All The Presiderp's Liars

[bodysong]

bodysong comment-

Coronavirus Pandemic 2020 is not enough of a reason for Trump
to stop telling lies. Not enough of a crisis for anyone that swore
loyalty to Trump, to stop telling lies to the public.

/end bodysong comment

Steven Mnuchin says Trump didn’t get ‘things wrong at all’
in his coronavirus address. That’s absurd.

- Aaron Blake

March 15, 2020

This is a familiar exercise within the Trump administration.
Trump says something false, and the people around him are
forced to account for it. But because admitting the boss was
wrong, is for some reason just not an option, they double down
and torch their own credibility in the process.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...ong-all-his-coronavirus-address-thats-absurd/

 

[bodysong]

bodysong comment- Trump's doctor would not lie to us, again...
would he ?

15 Mar 2020

The Trump administration has offered a German medical company
“large sums of money” for exclusive access to a Covid-19 vaccine,
German media have reported.

The German government is trying to fight off what it sees as an
aggressive takeover bid by the US, the broadsheet Die Welt reports,
citing German government circles.

The US president had offered the Tübingen-based biopharmaceutical
company CureVac “large sums of money” to gain exclusive access
to their work, wrote Die Welt.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...s-for-exclusive-access-to-coronavirus-vaccine



According to an anonymous source quoted in the newspaper,
Trump was doing everything to secure a vaccine against the
coronavirus for the US, “but for the US only”.

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/tippl...rity-trump-seeks-exclusive-rights-to-vaccine/

March 15, 2020

- Jonathan MS Pearce

From the point of view of government officials, the dispute
extends beyond the specific individual case. Selling a company
with a vital drug is a matter of national security, it says.
In extreme cases, reference is made to paragraph 6 of the
Schengen Borders Code.

It said:
“Border controls should help combat illegal immigration and
trafficking in human beings and prevent any threats to internal
security, public order, public health and the international relations
of the Member States.”

In some ministries, migration of scientists or research results
is in fact currently assessed as a matter of public policy.
A ban on the sale of companies under the Foreign Trade
and Payments Act cannot be ruled out as soon as public
order or security is at risk.

Which is all very nice of Trump and his cronies.
Anyone would think he actually tested positive
and was desperate…

(I don’t believe that. Or do I…?)

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/tippl...rity-trump-seeks-exclusive-rights-to-vaccine/

“Die Welt then reported that the United States reached out to broker
an exclusive deal on the vaccine, prompting the German government
to try to counter.”

https://www.motherjones.com/coronavirus-updates/2020/03/trump-vaccine-germany-curevac-yikes/

 

[Bray123]

If Trump is trying to get the US Government to take over a company for the good of the American people, does that make him a Socialist?

 

[bodysong]

Against public health advice, Devin Nunes urges people to go to pubs
as coronavirus spreads

March 15, 2020

“If you’re healthy, you and your family, it’s a great time to go out a
nd go to a local restaurant, likely you can get in easily. Let’s not hurt
the working people in this country that are relying on wages and tips
to keep their small business going,” Nunes said. “Just don’t run to the
grocery store and buy $4,000 worth of groceries, you know, go to your
local pub.”

Coronavirus is spreading in Nunes’ San Joaquin Valley dsitrict.

https://www.fresnobee.com/news/politics-government/article241210726.html

 

[KeithD]

Against public health advice, Devin Nunes urges people to go to pubs
as coronavirus spreads

March 15, 2020

“If you’re healthy, you and your family, it’s a great time to go out a
nd go to a local restaurant, likely you can get in easily. Let’s not hurt
the working people in this country that are relying on wages and tips
to keep their small business going,” Nunes said. “Just don’t run to the
grocery store and buy $4,000 worth of groceries, you know, go to your
local pub.”

Coronavirus is spreading in Nunes’ San Joaquin Valley dsitrict.

https://www.fresnobee.com/news/politics-government/article241210726.html

Get out there with your people, Devin. Get in crowds of Trumpettes. Press the flesh. Mingle.

Who's going to step up to telling Nunes that buying $4,000 worth of groceries in a local grocery store is going support working people and small businesses ten times spending $400 in a restaurant and pub does?

 

[bodysong]

Mike Pence stepped forward on Saturday, to cover Trump's arse-
the show and tell did not clean up the mess

Nope.

Trump is not letting go of this lie.

"Stung by criticism that the White House had overstated the readiness
and the scope of the website, Trump said Google's statement
"substantiated what I said on Friday" and complained about
coverage of the discrepancies."

March 15, 2020

"Google said it was "partnering" with the government on a
"nationwide website" with information about symptoms,
risks and testing information.

“We are fully aligned and continue to work with the US Government
to contain the spread of COVID-19, inform citizens, and protect the
health of our communities.
— Google Communications (@Google_Comms) March 15, 2020

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/15/8161...e-update-on-how-to-get-tested-for-coronavirus

https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/3/15/21180518/coronavirus-google-verily-website-testing-trump

Recode ✓
Twitter › Recode

We finally know some details about the Google and Verily coronavirus websites

4 hours ago


Mike Pence Scrambles After Google Contradicts Trump On Coronavirus Website

HuffPost

Angry Trump Tosses Google Statement onto the Floor During Live Press Conference

- Andrea Jefferson

March 15, 2020

CNN’s Daniel Dale warned everyone to take Trump’s statement
with a grain of salt, since Trump lies all day every day:

Trump says "the head of Google" called his team "and apologized."
(Please exercise caution with any Trump claim about someone
calling him and saying something helpful to him, especially
one involving "the head of" something.)

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 15, 2020

https://www.politicalflare.com/2020...-onto-the-floor-during-live-press-conference/

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-google-statement-coronavirus-website-press-conference-2020-3

This might raise some eyebrows-

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/14/pence-coronavirus-website-129530

Did Trump twist Google's arm ?

 

[bodysong]

bodysong comment-

Will Trump's cultivation of hostility against media publications
that attempt to keep track of reality, supply a defense against his
failures ?

Trump's claims-

"I am never wrong."

(Others are to blame." & "Others are wrong, not me.)

"I will never lie to you."

(He uses a lie as if it were a weapon, He picks fights.)

"Google is wrong, the media are wrong. Not me!"

(He starts the week off with a fight with the media. Distraction.)

/end bodysong comment

The Plum Line
Opinion

March 16, 2020

- Greg Sargent

Trump’s rage at the media takes a dangerous new turn

Trump is now raging at the media for reporting on his botched
claims about Google’s plans for a new website to steer people
to testing options.

Trump is now blaming the media for supposedly getting this
wrong, insisting the project is progressing just as he claimed.

Trump’s declaration that, in a larger sense, the media is not
being truthful at a time of crisis.

Trump is using his megaphone to tell the American people
not to trust an institution they must rely on for information
amid an ongoing public health emergency, all because that
institution held him accountable for his own failures on this
front.

Trump in essence tried to place this decision beyond scrutiny
entirely and lashed out at the media for trying to hold him
accountable for it.

Trump has repeatedly lashed out at reporters for the very same
transgression — trying to hold him accountable for his own
words and deeds.

See- PBS reporter Yamiche Alcindor's questions & CNN reporter Jim Acosta's

"The big story here is that we’re now seeing just how catastrophically
unsuited Trump’s brand of autocracy truly is in the face of a crisis like
this one."
- Greg Sargent

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/16/trumps-rage-media-takes-dangerous-new-turn/

Trump is waging a war against reality, that he might win a kingdom of his very own.
He might wear a pretend crown in private, but in public, there are annoying
Democrats, and Supreme Court judges that cannot be bought, to point out the
reality that currently exists. It does not matter to him, that real, live, breathing,
flesh and blood people will suffer and die, unwillingly. Trump could possibly
have admiration for novel coronavirus, since, it too, is a parasite that eats away
at a society, and survives because of the cost to others.

 

[JackLuis]

Look What Bill Barr Just Did While You Were Busy With Coronavirus

We are sorry, but at some point, as coronavirus becomes our new normal, we are all going to have to figure out how to hold two things in our heads at once. (We are preaching to ourselves as much as to you.) Smart people are starting to grapple with questions of whether Donald Trump can actually be trusted with the emergency powers he has (SPOILER fuck no), and people are rightly concerned about the precedent of Republican Ohio Governor Mike DeWine forcibly canceling (OK fine, "postponing") the other party's primary election for a very good reason, but in an act that under any other circumstances would have people in the streets raising holy hell.

The point is, we gotta watch these motherfuckers like hawks, while we also try to keep ourselves and our friends and families safe from the pandemic. Just a month ago, we were shouting from the rooftops about Attorney General Bill Barr taking ever more obvious actions to turn the Justice Department into nothing more than a vehicle for avenging Trump's personal grievances, after DOJ intervened to reduce the recommended sentence for Trump's crime buddy Roger Stone. The president of the United States was attacking the foreperson of the Stone jury on Twitter.

None of that went away. It's just in the background.

So how is Bill Barr using his coronavirus time? Is he making sure all the Cracker Barrels and Bob Evanses within a 200-mile radius of DC are willing to deliver to where he lives, all the way up Donald Trump's a-hole, so he doesn't have to go out and get coughed on? No, he's just social distancing from the Russians who attacked our election in 2016 and are doing it right now, again, in 2020.

 

[bodysong]

Trump's Google saga, continues

(what is expected from any Trump attempt ? Dishonesty. half-arsed, ineffective,
but used as a boast, and as an in, to stage a press conference, and pick fights
with Democrats...)

bodysong comment- Trump pilfers and hijacks, Google is confused-
then makes nice with Trump (Contradiction is allowed, as long as Trump
gets what he wants- Something to boast about on TV.
/end bodysong comment

"A Google-affiliated program to allow people to schedule coronavirus tests
online has been hyped by Donald Trump"

Verily’s pilot program was supposed to offer something more innovative:
a website where anyone can complete a quick screening, and then, if
eligible, schedule a in-person test at a mobile location.

The website has already prompted major privacy concerns, even as
its site reached capacity for scheduling new tests only hours after its
launch.

Five Democratic senators, including California’s Kamala Harris, wrote in a letter
to the Alphabet CEO, Sundar Pichai, on Wednesday that they were concerned
that neither the company nor the Trump administration had “assessed what privacy
and cybersecurity vulnerabilities may arise” in launching a public coronavirus
screening website, and requesting detailed information on how the company
would use, share, and project the personal data submitted through the screening
website.

The pilot screening tool, from Verily’s Project Baseline, required users
to login with a Google account, or to create one.

“All the data provided by Baseline users for screening is stored separately
and not linked to any of Google’s products and services,” a Verily spokeswoman
said in a statement on Wednesday. “Data will not be used for advertising purposes.”

(yeah, Google has never been evil )

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/18/google-coronavirus-testing-verily

 

[bodysong]

Trump Signs Coronavirus Relief Bill Providing Paid Leave to Small
Fraction of U.S. Workers

Mar 19, 2020

President Trump Wednesday signed a coronavirus relief package providing
unemployment benefits and free coronavirus testing to millions of Americans
suddenly out of a job. The aid package guarantees paid sick leave to less than
20% of American workers. It does not apply to companies with 500 or more
employees, and workplaces with fewer than 50 employees can request to opt
out.

https://www.democracynow.org/2020/3...ng_paid_leave_to_small_fraction_of_us_workers

 

[bodysong]

Last night, there were promises that Trump would not be allowed to
profit on the bailout, at a time of national emergency-

The children, spouses and in-laws of the aforementioned principals
are also included in this prohibition.

— John Bresnahan (@BresPolitico) March 25, 2020

"But it turns out that Mr. Trump's companies would not be barred
from benefiting from other elements of the bill intended to help
broad swaths of American business."

— Oliver Willis (@owillis) March 25, 2020

The New York Times ✓
Twitter › nytimes

Tucked into the fine print of the $2 trillion U.S. stimulus package
are a range of provisions that stand to benefit specific industries
and interest groups. President Trump’s companies and Boeing
could also potentially benefit.

43 minutes ago

$130 Billion for hospitals
$150 Billion for state & local governments
$367 Billion for SMALL businesses...

AND

$500 BILLION for HUGE CORPORATIONS

The corporate jackwaggons get fully 1 dollar of every 4
of this Marshall Plan for Fighting the CoronaVirus.

#CorporateWelfare

— Rachel McGonagill (@RachelMcGonagi1) March 25, 2020

 

[bodysong]

Lindsey Graham stinks!
Makes a partisan argument that has nothing to do with reality-

Objecting to a provision in the Senate coronavirus bill providing unemployment
benefits for people in financial trouble, Sen. Lindsey Graham says nurses are
"going to make $24 an hour on unemployment" which he claims would incentivize
"taking people out of the workforce."

— Oliver Willis (@owillis) March 25, 2020

Reality- Thanks to Trump's stupid gamble, doctors and nurses are wearing
themselves out, and doing that while working under conditions that are
impossibly difficult. This is a National Emergency.

 

[bodysong]

Senate Unanimously Passes $2 Trillion Coronavirus Stimulus Package

Mar 25th, 2020, 11:50 pm

Senate officially went into recess after Wednesday night’s vote until April 20.
So, any changes to the stimulus bill as it moves through the House would
require calling Senators back to the Capitol for another emergency vote.

https://www.mediaite.com/news/just-...sses-2-trillion-coronavirus-stimulus-package/

 

[bodysong]

The bill now goes to the House of Representatives for consideration.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...dress-economic-trauma-caused-by-the-pandemic/

House to vote on package, on Friday.

 

[hogjack]

5 more years of cutting and pasting text. Hopefully this is done by a small team.

 

[derek33]

Just so we all know!

To anyone who contributes to this thread; please identify yourself. Are you a globalist or a nationalist?

I am a NATIONALIST!

 

[hogjack]

To anyone who contributes to this thread; please identify yourself. Are you a globalist or a nationalist?

I am a NATIONALIST!

There are 2 posters in this thread. Or 1. Your question is too complicated for him or her to understand.

 

[JackLuis]

‘You downplayed the threat’: ABC host chews out Larry Kudlow for calling the virus ‘contained’

Larry Kudlow, director of the National Economic Council, on Sunday defended calling the novel coronavirus outbreak “contained” just days before large swaths of the country were forced to shelter inside their homes.

In an interview on ABC’s This Week, host Martha Raddatz asked the White House adviser why he was predicting “weeks, not months” of economic turmoil due to the global pandemic.

“Well, listen, I say that — weeks — it could be four weeks, it could be eight weeks,” Kudlow replied. “I say that hopefully and I say that prayerfully. That’s what some of the science experts have been telling us. I don’t know if they’ll be right.”

Oh now it's untrustworthy 'scientists'? Especially that Orange dipshit with his 'hunches", eh?

 

[JackLuis]

Steve Mnuchin insists Americans can live on just $17/day during pandemic

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin on Sunday said that he expects Americans to be able to survive for two and a half months on just $1,200, which is about $17 per day.

“I think the entire package provides economic relief overall for about 10 weeks,” Mnuchin explained. “Hopefully we will kill this virus quicker and we won’t need it, but we have liquidity to put into the American economy to support American workers and American business.”

He is dumber than he looks!

He's almost as dumb as Trumpski!

 

[bodysong]

Aaron Rupar ✓
Twitter › atrupar

ABC:
You told CNBC a month ago that the coronavirus was "contained."
Why should people trust you?

LARRY KUDLOW:
"Look, I'm as good as the facts are. At the time I made that statement,
the facts were -- contained ... a lot of people agreed with me."

(Experts did not agree w/ him)

7 hours ago

 

[derek33]

Right!

Yeah, we get it...you globalists hate the U.S.A. and the Constitution. Coming through loud and clear!

 

[KeithD]

Yeah, we get it...you globalists hate the U.S.A. and the Constitution. Coming through loud and clear!

Well, no, you don't get it--and it's no surprise that you don't.

 

[bodysong]

Clue as to why broken ventilators were sent to California, from the
federal stockpile

Hey! Taxpayers spent money to purchase ventilators from you!

On the same day in July that the FDA cleared the stockpile version of the ventilator,
it granted the application of Philips’ U.S. subsidiary, Respironics, to sell commercial
versions of the Trilogy Evo. Philips quickly began shipping the commercial models
overseas from its Murrysville, Pennsylvania, factory.

March 31, 2020

Five years ago, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services tried to plug
a crucial hole in its preparations for a global pandemic-
signing a $13.8 million contract with a Pennsylvania manufacturer to create
a low-cost, portable, easy-to-use ventilator that could be stockpiled for
emergencies.

This past September, with the design of the new Trilogy Evo Universal finally
cleared by the Food and Drug Administration, HHS ordered 10,000 of the
ventilators for the Strategic National Stockpile at a cost of $3,280 each.

But as the pandemic continues to spread across the globe, there is still not
a single Trilogy Evo Universal in the stockpile.

Instead last summer, soon after the FDA’s approval, the Pennsylvania company
that designed the device — a subsidiary of the Dutch appliance and technology
giant Royal Philips N.V. — began selling two higher-priced commercial versions
of the same ventilator around the world.

An HHS spokeswoman told ProPublica that Philips had agreed to make the
Trilogy Evo Universal ventilator “as soon as possible.” However, a Philips
spokesman said the company has no plan to even begin production anytime
this year.

https://www.alternet.org/2020/03/am...g-ripped-off-on-ventilators-they-helped-fund/

Jared Kushner has his sticky paws on a deal!

 

[bodysong]

King Donald the Goon proudly trotted out coronavirus test kits that are incomplete,
and that have vital components that are missing, and portable ventilators
that have defective batteries. (A few media corporations have decided
that post- Trump Daily Show commentary is needed to correct false
impressions.) The packaging is attractive and convincing, but what
Trump promotes usually violates expectations.

March 31, 2020

In California, Gov. Gavin Newsom had sobering news Saturday,
saying patients needing ICU care in the state had gone up 105%
overnight and hospitalizations for COVID-19 patients had risen
nearly 40%.

Newsom spoke Saturday from of a Bay-area fuel cell plant that's
now working to refurbish ventilators. He said the state now has
more than 400 COVID-19 ICU patients. He called that number
"relatively modest" but warned that as new confirmed cases
continue the percentage increase was of deep concern.

https://laist.com/latest/post/20200330/coronavirus-map-tracker

March 28, 2020

Bloom Energy Corp. (NYSE: BE) and Almo Corporation today
announced they are joining forces to refurbish unused, out-of-warranty
ventilators and ship them to state agencies and hospitals throughout the
country, particularly as an increasing number of patients experience
critical respiratory issues as a result of COVID-19.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bloom-energy-state-california-almo-201500262.html

Jared Kushner's sticky little paws-

https://www.thenewcivilrightsmoveme...the-effort-to-manufacture-ventilators-report/

 

[bodysong]

March 31, 2020

Today, "Moscow Mitch" McConnell" rewote all of the last three months of history.

The Impeachment did not stop "Moscow Mitch from stuffing the courts
with judges that make racists, gun fanatics, and Evangelist Christians. happy.
The Coronavirus is not stopping Mitch from wedging more judges in.

"It would be useful for Trump and his allies if the impeachment effort
could be blamed for the government’s faltering response to the pandemic.
Unfortunately, even the neatest rhetorical effort can fall victim to reality.

- Philip Bump

January 2020 - Trump ignores intelligence officers
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
was confirming the initial cases in the U.S. Trump spent
a big chunk of Jan. 23 flying to Miami for a meeting of
the Republican National Committee at his privately owned
golf club, Trump National Doral Miami.

Between the emergence of the first case on Jan. 20 and early March,
Trump also held eight political rallies in eight different states.

February 2020- The trial ended on Feb. 5 with the Senate’s vote to acquit.

Trump gave a lengthy address at the White House celebrating the outcome of the trial.

The $2 billion request from HHS was cut to $500 million when the
White House eventually sent Congress a supplemental budget request
weeks later.”

Trump repeatedly traveled to his own properties, including for multiple
rounds of golf. He visited Mar-a-Lago three times, his hotel in downtown
Washington once and his hotel in Las Vegas for a three-day stay in late February

March 2020 golf becomes secret, again.

Today's propaganda- Coronavirus is the Impeachment's fault!

Despite McConnell’s claim that impeachment distracted Trump from addressing
the coronavirus, the president did find time in January and February to hold a host
of “Keep America Great” campaign rallies...
and fundraisers across the country...

and golf.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...d84128-736f-11ea-a9bd-9f8b593300d0_story.html

March 31, 2020

Why the new effort to blame coronavirus fumbles on the impeachment
trial falls so far short

The virus emerged in China late last year. On Dec. 31 — after Trump
had been impeached by the House — Chinese officials acknowledged
that they’d detected a new virus that was making people ill in Wuhan.
Within weeks, infections from the new virus were reported around the
world, including in the United States

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...-fumbles-impeachment-trial-fall-so-far-short/