They actually got it right for a few weeks with the essential worker’s hazard pay. I guess “essential” only comes into play when the oligarch’s revenue stream gets interrupted.
Fuckwit-1
This blathering idiot just needs to STFU.
The moron is so stupid he does not even realize the upshot of his most recent “Executive Order” should basically force Twitter to ban his useless ass. If his equally imbecilic compatriots (U.S. Senators) are unwilling to do it, We the People will start cleaning up this mess ourselves in November.
Parallels
Brazil’s Bolsanaro is stepping up to take the title of Covid-19 epicenter leader. Trump will gladly hand over the mantle, and probably begin tweeting about how he did things so much better. The sad truth is, Trump just set the example for one of his southerly sycophants.
“Some experts said Brazil’s stumbles are all the more shocking because of its previous success containing malaria, Zika and HIV.”
I’d characterize it more as predictable, than shocking. Selfish, sociopaths really are quite predictable. The only difference between Brazil and the USA in this respect is the scale of incompetence. It will take longer for the virus to wind it’s way through our vast expanses, but the results will eventually end up the same.
“As of May 12, however, Brazil had processed just 482,743 tests. Of the 10 countries with the highest COVID-19 death toll, only the Netherlands had tested fewer people than Brazil – a country with a twelfth of the population.”
I was about to guess Africa was looking to take the worst hit overall, but South America has a good dose in it now. Thanks, Donnie – keep up the good work!
What Justice?
“Donald Ayer, who served as Deputy Attorney General under George H. W. Bush, said, ‘They take the position that they don’t even have to show up. That’s totally outrageous. It’s denying the legitimacy of another branch of government in the name of executive supremacy.'”
Too put it more succinctly – a dictator. Anyone who didn’t seen this coming up 6th ave. is asleep at the switch. Sometimes I wonder who’s worse – Trump or his enablers? It’s hard to blame a spoiled child for it’s parent’s misgivings. I guess the only real question remaining is if his closest cronies are stupid enough to try going along with it. Remember Helsinki, and hope the base isn’t as stupid as he thinks they are.
Don't Trust the VA
Anyone personally familiar with me knows what I went through with the VA over the past 2 years. It’s not like I needed another reason to stay away. Confirmation is evident. Organizational culture develops from the top down. The VA is just another boot-lickin’ Trump lapdog now – like the Justice Dept, the EPA, and every other now-neutered Trump government gang of thieves. They stole my health, and continue following suit in their ongoing game of destroy America from within.
The ‘sumbich is 2 steps away from a genocidal super-villian.
Daily Testing
I eagerly anticipate the day we learn Trump’s daily testing regimen for him and top cronies comes to real fruition. With false result rates up to 50% in some examples, that’s not odds I’d brag about in my fantastically successful non-existent SARS-COv2 testing program. They should have been testing the tests six months ago. Get sick and die, you miserable piece ‘o shyt.
“With a few months left until a second wave of coronavirus infections is expected in the fall, that could leave the U.S. once again unprepared and vulnerable.”
A glaring omission from the Modern Healthcare article overlooks the push to re-start economic activity along with the abysmal testing situation. Countries around the world have already started banning some tests. We won’t have to wait until fall for wave #2.
Lemming Stampede
“What happens if we get to November and stock markets are at all-time highs, and we’re at 15% unemployment, and the food [banks] don’t have food? Imagine this world. That world in a much lesser way is what brought us Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders.”
Money-starved forces behind the Covid-19 inspired U.S. economic shutdown are now forcefully pulling in opposite directions. Science vs. Greed is center stage in a government-sponsored three ring circus largely responsible for it’s own undoing. I am not talking about just the Federal government either, despite their leading role in the inanity. State and local governments hold full responsibility for their uneven healthcare and unemployment policies, disjointed disaster preparedness and bean-counter budgeting. There’s plenty of pandemic blame to go around for everybody.
The race to determine how fast how many people get killed from an exponentially spreading, uncontrolled virus started in China. I tend to agree with the author of the article linked above, that it will likely end there as well. I’m just a 60yo Air Force retiree with a passive interest in politics and and an active distaste for discarding defective Chinese auto parts. The more I think about it, it’s almost poetic justice, but the price is too high.
What will it cost to re-orient the economy for the next century, and how much of the deleterious political and economic bullshit will get plowed under in the process? I’m starting to think we are un-wittingly on the right track at this point. Oftentimes the best way to re-build something is burn it to the ground and start over. With all the restaurants closed, maybe the obesity problem will start to improve. In any case, the lemming herd listening to Trump is already halfway over the edge.
Trae Crowder for President!
Here’s your crossover candidate, if ever there was one. Ran across this gentleman’s TouTube™ videos in the random search attempting to decide what to do next around here, while wasting time in home jail. Planning an early parole release trip to Ace for deck hardware, conditions permitting. Sane people don’t go near Home Depot around here anymore far as I can tell, from just the full parking lot.
I’m about halfway through his shyt now, after starting to get interested a few weeks ago, purely by random chance. Carefully approached, he could easily go Dem, Repub or 3rd party and check every box. The video below is where I first ran across this guy. Pretty sure I’m a prime example of the middle-class Pennsylvania backwoods redneck version. Apparently people like us had a better chance making it into the so-called “middle class,” north of the Mason-Dixon line. Why don’t more people think like this?
Cruel and Unusual?
Apparently it’s gotten that way here in Weld county, CO. Maybe not, when optionally participating in the exponential spread of a deadly virus, depending on whether or not you choose to leave your home. We’ll just call it regular punishment for those of us remaining in our home jails while the general population engages in viral sprees of willful ignorance.
Not that I’m complaining about government overreach, or tyrannical pandemic measures. On the contrary, I firmly believe the angst addressing these issues is purely misplaced by people under the influence of the Trump propaganda machine. They would more appropriately be angry at a government failing to perform it’s primary function of effectively protecting their health and economy – not the consequences of failing to do so.
Fuckassery 101
It didn’t take long for some of the PPE idiocy to turn up. Jared Kuntner had a group of volunteer college kids with no disaster or pandemic response management experience working on it. Reminds me of the SEI&V group at Locmar. Few others in the current administration appear even remotely qualified for their jobs, so I guess that is par for the course.
Regardless, It’s not a huge leap to lay the lion’s share of the PPE debacle blame squarely at the doorstep of the healthcare industry. Previously inexpensive equipment made from paper and plastic, yet critical in managing contagious outbreaks, is suddenly found in short supply – why? Allow me to offer a few relevant buzzwords:
BEANCOUNTERS CHINA LABOR COST PROFIT, etc. The healthcare industry in this country has been in the crapper for a long time. It just took a raging pandemic to expose their priorities. The mutherfuckers here in Denver call it a “timing” issue, they are now profusely apologizing for. Fire the lot of those cocksuckers, starting with that greedy bitch below. The “health” category on this site details a number of VA healthcare issues if you are curious to see exactly what they did to me, personally. Current summary here. Yeah, I have an ax to grind.
HMO’s, hospitals and the insurance companies they are in cahoots with dropped the ball big time. It’s been laying on the ground for years waiting for something like a PPE shortage to develop, while the bean counters pocket pennies and patient costs rise, right along with the now skyrocketing cost for the most mundane, basic medical equipment.
South Carolina is a Shithole
Lindsey Graham is enough evidence proving the proposition, but if you want confirmation, look here. “Chiefs cornerback Bashaud Breeland got snared by South Carolina’s racist prison trap last week.”
Cops really need to get their shyt together and think about what they are doing once in awhile.
American Capitalism is not Sustainable
People paying political attention over the last half century know that government social programs ≠ the alt-right socialist moniker given them by capitalist slaves protesting to “re-open” the economy. “The Economy” as t’were, is not a thing that can manipulated like a light switch. It has been manipulated over many decades into a place between hard financial realities and production metrics that leave a vast majority of the population as producers largely in poverty. So they live paycheck-to-paycheck.
Now we get to see what happens when the economy slows dramatically overall, and in some sectors, literally stops. It is the grand experiment in American resilience for the next century. We got through it in the 1930’s with a somewhat different outlook. Back then, people like FDR were more interested in solving problems than getting re-elected. Indications for a politically-charged recovery this time around portend less satisfactory outcomes.
“In other words, we do not need a revolution or utopia, but rather a reversal of a canonical late twentieth century error: conflating economic success with shareholder value, devil take the hindmost.”
The Fuckass-in-Chief sat in front of the Lincoln Memorial attempting to explain away his lies and salvage his precious “economy” night before last. The hubris and idiocy would be laughable, were it not the source of the biggest crisis in modern history.
The Stupid Leading the Blind
Expecting more of the same from the impostors posing as government officials here is par for the course. Stay-at-Home has become Safer-at-Home in Colorado where infection and death rates have not peaked. Restrictions are being tightened in some places and loosened in others, while not one lifting criteria set by the Federal government has been reached, as the Poseur-in-Chief foments rebellion.
Some people already know where this is headed. The infectious disease experts have only just begun to understand it’s clinical implications. Nobody in their right mind believes any progress against SARS-COv2 will be made without effective testing and tracing. The U.S. healthcare system has not yet scratched the surface on that part of the project, while food lines continue growing across the country. It really hurts watching the country I dedicated the best years of my life to going down the tubes.
“The White House will not allow the leading immunologist on the coronavirus task force to testify to Congress next week, calling the request ‘counter-productive’ to the administration’s efforts to contain the virus.” I think they mean counterproductive to their efforts to contain their incompetence.
Singapore, a small, wealthy SE Asian nation, initially seeing stellar results, is now suffering a 2nd wave of hotspots. China fucked up, and the U.S. doubled down on the exact same, stupid do-nothing response. What do we call a high-intensity combination of willful ignorance and cognitive dissonance? U.S. Pandemic Response 2020! With PPE stocks already depleted, and crowds of angry bankruptcy candidates demanding their freedom, it’s gonna make the 1st wave look like a warm-up.
Another Great Success Story…
…Appears to be working out just as well, if not better than the last one. How’s that Mideast Peace Plan doing, Jared? Any challenges risen to and conquered over there yet? The little bitch married to Trump’s actual little bitch daughter is the star sycophant in last week’s Presidential Poseur tour 2020.
Proposing deceitful lies to prop up a failing administration while the death toll continues to rise in a crisis only beginning here, further confirms Hell’s reservations for this collection of shameless idiots. The Chinese got it right, at this point:
Asshat in the Mayo
I’m not going to waste much time on the smarmy cocksucker known to me and many others as Mike Dense, except to say that world-class GOP hubris and arrogance were on full display for all to see yesterday. Abbey Zimet framed it well.
"It bothers me…"
Yes, it certainly is troubling. Recognizing distractions, misinformation and in many cases, downright lies, causing confusion and angst in the Covid-19 situation is a BIG issue. But what bothers me more than questionable media reporting on BOTH sides is the source of the stupidity.
It bothers me that a qualified, knowledgeable person such as Dr. Birx gets stuck being a Trump apologist. It bothers me that a POTUS jokes about matters of life and death. It bothers me that governments at all levels feel playing games with people’s lives seems to be a popular sporting activity in governance these days.
But what bothers me the most about our current national crisis is the rising death toll amid ongoing incoherence, and increasing politicization. It really bothers me that science plays 2nd fiddle to stupidity these days.
This idiot is still at it. People like that guy and Trump have recently provided the most stunning examples of the Dunning-Kreuger effect in modern history.