[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #743 letkeep Minnesota red beyond the virus

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Op dinsdag 31 maart 2020 20:19 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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thehill twitterde op dinsdag 31-03-2020 om 16:19:03 JUST IN: McConnell says Dem impeachment push distracted government from coronavirus threat https://t.co/vAwWRZ5UAY https://t.co/nPujHFDNyU reageer retweet

Mitch komt ook weer wat roepen. Al op 31 januari werd besloten dat er geen getuigen zouden komen en was het proces effectief voorbij.

De grote vraag: Was Trump in staat het land te besturen gedurende die maanden, en zo niet, waarom niet? En zo wel, waarom deed hij dan niks?

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Op dinsdag 31 maart 2020 20:19 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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thehill twitterde op dinsdag 31-03-2020 om 16:19:03 JUST IN: McConnell says Dem impeachment push distracted government from coronavirus threat https://t.co/vAwWRZ5UAY https://t.co/nPujHFDNyU reageer retweet

Mitch komt ook weer wat roepen. Al op 31 januari werd besloten dat er geen getuigen zouden komen en was het proces effectief voorbij.

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Op dinsdag 31 maart 2020 20:45 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Vandaar mijn nasty snaky vraag.

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Op dinsdag 31 maart 2020 20:53 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Ondertussen op een andere drijvende petridish:. ....

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DavidLarter twitterde op dinsdag 31-03-2020 om 15:10:39 I've never seen anything like this.

Captain of Theodore Roosevelt pens a four-page letter pleading for resources, says the situation is rapidly spinning out of control as nearly 200 sailors test positive: https://t.co/OZuJwAQi46 reageer retweet

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The operator of a coronavirus-stricken cruise liner has warned that more people could die at sea unless its vessels are allowed to dock, accusing governments of “turning their backs” on thousands of people stranded at sea during the global pandemic.

Orlando Ashford, president of Holland America Line, called for a port to show “compassion and grace” by allowing passengers on the Zaandam cruise liner and its sister ship, the Rotterdam, back on land.

Four people have died, eight people have tested positive for Covid-19 and about 200 people are ill with flu-like symptoms on the Zaandam, which has hundreds of British, American and Australian holidaymakers on board, many of whom are elderly.

Both ships are travelling towards Florida but on Monday, governor Ron DeSantis said passengers cannot be “dumped” in his state and cast further doubt over whether ships would be allowed to dock, dismissing those on board as mostly “foreigners”.

A meeting of Broward county commissioners will take place on Tuesday to discuss whether the vessels should be allowed into port in Fort Lauderdale.

Several Latin American countries closed their ports to the Zaandam as the coronavirus outbreak developed on board and they refused emergency requests to medically evacuate critically ill patients, according to Ashford.

“We are dealing with a ‘not my problem’ syndrome. The international community, consistently generous and helpful in the face of human suffering, shut itself off to Zaandam leaving her to fend for herself.

“Nations are justifiably focused on the Covid-19 crisis unfolding before them. But they’ve turned their backs on thousands of people left floating at sea. Are these reactions based on facts from experts like the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), or fueled by irrational fear? What happened to compassion and help thy neighbor?” the Holland America Line president said in a statement.

“Already four guests have passed away and I fear other lives are at risk. As of March 30, 76 guests and 117 crew on Zaandam have influenza-like illness, including eight people who have tested positive for Covid-19,” it continued.

“The Covid-19 situation is one of the most urgent tests of our common humanity. To slam the door in the face of these people betrays our deepest human values.”

Passengers and crew on board in contact with the Guardian are increasingly concerned for their safety, which include 304 Americans, 228 British nationals and 116 Australians between both ships.

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Op dinsdag 31 maart 2020 20:48 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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TheRickWilson twitterde op dinsdag 31-03-2020 om 17:01:37 A source at a conservative firm doing Trump/RNC work tells me the Message of the Day is "Impeachment kept Trump from focusing on the virus."

This person and I went from great friends (2000s to 2016) then frenemies (2017-2019) and now this person is PISSED.

More to follow. reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 31 maart 2020 22:00 schreef AnneX het volgende:
“ This is nuts. Kremlin spox Peskov says Trump accepted Putin's offer to send a flight w #coronavirus medical equipment to US. Details willl be handled at the working level. Hopefully someone will tell Trump that he's playing right into a propaganda ploy ”

https://mobile.twitter.co(...)/1245049970459316227
Op de foto in tweet zijn Russische trucks te zien, die zinloos in colonne door Italië rondjes rijden met Russisch personeel wég van brandhaard Moskou, op vakantie...

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Op dinsdag 31 maart 2020 22:08 schreef Lord-Ronddraai het volgende:

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Wat maakt het uit dat het propaganda is. Als er tekort aan apparatuur is en die apparatuur kan levens redden. Laat je die levens die gered hadden kunnen worden dan liever verloren gaan zodat Rusland een propaganda momentje mist? Of ga je ervanuit dat de apparatuur nooit geleverd gaat worden ofzo? Maar dan is het toch ook geen werkende propaganda?

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Op dinsdag 31 maart 2020 22:12 schreef AnneX het volgende:

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“Voor wat, hoort wat”
Bijv. Sancties opheffen

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Op dinsdag 31 maart 2020 22:22 schreef Lord-Ronddraai het volgende:

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Is daar aanwijzing voor dan? Klinkt meer als speculatie. Het zou natuurlijk wel passen bij de meesterlijke dealmaker die Trump is. Maar uit het tweetje dat je post waar gezegd wordt dat het gaat om propaganda doeleinden is het toch juist goede zaak dat te accepteren. Wat boeit een beetje postieve PR voor Moskou in verhouding tot wat mensenlevens.

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Op dinsdag 31 maart 2020 22:56 schreef BEFEM het volgende:
Was het niet zo dat ze ook spullen aan Italië hebben geschonken maar achteraf bleek dat meer dan de helft niet werkte over of over datum was?

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rgoodlaw twitterde op dinsdag 31-03-2020 om 22:19:03 Great piece of reporting (@KannoYoungs @AnaSwanson)

Shows “hundreds of thousands of times” Trump admin invoked #DefenseProductionAct for body armor for border agents, drones etc.

But Trump has balked at doing it for nurses, doctors on covid frontlines!

https://t.co/qQiGT7m9qJ reageer retweet

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Chemicals used to construct military missiles. Materials needed to build drones. Body armor for agents patrolling the southwest border. Equipment for natural disaster response.

A Korean War-era law called the Defense Production Act has been invoked hundreds of thousands of times by President Trump and his administration to ensure the procurement of vital equipment, according to reports submitted to Congress and interviews with former government officials.

Yet as governors and members of Congress plead with the president to use the law to force the production of ventilators and other medical equipment to combat the coronavirus pandemic, he has for weeks treated it like a “break the glass” last resort, to be invoked only when all else fails.

“You know, we’re a country not based on nationalizing our business,” Mr. Trump said earlier this month. “Call a person over in Venezuela, ask them how did nationalization of their businesses work out? Not too well.”

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ddale8 twitterde op woensdag 01-04-2020 om 00:30:19 Trump says "a lot of people" wanted him to just "ride it out" as if it was "the flu."

"It's not the flu," he says, correctly.

But *HE* repeatedly likened it to the flu. He said four days ago that you can call it a flu. reageer retweet

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ddale8 twitterde op woensdag 01-04-2020 om 00:32:11 Trump, who downplayed the situation for weeks even after it was clear it would be a crisis here, is portraying himself as the person who defended the country against a "ride it out" faction that didn't take the crisis seriously enough. reageer retweet

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MollyJongFast twitterde op woensdag 01-04-2020 om 00:32:44 It only took 3 months for trump to understand covid-19 isn't the flu. https://t.co/QyW8dRBwKG reageer retweet

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ddale8 twitterde op woensdag 01-04-2020 om 00:41:46 Rather than the usual barrage of specific false claims, this briefing has featured a dishonest overall narrative -- a Trump effort to cast himself as the leader who stood strong against the faction that downplayed the severity of the virus. reageer retweet

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atrupar twitterde op donderdag 05-03-2020 om 04:48:09 In this clip, Trump:
1. Denies WHO's coronavirus death rate based on "hunch"
2. Calls coronavirus "corona flu"
3. Suggests it's fine for people with Covid-19 to go to work
4. Compares coronavirus to "the regular flu," indicating he doesn't get the difference https://t.co/uC9c03zX31 reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 1 april 2020 01:02 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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Als je niet begrijpt dat opkomst relevant is dan snap je er niet veel van.

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Op dinsdag 31 maart 2020 20:19 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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thehill twitterde op dinsdag 31-03-2020 om 16:19:03 JUST IN: McConnell says Dem impeachment push distracted government from coronavirus threat https://t.co/vAwWRZ5UAY https://t.co/nPujHFDNyU reageer retweet

Mitch komt ook weer wat roepen. Al op 31 januari werd besloten dat er geen getuigen zouden komen en was het proces effectief voorbij.

De grote vraag: Was Trump in staat het land te besturen gedurende die maanden, en zo niet, waarom niet? En zo wel, waarom deed hij dan niks?

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Tashka9 twitterde op woensdag 01-04-2020 om 02:33:40 @gtconway3d AND...Trump said today, "I don’t think I would have done any better if I had not been impeached...I don’t think I would have acted any differently, or I don’t think I would have acted any faster.”...1/1 reageer retweet

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Tashka9 twitterde op woensdag 01-04-2020 om 02:34:16 @gtconway3d 2/2
It's a lose-lose question for him.
If he says the impeachment slowed him down, he's admitting he didn't do well.
If he says the impeachment didn't slow him down, he can't use it as an excuse. reageer retweet

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s fireside chats reassured and inspired the nation through Depression and war. During impeachment last fall, President Trump fancied himself likewise addressing Americans “perhaps as a fireside chat on live television.”

There’s no better time than the present! In these dark times, Americans crave the comfort of competent leadership. I have therefore taken the liberty of drafting for Trump a fireside chat for our times — using entirely his own words.

The coronavirus is very much under control in the USA. We have it totally under control. I’m not concerned at all. It’s one person coming in from China. We pretty much shut it down. It will all work out well. We’re in great shape. Doesn’t spread widely at all in the United States because of the early actions that myself and my administration took. There’s a chance it won’t spread. It’s something that we have tremendous control over.

Looks like by April, you know, in theory, when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away. One day it’s like a miracle, it will disappear. Just stay calm. It will go away. The Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus. This is their new hoax.

Whatever happens, we’re totally prepared. Totally ready. We’re rated number one for being prepared. We are so prepared like we never have been prepared. Taking early intense action, we have seen dramatically fewer cases of the virus in the United States. We’re very much ahead of everything.

This is a flu. I didn’t know people died from the flu. Here, we’re talking about a much smaller range. It is very mild. Some people will have this at a very light level. Some of them go to work.

The mortality rate is much, much better. In my opinion it’s way, way down. I think it’s substantially below 1 percent. A fraction of 1 percent. I think the numbers are going to get progressively better as we go along. This is just my hunch.

We have very little problem in this country. We only have five people. We only have 11 cases. Out of billions of people, 15 people. They’re getting better, and soon they’re all going to be better, hopefully. We’re going very substantially down, not up.

The United States, because of what I did and what the administration did with China, we have 32 deaths at this point. To this point, and because we have had a very strong border policy, we have had 40 deaths. As of this moment, we have 50 deaths. I have a feeling that a lot of the numbers that are being said in some areas are just bigger than they’re going to be.

Frankly, the testing has been going very smooth. The tests are all perfect. Anybody that wants a test can get a test. The tests are beautiful. We have a tremendous testing setup.

I don’t believe you need 40,000 or 30,000 ventilators. We are very close to a vaccine. A matter of months. You take a solid flu vaccine, you don’t think that could have an impact? Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin, taken together, have a real chance to be one of the biggest game changers in the history of medicine. Based on very strong evidence.

I would love to have the country opened up and just raring to go by Easter. No way I’m going to cancel the convention. Stock Market starting to look very good to me!

We’re the ones that gave the great response. I’d rate it a 10. We’ve done a fantastic job. I think they should be appreciative. Gallup just gave us the highest rating. The highest on record.

I like this stuff. I really get it. Maybe I have a natural ability. We think it’s going to have a very good ending. We’re going to win faster than people think. I hope.

This blindsided the world! Who could have ever predicted a thing like this? This was something that nobody has ever thought could happen to this country.

I’ve always known this is a real, this is a pandemic. I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic. I always treated the Chinese Virus very seriously.

If you’re talking about the virus, no, that’s not under control for anyplace in the world. I was talking about what we’re doing is under control, but I’m not talking about the virus. I didn’t say Easter. It was just an aspiration. I am giving consideration to a QUARANTINE.

So you’re talking about 2.2 million deaths. If we could hold that down…between 100,000 and 200,000, and we all together have done a very good job. START MAKING VENTILATORS, NOW!!!!!! FORD, GET GOING ON VENTILATORS, FAST!!!!!! Invoke “P”. I want our life back again.

It was nobody’s fault. No, just things that happened. I don’t take responsibility at all.

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racheljulie twitterde op woensdag 01-04-2020 om 00:21:41 I’m a physician at a hospital in NYC and THIS IS THE “PPE” I WAS JUST HANDED for my shift. Our federal government has completely failed its health care workers. #GetUsPPE https://t.co/bEh11ra7Ee reageer retweet

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stengel twitterde op woensdag 01-04-2020 om 00:30:01 Trump falsehood: "NY got off to a very late start." NY was far ahead of Trump and federal government, with quarantining and staying at home. Trump was still saying it would go away when Cuomo was ringing alarm bells. reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 01-04-2020 om 03:40:37 Statement from Cuomo's communications director in response to the White House coronavirus brieifng: "This is not the time to debate but the states were not slow to respond - the federal government was absent." reageer retweet

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NewsHour twitterde op woensdag 01-04-2020 om 03:45:00 It has become a grim ritual outside New York City’s hospitals: workers in protective gear loading the bodies of coronavirus victims into refrigerated trailers. https://t.co/bpO5VLBvl9 reageer retweet

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It has become a grim ritual outside New York City’s hospitals: workers in protective gear loading the bodies of coronavirus victims into refrigerated trailers.

A surge in deaths in the epicenter of the crisis in the U.S. has overwhelmed the city’s permanent morgues and filled storage spaces in many hospitals to capacity. The Federal Emergency Management Agency is sending 85 refrigerated trucks to serve as temporary morgues, the city said.

It’s been that way for days at Brooklyn Hospital Center, where a worker Tuesday wheeled out a gurney carrying a body covered in white plastic, a forklift operator carefully raised a body into the trailer and undertakers came to claim the remains of yet another of the city’s nearly 1,000 coronavirus dead.

The hospital said in a statement that the “unprecedented crisis calls for extraordinary measures” and that extra storage is needed “to accommodate the tragic spike in deaths, placing a strain on the entire system of care — from hospitals to funeral homes.”

“Grieving families cannot quickly make arrangements, and their loved ones who have passed are remaining in hospitals longer, thus the need for this accommodation,” the hospital in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene neighborhood said.

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stevenmazie twitterde op woensdag 01-04-2020 om 04:36:17 Listening to the wail of ambulance sirens in Brooklyn. More every night. Every few minutes. This is terrible. reageer retweet