The Trump Presidency: Part 20

[Horatius]

This is the leading sentence from a TownHall editorial:


The whole thing is a demonstration of a total disconnect from reality. It's worth reading just to see what we in the rational community are up against.

I've posted in the comments section. It will be interesting to read the responses.

And on top of that, it's just poorly written. I got about half-way through his apparently pointless meanderings about Churchill before I bailed.

 

[Norman Alexander]

This is the leading sentence from a TownHall editorial:


The whole thing is a demonstration of a total disconnect from reality. It's worth reading just to see what we in the rational community are up against.

I've posted in the comments section. It will be interesting to read the responses.

Illuminating.

These people clearly would like to be invited to the aforementioned Trump-wanking sessions at the White House.

 

[Fast Eddie B]

This is the leading sentence from a TownHall editorial:


The whole thing is a demonstration of a total disconnect from reality. It's worth reading just to see what we in the rational community are up against.

So much wrong in that editorial. The whole thing smacks of Kellyanne Conway’s “alternative facts”.

It seems to be part of a playbook. On Facebook this morning one right wing friend posted a quote from Rush Limbaugh comparing Covid 19 to the Swine Flu and wondering why Obama didn’t face the same press “hysteria”. Another praised Trump for the masterful way he’s mobilized to private sector to produce needed items. Of course, no mention of why we belatedly need to scramble for supplies whose need in a pandemic was widely foreseen.

It seems at some level of infection and deaths these friends will suffer cognitive dissonance and have to change tactics. If nothing else, this whole mess is providing a depressing look into the power of confirmation bias.

 

[Resume]

So much wrong in that editorial. The whole thing smacks of Kellyanne Conway’s “alternative facts”.

It seems to be part of a playbook. On Facebook this morning one right wing friend posted a quote from Rush Limbaugh comparing Covid 19 to the Swine Flu and wondering why Obama didn’t face the same press “hysteria”. Another praised Trump for the masterful way he’s mobilized to private sector to produce needed items. Of course, no mention of why we belatedly need to scramble for supplies whose need in a pandemic was widely foreseen.

It seems at some level of infection and deaths these friends will suffer cognitive dissonance and have to change tactics. If nothing else, this whole mess is providing a depressing look into the power of confirmation bias.

This is all the result of Trump's oily sales pitch. He gives himself a 10 out of 10, claims that 200,000 dead would be an indicator of how well he handled this pandemic (which he predicted early on) and all negative results are the fault of the previous adminstration(s), the Dems and a biased hateful media.* You saw him face them down in his highly rated briefings, calling out those nasty, nasty reporters to their face. Remember, if it weren't for him and his team, there wouldn't even be a country left.

And people buy this ****.


* Also those thieving first responders, hoarding protective equipment, probably selling it on the black market.

 

[newyorkguy]

Doofus was asked by a PBS reporter why the U.S. is still unable to test as many people per capita as "other countries, like South Korea" and will that change? He began his answer by saying:

“I know South Korea better than anybody." Link

First, how would he know that? That there is nobody else who knows South Korea "better" than Trump. Even if it was arguably true, why say it? Then he went on to say, South Korea is "very tight." That there are thirty-eight million people in Seoul and they're "all tightly wound together." De Niro was right. We have a whack job running the country.

Where can I find the source for the lists of testing numbers?

Where can I find information on immigrating to Canada?

 

[Resume]

Doofus was asked by a PBS reporter why the U.S. is still unable to test as many people per capita as "other countries, like South Korea" and will that change? He began his answer by saying:

First, how would he know that? That there is nobody else who knows South Korea "better" than Trump. Even if it was arguably true, why say it? Then he went on to say, South Korea is "very tight." That there are thirty-eight million people in Seoul and they're "all tightly wound together." De Niro was right. We have a whack job running the country.

I've already seen sycophants claim that Trump was speaking about the 28 million in the greater Seoul region, and was only off by the 10 million, and probably just mispoke and only those with TDS would make a big deal about it.

 

[Horatius]

Where can I find information on immigrating to Canada?

Sorry, we've built a wall to keep out the disease-ridden refugees from that ****hole country to the south of us.

 

[newyorkguy]

I've already seen sycophants claim...only those with TDS would make a big deal about it.

Of course they're saying that, what else do they have? What do they say about a president who almost never gives America a straight answer. About anything. A president who constantly lies about everything?

This is what they say-

 

[Meadmaker]

This is the leading sentence from a TownHall editorial:


The whole thing is a demonstration of a total disconnect from reality. It's worth reading just to see what we in the rational community are up against.

I've posted in the comments section. It will be interesting to read the responses.

That's something I'm sensing.

Trump is, belatedly, doing a lot. That's good. He ought to.

However, I don't think he is doing anything that a marginally competent manager wouldn't be doing. He screwed up the early part of the response badly. Now, he's rolling out a response that is basically obvious, common sense, things. Cooperate with industry to make PPE? Good idea. Everyone else already thought of that, and sooner than Trump did.

Meanwhile, he flips and flops.

However, because he is obviously busy, and obviously doing something, a lot of people are giving him credit as if he were doing a good job.

When it's all over, will the survivors look back and actually evaluate the effectiveness of this president, or will they say, "He got us through the coronavirus!"

 

[Bob001]

.....
Where can I find information on immigrating to Canada?

I have looked into it quite seriously. Unless you have a rare specialized skill or a bucket of money to invest, they don't want us.
https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/immigrate-canada.html

 

[surrogate]

Doofus was asked by a PBS reporter why the U.S. is still unable to test as many people per capita as "other countries, like South Korea" and will that change? He began his answer by saying:

First, how would he know that? That there is nobody else who knows South Korea "better" than Trump. Even if it was arguably true, why say it? Then he went on to say, South Korea is "very tight." That there are thirty-eight million people in Seoul and they're "all tightly wound together." De Niro was right. We have a whack job running the country.

Haven't you heard, he has a "very good brain", and the "best words", plus an uncle who was an MIT professor. Of course he knows more about everything than everyone else.

 

[Segnosaur]

Good to see the Trump administration has his priorities in order:

From: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/mar/31/trump-epa-obama-clean-car-rules-climate-change
The Trump administration is rolling back the US government’s strongest attempt to combat the climate crisis, weakening rules which compel auto companies to produce more fuel-efficient vehicles.

It should be noted that many states (and even some auto manufacturers) are against weakening the rules.

This isn't exactly a new development. (The Trump administration has been working to undo fuel efficiency standards for a while.) But now they seem to be using the pandemic as a way to sneak their changes in and/or justify them.

 

[Bob001]

And I've never said it was a state by state problem. EVER!

But don't say that Trump should have seen this or that he isn't doing anything all while you excuse the state governors for their exact lack of foresight / response.

The states, all of them, do have a responsibility here.

Is it really that hard to comprehend?

What you don't comprehend is that the President has sources of information that are unavailable to state governors, and essentially infinite resources to respond to an emergency, unlike state governors. But Trump was claiming this would "disappear like magic" when his own experts were sounding alarms and launching flares. Even now, the federal government has the 50 states competing against each other to buy essential supplies. An international crisis is not a local responsibility.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/16/trump-inauguration-warning-scenario-pandemic-132797
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/20/politics/us-intelligence-reports-trump-coronavirus/index.html

 

[Stacyhs]

This is the leading sentence from a TownHall editorial:


The whole thing is a demonstration of a total disconnect from reality. It's worth reading just to see what we in the rational community are up against.

I've posted in the comments section. It will be interesting to read the responses.

"Interesting" isn't the word I would use after reading several of the comments there. They left me more than ever convinced that so many Trump supporters are just plain stupid. These are good examples:

Andy Howell SezMe • an hour ago
First off, don't blaspheme. You capitalize the G. To do anything less is to be petty and insulting.
Secondly, God didn't do this, the Chinese did, more to the point the communist, lefty, liberal, democrats did this and then impeded the decision making process of OUR commander in Chief in the middle of a crisis.
To say anything to the contrary when it is so blatantly obvious to be to complicate in the aforementioned above.
You should just go back to playing playstation in mommy's basement and probably go ahead and punch yourself in the face a bunch of times too.
You might knock some sense into yourself and be normal.

Roy Mueller carpe diem 36 • 3 hours ago
hellery would have made sure her bill's private "non profit" obtained all the rights to masks and ventilators before coming out to the public and being the president. she and nancy would have then teamed up to make sure they socialized all legislation as much as possible in an effort to bankrupt america, and then she would have initiated marshall law and made herself queen due to the national emergency. last, i am sure she would have changed the name of the country to something akin to "the bill and hellery states".
she is an evil woman. never should she be allowed to be in any sort of decision power position.

garque24 Roy Mueller • 3 hours ago
Me thinks THAT was the plan that was foiled. Why else was it sooooo important to get the impeachment by Christmas and hold it up for a month? To try and distract POTUS so the destruction could happen....?

 

[sts60]

Impeachment was such a distraction for Trump that he kept golfing (taxpayer funding his own courses) and having campaign rallies.

 

[plague311]

Impeachment was such a distraction for Trump that he kept golfing (taxpayer funding his own courses) and having campaign rallies.

The Terrible Turtle agrees!

In an interview with radio host Hugh Hewitt, McConnell said that the crisis "came up while we were tied down in the impeachment trial. And I think it diverted the attention of the government, because everything, every day was all about impeachment."

"Tom figured this out early, and he was absolutely right," McConnell added, a reference to Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas, who he described as the first to sound the alarm in the Senate about the situation unfolding in China.

It's not Trump's fault he sucked at responding to the pandemic. It's the Dems fault because they were impeaching him and he can't do two things at once. Er...wait he didn't actually ******* DO anything with regards to the impeachment other than tweet. Apparently Trump can only be bothered by a single issue at a time, and same with congress. They can't, possibly, look into multiple situations. It's one at a time. #efficient

 

[JoeMorgue]

Trump's impeachment had been over for months by the time the first case even hit the US.

 

[Armitage72]

Sarcastic fake sympathy Tweet about Chris Cuomo, like we saw for Mitt Romney, in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...

 

[Andy_Ross]

Trump Tweets

I watched a portion of low rated (very) Morning Psycho (Joe) this Morning in order to see what Nancy Pelosi had to say, & what moves she was planning to further hurt our Country. Actually, other than her usual complaining that I’m a terrible person, she wasn’t bad. Still praying!

With interest rates for the United States being at ZERO, this is the time to do our decades long awaited Infrastructure Bill. It should be VERY BIG & BOLD, Two Trillion Dollars, and be focused solely on jobs and rebuilding the once great infrastructure of our Country! Phase 4

 

[Stacyhs]

Impeachment was such a distraction for Trump that he kept golfing (taxpayer funding his own courses) and having campaign rallies.

It comes as no surprise to me that conspiracy theorists are more likely to be conservatives than non-conservatives.

A 2015 study* by a group of political scientists found that high information, low trust conservatives are more likely to believe in CTs than high information, low trust liberals. The more information liberals had, the less likely they are to believe in CTs whereas the more information a conservative has, the more likely they are to believe in CTs.

By 'information' they mean close engagement with partisan politics, consumption of political news. Conservatives tend to get their info from FOX News and right wing radio shows. Liberals tend to get their info from media like the NY Times, WAPO and NPR radio. CTs abound on right wing radio shows such as Limbuagh's and Hannity's.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/abramb...lk-radio-stars-are-conservative/#6696794e2788


* https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ajps.12234