing better than any other country in the world.