Evidently, Trump is feeling pressure about the lack of testing. (He, of course, feels NO pressure about his continual LIES.)
Some of his new ‘advisors’ on the bigliest task force ever are asking about testing and he has NO ANSWERS. And a reporter asked how many tests would be needed to reopen the country and Trump ran away. Couldn’t think up a new lie?
Or even a “I don’t take responsibility for any of it!”?
.
The Stable Genius has NO IDEA what to do.
AND he is willing to allow millions of Americans to die — he DOES NOT CARE.
The task force was designed around a fallacy that has taken hold among conservatives. According to this line of thinking, the economy can be quickly “reopened,” the cost of which will either be minimal (because the coronavirus is just the flu) or at least acceptable (because the cost of a shutdown is higher than the loss of life).
The flaw in this thinking is its assumption that it is practical to reopen the economy without containing the virus. There is little evidence to believe individuals or businesses will reenter public spaces in the absence of reliable technology to protect them.
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By Tuesday night, the Post had the answer, which was rather sinister. The administration needed credible-looking outside allies to give Trump cover for an unpopular decision that could very well lead to tens of thousands of deaths.
“The debate this week has been over how to implement the return, what data could be used to justify the decision, and how to build public support for it to provide the president maximum political cover,” two sources explained to the Post.
This line from the same report might be one of the most incriminating sentences ever published about this (or any) president:
“Trump’s advisers are trying to shield the president from political accountability should his move to reopen the economy prove premature and result in lost lives, and so they are trying to mobilize business executives, economists and other prominent figures to buy into the eventual White House plan, so that if it does not work, the blame can be shared broadly, according to two former administration officials familiar with the efforts.”
So the plan was to create a national death panel, conscripting corporate America into sharing the guilt in the fairly high likelihood that the plan goes pear-shaped.
The Trump administration has awarded bulk contracts to third-party vendors in recent weeks in a scramble to obtain N95 respirator masks, and the government has paid the companies more than $5 per unit, nearly eight times what it would have spent in January and February when U.S. intelligence agencies warned of a looming global pandemic, procurement records show.
The N95 masks are essential protective gear for health-care workers… ✄
Demand for the masks has created a frenzied, freewheeling global market that has pitted U.S. states against the federal government and rich nations against poorer ones.
Administration officials leaped into the fray late, then embarked on a voracious spending spree. Though U.S. federal agencies made a small number of relatively modest purchases before the second half of March, the government has ordered more than $600 million worth of masks since then.
Large U.S. companies such as Honeywell and 3M have received the biggest orders, but the Trump administration also has signed high-dollar deals with third-party vendors selling masks for many times the standard price.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency awarded a $55 million contract for N95s this month to Panthera Worldwide LLC, which is in the business of tactical training. One of its owners said last year that Panthera’s parent company had not had any employees since May 2018, according to sworn testimony.
It also has no history of manufacturing or procuring medical equipment, according to a review of records produced as a result of legal disputes involving the company and its affiliates.
Panthera Worldwide’s parent company filed for bankruptcy last fall, and the LLC is no longer recognized in Virginia — where it has its main office — following nonpayment of fees, which according to Virginia code results…
“[A]lmost everything the Washington Post does is fake,” President Donald Trump said on October 2, 2019, according to White House transcripts. ✄
That’s what Trump had to say November 20, 2019. He said something similar earlier, on September 25, 2019,
…but later praised the paper February 6, 2020, when its headlines were “good” to him immediately after his impeachment vote failed.
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✄ Trump’s campaign sued the Washington Post less than a month later, in early March, 2020, for running allegedly defamatory op-ed pieces about him which contained a rhetorical question.
Now, the president’s 2020 campaign has given the so-called “fake newspaper” “fake press” “phony” Washington Post its biggest endorsement ever from Team Trump. What kind of endorsement?
The campaign has put so much trust in the Post that it has attested to the Post’s accuracy in a court of law.
Yes, it’s true: the Trump Campaign cited the Washington Post‘s reporting in a lawsuit filed against a small Wisconsin television station which aired a super PAC advertisement which was critical of Trump. The details of that lawsuit are here, and the lawsuit itself is embedded below.
The Trump campaign lawsuit references the Post some 26 separate times.
The Post is described in the lawsuit as a “fact-checker,” and an entire Post article dated March 13, 2020 is included as Exhibit E on page 45 of the PDF.
The cited article purports to show that the super PAC advertisement at issue in the lawsuit used manipulated audio. The Post is further cited to present to a judge a full Trump quote from a campaign rally in North Charleston, S.C., for comparison to the audio at issue.
CBS News reports are also directly cited. NBC News reports are indirectly cited. In the eyes of the campaign, they’re both suddenly trustworthy….
On the contrary, sir! The coronavirus loves you! You’re feeding it so many sacrificial victims. Just look how well it’s doing in New York, Washington State, Chicago, Louisiana, and spreading each and every day! Well done, Mr. Stable Genius! /s
DFT luvs Corona-19. It gets people looking the other way while he picks their pockets and takes away their rights, and then he gets to go on TV where people will watch him out of fear, and he can pretend he’s popular.
There is no doubt that Coronavirus came from China and that their actions made it worse. After this, if we go back to trading with China, we deserve everything that follows.
Welcome to another meeting of the liberal pseudo intellectual cult.Your precious overlords are just as culpable for what is going on, your mistress Pelosi is so concerned about us little people that she had to add some nonessential pork fat to the corona virus aid thereby holding up aid for us peasants. I know the republicans aren’t any better but get our damn facts straight!BTW: Trump never said the virus was a hoax, this is what he really said, “Now the Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus. You know that, right? Coronavirus. They’re politicizing it. We did one of the great jobs. You say, ‘How’s President Trump doing?’ They go, ‘Oh, not good, not good.’ They have no clue. They don’t have any clue. They can’t even count their votes in Iowa, they can’t even count. No they can’t. They can’t count their votes.”At no point in the rally did Trump directly call the novel coronavirus outbreak a “hoax” or “conspiracy.” In fact, he referred to the respiratory virus as a “public health threat” and reiterated that “we have to take it very, very seriously. That’s what we’re doing. We are preparing for the worst.”, from Fact Check, checkyourfacts & snopes.
Cheapskate0 over 4 years ago
Join the club!
braindead Premium Member over 4 years ago
Evidently, Trump is feeling pressure about the lack of testing. (He, of course, feels NO pressure about his continual LIES.)
Some of his new ‘advisors’ on the bigliest task force ever are asking about testing and he has NO ANSWERS. And a reporter asked how many tests would be needed to reopen the country and Trump ran away. Couldn’t think up a new lie?
Or even a “I don’t take responsibility for any of it!”?
.
The Stable Genius has NO IDEA what to do.
AND he is willing to allow millions of Americans to die — he DOES NOT CARE.
Darsan54 Premium Member over 4 years ago
Carmen, hope you get well soon. The skunk probably won’t get sick as virus is extending professional courtesy.
Silly Season over 4 years ago
The task force was designed around a fallacy that has taken hold among conservatives. According to this line of thinking, the economy can be quickly “reopened,” the cost of which will either be minimal (because the coronavirus is just the flu) or at least acceptable (because the cost of a shutdown is higher than the loss of life).
The flaw in this thinking is its assumption that it is practical to reopen the economy without containing the virus. There is little evidence to believe individuals or businesses will reenter public spaces in the absence of reliable technology to protect them.
✄
By Tuesday night, the Post had the answer, which was rather sinister. The administration needed credible-looking outside allies to give Trump cover for an unpopular decision that could very well lead to tens of thousands of deaths.
“The debate this week has been over how to implement the return, what data could be used to justify the decision, and how to build public support for it to provide the president maximum political cover,” two sources explained to the Post.
This line from the same report might be one of the most incriminating sentences ever published about this (or any) president:
“Trump’s advisers are trying to shield the president from political accountability should his move to reopen the economy prove premature and result in lost lives, and so they are trying to mobilize business executives, economists and other prominent figures to buy into the eventual White House plan, so that if it does not work, the blame can be shared broadly, according to two former administration officials familiar with the efforts.”
So the plan was to create a national death panel, conscripting corporate America into sharing the guilt in the fairly high likelihood that the plan goes pear-shaped.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/04/trumps-coronavirus-ceo-open-up-country-task-force.html
Silly Season over 4 years ago
The Trump administration has awarded bulk contracts to third-party vendors in recent weeks in a scramble to obtain N95 respirator masks, and the government has paid the companies more than $5 per unit, nearly eight times what it would have spent in January and February when U.S. intelligence agencies warned of a looming global pandemic, procurement records show.
The N95 masks are essential protective gear for health-care workers… ✄
Demand for the masks has created a frenzied, freewheeling global market that has pitted U.S. states against the federal government and rich nations against poorer ones.
Administration officials leaped into the fray late, then embarked on a voracious spending spree. Though U.S. federal agencies made a small number of relatively modest purchases before the second half of March, the government has ordered more than $600 million worth of masks since then.
Large U.S. companies such as Honeywell and 3M have received the biggest orders, but the Trump administration also has signed high-dollar deals with third-party vendors selling masks for many times the standard price.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency awarded a $55 million contract for N95s this month to Panthera Worldwide LLC, which is in the business of tactical training. One of its owners said last year that Panthera’s parent company had not had any employees since May 2018, according to sworn testimony.
It also has no history of manufacturing or procuring medical equipment, according to a review of records produced as a result of legal disputes involving the company and its affiliates.
Panthera Worldwide’s parent company filed for bankruptcy last fall, and the LLC is no longer recognized in Virginia — where it has its main office — following nonpayment of fees, which according to Virginia code results…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/coronavirus-trump-masks-contracts-prices/2020/04/15/9c186276-7f20-11ea-8de7-9fdff6d5d83e_story.html
Silly Season over 4 years ago
“[A]lmost everything the Washington Post does is fake,” President Donald Trump said on October 2, 2019, according to White House transcripts. ✄
That’s what Trump had to say November 20, 2019. He said something similar earlier, on September 25, 2019,
…but later praised the paper February 6, 2020, when its headlines were “good” to him immediately after his impeachment vote failed.
✄
✄ Trump’s campaign sued the Washington Post less than a month later, in early March, 2020, for running allegedly defamatory op-ed pieces about him which contained a rhetorical question.
Now, the president’s 2020 campaign has given the so-called “fake newspaper” “fake press” “phony” Washington Post its biggest endorsement ever from Team Trump. What kind of endorsement?
The campaign has put so much trust in the Post that it has attested to the Post’s accuracy in a court of law.
Yes, it’s true: the Trump Campaign cited the Washington Post‘s reporting in a lawsuit filed against a small Wisconsin television station which aired a super PAC advertisement which was critical of Trump. The details of that lawsuit are here, and the lawsuit itself is embedded below.
The Trump campaign lawsuit references the Post some 26 separate times.
The Post is described in the lawsuit as a “fact-checker,” and an entire Post article dated March 13, 2020 is included as Exhibit E on page 45 of the PDF.
The cited article purports to show that the super PAC advertisement at issue in the lawsuit used manipulated audio. The Post is further cited to present to a judge a full Trump quote from a campaign rally in North Charleston, S.C., for comparison to the audio at issue.
CBS News reports are also directly cited. NBC News reports are indirectly cited. In the eyes of the campaign, they’re both suddenly trustworthy….
https://lawandcrime.com/awkward/lawsuit-proves-donald-trump-campaign-really-does-trust-fake-newspaper-washington-post-phony-cbs
Wilde Bill over 4 years ago
That’s OK, skunk, I hate you too.
Bookworm over 4 years ago
On the contrary, sir! The coronavirus loves you! You’re feeding it so many sacrificial victims. Just look how well it’s doing in New York, Washington State, Chicago, Louisiana, and spreading each and every day! Well done, Mr. Stable Genius! /s
Kip W over 4 years ago
DFT luvs Corona-19. It gets people looking the other way while he picks their pockets and takes away their rights, and then he gets to go on TV where people will watch him out of fear, and he can pretend he’s popular.
Bruce1253 over 4 years ago
There is no doubt that Coronavirus came from China and that their actions made it worse. After this, if we go back to trading with China, we deserve everything that follows.
Truth Seeker over 4 years ago
Welcome to another meeting of the liberal pseudo intellectual cult.Your precious overlords are just as culpable for what is going on, your mistress Pelosi is so concerned about us little people that she had to add some nonessential pork fat to the corona virus aid thereby holding up aid for us peasants. I know the republicans aren’t any better but get our damn facts straight!BTW: Trump never said the virus was a hoax, this is what he really said, “Now the Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus. You know that, right? Coronavirus. They’re politicizing it. We did one of the great jobs. You say, ‘How’s President Trump doing?’ They go, ‘Oh, not good, not good.’ They have no clue. They don’t have any clue. They can’t even count their votes in Iowa, they can’t even count. No they can’t. They can’t count their votes.”At no point in the rally did Trump directly call the novel coronavirus outbreak a “hoax” or “conspiracy.” In fact, he referred to the respiratory virus as a “public health threat” and reiterated that “we have to take it very, very seriously. That’s what we’re doing. We are preparing for the worst.”, from Fact Check, checkyourfacts & snopes.