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Als je niet begrijpt dat opkomst relevant is dan snap je er niet veel van.quote:Op dinsdag 31 maart 2020 20:07 schreef Lord-Ronddraai het volgende:
De mensen die zorgen dat Trump aan de macht blijft zijn per definitie de mensen die op hem stemmen. Niet de mensen die niet op hem stemmendat je zoiets simpels nog niet begrijpt zeg.
Ja, een vliegdekschip is wel bij uitstek geschikt als kweekvijver voor corona met 5600 man aan boord. Hey, mischien kunnen ze er een hospitaal schip heen sturen? Oh...wacht...quote:
Ondertussen op een andere drijvende petridish:. ....twitter: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
I've never seen anything like this.
...en msnbc is maar gestopt en gaat nu over op een fact check. Mooi.
"Bleach is healthy. It's mostly water. And we are mostly water. Therefore, we are bleach."
Ja al je one liners zeg je altijd dat ik het niet snap. Kijk eens in de spiegel, je kunt niet eens met een beter argument komen dan: wie niet met ons is is tegen ons. Gesproken zoals W. Bush en waarschijnlijk een hoop dictators.quote:
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Als je niet begrijpt dat opkomst relevant is dan snap je er niet veel van.
Het is in de briefing ter sprake gekomenquote:Mitch komt ook weer wat roepen. Al op 31 januari werd besloten dat er geen getuigen zouden komen en was het proces effectief voorbij.twitter: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
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?
JUST IN: McConnell says Dem impeachment push distracted government from coronavirus threat 
twitter: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
@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 twitter: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
“The fundamental cause of the trouble in the modern world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”— Bertrand Russell
Trump leest voor uit eigen werk. Geniaal! En de stabiliteit spat ervan af ook
A Trump fireside chat — in his own (unfortunate) words
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A Trump fireside chat — in his own (unfortunate) words
quote: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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“The fundamental cause of the trouble in the modern world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”— Bertrand Russell
Die vrouw snapt duidelijk niet wat lose lose is. Als hij zegt dat het hem niets uitmaakt is dat geen loss voor hem. Daarbij als je weet hoe Trump en zijn supporters denken dan weet je dat logica niks uitmaakt. Hij is inconsistent genoeg dat hij tegelijkertijd kan claimen dat het hem niets uitmaakt en dat hij er last van had en als hij het niet tegelijkertijd doet ontkent hij gewoon dat hij ooit het andere heeft gezegd.
Dit is maar één van de vele tweets van dit soort die ik tegenkom:
twitter: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
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. 
“The fundamental cause of the trouble in the modern world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”— Bertrand Russell
Trump beweerde in de briefing dat sommige staten te laat reageerden:
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Reactie Cuomo:twitter: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
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. twitter: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
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." [ Bericht 24% gewijzigd door Kijkertje op 01-04-2020 05:03:39 ]
“The fundamental cause of the trouble in the modern world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”— Bertrand Russell
De slachtoffers worden opgeslagen in koelwagens ....
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Surge in deaths overwhelms New York’s morgues, hospitalstwitter: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
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. quote: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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twitter: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
Listening to the wail of ambulance sirens in Brooklyn. More every night. Every few minutes. This is terrible. [ Bericht 14% gewijzigd door Kijkertje op 01-04-2020 06:01:43 ]
“The fundamental cause of the trouble in the modern world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”— Bertrand Russell
Het plan van Trump voor 'drive through testing parking lots' dat hier nog triomfantelijk gemeld werd door iemand als bewijs van zijn doortastende optreden is ook een enorm succes!
twitter:CristinaAlesci twitterde op woensdag 01-04-2020 om 02:19:20 NEWS: Remember when Trump announced drive-thru #CovidTesting for Americans at Target, Walgreens, Walmart & CVS parking lots?
While these retailers have ~30K locations combined, only 5 locations offer testing as of today
story from @kaitlancollins & me https://t.co/dIFSz979ll reageer retweet
NEWS: Remember when Trump announced drive-thru
“The fundamental cause of the trouble in the modern world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”— Bertrand Russell
De dokter van de stiekeme opname in het Elmhurst Ziekenhuis NY waarmee ze haar baan riskeerde is nu zelf besmet met het virus. Gelukkig heeft ze (vooralsnog) milde symptomen.
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En zij zal echt niet de enige zijn van het personeel dat ziek wordt waardoor de ziekenhuizen nog meer onder druk komen te staan.twitter:brianmrosenthal twitterde op woensdag 01-04-2020 om 01:16:12 Last week, Dr. Colleen Smith risked her job to show the world what was happening at NY's Elmhurst Hospital.
Now, she herself has tested positive for #coronavirus. So far her symptoms are mild.
If you missed her powerful video with the NYT, here it is: https://t.co/0AGEJ77Qpw reageer retweet
Last week, Dr. Colleen Smith risked her job to show the world what was happening at NY's Elmhurst Hospital.[ Bericht 4% gewijzigd door Kijkertje op 01-04-2020 04:41:53 ]
“The fundamental cause of the trouble in the modern world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”— Bertrand Russell
Ze heeft dan ook gewaarschuwd eh voor het gebrek aan beschermend materiaal. Daarnaast blijkt uit dit alles dat dit virus bijna net zo verdorven besmettelijk is als de tiefus destijds.quote:Op woensdag 1 april 2020 04:31 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
De dokter van de stiekeme opname in het Elmhurst Ziekenhuis NY waarmee ze haar baan riskeerde is nu zelf besmet met het virus. Gelukkig heeft ze (vooralsnog) milde symptomen.En zij zal echt niet de enige zijn van het personeel dat ziek wordt waardoor de ziekenhuizen nog meer onder druk komen te staan.twitter:brianmrosenthal twitterde op woensdag 01-04-2020 om 01:16:12 Last week, Dr. Colleen Smith risked her job to show the world what was happening at NY's Elmhurst Hospital.
Now, she herself has tested positive for #coronavirus. So far her symptoms are mild.
If you missed her powerful video with the NYT, here it is: https://t.co/0AGEJ77Qpw reageer retweet
Zo te zien spreekt ze meerdere talen waaronder het Russisch.quote:
De dokter van de stiekeme opname in het Elmhurst Ziekenhuis NY waarmee ze haar baan riskeerde is nu zelf besmet met het virus. Gelukkig heeft ze (vooralsnog) milde symptomen.En zij zal echt niet de enige zijn van het personeel dat ziek wordt waardoor de ziekenhuizen nog meer onder druk komen te staan.twitter:brianmrosenthal twitterde op woensdag 01-04-2020 om 01:16:12 Last week, Dr. Colleen Smith risked her job to show the world what was happening at NY's Elmhurst Hospital.
Now, she herself has tested positive for #coronavirus. So far her symptoms are mild.
If you missed her powerful video with the NYT, here it is: https://t.co/0AGEJ77Qpw reageer retweet
https://health.usnews.com/doctors/colleen-smith-915974
Deze is een goede vrouw. Ze verdient steun en middelen.
Wat is dit nu weer?twitter:realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 31-03-2020 om 21:52:52 My proposal to the politically correct Automobile Companies would lower the average price of a car to consumers by more than $3500, while at the same time making the cars substantially safer. Engines would run smoother. Positive impact on the environment! Foolish executives! reageer retweet
My proposal to the politically correct Automobile Companies would lower the average price of a car to consumers by more than $3500, while at the same time making the cars substantially safer. Engines would run smoother. Positive impact on the environment! Foolish executives!
O ja deze was ik alweer helemaal vergeten: Dr. Nancy Messonnier (directeur van CDC’s National Centre for Immunisation and Respiratory Diseases) waarschuwde begin maart voor het virus maar omdat de aandelen zakten werd ze door Trump & Co snel buitenspel gezet werd.twitter:atrupar twitterde op woensdag 01-04-2020 om 05:48:03 Remember when Trump got mad at & sidelined the CDC’s Nancy Messonnier b/c stocks sank after she said on Feb 25 that coronavirus would result in “severe” life disruption? Turns out she was right & then some.
Meanwhile, Trump the next day talked about virus disappearing by itself. reageer retweet
Remember when Trump got mad at & sidelined the CDC’s Nancy Messonnier b/c stocks sank after she said on Feb 25 that coronavirus would result in “severe” life disruption? Turns out she was right & then some.De beelden:quote:“It's not so much a question of if this will happen any more, but rather more a question of exactly when this will happen … We are asking the American public to work with us to prepare in the expectation that this could be bad”
Nooit meer wat haar gehoord, het werd toen snel vervangen door veel downplayen en happy talk.twitter:CDCgov twitterde op dinsdag 10-03-2020 om 02:14:45 CDC Briefing Room: Dr. Nancy Messonnier gives an update on #COVID19. For more info visit https://t.co/1ifchVQ9jm https://t.co/50P7N2OoV4 reageer retweet
CDC Briefing Room: Dr. Nancy Messonnier gives an update on
“The fundamental cause of the trouble in the modern world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”— Bertrand Russell
Ja dat is deze:quote:Wat is dit nu weer?twitter:realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 31-03-2020 om 21:52:52 My proposal to the politically correct Automobile Companies would lower the average price of a car to consumers by more than $3500, while at the same time making the cars substantially safer. Engines would run smoother. Positive impact on the environment! Foolish executives! reageer retweet
twitter:kylegriffin1 twitterde op dinsdag 31-03-2020 om 17:45:04 The Trump admin rolled back ambitious Obama-era vehicle mileage standards, raising the ceiling on damaging fossil fuel emissions for years to come and gutting one of the United States' biggest efforts against climate change.
https://t.co/KKEtBC2Zvn reageer retweet
“The fundamental cause of the trouble in the modern world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”— Bertrand Russell
Wat een toeval.....twitter:TVietor08 twitterde op woensdag 01-04-2020 om 05:47:02 “During the same time period reflected on reports filed late Tuesday, @SenatorLoeffler also sold shares in retail stores such as Lululemon and T.J. Maxx and invested in a company that makes COVID-19 protective garments” https://t.co/mmhPtbA35O reageer retweet
“During the same time period reflected on reports filed late Tuesday, @SenatorLoeffler also sold shares in retail stores such as Lululemon and T.J. Maxx and invested in a company that makes COVID-19 protective garments” 
In het begin was de briefing ook vrij ingetogen. Het dringt blijkbaar eindelijk tot hem door hoe ernstig de situatie is. Het zal wel meegeholpen hebben dat hij beelden zag van ziekenhuizen in NY en hij vertelde het verhaal van 'een vriend' waarmee het eerst goed ging en nu in coma ligt. Voor het eerst stonden er ook minder mensen achter hem en op gepaste afstand van elkaar.quote:
Er is wel een knop omgegaan bij Trump nu.
https://www.nu.nl/coronav(...)en-toe-te-laten.html
Natuurlijk verpestte hij het daarna weer door de vele leugens en een misplaatste opmerking hoe mensen 'genoten' van zijn briefings. Hij liet het dan ook ruim 2 uur duren want hij had toch niets anders te doen zei hij
Video:
twitter:atrupar twitterde op woensdag 01-04-2020 om 01:11:24 "I have nothing else to do ... should we keep [the news conference] going?" -- Trump https://t.co/5rirHWlDji reageer retweet
twitter:atrupar twitterde op woensdag 01-04-2020 om 01:41:49 "I'm sure people are enjoying it. I will say this: It's an incredibly dark topic, an incredibly horrible topic, and it's incredibly interesting. That's why everybody is going crazy, they're going crazy, they can't get enough of it" -- Trump 😳 https://t.co/xR1A4F2Vhy reageer retweet
twitter:marinafang twitterde op woensdag 01-04-2020 om 01:47:43 "They can't get enough of it."
Of course reality show president thinks this is some kind of reality show we're all binge-watching...rather than a pandemic that is killing people. https://t.co/wmvTObvuwc reageer retweet
"They can't get enough of it."[ Bericht 4% gewijzigd door Kijkertje op 01-04-2020 07:30:29 ]
“The fundamental cause of the trouble in the modern world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”— Bertrand Russell
Deze man leeft in een compleet andere wereld.
Elect a clown, expect a circus.
Elect a clown, expect a circus.
Zuiger van het FOK!-OMT
The Boston Globe maakt Trump helemaal af.
quote:A president unfit for a pandemic
Much of the suffering and death coming was preventable. The president has blood on his hands.
“Things fall apart; the center cannot hold,” wrote W.B. Yeats in 1919. A century later, it’s clear: The epicenter cannot hold. Catastrophic decisions in the White House have doomed the world’s richest country to a season of untold suffering.
The United States, long a beacon of scientific progress and medical innovation with its world-class research institutions and hospitals, is now the hub of a global pandemic that has infected at least 745,000 people and already claimed more than 35,000 lives worldwide. Now that the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States — more than 140,000 — has surpassed that of any other nation, Americans are consigned for the coming weeks to watching the illness fell family members and friends, and to fearing for their own fate as they watch death tolls rise.
While the spread of the novel coronavirus has been aggressive around the world, much of the profound impact it will have here in the United States was preventable. As the American public braces itself for the worst of this crisis, it’s worth remembering that the reach of the virus here is not attributable to an act of God or a foreign invasion, but a colossal failure of leadership.
The US now has more confirmed cases of coronavirus than any other country. Here’s how we got there
The outbreak that began in China demanded a White House that could act swiftly and competently to protect public health, informed by science and guided by compassion and public service. It required an administration that could quickly deploy reliable tests around the nation to isolate cases and trace and contain the virus’s spread, as South Korea effectively did, as well as to manufacture and distribute scarce medical supplies around the country. It begged for a president of the United States to deliver clear, consistent, scientifically sound messages on the state of the epidemic and its solutions, to reassure the public amid their fear, and to provide steady guidance to cities and states. And it demanded a leader who would put the country’s well-being first, above near-term stock market returns and his own reelection prospects, and who would work with other nations to stem the tide of COVID-19 cases around the world.
What we have instead is a president epically outmatched by a global pandemic. A president who in late January, when the first confirmed coronavirus case was announced in the United States, downplayed the risk and insisted all was under control. A president who, rather than aggressively test all those exposed to the virus, said he’d prefer not to bring ashore passengers on a contaminated cruise ship so as to keep national case numbers (artificially) low. A president who, consistent with his mistrust and undermining of scientific fact, has misled the public about unproven cures for COVID-19, and who baited-and-switched last week about whether the country ought to end social distancing to open up by Easter, and then, on Saturday, about whether he’d impose a quarantine on New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. A president who has pledged to oversee the doling out of the $500 billion in corporate bailout money in the latest stimulus package, some of which will go to the travel industry in which hisfamily is invested. A president who spent a good chunk of a recent press conference complaining about how hard it is for a rich man to serve in the White House even as Americans had already begun to lose their jobs, their health care, and their lives. A president who has reinforced racial stigma by calling the contagion a “Chinese virus” and failed to collaborate adequately with other countries to contain their outbreaks and study the disease. A president who evades responsibility and refuses to acknowledge, let alone own, the bitter truth of National Institutes of Health scientist Dr. Anthony Fauci’s testimony: that the country’s testing rollout was “a failing.”
Timing is everything in pandemic response: It can make the difference between a contained local outbreak that endures a few weeks and an uncontrollable contagion that afflicts millions. The Trump administration has made critical errors over the past two months, choosing early on to develop its own diagnostic test, which failed, instead of adopting the World Health Organization’s test — a move that kneecapped the US coronavirus response and, by most public health experts’ estimation, will cost thousands if not hundreds of thousands of American lives. Rather than making the expected federal effort to mobilize rapidly to distribute needed gowns, masks, and ventilators to ill-equipped hospitals and to the doctors and nurses around the country who are left unprotectedtreating a burgeoning number of patients, the administration has instead been caught outbidding individual states (including Massachusetts) trying to purchase medical supplies. It has dragged its heels on invoking the Defense Production Act to get scarce, sorely needed ventilators and masks into production so that they can be distributed to hospitals nationwide as they hit their peaks in the cycle of the epidemic. It has left governors and mayors in the lurch, begging for help. The months the administration wasted with prevarication about the threat and its subsequent missteps will amount to exponentially more COVID-19 cases than were necessary. In other words, the president has blood on his hands.
It’s not too much for Americans to ask of their leaders that they be competent and informed when responding to a crisis of historic proportions. Instead, they have a White House marred by corruption and incompetence, whose mixed messages roil the markets and rock their sense of security. Instead of compassion and clarity, the president, in his near-daily addresses to the nation, embodies callousness, self-concern, and a lack of compass. Dangling unverified cures and possible quarantines in front of the public like reality TV cliffhangers, he unsettles rather than reassures. The pandemic reveals that the worst features of this presidency are not merely late-night comedy fodder; they come at the cost of lives, livelihoods, and our collective psyche.
Many pivotal decision points in this crisis are past us, but more are still to come. For our own sake, every American should be hoping for a miraculous turnaround — and that the too-little, too-late strategy of the White House task force will henceforth at least prevent contagion and economic ruin of the grandest scale. But come November, there must be a reckoning for the lives lost, and for the vast, avoidable suffering about to ensue under the president’s watch.
Er is helemaal geen knop omgegaan bij dat zielig hoopje mens. Hij ziet er een kans om als "Hero of the People" op te treden en duikt daar natuurlijk weer zonder plan in. Wat moet er dan met die mensen gebeuren als ze aan wal zijn? Is natuurlijk nog totaal geen plan voor.quote:
Er is wel een knop omgegaan bij Trump nu.
https://www.nu.nl/coronav(...)en-toe-te-laten.html
Als mensen maar hard genoeg klappen voor hem dat hij het zo goed gedaan heeft.
Ik voorspel richting 250.000 doden binnen nu en een paar jaar wegens corona door deze lamzak.
Dat doen ze al 4 jaar. En ze worden er steeds beter in. Op gegeven moment zullen reporters allemaal real time fact checks doen. En die vragen op Trump af vuren. Dan zijn het ALLEMAAL "slechte" reporters. Het zal hopelijk een tijdperk worden die het eind van propaganda inluidt.quote:
...en msnbc is maar gestopt en gaat nu over op een fact check. Mooi.
Mag ik je vandaag weer eens irriteren?
250.000 over par.quote:
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Er is helemaal geen knop omgegaan bij dat zielig hoopje mens. Hij ziet er een kans om als "Hero of the People" op te treden en duikt daar natuurlijk weer zonder plan in. Wat moet er dan met die mensen gebeuren als ze aan wal zijn? Is natuurlijk nog totaal geen plan voor.
Als mensen maar hard genoeg klappen voor hem dat hij het zo goed gedaan heeft.
Ik voorspel richting 250.000 doden binnen nu en een paar jaar wegens corona door deze lamzak.
Mag ik je vandaag weer eens irriteren?
