Another off the wall Donald Trump press conference...
CNN's Chris Cillizza called it "mind-boggling,"
and after reading all 37 of his points, I agree, but have to add, if this isn't
the ramblings of a totally deranged person, I don't know what it is. Here's an
example as he takes out his wrath again against New York's Governor, Andrew
Cuomo...
#5. "Even though this is different, something is going on, and you ought to look into it as reporters. Where are the masks going? Are they going out the back door? How do you go from 10,000 to 300,000?"
Cillizilla: In which the President of the United States suggests, with zero evidence, that hospitals in New York are somehow stealing masks or purposely asking for too many from the federal government. This is a truly outrageous charge. And deeply disrespectful of the medical professionals on the front lines fighting this virus.
The number of irrational comments is thirty-seven, not a
couple here and a couple there, thirty-seven in one press briefing lasting for
over an hour of disjointed rhetoric you would expect from a five-year-old. It's
not hard to see the frustration from the media, we all are in perpetual
wonderment over how this can be allowed to continue. And this idiot looks like
he could be reelected. God help this country.
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Many Americans, along with the media, are asking, if Donald Trump is as bad as he appears in public, why are his favorability ratings still escalating?
Good question, deserves a good answer. But right now there isn't one. Except, for some reason he is untouchable, kinda like John Gotti was...for a while, called the "Teflon Don." He was also known as "Dapper Don" because he was a smart dresser. Gotti served time for truck hijacking and cargo theft in 1968, and manslaughter in 1974, but later after beating several charges, "became known as the “Teflon Don” (because criminal charges against him never stuck)"
And here's how Gotti finally went down...
"By 1990, however, the FBI had collected damaging evidence against Gotti through an extensive eavesdropping operation. In 1992, after a lengthy and widely publicized trial in which Gravano, in violation of a fundamental rule of Mafia behaviour, testified against him, Gotti was convicted on 13 criminal counts, including the murder of Castellano and others, racketeering, and obstruction of justice, and was sentenced to life in prison."
Finally...
"In 1998 he was diagnosed with throat cancer. He died in 2002 at the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri."
The "Teflon Don"
Well, I don't wish throat cancer on anyone, even Donald Trump, but I do hope he goes to jail for all he has done to destroy this country while in the White House and, frankly, don't care what happens to him after that. Damon Linker in The Week says, "My estimation of President Trump has never been lower than it is right now. And his approval rating has never been higher." He explains journalists have approached it like this...
"Unwaveringly convinced that the president and his party are inept, corrupt, ignorant, and brutally callous, they have written and published article after article under headlines like, 'This is the end of the Trump presidency.'"
Like John Gotti beating prosecution after prosecution until...the end. But it looks as if Trump, the "Don" has a double coat of Teflon, and no evidence yet that it is wearing thin. The problem here is that we assume...
"that most people will recoil from outright lies, deception, malice, injustice, sleaze, and thuggish imbecility when it is exposed and demonstrated to them."
Great video where Stephen Colbert compares Trump with John Gotti...
But they haven't with the Oval Office lunatic. Damon makes another comment on why we're not seeing "the end of the Trump presidency" that is very unnerving: "Maybe enough Americans in enough states just don't care." I have a name for those people who share this attitude...'apathetics." They usually are spineless, non-voters from both parties who are the first to bitch and moan over what's going on in the country, and also the first to do nothing.
The Week article goes on to marvel over the fact that regardless of what this White House maniac has done, the Republicans favor it because they benefit from it. This is evaluated by the author...
"Now let me be clear: This is bad. Very bad. It means that a large and politically potent segment of the American public is both actively contemptuous of expertise, specialized knowledge, and the effort to combat political corruption when it benefits them, and beyond the reach of being persuaded otherwise.
"It will of course be even worse if they happen to get their president re-elected."
God help us! With the coronavirus pandemic causing the turmoil it is, there is no certainty there will even be an election in November. And even if there is, how will Donald Trump screw with it so that he is assured of being reelected? But as it stands today, the COVID-19 dilemma could strike a blow against Trump that he cannot withstand. With the recent accolades of New York's Governor Andrew Cuomo's handling of the crisis, he looks like a new challenging contender.
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Only Donald Trump, in a crisis like this could come up with severely needed medical equipment that doesn't work. HEADLINE: "California governor: 170 ventilators sent from Trump administration were 'not working.'" READ MORE...
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CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta projects the need for number one priority, ventilators.READ MORE...
White House response coordinator for the US Coronavirus Task Force, Dr. Deborah Birx borders on the idiocy of Betsy DeVoss, Education Sec., another of Donald Trump's minions. READ MORE...
One of Donald Trump's white supremacists tried to bomb Missouri hospital during coronavirus pandemic.READ MORE...
Many medical experts are chastising Trump for "carelessly promoting ‘sloppy science’ and ‘dangerous public policy’ during the coronavirus pandemic."
Number of cases since the day of the 100th case (log scale)
Source: Johns Hopkins CSSE Note: The CSSE states that its numbers rely upon publicly available data from multiple sources, which do not always agree
In the 80% of patients experiencing a mild form of the illness, which can include a fever and pneumonia, many of these cases require little to no medical intervention." But you mustn't ignore the symptoms and should contact your primary care physician for advice. Most of the time it is in-home quarantine but let them make that decision. However...
"elderly people and those with underlying conditions such as diabetes or heart and lung issues are the most vulnerable."
The death rate for the elderly in China was 14.8%, so take notice.
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The Act authorizes the President to requisition property, force industry to expand production and the supply of basic resources, impose wage and price controls, settle labor disputes, control consumer and real estate credit, establish contractual priorities, and allocate raw materials towards national defense.Here are Trump's actual words...
Trump orders GM with DPA...
Trump's actual words...
“As usual with ‘this’ General Motors, things just never seem to work out,” the president wrote. “They said they were going to give us 40,000 much needed Ventilators, ‘very quickly’. Now they are saying it will only be 6000, in late April, and they want top dollar. Always a mess.”
GM is charging more than $1 billion, but I don't know whether that relates to 40,000 quantity or 6,000. With the larger number $12,500 per would seem reasonable. It was just a short time ago that T-rump was admonishing hospitals for why they needed so many ventilators. The ventilators have been ordered using the DPA, but the quantity still uncertain Go figure.
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How could this happen in the United States where we supposedly have the best of everything, including healthcare?...
The blame all rests on the shoulders of the guy in the White House who last January was "touting his health care record as a key reason voters should grant him another term." His record then was trying to get rid of Obamacare, which he failed at, and it has gotten progressively worse as the U.S. now leads the world in coronavirus cases: 81,321 as of Thursday with 1,000 deaths. But it gets worse...
"A cadre of right-wing news sites pulled from the fringes in recent years through repeated mention by President Trump is now taking aim at Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s top infectious diseases expert, who has given interviews in which he has tempered praise for the president with doubts about his pronouncements."
Not only have we failed miserably at coronavirus testing, headed up originally by number two, Mike Pence, and now son-in-law screw-up Jared Kushner, but now the Oval Office lunatic wants to fire all the experts to just listen to those who will say what he wants to hear. And he is more concerned with a faltering U.S. economy that could hurt his November chances in the election than help the Americans he was elected to serve.
NY Gov. Cuomo needs ventilators, pleads with Trump to use Defense Production Act...
His running war with New York's Governor Andrew Cuomo has no doubt attributed to that state, and the city of New York, becoming the epicenter of the U.S. COVID-19 epicenter, where there are 74,000 cases. A dedicated New York city nurse, Kious Jordan Kelly, 48, assistant nursing manager at Mount Sinai Hospital, has died of the virus in New York's escalating crisis. Kelly also suffered from severe asthma The NY crisis was caused by...
"surging numbers of coronavirus patients and shortages of crucial medical equipment and protective gear for staffers."
"Scientists warned that the United States someday would become the country hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic. That moment arrived on Thursday."
The Times is compiling data throughout the U.S. showing a comprehensive picture of the COVID-19 pandemic and I will bring that to you as available. Any delays, the paper says, are due to the fact...
"Trump has sent mixed messages about the scale of the danger and how to fight it, ensuring there was no coherent, unified response to a grave public health threat.
"A series of missteps and lost opportunities dogged the nation’s response."
In hindsight, T-rump's failed to take the pandemic seriously...
"even as it engulfed China, a deeply flawed effort to provide broad testing for the virus that left the country blind to the extent of the crisis, and a dire shortage of masks and protective gear to protect doctors and nurses on the front lines, as well as ventilators to keep the critically ill alive."
China took a slow start on attacking the disease, but then...
"China’s autocratic government acted with ferocious intensity after the belated start, eventually shutting down swaths of the country. Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea and Japan quickly began preparing for the worst."
We already have the autocracy in Donald Trump, but the idiot didn't have the brains to implement the necessary measures to prevent the predicament we are now in. That is the difference between the intelligence of China's president, Xi Jinping and Donald Trump. In this case, Jinping worked for the good of his people. Trump worked for the good of his reelection and approval rating. We may never recover from what this moron has done to the United States.
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Because of Donald Trump's incompetence, this country has 80,000 recorded cases of COVID-19...
.The two incompetents behind it all
This can be attributed to early denials by the Oval Office lunatic, then delays in more ineptitude in testing. Here's the latest count...
"As of Thursday afternoon, China was reporting 81,782 cases and the United States had at least 80,837. There have been more than 510,000 cases reported worldwide."
As of today, Italy had 80,589 cases, in part due to a nationwide lockdown, which seems to have worked for this country. The best T-rump has come up with so far is encouraging distancing and not socializing. However, this idiot is reluctant to press for stay-at-home and is now talking of rescinding distancing and no socializing and returning to normal activities by Easter. All to improve an economy that he hopes will help his November election chances. But here's the way it is...
"Health officials are warning that numerous hospitals around the country may run out of beds within two weeks as cases continue rising.
"If more beds don't become available, 'then we don't have resources to save the lives that we need to save,' former Louisiana Secretary of Health Dr. Rebekah Gee said. 'That's why these stay-at-home orders are so important.'
"But "we have not seen the peak of the crisis yet," Gee said."
Experts on distribution of much-needed hospital supplies...
So, what happened to the Defense Production Act to speed up the availability of critical health equipment? Here is CNN's take after Trump was contradicted again, this time by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) administrator...
Around 8 a.m. Tuesday, Trump tweeted, "The Defense Production Act is in full force, but haven't had to use it because no one has said NO! Millions of masks coming as back up to States."
Minutes later, FEMA administrator Pete Gaynor told CNN the administration will start wielding the powers in the Defense Production Act for 60,000 tests kits and "use the allocation portion of the DPA" starting today.
"Just a little while ago my team came in and we're actually going to use the DPA for first time today," Gaynor said.
She tweeted, “He’s lying. I was sent to the [COVID19] isolation wardroom in a major hospital ER from a separate urgent care facility after showing UNBEARABLY PAINFUL symptoms. The hospital couldn’t test me for [coronavirus] because of CDC (Pence task force) restrictions.”
"Griffin’s tweet came just hours after Trump took to Twitter to boast about the United States’ testing capacity." This is what Trump tweeted...
Trump’s tweet read, “Just reported that the United States has done far more ‘testing’ than any other nation, by far! In fact, over an eight-day span, the United States now does more testing than what South Korea (which has been a very successful tester) does over an eight-week span. Great job!”
In perhaps one of the worst, if not the worst crisis the United States has ever faced, the guy who is supposed to be running this country is bold-face lying about what he is supposedly doing to curb the situation. It is not only unconscionable, but appears to me to be bordering on treason, lying to the American public in a way that could be detrimental to their health in this dire emergency...READ MORE...
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Trump partners with tech firm Oracle to promote his two drugs, chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, online with none other than his family henchman, Jared Kushner, in charge. Both are unproven and a chloroquine derivative has killed an Arizona man...READ MORE...
Here's a statement from Maryland's Republican Governor Larry Hogan, who warned Tuesday...
that the messaging coming from Donald Trump and his administration about the coronavirus pandemic is "pretty confusing," while also countering the president's suggestion that life would soon go back to normal.
Imagine how those not with inside info feel...READ MORE...
Here's the latest on Donald Trump's miracle drug. Hydroxychloroquin. for coronavirus...
"Hydroxychloroquine — an anti-malaria drug that President Donald Trump has touted as a potential “game-changer” in the treatment of the coronavirus — was no more effective than standard treatments in a new study."
With coronavirus, domestic violence victims locked in with abuser...
“My husband won’t let me leave the house,” a victim of domestic violence, tells a representative for the National Domestic Violence Hotline over the phone. “He’s had flu-like symptoms and blames keeping me here on not wanting to infect others or bringing something like COVID-19 home. But I feel like it’s just an attempt to isolate me.“
Experts warn of second wave of COVID-19 in China...
"China has no new infections of the coronavirus domestically for the first time since the start of a crisis that has sickened over 80,000 Chinese people. But what could be a sign the country has defeated the fatal pathogen is likely to just be a temporary reprieve.
Here's a headline that perfectly describes the character of Donald Trump: "Psychiatrist warns sociopath Trump ‘could see dead bodies’ from coronavirus ‘and step over them.’"...
"Dr. Justin Frank literally wrote the book on Donald Trump’s mind and behavior. In “Trump on the Couch,” Frank tracks Trump’s life from childhood to adulthood and reveals a man who is mentally unfit in many ways — from his intelligence, values, emotions and temperament down to the deepest parts of the psyche — to be president of the United States of America."
Trump makes up "stuff" to look like a competent leader...
"Writing in The Bulwark this Wednesday, Tim Miller chronicled how President Trump 'downplayed the threat of and ignored warnings' of the burgeoning threat of coronavirus in the early days of the outbreak. Despite the documented evidence of the White House initially attempting to minimize the threat, the Trump administration is trying to establish an 'alternate reality' that paints Trump as a competent leader who was ahead of the situation."
Grocery store had to throw out $35,000 in food when a woman intentionally coughed on it...
"The unnamed woman entered small grocery chain Gerrity's Supermarket in Hanover Township and started coughing on produce, bakery items, meat and other merchandise, chain co-owner Joe Fasula wrote on Facebook."
She was arrested by police and will be criminally charged...READ MORE...
More spite for Obama in the following headline: "Trump White House ignored Obama-era NSC ‘playbook’ for pandemic response: report"...
"The Trump White House has no excuses for its lack of pandemic preparedness. None. Every few days we learn about yet another warning from the past, another way some part of the government tried to prepare for a pandemic, only to have Team Trump ignore all the preparation and waste months denying that coronavirus was a danger to the United States, while the virus spread and our chances to contain it ebbed away."
Anti-vaxxers at it again, this time attacking coronavirus...
Jude McGee, dead at age 4, killed by anti-vaxxer mother
Anti-vaxxers are the scum of the earth, responsible for flu and measles deaths some time back, which were mostly children. There was no remorse when a mother let her 4-year-old young son die in Colorado in February of the flu because a Facebook group told her to medicate him with thyme and elderberry instead of the drug known to help the flu, Tamiflu. If that wasn't enough, after his death she was swamped with hate mail and attacked by anti-vaxxers.
"The rapid spread of coronavirus is beginning to look a lot like a pandemic, and besides its often deadly effects on human health, it’s also having a serious effect on the global economy, raising the prospect that everyday life could be disrupted all over the world. But anti-vaccine corners of the internet are worried about something else: that the government might develop—or even “enforce”—a coronavirus vaccine."
"The UK's health secretary Matt Hancock said anti-vaccination campaigners were 'morally reprehensible, deeply irresponsible' and had 'blood on their hands,'"
The understatement of the year when it comes to these muckrakers, but they cannot be ignored. Another way of looking at it...
"For most people, the news that a vaccine had been developed against the disease would come as a relief, but for anti-vaxxers it ties together two things. The first is, naturally, an overwhelming fear and distrust of vaccines; the second is a terrified certainty that some day the government will find a convenient excuse to enforce Orwellian degrees of control."
Strictly Orwellian but effective in this coronavirus emergency-MUST WATCH...
George Orwell would consider anti-vaxxers despicable, and there is nothing Orwellian about the government's enforcement of any vaccine that saves lives. It is pure common sense, which is completely absent in this group of baby-killers. This is how these idiots think...
The outlook is now "that while there’s no coronavirus vaccine yet, it’ll soon be impressed on an unwilling population, along with other vaccines." And I hope to be one of the first in line to get a vaccination.
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Young people come up with the idea, let's have a "coronavirus party" to socialize...
Kentucky "coronavirus party" that worked
One of the biggest socializing events of the year happens when the 146th Kentucky Derby runs in September...if it isn't cancelled due to coronavirus. But it does have its competition in the area of socializing when a group of double-digit IQs from the state got together to socialize just to prove a point; a 'coronavirus party' of young adults. They did. One of them--there may be more--came up with the COVID-19 virus, with this comment from CNN...
"The partygoers intentionally got together 'thinking they were invincible" and purposely defying state guidance to practice social distancing."
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear chides coronavirus partygoers...
I did a recent piece on the dumbness of this age group, "Latest COVID-19 Crisis: These millennials are just stupid about coronavirus," which portrays these 18 to 29-year-old young people who make the me-group look like missionaries. And then earlier there was a guy on spring break who made the comment. "If I get corona, I get corona," who has since apologized, but you have to wonder how many of this Miami Beach gang will come up with the virus.
We talked to someone in this age group recently who is close to the family and responded to warnings that they should protect themselves, with the reply, "It's only a virus." That says it all, and it is damn tragic.
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