""That’s all I hear about now. That’s all I hear. Turn on television—’Covid, Covid, Covid, Covid, Covid, Covid.’ A plane goes down. 500 people dead, they don’t talk about it," Trump told his supporters at a campaign rally in Lumberton, North Carolina, on October 24th. “Covid, Covid, Covid, Covid.’ By the way, on November 4, you won’t hear about it anymore,”"
tRump has bee true to his word. He hasn’t spoke about nor dealt with COVID since the election.
Over the last 15 days there have been 1.6 million new confirmed cases and 11,501 deaths.
Yesterday alone there were over 170,000 new cases and over 1,900 deaths and over 79,000 current hospitalizations. At this rate we could see over 368,000 deaths by January 20th.
Pfizer and Moderna have released good news about the efficacy of their vacines and if the data stands up to review we may be able to start vaccinating doctors, nurses, etc by the end of December. But we only hear vague reassurances about a distribution plan from the WH (something that should have been worked on months ago) and nothing about funding the distribution from Congress.
Mean while hospitals are at the breaking point and again no assistance from Washington.
This was probably the way we should have expected President Trump to finish his time in the White House: whining, lying, ignoring the duties of his office, desperate to keep his scam going and focused only on himself.
But that Trump is being Trump should not for one second blind us to what is happening right now and how damaging it is. The destruction of the past four years was apparently not enough for him.
So on his way out the door, Trump is salting the earth behind him.
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At the current pace, by the time Trump leaves office, more than 300,000 Americans will have died of covid-19. And even after he departs, every day more will die because Trump politicized simple public health measures, convincing his supporters that refusing to wear a mask to protect yourself and those around you is a great way to own the libs.
No president in American history has ever before spent the end of his time in office trying to discredit our democracy, degrade the federal government and set Americans against each other. And what of the Republican Party? They, too, are finishing the Trump presidency the way they started it, with a show of complicity and cowardice.
There are some Republicans, the most repugnant, who are enthusiastically whipping up anger and spreading lies about voter fraud, trying to convince their base that Biden will be an illegitimate usurper.
At the other end, there are a few who have grudgingly acknowledged reality, admitting that yes, Biden won the election and will become president in January. ✁
The rest of them are hiding, too craven to even answer that simple question. “We invited every single Republican senator to appear on Meet the Press this morning,” said NBC’s Chuck Todd on Sunday. “They all declined.
The reason was clear: They can’t defend Trump and don’t have the guts to tell the truth about what he’s doing.
So Bloomberg’s in synch with Stantis today. Trump Spending Final Weeks Giving Biden Fun Problems to Solve Trump may never concede his loss to Biden, but he’s acting as if he won’t be in charge after Jan. 20. You can tell by the way he’s stirring up as much trouble around the world as possible.
And this guy thinks Republicans can be shamed, quaint: Public shaming may be one tool Democrats can use to keep Republicans from trashing democracy. — Frank Wilkinson
Somehow this is not everyone’s Job1: The economy is losing momentum and can’t wait for Inauguration Day for more fiscal relief. — Bloomberg’s editorial board
President Donald Trump is still contesting the results of the 2020 US election two full weeks after Election Day, even as hope dwindles among his allies and supporters.
Some of Trump’s advisors are encouraging the president to allow President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris’ transition team access to White House resources — which are typically at the disposal of the president-elect — and to commit to a peaceful transfer of power, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.
One of the advisors who spoke with The Post said Trump continued to refuse concession so his supporters could see him “keep fighting” in hopes of bolstering support for a run in 2024.
“He is more dug into his position than he was at the beginning,” the advisor told The Post. “He thinks this is his base for 2024, and that half the country are warriors fighting for him, and that he’s got to keep fighting.”
Trump has yet to concede the election despite lacking any evidence the result will change when states certify their results in the coming weeks.
Trump has repeatedly, and falsely, claimed he “won” the election, and his campaign and some of his supporters have leveled baseless allegations of election fraud.
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Last week, the Department of Homeland Security cracked down on the election-fraud allegations, saying the 2020 presidential election was “the most secure in American history.”
No evidence has emerged “that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised,” it continued in the statement.
On Tuesday, Trump fired Chris Krebs, the head of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
Congressional negotiations on a bill to authorize more than $740 billion in defense spending hinge on only one point of contention: whether lawmakers will order the Pentagon to rename installations that commemorate Confederate leaders.
The debate has raged against the backdrop of national protests over racial injustice and grew more contentious this summer when President Trump threatened to veto the annual defense bill if it ordered such changes.
Both the House and Senate, with veto-proof majorities, nonetheless passed separate versions of the spending authorization containing directives and deadlines to change the names.
But in the months since — and now despite Trump’s lame-duck status — Republican leaders on the armed services committees have become adamant that as long as he is threatening a veto, ✁
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Behind the scenes, a cadre of Republicans has been working on the president to come down off his veto threat, according to people involved in or aware of those discussions who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the private lobbying effort.
The message they have tried to communicate is that it is not worth going down in history as the president who risked the fate of a defense bill Congress has passed every year for almost six decades over preserving remembrances of the Confederacy.
Some Republicans have used this rationale to press Democrats to relent — arguing that President-elect Joe Biden could order the name changes once he takes office, making the argument moot.
“The incoming Biden administration is going to deal with the base-naming issues anyway, so really what we’re down to is whether it has to be in this bill just this way and whether it would provoke a veto,” Rep. Mac Thornberry (Tex.), the House Armed Services Committee’s ranking Republican, told reporters Tuesday.
President Trump asked senior advisers in an Oval Office meeting on Thursday whether he had options to take action against Iran’s main nuclear site in the coming weeks.
The meeting occurred a day after international inspectors reported a significant increase in the country’s stockpile of nuclear material, four current and former U.S. officials said on Monday.
A range of senior advisers dissuaded the president from moving ahead with a military strike. The advisers — including Vice President Mike Pence; Secretary of State Mike Pompeo; Christopher C. Miller, the acting defense secretary; and Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff — warned that a strike against Iran’s facilities could easily escalate into a broader conflict in the last weeks of Mr. Trump’s presidency.
Any strike — whether by missile or cyber — would almost certainly be focused on Natanz, where the International Atomic Energy Agency reported on Wednesday that Iran’s uranium stockpile was now 12 times larger than permitted under the nuclear accord that Mr. Trump abandoned in 2018.
The agency also noted that Iran had not allowed it access to another suspected site where there was evidence of past nuclear activity.
Mr. Trump asked his top national security aides what options were available and how to respond, officials said.
After Mr. Pompeo and General Milley described the potential risks of military escalation, officials left the meeting believing a missile attack inside Iran was off the table, according to administration officials with knowledge of the meeting.
Cheapskate0 almost 4 years ago
Strips that were needed prior to 03-Nov.
Wilde Bill almost 4 years ago
Truer words…
Sanspareil almost 4 years ago
Der Gropenfurhrer has sent many to the peace of the grave !
nosirrom almost 4 years ago
""That’s all I hear about now. That’s all I hear. Turn on television—’Covid, Covid, Covid, Covid, Covid, Covid.’ A plane goes down. 500 people dead, they don’t talk about it," Trump told his supporters at a campaign rally in Lumberton, North Carolina, on October 24th. “Covid, Covid, Covid, Covid.’ By the way, on November 4, you won’t hear about it anymore,”"
tRump has bee true to his word. He hasn’t spoke about nor dealt with COVID since the election.
Over the last 15 days there have been 1.6 million new confirmed cases and 11,501 deaths.
Yesterday alone there were over 170,000 new cases and over 1,900 deaths and over 79,000 current hospitalizations. At this rate we could see over 368,000 deaths by January 20th.
Pfizer and Moderna have released good news about the efficacy of their vacines and if the data stands up to review we may be able to start vaccinating doctors, nurses, etc by the end of December. But we only hear vague reassurances about a distribution plan from the WH (something that should have been worked on months ago) and nothing about funding the distribution from Congress.
Mean while hospitals are at the breaking point and again no assistance from Washington.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/11/third-surge-hospitals-staffing-shortage/617128/
Staffing has become so critical that even if they have beds hospitals are turning away patients because they don’t have the staff to care for them.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/11/16/as-covid19-spreads-and-hospitals-fill-with-patients-staffing-logistics-become-central-concern
I have to ask myself “Will I be the patient they send home to die like they did during the 1918 flu pandemic?”
Socially distance, wash your hands often, and WEAR A MASK!!!
braindead Premium Member almost 4 years ago
Stantis, are you just figuring that out NOW?
Silly Season almost 4 years ago
This was probably the way we should have expected President Trump to finish his time in the White House: whining, lying, ignoring the duties of his office, desperate to keep his scam going and focused only on himself.
But that Trump is being Trump should not for one second blind us to what is happening right now and how damaging it is. The destruction of the past four years was apparently not enough for him.
So on his way out the door, Trump is salting the earth behind him.
✁
At the current pace, by the time Trump leaves office, more than 300,000 Americans will have died of covid-19. And even after he departs, every day more will die because Trump politicized simple public health measures, convincing his supporters that refusing to wear a mask to protect yourself and those around you is a great way to own the libs.
No president in American history has ever before spent the end of his time in office trying to discredit our democracy, degrade the federal government and set Americans against each other. And what of the Republican Party? They, too, are finishing the Trump presidency the way they started it, with a show of complicity and cowardice.
There are some Republicans, the most repugnant, who are enthusiastically whipping up anger and spreading lies about voter fraud, trying to convince their base that Biden will be an illegitimate usurper.
At the other end, there are a few who have grudgingly acknowledged reality, admitting that yes, Biden won the election and will become president in January. ✁
The rest of them are hiding, too craven to even answer that simple question. “We invited every single Republican senator to appear on Meet the Press this morning,” said NBC’s Chuck Todd on Sunday. “They all declined.
The reason was clear: They can’t defend Trump and don’t have the guts to tell the truth about what he’s doing.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/11/16/his-way-out-trump-salts-earth-behind-him/
William Robbins Premium Member almost 4 years ago
So Bloomberg’s in synch with Stantis today. Trump Spending Final Weeks Giving Biden Fun Problems to Solve Trump may never concede his loss to Biden, but he’s acting as if he won’t be in charge after Jan. 20. You can tell by the way he’s stirring up as much trouble around the world as possible.
And this guy thinks Republicans can be shamed, quaint: Public shaming may be one tool Democrats can use to keep Republicans from trashing democracy. — Frank Wilkinson
Somehow this is not everyone’s Job1: The economy is losing momentum and can’t wait for Inauguration Day for more fiscal relief. — Bloomberg’s editorial board
Silly Season almost 4 years ago
President Donald Trump is still contesting the results of the 2020 US election two full weeks after Election Day, even as hope dwindles among his allies and supporters.
Some of Trump’s advisors are encouraging the president to allow President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris’ transition team access to White House resources — which are typically at the disposal of the president-elect — and to commit to a peaceful transfer of power, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.
One of the advisors who spoke with The Post said Trump continued to refuse concession so his supporters could see him “keep fighting” in hopes of bolstering support for a run in 2024.
“He is more dug into his position than he was at the beginning,” the advisor told The Post. “He thinks this is his base for 2024, and that half the country are warriors fighting for him, and that he’s got to keep fighting.”
Trump has yet to concede the election despite lacking any evidence the result will change when states certify their results in the coming weeks.
Trump has repeatedly, and falsely, claimed he “won” the election, and his campaign and some of his supporters have leveled baseless allegations of election fraud.
✁
Last week, the Department of Homeland Security cracked down on the election-fraud allegations, saying the 2020 presidential election was “the most secure in American history.”
No evidence has emerged “that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised,” it continued in the statement.
On Tuesday, Trump fired Chris Krebs, the head of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
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https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-set-election-fraud-claims-help-in-2024-report-2020-11
Silly Season almost 4 years ago
Congressional negotiations on a bill to authorize more than $740 billion in defense spending hinge on only one point of contention: whether lawmakers will order the Pentagon to rename installations that commemorate Confederate leaders.
The debate has raged against the backdrop of national protests over racial injustice and grew more contentious this summer when President Trump threatened to veto the annual defense bill if it ordered such changes.
Both the House and Senate, with veto-proof majorities, nonetheless passed separate versions of the spending authorization containing directives and deadlines to change the names.
But in the months since — and now despite Trump’s lame-duck status — Republican leaders on the armed services committees have become adamant that as long as he is threatening a veto, ✁
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Behind the scenes, a cadre of Republicans has been working on the president to come down off his veto threat, according to people involved in or aware of those discussions who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the private lobbying effort.
The message they have tried to communicate is that it is not worth going down in history as the president who risked the fate of a defense bill Congress has passed every year for almost six decades over preserving remembrances of the Confederacy.
Some Republicans have used this rationale to press Democrats to relent — arguing that President-elect Joe Biden could order the name changes once he takes office, making the argument moot.
“The incoming Biden administration is going to deal with the base-naming issues anyway, so really what we’re down to is whether it has to be in this bill just this way and whether it would provoke a veto,” Rep. Mac Thornberry (Tex.), the House Armed Services Committee’s ranking Republican, told reporters Tuesday.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/confederate-base-names-trump-congress/2020/11/18/7c9b4b12-29e2-11eb-9b14-ad872157ebc9_story.html
Silly Season almost 4 years ago
Repost from 11/17/2020…
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President Trump asked senior advisers in an Oval Office meeting on Thursday whether he had options to take action against Iran’s main nuclear site in the coming weeks.
The meeting occurred a day after international inspectors reported a significant increase in the country’s stockpile of nuclear material, four current and former U.S. officials said on Monday.
A range of senior advisers dissuaded the president from moving ahead with a military strike. The advisers — including Vice President Mike Pence; Secretary of State Mike Pompeo; Christopher C. Miller, the acting defense secretary; and Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff — warned that a strike against Iran’s facilities could easily escalate into a broader conflict in the last weeks of Mr. Trump’s presidency.
Any strike — whether by missile or cyber — would almost certainly be focused on Natanz, where the International Atomic Energy Agency reported on Wednesday that Iran’s uranium stockpile was now 12 times larger than permitted under the nuclear accord that Mr. Trump abandoned in 2018.
The agency also noted that Iran had not allowed it access to another suspected site where there was evidence of past nuclear activity.
Mr. Trump asked his top national security aides what options were available and how to respond, officials said.
After Mr. Pompeo and General Milley described the potential risks of military escalation, officials left the meeting believing a missile attack inside Iran was off the table, according to administration officials with knowledge of the meeting.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/16/us/politics/trump-iran-nuclear.html
sandflea almost 4 years ago
That’s the first factual thing he’s said in 46 months.
MAGA Premium Member almost 4 years ago
I didn’t think libertarians would have TDS, but apparently they do.