Obama: When I was president, I had been talking to scientists for a while so during my last year in office, we put together a pandemic playbook for how to deal with the eventuality of a pandemic.. When Trump came in, we gave over this playbook and he threw it out. I want to be fair on this, no matter who was going to president, this was going to be a problem… But if you look at a country like Canada, their per capita death rate was 40% lower than here. So just do the math. That’s more than 400k people. People’s grandparents, people’s fathers, people’s moms who would’ve been alive if Trump had just paid attention and tried to follow the plan that we gave him. It might have been somebody in your family that could’ve been impacted. So, if somebody tells you that this doesn’t make a difference, having somebody competent who cares about you.. it does matter and at some point, it will make a difference to them
We’re launching a fundraiser to help Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital recover❤️
Today, russia struck the largest children's hospital in🇺🇦
They’re targeting the most innocent and vulnerable — help us protect the future of Ukraine in the aftermath of this war crime:
https://t.co/HDUeE4Zd0E
Folks, this is critical. I wrote this op-ed because I fear we've lost our sense of history. If you think Putin will stop at Ukraine, you're mistaken.
And remember: Iran and China are also propping Russia up and we’re not talking about that enough either.
https://t.co/gVp5FoMAdK
@Adamental2 When you say, “who support Ukraine”, you obviously know nothing about Ukraine and its history. I’m so sick of people who know very little about a topic pretending to be the tough, superior know-it-alls about everything.
There's nothing sadder than seeing universities cut their arts and humanities departments. Literature, philosophy, poetry, these are things that nourish and sustain the human spirit. They are necessary for us to flourish.
When you struggle with a stutter like I have forever, you can put yourselves in the shoes of anyone speaking publicly who has endured the same. It means so much to see someone else with a speech disorder commanding an audience even if the stumbles take you back to being teased.
@Martyupnorth_2 You need to talk to some Ukrainian/Canadian historians and intellectuals. They will be able to give you the true story of Ukraine and Putin’s goal of restoring the Russian Empire. Please stop with the flippant remarks and surface opinions.