Trump VS COVID-19 Threat

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Meanwhile:

Fox to Address Coronavirus Crisis with Three-Part Series on Hunter Biden

Yep, I don't see any articles there calling him unfit for the Presidency, a terrible man, a disgusting man, etc etc etc.

They do that for Trump, though.

You guys are being deliberately obtuse.

 

[Keith&Co.]

Halfie reviewed 6470 or so articles in an hour and a half?
But he canmot tell the difference between a NEWS STORY and an opinion piece?
A SURVEY or a study?
A news anchor or a news maker?

Fascinating.

It's pretty common. If it wasn't so common it would be fascinating.

I really, really, reallyreallyreally,
REALLY don't want to say this...








but i was being sarcastic.

 

[Patooka]

Halfie reviewed 6470 or so articles in an hour and a half?
But he canmot tell the difference between a NEWS STORY and an opinion piece?
A SURVEY or a study?
A news anchor or a news maker?

Fascinating.

It's pretty common. If it wasn't so common it would be fascinating.

I really, really, reallyreallyreally,
REALLY don't want to say this...








but i was being sarcastic.

Maybe go with facetious instead of sarcastic?

 

[Keith&Co.]

So you still quoted someone else without attribution. It's still plagiarism.

Sounds like one of my wife's students. Guilty of plagiarism, but innocent of THE CHARGE of plagiarism, because the accuser did not correctly identify the source.
"You copied this from military.gov!"
"Ha! Did not! I got it from WIKI."

 

[crazyfingers]

I think that it's just plain stupid for Trump to try to push for the opening of schools now.

There is no other location where infections can spread within the facility and then spread to homes all over and back again than the schools. Schools are germ factories!

When it comes to my thinking of how to protect my family, school needs to be the last thing to open!

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/28/politics/trump-governors-call/index.html

 

[TV and credit cards]

I find myself usually agreeing with Kevin Drum, and today is no exception:

I don’t especially blame Donald Trump for not endorsing lockdowns and quarantines and so forth until mid-March. In this, he was probably following expert advice fairly reasonably. What I do blame him for is: not planning for the worst case when he had the chance during February; consistently providing the country with bad information about vaccines and cures and bleach and so forth; declining to take testing seriously; turning the entire operation into a partisan crusade; using the month of April to fire up his base to “liberate” red states; wasting time blaming China and WHO and Democrats and governors for his own mistakes; putting Jared Kushner in charge of an important task that needed someone experienced and competent; and just generally acting like a buffoon the entire time. Please note that this is not an exhaustive list.

Probably? I probably disagree. During a time of such crisis, the likes of which none of us have seen in our lifetimes, their should have been leadership. But we have no one with any leadership qualities to turn to. I do blame Trump for not having the foresight the POTUS should have given all the information at his disposal. For all the "expert advice", I'm to believe the proper course of action at the time was to have our heads up our asses? Oh how very Trump. Governors knew to act with the information they had on hand as early as March 15th. It's no small thing to shut down a state's economy, it can make or break a political career, but governors did so because they saw the need. They knew there would be little if any leadership coming from the Oval Office. They knew it was up to them to take appropriate action for their states. It was up to the states to help themselves and each other.
At a minimum, what should have come out of Our Nation's Shame are strong recommendations to the states. But Trump can only view the United States through his reelection chances. This was, is, and will be what drives all his decisions. Worse still is his inability to play the long game. Even with the economy he can only see into next week. We may very well have a second wave of infections pressuring governors to at least partially shut down once again. Then again we may not. If not, you can bet your bottom dollar Trump will say he was right all along. But you don't get points for "Oops, I was right".

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Well, Ohio's Governor continues to show the GOP Stupidity Vaccine is working. His plan is to take this thing slowly (though maybe not slow enough) and responsibly, even though the GOP is growing restless in the State Legislature. Probably one more week would be better to let us see TN and GA numbers as those states move forward recklessly.

I can't believe the epidemic has become so partisan. Trump has really shown how vilely partisan the right-wing has become. They can't even agree that trying to save hundreds of thousands to over a million lives is a responsible thing to do. They almost (or actually do) hold the vulnerable and elderly in contempt.

I think the worst part of all this is that it demonstrates a definite need for a competent government and that the whole "free market" will handle things argument is more hollow than a chocolate bunny.

 

[James Brown]

So you still quoted someone else without attribution. It's still plagiarism.

Sounds like one of my wife's students. Guilty of plagiarism, but innocent of THE CHARGE of plagiarism, because the accuser did not correctly identify the source.
"You copied this from military.gov!"
"Ha! Did not! I got it from WIKI."

High School Teacher: "Peter, your Huckleberry Finn book report is pure plagiarism."

Peter: "How do you know that?"

HST: "It's a word-for-word lift from the book's wikipedia page."

Peter: "How do you know I didn't write the wikipedia page?"

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

@angelo knows he fucked up, because he deleted his post. That's about as close as we'll ever get to an admission of dishonesty.

I'm pretty sure angelo plagiarised from a printed copy of the Australian, because it's not a copy-paste job. For instance, angelo thinks the acronym for the Chinese Communist Party is CPP, and he abbreviated WHO when the original wrote the organisation's name in full.

I deleted my post because of the similarity to that other post, which was emailed to me by an Amrican friend. Whoever wrote that the post I'm being accused of plagiarizing obviously used the same source, and it's the reason why I deleted my post. Like Ripley, believe it or not!

So you still quoted someone else without attribution. It's still plagiarism.

To be fair, almost no right-wing positions (especially pro-Trump) are original thought. You go from site to site and see the same arguments, verbatim. It is actually frightening how programmed these people are.

 

[lpetrich]

Let's see how much the Democrats try to get into their bill. Not just that, but also stuff like rent and mortgage cancellation, voting by mail, etc. The Democrats might not get everything, but they should load up with a *lot* of stuff, so they can have more bargaining leverage. Obama-style compromising in advance is not a good policy.

I can't imagine mortgage cancellation, I can see permanent postponement or freeze during the duration of the Freeze, but the mortgages are complicated things and I don't think it is quite as simple as just waiving it.

Yes, one can move mortgage payments to the end of their current schedule. Like skipping 3 months of payment and moving those 3 months to the end, like making a 10-year mortgage a 10-year-3-month mortgage.

Iceland's Plan To Stop Covid-19 Actually Works - YouTube

When it comes to Covid-19, Iceland has deployed what medical experts see as the best weapon against the pandemic: testing. Thanks to the work of the government and local bio-tech firm Decode Genetics, the island nation has managed to build out one of the most sophisticated looks at who has the novel coronavirus and how it spreads.

Has an interview with that company's CEO. The nation has some social distancing: everybody must be at least 2 meters apart and gatherings of more than 50 people are forbidden. But aside from that, the nation isn't very locked down. That was made possible by testing on a massive scale: something like 10% of Icelanders have now been tested for the virus.

That CEO also noted that the disease's patients tend to have very different fates when infected by the virus, and he conceded that that is not very well understood. Why some people have hardly any symptoms, while some other people die of it, and while many people have everything in between. He also noted that by sequencing the genomes of each patient's individual viruses, that one can find a family tree of them, and one can get a clue as to where each patient got it from. That's been helpful as a form of contact tracing. This is very easy by genome standards, because the COVID-19 virus has a 30,000-base-pair genome.

He also notes that he uses a lot of expertise from the US, and he imports some of the reagents from the US. As to why the US response is so bad, he mentions the old saying that "a fish rots from the head down". Suspecting that it was very poor leadership, but in a veiled way. Especially the leadership of the occupant of the White House, as Rep. Ayanna Pressley likes to call him.

 

[Keith&Co.]

So you still quoted someone else without attribution. It's still plagiarism.

Sounds like one of my wife's students. Guilty of plagiarism, but innocent of THE CHARGE of plagiarism, because the accuser did not correctly identify the source.
"You copied this from military.gov!"
"Ha! Did not! I got it from WIKI."

High School Teacher: "Peter, your Huckleberry Finn book report is pure plagiarism."

Peter: "How do you know that?"

HST: "It's a word-for-word lift from the book's wikipedia page."

Peter: "How do you know I didn't write the wikipedia page?"

Because it's the ONLY time you ever spelled Huckulburry correctly. Or the same way twice in a row.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

link

Well, strokes seemed to be elevating with the presence of this virus, indicating clotting complications. Clots seem to be an issue with this disease, making the "Fuck it, lets infect everyone" Plan somewhat risky.

To be sure, so-called "thrombotic events" occur for a variety of reasons among intensive care patients, but the rates among COVID-19 patients are far higher than would be otherwise expected.

"I have had 40-year-olds in my ICU who have clots in their fingers that look like they'll lose the finger, but there's no other reason to lose the finger than the virus," Shari Brosnahan, a critical care doctor at NYU Langone told AFP.

One of these patients is suffering from a lack of blood flow to both feet and both hands, and she predicts an amputation may be necessary, or the blood vessels may get so damaged that an extremity could drop off by itself.

Blood clots aren't just dangerous for our limbs, but can make their way to the lungs, heart or brain, where they may cause lethal pulmonary embolisms, heart attacks, and strokes.

No word yet on if Trump has a home remedy solution to help treat the apparent clotting issue some people are suffering from.

 

[barbos]

link

Well, strokes seemed to be elevating with the presence of this virus, indicating clotting complications. Clots seem to be an issue with this disease, making the "Fuck it, lets infect everyone" Plan somewhat risky.

To be sure, so-called "thrombotic events" occur for a variety of reasons among intensive care patients, but the rates among COVID-19 patients are far higher than would be otherwise expected.

"I have had 40-year-olds in my ICU who have clots in their fingers that look like they'll lose the finger, but there's no other reason to lose the finger than the virus," Shari Brosnahan, a critical care doctor at NYU Langone told AFP.

One of these patients is suffering from a lack of blood flow to both feet and both hands, and she predicts an amputation may be necessary, or the blood vessels may get so damaged that an extremity could drop off by itself.

Blood clots aren't just dangerous for our limbs, but can make their way to the lungs, heart or brain, where they may cause lethal pulmonary embolisms, heart attacks, and strokes.

No word yet on if Trump has a home remedy solution to help treat the apparent clotting issue some people are suffering from.

Rat poison is used as anti-clotting agent, He can inject himself with that.

 

[lpetrich]

Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II on Twitter: "The poor & the broken keep getting ignored. Instead Congress keeps saying, "We'll get to them in the next bill, the next bill, the next bill." We don't need any more prayers & patronizing. Congress needs to demonstrate they're uncomfortable w/ people dying by passing a damn bill! https://t.co/YOreLUeecC" / Twitter
then
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "When it comes to guaranteeing healthcare, providing relief on rents and mortgages, and paying workers dignified wages:
“We don’t need patronizing, we need [Congress to] pass a damn bill!” - @RevDrBarber https://t.co/J0GGu9fIeA" / Twitter

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "Congress gave a $4 TRILLION check to Wall Street while sending mom+pops on a wild goose chase for PPP.
That is major, oligarchic, economy-shaping power Congress just gave the wealthy.
The LEAST we should do is halt big mergers during COVID to slow the consolidation of sectors. https://t.co/WjRXlrs5wR" / Twitter
noting
Warren, Ocasio-Cortez propose halt to big mergers during coronavirus pandemic - "NBC News exclusive: The Pandemic Anti-Monopoly Act by the two progressive lawmakers aims to influence the U.S. coronavirus response and raises the stakes for the election."

The “Pandemic Anti-Monopoly Act” would impose a moratorium on mergers and acquisitions involving large companies until the Federal Trade Commission “determines that small businesses, workers, and consumers are no longer under severe financial distress,” according to a summary of the proposal reviewed by NBC News.

Affected firms would include businesses with over $100 million in revenue or financial firms with market capitalization of over $100 million; private equity companies and hedge funds (or entities that are majority-owned by them); businesses that have an exclusive patent on products like personal protective equipment which pertain to the crisis; and other transactions are already required by law to be reported to the FTC.

The new push by the two progressive lawmakers reflects an appetite on the populist left to use regulatory powers to prevent the coronavirus downturn from accelerating monopolization in the United States. Advocates have been raising the alarm since before the crisis hit about a steady consolidation in airlines, hospitals and telecommunications — among other industries — arguing that it's harming consumers.

Sahil Kapur on Twitter: "Scoop: @EWarren and @AOC team up on a new proposal to halt big mergers during the coronavirus pandemic.
Warren sees "private equity vultures" looking to "gobble up" small biz. AOC warns of "decades-long economic consequences" of inaction for consumers. https://t.co/zd7H4w73PB" / Twitter
then
Sahil Kapur on Twitter: "Warren-AOC plan halts various mergers (including biz with $100M+ revenue and financial firms with $100M+ market cap, private equity, hedge funds) until the FTC certifies that small biz, workers, consumers "are no longer under severe financial distress." https://t.co/zd7H4w73PB" / Twitter
then
Sahil Kapur on Twitter: "They plan to introduce this after Congress is back, I'm told. The legislation faces long odds while Republicans control the Senate and White House, but it raises the stakes for the election as nominee-apparent Joe Biden continues to work on his platform. https://t.co/zd7H4w73PB" / Twitter
then
Sahil Kapur on Twitter: "The Warren-AOC proposal comes after @DavidCicilline, a key Democrat who chairs the House's antitrust subcommittee, voiced support for the idea of banning most mergers during COVID-19 last week. https://t.co/zd7H4w73PB" / Twitter

 

[lpetrich]

Trump seems a lot like Anthony Fremont, a character in the Twilight Zone episode "It's a Good Life", a 6-year-old boy with psychic powers. The other people in his hometown cringe in fear of him and always say how great he is, because if they displease him, he can send them to some mysterious place known only as the cornfield.

I've found another data point on world leaders. Joseph Stalin was not a very nice person. His persecutions led to the deaths of something like 4% of the Soviet Union's population, disfavored officials got written out of the history books and painted out of official pictures, and he liked having a big personality cult of him. But his response to his nation being invaded was very unlike Trump.

Some background first. On August 23, 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union agreed to a non-aggression pact. The Nazi and Communist nations had been enemies before then, something that made that deal very surprising. A little over a week later, Germany invaded Poland, starting the European part of World War II. Over the next two years Stalin stood by and watched as Germany conquered much of Northern and Western Europe and bombarded Britain.

Stalin's intelligence agents informed him that Adolf Hitler was preparing an attempt to conquer his country: Operation Barbarossa. But he was reluctant to believe that, and he trusted Hitler even when the Nazi dictator left Germany's eastern front almost undefended.

But on June 22, 1941, it happened. Three million soldiers with three thousand tanks invaded the Soviet Union. There are rumors that Stalin had a nervous breakdown when he learned of that. But on July 3, he delivered a radio broadcast. I've found three translations:

• Radio Broadcast
• STALIN, SOVIET PREMIER, BROADCAST TO THE PEOPLE OF THE SOVIET UNION
• Radio speech by Stalin 03-07-1941 - TracesOfWar.com

From marxists.org:

The perfidious military attack by Hitlerite Germany on our Fatherland, begun on June 22, is continuing. In spite of the heroic resistance of the Red Army, and although the enemy’s finest divisions and finest air force units have already been smashed and have met their doom on the field of battle, the enemy continues to push forward, hurling fresh forces to the front. Hitler’s troops have succeeded in capturing Lithuania, a considerable part of Latvia, the western part of Byelorussia and part of Western Ukraine. The fascist aircraft are extending the range of their operations, bombing Murmansk, Orsha, Moghilev, Smolensk, Kiev, Odessa, Sevastopol. Grave danger overhangs our country.

The last sentence:

• Grave danger overhangs our country.
• A grave danger hangs over our country.
• A serious danger hangs over our motherland.

Has Trump ever sounded like that about the COVID-19 virus?

 

[lpetrich]

The Hill on Twitter: "Rep. @AOC: "We're here in the state of New York. We have a Democratic governor, we have a Democratic state legislature, we have a Democratic city council, and we are still struggling to cancel rent! It's unacceptable." https://t.co/tcpO5CwxmS" / Twitter - saying that it's not just the Republican Party that is corrupted by big money, but also many Democrats.

AOC ought to know, since she unseated a big-money Democrat and she's now up against a Republican who poses as a Democrat.

Neil King on Twitter: "This is bonkers:
Roughly half of all U.S. workers stand to earn more in unemployment benefits than they did at their jobs before the coronavirus pandemic brought the economy to a standstill. https://t.co/sXDmXH0PJ3" / Twitter
then
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "Maybe we should pay people more https://t.co/wwstuFh0i4" / Twitter

Economic Policy Institute on Twitter: "@AOC What's "bonkers" is roughly half of potential applicants aren’t receiving unemployment benefits because they could not get through the system, according to our new survey. We need to raise wages & improve our underfunded & overburdened unemployment system. [url]https://t.co/gDFuzHpuS2 https://t.co/9oOxcXHnM2" / Twitter[/url]
For every 10 successful applicants, 3 could not get through and 2 found it too difficult to try.

Elizabeth Warren on Twitter: "During this crisis, the last thing we need is large companies and predatory private equity firms buying out struggling small business owners. And as @AOC says, these practices would have decades-long consequences. I’m proud to be her partner in this fight. https://t.co/Cwxd5Jl0Eg" / Twitter
then
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "Now is the time to stand up for mom + pops & protect them from getting wiped out by Wall Street.
That means checking mega corps from gobbling up small biz during a global crisis. @ewarren & I have the bill.
A few bankers may cry about it, but something tells me they’ll live * https://t.co/SQ7xeMEwYW" / Twitter

AOC seems so sweet about the upper classes taking a hit.

 

[lpetrich]

The Hill on Twitter: "Trump questions why taxpayers should help bail out states run by Democrats [url]https://t.co/TPzPKUA4gp https://t.co/0JhPQb4lpG" / Twitter[/url]
noting
MartinAmerica on Twitter: "@thehill Because the taxes of blue states have supported red states for years? https://t.co/59XTNJjuZR" / Twitter
noting
How Blue States help Red States | Salon.com - Republicans as subsidy-suckers

Welfare has become especially unpopular in “red” states that vote Republican and support Trump.

But these same states are often the biggest beneficiaries of government assistance.

Include price supports for agriculture, subsidies for land management and forestry, and defense contractors, and you find that a large portion of the economies of red states depend on federal dollars.

Here’s the irony. Residents of “blue” states send more tax money to Washington than they get back in federal help, while residents of “red” states send less money to Washington than they get back in federal help.

n 2015, for example, New Jersey got back only 74 cents in federal spending for every tax dollar it sent to Washington. New York got back 81 cents, Connecticut: 82 cents, and Massachusetts: 83 cents.

But when you turn to the red states, it’s the opposite. Mississippi received $2.13 for every tax dollar it sent to Washington. West Virginia: $2.07. Kentucky: $1.90. And South Carolina: $1.71.

The article: Trump asks why taxpayers should help bail out blue states | TheHill
noting
Donald J. Trump on Twitter: "Why should the people and taxpayers of America be bailing out poorly run states (like Illinois, as example) and cities, in all cases Democrat run and managed, when most of the other states are not looking for bailout help? I am open to discussing anything, but just asking?" / Twitter

 

[lpetrich]

Xenia QueenB on Twitter: "@AOC @ewarren Tell the truth: Trump donors are keeping most of PPP funds.
Dallas billionaire Monty Bennett is the biggest recipient of PPP funds, with $96.1M to his businesses, which made $2.2B in 2019.
And, he's not returning the funds. https://t.co/JokPQHuSMF" / Twitter
noting
One Trump Donor's Hotel Companies Got $96.1 Million Meant for Small Businesses | GQ

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "If you’re a news outlet who spent time &effort covering protesters demanding we risk workers’ lives for a root touch-up, consider spending time on the #CantPayMay strikes across the country &ask what Congress is doing to protect ppl from foreclosures + evictions. Just a thought! https://t.co/kwr3q3WziS" / Twitter
notes
The Hill on Twitter: "Rep. @AOC: "People aren't striking because they don't feel like paying rent. They're striking people they CAN'T pay rent." https://t.co/BIPu93ZUlo" / Twitter

House drops plan to return after lawmaker backlash - POLITICO - the House won't be returning on May 4, but the Senate will.

Congress will have to work out how to work remotely and to vote remotely - how to hold committee hearings remotely and to hold floor sessions remotely.

 

[T.G.G. Moogly]

Halfie reviewed 6470 or so articles in an hour and a half?
But he canmot tell the difference between a NEWS STORY and an opinion piece?
A SURVEY or a study?
A news anchor or a news maker?

Fascinating.

It's pretty common. If it wasn't so common it would be fascinating.

I really, really, reallyreallyreally,
REALLY don't want to say this...








but i was being sarcastic.

sometimes i can be dumb

 

[lpetrich]

Trump Turned Pelosi's Ice Cream Gaffe In A BRUTAL Ad - YouTube - Republicans are looking forward to using this, but they have plenty of problems of their own. Like this:

GOP memo urges anti-China assault over coronavirus - POLITICO

The National Republican Senatorial Committee has sent campaigns a detailed, 57-page memo authored by a top Republican strategist advising GOP candidates to address the coronavirus crisis by aggressively attacking China.

The memo includes advice on everything from how to tie Democratic candidates to the Chinese government to how to deal with accusations of racism. It stresses three main lines of assault: That China caused the virus “by covering it up,” that Democrats are “soft on China,” and that Republicans will “push for sanctions on China for its role in spreading this pandemic.”

“Coronavirus was a Chinese hit-and-run followed by a cover-up that cost thousands of lives,” the April 17 memo states.

...
The GOP’s planned China-focused assault, however, is complicated by Trump’s occasional praise for President Xi Jinping. The liberal organization American Bridge recently launched a commercial which plays a clip of the president praising Xi and declares that Trump “gave China his trust.”

Trump campaign lashes out over 'Don't defend Trump' memo - POLITICO

Earlier this month, the Senate Republican campaign arm circulated a memo with shocking advice to GOP candidates on responding to coronavirus: “Don’t defend Trump, other than the China Travel Ban — attack China.”

...
The episode illustrates how the Trump political apparatus demands — and receives — fealty from fellow Republicans and moves aggressively to tamp down on any perceived dissent within the GOP. The president maintains an iron grip on his party, even as his poll numbers sag and he confronts fierce criticism from Democrats over his response to the coronavirus pandemic.