March 13, 2020

Peter Wehner argues in The Atlantic (paywall, some free articles) that The Trump Presidency Is Over. It took until the second half of Trump’s first term, but the crisis has arrived in the form of the coronavirus pandemic, and it’s hard to name a president who has been as overwhelmed...

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  • March 13, 2020

I wish I had the answer to my feelings on this.   Thanks to Bush and Co.,  we saw the Guard fighting in Iraq.  This was not the National Guard’s job in my opinion but we saw them there.    I remember seeing the Guard at Kent State.  I was not...

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  • March 13, 2020

Kudos to Newsweek for reminding us of this: As U.S. health officials have expressed concern over the insufficient amount of testing and overall unpreparedness in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, a 2009 stimulus bill has gained attention for the removal of funding for pandemic preparations. Politico senior writer Michael...

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  • March 13, 2020

Help Change Our Cruel and Dangerous Immigration Policies For a better future,  Debra Schrishuhn and Dan O’Neal for Alan, Mike F., Janis, Mike H., Donna, Dr. Bill, Kimberly, and Bryan—your PDA National Team Pitch In Time and/or MoneyTo Elect Humane Candidates   Tell Congress To BlockTrump’s Impotent Wall   Progressive...

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  • March 13, 2020

Betting pool: which member of the Coronavirus Task Force will contract COVID-19 from Typhoid Trump. x Question: Do you take any responsibility for the lag in testing? Trump: No I don’t take responsibility at all pic.twitter.com/YgTRBAx1ZU— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) March 13, 2020 x My Q: You said you don’t take responsibility...

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  • March 13, 2020

We’re at a crucial point, with the Coronavirus, with the economy collapsing and America’s political future hanging in the balance. At this time, Joe Biden seems poised to the Democratic nomination. To this I have to warn: do NOT nominate Joe Biden. It would be an absolute disaster, not just in 2020...

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  • March 13, 2020

Little man can’t be wrong … x Q: Do you take responsibility for the lag in #coronavirus testing? Trump: “No, I don't take responsibility at all.” pic.twitter.com/bbFbZ7cCH3— Pod Save America (@PodSaveAmerica) March 13, 2020 REPORTER: “Dr. Fauci said earlier this week that the lag in testing was in fact a...

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  • March 13, 2020

If the sardonic parody of the title of this piece, were not so serious, it would be funny. The President of the United States by trade and some would say derisively, by heredity, is a huckster. He invented a bogus university, repackaged bottled water and steaks with his name on...

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  • March 13, 2020

Former Obama adviser Jason Furman, former chairman of the council of economic advisers, says the current stock market crash is more like 1929 than 2008. He lays the procedures that given the political will, will mitigate the damage. The current Stock Market crash like 1929, not 2008 x x YouTube...

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  • March 13, 2020

Some big news today out of Arizona: x ARIZONABiden 50% (+8)Trump 42% Sanders 48% (+5)Trump 43%.#AZsen:Kelly (D) 48% (+12)McSally (R-inc) 36%@LatinoDecisions/@UnivisionNews/@ASU 3/6-11https://t.co/buDV0UDC1D — Political Polls (@Politics_Polls) March 13, 2020 Here’s some more proof: Click here for the full results. Let’s keep up the momentum and flip the seat. Click here...

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  • March 13, 2020

And you were worried Donald Trump didn’t have a handle on this. Jared Kushner, having already ended the opioid epidemic and brokered Middle East peace, is now working on the COVID-19 crisis. Saying he’s in over his head would be an understatement. But he’s on it, folks! Don’t worry. Because Facebook...

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  • March 13, 2020

On Saturday, Trump and Brazilian President Bolsonaro met at Mar-A-Lago. Yesterday, following reports that his communications aid, who was also present, has tested positive, Bolsonaro agreed to get a test. The result, according to the Bralizian newspaper O Dia: Primeiro exame de Bolsonaro teria testado positivo para coronavírus You don’t...

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  • March 13, 2020

More Trump bafflegab this morning as Individual-1 spins another false narrative of disinformation to distract from his incompetence. Trump is never to blame, don't cha know! x …. Their response to H1N1 Swine Flu was a full scale disaster, with thousands dying, and nothing meaningful done to fix the testing...

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  • March 13, 2020

Which is the real “shithole” country. airfare to Senegal $700, COVID-19 tests in 4 hours x Washington Post’s West Africa bureau chief 👇🏼 Senegal is testing people and giving results within 4 hours. Senegal’s per capita income is less than $3,000. https://t.co/s0BGBEVyoH— Eric Umansky (@ericuman) March 12, 2020 The CDC initially chose to develop its...

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  • March 13, 2020

There’s no update this week. It's not enough to just focus on Trump and his failings. Yes, he's a horrible failure as a president, but if you want to beat Trump, and stop all future Trumps you need to do more than focus on his faults. You need to counter him....

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  • March 13, 2020

“I’d like to keep the numbers low. ……That wasn’t our fault.” Often Trump blurts out his actual intentions. Trump has always been motivated by re-election, and with the current travel ban, profit for his resorts. The WH failure to do the kind of aggressive VOVID-19 testing that other countries did...

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  • March 13, 2020

Ryan Cooper at The Week doesn’t mince words: The outbreak of coronavirus has become a full-blown epidemic in the United States. The NBA has suspended its season after Utah Jazz player Rudy Gobert came down with the disease (after scoffing at disease precautions, and possibly infecting many others as a result)....

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  • March 13, 2020

Tonight is special! We’re protesting for the 365th time (a whole year!) since we started demonstrating 606 days ago on July 16, 2018! We’ve made it through the second winter at the #KremlinAnnex! The magnolia trees are blooming! Thank you, #resisters for your evergreen support! pic.twitter.com/5zj3YqFx3v — Kremlin Annex (@KremlinAnnex)...

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  • March 13, 2020