“Mr. Trump’s performance on the national stage in recent weeks has put on display the traits that Democrats and some Republicans consider so jarring — the profound need for personal praise, the propensity to blame others, the lack of human empathy, the penchant for rewriting history, the disregard for expertise, the distortion of facts, the impatience with scrutiny or criticism. For years, skeptics expressed concern about how he would handle a genuine crisis threatening the nation, and now they know.”
Does it seem like the GOP is attempting to follow the trickle-down method of economic situmulus?
I’m not saying it is right or wrong for the Democrats to block the cloture vote. But if the majority of the stimulus, which we have been told was for the people, is front loaded to corporations, then doesn’t it stand to reason that trickle down is the GOP answer here?
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A nice reminder that humor can go a long way to get through this.
PJM: It’s Barack Obama's Fault There’s a Shortage of N95 Respirator Masks
I’m not keen on blaming the prior administration for anything, but this story does provide a data point for those hoping to understand the current N95 mask shortage. Spoiler alert: We drew down the national stockpile during the Swine Flu epidemic, and never replaced it.
BTW, if you don’t like PJM for some reason, you can skip, instead, to the sources on which the article is based using the internal links.
Masks are still an issue. What is the holdup?
The gist of the article is that we are still struggling to get masks to the front lines. I’ve included pertinent quotes for bypassing the NYT paywall.
This is not a bashing post, just an update and some queries.
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The faces of mass murder?
Anybody who doubts the headline is not paying attention. We are eight weeks behind the curve because of the President and his supporters like these. That translates into massive extra deaths. Yesterday, almost 1,000 people died in Italy from this virus. ONE day. That is the price they are paying for their slow reaction. We are subject to the same laws of nature and are about where they were two weeks ago.
If there was any doubt about the role Fox News plays as the damaging propaganda arm of the Trump GOP, please note the short time between minimizing the threat – as Trump had been doing – to telling the truth about the mortal danger we face. From one day to the next. About the time that Trump decided that playing a “wartime President” on TV was his last hope for political survival.
A behind the scenes industry that is suffering.
The story is about European restaurant suppliers and their virtual total loss of business.
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Failure at the top IS a political issue. THAT is how democracy is supposed to work.
Interesting story of the path that actual “fake news” travels the internet.
People who frequently re-post “news” that has passed through ZeroHedge, RedStateWatcher, et al should pay close attention.
How we got here.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/donald-trump-menace-public-health/608449/
Cold, hard truth for Trump apologists.
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