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One missing key quote is a statement Trump made bragging about having natural talent coupled with a proclamation that he could have been a scientist instead of president.
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And where are the tests? The ventilators?
Who at the CDC or in the administration insisted the US needs to develop its own test instead of using an accurate test the rest of the world was already using?
What about Trump increasing sanction pressure on Iran in the midst of the biggest global humanitarian crisis since world war II?
And what about Trump’s rating his administration’s handling of this as “excellent”.
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@Mish Sorry, you’ve just put yourself firmly into the camp of lying-MSM.
I’m not going to waste my time going point by point showing how what you just shared is so disgustingly biased in context that the makers of it should be prosecuted, but know that this narrative will – like all the others – be proven to be MSM/Trump-hater lies and distortions.
You should be ashamed.
Anything less than a restrictive, comprehensive and coherent national approach will doom us to more deaths and economic damage that could have been avoided. We still don’t have that from Trump. Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore have managed much better than we have. China has proven that even late, but comprehensive measures can arrest new cases. Why isn’t Trump using their playbook? I don’t buy the response that the US can’t be that nimble. The virus will kill and permanently damage the lungs and organs of Republicans, Democrats, Independents and the unengaged, from young to old. Those who support Trump’s continued lame response are the enablers.
It’s true, Trump could, even toda (3/23/20) declare a national lockdown for 14 days, and kill Covid-19 dead (or suppress it until a vaccine or cure is found). But he won’t. And the disease will spread.
You are a fear-mongering establishment follower. Study how this new virus is no more deadly than others when they were also “novel”, and we didn’t shutter everything then.
You must know there is another agenda, like trying to save the EU, but you never question authority, just like most Dems.
Good riddance!
The writing was on the wall when Trump brought in NWO hatchet man Bolton in 2018…for a very short time. Bolton axed the White House office for pandemic response. Funny, that group knew their shit too. And then…poof, Bolton was gone.
It’s sabotage. Some would say it’s worse.
Oh please – you act as if there was no one left in the federal government who could be spooked up. There was zero reason to keep an active team at the NSC level.
More Trump-hater hyperbole
I will now proceed, once again, to bitch about the root cause of our current pandemic, which is causing many to experience cosmic scale frustration with The Donald, which I share:
Civilization has now been hit squarely in the head with three killer coronavirus outbreaks in 18 years, yet still has no unified global new viral antigen detection system. We could have if our world “leaders” would make it happen.
Local supercomputers, however massive, will never crack this nut, but the billions of powerful, web-accessible smartphones could if linked and used by a parallelized, intelligent scheduler to raise the alarm when a new antibody/pathogen is discovered in human blood anywhere.
Such a system could have lifted the burden from a lonely doctor struggling to raise the alarm in Wuhan, before Covid-19 killed him, and placed it squarely in front of disease control experts, worldwide. It can be done; We must do it.
Sars cov-3/4/5/6/7/8/9/n could kill us all if we don’t.
If the world wasn’t filled with the rampant political activism of the Left/Progressives over the past 40 years – then maybe some of this would have gotten serious attention.
But no, we have to deal with politicians dealing with false-rights and fake-news.
The ONLY people “the people” have to blame is in the mirror.
You get what you vote for. To have such a malignant narcissist of such profoundly limited intellectual honesty and capacity “leading” your nation through this is truly tragic for your country. Even the hideously vile ultimate Washington insider Hilary would have done a better job.
Stop it, you ignore that when Trump closed travel from China – the Left attacked him as racist.
And when did that occur?
Oh yea, when they were still in the ecstasy of their impeachment BS.
It also ignores the constant Deep State lies and attacks Trump has been non-stop attacked with.
You are blind to reality.
When did Trump close down travel from China?
– Long before any Democrat was paying attention
How was Trump attacked when he did it?
– Called a racist
What were the Democrats doing when he did it?
– In the ecstasy of Impeachment.
….Top health officials first learned of the virus’s spread in China on January 3, US Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said Friday. Throughout January and February, intelligence officials’ warnings became more and more urgent, according to the Post — and by early February, much of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the CIA’s intelligence reports were dedicated to warnings about Covid-19.
All the while, Trump downplayed the virus publicly, telling the public the coronavirus “is very well under control in our country,” and suggesting warm weather would neutralize the threat the virus poses….
…The administration did begin taking some limited action about a month after Azar says the administration first began receiving warnings, blocking non-citizens who had been to China in the last two weeks from entering the country on February 3 — a move public experts have argued at best bought the US time to ramp up its testing capabilities, which it did not use, and at worst had no beneficial effects at all.
Trump finally assembled a task force to address the virus, putting Vice President Mike Pence in charge of the effort on February 26, and declared a national emergency on March 13. And, just this week — nearly three months after first receiving warnings from his intelligence officials — the president’s public tone about the crisis shifted: “I’ve always known this is a real — this is a pandemic,” he said Tuesday as he admitted, “[the virus is] not under control for any place in the world.”….
As someone who hates all politicians, there is zero love lost between Trump and myself. I had hopes when he was elected that he would make a difference but it was clear based on how he looked after his private meeting with Obama on inauguration day that he was in over his head.
Having said that, I will say this:
From at least the “major” state level up, it would appear that not one single elected official or the top advisors and bureaucrats who work for them have shown anything but complete and utter failure in their handling of this emergency.
You have senators selling off piles of stock while either saying nothing or telling the rest of us that it was bullshit. And trust me – they were not the only ones. If anyone cares to investigate, they will likely find this problem rampant. Elected officials should not even be allowed to trade stocks when they control the entire economy – not even through alleged “blind trusts” – it’s bullshit. But that’s a conversation for another time.
You have congressional reps and senators blaming each other and/or the other party and passing laws and bailouts without even reading the bills they are passing.
You have the Treasury and the Fed printing money and throwing it at every hole that opens up without the slightest regard for what the unintended consequences of those actions may entail.
You have governments of the “major” states (CA, NY, NJ…etc) who know they can’t simply print money being exposed using any extra money they had (along with taxes based on tourism that have now disappeared) to fund God knows what now demanding that everyone else pony up to pay for their failure to plan…
The lack of leadership in the major states and at the Federal level is abysmal ACROSS THE BOARD.
And that includes members of BOTH parties and nearly every single bureaucratic agency involved.
You can single Trump out if you want, but he’s not alone. He’s just an easy target because 49% of the population hated him before this started.
Exactly. There is only one way to fix this shit: Either a constitutional convention to rewrite the election laws, ie one term, and no donations period. All govt funded. Also to make sure the govt can’t run printing presses requiring a balanced budget. The other way is to have another revolution and overthrow and hang all these useless corrupt bastards.
We don’t want government funded “donations” to candidates. That money would effectively be controlled by civil servants with some input from incumbents. Civil servants have too much power already. As our employees they should be treated well and we should make it easy for them to do their jobs. But, investing civil servants with too much unbalanced power is very dangerous.
I would think the government would set a fixed amount for each candidate all candidates getting the same thing it’s not worth fighting over the spot so
So where would you propose that the government get the money which will finance these election funds?
Well said!
The country wasn’t ready for this. Firing the head of the pandemic security and disbanding her team in 2018 after she testified that the country wasn’t ready for a pandemic was the wrong move. At some point large states like California, New York and Texas can need to develop their own nation-state apparatus to deal with these and other crises as we now see the federal government cannot be relied on.
For the record, Biden’s chief advisor was head the pandemic response team in the Obama admin. I dare say he could have done a better job. When it comes to crises the Republicans fail because they simply don’t believe in competence or good governance. They would rather let the free market rule and this mean viruses will kill many. This is same party that is pro-life !
So what you’re saying is that if Trump hadn’t fired and disbanded that team, they would have – between then and December of 2019 – had all the resources assembled to deal with this? Is that what you’re saying?
What if the reality is that they were fired and disbanded because pretty much everyone knew that 99% of them – save the few who were retained and moved to other areas – were worthless and a waste of taxpayer resources?
The lack of a “pandemic response team” is a red herring. And it isn’t the reason they failed.
The CDC exists AS AN ENTITY for exactly the situation we find ourselves in today. Their whole mission is this exact situation… And they have burned through TRILLIONS of taxpayer dollars over the past 20 or 30 years allegedly to prepare for just this moment.
Given their abject and stupendous failure in this regard, is it fair to ask exactly what they – as an organization – did with all that money?
We had a near pandemic a couple of other times and did fine. It was because being proactive and not reactive was the difference. You can blame CDC all you want but the same people that contained Ebola at CDC are still there. Pray tell what is the difference. It is republcans constantly cutting cutting cutting and letting the free market solve everything. You get what you get now dont throw a fit
Please provide a list of every cut “the Republicans” have made to the CDC.
If there have been that many, you should be able to find them easily.
Here ya go. Republican president Republican senate Republican house. This is from 2017.
seriously? It would require a lot less than those morons are spending now and I forgot to add the running time needs to be compressed to a few months max. The current process is unending torture and aggravation. No wonder the US has the largest drug abuse problem in the world
My state government has been moving a lot faster than Trump. There are many people who could have performed his job far better.
I think that’s 51% of people hated him – he did lose the popular vote but whatever.
That is a link to a story about PROPOSED cuts.
Did the cuts actually make it through Congress?
And if they did, which parts of the CDC budget were actually cut?
The Donald is obviously afflicted with the same narcissistic megalomania prerequisite for a successful run at any elective office above County Coroner, anywhere in this country.
That said, he can apparently read a graph, and he’s right: The two drug combination of Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin are working to treat this damn thing, BUT:
It is, indeed, not a Covid-19 preventative.
If you get it, and you dink around at home too long waiting for improvement, arriving at ICU needing ventilation leaves you with roughly the odds of Russian roulette of surviving, especially if you’re older.
Lacking testing, the only remaining means available to knock the transmission rate down quickly is social distancing/lockdown. But, enough of that prevention can leave us wishing we were dead anyway.
Unfortunately, all the college kids jamming the bars and beaches is setting the stage for continued exponential growth by hordes of asymptomatic spreaders.
The march of folly continues.
I like what I’m seeing of Cuomo. He’d be a good guy to have in the room in a serious fight; This qualifies.
I have also wondered about the deaths from this. It is only after people are put on vents that they die of course, and usually when people are put on a vent they are either in a coma or a coma is induced so they do not pull at the tubes or otherwise struggle. But they are put on the vents because of the pneumonia type symptoms in advanced cases, is this because of a secondary infection? I have not seen that level of detail in reading the medical literature so far. But, most of the actual deaths involve kidney shutdown. Is this because the IV’s they are being given are flooding the body with fluids the kidneys are ill prepared to handle? What is the actual cause of death from people who died at home without medical interventions?
There is a lot I still do not know and would like to. I know that Azithromycin is an antibiotic and thus of no use against a virus, but it would act as a prophylactic drug for secondary infections from bacteria like pneumonia. Otherwise there just is no reason to give antibiotics to a virus infected person.
From what I’ve been reading, the killer is the body’s late and excessive immune system inflammatory response, which is ameliorated by the Azithromycin. Seems it’s not uncommon for an older patient to be feeling better and apparently recovering only to be killed in hours by what’s called a “Cytokine Storm.” Basically, the immune system’s cavalry finally arrives, but mounts such a ferocious attack against the heavy viral load that the attack itself is fatal. Azithromycin prevents the storm.
Thanks Abend that explains a lot, but, it does not explain why so many people are dying when if they know this why are they not putting people on it prior to getting to that stage?
Except it IS preventative (prophylactic). You take a dose once a week before you catch the virus and it is highly effective at preventing infection even when exposed. That’s why it’s such a promising solution.
I’ve followed Mish for ~ 12 years online and on the radio for brilliant economic analysis. Lately his work has been undermined by irrational political opinion. Mish has turned into Krugman. I won’t be back.
good riddance
Don’t let the door hit you on your ass on the way out JB. You and your far fringe right proto fascist brainwashed bots are doomed to be forever unhappy with politics because you are the minority and you can’t win without cheating.
When people who are a lot smarter than you tell you something, you should listen instead of stomp away.
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Anyone who still supports this President’s actions is a TDS-inflicted fool.
If I vote, which I probably won’t (I’m in California so what’s the use) I’d vote for Trump. It’s not that Trump is great or wonderful. It’s just the alternative is even worse.
Clinton could have handled this Mish… you know she could have. You were wrong. Incompetence is the worst thing in a leader of 300 million+.
Mish look in the mirror the fool you see is yourself . People who don’t agree
with you are fools funny man
Really? Any time you want to go fact by fact, I’m game.
Trump did not Drain the Swamp
He IS the swamp
The swamp is the deep state: the bureaucracy which supports the welfare, warfare state, the fake news (operation mockingbird) MSM, and oxymoronic intelligence community. It still hates Trump so obviously he is not the swamp. He’s just a side puddle wanta be swamp.
You don’t seem to see, Mish, that we are at war now. Asymmetric war.
If you like, blame it on Trump tariffs etc., but then see if you can identify who within the US is pushing the globalist cause and actively undermining the Administration’s causes. Are they really the good guys they no doubt believe themselves to be?
In any case, it’s war. And the result of war is the death of millions, the displacement of millions, huge loss of wealth and property. It is a consummation devoutly NOT to be wished.
Where do you see any forces mustering to prevent the destruction of the post-Enlightenment nation state / common law / liberty-sovereignty model? I get it that you think Trump is a moronic phony fink, but what are the alternatives? The rest out there seem to be far more the problem than the solution to me.
In any case, not the disease but the response is about to destroy the country. It is a result of the globalist side having the upper hand in this currently ongoing asymmetric war which is being so well waged that most seem unable to even see it for what it is.
As Trump might tweet:
Sad!
May one ask: why is a self proclaimed libertarian screaming for more government action? Wouldn’t it be great if one of the outcomes of this crisis is that local communities became more self reliant and more self sufficient!
I said what I would do
I would remove tariffs. I would not have had them in the first place.
I would expect our president to act to increase supplies not insist on Made in America.
I would expect our president to behave like an emphatic human being, not a total moron
Mish,
I agree, we should remove all tariffs on COVID-19 tests and medicines. But I doubt there are any or that is what you meant.
On the other hand, we’re in this mess because of Globalization. Shipping technology and jobs to China so a few Oligarchs can make a killing is not free market capitalism. It’s national suicide. And we are about to pay price.
I think we agree on many things but this is not one of them. Trade doesn’t exist in a vacuum. There are bad government policies behind our highly managed trade. The Asian countries specifically target and support their export oriented economies. Manufacturing technology has been transferred there and it will continue to develop there, as we lose our technological edge. Kudos to them. However, it does not bode well for our country. Instead we run deficits, employ more and more people in government make work jobs and watch the middle class gets hollowed out. It is very sad to see.
Reducing regulations and taxes on companies while increasing taxes on imported goods seems like a very good idea to me. Note the Smoot Hawley tarriff was really stupid because we were a net exporter at the time. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot. However at this time we have a chronic trade deficit problem and that makes all the difference.
In a country the size of the US, I doubt there are few relative advantages to be gotten from trade. It’s more about incompetent and over reaching government and their bankster friends on Wall Street.
I think you mean empathetic not emphatic. He is almost always emphatic but never empathetic.
What can the President do?
Force and organize the production of necessary goods.
Act as impartial hub for the distribution of new and stocked items.
Force/fund the emergency super-production of even possibly helpful items such as the malarial drug.
Turn every possible research dollar onto the research into the disease, it’s treatments and vaccines.
Fund and distribute tests. Make a way to track the progress of the disease, as opposed to waiting for regional medical systems collapse under load.
Activate whatever resources are possible to pre-position and set-up field hospitals now.
Develop uniform best-practices for quarantine and treatment.
Prepare the population for the realistic probability of multiple months of the crisis.
Saying stuff is easy. But Presidents aren’t Gods, they’re just people.
The president can’t force the production of anything. Infrastructure is needed and that got shipped to China (Oops!)
Companies with their infrastructure distribute goods, Presidents don’t. That’s in place and working well to distribute Chinese made goods.
Dollars to vaccine transmutation? Again companies and labs, and it’s being done. Increasing the money will not make more qualified researchers instantly available. Reality places constraints.
Distributing tests. Being done, but again, production facilities place constraints. Besides tests are of limited utility. It can give you peace of mind if it comes back negative. If it comes back positive you can seek medical attention, but you’d probably be doing that soon anyways. Social distancing is the key. I suppose a positive test could help in increasing social distancing but then that suggests people are doing a bad job at the social distancing.
In short, every suggestion you make is in the works given the constraints. Will adding a layer of government bureaucracy make it better? Me thinks not.
The graphic at the end of the video already looks out of date and shows how rapid the spread has been. For March 2020 it shows 5,002 cases in the US (and counting) but right now I’m seeing 24,137 cases.
So much for “in a couple of days the 15 is going to be down close to zero”.
while we all point fingers lets look at a useful guide regarding the mess we are ALL in now https://www.seriouseats.com/2020/03/food-safety-and-coronavirus-a-comprehensive-guide.html
This was very good info and a different ‘facet’ that I don’t think I’ve seen addressed this well before. Thank-you.
For the entire Trump Presidency it was all about the stock market. So, here we are.
Yes, he only takes credit for the stock market when it goes up
Come on! First off, anyone can be made to look bad by taking snippets out of context and stringing them together. That said, Trump does tend towards braggadocio. If that is off putting to you, he can be annoying. I much prefer a transparent fool to the more sly variety that plays the part well while sticking a knife in your back.
But let’s be honest here. The president can do very little. The bureaucracy of the government is a jobs program for the less ambitious and politically inclined. It’s staffed with incompetent bureaucrats that show up, surf the web and may get around to an hour or two of honest work. Public unions guarantee they can’t be fired.
Obama converted the CDC into a PC jobs program for lefties, just like he converted NASA into a Muslim outreach program.
May one ask: why is a self proclaimed libertarian screaming for more government action? Wouldn’t it be great if one of the outcomes of this crisis is that local communities became more self reliant and more self sufficient!
its a hoax
I’ve wondered if he has begun to think about how history will view him. I know he is not introspective, but he IS ratings oriented.
Look at every other country, none are ahead in their actions. Some threw a few thousand tests first and then shut down, but all are acting to some similar coordination in doing that (closing) , all are in the same difficulty now as US. Had US shut all its borders end Jan. and tested as well, would have been different, had it just tested it would still be where Italy is eventually. So, it’s messed up but blaming Trump is just pissing into the wind as far as the pandemic is concerned.
Delusional Trump voters trying to save face. Admit you were stupid and the guy is a complete self-obsessed moron. Someday we can all laugh about it together, but not today.
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I wanted to sincerely thank you MISH from my whole extended family. I have been reading you since 2007 when Ron Paul removed the scales from my eyes on the Fed and govt., Jekyll Island book, the “financial markets” (all modern day money changers). Every picture I see of Fed chairpersons, their eyes look dead black sharks eyes (to quote a famous book which I subscribe, the eyes are the windows to the soul).
In addition our mob style duolopoly govt and for the most part complicit MSM (all with significant influencing billionaire ownership to control the news – easily searched). I’ve learned so much from this blog and the many commentors in this space ( a personal fav is@Stuki ) . Nothing short of brilliant and reminds me of my fav news source Zerohedge and it’s articles and commentors.
A special thanks for pointing us to Chris Martenson (peakprosperity.com) as my wife and I have watched every day his free daily videos since JAN@24th and our extended family is as prepared as we can be. God help us all with what’s coming.
For those who haven’t watched it, Dr. Martenson has a great 3 min video on exponential growth on YTube. Search his name and exponential. It will help you prepare for what our govt knows is coming in enourmous exponential growth in fatalities. Even knowing, it will be an emotional thing to prepare for. Prepping home supplies is one thing, prepping emotionally is also important per Dr. Martenson. HCWs be damned.
As this impacts people personally, I expect insider leaks to come from many fronts. We’re working with neighbors to get prepared as we’re all on our own now as the money changers (evil) bail out the money changers (evil) amidst a system that is so debt leveraged it can’t likely be bailed out. “everything’s a nail and the Fed has a hammer”.
Lastly this brings a famous quote to mind as the people rise up against corrupt govt, corp bailouts after stock buy backs, etc. Let alone the monsters upon monsters creating lab viruses (regardless of the source of this virus), and unregulated GMOs changing the fabric of life…..
“All it takes for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing”. Margaret Mead
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Not making excuses for Trump at all but he/we have people who are specialists and are responsible for being ready at all times for something like this and are responsible for being on the look out for this. Somebody should have came forward, even as a whistleblower. I’ve been aware for about 2 months now.
Thank you http://WWW.PEAKPROSPERITY.COM, MISH and http://WWW.ZEROHEDGE.COM
This was an epic failure of Trump, his administration and America in general.
We used to…but what we have now in these roles are people who have to praise our dear leader and his wisdom and benevolence at each press conference. Why do you think he interjects himself into each announcement–he wants to keep the minions in line and put it in as favorable light FOR HIMSELF as possible.
Your right, thats why I say someone should’ve come out as a whistleblower consequences be damned this is a pandemic! But you’re right he does do that a lot. rude and disrespectful, no professional courtesy.
You think a whistleblower would come forward after the Republican’s treatment of the last whistleblower?
I would think that a person with a soul and morals couldn’t just shut up and put their head down because they might lose their job or position.
But thats exactly what hundreds if not thousands did…just amazing. There are whole organizations private and public sector who willfully ignored this. I’m a regular working stiff with no college degree and just with an internet connection and an hour or so in the evening became aware of this in mid Jan. and within 3 min of thinking realized the potential. Within days the most likely scenario was clear.
In a pandemic with millions of lives at risk you shouldn’t worry about getting sacked or mocked by your employer or co workers.
Some politicians did take action though…they sold their equities.
They should be hung!
“You spare the rod you spoil the child”
Agree about PP and ZH, not @Mish … he’s shown he’s more interested in his own emotions and hate than calm, rational, truth and … clickbait headlines.
Ok. Let me start by stating that I am not a “staunch” Trump supporter. However, I just really despise the constant visceral negative, hatred towards our Country’s President. As I am sure you are aware, it is a tremendously difficult job, especially in today’s crisis. I would think it would be better serve of your time and efforts to be constructive and optimistic, and hopeful. Rather than pinpointed every single steps and missteps he makes. He is certainly no perfect – but his goal is the same as all of ours: to defeat this virus in the best manner possible with the resources available. To criticize previous tweets, interviews, and depict his flaws and errors does not help the common goal. The nature of some of the questions posed to him during the press conferences should be a bit more respectful and again, it doesn’t serve any positive outcome to try and “catch” him in a lie, and how he may have said something that was not factual or false. Again, he’s not perfect and neither are anyone of us. However he is our President and we should support his and all of our common goal to defeat this virus.
I, a person who claims no brilliant uncle at MIT, understood this was deadly serious in January. I didn’t have access to top-secret intelligence briefings, yet I bought N95 masks and gloves in February.
Look at my comment above at the top of the comments and provide some answers to what I noted on the short-comings right now.
Understood. However, you are going on the great advantage of : hindsight. It’s easy to point fingers, and make “woulda-shoulda” comments after the fact. Errors were made in an uncharted territory moment in our lifetime. Honestly take your victory laps, high five yourself, it still doesn’t help the cause offering “how it should have been handled” when that moment has passed, they are working on resolving the matter NOW.
There is no hindsight involved in the fact that the intelligence agencies were trying to warn him in January of the seriousness of this. Waiting until mid-March is criminal, even for our stable genius.
Assume that’s true… so where were the rest of the politicians?
Oh yea, in the ecstasy of impeachment, ignoring the CIA info.
its a hoax
Amen….
Their view is that Trump should have panicked everyone back in January, when he order a shutdown with China (1/31).
He should have shut down everything to completely prevent anything from happening….
At which time, the haters and 2nd “guessors” would have been hollowing that Trump destroyed the economy for what turned out to be absolutely nothing…
He can’t win….
How is this different than the people who told us to rally around Obama and Bush no matter what?
Our whole political process is designed to divide us by every imaginable characteristic, not just politically but by age, wealth, race, gender, religion, geography, etc. We can’t operate like this and then complain that we’re not united in the face of a crisis, it’s too blatantly hypocritical.
This was done to get us bickering among ourselves so that bankers could loot under the radar. While Trump isn’t to blame for our overall predicament, in NO way can he be seen as the solution either. He’s just another rung on our ladder to Idiocracy.
The real problem with Trump is the people who voted for him, and to a smaller degree people who don’t viciously demand competence from their elected leaders, like the guy I’m replying to.
You mean the way that Trump showed respect to Obama by forever claiming that he wasn’t a US citizen? Trump supporters only want Trump to be respected and they delight in his heinous lies about other Presidents. Remember when Trump lied about Obama wiretapping him? Did you advocate for Trump to respect Obama when Obama was President?
Actually, Trump should resign and give the GOP a chance this November.
Had Trump not downplayed this and had tests ready, he could have played on a loop Biden on January 31st saying travel restrictions from Wuhan were racist and xenophobic.
Ridiculous! What Republican could do as well as Trump? Incompetent boobery reigns in DC. Actually, the Corona virus can work in Trump’s favor. It could inoculate him from the market crash. People will buy that story.
Obama’s got rid of the help we have , that’s the tests . Yell at him , SAVE MONEY FOR THEMSELVES . Dems screwed us , they let it happen. ITS ALL ABOUT THE RICH BEING RICHER . Theres no help for us .
LOL keep living in your echo-chamber
There should be a tracker of the number of cases in the US along with this
Thousands will die because of his incompetence… and his followers will blame the Chinese
change followers to cultists. ed.
Biden for president! Right Mish?
The dumb-asses in DC still don’t get it. “Top” leaders crowding around a single microphone in a stage no larger than a public restroom. Working toward a 1 time $1200 check that probably wont be issued/delivered for another couple weeks. What about the weeks after that–are they going to spend the next couple weeks going around about the next check?? Has the production of ventilators actually been accelerated-who could tell from what has been said? Why are nurses and doctors in my area asking the public for donations of PPE at the very beginning of the serious phase? What happens when the doctors and nurses start tipping over? Two partially ready hospital ships may help in one spot each on the coast, but what about everywhere else? Has anyone even checked on the production capacity for the maybe helpful malaria medicine–has anyone been directed to begin proactive super-production of this product? On and on.
hard to prove deliberate neglect when you eliminate all of the evidence. no testing means “no virus” and sadly supported the hoax theory. another doc died in the city today. ER’s are unprotected. what conclusion can we draw from all of this?