Donald Trump's latest approval rating on the handling of the U.S. coronavirus pandemic hits the bottom of the barrel...
To be specific, it is down 22 points and I would give anything to have seen his face the first time he saw that number. In other words, what he thinks is his beautiful, wonderful handling of the COVID-19 crisis is really for shit. Here's the analysis from Newsweek...
"As a result, the net approval for Trump's performance, which is determined by deducting the share of those who disapprove from the share who do approve, sat 8 percentage points "underwater," Morning Consult said in a breakdown of its findings.
As an example of the confusion the Oval Office lunatic has caused, his suggestion "that injecting patients who test positive for coronavirus with disinfectant could be helpful...the U.S. saw a spike in calls made to poison control centers in at least four states." It is hard to believe anyone would have confidence in a stupid recommendation like this but, then, we are talking about double-digit Trump supporters.
My testing program
And then we come full present to today's plan from T-rump, one in which he has arranged for 2% of each state to now be tested--folks this is 4 months after he knew of the problem--and "Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, said that number is nowhere close to adequate," according to Jake Johnson of Common Dreams. Completely inadequate...
“It’s about 6 to 7 million [tests],” said Jha, “and if that’s one-time, that doesn’t do anything.”
"The blueprint (pdf) is organized into an eight-part strategy that largely leaves states responsible for carrying out a massive expansion of testing, even as governors say they lack the equipment and capacity to ramp up screenings to the level that experts say is necessary."
Trump says his role is to "enable innovation," something this White House is completely incapable of.
Coming from Washington Post writers, Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig, "A Very Stable Genius" is the continuing brilliance of those on the inside to portray a mentally challenged Donald Trump...
I am two-thirds way through "A Very Stable Genius" and am amazed at the way these two reporters have organized the information on Donald Trump to the extent you actually feel you are in the room where it is happening. It is hard to select something to quote but in consideration of Trump's totalitarian governing approach, there was a part in the book where he gives kudos to Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's president.
A senior aide describes the two's speakerphone conversations as "un-fucking-believable, like hearing Hitler at a Nuremberg rally." Says Erdogan's voice was chilling, like Satan's, but Trump has long admired the man for his ruthless rule in Turkey and the ease with which he dispatched political rivals. This is unadulterated mental sickness at its worst, when you are talking about the person who rules the freest country in the world.
Best friends, Erdogan and Trump
Jennifer Rubin's Washington Post opinion piece recently headlined, "‘Stable genius’ or dangerous ignoramus?" is a good question but one that has been answered repeatedly over the last few months, with each time Donald Trump opens his mouth. She quotes from one of his recent press conferences...
“And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out, in a minute. Is there a way we can do something like that? By injection, inside, or almost a cleaning, because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it would be interesting to check that. You’re going to have to use medical doctors, right? But it sounds interesting to me.”
This is the leader of the world's most advanced nation in such a confused state that what he is recommending could immediately kill thousands of people if they took his advice. But it was right after this at a later press conference where the disinfectant thing was brutally criticized, Donald Trump actually showed signs of doubt, both in what he was saying and also from the harsh criticism he received. He quietly left the room without taking questions.
I'm only a puttering psychologist, but are we seeing the first breaking point in the Trump facade, the latest of many that have come down the line, and are sure to eventually push Trump over the edge. A tragic way to have to get rid of a president but the only way when you have the head of the U.S. Senate, lowlife Moscow Mitch McConnell, constantly propping him up. Cody Fenwick, writing in AlterNet said...
"Of course, if Trump does genuinely feel shame, it’s not likely to last long. He’ll likely revert to his vastly overconfident self in short order."
Trump coming off the spool at a press conference...WATCH!
We'll be watching for more signs. After over three years, Donald Trump still does not know how to do his job, according to another piece by Cody Fenwick, this time in RawStory. The writer believes the Oval Office lunatic has contrived this reality show in his head, much like his former show, "The Apprentice," where he interviewed and fired people. In today's show, here's how Fenwick sees it...
"He likely doesn’t have the ability to coordinate all the relevant actors, tap into the expertise of the administration, and craft a long-term strategy for fighting the pandemic and saving as much of the economy as possible. But regardless of whether he could do what is needed, it’s clear that he’s not interested in this hard work."
Trump just cannot shed the carnival barker personality that so often shows him for the idiot he is. Like this...
“It’s just a suggestion, from a brilliant lab, by a very, very smart, perhaps brilliant, man,” Trump said. “He’s talking about sun, he’s talking about heat. And you see the numbers. So that’s it. That’s all I have. I’m just here to present talent. I’m here to present ideas. Because we want ideas to get rid of this thing.”
We're all waiting for the next episode of Donald Trump's new reality show. Don't forget, "A Very Stable Genius," a great read.
Presidential dogs go all the way back to the beginning...George Washington...
Should there be a doggy in the White House? NO
Washington had seven dogs, one was named Drunkard. Trump has no dog. Abraham Lincoln had eight, one named Fido, who was assassinated by a drunk with a knife a couple months after Lincoln was killed. Trump is dogless. Teddy Roosevelt had twenty-four, which probably led to a rowdy White House, but that's the way he liked it. Still, Donald Trump has no dog. Barack Obama had his Bo, and even Richard Nixon had a dog, four in all. But not T-rump.
And that, folks, is what is wrong with the current White House, in addition, of course, to the fact its head occupant is a raving maniac doing what he has been doing since he entered that historic monument, tearing this country apart, piece by piece. But, would a dog do him any good? If you are a real animal lover, you have your pet because you want to give it loving care and a forever home. Our cats are treated as if they are our children, which they really are.
But an animal of any kind in Donald Trump's company is like...throwing it to the lions. Yes, a dog in this White House would, due to perpetual strife, be peeing and pooping from the Lincoln bedroom to the Oval Office to Trump's private quarters. A cat, on its first day. would observe the White House maniac in action, spray on the imperial desk, then find a place to hide. Animals know what's going on, and they know a phony the minute they spot it. Donald Trump.
Trump latest from The New Yorker: Mitch McConnell is still refusing to rein in Trump — and things are getting worse for Americans...
The relationship is bending
And folks it is Moscow Mitch that has allowed the Oval Office lunatic the freedom to do what he pleases from the White House, most recently screw up the response to the coronavirus pandemic and fight with the scientific experts for who knows the best about the clinical approach to the disease. On some fronts this moron has won, like the widespread use of hydroxychloroquine, in which he has a financial interest along with his cronies.
"The New Yorker explained that McConnell’s worship for Trump is really a kind of 'cynical political genius.' He’s both protecting his caucus and covering himself in a deeply red state where Trump is more popular than even he is. "It is well known that McConnell interfered with witnesses against Donald Trump at his impeachment trial, a move thought by many to have turned the trial in T-rump's favor.
Columnists and Gov. Cuomo on Mitch McConnell...
"Columnist and journalism professor Al Cross called McConnell’s partnership with Trump 'the most important political relationship in the country.'” And with McConnell in control of the Senate, this lowlife, with absolutely no ethics and no concern for what happens to this country as long as he maintains his power, it will never get better until we get him out of Congress, out of Washington. Here's what a Common dreams writer had to say...
"A decade ago, in my first public writing since leaving Capitol Hill, I warned that the Republican Party, in its evolution towards an extremist conservative movement allied with extremist Christian fundamentalism, was becoming like 'one of the intensely ideological authoritarian parties of 20th century Europe.'”
His conclusion: "They value only absolute power or ruin." Changed to "He valued only absolute power or ruin," should be on Mitch McConnell's tombstone. The author professes a more simplistic approach and...
"simply call the Republicans and their religious and secular conservative allies what they are, and in unadorned English: a death cult."
“it is always the American government’s position to say, in the choice between the loss of our way of life as Americans and the loss of life, of American lives, we have to always choose the latter.”
But this blockhead took it even further with this comment...
“'It is policymakers’ decision to put on our big boy and big girl pants and say it is the lesser of these two evils.' This encapsulates the stereotype of the economic conservative: Dickens’s Thomas Gradgrind, the rigid, condescending, and heartless pedagogue."
And this is the kind of Republican that is running this country today, and a primary reason the White House maniac can get away with what he does. But the latest play of Moscow Mitch is his latest position re. the plight of U.S. states during the COVID-19 pandemic. His attitude is there will be no more federal aid and as far as he is concerned, they can just go bankrupt. Since the Democrats in Congress are all wimps, there is no choice but to dump them with the GOP.
It's time again to review coronavirus headline stories you need to know about...catch up with the following...
HEADLINE: "REVEALED: White House pushed FEMA to give its biggest coronavirus contract to a company that never had to bid."READ MORE...
HEADLINE: "Food goes to waste amid coronavirus crisis."READ MORE...
HEADLINE: "Poultry Worker’s Death Highlights Spread of Coronavirus in Meat Plants."READ MORE...
HEADLINE: "He Could Have Seen What Was Coming: Behind Trump’s Failure on the Virus."READ MORE...
HEADLINE: "Trump reportedly asked Dr. Anthony Fauci whether it was possible to allow the coronavirus to 'wash over' the US."READ MORE...
HEADLNE: "Fauci admits earlier Covid-19 mitigation efforts would have saved more American lives."READ MORE...
HEADLINE: "‘It is what it is’: Fauci carefully admits Trump ‘could have saved lives’ if he took the virus seriously."READ MORE...
HEADLINE: "What Do Countries With The Best Coronavirus Responses Have In Common? Women Leaders."READ MORE...
HEADLINE: "Furious Nebraskans blame GOP governor for surge in COVID-19 cases after he refused to issue stay at home order." READ MORE...
HEADLINE: "All the cruise ships that have had confirmed cases of COVID-19 onboard." READ MORE...
HEADLINE: "Florida nursing homes a coronavirus ‘nightmare’: Gov. Ron DeSantis deploys National Guard."READ MORE...
HEADLINE: "Rick Wilson: Trump’s press conference meltdown was a ‘manic ragefest by America’s Worst President.’"READ MORE...
HEADLINE: "Trump obliterated nursing home safety
regulations in 2017 — COVID is showing why they’re desperately needed:
Ex-healthcare official." READ MORE...
HEADLINE: "'God help us’: Americans horrified after Trump names Jared and Ivanka to his ‘Council to Re-open America.'"READ MORE...
HEADLINE: "Trump’s ‘delusional’ supporters will never admit they were wrong — even in the face of national catastrophe."READ MORE...
That completes the latest roundup of COVID-19 news...
Italy has almost double the coronavirus testing, per capita, than the United States...
One of the muddled Donald Trump coronavirus briefings
But on early March the United States was dead last with only 5 tests per capita compared to seven other major countries like Italy, the U.K. and So. Korea. We should have been number one then and should be on the top now with our lead in technology and financial status in the world. It is pathetic and the total cause for the delay can be placed at the feet of Donald Trump. He first called the virus a hoax, then blamed it on the Democrats.
"The president and his team in the White House are rushing to counter perceptions and develop a coherent message about the nation’s ability to test Americans for the coronavirus quickly and broadly, a prerequisite governors and business leaders have outlined to successfully get the economy back on track."
The Oval Office lunatic changes his mind regularly from claiming complete control over states for COVID-19 response to telling governors it is their responsibility to come up with disease testing. The result continues to be delayed testing which increases deaths from the virus. As of today there are 45,013 fatalities caused by coronavirus. It's been over three months since China had its first case and Donald Trump continues to blame others rather than act.
While the blockhead protesters argue over economy or death, the African Americans and those in nursing homes have no choice...
The choice is death, over which neither group has control. The former due to the "racial character of inequality in the United States," according to the New York Times. Here's their reasoning...
"black Americans are more likely to work in service sector jobs, least likely to own a car and least likely to own their homes. They are therefore more likely to be in close contact with other people, from the ways they travel to the kinds of work they do to the conditions in which they live."
For nursing homes, there are multiple reasons and they all, by agreement, combine to make the overall task of caring for these folks seem almost impossible. For one, they are crammed together, making social distancing futile, second, staffs are already strained and now "there are reports of staff abandoning facilities when covid-19 cases appear." Third, these facilities have had management problems for years, with improvement, but now that's all reversed.
There are so many more and I urge you to read this Washington Post article that outlines many of the problems with nursing homes in the coronavirus pandemic. At this point, if there are any of your family that you are considering placing in one of these facilities, you might want to think again. Here's the scenario...
"As awful as these stories are, the situation could still deteriorate further, from terrible to unimaginable. The age and fragile health of their residents are not nursing facilities’ only vulnerabilities. The industry is potentially facing a financial catastrophe that could prevent any meaningful attempt to beat back covid-19."
"If black Americans are more likely to suffer the comorbidities that make coronavirus more deadly, it’s because those ailments are tied to the segregation and concentrated poverty that still mark their communities."
Nursing homes have a business model you can read about in WP, and it isn't working since COVID-19 has turned it upside down, which could worsen even more and put additional liabilities in the way of caring for the sick. But here's the answer...
"To stay afloat, nursing homes must take enough high-revenue short-stay Medicare patients to offset the low-revenue long-stay Medicaid residents. Otherwise, they will go out of business."
For the black community, the answer is the same it has been for years, but totally ignored. STOP RACISM. Not simple, but doable, and the timing couldn't be better.
Anti-vaxxer mentality prevails in Kentuckians leading the coronavirus protests...
Let me be free to kill myself and your family
The portion of the headline, "Protesting for the Freedom to Catch the Coronavirus," is from the New York Times reflecting what these morons are apparently attempting to accomplish. 'Let's go out and catch the disease so we can take it home to our families, especially the kids and grandparents who are in the most vulnerable category. I believe the time has really come to collect all these people together and place them in concentration camps.
And then there's this Newsweek headline, "KENTUCKY REPORTS HIGHEST CORONAVIRUS INFECTION INCREASE AFTER A WEEK OF PROTESTS TO REOPEN STATE," which speaks to Donald Trump's whole idea of pushing to open the country before having an adequate testing program in place insure we can track cases. Trump is simply afraid of more COVID-19 testing because he fears the additional cases it will turn up.
Kentucky Gov. re. protests...
The opening of the U.S. economy? Here's what CNN reports...
"As it stands in this coronavirus pandemic, the answer remains entirely unclear. Health experts have said the United States needs to rapidly increase its ability to test people for the virus in order to safely reopen without sparking a new wave of infections. Many governors have asked the federal government -- which has refused to take responsibility for shortages -- to help ramp up that testing capability."
Again, the Oval Office lunatic afraid of seeing new coronavirus cases. And so the beat goes on, first Kentucky, then whatever next state has the most double-digit IQs, and then on and on until those of the most ignorant species have killed themselves...and us. What this country has come to.
It is impossible to compare Donald Trump with any past president - not likely that there will be anything like him in the future...
Always with the mouth open, yet nothing to say.
According to RawStory, Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt rank at the top of the U.S. presidents. Lincoln for his handling of the Civil War, Roosevelt for his efforts in the Great Depression, and World War II. George W. Bush comes in at close to the bottom of the list, and Donald Trump, if there is any way to place him under the bottom of the list, well, that is where you would find him. It is hard for one to reconcile how the one running this country could be so appallingly labeled.
The article explains that the only reason Trump has been able to preserve a 40% approval rating is the fact that he is by...
"riding his predecessor’s economic coattails and effectively manipulating the lizard brains of white Republicans, but even before the coronavirus hit, Trump was considered one of the worst presidents in the two surveys of scholars done in 2018."
Trump's delayed efforts on COVID-19...
Trump's first efforts in the coronavirus crisis was on March 13, over two months from when his "administration claims to have first become aware of the virus." There was another alert from Alex Azar, Secretary of Health and Human Services, on January 18. Here's the latest scenario...
"With two thousand Americans dying every day and reported cases in the States increasing by a hundred thousand each week, we are only now beginning to grasp the depths of human misery unleashed by Trump’s inattention to the coronavirus for those ten long weeks."
In most modern civilizations Donald Trump would be classified as a murderer for allowing this to happen. But not in the United States, where the Senate is controlled by Moscow Mitch McConnell with a Republican Congress scared of the Oval Office lunatic. Here's another example of GOP ineptness...
"Ronald Reagan was able to ignore the AIDS crisis for years because it was “a gay disease” and didn’t impact anyone close to him until his old Hollywood acquaintance Rock Hudson asked for—but did not receive—his help in 1985."
Ronald Reagan's absurd response to AIDS epidemic...
"cut funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the agency tasked with protecting public health in the face of the opiate epidemic, AIDS, flu, and infectious outbreaks."
And then a couple years later along came the COVID-19 pandemic. It was February 1, 2018, that the Washington Post reported the CDC would cut 80 percent of its efforts to prevent a global disease outbreak. And this is one of the major reasons the CDC was so inadequate, and still is, in its efforts to fight the coronavirus in this country. Here's a summation of T-rump's assault on U.S. healthcare...
“Collectively, warns Jeremy Konyndyk, who led foreign disaster assistance at the U.S. Agency for International Development during the Obama administration, ‘What this all adds up to is a potentially really concerning rollback of progress on U.S. health security preparedness.’
“‘It seems to actively unlearn the lessons we learned through very hard experience over the last 15 years,’ said Konyndyk….‘These moves make us materially less safe. It’s inexplicable.’”
The entire Donald Trump presidency can be considered "inexplicable," or worse if you can find the words. And here's the next stupid move...
"On May 10, 2018, Trump’s national security adviser John Bolton [just hired in April] “re-organized” the National Security Council (NSC), or more accurately “fired the government’s entire pandemic response chain of command, including the White House management infrastructure” which had been set up by the Obama administration after the Ebola crisis, by collapsing the NSC’s Office of Global Security."
There's more...
"In the wake of Bolton’s action, the top official tasked with coordinating a response to a pandemic, Rear Adm. Timothy Ziemer from the National Security Council, resigned on the same day that a new Ebola outbreak was reported in the Congo."
Donald Trump hires and fires John Bolton...
It is now evident that Trump has made it his goal to undo all the great programs Barack Obama had put in place during his administration, and the White House maniac continues that course of action today. And there was even more notice of the coming COVID-19 pandemic late last year...
"In September of 2019, a 'study by the Council of Economic Advisers ordered by the National Security Council predicted that a pandemic similar to the 1918 Spanish flu or the 2009 swine flu could lead to a half-million deaths and cost the economy as much as $3.8 trillion.'”
For those with serious kidney problems, getting a dialysis machine may prove hard to do in the future...
Dialysis machines on the ready
Here's the CNN headline: "New Covid-19 crisis hits ICUs as more patients need dialysis." With some of their patients going into kidney failure, Doctors are experiencing a shortage of the supplies needed to treat them and the dialysis machines necessary to keep them alive. That isn't all...
"They say they are overwhelmed, not only because patients are going into kidney failure, but also because the body's intense reaction to the virus is often causing their blood to clot too much, and the clots are literally clogging up the dialysis filters."
Get the latest information from the CDC about COVID-19...
The whole complication is changing from the threats of "pneumonia that has been one of the defining symptoms of serious Covid-19 disease," to "systemic effects on their hearts and other organs." Namely, kidney failure. This is a statement from Dr. Sam Parnia, a critical care specialist at New York University Langone Medical Center...
"It's taken everyone by surprise because it is acting so different from everything else."
It's always the unknowns that slow down the progress and this time it is...
"They are not dying because they can't get enough oxygen. They are actually dying because of other complications and it is predominately due to blood clots."
That would explain some of the recent deaths of patients on ventilators. It wasn't their lungs that killed them, it was their kidneys. But the medical profession is still learning with this new virus, and hopefully this save lives in the future.
Here's the RawStory headline: "Red states may be facing a perfect storm of illness and death from COVID-19"...
Trump, surrounded with other morons
We're talking about previously minimum outbreaks of COVID-19 due to the low density of rural areas compared to New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. That has now changed...
"More than two-thirds of rural counties have confirmed at least one case.” Forty-two states now have over 1,000 confirmed cases of the disease, and many red states are among those conducting the fewest tests."
There's more...
"Polls consistently find that Republicans–especially those who watch Fox News regularly–are more likely than Democrats to believe that COVID-19 is similar to the seasonal flu, and that the media and Democrats are hyping the seriousness of the pandemic to harm Donald Trump’s prospects in November."
Coronavirus effects on rural areas...
And there are additional health factors involved...
"According to data from the Kaiser Family Foundation, 17 of the 20 states with the highest rates of smoking are red. Two are swing states and one, North Carolina, has only become blue in the past couple of cycles.
Not only do we have a bunch of double-digits running around out there rooting for Donald Trump, these same Republicans don't seem to give a damn about their health.
Donald Trump bungles the COVID-19 emergency in the United States, where other world leaders have excelled in their countries...
Contemplating...What will I screw up next?
Here's the headline from Forbes: "Most World Leaders See Approval Ratings Surge Amid Coronavirus. Not Trump." But does anyone wonder why with the level of incompetence he and his minions have exhibited in handling the crisis Only the double-digits that support him. And this will all play out even more as those ding-a-lings who hit the Jacksonville, Fla. beaches yesterday spread around their frivolity, perhaps more. Thanks to Fla.'s idiot governor, Ron DeSantis.
Donald Trump's deplorable response to COVID-19 handling...
There are several "key facts" about Trump's handling of the dilemma, but here is a comparison well worth mentioning...
"Some world leaders have seen spectacular rises in support, especially Germany’s chancellor Angela Merkel, whose approval rating increased 11 points to 79% since early March, according to a recent poll from Forschungsgruppe Wahlen."
Germany has had 143,160 coronavirus cases and 4,451 total deaths, according to WORLDOMETER. The U.S. 734,525, 38,768 deaths, but the huge difference is Germany's deaths per 1,000 population of 53, compared to the U.S. which is double that at 117. This is an excellent article, worth reading, documenting how Donald Trump's handling of the COVID-19 crisis reflects the highest level of incompetence in comparison with our allies. More than pathetic!
...if we had an expert like Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the CDC, in sole charge of disseminating any and all information on the coronavirus pandemic...
The Big Mouth
Dr. Fauci has proven himself credible and dependable to see the problems, analyze the situation and come up with the correct answers. But we know that giving him free reign won't happen with the big mouth maniac
in the Oval Office. So what do we do? The coronavirus clown just did an about-face on
The coronavirus clown
shutdowns he had previous determined...
"The feds were issuing broad guidelines, he said, but 'governors will be empowered to tailor an approach that meets the diverse circumstances of their own states....'"
But then...
"Before noon on Friday, Trump and his thumbs had ripped off the mask to reveal the man we always knew was underneath: the raging, juvenile, divisive partisan with Twitter Tourette’s.
“LIBERATE MINNESOTA!” he wrote. “LIBERATE VIRGINIA!” “LIBERATE MICHIGAN!”, he said, clearly siding with protesters who’ve broken social distancing restrictions to put themselves and their neighbors at risk. It is no mistake he chose three swing states with Democratic governors who have gone out of their way to work with regional partners.
Dr. Anthony Fauci says there should be a stay-at-home order for the ENTIRE country...
"The New York daily News profiles Donald Trump the, "nation’s
supposed leader reverts again to being its loudest whiner, its blame-shifting,
chaos-causing, whirlwind-reaping rabble-rouser," finishing their article with...
"None of this is the least bit surprising. Just as when the dog, who has gone to obedience school and put on an “I’m sorry” face many times, makes on the carpet again. If it wouldn’t violate social distancing rules, we’d roll up today’s Daily News and hit him on the nose again."
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