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Looks like Trump is going to be Number One in all sorts of presidential records! Highest unemployment rate, most deaths during a pandemic, largest stock market drop, most jobs lost in one month, slowest response to a crisis … but hey he’s number one on Facebook.
Georgia GOP House Speaker David Ralston was very concerned about the push to allow voters to vote from home. “The president said it best, this will be extremely devastating to Republicans and conservatives.” What Trump and Ralston are admitting outright is that if more Americans have a voice in the political process, Republicans will lose.
I’ll bet all of those disaster “preppers” are huddled in their underground bunkers with their AR-15s aimed at the doors waiting for the mobs of desperate people coming for their toilet paper and emergency rations.
Why is Jared Kushner, someone with absolutely no medical background, speaking about a global pandemic and opining about managerial competence? He couldn’t even pass a security clearance? Is this a joke?
Correction: Donald didn’t beat Hillary, the electoral college did. Fact: almost 3 million more Americans voted for Hillary over Trump. Bitter? No. Angry? YES, because the orange, reality show carnival barker proves on a daily basis to be as ignorant, incompetent, self-absorbed, greedy, egotistical, delusional, unqualified (and the list goes on) as a majority of us suspected he would be, not to mention the biggest LIAR “the world has ever seen.” Now it’s costing us lives, our jobs and our economy (which Obama methodically and successfully pulled out of a devastating recession) because the “stable genius” (aka “idiot”) blew off taking action on the virus much earlier when experts and health officials were loudly sounding the alarm, which could’ve contained it to a manageable level.
It’s really bad when you have the president answering questions off-the-cuff, without regard for facts or concern for what he is saying might be misinterpreted. Then he starts his petty grievances, partisan politics, and constant self-congratulating. It is so beyond obnoxious.
We are faced with this viral threat that is killing more people every day, and wonder boy Jared says “Data is overrated, I have this all figured out.”
I hope that every single doctor and nurse in this country is truly insulted by what Trump thinks of them and their expertise. Remember that when it comes times to vote.
Almost nothing that Trump says is true, or helpful. The fact that he gets hours of prime time TV coverage for his self-serving press conferences, means Americans are flooded with dangerous misinformation.
One of the brightest silver linings of this crisis has been the super low gas prices. So Trump talked to Saudi Arabia and Russia and got them to cut oil output thereby raising oil and gas prices. Great for the rich oil companies but it sucks for the rest of us. Gee, thanks moron.
One F-35b fighter costs $122,000,000. That’s equivalent to 61,000,000 N-95 masks (at the original $2 cost before price gouging) or 4,880 ventilators (at the current skyrocketed price of $25,000 each).
Aren’t most hospitals privately run, and not government owned? Maybe the board of directors were too interested in profits and cutting staff instead of buying more supplies over the years? Just saying.
It’s a great move: Nancy Pelosi’s bipartisan house committee for coronavirus oversight. It will birddog profiteering, political favoritism, price gouging and assure the private sector’s proper use of the $2 trillion granted them. Science and health experts, not politics, is to guide expenditures. Watch for most Republicans to buck it simply because it’s a Nancy Pelosi initiative.
The political parties do not need the contributions for campaigning, so why don’t Trump and the Democrats give that money to fight the virus? Or will they just pocket the money for themselves?
Scores of small hospitals in rural areas have been forced to close in the last decade, nearly all located in states controlled by Republican governors and legislators who refused to accept the Medicaid expansion provided in the Affordable Care Act. How ironic, and how utterly depressing, that the voters whose very lives are threatened by these closures continue to elect the very people who have caused them to happen.
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