The Atlantic's George Packer discusses how the coronavirus exposed the country's weaknesses. Princeton's Eddie Glaude Jr. also joins the discussion. Aired on 04/23/2020.
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How The Coronavirus Exposed The Country's Weaknesses | Morning Joe | MSNBC
Well it certainly exposed our biggest weakness. A lack of leadership.
peter blood no our biggest weakness in the inability to govern ourselves.
@Matt Stanley
People have to work in order to support our families. We have neither the time nor the resources to govern ourselves. Hence, the reason we create a government FOR the people.
@John Nix Your God must be a cruel, mean, bigoted, greedy and ignorant God. You should be thanking Putin for tRump.
Yes, thank God we’ll have Biden if Trump loses. We’re screwed either way.
@Ian Board Certainly not AS screwed by Biden. A more “normal” kind of screwed, if you will. 🤨
We are on our own. Forget this administration.☹️
@Logan McLean Indeed nothing wrong being hopeful, but I rather see transparency at this time. Stay Safe dude.
@Dittzx our bleach ed dumass believes she’s mother nature
Actually America, you’d be surprised at how much of the world is with you. (66% of you at least) And against Trump. But then he’s only President of 1/3rd of America anyway.
Remember the 10th amendment? Where in the Constitution does it say the federal government should stockpile PPE to states? It’s up to your local governor.
I’m sorry but i have to agree, you ARE on your own
The Coronavirus has shown the world which countries are united or divided.
@Trevor McKenna-Williams another day Rolls by and you’re still butthurt this is great I love seeing you guys miserable
@Russian Bot Not half as miserable as the moron in the White House who suggests people shoot up disinfectant.
Vae Boyce Because We have to great leader! Ever before
@mako zero WUNDED COMBAT VET, WHAT’S YOUR REAL EXCUSE? BAD EYES, CAPS EASY, AND IT’S YOUR HANGUP, KID, NOT MINE. I DON’T YELL, I’M #RANGER #MARINES, I FRIGGIN’ DO!
ps, WORK ON YOUR BEING “CONFUSED.”
@mako zero YOU FEEL IT? FEEL IT YET? YET?
YOU’RE
FAAAAAAAAAAAA
LLLLLLLLLLLLING! ;})
Remember that time when he declared a national emergency in order to build some wall for his supporters?
@Hamish Gaffaney yeah, and their citizens didn’t cry “WaYcIsM” when their leaders did close down their borders…
But ya better believe, American politicians screamed that President Trump was just being racist and xenophobic, as well as the Lieberal Media Whores yelling that President Trump was overreacting.
@KillerBeers still his fault it was his call to make same as in my country(NZ) , when the government shut the borders the right wing were screaming ‘what about the economy’ fortunately the Prime minister did it anyway and now we on track to having the virus complete out of country in the next month or so, same with the Australia government they basically just followed what we did in the early stages
David Patton – In Trump you dipshits have finally found someone as stupid, impulsive, uncultured, ignorant, loud, racist, bombastic, xenophobic, and petty as you, and you want to hang onto him forever. In Trump you see an exact reflection of yourself, and that’s why you love him more than life itself.
His new ‘ very powerful, impenetrable wall ‘ was blown down by wind in this Feb. crashing down onto the MEXICAN side of the border and Mexico had to clean up the mess and most likely sending the bill to him to pay for the remediation.
KillerBeers because he was being racist?
As a Black, female, Gulf War vet, America’s sins and failures don’t surprised, shock or even sadden me. Too many years of just being numb…
@Cori MacNaughton Lefties sure are delusional.
@Paul Tello the word you are looking for if you read what was written is…. empathetic.
What reassurance did you offer?
@Paul Tello You certainly don’t seem to have anything useful to add to the conversation.
Namecalling . . . let me guess . . . middle school? Or not yet that mature?
@Andrew Byron Loveshire Thank you.
Nice to meet a gentleman, even if only virtually. Getting all too rare these days.
@Cori MacNaughton we do exist of course… we are just not as loud mouth idiots as you see in the opposite realm of pro conspiracy. .. yet most are pro trump… go figure the world is full of stupid… lets let them think this is just the flu and let nature secure our gene pool
Not only the President and his administration, but also the Senate and Congress have failed us all.
Most politicians for centuries like hogs at a trough.
Well you have also failed yourselves by voting for Trump a millionaire, who does not want to give to the people. And by NOT voting for the progressive democrats, that want to give to the people. Republicans and Democrats are really the same, they come from the upperclass and work to enrich themselves, and they do this by working for the interests of the big corporations.
@Russian Bot Moscow Mitch is the culprit he’s enabled this corrupt President at every turn.
@David Greer well we got the same problem with Nancy Pelosi so deal with it
Congress is working with Trump now–It’s no surprise now❄️😎!
America Land of the Greed
Home of the Wage Slave
@Dae Dotfan19 and I know many white people who would give you a different answer. Do you see what I’m driving at here? I’m not even saying you’re wrong, I’m saying that’s how YOU see it. Not a fact
@Robin Hood Those states also have the largest Black populations. Wonder if there’s a correlation.
@Dae Dotfan19 Its just a flag bro.
@Paul Tello You still don’t get it.
J. Muller No doubt your waiting for your tooth fairy money. Good luck
A fragile economy, weak and ineffective leadership, a huge wealth gap. This crisis also shines a light on the people who really matter and those who do not. An enemy which the US’s s stockpile of weapons is useless. Time to invest in the people and to choose leaders who do so.
@antwinettec YES IT DOES
Sylvester Woodest No, it doesn’t. It usually means you worked hard and smartly. But I’m guessing that you think nobody should have wealth.
@antwinettec Depend what degree of wealth. Idea that one has billions is IMMORAL. CRIMINAL AND NO BENEFIT TO SOCIETY
@Awawawa CM Just breathe, the paroxysm will be over. Your braincells could use some rest. Dont think too hard.
Yepp. The right wingers were all saying we were in decline when Obama was in office, about how we lost a step, bla bla bla and now that Trump is in office its back to utopia. You guys don’t want to hear reason. I just hope you enjoy the Depression your dear leader is leading us all to.
Joe, for Americans being the best in so many fields they still couln’t produce a functioning test at first – and even were to stupid to use the one Germany delivered.
That’s the problem in a nutshell: arrogance and presumptuousness.
Maybe learning that America is no longer #1 in most fields where it counts would be the first step to reclaiming the leading position.
The myth of “American exceptionalism” prevails to our own detriment.
It’s a bit of an odd comparison, but it’s sort of like how American teams keep winning the Stanley Cup in NHL hockey, rather than a Canadian team, which American hockey fans love to point out to Canadian hockey fans. Regardless of where the team is located, most of the players on said team are not American, they are still the minority, with the country that has the most players in the NHL still being Canada, collectively European players make the second highest population, then comes Americans, but that fact doesn’t stop Americans from chanting how “they’re” number one. Similarly, American research firms, and so forth hire plenty of people from outside of America, then claim the things they produced where all the result of how great America is.
The problem is less one of having a functioning test than scaling it to 330M people.
THANK YOU. Joe’s empty platitudes ring hollow. IF we were number one we would PROVE it. #1 in education? NO not even top 10. Read and writing? NO. Math? NO. Science? NO. America DOES attract a lot of immigrants but humpty dumpty is busy changing all the immigration rules to make it much harder to come here. Talented foreign students will look elsewhere. A preponderance of our Nobels were financed with government grant money, grant money that is drying up due to a corrupt, inept administration.
Nero fiddles as Rome burns.
America doesn’t need to be in the “leading” position. America fell into this corrosive mindset when as a nation we began deluding ourselves that we did the majority of the work in winning WWII. That overarching level of arrogance led to America being soundly trounced in not only Korea (1950 – 1953) but worse yet in Vietnam (America entered in 1965 and finally got kicked out in 1975). Yet clearly America and especially the war-mongers and weapons manufacturers haven’t learned their lessons, while foolishly the American public continues to support these drains upon our children’s lives and upon our finances (by taxation to support an overblown military).
Since Ronald Reagan making lobbyists legal every greedy dictator has come to America to by our politicians.
another great gift of gop, lobbyist (gerrymandering, budget deficit, an exploded miletary complex, woman not getting paid the same for the same work, 10000000 of deaths due to lack of healthcare yet a surplus of guns the list goes on but i got sick thinking about the crimes that republicans commit!!!
No, Joe, our fellow Americans let us down. Many of them allowed themselves to be uninformed, manipulated, misled, willfully ignorant, narrow-minded, prejudiced, short-sighted, etc., and put officials in power who reflect their faults, opinions, biases, and weaknesses.
@Susan L H
America needs better education yes, but most of all, america needs parents who want to be parents who are willing to teach their children to be honest loving kind, hard working and not afraid to be different and not to follow the herd, the television can’t teach that. Individualism is to be prized for you can be yourself and strive for greatness.
All great countries were destroyed from within — these entitled SOBs who call themselves our leaders.
@Russian Bot
Enlightenment us with a better source or just STFU?
@Brenton Iverson I can get better information from my f****** dog
@Russian Bot
Well share your dogs link? We all want unbiased truth.
@jazzy j Agree completely with you. We each need to do our bit. What I want to do is look at this as an issue with the collective.Your suggestion asks the individual to do better when the collective (government, education, big business) profits from the fragmentation that comes from the cult of the individual. Until the system is tackled I don’t think individual action, however good and well intentioned is enough because social cohesion is not an aim and there’s no broad agreement about what to aim for. Look at any country where this happens and you’ll see it’s top down and bottom up eg Singapore, South Korea, Sweden, New Zealand.
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When your leader thinks only of himself and not for the welfare of all citizens, it is a failed state.
@Andy Ever ask yourself why Trump got elected in the first place? He’s a symptom, not a cause.
@Ian Board Absolutely! You have me on the same wavelength mate. That is why people should be concerned with who the GOP will elect next, the Trump 2.0. I mean Cheetolino is ignorant and blatantly un-diplomatic, but just imagine what a smooth, slick operator can do. How easy one could manipulate an already frantic base and maybe fool enough independents with his syren call. That’s where the true danger lies, not in this inept creature.
He got elected because of the vast swaths of voters the Democrats wrote off. It’s too easy to adopt a condescending attitude towards the people who voted for Trump.
Andy people should be concerned with not only the GOP but the Democrats as well. Both parties have failed us
It’s f’d up at the top we all know guess what if it’s f’d up at the the top it’s f’d up at the bottom.
My dad taught me to be strong, independent, and seek the truth. My mom taught me to be compassionate, kind and truthful. Unfortunately I live in a place full of other people who didn’t have my parents.
@Alexandru-David Brata Not sure your numbers are correct , (in fact I’m sure they are wrong…. for now ) . However I’d agree that the most powerful and richest nation on earth is doing very poorly and is as usual lying to itself into a direr crisis .
@PsycheWaffles A bit worse than quite a few other comparable countries . Very few countries are led by such a dumb nasty ignoramus .
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You seek the truth and you watch news programs? Yuk
@Gimmiepig You search your brains for intelligence ? Hilarious .
I don’t know if America has the greatest innovators in the world anymore. Countries like Japan and South Korea has more advanced technology.
amerika is lost
@John Martin started 30 years ago
Have more
Tat Hui how can they be if education is unobtainable to majority of citizens? They just import “highly skilled” whatever other nationality… instead of doing the right thing. He can’t make it great because they make it inequitable on purpose.
Uh, you living in the past brother.
I guess Make America Great Again meant killing off the population.
And then trying to profit from it.
U.S. LIKELY TO SEE 50,000 COVID-19 DEATHS BY WEEKEND
https://worldcurrentnewss1.blogspot.com/2020/04/coronavirus-updates-us-likely-to-see.html
Exactly.
@Yaa Sheikh wait a week or so.
The Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Texas and Florida have all had open beaches and protests.
Watch the numbers rise😞
It was Nancy who told everyone to go out and party though
angelinshagows Make America Go Away?
A society (a culture) is only as wealthy as it’s ability (and willingness) to look after the least of it’s own.
U.S. LIKELY TO SEE 50,000 COVID-19 DEATHS BY WEEKEND
https://worldcurrentnewss1.blogspot.com/2020/04/coronavirus-updates-us-likely-to-see.html
Communist!!
“D S A” Divided States of America!!! The broken country. Our government is disgusting and Shameful. The police have constantly killed innocent people, on a regular basis, broken. We have no Leadership in Washington.
More like, “How the corona virus exposed the country’s Stupidness”.
Just the Democrats
90% of Donald Trump Voters Are Functionally R and Rode the Short Bus to School.
Or age has rotted their brains.
Mr President “People are Dying”
President :” Do I care “