Peter Navarro, one of Trump’s hack trade advisors, lied his way through an appearance on This Week Sunday by bullshitting about what the government was doing in February to boost the economy. What the administration was doing in February was denying the fact of the pandemic because they were terrified that it would kill the economy, that was the only game they had left for the November election.
Not satisfied with just knowing nothing in his own field, he decided to spread his ignorance into over the medical field by telling his audience that opening the country again without regard to the conditions of the pandemic would still save more lives because it would allow those suffering from other conditions like cancer, heart problems and kidney disease to be treated right now instead of having to wait until the pandemic is over. Of course it never occurred to him that those same people suffering from the other diseases would be more at risk from the exposure to Covid-19 and because of their conditions, more susceptible to death.
It seemed like it never occurred to him that if those in the administration had paid attention to the virus instead of denying it, maybe we’d be a lot closer to safely reopening the economy, built by Obama, which they have been so vocally claiming as theirs.
Before he can make any sense of his approach, Navarro jumps right into his “buy America” policy. He may be right about small parts of it like restricting the manufacturing of essential good to this country, but the whole overall concept of bringing jobs that no longer exist anywhere because they have been replaced by robots, back to this country, so we can build more robots, is just as stupid as most of Trump’s ideas on how to do anything.
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This week the House passed a new bill that would help with the financial struggles that the American public is currently enduring because of the Coronavirus. All the Republicans immediately rose as one to condemn it, mainly because it was aimed where the previous two bills should have been aimed, at those who have lost their jobs and those who are without food and medical care. Moscow Mitch McConnell led the charge against the new proposed bill but that’s because the new bill won’t, as its main thrust, reward big companies that have spent the last few years avoiding taxes and buying back stock, but will try to help the little guy.
When the CEO of a big company closes its doors he may lose his salary and benefits but he still has his investment portfolio to fall back on. His employees do not. They had a salary and now it’s gone, so they are really the ones who are getting screwed and who desperately need help.
Moscow Mitch is going to be involved in an election this fall. Let’s hope that the voters who have returned him to office over and over will finally get smart and realize what a heartless sleaze this degenerate swine really is. McConnell’s voters have believed his bullshit for years. They comprise one of the poorest states in the nation while Moscow has made millions on their backs.
If you expect to ever get any help from our government you better be ready to vote Democratic in November. That bunch of crooks in the White House care only for themselves and their rich buddies. You need proof? Check out the deal with the latest Inspector General Trump fired. He was investigating Mike Pompeo for setting up contracts for the U.S. would sell billions in arms to Saudi Arabia, despite the fact that congress had already killed the deal. Who would benefit from it? Trump’s munitions making billionaire buddies.
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And of course amid all the problems we have, Trump is on the tube lying about how this virus is just going to disappear without a vaccine. I mean it’s one thing to be hopeful, it’s quite another to be brain dead. Yes, it was just one week ago on 5/10 that Trump told the nation that the virus is just going to go away. Yeah, in his dreams! But there are people who believe him. We all want to believe him but most of us still have enough gray matter up there to understand that there is just as good a chance that it will go away by itself as there is that it will go away because it has killed everyone in the world.
DR Paul Stoffells, Chief Scientific Officer at Johnson & Johnson tells it like it is, not like Trump hopes it will be, when he says that we will need a vaccine to control the disease; that the trials for a vaccine will start in September and that they hope to deliver actual vaccine next year. THAT’S NEXT YEAR!
That means that all the people who are running around without masks and hanging out in groups are working very hard to screw up the work of all the doctors and others who are trying to save lives right now just so that there will be some people around to use the vaccine if we ever get it.
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So today, Trump decided it was a good time to refer to former President Obama as grossly incompetent. Nice. Of course, if he had any understanding of what that phrase means and where he stands in relation to it, he would have long ago committed Hari Kari.
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The Fat Liar in the Oval Office loves to say that Obama and Biden are the reason he’s the President. This only shows how ignorant he is of how our government works. He’s too dumb to understand that term limits are the only reason he’s in the White House. If Obama/Biden had been able to run again they would have beat his brains out and left him as gotor bait on the third hole at Mar a Largo.
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There’s been a lot of noise lately about Trump firing Inspectors General and how he has turned that, like everything he touches, into an illegal or at the very least unethical action. Most people don’t really understand what Inspectors General actually do so let’s start with that. They are a group of investigative prosecutors, appointed by congress but seemingly answerable to the President, who look into violations of rule and law in various areas of government. It’s a system that began with the Watergate prosecutions and has grown and moved forward since then.
Now our non-functional President has finally found something he’s good at, firing Inspectors general. It seems that Friday night is his favorite time. In the last couple of months he has fired four;
Michael Atkinson: IG for the Intelligence Committee. He was involved with handling the whistleblower accusations that led to the whole Ukraine mess. He decided that the complaint was viable and that led to Trump’s impeachment deal. Naturally, Trump has been miffed ever since.
Mitch Behm: IG for the Transportation Department. He was named a s a member of the Response Pandemic Accountability Committee, which will handle $2.4 trillion in coronavirus relief packages. It seems that Trump doesn’t want him deciding how much of that money, he and his cronies can steal.
Glenn Fine: IG for the Defense Department. Prior to that he had been the IG for the Justice Department where he clashed with Bill Barr over Barr’s view of justice and legality. His move became a foregone conclusion.
Christi Grimm: IG for Health and Human Services. Grimm found and reported severe shortages of testing and PPE supplies as well as inadequate hospital availability. This made her Trump’s worst enemy and set her up for the knife.
Okay, so anyone who has been watching the Funky Orange understands that once he finds something that works for him he repeats it ad-nausea. That means that we are about to see a tidal wave of firings that will end up annihilating the entire IG system, removing any kind of accountability from the Trump administration and allowing the bunch of crooks he has appointed to various government jobs to loot the treasury before the voters get a chance to kick them all out of office in November.
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The World Health Organization had a big meeting this week to discuss where they are on the pandemic and where they can go to finally get ahead of it. The leaders of France, China, Germany and many other nations spoke but Trump didn’t even show up. Then he threatened to pull all our financial help out of the organization because he feels they haven’t helped enough or been nasty enough to China. So what happened? China’s Premier stepped up and offered to shell out two billion to help fight the virus. Yeah man, that’s leadership.
Then, of course, Trump whined about the Chinese taking over the organization. Really? Did it ever occur to this moron that if he showed up and played the game we would never be replaced because most of the world still depends on us to lead and still doesn’t understand that we have elected the biggest loser in the universe, who spends his days golfing and trying to drag us down to his pitiful level. But with zero leadership qualities he can’t even do that. He hasn’t led in the pandemic. He hasn’t led in SE Asia trade. He hasn’t led in anything. He is nothing but a monumental loser.
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Instead of trying to solve the myriad problems of the pandemic, Trump has spent his time attacking former President Obama but it’s not just Obama that he has alienated among our former Presidents.
There has always been a great deal of camaraderie among former Presidents. Once gone from the pressures of the Oval Office and in fact even when in office, Presidents seem to have a semi-official club. They have always been eager to jump in and help the incumbent and always honored each other. Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush seemed to have a real friendship.
Trump, on the other hand seems to be interested only in attacking all his predecessors, regardless of party.
And now in a particularly petty move, even for him, he has stepped in and canceled the unveiling of portraits of Barak & Michelle Obama that is a traditional function of the White House.
Trump is such a petty turd he really staggers the imagination. It appears that there is no low, stupid move that is beneath him. Every time we think he has finally settled to the lowest point that man can reach be chops through the floor and establishes a new low.
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It has finally happened. Trump has finally gone so far off the deep end that Fox News has called bullshit on him. It’s really shocking but owner Rupert Murdoch has finally found a set of lies that even he can’t stomach. It has to do with Trump’s announcement that he is taking hydroxycholoquin and intimating that others should also take it.
Of course Trump immediately attacked Fox News and lamented the departure of Roger Aisles, the power mad female abuser who once ran that pathetic excuse for a network.
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For those of you who are sick and tired of all my bitching and moaning about Trump… so am I. I sit here and say to myself, ”Why are you wasting all this time on that? Off course the answer is pretty cut and dried. He’s the President. This disgusting failure of a human being is the leader of our country and for better or worse he will be for the next seven months whether we like it or not. But it still grinds my ass. Think how much good this sorry excuse for a leader could do if he had a head to screw on straight? At this time when our country needs leadership so badly, Donald Trump is more interested in what is said about him and how he is regarded by his base than he is that 90,000 Americans have died on his watch because of a disease that has gotten a head start thru his refusal to recognize its existence for political reasons.
This is a man that could have set a great example for the American people, could have encouraged them to act in a responsible way that quite possibly could have lead to the control of the pandemic. Instead he does everything wrong that one can possibly do wrong. He babbles about injecting toxic substances into our bodies, he goes about unmasked; he talks about going out in public when it isn’t necessary. But that’s not all. Now he is bragging about taking a drug that has been universally identified as a killer if taken by people with varied illnesses. What a waste! What an absolute waste!
Many who voted for this clown did so because they were sick of the professional politicians and wanted someone in the Oval Office who wasn’t a professional politician. Now I understand why many were sick of what they had in Washington but consider that reasoning. They wanted someone who wasn’t a professional politician so they got an amateur President.
They got a fool with no experience and no inclination to find out anything about what he didn’t know.
In every sport, in medicine, in every business, in every way of life we search out experience as out first criteria. So these jerks thought we would make out better with an amateur in the most complicated job in the world. And not just a plain amateur but one who refused to learn anything because he thinks he already knows everything when he actually knows nothing, has no interest or ability to learn anything and doesn’t understand how ignorant he really is.
I know that people who are really stupid don’t like it when others refer to their ignorance but we’re way past worrying about that. It is critical for the national interest that the fools who voted for Trump in 2016, get their act together and finally understand that if we don’t vote him out he will destroy this nation.