Trump’s daily coronavirus discussions have become less about defeating the virus and more about his feuds with the press and his political enemies.
Even the Wall Street journal editorial board, normally a Trump supporter, is critical of Trump’s Wasted Briefings.
Sometime in the last three weeks Mr. Trump seems to have concluded that the briefings could be a showcase for him. Perhaps they substitute in his mind for the campaign rallies he can no longer hold because of the risks. Perhaps he resented the media adulation that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been receiving for his daily show. Whatever the reason, the briefings are now all about the President.
They last for 90 minutes or more, and Mr. Trump dominates the stage. His first-rate health experts have become supporting actors, and sometimes barely that, ushered on stage to answer a technical question or two. Vice President Mike Pence, who leads the task force, doesn’t get on stage until the last 15 minutes or so. That becomes the most informative part of the session, since Mr. Pence understandably knows details the President doesn’t.
One of the ironies of this Presidency is that Mr. Trump claims to despise the press yet so eagerly plays its game. Every reporter knows the way to get a TV moment, and get a pat on the back from newsroom pals, is to bait Mr. Trump with a question about his previous statements or about criticism that someone has leveled against him. Mr. Trump always takes the bait.
On Tuesday Mr. Trump was asked, in a typically tendentious question, why he had compared the coronavirus to the flu. Instead of saying he had been hoping for the best but was wrong when he’d said that, he got into a fight over the severity of the flu. This sort of exchange usually devolves into a useless squabble that helps Mr. Trump’s critics and contributes little to public understanding.
The President’s outbursts against his political critics are also notably off key at this moment. This isn’t impeachment, and Covid-19 isn’t shifty Schiff. It’s a once-a-century threat to American life and livelihood.
This post is sure to bring up the TDS discussion again so I will put that to bed quickly.
I praised Trump, on March 29, for his initial national address. For details, please see Trump Worried About 2.2 Million Deaths, Extends Shutdown Through April. Here is the key snip.
Empathy
Trump displayed a quality I have never seen in him before: empathy. He spoke of black body bags as long as trucks and said “it’s not supplies, it’s people. I’ve never seen anything like it.”
In reference to Italy, Trump says “We got lucky”.
That’s certainly a new behavior.
Importantly, Trump finally took the advice of his medical team seriously.
Media Circus Transformation
I differ with the Wall Street Journal in the timing of transformation to circus format. I think it started at the end of March or beginning of April.
But yes, it’s here. And yes, Trump takes the bait every time either directly by answering a question or indirectly by belittling a reporter for asking.
The Trump faithful love these exchanges. I see the comments every day on Twitter.
Trump confuses tactics that won the election for him in 2016 with what it takes in 2020. The same thing happened to Jeremy Corbyn in the last UK election.
I called that in advance and discussed it in Labour Slaughtered, Corbyn Refuses to Admit He is the Reason.
Democrats avoided the same fate by avoiding Sanders.
The Trump Faithful Don’t Matter
Trump likes to excite his true believers and they cheer him wildly over these exchanges.
Heck, they cheer him wildly over anything and everything including his absurd coronavirus prediction: “15 cases soon headed to zero”.
For election purposes, the true believers do not not matter. They will never vote for Biden under any circumstances.
But what about the swing voters sick of Trump’s self-praise?
It’s the independents who voted for Trump because they could not stand Hillary that matter.
Neither the coronavirus nor the recession will do Trump in.
Rather, it’s a combination of self-adulation, lies, and feuds that Trump starts or fuels that will cost him the election in November.
Here’s the ultimate election irony: Trump will not blame himself for the loss, just like Hillary.
Mike “Mish” Shedlock
You assume we will have a free and fair election? It’s quite clear to me that the Republicans will ensure we don’t through gerrymandering, suppressing votes, shutting down polls in Democratic districts and take voters off roles. Do you think they would invite the Russians in this time to tamper with election machinery. I do.
You assume it’s a one way street. Both parties gerrymander when they are in control, and always have. Democrats had local control, and gerrymandered like crazy up until about 1990, when the Republicans got some local control, and did the same thing. Republicans are accused of “voter suppression”, while Democrats are accused of keeping dead voters on the roles and busing winos in and paying them to vote again and again. The parties have different names, but play the same games. At their core, both parties are exactly the same. Both parties exist to get into power, and so they can control the spoils of victory.
TDS is such a lazy argument. It’s amazing you can hold Trump to the same standards you held Obama to and it be TDS.
Remember that time when Obama mismanaged a pandemic and tens of thousands of Americans died? Oh right, actually the H1N1 thing was handled really well, and my memory of it is formed around a government clinic giving my family free vaccines.
TDS is different than ODS because one starts with a “T” and the other starts with an “O.” Hope that explains it.
Our best hope is both Trump and Biden die before election day. I’m in favor of them having a debate in front of a packed citi field.
…and when they take an audience question, they have to kiss that audience member. If they’re still alive in two weeks, have them fight, arena style, with ginsu steak knives.
Nekkid.
The Diamond Princess math? 696 infected, 12 dead. 1.7% mortality rate, check. 3712 people on board, 12 dead. 0.32% population death rate. 330,000,000 americans = 1,067,097 total deaths.
Cut Vultra some slack. It’s awful hard to do math with Trump’s 2″ dick in Vultra’s mouth.
The Wall Street Journal is not “usually a Trump supporter.” They always call him out for the absurd things he does as well as the good things. Calm your TDS Mish.
Here is what may be Trump’s biggest problem – which is not his re-election.
According to Wikipedia, the Trump Organization (i.e., Trump’s business empire) “The Trump Organization, through its various constituent companies and partnerships, has or has had interests in real estate development, investing, brokerage, sales and marketing, and property management. Trump Organization entities own, operate, invest in, and develop residential real estate, hotels, resorts, residential towers, and golf courses in various countries.[5][6][7] They also operate or have operated in construction, hospitality, casinos, entertainment, book and magazine publishing, broadcast media, model management, retail, financial services, food and beverages, business education, online travel, commercial and private aviation and beauty pageants.”
These businesses are largely in industries that are, or should be, taking a huge beating from the virus and recession. Recent reports suggest that 6 out of 7 of Trump’s biggest income producers are already shutdown due to the virus and Trump is negotiating with Deutsche Bank about a personal financial commitment he made to them.
If Trump gets re-elected, he will probably start taking his salary but it might not be enough.
In the event of a prolonged shutdown this could be a real possibility, but if he does need cash the 400K salary wouldn’t be nearly enough. That’s peon money.
If he does experience problems he’d be wise to resign, since any whiff of financial desperation would be pounced on relentlessly by his foes and he’d be accused of using the office to enrich himself. He’d be better off going back to TV and his old life. He could make a killing on a book and dumb stuff like the lecture circuit. There’s a well established path to riches by past presidents like Clinton and Obama, plus Trump has been a very good boy to the MIC and Wall St. They’d probably be happy to pat him on the head and throw some largesse his way.
Actually Trump is destroying his old career. He is destined to live as a curmudgeon and become deranged soon. I predict his last days will be lived out much like Howard Hughes – watching clips of himself- and eating hamburgers in bed.
But, how long will his fingernails be?
Don’t forget saving gallons of his urine.
Remember he is no longer involved the Trump family businesses having formally divested after the election. Looks like since this one involves a personal guarantee that he has to follow up on it.
Congress deliberately excluded businesses like his from the benefits package expressly stating that was the reason – so that Trump’s family wouldn’t profit from the legislation.
Just more thoroughly nasty behaviour from thoroughly corrupt pols – especially given the hundreds of millions crooked hypocrites like the Clintons, Bidens and Pelosis and many others have made as ‘public servants.’
Truly disgusting people. Meanwhile Trump divests of his business, doesn’t take a salary and is still accused of being a crook milking the office for personal profit. And all this by people who keep crowing on and on about being ‘evidence-based’ viz corona virus where all the evidence now is that it has about a 0.3% mortality rate and this entire thing has been exaggerated out of all proportion in order to bring western economies to their knees.
We are at war already and small minds still obsess over Trump.
People need to get a grip.
“Remember he is no longer involved the Trump family businesses having formally divested after the election.”
I guess he’ll sit there and watch the family fortune crumble away, which it will.
A just reward for having the hubris to think he could serve his country well by being its President. Lucky he hasn’t been assassinated by that other uppity upstart, John Kennedy. Really, they should leave this sort of thing to the guys well entrenched in the system who will leave well enough alone and perpetuate and ever-increasing bloated oligarchic boondoggle in DC clogging up the world with its sclerotic stranglehold on world finance.
“…ever-increasing bloated oligarchic boondoggle in DC clogging up the world with its sclerotic stranglehold on world finance.”
On that, we can certainly agree.
My opinion;
Trump is a narcissistic asshole and a bully.
Biden is a drooling moron and a junior varsity, wannabe Clinton.
Mish having done one fine job of calling one series of political events and feeling full of himself on the issue of his political acumen has become a tedious bore.
And the poisoned among us will continue to reveal themselves.
Anyone with an ounce of sense, having paid even the smallest bit of attention to recent history, would know that any American President would be facing withering criticism under these circumstances, regardless of party or personality.
Clinton would be summoning tears, Bush would be laying plans for war with China, Obama would be working on his short game on the White House lawn, Trump preens.
Get over it.
Not really sure what the conclusion is here, every US politician sucks? While there is a lot of truth to that, I don’t get the surly demeanor since this is an exciting time.
Before this, the Fed was firmly in control and ensuring a gradual impoverishment of the country. Now there is uncertainty and we’re getting closer to the inevitable implosion of our monetary system. Instead of peeling off the band-aid at a glacial pace, we may finally see it ripped off as it should have been 12 years ago.
If Trump has to get bashed while this happens, it’s a minuscule price to pay for something so monumental. The sooner we fall, the sooner we can start anew and potentially build something far better for ourselves and humanity in general.
The Fed ain’t going anywhere, any time soon. the Democrats need the Fed to monetize what they will call their mandate. The Republicans are far more hostile to the Fed than are Democrats, and that is at a level of not at all. Trump will cover himself in glory for having managed this thing better than Biden ever could, be it true or not, and everybody will be beholden to the Fed.
As for the partisan nonsense below, well. … its partisan nonsense. Trump did as well as anybody could/would have with imperfect information and outright lies fomented by WHO and the Chinese government. Were there dozens of ways that it could have been handled better/differently? Absolutely … on every issue. People making decisions also make mistakes, only a staunch partisan is ignorant enough to not recognize that fact.
As for the point? I thought I made it quite clear, “Get over it.”
When the dust from this settles, the complaint will be that there was a terrible overreaction that has crippled our economy. meanwhile government types everywhere will be covering themselves with glory over the lives they saved. Lives saved will, of course, be exactly as quantifiable as were Obama’s jobs, “made or saved”.
Getting either angry or exited about any of it is a waste of time and energy.
Let’s have some analysis that is useful and actionable. Mish is certainly very capable of that.
“When the dust from this settles, the complaint will be that there was a terrible overreaction that has crippled our economy.”
Not sure of that, because this might get drawn out indefinitely, and even if not then what is taken is rarely properly returned, turning into the degree of mission creep society will tolerate. I just don’t see the economy booming back to anything it was before, which was even then strained and often dysfunctional. So I don’t know if we are going to get to look back on this period from a future normal that resembles the previous one.
Make that partisan nonsense above, I wasn’t sure where the site would drop this
“Trump is a narcissistic asshole and a bully.
Biden is a drooling moron and a junior varsity, wannabe Clinton.”
His narcissism led him to ignore warnings to contain this virus for two months, instead telling us to spread it, leading to a recession and potentially hundreds of thousands dead.
I’ll take the “drooling moron”.
We know Biden’s not gonna be Earth-Shattering, we’ve seen enough Earth-shattering for a generation.
Fair enough. But if you get your drooling moron, who is running the country?
The entrenched system, that’s who.
Oh well, the Republic was good for a while, then it all went pear-shaped with FDR, or maybe the Fed in 1913, and it’s been a steady downhill trajectory ever since. I personally find Trump refreshing in many ways – though I still cannot believe he ran and won. (Reality truly is often stranger than fiction!) If you disregard the public persona, the character, and just go down the list of policy accomplishments despite the unprecedented headwinds, you can’t help but wonder how much better he would have been, how much more could have been done if the powers that be weren’t bent on disgracing him and kicking him out of office, with so many perpetrating high treason in the process.
Extraordinary times.
Trump is toxic to his employees, and that’s why he’s surrounded by incompetents at this point. Biden might be old, but he’s not toxic, and there will be plenty of qualified people willing to work for him. The fact that some people are OK with Jared Kushner running the pandemic response says everything you need to know about the quality of their patriotism.
good sales pitch, what about the black voter approval rating of 16-32% depending on poll, only got 8% of their vote in 2016, independents 64% against impeachment, are you saying they are too stupid to remember that charade and hoax and all of the sudden are going to vote for the nominee that can hide his own easter eggs because Trump was lied too by Drs. whose models and assumptions were wrong and killed the economy…and to your “15 cases headed to zero” do you really want to go down that road…DeBlasio tweets telling new york to ignore corona on March 2nd, Cuomo tweet jan 24th monitoring corona and we are prepared, current risk to new yorkers is low, Cuomo march 1 there is no reason for undue anxiety, the general risks remain low in NY, Trump was NOT the only one that got this wrong but your focus only seems to be on his errors in judgement about this seasonal flu…here are some more fine headlines of people that misled the general public, so why the selective memory?
On Jan 23rd, Wuhan went into lockdown…
On Jan 23rd… most of America were wondering “what’s up with Wuhan/China?”
On Jan 28th, BuzzFeed, “Dont worry about the corona virus. Worry about the Flu”
On Jan 31st, Vox retorted: “Is this going to be a deadly pandemic? NO”
On Jan 31st, the Washington Post headline: “How our brains make coronavirus seem scarier than it is.”
On Jan 31st, CNN ” As the coronavirus spreads, fear is fueling racism and xenophobia” right after stopping flights from China
On Feb1st, the Washington post said: “get a grip America. the flu is a much bigger threat than the coronavirus”
On Feb 3rd, the Washington post headline: “why we should be wary of an aggressive government response”
On Feb 5th, NYT “who says it is not safe to travel to China? The coronavirus travel ban is unjust and doesn’t work anyway.”
On Feb 7th, Daily Beast “Coronavirus, with zero american fatalities, is dominating headlines, while the flu is the real threat
On Feb 13th: the NY times stated: “in Europe, fear spreads faster than the coronavirus itself..”
On Feb 21st, CNN said: “what’s spreading faster than corona virus in the US? racist assaults”
CNN A. Cooper “Be more concerned about the flu” than coronavirus, same with Lemon, Morning Joe and all their paid lackeys spouting the same DNC echo chamber talking points…not just trump everyone got it wrong and it turns out even the modelers, fauci and birx
As we all know by now, nobody wins with the red/blue game because both teams are terrible and care far more about large donors than the public.
By my count, Trump didn’t start taking things seriously until around 3/29 when he backed away from his “beautiful” Easter stance and extended guidelines until the end of April. A lot of people were wrong about the virus in the beginning (Mish was not one of them, FYI) but Trump’s problem is that he stayed wrong for an inordinately long time.
It should go without saying that this is not an endorsement for senile Biden or the blue team, but what we saw from Trump is a far cry from the 4D chess the Q people babble about so often.
spot on
Why do people look to mass media as a barometer for who got it right? the media only cares about truth inasmuch as it directly correlates with ratings and ad revenue, that’s basically a fact nowadays.
IDK any of you fine folk, but as for me, I paid VERY close attention ever since 1/3/2020, first day of work this year [ed; or thereabouts], when the story of a novel coronavirus patient at a wet market broke. I never took my eye off the ball, figured it was worth watching. Why does anyone rely on mass media’s collective messaging for ANYthing? We know it isn’t truth, it’s business, so why delude yourself, why use it for intellectual pursuits? Pull the wool over your own eyes. Instead, think for yourself, do your own research, and become informed.
Trump is president, his job is to have us prepared. The newspapers job is none of that, it’s just sell papers and ads. Simple difference. If we are holding our President to the lowly standard of major media outlets, we need to raise the bar by ten miles.
Everybody needs to remember we arent electing a king. This country was designed by people who knew how bad kings (and queens and dictators of all kinds) were for “governing.” The American presidency is by definition “weak.” Yes, he/she names judges and can send in the military whenever. But beyond that, the president isnt very powerful by definition. We here are basically responsible for ourselves, scary tho that may be to think about. In the end, who is president really doesnt matter all that much. But if Donald is trying to become the first American king, it will be a LOT more fun than being president.
“Everybody needs to remember we arent electing a king. This country was designed by people who knew how bad kings (and queens and dictators of all kinds) were for “governing.””
Kings & Dictators were also reps.of the elite groups, if they acted against their interrests they got dethroned.
It just got repackaged.
If you think I will vote for the idiot that is the mind declining that is Biden, well I have bad news for you. You may think Trump is an idiot blowhard, but his policies largely bely this idea. Pay less attention to his twitter and more to his policies. I differ with him on several fronts, but as a Libertarian, I applaud deregulation, freeing of redtape. It is a simple question in November if you do not have TDS.
Libertarian here as well, screw it, I have TDS, I mean EXTREME TDS – I’m the motherload of TDS.
I will not vote for this egomaniac who’s hubris is so bloated he cannot make a sound decision if he suspects it won’t bolster his image first.
This is why he ignored warnings in early January to prep for the virus, instead encouraged us to spread it.
He’s “that” uncle at Thanksgiving, relentless bloviating regardless how many sigh, roll eyes and shift in their seats, so we all just pretend he’s interesting and hope he stops.
But Trump’s approval rating just broke new record! Omg
So did his disapproval rating. Both cant be correct.
Trump is just like anything you buy that’s gold plated… the coating wears off quickly. And now for an expert political opinion from the enlightened ones.
I’d tag this one as a political stunt at public expense.
So 30k+ new cases in the US today, over 500k total by Easter, and Trump claims opening parts of the country later this month? I realize we can’t stay locked down forever but 30k+ daily growth rates isn’t exactly prime time in my view. I’m in one of the lower infected areas. Do you really think I want to catch up to everyone else?
Trump seems determined to destroy both aspects of the only workable solution. Not only has he been pushing for an end to social distancing guidelines and a re-opening of many businesses, Trump is also pulling federal funding for testing sites.
As NPR reports, federal funding for testing sites will end on Friday. That includes sites in some of the hardest hits areas of the country that are engaged in testing thousands of Americans. Come Friday, federal funds—and federal contracts—will be withdrawn, leaving states and localities without the materials or labs necessary to conduct and process the tests.
States and cities right at the peak of the outbreak are about to lose much of their ability to conduct tests, because federal funds, contracts, and facilities are going away even as the number of cases, and deaths, continues to soar. A spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services claimed that “many” of the 41 affected sites would be “transitioning” to state-run sites, but didn’t say how many, or even how that was possible.
I guess it’s safe to start pondering what President Biden’s policies might be, and how they may affect market sectors, investments.
NPR reported today that CHS had reversed itself, and that the testing sites would remain open.
It terrifies me that I feel grateful my government has decided not to implement a policy that amounts to negligent mass homicide.
This is neither stable, nor genius.
how does turning over testing expenses to the states result in negligent mass homicide??? CNN, The View, MSNBC teach you that DNC echo chamber talking point.
Yes we know the drill Democrats are pimps and scallywags and Republicans are saints and our saviors
Today, tweets on ratings and this…
….drone footage captures NYC workers burying bodies in a mass grave on Hart Island, just off the coast of the Bronx. For over a century, the island has served as a potter’s field for deceased with no known next of kin or families unable to pay for funerals….
Should be shown on splitscreen with his BS
On a day when the US accounted for 40% of new cases in the world and 18% of the deaths (US has 4.5% of the world population) he tweets that he has the best teevee ratings ever for his CV show.
Oblivious, shameless narcissist–a monster.
The Butcher of Mar a Lago
He has to have that attention, even if it’s negative. He’ll be shrieking and throwing poop in 3 months.
Biden cannot beat Trump.
But Trump can beat himself.
“But Trump can beat himself.”
He already has.
That’s what Hillary thought.
“That’s what Hillary thought.”
Another interesting ad idea for Trump to run against Biden.
See above.
Trump has more than enough time to fix this.
To oust an incumbent, the voters must want CHANGE. Going back is NOT change. Biden does not in any way represent change. He’s a long time insider who praised Bush 43 for the Iraq II disaster.
But Biden will get the African-American vote for playing second fiddle to Obama.
People want change from Trump, duh. Of course Biden is change from Trump.
“To oust an incumbent, the voters must want CHANGE”
A preventable crisis that yields potentially hundreds of thousands dead unnecessarily, a potential depression, recession at the least, as a result and even now his focus is on his TV ratings.
I dunno, maybe some voters want more of that. Myself?…I’ve had enough of the Stable Genius.
“A preventable crisis that yields potentially hundreds of thousands dead unnecessarily”
I’m not a voter but Trump didn’t cause the virus nor has his response been as bad as his advisers like long-time bureaucrat Fauci wanted.
Reporter: “President Trump, what are your comments on today’s 500 deaths in ****ville?”
Trump: “Well, let me start by saying what a tragedy it is, and then I’d like to congratulate myself for sending them a few masks”
Reporter: “Don’t you think it might be a good idea to do more?”
Trump: “What a nasty question, Your network is fake news, you’re banned from these briefings”
President Trump has recently changed the format of the daily task force press conferences. He speaks at the beginning for about 25 minutes and then he leaves the meeting with VP Pence acting as MC for the rest of the presentation. That has been more productive.
Still no good discussion about an exit plan for the shutdowns; only general comments about how it will be sooner or later in different locations of the US, depending on how many COVID-19 cases are being detected within a local region. Also no date commitment for widespread antibody testing, only nonspecific comments that an antibody test will be useful and it is coming. Dr. Fauci mentioned having clinically proven therapeutics available for winter 2020 outbreaks that are expected to occur, so that seems like a solid hint that some amount of social distancing will still be imposed on the US through next year.
I am already seeing stories about record lines at food banks and how farmers cannot feed their animals due to supply problems with feed (for example, ethanol plants provide an important source of animal feed and they are shut down due to lack of fuel demand). Food that is normally sold through restaurants is going to waste because it cannot be easily repackaged and shipped for sale through grocery stores, meaning those local growers are being hit hard.
Nature abhors waste in a time of need. It is difficult for me to see how this continues through the end of April or May without some major irreversible breakdowns. If it continues into fall, things are going to get truly awful.
“If it continues into fall, things are going to get truly awful”
Exactly, and I guarantee Dem Superpac ads are ready to go featuring Trump in his own words telling us all was well in the two month period when he had a chance to contain it.
A narrator will break in to ask why he ignored his own intel for that two months.
I am sure Trump has ads ready to go as well.
“We do want to say to people, come to Chinatown, here we are…come join us,” said Pelosi.
New York City Health Commissioner Oxiris Barbot. “I want to remind everyone to enjoy the parade and not change any plans
due to misinformation spreading about #coronavirus.”
“We do want to say to people, come to Chinatown, here we are…come join us,” said Pelosi.
I wish team Trump the best of luck running that in an ad against Biden.
no they are running the ad that Joe called cancelling flights from china in January as racist, xenophobic and DO NOT WORK and backtracks three days ago about how that was probably the best decision (will not be easy to walk that one back) and the other will be China is our friend and they are no competition for the US, his running mates choice bring nothing to the table…might as well run Hillary with him for kicks and giggles.
It’ll be hard for Trump’s campaign to explain the 41,000 Americans that got into America from China after that ban.
He was called Xenophobe for ONLY banning chinese from coming in with no quaratines or tests for Americans arriving.
yet, your “uncle” Joe said it was the right move…going to be fun watching them try to explain that flip-flop
Too bad he has to run against Biden and not Oxiris Barbot.
It’s a daily circus alright. All about the show for him. Pence even tried to squelch the competition:
“White House reverses position after blocking health officials from appearing on CNN” link to cnn.com
We have seen some inspiring leaders step up during this crisis…
but King Chaos certainly is not one of them.
I haven’t listened to this clown in well over a year. There’s no point. If anything truthful happens to come out of this fat asses fried chicken hole it’s a total accident.
Unless something serious happens to Biden this rates to be a blowout
Think you’re mostly right but Biden will get money now that he’s the presumptive nominee, that won’t be an on-going issue.
And to Mish I’d remind him that the American electorate has the collective memory of a hamster. Any candidate can win by pulling off the equivalent of cramming for finals.
If the right mix of positive and negative news hits in Oct/Nov 2020, it’ll override whatever Trump has done the last 4 years and also whatever Biden has done the last 30 years.
Mish,
I believe you are correct also, I believe he won Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania by less than 70,000 votes. I also believe that a senate seat in AZ is going to change also.
I’m not much connected in the US, so I’m just leaving this idea here for anyone. It allows n95 or n100 on a reusable face mask by reducing the surface area needed for the inlet, it allows cloth replacement. Doubles or more surface area. The images are self explanatory on this proof of concept version
The alignment ridges are fixed to the board not the rim. The strings are withdrawn with the top half partly connected. They are placed in order with the pleat being pushed down with any rounded object. The cloth is then gently pulled taught across when halves near tight, just to hold form better. I only had two bolts, should have four. The outside rim at the join could have removable sealant paste applied for added security, or just be taped. GRP, metal, ABS etc. could be used. Teeth need to be slightly longer than groove in practice for geometry of cloth sandwich. No rights claimed except that others don’t claim them on the idea.
When will you get your check?
Direct deposit ones starting to be sent today.
Paper checks to those that earned $10K or less after 4/24
10 to $20K after 5/1
20 to $30K after 5/8
And so on, week by week, through the top level $198K/couple after 9/4
That’s what I call getting it out in a timely fashion, eh? ( a big NO!)–
Especially considering the unbanked in the lower income levels.
If the Democrats run Biden, he will lose.
The only way he wins is if they find a way to install a computer in his brain that they can control so he stops looking and sounding like he’s a few fries short of a Happy Meal every time he opens his mouth.
You think swing voters don’t like Trump’s chest-pounding and the way he goes after reporters and acts like a dick on Twitter. I agree. They probably don’t. And if Biden’s only issue was his and his family’s proximity to corruption and criminality, then I would give him a 50/50 shot.
However, he’s clearly lost, or is losing, his mind. And added to everything else, that is something that swing voters simply will not overlook.
If you want Trump out, I believe he is vulnerable to a good candidate.
Unfortunately, Biden is not the person to fill those shoes.
Yeah I agree with this. Everything that has happened so far? They are not enough to unseat Trump. Not even if there’s a 30% drop in GDP as some people have projected.
Biden has … serious issues.
i totally agree that biden shouldn’t be president but, even moreso, neither should trump.
Give the people a choice between pasta or pizza, they’ll still end up eating italien food and believe they had options.
Appearantly it works every time.
Don’t really understand why people even vote anymore.
Is it just so the person that one despises does not win?
“Biden…. looking and sounding like he’s a few fries short of a Happy Meal”
I’m literally terrified of Trump’s immediate need for ego gratification versus making sound decisions. it’s why we’re in this shut down to begin with….His hubris trumped his own Intel’s advice, he did things his way, we’re screwed.
I’ll take the happy meal, I’ll take the neighbors barking dog, I’ll take a boot fished out of a pond, just not Trump, my God, no.
Biden is not a good candidate
But Trump barely beat Hillary, one of the worst candidates in history.
Hell I have to go back to Ike before I find one I truly like.
Personally I find Biden worse than Hillary.
As far as corruption goes, she takes the cake, the plate, the knife, the saucers, and the silverware. But at least she didn’t seem senile.
Biden is saddled with his own share of corruption (not as bad as Hillary I admit) but he’s also clearly having mental issues.
I will say this – provided we get to have the debates in person, there isn’t enough popcorn on the planet…
At least Hillary could form a coherent sentence and perform on a debate stage…Joe does not have the capacity, stamina or brains to do either.
The natives are already getting restless…
It boggles my mind that this empty, shriveled up husk of a person Biden is likely going to be president of the United States. It says so much about the state of society currently that these are the two leaders put up to run the country for the next 4 years