The 176th Week of PeeResident Putrid

[JackLuis]

As we start the 176th Week of the reign of Putridity the box scores are looking pretty dim.

United States
Coronavirus Cases:
1,647,043

Deaths:
97,687

Recovered:
403,312



White House official afraid to tell ‘angry’ Trump his 2020 RNC convention plans may not work out: report

As the report notes, the RNC has “transferred a whopping $6.4 million to its convention committee in April, according to records released on Wednesday. That was more than 10 times the sum that the Democratic National Committee transferred to theirs last month.”

“Republicans have been less overtly cautious. RNC chair Ronna McDaniel left open the possibility of a pared-back convention during a phone call with reporters this week, The New York Times reported on Thursday,” the report states.

“President Donald Trump has been adamant that the 2020 Republican National Convention—or some version of it—go on. For months, he’s demanded that back-up options for less crowded gatherings be fully explored by his staff, if a full-blown convention isn’t ultimately possible or safe, according to three people familiar with his private insistence,” the Beast reports. “But he has scoffed at the notion of a virtual convention in recent weeks, saying that it sounds like ‘something Joe Biden would do from his basement,’ said a source who heard Trump mock the idea.”

No cheering throngs will greet the PeeResident, no glorious anthems will be played, Donald will walk to the microphone backed by four or five of his sycophants in masks, as if they were afraid to show their faces.

 

[JackLuis]

‘Every day he blows it’: Trump slammed by conservative consultant for continuing to botch the COVID-19 response

“Every day this president has a chance to do better,” said Del Percio. “To improve his image and look like he’s working harder for all Americans, and every day he blows it. That’s what is so surprising.”

SOP for the CIC, Trump's history as a failure continues.

 

[JackLuis]

America under Donald Trump: A failed state in slow motion

What is a failed state? It’s a country that would hire me to make things work.

I learned that the night I made the trip between Kabul and Jalalabad. The main trading route between the countries of Afghanistan and Pakistan was how virtually everything needed in Afghanistan was shipped into the country, from automobiles to food to medicine to fuel to people. You would think that a road carrying such essential trade would be well-paved and cared for, protected by a strong police presence and lined with gas stations, restaurants and motels, the kinds of businesses ordinarily found along such routes.

An op-ed in the New York Times on Wednesday was titled, “The Worst is Yet to Come.” Columnist Farhad Manjoo made the case that “every problem we face will get much worse than we ever imagined. The coronavirus is like a heat-seeking missile designed to frustrate progress in almost every corner of society, from politics to the economy to the environment … indeed, division and chaos might now be the permanent order of the day.”

With close to 100,000 dead and counting, we need a General Bongo and we don’t have one. I’m retired, and it’s five and a half months until the November election.

Build your cooking fires, wear your masks and hang on tight. We are in the jam of our lives.

175 weeks we have put up with Trump's ineptitude and stupidity with luck we can remove him in November, unless the Senate will act. Don't count on it though.

 

[Ziggins]

He was inaugurated on a Wednesday. The thread is half done at the OP.

 

[KeithD]

Wonder what a "full done thread at the OP" looks like.

Interesting, but understandable, that that's the only thing you can address about the situation as described.

 

[Ziggins]

The content is spread very thin over hundreds or thousands of threads about one guy, but there will be more to discuss next November.

 

[JackLuis]

Trump labeled a ‘national mental health crisis’ after how he spent Saturday during the pandemic

President Donald Trump received harsh criticism for how he spent his Saturday, as coronavirus deaths approach 100,000.

“As Americans die, Trump spends his time golfing, attacking Joe Scarborough and fighting with Jeff Sessions for recusing himself. What a tragedy for the country to be held hostage by a malignancy like this,” journalist Steven Beschloss tweeted on Saturday.

‘Unhinged conspiracy-monger’ Trump and the GOP are mired in a ‘cesspool’ of paranoia: conservative

On Saturday, writing for The Washington Post, conservative columnist Max Boot outlined key reasons why the spread of conspiracy theories has become more dangerous than ever in modern America.

One of the most important reasons: They are being amplified and promoted by the man in the Oval Office.

“Every great disaster of the past century has brought forth conspiracy-mongers. They claimed that World War I was started by arms manufacturers, a.k.a. ‘merchants of death’; that Franklin D. Roosevelt goaded Japan into attacking Pearl Harbor and knew all about it in advance; that homegrown traitors ‘lost’ Eastern Europe and China to communism; that the military industrial complex assassinated John F. Kennedy; that the crack cocaine epidemic was started by the CIA; that 9/11 was an ‘inside job’; and that George W. Bush invaded Iraq to help Halliburton,” wrote Boot.

 

[JackLuis]

5-23-20 PM
Box Scores

United States
Coronavirus Cases:
1,666,828

Deaths:
98,683

Recovered:
446,914

 

[JackLuis]

Lobbyists losing jobs in droves as Trump’s economy collapses:

According to a report from Politico, the economic collapse that is a direct result of the botched White House response to the coronavirus pandemic is leading to mass firings of lobbyists in Washington whose services are no longer needed as money gets tight.

The report notes that the pandemic has hit K Street hard and massive cost-cutting is underway — including as high as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce “which recently doled out millions in bonuses to executives and was feeling so flush in December that it seriously considered purchasing a Super Bowl ad.”

 

[hogjack]

Boo-Fucking-Hoo Said in Jest But Really Bothered Some People

 

[JackLuis]

We are ‘witnessing the death rattle’ of Trump’s America

Appearing on MSNBC on Sunday morning, Princeton University Professor Eddie Glaude said the fall-out from the coronavirus pandemic that claimed nearly 100,000 lives in the U.S. and sent the country into an economic tailspin has exposed the “death rattle” of the type of America Donald Trump has made.

Speaking with host Ali Velshi, after the MSNBC host showed off the president’s collapsing approval numbers, Glaude — chair of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton — predicted the end of Trumpism.

“We’re not quite at that 100,000 number, but round numbers make us visit things,” host Velshi began. “Also it’s Memorial Day where we’re thinking about soldiers in lost times. Eddie, what’s the issue here? We’re not — we may be close to the peak, which means we are going to lose a lot more people on the way down from this peak and the president does seem to have lost focus on this issue.”

“He lacks a sense of sympathy and empathy for those who are not in his immediate purview,” he added. “I think at end of the day, and I should say this with a little caution it might sound a bit hyperbolic, I think we’re witnessing the death rattle of a particular version of America, and Donald Trump represents in a very stark way all that is wrong with us and we need to understand that for what it is.”

There will be a lot more "Death Rattles" before this is over, if it ever is!

 

[JackLuis]

GOP sees president’s ‘re-election less certain’ now that voters have seen the real Trump

According to a report from the Washington Post, Donald Trump, who had hoped to run a campaign on a strong economy before his botching of the coronavirus pandemic led to almost 40 million job losses, is now looking at running a campaign similar to 2016 that was described as “disruptive.”

The Post notes, “Trump’s moves in recent days make clear that the president has decided to revive the disruptive themes of his 2016 bid, aimed at branding his opponent as a corrupt member of the Washington establishment and himself as an insurgent problem-solver. It’s a message that often has seemed incongruent with the present reality as Trump leads the federal government’s response to the worst crisis in a generation,” however, “Trump’s reluctance to recalibrate his political tactics even as the country faces twin health and economic crises could be the gamble that determines his fate in an election less than six months away, according to campaign officials, strategists and pollsters on both sides of the aisle. The approach also stands as a test of whether running again as a disrupter can work in a time of already profound disruption.”

Now that the country has seen the "Real Trump" it is a wonder he is still upright. 300,000,000 guns in the country and he is not dodging bullets everyday shows the real restraint on the part of gun nuts in America.

 

[JackLuis]

Oil companies can set their own royalty rates from drilling on public lands thanks to Trump: report

In a display of loyalty to what Greenpeace called “the most polluting industry in history,” the Trump administration is allowing dozens of oil and gas companies to set their own rates for royalties they’re required to pay on revenue generated from drilling on public lands.

As High Country News reported Thursday, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) contacted its state offices the day after global oil prices plunged to below $0 per barrel as the Covid-19 pandemic caused an unprecedented drop in demand.

The federal agency, which oversees 96,000 oil and gas wells and more than 24,000 leases on public lands, ordered state officials to encourage more drilling despite an excess supply of oil which was forcing companies to pay for oil storage.

In addition to suspending lease payments, BLM told states to allow companies to apply for relief from royalties, the mandatory taxes on the revenue the fossil fuel industry earns, which are used to support public schools, higher education, and healthcare in Western states.

"Real Donald Trump" is a disaster and still festering. He has corrupted the Republican Party and enabled it's worst to make this a fucking mess of a government. The deluded idiots that make up the cheering throngs of Trump Chumps prove that you can never underestimate the gullibility of the body politic.

 

[JackLuis]

It Would Appear Donald Trump Lied About The Size Of His 'Obamagate'

Donald Trump and his slobbering Republican manservants in Congress are losing their shit trying to show the American people just how much #Obamagate there really was, what a Witch Hunt, what a DEEP STATE!111!! Oh my God they have been leaving snail trails all over the streets of Washington DC.

At the center of Obamagate -- as best as anyone can tell, and to be honest, our explanation is more lucid than anything that will ever slither out of the president's thin lips -- is that during the transition, the Obama administration sought to undermine the incoming president and fuck with the peaceful transition of power, chiefly by FRAMING Michael Flynn and tricking him into lying to the FBI about his improper secret conversations with the Russian government about sanctions relief. In reality, the Obama administration was faced with an unprecedented situation, namely the very real possibility -- as yet still not disproven! -- that the incoming administration and maybe the president himself were severely compromised (or worse) by Russia.

On Tuesday, the Trump administration declassified a section of an email former national security advisor Susan Rice sent herself on Inauguration Day, 2017, her last official act, to memorialize what was really going on with Flynn, so that there would be a paper trail. And kids, this declassified section was supposed to be their SMOKIN' GUN! That proves! that Obamagate! Was a thing! That happened!

Spoiler alert: It is, um, not that.

Fucking Morons can't even find a convincing conspiracy theory! More Trump self-owns!

Wonkette proves that Trumpers are idiots with their own 'evidence."

 

[JackLuis]

~

Steve Schmidt Tears Trump and the Republican Party A New One

Lincoln Party Steve, explains his leaving the Trumpublicunts.

 

[JackLuis]

US farmers are starting to worry as crop prices dip during COVID-19 crisis: ‘It’s kind of glum’

Trump fucked the farmers and poured Treasury money out to hold on to the Red Farm States voters. But the Farm Stimulus mostly went to Large Corporate Farmers, leaving the family farms sucking wind! Now the Covid-19 disruption of transport and low oil prices destroy the ethanol safety markets.

Plus the farm states are being hit by the flow of more Covid into a thin health care system that can't handle mass casualties.

So much winning!

By Monday the US will have passed 100,000 deaths due to Trumpvirus.

 

[FlowersForFun]

US farmers are starting to worry as crop prices dip during COVID-19 crisis: ‘It’s kind of glum’

Trump fucked the farmers and poured Treasury money out to hold on to the Red Farm States voters. But the Farm Stimulus mostly went to Large Corporate Farmers, leaving the family farms sucking wind! Now the Covid-19 disruption of transport and low oil prices destroy the ethanol safety markets.

Plus the farm states are being hit by the flow of more Covid into a thin health care system that can't handle mass casualties.

So much winning!

Thanks lock down!!

Hopefully (D)'s keep things locked down forever, effectively destroying their economies and starving millions.....like "progressive" icons Mao, Stalin and other "progressive" super stars of the past have done to hundreds of millions of people.

By Monday the US will have passed 100,000 deaths due to Trumpvirus.

Almost 0.03%......what will we do!!!

Stay terrified Jack, don't leave your home, eat the pets and grandma, because if you don't COVID will GET YOU!!!

 

[phrodeau]

Thanks lock down!!

Hopefully (D)'s keep things locked down forever, effectively destroying their economies and starving millions.....like "progressive" icons Mao, Stalin and other "progressive" super stars of the past have done to hundreds of millions of people.



Almost 0.03%......what will we do!!!

Stay terrified Jack, don't leave your home, eat the pets and grandma, because if you don't COVID will GET YOU!!!

No idea what it is that you want us to think today. Choose your point.

 

[JackLuis]

Thanks lock down!!

Hopefully (D)'s keep things locked down forever, effectively destroying their economies and starving millions.....like "progressive" icons Mao, Stalin and other "progressive" super stars of the past have done to hundreds of millions of people.

Almost 0.03%......what will we do!!!

Stay terrified Jack, don't leave your home, eat the pets and grandma, because if you don't COVID will GET YOU!!!

Yes spoken like a true Trumpublicunt! Opening up the economy to 'get the economy' rolling again without effective testing and tracing will just expose our vulnerable population to even more deaths.
5-25-20 AM
Box Scores

United States
Coronavirus Cases:
1,688,290

Deaths:
99,348, Oh good job Trumpy, under a hundred Grand this late in the pandemic!

Recovered:
451,745


If you look at the states you will see that the Trumpvirus has had the greatest effect in the east, NY, NJ, Conn, Mass etc. All along I-95 and yet California and the West coast are much lighter. Cali shut down much earlier and has much fewer cases, and deaths, even per capita, mostly due to the lower population density of our cities. We are not packed into the towers of doom like those poor fuckers. We also have more hospitals per capita than fucking Florida and the Red States, by and large.

I'm not too worried about corona, my county is doing pretty well despite being right along the major highways I-5/80 & Hiway 50. Folks may be starting to look a little shaggy and not clustering in groups very much, but we tend to be more individualistic out west. Though there have been some protests in LA, but I chalk that up to all those ass holes from the Midwest that came out here for the jobs and non freezing weather.

By all means do stay away from California. we have enough RWNJ's to choke a horse.

 

[JackLuis]

Donald Trump, the Most Unmanly President

So many mysteries surround Donald Trump: the contents of his tax returns, the apparent miracle of his graduation from college. Some of them are merely curiosities; others are of national importance, such as whether he understood the nuclear-weapons briefing given to every president. I prefer not to dwell on this question.

But since his first day as a presidential candidate, I have been baffled by one mystery in particular: Why do working-class white men—the most reliable component of Donald Trump’s base—support someone who is, by their own standards, the least masculine man ever to hold the modern presidency? The question is not whether Trump fails to meet some archaic or idealized version of masculinity. The president’s inability to measure up to Marcus Aurelius or Omar Bradley is not the issue. Rather, the question is why so many of Trump’s working-class white male voters refuse to hold Trump to their own standards of masculinity—why they support a man who behaves more like a little boy.

I am a son of the working class, and I know these cultural standards. The men I grew up with think of themselves as pretty tough guys, and most of them are. They are not the products of elite universities and cosmopolitan living. These are men whose fathers and grandfathers came from a culture that looks down upon lying, cheating, and bragging, especially about sex or courage. (My father’s best friend got the Silver Star for wiping out a German machine-gun nest in Europe, and I never heard a word about it until after the man’s funeral.) They admire and value the understated swagger, the rock-solid confidence, and the quiet reserve of such cultural heroes as John Wayne’s Green Beret Colonel Mike Kirby and Sylvester Stallone’s John Rambo (also, as it turns out, a former Green Beret.)

They are, as an American Psychological Association feature describes them, men who adhere to norms such as “toughness, dominance, self-reliance, heterosexual behaviors, restriction of emotional expression and the avoidance of traditionally feminine attitudes and behaviors.” But I didn’t need an expert study to tell me this; they are men like my late father and his friends, who understood that a man’s word is his bond and that a handshake means something. They are men who still believe in a day’s work for a day’s wages. They feel that you should never thank another man when he hands you a paycheck that you earned. They shoulder most burdens in silence—perhaps to an unhealthy degree—and know that there is honor in making an honest living and raising a family.

It does go on and explains why a twerp like Trump is not very masculine in fact he is more a prepubescent prick, to put in in fine terms.

 

[JackLuis]

5-26-20 AM
Box Scores

United States
Coronavirus Cases:
1,710,558

Deaths:
99,928 Still under a hundred grand!

Recovered:
466,980

 

[JackLuis]

Anatomy of a man-made disaster: 320 ways Donald Trump failed to protect us from the coronavirus

Long read: Short form:
Trumpski fucked up from 2017 through 2020 many times as John Bolton eliminated the highest level of pandemic response team. Because Iran!

 

[JackLuis]

Noon numbers show Trumpski has killed over 100,000 Americans.

United States
Coronavirus Cases:
1,717,589

Deaths:
100,271

Recovered:
469,416

 

[JackLuis]

Kushner ridiculed for thinking he can take over and rewrite the GOP’s 2020 platform: ‘Good luck with that’

In a column for Bloomberg, former political scientist Jonathan Bernstein explained that White House senior adviser Jared Kushner is doomed to failure as he takes on another task for father-in-law Donald Trump: re-doing the Republican Party platform before the 2020 election.

According to the columnist: “Good luck with that.”

As Bernstein notes, party platforms are essentially worthless exercises in public relations that are rarely adhered to, and, despite that, there is no way senior GOP officials are going to let him hijack the process and the wording.

You can't trust Repug's to adhere to their own platform if Trumpski get a bug up his ass. However it will keep Jared busy bumbling about.

 

[JackLuis]

Mike Pence names Texas as a possible alternative GOP convention site

Texas is being considered to host the Republican National Convention, Vice President Mike Pence said Monday in an interview with Fox News. Pence’s comment comes after President Donald Trump threatened in a series of tweets Monday morning to pull the convention from North Carolina if the state refuses to guarantee it will be open come August.

“These national conventions literally take many months to organize and prepare,” Pence said. “The president is absolutely intent on ensuring, as we see our nation continue to make steady progress on putting the coronavirus epidemic in the past, that come this August, we’ll be able to come together in a safe and responsible venue.”

Trump said that if North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper can’t guarantee that the Republican Party would be allowed to “fully occupy” the convention venue in Charlotte Aug. 24-27, the party will seek other states to host..

In the interview, Pence named Texas, Florida and Georgia as states that have made “tremendous progress” in reopening. Pence called on Cooper to provide a “swift response.”

Maybe Dallas would oblige to be the epicenter of the Third Wave of the pandemic?

Pick Me! Kemp Joins FL And TX GOPers Trying To Woo Trump Into Moving RNC To Their State