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morepork wrote: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.

morepork wrote: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.

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

Digby wrote:(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

morepork wrote:Speaking of strategy:



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

What a complete little bitch.

Digby wrote: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

Sandydragon wrote:

Digby wrote: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.

Mikey Brown wrote:Oof. Check out that new press secretary.

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