Trump

[Digby]

Besides Trump has a solution, simply rename Covid-19 the China Virus, go team racism.

[gransoporro]

It is being reported that the slow response of the gummint to implementing aggressive testing and follow up for THE VIRUS is that Jared Kushner has been tasked with researching the issue, which he is doing by way of a Facebook group he had his brother's father in law (who is a physician) set up.


I shit you not.


https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/1 ... ook-127941

Finally some progress!!!

Now that the government and TGPT (The Great President Trump) are using crowdsourcing to form policies, a new era of prosperity is upon us!

On a different note, I bet anyone in that Facebook group could do better than the current team in the WH in handling the epidemic. Which means that the best hope we got is that by chance Jared picks the right idea. I am going to play the lottery now: it will double my chances.

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I just can't....

[Digby]

His speech today contained some more comedy genius

[morepork]

Mega twat. What a fucking clown. Close the gate on the playpen and keep him and his idiots out of the dialogue. Triage the wound.

[Digby]

Of course this could be intentional, if he fucks this up he'll be able to cancel elections in the name of national security, a brand new play in the autocratic handbook for morons

[Mikey Brown]

[Mikey Brown]

Speaking of national security, reminder that the concentration camps are still ongoing.

Sadly the narrative of “well the outbreak would be even worse right now if we had open borders” is doing quite well among the fans of the camps/wall.

[Digby]

Speaking of national security, reminder that the concentration camps are still ongoing.

Sadly the narrative of “well the outbreak would be even worse right now if we had open borders” is doing quite well among the fans of the camps/wall.

Undocumented mass migration would not be helpful if we're being fair

[Sandydragon]

Speaking of national security, reminder that the concentration camps are still ongoing.

Sadly the narrative of “well the outbreak would be even worse right now if we had open borders” is doing quite well among the fans of the camps/wall.

Even the EU is shutting down borders, so there is a sensible point to strict border control at the moment. But what is happening now is not normal and should not be used to justify a crap policy.

[Mikey Brown]

I'm not sure why that post is being construed as me arguing for completely open borders.

Though I've been enjoying the angle from a select few that Mexico is compeltely interchangeable with all of Asia/Europe and they would have flooded the country with Coronoavirus, were it not for sacred child concentration camp.

[morepork]

That is some sick, fucked up logic. So is labeling the virus as "Chinese." Is there any area of government these cunts will not attempt to shoe horn xenophobia into?

[morepork]

I mean, for the love of Fuck:


"President Trump on Tuesday said that he realized that the coronavirus outbreak was a pandemic before the World Health Organization (WHO) labeled it as such last week.

"This is a pandemic. I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic," Trump said at a press conference with his coronavirus task force. "All you had to do was look at other countries."

[Digby]

Outstanding work from the Don, truly reality is what you imagine it to be

[Mikey Brown]

Just started rewatching the Thick of it (ie. working from home) and there's a really good bit about the team releasing a statement to the press to inform them of the statement that they made (didn't make) earlier. They never made the statement, the press know they never made the statement, but that's not how any of this works.

It's all a gameshow. Trump is a dullard, but he has recognised that it's all a gameshow and his lack of shame or self awareness makes him fantastic at playing it.

[morepork]

I don't think it's anywhere near that nuanced. He desperately craves recognition as being smart. It's cringe worthy and badly disguised because he is in fact very, tremendously, thick.

[Mikey Brown]

I don't think it's anywhere near that nuanced. He desperately craves recognition as being smart. It's cringe worthy and badly disguised because he is in fact very, tremendously, thick.

Maybe that sounds like I'm giving him too much credit. What I mean is if you stick a normal human up there and ask them to lie like that it might bother them. His boundless narcissism is just a handy tool for others.

[gransoporro]

That is some sick, fucked up logic. So is labeling the virus as "Chinese." Is there any area of government these cunts will not attempt to shoe horn xenophobia into?

That means “it’s not our fault, it’s the Chinese. We didn’t mess up a thing, we were a perfect 10.”

[gransoporro]

I don't think it's anywhere near that nuanced. He desperately craves recognition as being smart. It's cringe worthy and badly disguised because he is in fact very, tremendously, thick.

Word.

His supporters are blind mostly by choice and because they are infused of Fox propaganda. They cannot believe other sources of news because they all hate Trump. But they also choose to ignore everything and make up excuses. It’s like they are telling themselves “we are stuck with Trump now. No matter what. A democrat as president will be far worse. So I will drink everything Fox says, fuck plausibility “.

[gransoporro]

I don't think it's anywhere near that nuanced. He desperately craves recognition as being smart. It's cringe worthy and badly disguised because he is in fact very, tremendously, thick.

Maybe that sounds like I'm giving him too much credit. What I mean is if you stick a normal human up there and ask them to lie like that it might bother them. His boundless narcissism is just a handy tool for others.

Yes, you have to be a certain type of character for that.

And technically he is not lying: he believes what he is saying. Lying implies knowing that he is not telling the truth. His moral compass is virtually non existent. I don’t think I know a similar human being in real life.

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This could do with a bit of scrutiny. More deserving of validation than a birth certificate...

[Mikey Brown]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/sen-kelly ... g?ref=wrap

Nice.

[WaspInWales]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/sen-kelly ... g?ref=wrap

Nice.

That swamp has never been as drained as it is now!

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[Sandydragon]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/sen-kelly ... g?ref=wrap

Nice.

Is that not insider trading?

Don’t ask what your country can do for you etc

[morepork]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/sen-kelly ... g?ref=wrap

Nice.

Is that not insider trading?

Don’t ask what your country can do for you etc

Democrat senator Dianne Feinstein also implicated. From toilet paper to market shares, the divide between the haves and the have nots grows ever more apparent. Interesting times.