The 170th Week of Donnie's DOOM!

[JackLuis]

As the 170th week of the PeeResidents Mis-Administration opens the economy is in tatters, but yet:


Why the stock market’s ‘very strange’ reaction to the latest news may be as ‘insane’ as it looks

The coronavirus pandemic initially brought week after week of devastating drops in the stock market. But in recent days and weeks, Politico reporters Ben White and Renuka Rasayam noted, stock prices have been improving dramatically — even though the health and economic crisis on the ground seems far from over. They called this development “very strange.”

“In the face of some of the worst economic numbers in American history,” White and Rasayam explain, “cratering energy prices and a freshly dysfunctional Congress, investors are sending stock prices higher. To many, this may seem insane. And it quite possibly is insane.”

“There are several reasons Wall Street is defying the terrible economic news,” White and Rasayam assert. “One is bullish talk from the Trump administration about getting the economy running again in May. Another is a general belief that the efforts by Congress to flood the economy with cash will help ensure that, once the doors finally open again, there will be a massive surge in rehiring and a rapid snapback in economic growth.”

With Millions idled by the sequestering of the populace, but also by the disruption of supply chains the Government can't bring itself to put out Unemployment %ages. Trump was counting on his "Booming Economic numbers" to carry him on to victory, this now looks like impending DOOM for DONNIE DIPSHIT

Box Scores do not look promising as deaths yesterday topped 2,000! Current Numbers:
USA
521,714 Total Cases
+18,838 New Cases
20,064 Deaths so far

 

[JackLuis]

Trump has bluffed his way through his entire career — and now the coronavirus is taking him out

Bluffing is what Trump does. He gets up in the morning and looks at himself in the mirror and, instead of a bald man with pitted, sagging skin and lifeless eyes, he sees Mr. Handsome, the swordsman who bedded a thousand beauties, the billionaire who made a thousand brilliant deals, the Most Powerful Man in the World. That’s why at his so-called coronavirus press briefings, whenever he is confronted with a question quoting his own previous statements, he yells, “Fake news!” He bluffs his way through, just like he always did. Everything other than Trump himself is fake. To Trump, only he himself is real.

And that’s why we find ourselves where we are with the coronavirus. For three months, Trump thought he could treat the virus like he treated his bankers, like he treated his contractors, like he treated his wives and girlfriends, like he treated the whole fucking Republican Party. He would bluff his way through. All he had to say was that this building was the tallest and the best, and it was! All he had to say was that he was a billionaire, and he was! All he had to say was that if you crossed him, he’d kill you with tweets, and nobody ever crossed him! All he had to say was that the virus was “going away,” that we had it “under control,” that the number of cases were “going to zero,” and all of that would come true!

Trump could bluff his way through marriages, sexual abuse allegations, bankruptcies … hell, he could even bluff his way into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. But he couldn’t bluff the virus. He doesn’t owe the virus any money. He hasn’t left the virus sobbing in some Reno hotel suite with no one to turn to. He can’t divorce the virus and remarry another, younger, prettier virus. He can’t slather the virus with orange pancake makeup and spray it into submission with swoops of combover cotton candy and fool everyone into believing it wasn’t really there.

Trump bluffed his way through everything else in his entire life, but he has finally tested positive. He’s on life support. He didn’t catch the virus. The virus caught him.

 

[JackLuis]

Trump’s last-ditch 2020 strategy is based on a perverse fantasy — and it’s scary as hell

“The Trump administration is pushing to reopen much of the country next month,” Matt Zapotosky, Josh Dawsey, Jose A. Del Real and William Wan report, noting that Trump, behind “closed doors,” has “sought a strategy for resuming business activity by May 1.”

This is, needless to say, scary as hell. We’re nowhere near conquering the coronavirus epidemic and, thanks to Trump’s deliberate negligence — born from his desire to conceal the spread of the virus — we have nothing close to the testing capacity necessary to start letting people congregate safely again. Unsurprisingly, the article caused a lot of panic and anger, and reasonably so: There is nothing but downside to “reopening” the economy without a plan to control the spread of the virus.

But not to get too 11th-level chess about it, Trump — or at least his allies — probably aren’t serious about this. Instead, the chatter about “reopening” the economy is very likely more of a political gambit than a serious suggestion.

Will we see an "Easter Uprising" with people fed up with Donnie's Depressing Dementia?

Will May Day bring the revolution??????

 

[KeithD]

What we'll see if anyone heeds Trump's restart is a second, larger wave of deaths in June--and Trumpettes who still refuse to get it.

 

[JackLuis]

Trump rambles about ‘genius’ coronavirus during long-winded briefing: ‘The germ has gotten so brilliant’

The leader of the free world rambled about his “brilliant enemy” during a coronavirus briefing that lasted two hours and sixteen minutes.

Allies of the White House had been quoted in the press urging President Donald Trump to keep his remarks short, but that advice has apparently been ignored.

“When critics (and allies) make suggestions to him and they become public – such as the briefings ought to be shorter – POTUS often prefers to do the opposite. We’re well past 90 minutes on this briefing,” New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman noted on Twitter as the briefing wore on.

“They develop drugs, like the antibiotics, you see it — antibiotics used to solve every problem,” Trump claimed.

“No, one of the biggest problems the world has is the germ has gotten so brilliant that the antibiotic can’t keep up with it, they’re constantly trying to come up with — a new. People go to a hospital and they catch — they go for a heart operation, that’s no problem, and they end up dying from problems,” Trump says. “You know the problems I’m talking about.”

So DJ is admitting he's not smarter than a single celled organism without a brain!

 

[JackLuis]

Ex-CDC director slams Trump’s ‘mind-boggling’ incompetence — and warns more ‘epic failures’ are coming

According to The Washington Post, former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Tom Frieden is disgusted with the “mind-boggling” incompetence of President Donald Trump’s administration in managing the public health crisis facing the nation.

“‘It’s mind-boggling, actually, the degree of disorganization,’ said Tom Frieden,” reported Lena H. Sun, William Wan, and Yasmeen Abutaleb. “The federal government has already squandered February and March, he noted, committing “epic failures” on testing kits, ventilator supply, protective equipment for health workers and contradictory public health communication. The next failure is already on its way, Frieden said, because ‘we’re not doing the things we need to be doing in April.'”

Trump is so focused on avoiding responsibility that he is not concerned with what his actions are doing to save the people. Just now he's so concerned with getting "back to normal" that he doesn't realize that it will never be "normal" again!

The report outlined how the main national efforts to combat the coronavirus pandemic are coming from state-level partnerships — rather than from the White House.

“A collection of governors, former government officials, disease specialists and nonprofits are pursuing a strategy that relies on the three pillars of disease control: Ramp up testing to identify people who are infected. Find everyone they interact with by deploying contact tracing on a scale America has never attempted before. And focus restrictions more narrowly on the infected and their contacts so the rest of society doesn’t have to stay in permanent lockdown,” said the report. “But there is no evidence yet the White House will pursue such a strategy.”

“Instead, the president and his top advisers have fixated almost exclusively on plans to reopen the U.S. economy by the end of the month, though they haven’t detailed how they will do so without triggering another outbreak,” said the report. “President Trump has been especially focused on creating a second coronavirus task force aimed at combating the economic ramifications of the virus.”

If the first task force wasn't up to the task of stemming the tide of DEATH, just think how his "Economy Task Force" will fuck up, with First Daughter leading it!

 

[JackLuis]

‘We did it the right way’: Trump claims vindication — but says we should remember all the coronavirus deaths

The United States leads the world in COVID-19 victims, with over 500,000 testing positive for coronavirus and over 20,000 dying from the virus.

But during a Saturday night appearance on Fox News, President Donald Trump gave an upbeat assessment of the situation.

“I think we’ll have – just a tremendous surge. I think it’s gonna be like a rocket ship. I really believe that. We’ll have to see what happens, but there’s a lot of things happening,” Trump told Jeanine Pirro.

Yes there are a lot of things happening. Governors are taking charge as the Fed's have bumble fucked their fuckery beyond imagination!

 

[JackLuis]

Trump Org pleads with Palm Beach County for help with their $88,338 golf course rent: report

President Donald Trump’s family company appears to be attempting to negotiate a rent decrease on the rent paid to a local government in Florida, The Palm Beach Post reported Saturday.

“Like other Palm Beach County businesses, the president’s golf club has been forced to close as the pandemic plays out. But there is that one major difference: The club is owned by the President of the United States, the commander-in-chief who made the call of when the country shut down and who will make the call on when America opens up for business again,” the newspaper reported

The paper obtained access to an email sent by Ed Raymundo, finance director at Mar-a-Lago and Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach on March 25th, inquiring about the company’s $88,338 monthly rent.

“This mandate has resulted in the cancellation of events and forced the Club to close many of it’s (cq) amenities leaving limited services available to our members,” Raymundo wrote. “In addition, with many New York based members, the Governor’s most recent order requiring individuals traveling from the tri-state area to self-quarantine further hampers our operation. Your direction in this is greatly appreciated.”

Golf is not an "Essential Service" Dipshit!

 

[JackLuis]

Trump’s playing some angle with medical supplies in the middle of a pandemic — but what is it?

Even in the midst of a historic public health crisis, Donald Trump remains as transactional as ever.

But that alone doesn’t explain the regime’s bizarre habit of seizing shipments of vitally important medical supplies on their way to hospitals and state and local health departments. Someone is obviously making a buck.

And part of the story is that Trump, a raging narcissist, likes being at the center of the action and requiring people to kiss his ring to get much-needed assistance. Trump has insisted that he alone would oversee the distribution of $2 trillion in relief funding, and investment firms and coal companies and everyone else is joining governors in personally reaching out to him for help. (This is almost certainly related to his decision to fire the inspector general who was supposed to act as a watchdog over that money.)

And no doubt, part of it is that Trump and his team of inexperienced loyalists are in way over their heads, and don’t have the competence to set up an equitable distribution system for ventilators and masks and other supplies that prioritizes the neediest.

But the most disturbing possibility is that the federal government is hoarding supplies while the pandemic hits urban areas and blue states hard in order to distribute it to rural communities and red states later, when they experience severe outbreaks, as is widely expected among public health experts

HHS confirmed Friday it would give hospitals and doctors money according to their historical share of revenue from the Medicare program for seniors — not according to their coronavirus burden.

That method is “woefully insufficient to address the financial challenges facing hospitals at this time, especially those located in ‘hot spot’ areas such as the New York City region,” Kenneth Raske, CEO of the Greater New York Hospital Association, said in a memo to association members.

States such as Minnesota, Nebraska and Montana, which the pandemic has touched relatively lightly, are getting more than $300,000 per reported COVID-19 case in the $30 billion, according to a Kaiser Health News analysis. On the other hand, New York, the worst-hit state, would receive only $12,000 per case.

 

[JackLuis]

The White House pushed FEMA to give its biggest coronavirus contract to a company that never even had to bid


Trump’s pandemic is our Cuban Missle Crisis — and he’s bungling it badly: forensic psychiatrist


GOP governor busts Trump for lying about states not needing supplies: ‘The president was on the call’


Chris Wallace slams Trump’s slow reaction to virus: ‘How much did those lost weeks cost us?’

Box Scores today!

USA
534,494 Total Cases

+1,615 New Cases

20,637 Total Deaths so far

+60 New Cases

30,548 Total Recovered

 

[JackLuis]

Trump’s coronavirus task force in chaos with the president being ‘one of the biggest obstacles’ to progress: WaPo

According to an extensive report by the Washington Post, the White House task force charged with stemming the deadly coronavirus pandemic is still struggling to get their arms around how to deal with the crisis and President Donald Trump is not helping matters.

With the report noting that there are multiple groups working on the COVID-19 response — described as a “bureaucratic nesting doll of groups with frequently competing aims and agendas” — the Post notes that the task force is lagging way behind where it should be.

“There is still no concerted plan for getting vital medical supplies to states, which are left to fight among themselves or seek favors from Trump. There is also no developed plan for what happens if cases or deaths spike as people begin to return to work, or how to respond if the coronavirus surges again in the fall, as many public health experts and administration officials fear,” the report states. “Two task force officials said that more important even than nationwide testing is surveillance — using data to make informed decisions about public health. But the administration has not fully grappled with the sheer manpower and resources required for an effort like contact tracing — and right now, there are not even enough coronavirus tests for those who need them, let alone the entire country.”

 

[JackLuis]

Adam Schiff drops the hammer on Trump’s COVID-19 bumbling: ‘It’s very hard to congressionally mandate competence’

Appearing remotely on MSNBC’s “AM Joy,” Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) served notice on Donald Trump that there will be a Congressional investigation into his administration’s bumbling coronavirus response and then took a shot out the president’s management abilities.

“We are passing bill after bill, appropriating the money, making sure we can buy the protective gear, that we have the money for ventilators and that we can accelerate the timetable for production,” Schiff explained. “But it is very hard for Congress to force the administration to spend money in a sensible fashion or sometimes even just spend it at all. If the president won’t really invoke the Defense Production Act and won’t use the teeth that it gives them to compel industries to produce these and do it now, it’s very hard for the Congress to insist on that without taking time.”

“In terms of forcing the administration to act cohesively, to try to reconcile the these, you know, three or four or five task forces in the administration that seem to be at odds with each other to handle this in a more rational way so you don’t have states bidding against other states and then outbid by the federal government for protective gear, it is very hard to congressionally mandate competence when the administration is incompetent,” he added.

It is especially hard when the Senate is controlled by DUMB FUCKING Rethuglicunts!!!

 

[JackLuis]

Ex-Wall Street exec drops bombshell prediction on damage Trump will unleash if he rushes businesses to reopen

Appearing on CNN early Sunday morning, a former Wall Street executive warned Donald Trump that, if he rushes the country to get back to normal before the doctors give the go-ahead, he could do damage that could take a decade to fix.

Speaking with host John King, Alexis Glick, who currently is the CEO of GENYOUth, was asked by the host about the president’s desire to get the economy up and going while the coronavirus continues to ravage the country.

“When you mention those jobless claims — over 15 million jobless claims in the last three weeks — there are some predictions as many as 40 million people may lose their jobs. we’re in completely uncharted territory. and for us to think we can open up as usual even in a staggered approach is far too early in the spectrum,” she continued. “This is a case where politicians or business leaders, all of us are going to look to the direction of the health professionals. We need to choose life over the economy and right now moving too quickly could leave us in a much more dire situation.”

“Many folks, John, talked when this started about a V-shaped recovery,” she added. “If we’re not careful how we open this economy, we could find ourselves in an L-shaped recovery; one that takes us a decade to get out of this.”

 

[JackLuis]

Trump ‘saw the stock market drop and got angry’: Reporters explain slow action on COVID-19 response

In an astounding New York Times expose on the warnings that President Donald Trump was given in January and February revealed that he was more concerned about the economy than he was about saving lives.

Speaking to CNN’s Don Lemon Sunday, Times reporters discussed the “Red Dawn” email chain, a code for talking about the coronavirus spread. Department of Veterans Affairs’ Dr. Carter Mecher wrote, “I’m seeing comments from people asking why WHO and CDC seem to be downplaying this. I’m certainly no public health expert (just a dufus from the VA), but no matter how I look at this, it looks [to] be bad … The projected size of the outbreak already seems hard to believe…You guys made fun of me screaming to close the schools. Now I’m screaming, close the colleges and universities.”

I expect Trumpski will deny this but everybody will know he's lying.

Meanwhile Deaths now total 22,115

 

[JackLuis]

‘We are winning’: Trump brags he ‘made history’ with first ‘Presidential Disaster Declaration for all 50 States’

On this holy day, Trumpski comes up with a Holy Shit Statement!

President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that he had made history by declaring all 50 states a disaster area due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Trump made the proclamation in Twitter.

“For the first time in history there is a fully signed Presidential Disaster Declaration for all 50 States,” the president wrote. “We are winning, and will win, the war on the Invisible Enemy!”

It won't matter much if we don't win the war on the Visible Enemies as well!

 

[JackLuis]

‘You go first’: Conservative challenges Trump’s rich pals whining about workers not returning to work over virus fears

“Let me suggest a simple test for those arguing for a quick return to business as normal absent a robust testing, contact tracing and quarantine program: You go first,” Rubin suggested. “Trump should cease requiring everyone who comes into his orbit to submit to a covid-19 test. After all, if it’s not important enough for all of us to have the same protection, he should feel perfectly comfortable re-engaging with those of unknown health status.”

As for hydroxychloroquine, if Fox News thinks that it’s a miracle drug, they should start clinical trials.

Trump should be the first test patient at max strength to test toxicity!

 

[JackLuis]

#FireTrumpNotFauci trends after Trump goes after trusted infectious disease official

After President Donald Trump retweeted a message Sunday night that declared #FireFauci, it didn’t take long for the #FireTrump and #FireTrumpNotFauci hashtags to emerge overnight as an immediate and popular response.

Just hours after Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, appeared on CNN Sunday morning and confirmed the U.S. federal government “could have saved more lives” if it had acted earlier and more urgently to address the coronavirus, Trump issued an ominous threat against the widely respective infectious disease specialist by retweeting a post that declared “Time to #FireFauci.”

Trumpilthinskin get his "Apprentice" on.

The attack on Fauci was just one of many Trump posted to the social media platform Sunday night that attempted to defend his management of the outbreak, deflect criticism, and blame others.

Fauci had appeared on CNN‘s “State of the Union” with Jake Tapper where he was asked about a “bombshell” New York Times article published Saturday that detailed Trump’s failed response to the virus. The president, according to the reporting, “was slow to absorb the scale of the risk and to act accordingly, focusing instead on controlling the message, protecting gains in the economy and batting away warnings from senior officials.”

I bet Rethuglicans are sorry they didn't "Impeach the Motherfucker" now?

 

[JackLuis]

Mitch McConnell is still refusing to rein in Trump — and things are getting worse for Americans: New Yorker

#Moscow Mitch, Putin's little bitch, trying to get rich!

New Yorker reporter Jane Mayer explained that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is enabling President Donald Trump’s bad behavior at a time that Americans need a leader the most.

“On Thursday, March 12th, Mitch McConnell, the Senate Majority Leader, could have insisted that he and his colleagues work through the weekend to hammer out an emergency aid package addressing the coronavirus pandemic,” she wrote. “Instead, he recessed the Senate for a long weekend and returned home to Louisville, Kentucky. McConnell, a seventy-eight-year-old Republican who is about to complete his sixth term as a senator, planned to attend a celebration for a protégé, Justin Walker, a federal judge who was once his Senate intern. McConnell has helped install nearly two hundred conservatives as judges; stocking the judiciary has been his legacy project.”

Maybe we Impeached the wrong Motherfucker?

 

[JackLuis]

Mitch McConnell calls Trump ‘nuts’ — and ‘can’t stand’ that he’s like sexual predator Roy Moore: report

According to an extensively researched report on what makes Senate majority Leader Mitch McConnell tick, New Yorker writer Jane Mayer reveals that the Senate leader has reportedly called Donald Trump “nuts” behind his back — and that he cynically only supports the president because he is left alone to pursue his own agenda while Trump goes through the motions of being presidential.

Mayer writes, “Bill Kristol, a formerly stalwart conservative who has become a leading Trump critic, describes McConnell as ‘a pretty conventional Republican who just decided to go along and get what he could out of Trump.’ Under McConnell’s leadership, the Senate, far from providing a check on the executive branch, has acted as an accelerant. ‘Demagogues like Trump, if they can get elected, can’t really govern unless they have people like McConnell,’ Kristol said. McConnell has stayed largely silent about the President’s lies and inflammatory public remarks, and has propped up the Administration with legislative and judicial victories.”

 

[JackLuis]

Trump campaign sues NBC station for defamation over ‘insidious’ and ‘dangerous’ coronavirus attack ad

If quoting Trumpski is "insidious", Okay maybe just ignoring him altogether would be better?

The MSM should try that!

 

[hogjack]

330 Million Americans Alive and Ready to Party

 

[JackLuis]

Here are all the promises Trump made — but failed to keep — at his March 13 coronavirus press conference

Although President Donald Trump downplayed the severity of coronavirus in January and February, his tone was dramatically shifting on March 13 — when the president officially declared the pandemic to be a national emergency in the United States. Gone were the days when Trump dismissed the pandemic as a “hoax.” But National Public Radio (NPR) is reporting that one month after that declaration, many of Trump’s March 13 promises remain unfulfilled.

The only thing he got right was, "Many will die!"

Note to Hogjack: The underline in my posts indicate a link to reality, yours not so much!

 

[hogjack]

Note to Hogjack: The underline in my posts indicate a link to reality, yours not so much!

Clicking on a link is not that difficult. You have to click on the underline. Or double-click. Whatever works.

 

[JackLuis]

Clicking on a link is not that difficult. You have to click on the underline. Or double-click. Whatever works.

It seems to work like a Trump, not much and to no useful purpose!

 

[JackLuis]

Internet slams Trump’s ‘completely unhinged’ press conference as president loses control

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Monday saw one of the most chaotic White House coronavirus press briefings yet, with President Donald Trump playing a campaign-style montage to White House reporters and getting into a shouting match with CBS reporter Paula Reid after she asked him why he wasted a month before the pandemic exploded.

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Trump lashes out at CBS reporter for asking about his missing month: ‘You know you’re a fake — you know that!’


White House cuts to campaign-style video praising Trump’s COVID-19 response in the middle of presser


This is why Trump’s claim that he has the power to nullify states’ rights is so staggering

Making this doubly staggering is that Trump is a Republican, whose party for the last half century glorified the rights and sovereignty of the states in order to slow, or prevent, the federal government’s “interference” with their sociopolitical orders. States then were protecting apartheid. States now are protecting public health. Yet the GOP president, pursuing his own self-interest, seems ready to nullify their sovereignty.

Dumb Donnie's dementia is getting worse!