Cont: The Trump Presidency: Part 24

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Captain_Swoop said:
Trump Retweeted

The White House
@WhiteHouse
We have reached a historic deal with @Kodak to begin producing critical pharmaceutical ingredients right here in America!

President @realDonaldTrump will enact his 33rd use of the Defense Production Act

Our 33rd use of the Defense Production Act will mobilize Kodak to make generic, active pharmaceutical ingredients.

President @realDonaldTrump: “We will bring back our jobs and we will make America the world's premier medical manufacturer and supplier"

President @realDonaldTrump is taking bold action to ensure that Americans are no longer reliant on foreign countries for critical, affordable generic medications.

We must never be reliant on a foreign nation for America's needs. "Restoring American manufacturing is a core matter of national security."

President @realDonaldTrump is working to ensure that AMERICA produces the critical goods necessary to combat COVID-19 here at home!

We are building the greatest medical arsenal in history!
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Translation, another crony of Trump is getting a big sweetheart deal.
 
Norman Alexander said:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but do Kodak actually make pharmaceuticals now?

Quick check online: No, they don't. They "plan to branch out" into "making ingredients". Which means it will probably take years before they deliver anything.

Oh, and here's the kicker: The anti-COVID drug they will be making is...hydroxychloroquine.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/28/...ent-defense-production-act-hydroxychloroquine
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What did I tell ya. I didn't even need to read about it either. Trump's gushing and previous history was enough.

See above post.


$765 million "loan" to make said ingredients. Oh and the stock went up a bit. I imagine there are more than a few insider trades that went with that.
 
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Norman Alexander said:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but do Kodak actually make pharmaceuticals now?

Quick check online: No, they don't. They "plan to branch out" into "making ingredients". Which means it will probably take years before they deliver anything.
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Kodak has been a major industrial chemical supplier for years. They went that way long before digital photography.

Think about things like traincar loads of concentrated sulfuric acid.
 
Norman Alexander said:
Oh, and here's the kicker: The anti-COVID drug they will be making is...hydroxychloroquine.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/28/...ent-defense-production-act-hydroxychloroquine
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When I think back
On all the crap I learned in med school
It's a wonder
I can think at all
And though my lack of health insurance
Hasn't hurt me none
I can read the writing on the wall

Chloroquine
You give us those expectations
You give us those palpitations
Makes us think our corona will go away
I got me a Facebook site on
I listen to QAnon
So Fauci don't take my choloroquine away
 
Norman Alexander said:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but do Kodak actually make pharmaceuticals now?

Quick check online: No, they don't. They "plan to branch out" into "making ingredients". Which means it will probably take years before they deliver anything.

Oh, and here's the kicker: The anti-COVID drug they will be making is...hydroxychloroquine.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/28/...ent-defense-production-act-hydroxychloroquine
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Why so cynical? It's not like Trump has lied about things that make him look good before! He's very credible as his history of honesty and accuracy has proved time and time again. :D
 
I feel like poking at things!

*poke*

Watchdog alleges Trump campaign illegally concealed $170 million in spending

Not much hope of the FEC being able to do much about that, of course.

*poke*

McConnell's relief bill is so disastrous even he can't defend it

McConnell's resolve to help the American people seems... more than a little insincere, for some reason, but at least he's not doubling down on the stuff in it like...

First, McConnell was stunned by the public backlash to the money included for a new FBI building Trump wants for his own grifting reasons. McConnell even discovered that all the military spending that was included in the bill, spending that has absolutely nothing to do with the pandemic, was put there to restore the hundreds of millions of dollars Trump siphoned off of defense spending under his emergency declaration to build his border wall. That includes $260 million for the Navy’s Expeditionary Fast Transport ship. Not at all coincidentally, that ship is built by a company based in Alabama, home state of Appropriations Chairman Richard C. Shelby, who put that money into the bill.
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More is bad about it, of course. To borrow from the Democrats' take -

They detail all those decisions in the Republican bill: cutting the UI by $400/week, "hurtling toward completely unworkable bureaucracy that will overwhelm already chaotic unemployment offices and risk benefits never going out at all"; the business meal tax deduction for wealth corporations while refusing to increase food assistance "for families struggling to keep food on the table"; refusing to extend the eviction moratorium or provide financial assistance for people to stay housed; no additional state and local funding for government that are laying off "health workers, first responders, teachers, food, transit and sanitation workers and other frontline heroes" because of revenue shortfalls; a liability immunity for corporations and no OSHA protections to make sure workers are safe; the effort to "bully schools to reopen without the resources to reopen safely, tying urgently-needed funding to reopening instead of safety and failing to provide adequate resources"; no help for victims of domestic violence; no election funding or Postal Service funding to make sure the November election can be pulled off; the complete lack of "a strategic and well-funded, science-based testing plan," while also abandoning communities of color, "with no assistance for the Black and other minority communities who are being disproportionately devastated by COVID-19." All of these issues are addressed in the Democrats' HEROES Act, which passed the House two and a half months ago, and which McConnell has been ignoring since.
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That's besides that it has no chance of passing, of course, given the current Republican dissenters.

*poke*

Lawless Trump administration makes its Supreme Court defiance official

DACA, again.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced on Tuesday that the Trump administration will “reject all” first-time Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) applications and slash protections for current and former beneficiaries from two years, to just one year. DHS, a statement claimed, “will take action to thoughtfully consider the future of the DACA policy, including whether to fully rescind the program.”

What the administration has done is make official that its defying Supreme Court and lower court decisions to fully reopen the program, after claiming it was reviewing decisions when there’s nothing to review because it’s court orders. This is contempt. “Extremely import thing to note about this” memo, tweeted Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, policy counsel at American Immigration Council. “It is signed by Chad Wolf, who is likely not the valid lawful Acting Secretary, making this almost certainly unlawful.”

“The announcement appears to be directly contrary to an order by a federal judge, who ruled last month that the administration must immediately begin accepting new applications for the DACA program,” The New York Times reported. “Officials said they expected court challenges from immigration advocates, given the Supreme Court’s decision and the judge’s order.”
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*poke*

If you happen to want to see Barr torn apart a bit in a hearing, well... here's a couple links with some highlights.

For example,

REP. PRAMILA JAYAPAL: Let's look at how you respond when the protesters are supporters of the president. On two separate occasions after president Trump tweeted “liberate Michigan” to subvert stay home orders to protect the health of people in Michigan, protesters swarmed the Michigan capitol carrying guns, some with swastikas, Confederate flags, and one even with a dark-haired doll with a noose around its neck. Are you aware that these protesters called for the governor to be lynched, shot, and beheaded?

ATTORNEY GENERAL WILLIAM BARR: No.

REP. JAYAPAL: You're not aware of that?

AG BARR: I was not aware of that.

REP. JAYAPAL: Major protests in Michigan, you're the attorney general and you didn't know that the protesters called for the governor to be lynched, shot, and beheaded. So obviously you couldn't be concerned about that.

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REP. JAYAPAL:— Excuse me, Mr. Barr. This is my time and I control it. You are aware of certain kinds of protesters, but in Michigan, when protesters carry guns and confederate flags and swastikas and call for the governor of Michigan to be beheaded and shot and lynched, somehow you're not aware of that. Somehow you didn't know about it. So you didn't send federal agents in to do to the president's supporters what you did to the president's protesters. In fact, you didn't -- you didn't put pepper balls on those protesters. So the point I'm trying to make here Mr. Barr, that I think is important for the country to understand, is that there is a real discrepancy in how you react as the attorney general, the top cop in this country, when white men with swastikas storm a government building with guns, there is no need for the president to quote, “activate you.” Because they're getting the president's personal agenda done. But when Black people and people of color protest police brutality, systemic racism, and the president's very own lack of response to those critical issues, then you forcibly remove them with armed federal officers, pepper bombs, because they are considered terrorists by the president. You take an aggressive approach to Black Lives Matter protests but not to right-wing extremists threatening to lynch a governor if it's for the president's benefit. Did I get it right, Mr. Barr?
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pgwenthold said:
Kodak has been a major industrial chemical supplier for years. They went that way long before digital photography.

Think about things like traincar loads of concentrated sulfuric acid.
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Oh I knew they made many, MANY chemicals. That was essentially their stock-in-trade in photography, producing trainloads of chemicals to develop zillions of feet of Ektachrome, Kodachrome, Tri-X, etc.

The questions was about pharmaceuticals. It's not a long stretch to see Kodak producing the base ingredients of some pharmaceutical processes using their idle technologies. But from there to actual viable drugs with the red K on them...it will take some time, I am guessing. Unless they are trying to fulfill Trump's need for injectable bleach...
 
Back to that video that Trump and his eldest spawn retweeted (and Twitter, FB, and Youtube removed) and "Dr. Immanuel":


Immanuel has claimed in the past that some gynecological ailments are caused by people having sex in a dream-world with demons, with the demonic semen as the origins of the afflictions.

Immanuel has also claimed that doctors used alien DNA in medical treatments, and that lizard-like “reptilian” aliens are involved in the United States government. She thanked The Daily Beast on Tuesday for “summarizing” her work. “The Daily Beast did a great job summarizing our deliverance ministry and exposing incubus and succubus. Thank you daily beast. If you need deliverance from these spirits. Contact us,” she tweeted.
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump...as-important-voice-in-nations-covid-19-battle

This whack-a-doodle also believes that scientists are creating a vaccine to prevent people from being religious. The Texas medical board really needs to consider making her get mental help before letting her practice and tell women with cysts, etc to stop sleeping with demons in their dreams.

When asked by a reporter at his 'briefing' today about the video Trump defended it by saying this:

“I can tell you this, she was on air along with many other doctors. They were big fans of hydroxychloroquine and I thought she was very impressive in the sense that from where she came, I don't know which country she comes from, but she said that she's had tremendous success with hundreds of different patients, and I thought her voice was an important voice, but I know nothing about her.”
If he knows 'noting about her' then why does he think "her voice was an important voice"?

When the reporter followed up with the crazy "demon seed" claims, Trump ran away like the coward he is. An emotionally mature adult would have admitted it was a mistake to post that video without doing any research on it and been embarrassed for not doing so. But, as I said, that is what an emotionally mature adult would do. Which Trump is not. What a flipping moron.
 
I'm not sure if there should be a separate thread for this. Anyway, this post gives highlights of Barr's testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, including a link to detailed proof that Barr perjured himself.
 
Trump’s return the briefing room.

Trump said:
“He's (Dr. Fauci) got this high approval rating. So why don't I have a high approval rating ... with respect to the virus? We should have it very high. So it sort of is curious. A man works for us, with us, very closely, Dr. Fauci and Dr. (Deborah) Birx also, very highly thought of -- and yet, they're highly thought of, but nobody likes me?
It can only be my personality, that's all,"
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There is nothing more to say.
 
Squeegee Beckenheim said:
I'm not sure if there should be a separate thread for this. Anyway, this post gives highlights of Barr's testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, including a link to detailed proof that Barr perjured himself.
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I admit to wishfully thinking that it'd be nice if it was in any way notable or particularly out of the ordinary for this Administration to commit perjury.
 
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