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The Trump Presidency: Part 20
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SezMe
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I suppose it is reasonable for a career military man to think like that but I don't approve of the retweet.
The military to not organized to fight a pandemic. Sure, they can help at the margins but the war on COVID-19 is not a traditional bombs and rockets war. Even worse, the drug problem is a national health problem that I can see as being almost immune to military tactics. If Trump wants to "totally win" that war, he is going have to address poverty which he is manifestly unable to even understand much less deal with.
SezMe
post-pre-born
I can think of two closely related reasons. First, the USPS is a successful government program. Well it was until Congress ****** their retirement scheme and drove them into debt. As a well-liked success, it is an example of a "socialist" program that the political right simply cannot abide with. It directly contradicts their mantra that government is evil.
Second, if the USPS is allowed to rot it opens up a huge opportunity for some big business to take it over and make a handsome profit. But that means, you say, that the cost will skyrocket. Exactly so, implying even more profit. And as a minor side effect, another source of dark money for far right political campaigns. Win-win.
SezMe
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I sure hope the Dems are smart enough to use crap like this in endless ads during the heat of the final presidential campaign.
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SezMe
post-pre-born
Gesundheit
SezMe
post-pre-born
Here's a better one:
He helped his Uncle Jack off his horse.
SezMe
post-pre-born
Worse, since there's some word at the top and then "and" the word "suck's" shouldn't have an "s" at all!
ETA: Already (over)done.
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Silly Green Monkey
Cowardly Lurking in the Shadows of Greatness
That's the least charitable interpretation, but another is that say the federal government has a large cache of masks in Colorado. The federal government still owns those masks, and can ship to California if they decide the masks are more needed there. Just because they're stored in Colorado doesn't mean that Colorado can use it.
Aridas
Crazy Little Green Dragon
I was more marveling at Kushner's statement itself, personally. The federal stockpile is indeed not the property of the states themselves. Duh. The "federal" part quite gives that away, after all. It was created in large part to be used by the states in case of emergency, though, at last check, as a stockpile that's much easier to distribute to the places that are getting overwhelmed (or would soon be) by a significantly unusual spike in need, though where the supplies can be distributed to is fairly certainly not limited solely to the states. No state did or was ever likely to stockpile enough medical equipment for a supposedly very unlikely worst case scenario, after all, and nor did even the worst case scenarios predict the incredible failures of this Administration that weren't even considered in the models used, because the failures were considered so dumb or absurd that they could be safely not addressed.
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I'm always prepared to sneer about this kind of thing but the way I see it, in a time where there is a lot of uncertainty and people feel themselves under attack from an invisible, undetectable and capricious foe, this is an immediate thing that they can do (unlike washing hands and social distancing which are long term and less immediately tangible) which they feel will protect themselves and their family should law and order break down.
It's not a step I would advocate or take, but it's not absolutely ridiculous and may make more sense than upgrading your TP stockpile from 1000 to 2000 rolls.
Parsman
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No it doesn't make sense. It isn't happening anywhere else in the Western world certainly. Only in the USA because of its (to me) weird gun fetish. Everything is safer and better with a six gun on your hip apparently. It isn't the way people feel in the civilized world, and while we (the UK) have been screwing up handling the Covid outbreak almost as badly as Trump. I think the number of people in this and most other countries who think having a new gun would help is comfortably less than 0.5%.
a_unique_person
Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning
No, that federal stockpile is only for use in DC.
Horatius
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The amazing thing is, in trying to slam the states, and tell them they need to do it all themselves, which is of course the standard response the Trump administration is giving to every question during this crisis, he's accidentally discovered why it is the Federal Government should be the ones doing all the coordinating of supply production and distribution.
Prioritizing the supplying of the various States based on their actual needs, and not just their ability to out-bid each other, is the whole point of having a Federal government. What happens to Iowa when California and New York finally decide, "**** it, we're rich, we'll just pay 100 times the going rate to buy every mask and ventilator in the country!"?
It's Blind Squirrel and Nut Time.
quadraginta
Becoming Beth
I suspect that he doesn't read the comments which go with that "number one" position, or I have a feeling he wouldn't be nearly as smug about it.
The Great Zaganza
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Trump the Billionaire needs to beg his bank to let him delay payments:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...ion-asks-deutsche-bank-for-loan-payment-delay
Trump is losing a ton of money from the shutdown, and can't sell his Washington Hotel as planned to plug the hole.
And, of course, he has personally guaranteed the loan, so another Trump Org Bankruptcy won't work this time.
Who would have thought that Presidents ought to divest their financial interests?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...ion-asks-deutsche-bank-for-loan-payment-delay
Trump is losing a ton of money from the shutdown, and can't sell his Washington Hotel as planned to plug the hole.
And, of course, he has personally guaranteed the loan, so another Trump Org Bankruptcy won't work this time.
Who would have thought that Presidents ought to divest their financial interests?
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wareyin
Penultimate Amazing
Even more stupider. A conservative cow-orker* of mine loves to complain about other people by using the phrase "He's a idiot!" I'm fairly certain the guy knows it should be "an idiot," but feels it's more folksy/authentic to use jarringly wrong grammar. I think it relates to the internet trolling those on the right love to do when they post things that they know 100% are false, but get a rise out of the libs who correct them.
*old joke around here
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quadraginta
Becoming Beth
He'll flip-flop as often as he thinks he needs to, and deny every step of the way that he ever so much as suggested anything different from what he is saying at the moment.
That might not be quite as bad. Much of the oxygen supplied to medical patients comes from concentrators. Mrs. qg was on supplemental oxygen for years before she passed away and we only used bottled oxygen for when she was out of the house. Towards the end she was getting 16 liters/min. or more and we had to use two (residential type) concentrators hooked in parallel because the outfit that supplied the equipment didn't handle the ones which could go higher than 10 or12.
I had a large store of bottled oxygen stockpiled, but that was for things like short-term power failures.
Yeah. This one worries the hell out of me as well. And I'm not all that sanguine about the supply side either.We were already having enough difficulty keeping an adequate seasonal labor force for agriculture. Between The Donald's psychotic obsession with eliminating anyone brown from our labor pool and the problems arising from this pandemic I'm more than a bit concerned about whether there will be enough food produced for distribution chains to be the real bottleneck.
If anyone but Trump had been in office for the past three years I think we would have been better off. A mediocre president would do some damage by neglect, sure. But Trump almost seems to be actively working to destroy the country.
I know he isn't smart enough for it to be intentional, but the difference is negligible.
Norman Alexander
Penultimate Amazing
Don't think you are alone in this. Here in Oz we have a wishy-washy PM who has committed our souls to his god in order to get through this thing. Gee, thanks.
As though that would make up for the bumbles, slip-ups, shortages and delays his government have perpetrated. But in the last little while they have been getting better. Hard lessons learned, I guess.But through all this, with our isolating and distancing and constant worry, etc, nobody has even hinted that we need more guns for any reason at all. For a start, they're (usually) not edible. So what IS it with the USA that this is the FIRST option? Something in the water??
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Now we know why he wanted restrictions lifted for Easter.
Is there any ramifications if Trump is made bankrupt whilst being President?
Wonder if we will see a tweet about a tremendous government support package for all businesses owning at least 3 golf resorts, a hotel in DC, a tower in Chicago and the name starts with a T and ends with a P.
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