Fix Our Senate Group running killer ads against Moscow Mitch McConnell for protecting Republican Senators "profiting from stock sales while America fights coronavirus.”
Moscow Mitch hung out to dry
Moscow Mitch and his wife Elaine Chou are mired in their own share of corruption in Kentucky and McConnell knows if he pulls the plug on them, they will do likewise. But this sort of thing does naturally fit his personality. The other culprits include...
"Sens. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.), who are among a handful of senators accused of potentially violating a law banning Congress members from making financial trades based on nonpublic information."
Moscow Mitch has made it his goal to stop anything that is presented by Democrats in the Senate, and you might remember his statement when Barack Obama was elected indicating he would see that he was only a one-term president. He failed. And the ad also takes a swipe at how he miserably fails his constituency and other Americans...
"The narrator of the ad also hits McConnell for putting 'handouts for big corporations ahead of real assistance for regular Americans.'”
Politico reminds us of the political corruption between Moscow Mitch and wife Elaine Chao in Kentucky underhanded Transportation deal...
Donald Trump reigns today as the self-made king he has created simply because Moscow Mitch remains completely silent and even encourages him at times. Again the ad...
“His corruption continues while doctors and nurses can’t get the supplies they need and millions are unemployed,” the narrator says. “Enough is enough. Tell Mitch McConnell: end the culture of corruption in the Senate.”
But McConnell is 78 years old, an age where he can't afford to get coronavirus, so you would think this slimeball would be more supportive of fighting the virus. Dianne Feinstein, also accused of selling her stock made this statement...
A spokesperson for Feinstein told The New York Times at the time that the senator had nothing to do with the decision to sell her stocks. Feinstein’s assets are in a blind trust and the senator has no involvement in her husband’s financial decisions, the spokesperson said.
Amy McGrath, running against McConnell in Kentucky will surely be the winner now. GO AMY! But we have no doubt not seen the last of this.
Yes, the CEOs that run America's corporations are much smarter than the Oval Office lunatic and, despite the fact that they are all extremely profit-minded, they realize the dangers of putting their employees back to work. This would indicate to the triple-digit IQs, and even the double-digit Trump supporters that this idiot is only interested in one thing by forcing the economy to open too soon, it is his desperation to win the November election. Here's the scenario...
"An attempt by President Donald Trump to enlist the assistance of private business leaders in his efforts to reopen the U.S. economy by early May was panned as a failure by participants and observers alike as the White House response to the coronavirus pandemic appears set to make an economic crash worse."
Here's what one CEO who commented anonymously for fear of White House reprisals told Politico...
“He’s got to stop talking about turning the economy back on and start talking about making people feel safe, things that are happening around testing, and the health care system. That’s the only way you will really get the economy reopened over a period of time.”
CEOs are most concerned about COVID-19 testing, which has been a complete failure by Donald Trump, promising, but never delivering. He has boasted about the 3-million done, when the healthcare industry has said we need millions per week, of not by the day. Trump had the gall to open the call with the comment, "testing is under control," which must have sent many of the corporate heads into silent convulsions.
Yet new guidelines from Trump to open economy...
But the same advisers who apparently talked the White House maniac out of officially appointing his daughter, Ivanka, and her husband Jared Kushner to head up the advice team to reopen the economy, talked him into the call to corporations with the following results...
"Those people have apparently told him it would be absurd to get back to regular life before the government has hugely increased testing capabilities."
The dumbest duo
Donald Trump is still clueless after having been alerted on January 18, by Alex Azar, Secretary of Health and Human Services, who warned him then of the coronavirus threat. That's three months and still Trump does not have a workable COVID-19 testing plan to save more American lives. But it does seem that some employers would be amenable to sending employees back to work if they are immune from litigation. Some fake concern there, perhaps?
Politico's Ben White reported the typical Donald Trump mishandling of things in setting up the corporate executive calls...
“The whole thing was a bit of a disaster, the way they announced this on Tuesday,” White explained on MSNBC, “read a lot of corporate CEO names that had no idea they were a part of this effort to reopen the economy, didn’t give anybody really time to plan to be on these calls. Among the Wall Street executives, a lot of them had earnings yesterday and couldn’t be on the call. One JP Morgan executive tried for 20 minutes to get in and couldn’t.”
White reiterated corporate execs response to Trump's demands that they help him get the economy rolling,..
“But we cannot do that, our employees will not feel safe until the testing regime is much more widespread, until people don’t feel like they’re going out to be guinea pigs to get the virus..."
This is an argument that scientists and the healthcare community cannot afford to lose...
Here we have one of those stupid arguments that have become commonplace since Donald Trump settled in the White House. The plausible and rational side and the Trump side. leaving the American public in the middle to suffer, some die, from a virus the Oval Office lunatic should have been on the top of from the beginning (having been advised of the potential pandemic on January 18) but clearly has not been. Two months of doing nothing.
"In the study, published in the journal Science Tuesday, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health researchers projected that several smaller outbreaks of COVID-19 could follow the more severe pandemic.
"They determined that prolonged periods of social distancing may be necessary in order to control transmission and prevent health care facilities from becoming overwhelmed."
Good illustration of COVID-19 SPREAD...
Obviously it will require a widespread educational program that Donald Trump is no doubt incapable of handling but could be implemented by those in healthcare who know what they are doing. Dr. Anthony Fauci would not be the right leader as long as he is under the thumb of T-rump. Scientists should form their own group like the Democratic governors have done to do their own thing, refusing to let Donald Trump interfere.
This is the case from the right, which you have to understand has no concern for the average American's health but is thinking only of starting up a lagging economy for just one reason, to win the November election...
"President Donald Trump is itching to reopen the economy amid the coronavirus pandemic. And congressional Republicans are mostly giving him the green light — and in some cases, leaning on him to speed up.
"As Trump alternately agonizes over when to push states to reopen and browbeats governors with questionable claims of his superior authority, GOP lawmakers are urging federal guidance that quickly restarts some industries and begins to roll back unprecedented closures of vast swaths of the United States."
There are 24 states with Democratic governors and considering the recent "mutiny," as Trump described it, they plan to do the right thing with their states no matter what the White House maniac says. Naturally, the good guys, and gals, are rooting for the scientists and the governors.
HEADLINE: "The worst president. Ever." Remember when George W. Bush was considered this country's worst president, probably always would be? No one could have predicted how bad a president Donald Trump would be, nor did most Americans think the depths of Trump's actions could ever be as bad as they are.
HEADLINE:"McGrath outraises McConnell in first quarter." I cannot believe the state of Kentucky would elect the scumbag Moscow2 Mitch in the first place. Maybe this is an attempt to rectify their mistake. Hopefully!
HEADLINE: "American Democracy May Be Dying." Another reference to the Wisconsin recent election: "Wisconsin Republican leaders gave citizens a choice on Tuesday: give up their vote or go to the polls and risk their and their neighbors’ health." Wisconsin is a GOP cesspool.
HEADLINE: "Artificial intelligence is evolving all by itself." Having worked with AI in the past, creating computer predictive models, I can understand how this technology could very well become self-sustaining.
This is why CNN and MSNBC labeled Trump's coronavirus briefings propaganda...
New York city healthcare workers protesting
In T-rump's Monday briefing, he said figures of infected healthcare workers would be made available. They have not been because "that total currently remains impossible to pin down." BuzzFeedNews also tells us...
"That’s both because health care workers are still struggling to access testing for COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, if not being actively discouraged to do so, and because infections are being inconsistently tracked and in some cases uncounted at the state level."
And it gets much worse...
"At least 5,400 nurses, doctors, and other health care workers responding to the coronavirus outbreak in the United States have been infected by the disease, and dozens have died, according to a BuzzFeed News review of data reported by every state and Washington, DC. However, the true number is undoubtedly much higher, due to inconsistent testing and tracking."
MSNBC cuts off Trump COVID-19 briefing for airing Trump propaganda only...
And here's a Florida worker's experience...
"After my shift, I was told we no longer can use two plastic gowns (1 for front and 1 for back), now the back one is replaced with a trash bag," a staffer in a Florida intensive care unit, who declined to be identified for fear of retaliation, told BuzzFeed News. 'This is getting ridiculous.'"
The entire dilemma can be attributed to Donald Trump's late start in seriously addressing COVID-19, and the his and his staff's incompetence in handling the operation since. Trump was notified of the potential severity of the coronavirus and the potential of a pandemic on January 18, by Alex Azar, Secretary of Health and Human Services. First, the Oval Office lunatic considered it a hoax, then for a period of time he blamed it on Democrats. This lasted into March.
BuzzFeedNews has documented activity on healthcare workers in all states and you can find yours here. But, as an example, the first state up, Alabama...
"So far, 393 health care workers have tested positive for COVID-19, or nearly 15% of confirmed cases in the state."
According to The Commonwealth Fund the United States ranks last in the protection of its healthcare workers compared with six other industrialized countries: Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. This is based on measures of quality, efficiency, access to care, equity, and the ability to lead long, healthy, and productive lives, according to a new Commonwealth Fund report. A pathetic position for our country to be in.
There are twenty-four Democratic governors in the U.S. I would place my trust in far more than depending on Donald Trump to act in opening this country from the coronavirus shutdown...
Democrats like Washington's Jay Inslee of Washington, Andrew Cuomo of New York. Then you have those deadbeat Republican governors like Arizona's Doug Ducey and Florida's Ron DeSantis, who grovel in Trump's demands that determine every move they make. The entire right is scared to death of the Oval Office lunatic, therefore, no confidence can be placed in their decisions. But the Democrats, while screwed up in Congress, seem competent at the state level.
“It’s mind-boggling, actually, the degree of disorganization,” said Tom Frieden, former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director. The federal government has already squandered February and March, he noted, committing “epic failures” on testing kits, ventilator supply, protective equipment for health workers and contradictory public health communication. The next failure is already on its way, Frieden said, because “we’re not doing the things we need to be doing in April.”
Watch Trump wiggle and squirm for the truth that eludes him...
Meanwhile, the White House maniac, feeling deprived of his tyrannical powers, has begun to spew a new litany of rules that could only be contrived in a mentally handicapped mind like his...
"President Donald Trump insisted Monday that he alone could declare the United States reopen for business, continuing a contradictory line of messaging toward the nation’s governors as they have taken on greater responsibilities to combat the coronavirus pandemic in the face of federal inaction."
“For the purpose of creating conflict and confusion, some in the Fake News Media are saying that it is the Governors decision to open up the states, not that of the President of the United States & the Federal Government. Let it be fully understood that this is incorrect,” Trump wrote on Twitter.
Governors to reopen economy
And there was more...
“It is the decision of the President, and for many good reasons. With that being said, the Administration and I are working closely with the Governors, and this will continue,” he added in another tweet, previewing that a “decision by me, in conjunction with the Governors and input from others, will be made shortly!”
He and his administration aren't doing crap, and this is obvious from where we stand today as the country with the highest number of COVID-19 cases and deaths in the entire world. Donald Trump was told of the threat of the disease by Health Secretary Alex Azar on January 18, of this year. He was dismissed by the top idiot as an alarmist. And this is why our country is in such a chaotic condition because Trump won't listen to anyone.
But he will announce "his second coronavirus task force" after the first obviously didn't work. In the meantime, legal scholars, the experts this dufus won't listen to, say "the federal government lacks the power to directly order states to reopen their economies." The Democratic governors most likely have had this advice from their legal team, thus, will act as a group and get the job done while the moron muddles in the disorder of his anarchy.
Former president Barack Obama warned of pandemic back in 2014...
Here's our former president's take...
On Wednesday, former president Barack Obama weighed in, tweeting, “Social distancing bends the curve and relieves some pressure … But in order to shift off current policies, the key will be a robust system of testing and monitoring — something we have yet to put in place nationwide.”
This is one of those 'can you believe it' questions; having known the pandemic was coming since January 18, we still don't have adequate testing for coronavirus in the most technologically advanced country in the world. Almost three months have passed by the end of March only 320,000 tests were done and in comparison to So. Korea, something Trump regularly refers to, the U.S. has...
"conducted far fewer tests per capita given the US population is more than six times larger than South Korea's."
The question is what's going on in the Trump administration?...
"A Nature.com investigation of several university labs certified to test for the virus finds that they have been held up by regulatory, logistic and administrative obstacles, and stymied by the fragmented US health-care system."
Anywhere you go looking for reasons or ant logic to why the COVID-19 situation is so screwed up in the United States, the arrow always points to Donald Trump in the White House and his also incompetent minions who continue to adore this blockhead. Pathetic!
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