Trump

[Mellsblue]

Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse. Jared Kushner is now the face of the US pandemic response effort. What a fucking joke. Now we get sound bites from Dr. Jared's extensive research on FaceBook. Dr. Jared says:

“We’ve done things that the government has never done before, quicker than they’ve ever done it before and what we’re seeing now is we found a lot of supplies in the country,” he said. “We’ve been distributing them where we anticipate there will be needs and also trying to make sure that we’re hitting places where there are needs.”

The allocation of resources, Kushner said, is based on data submitted by cities and states. But Kushner made a point to note that many of the requests are influenced by predicted estimates, which he said are “not the realistic projections.”

“What you have all over the country is a lot of people are asking for things that they don’t necessarily need at the moment,” he said.

Dr. Jared is suggesting sacrificing preparedness for an extremely inappropriate interpretation of government as an off-shoot love child of supply-side economics and terminal pig ignorance. It can all be parsed out in a power point presentation about "management".



This state of affairs is completely unacceptable. For the love of God, stand aside and let actual expertise guide the response. This is past being comical.

You could use this as a case study when you finally get to do that MBA you’ve always dreamed of.

[morepork]

I have sufficient stocks of toilet paper thank you very much.

[Digby]

The President's daughter wife's husband says he's been instructed to break down whatever barriers are in the way, Covid19 was heard to reply "You can deny me, you can decide to turn your face away. No matter 'cause there's something inside..."

[canta_brian]

Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse. Jared Kushner is now the face of the US pandemic response effort. What a fucking joke. Now we get sound bites from Dr. Jared's extensive research on FaceBook. Dr. Jared says:

“We’ve done things that the government has never done before, quicker than they’ve ever done it before and what we’re seeing now is we found a lot of supplies in the country,” he said. “We’ve been distributing them where we anticipate there will be needs and also trying to make sure that we’re hitting places where there are needs.”

The allocation of resources, Kushner said, is based on data submitted by cities and states. But Kushner made a point to note that many of the requests are influenced by predicted estimates, which he said are “not the realistic projections.”

“What you have all over the country is a lot of people are asking for things that they don’t necessarily need at the moment,” he said.

Dr. Jared is suggesting sacrificing preparedness for an extremely inappropriate interpretation of government as an off-shoot love child of supply-side economics and terminal pig ignorance. It can all be parsed out in a power point presentation about "management".



This state of affairs is completely unacceptable. For the love of God, stand aside and let actual expertise guide the response. This is past being comical.

Jared has a vested interest in seeing at least one “orange” boomer doomed by covid.

[morepork]

I cannot wait to see the back of this lying, feckless, intellectually handicapped whining fat cunt.

[Sandydragon]

I cannot wait to see the back of this lying, feckless, intellectually handicapped whining fat cunt.

You and anyone with an IQ above 75.

[Digby]

There must be some thickos who vote for the Dems

[morepork]

10,000 dead.

MAGA

Fucking arsehole.

[Digby]

(a) the country is only still together because of Don, and (b) if he keeps deaths below 200,000 (or is it 2 million now?) it'll show he was right to call it a pandemic all along and the country is beyond lucky to have received the hard work and leadership shown by agent orange

[Son of Mathonwy]

(a) the country is only still together because of Don, and (b) if he keeps deaths below 200,000 (or is it 2 million now?) it'll show he was right to call it a pandemic all along and the country is beyond lucky to have received the hard work and leadership shown by agent orange

Anything good - Trump did it
Anything bad - someone else did it

Narcissism as PR strategy.

[morepork]

Speaking of strategy:



I mean, what the actual cunting fuck??? Talk about washing your hands.

What a complete little bitch.

[Digby]

The WHO does seem overly sensitive to China, and now either gets a lot of funding from China or sees China directing money in a way it perceives as being useful. And the WHO does have the appearance of being corrupt in all that. Which isn't to say Trump's comment there seems helpful, timely or presidential

[Mikey Brown]

Speaking of strategy:



I mean, what the actual cunting fuck??? Talk about washing your hands.

What a complete little bitch.

It’s a game show, I’m telling you.

[Sandydragon]

The WHO does seem overly sensitive to China, and now either gets a lot of funding from China or sees China directing money in a way it perceives as being useful. And the WHO does have the appearance of being corrupt in all that. Which isn't to say Trump's comment there seems helpful, timely or presidential

My thoughts exactly. When the dust settles on all this, a review of how the WHO operates wouldn't be a bad idea. Is it too nervous of talking the truth, is it properly funded, what is the point of it, etc?

But for Trump to claim that he acted swiftly to mitigate the risks from this disease is laughable.

[Digby]

The WHO does seem overly sensitive to China, and now either gets a lot of funding from China or sees China directing money in a way it perceives as being useful. And the WHO does have the appearance of being corrupt in all that. Which isn't to say Trump's comment there seems helpful, timely or presidential

My thoughts exactly. When the dust settles on all this, a review of how the WHO operates wouldn't be a bad idea. Is it too nervous of talking the truth, is it properly funded, what is the point of it, etc?

But for Trump to claim that he acted swiftly to mitigate the risks from this disease is laughable.

Trump did of course just fire the IG who reported him to Congress when the WH failed to follow law and notify the relevant committee in Congress in timely fashion, so much like China we now find the USA responds to the interests of the elite in situ as opposed to the more standard path of responding to the wider elite.

Trump has also just fired the chap who was supposed to have oversight of where Trump is going send the $2 trillion he just got in the relief/stimulus package, a line now commonly being used to describe Trump's likely take this was inspired by one J. Kushner, 'it's not the States' money, it's ours'

[Mikey Brown]

Oof. Check out that new press secretary.

[Digby]

Oof. Check out that new press secretary.

She's disappeared down the rabbit hole of alternative facts "We will not see diseases like the coronavirus come here, we will not see terrorism come here and isn’t it refreshing when contrasting it with the awful presidency of President Obama.'

[Sandydragon]

Wow. She could be working for Sarah Palin with an outlook like that.

It stuns me that Trump is still in with a chance at winning the next election

[Digby]

I remain concerned too he'll be presented with a chance to cancel the next election

[gransoporro]

I remain concerned too he'll be presented with a chance to cancel the next election

This. Or to bring voter suppression back to Wild West ages.

Let rural America vote, but the cities will have to risk contagion to exercise their rights...

Addition: he just tweeted about it, and he seems to suggest that high turnouts are against Republican interest!!! Another low for the office of the President of the United States.

[Mikey Brown]

Huzzah!

[J Dory]

Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren getting as far as they did, progress? Who next? Sad day for 'murica.

[morepork]

Warren would be a breath of sweet Massachusetts air right now.

[J Dory]

She's an arse kicking politician and another example of why women should be leading countries. I like Bernie too, his agro, his hair do. Hopefully Biden can come through and achieve...something.

[Digby]

Worst case Biden isn't going to be Trump so he's an easy choice, but beyond that he doesn't look interesting as such. The three candidates spread over the last two general elections are of astonishingly little value and can't possibly represent close to the best from within a country so large