Trump VS COVID-19 Threat

[Elixir]

For Hobby Lobby to maintain a profit while firing its entire workforce tells you everything you need to know about Hobby Lobby.

What makes you think it tells him anything?
Immunity to facts is a hallmark of conservotards.
Halfie hasn't even admitted that his is bullshit:

... by April we will be laughing going,
"Remember how everyone panicked over the coronavirus
because the media started fear mongering?"

 

[lpetrich]

I found this under "Auntie Maxine" in Twitter:
Laffy on Twitter: "Another home run, Auntie Maxine. That's 2 in a row. https://t.co/4T5igTReZ1" / Twitter

Maxine Waters on Twitter: "Trump, you incompetent idiot! You sent 18 tons of PPE to China early but ignored warnings & called COVID19 concerns a hoax. You've endangered doctors, nurses, aids, orderlies, & janitors - all risking their lives to save ours. Pray 4 forgiveness for the harm that you're causing!" / Twitter

YpsiGal on Twitter: "@RepMaxineWaters HE SENT OUR SUPPLIES TO OTHER COUNTRIES.
"Feb 7th The State Department facilitated the transportation of nearly 17.8 tons of donated medical supplies to the Chinese people, including masks, gowns, gauze, respirators, and other vital materials." https://t.co/wXTyFrLmvA" / Twitter
The United States Announces Assistance To Combat the Novel Coronavirus - United States Department of State

Sarah Thomson on Twitter: "@MycroftWins @RepMaxineWaters Maxine Waters is correct. Here is proof: https://t.co/OXmPRfH3p9" / Twitter
The United States Announces Assistance To Combat the Novel Coronavirus | U.S. Agency for International Development


Rachel Maddow MSNBC on Twitter: "
Nationalize the supply chain of critical medical supplies.
Nationalize the supply chain of critical medical supplies.
Nationalize the supply chain of critical medical supplies.
"Miami VA hospital employees told to wear, reuse one surgical mask per week" https://t.co/mb6YMim26f" / Twitter
Miami VA workers told to re-use surgical masks for a week | Miami Herald


Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "In Queens, 34th Ave from 73rd St to 80th St will be closed to vehicular traffic starting today from 10-7 through Monday, March 30th as part of the City’s pilot program to provide additional open space as a means to facilitating social distancing protocols." / Twitter


AOC's performance denouncing the corporate slush fund in the recent aid bill - with her speech replaced by Devo's "Whip It", and wearing a red stepped-cone plastic hat like in the "Whip It" video:
Sol on Twitter: "I say whip it! https://t.co/w94sA8hfwx" / Twitter

There was someone who made it look like some old newsreel film and used one of Adolf Hitler's speeches. I don't know German, and I don't know any online autotranslators that do voice, so I can't say what it was about. Some variation of "Make Germany Great Again!"?

 

[Patooka]

Personally, I consider CNN to be a little too sensationalist for my tastes (NPR, Duetsche Welle or BBC are more my speed), but this is fucking ridiculous.
Trump: "I can create panic better than you"
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja8IoXFaJik[/youtube]

Apparently this is leadership everyone. This is how to keep everybody calm. An Seoul has 38 million people now. I did not know that.

 

[JohnG]

I found this under "Auntie Maxine" in Twitter:

Maxine Waters on Twitter: "Trump, you incompetent idiot! You sent 18 tons of PPE to China early but ignored warnings & called COVID19 concerns a hoax. You've endangered doctors, nurses, aids, orderlies, & janitors - all risking their lives to save ours. Pray 4 forgiveness for the harm that you're causing!" / Twitter

Interestingly, In Canada it's the right wing politicians and media that are attacking Trudeau for sending supplies to China during the initial outbreak. I cant speak for the Trump admin, but the idea here was to help them contain it as much as possible before it spread. Canada has received medical supplies back since, more than we shipped in the first place.

 

[lpetrich]

Interestingly, In Canada it's the right wing politicians and media that are attacking Trudeau for sending supplies to China during the initial outbreak. I cant speak for the Trump admin, but the idea here was to help them contain it as much as possible before it spread. Canada has received medical supplies back since, more than we shipped in the first place.

I agree with the principle, but if one acknowledges that principle, then one should acknowledge it for one's home country as well as for other countries. Trump didn't. One should also acknowledge the necessity of stepping up production of these supplies, but Trump didn't do that either.

He had no sense of "if it's making them sick, then it could make us sick also."

 

[barbos]

Apparently this is leadership everyone. This is how to keep everybody calm. An Seoul has 38 million people now. I did not know that.

Did he say that or he repeated what reporter said? Also I don't recall any reports of Russia sending medical supplies to US. They sent to Italy, though.

The guy is a habitual bullshitter.

 

[lpetrich]

Auntie Maxine takes Trump to the woodshed - The Daily Kos

Maxine Waters on Twitter: "Trump, stop congratulating yourself! You’re a failure & you've mishandled this #COVID19 disaster! You're not knowledgeable & you don’t know more than experts & generals. Your ignorance & incompetence are appalling & you continue to demonstrate that every time you open your mouth!" / Twitter

Maxine Waters on Twitter: "Trump, weren't you taught at an early age that self congratulations are improper? When you're doing a good job, you will be commended. When you have to congratulate yourself it's b/c of incompetence & insecurity. No one values hubris. A lesson you should've learned long ago." / Twitter

Maxine Waters on Twitter: "Trump, since you destroyed the WH unit designed to plan for pandemics like #COVID19, you need to stop being duplicitous about the DPA & get more corps to develop masks, respirators, & everything needed to protect hospital workers trying to save lives. Get your act together!" / Twitter

Maxine Waters on Twitter: "Trump, you incompetent idiot! You sent 18 tons of PPE to China early but ignored warnings & called COVID19 concerns a hoax. You've endangered doctors, nurses, aids, orderlies, & janitors - all risking their lives to save ours. Pray 4 forgiveness for the harm that you're causing!" / Twitter

Maxine Waters on Twitter: "Trump, Gov Whitmer, the governor you called "that woman", is what you think of ALL women, period! We women are all “that woman”! We are mothers & working professionals; we're doctors & lawyers; & we're elected officials, even governors, & you will show us the respect we deserve!" / Twitter

"Auntie Maxine" got a lot of support.

 

[Jokodo]

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And the excuse for Italy's numbers rising? How often did their President play golf? I'll wait patiently for the answer.

How much golf he played has nothing to do with this. The problem is his denials of the problem that are shown on that list. What you're missing is most leaders fucked this up badly. It appears we have a total of 4 countries that have handled this well: Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea and Israel. China messed up at first and used an awfully heavy-handed approach, but they have done a decent job. Everyone else gets an F. (Although in the worst-off parts of the world ignoring it is probably the best course of action. There are two reasons for shutdowns--to reduce the number of people who die from a lack of treatment and to buy time for a treatment/vaccine to be developed. The shitholes of the world don't have much of a medical system in the first place, nor can most people avail themselves of what exists. Delaying catching it isn't going to do anything to improve their prospects and their societies can't function in a shutdown anyway.)

A lot of African and poorere Asian countries are actually in shutdown. Youth can probably find ab updated list online somewhere, just if the top of my head: Ghana, Nigeria, Rwanda, south Africa, Egypt, Nepal, and if course India.

 

[Patooka]

Apparently this is leadership everyone. This is how to keep everybody calm. An Seoul has 38 million people now. I did not know that.

Did he say that or he repeated what reporter said? Also I don't recall any reports of Russia sending medical supplies to US. They sent to Italy, though.

The guy is a habitual bullshitter.

He said that. 6:10 in the video clip. Seoul now has 38 million people. And it had nothing to do with what the reporter asked. I honestly can't imagine what it's like for these reporters to try and have an adult conference with someone and the replies they get are incoherent gibberish with no relevance to what was asked or discussed,

No idea at all.

I've never seen anyone argue like that.

At all.

Ever.

No one at all.

Honestly.

 

[blastula]

Those press conferences are garbage, they shouldn't be aired, he's a menace to public health.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Apparently this is leadership everyone. This is how to keep everybody calm. An Seoul has 38 million people now. I did not know that.

Did he say that or he repeated what reporter said? Also I don't recall any reports of Russia sending medical supplies to US. They sent to Italy, though.

The guy is a habitual bullshitter.

He said that. 6:10 in the video clip. Seoul now has 38 million people. And it had nothing to do with what the reporter asked. I honestly can't imagine what it's like for these reporters to try and have an adult conference with someone and the replies they get are incoherent gibberish with no relevance to what was asked or discussed,

No idea at all.

I've never seen anyone argue like that.

At all.

Ever.

No one at all.

Honestly.

You've been posting here since '04 and you haven't seen someone argue like that?

Man, remember Rumsfeld's bs arguments about how Iraq was better than how the press was making it. How you go into war with the army you have. How boys will be boys. You have your known knowns, your unknown knowns...

But Trump definitely takes the cake with his narcissistic blather... during a pandemic.

 

[Horatio Parker]

Personally, I consider CNN to be a little too sensationalist for my tastes (NPR, Duetsche Welle or BBC are more my speed), but this is fucking ridiculous.
Trump: "I can create panic better than you"
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja8IoXFaJik[/youtube]

Apparently this is leadership everyone. This is how to keep everybody calm. An Seoul has 38 million people now. I did not know that.

9.7M according to the Internets...I realize you were facetious.

 

[lpetrich]

Jason Campbell on Twitter: "Diamond & Silk are speculating coronavirus deaths are being inflated to make Trump look bad https://t.co/hBnB7422UP" / Twitter - two black female Trumpies

NowThis on Twitter: "Rep. @AOC spoke to soccer star @mPinoe about the two crises facing the U.S. as the coronavirus continues to spread https://t.co/yglaw96XNa" / Twitter
AOC noted a gap in the payments going out - adult dependents don't get anything. Like college students. But one won't have to pay student-loan payments until September, and she notices that nobody worries about how to pay for these big bailouts. So it's a matter of political will.

She also noted that immigrants pay much more in taxes than certain big businesses do.

The Brian Lehrer Show and A Daily Politics Podcast on Twitter: "Coming up at 10AM:
@AOC on the federal relief package to include cash payments, @taraparkerpope talks safety and grocery shopping, @MTA chair Patrick Foye talks about reduced schedules + @Yale's Dr. Jaimie Meyer on what to do if you get COVID-19. https://t.co/vKN4Mwqmgx" / Twitter

Rebecca Traister on Twitter: "Recommend listening to @AOC on @BrianLehrer right now, talking about racial justice and COVID, the strikes, Rikers, medical bias...it's so smart and comprehensive. If you can't tune in now, worth listening later: https://t.co/G4GeZ1fcKp" / Twitter

Tiffany Cabán on Twitter: ".@AOC - “People aren’t dying of just the coronavirus. They are dying of incompetence, for-profit motives, ignoring the advice of medical experts. We have a pandemic of lack of leadership.”
My congresswoman is speaking nothing but truth. #COVID19" / Twitter

Tiffany Cabán on Twitter: "TY @AOC for standing up to Cuomo’s moratorium on mortgages, but not rent payments.
“We’re essentially rewarding and offering preferential treatment to land owners and those who are more wealthy.”" / Twitter

Coronavirus May Add Billions to the Nation’s Health Care Bill - The New York Times - "Insurance premiums could spike as much as 40 percent next year, a new analysis warns, as employers and insurers confront the projected tens of billions of dollars in additional costs of treating coronavirus patients."

See Which States and Cities Have Told Residents to Stay at Home - The New York Times - only 6 states don't have such orders: NV, ND, SD, NE, IA, AR

 

[Half-Life]

Personally, I consider CNN to be a little too sensationalist for my tastes (NPR, Duetsche Welle or BBC are more my speed), but this is fucking ridiculous.
Trump: "I can create panic better than you"
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja8IoXFaJik[/youtube]

Apparently this is leadership everyone. This is how to keep everybody calm. An Seoul has 38 million people now. I did not know that.

9.7M according to the Internets...I realize you were facetious.

But remember, Jim Acosta was the idiot who went to the border fence and saw there were no people around it trying to climb it and said, "See? Fences don't work."

 

[ZiprHead]

Personally, I consider CNN to be a little too sensationalist for my tastes (NPR, Duetsche Welle or BBC are more my speed), but this is fucking ridiculous.
Trump: "I can create panic better than you"
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja8IoXFaJik[/youtube]

Apparently this is leadership everyone. This is how to keep everybody calm. An Seoul has 38 million people now. I did not know that.

9.7M according to the Internets...I realize you were facetious.

But remember, Jim Acosta was the idiot who went to the border fence and saw there were no people around it trying to climb it and said, "See? Fences don't work."

Citation or STFU.

 

[Half-Life]

Citation or STFU.

[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th-oXosPN2M[/YOUTUBE]

 

[lpetrich]

NYT National News on Twitter: "U.S. health insurance premiums could increase as much as 40% next year if the coronavirus pandemic results in millions of Americans needing hospital stays, a new analysis warns https://t.co/hXGn8ri3EA" / Twitter
then
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "Every year we sacrifice human lives for the sake of our for-profit healthcare system, & next year is poised to get worse.
What happens when your insurance becomes unaffordable, but you “make too much” for Medicaid? Millions go uninsured & underinsured.
We need #MedicareforAll. https://t.co/xiBuQWgBx9" / Twitter

Seems like US private medical insurance is headed into a death spiral, with only public systems likely to survive. Or will medical-insurance companies also get bailed out?


Akbar Shahid Ahmed on Twitter: "Exclu: @AOC @BernieSanders @IlhanMN @ewarren & co want to suspend sanctions on Iran that make it hard to import meds, PPE & respirators despite one of the world's biggest COVID-19 outbreaks and Trump's claims of having made enough humanitarian concessions. https://t.co/S42tATdyLX" / Twitter
noting
Lawmakers Ask Trump To Suspend Sanctions To Help Iran Fight Coronavirus | HuffPost

The sanctions could be costing lives in Iran, which is enduring one of the largest flare-ups of the pandemic in the world. Thus far, more than 2,750 Iranians have succumbed to COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, and more than 40,000 have been infected, according to tracking by Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins University. At least 50 Iranian medics have died.

...
The congressional letter, shared with HuffPost ahead of its public release, is addressed to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and led by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.). Notable signatories include Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) and Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.).

“Allowing this crisis to become more dire in Iran threatens significant harm not only to the people of Iran but also to people in the United States and around the world,” the letter says.

...
The letter from lawmakers noted that President George W. Bush’s administration “eased sanctions and delivered aid to Iran following a deadly earthquake near Bam in 2003. Our many disputes with the government of Iran or others should not stand in the way of actions that can materially help innocent people weather a pandemic.”

“Sanctions relief that should be considered are those that encompass major sectors of the Iranian economy, including those impacting civilian industries, Iran’s banking sector and exports of oil, and should last for at least as long as health experts believe the crisis will continue,” the lawmakers wrote.

France, Britain, Germany, China and the World Health Organization have given Iran support to tackle the pandemic, and Iranian officials who first downplayed the risks of COVID-19 over concerns for their image and the nation’s economy appear to be ramping up their fight against the virus. Iranian authorities only recently closed non-essential businesses and curtailed travel ― suggesting it will be some time before those measures, proven elsewhere to limit the spread of the pandemic, have an effect.

Hamed Aleaziz on Twitter: "“This is an absolute crisis,” @AOC says of COVID-19 cases in ICE custody. “We cannot allow for this type of humanitarian crisis to happen on our soil in the United States of America.”
BuzzFeed News spoke with the one of the detainees who tested positive: https://t.co/P07guuMhIx" / Twitter
noting
ICE Detainee Who Was Released After Getting The Coronavirus Fears What's Next

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

I'd invite them to STFU regardless. Here is a link to what they are likely referring to, although not in much an accurate way.

But remember, Jim Acosta was the idiot who went to the border fence and saw there were no people around it trying to climb it and said, "See? Fences don't work."

Citation or STFU.

 

[ZiprHead]

Citation or STFU.

[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th-oXosPN2M[/YOUTUBE]

That's not a citation. No where does it show Acosta saying "See? Fences don't work.". Not even close.

 

[blastula]

and even if it does fuckall to excuse trump's idiocy.