aloyisious wrote: » Dr Brix gives the US a comparable rate of Virus affected persons to that of South Korea, 4%. That's higher than Dons 1% from last week.
pixelburp wrote: » If some would imply those critical of Trump suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome, the man himself is obsessed about Obama. Utterly obsessed. Makes derangement syndrome look like apathy. And to think, all this because Obama mocked him at the correspondents dinner ... back in 2011 wasn't it?
Runaways wrote: » Missed that. A PBS reporter asked Trump does he take responsibility for dismantling a major office that would be a huge help right now ( cdc slashed funding I presume?) He replied ‘i take responsibility for nothing’ No kidding
Runaways wrote: » Anyone know if this is true? Hopefully it ishttps://twitter.com/carltonfwlarson/status/1238506586156351488?s=21
§19. Vacancy in offices of both President and Vice President; officers eligible to act (a)(1) If, by reason of death, resignation, removal from office, inability, or failure to qualify, there is neither a President nor Vice President to discharge the powers and duties of the office of President, then the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall, upon his resignation as Speaker and as Representative in Congress, act as President.
Billy Mays wrote: » Of course there's a tweet :pac:
Runaways wrote: » On camera denying he had anything to do with the thing he did.https://twitter.com/newshour/status/1238572800186757120?s=21
Q Your budgets have consistently called for enormous cuts to the CDC, the NIH, and the WHO. You’ve talked a lot today about how these professionals are excellent, have been critical and necessary. Does this experience at all give you pause about those consistent cuts? THE PRESIDENT: No, because we — we can get money and we can increase staff. We know all the people. We know all the good people. It’s a question I asked the doctors before. Some of the people we cut, they haven’t been used for many, many years. And if — if we have a need, we can get them very quickly. And rather than spending the money — and I’m a business person — I don’t like having thousands of people around when you don’t need them. When we need them, we can get them back very quickly. For instance, we’re bringing some people in tomorrow that are already in this, you know, great government that we have, and very specifically for this. We can build up very, very quickly. And we’ve already done that. I mean, we really have built up. We have a great staff. And using Mike, I’m doing that because he’s in the administration and he’s very good at doing what he does, and doing as it relates to this.
Penn wrote: » In fairness, he might not know anything about it. I mean it's not like he was asked about it three weeks ago and absolutely said he did it.https://twitter.com/JeffLieber/status/1238569429174063105?s=19
aloyisious wrote: » One thing Manic Moran, or some other knowledgeable person, might be able to solve for me was the mention Don made of the increase of the national oil reserves by buying in millions of barrels of oil, which he linked to the cheaper cost of oil now due to the virus outbreak/falloff in industry. Is the increased reserve oil going to come from within the US itself [shale oil] or from a foreign producer which is now involved in a price war with a former partner? Has there been a falloff in the reserve level in the past few years which necessitated the increase Don has approved?
Manic Moran wrote: » Forgive me for thinking that accuracy and a willingness to consider possible reasonable alternative explanations should not be casualties of The Great Boards Trump Pile-On. Is “middle ground” a bad place to be? Indeed, what I find telling is that the complaint was not that I posted that Trump was wrong, but that I was not suitably insulting when I did so. Really? I saw this about eight years ago on the other side. That Trump is more deserving of scorn than his predecessor is a given, but that does not mean that valid positions should be ignored any more now than then. Genuine answer. If you will recall I am on record as saying I did not vote for Trump in 2016. I see no reason that he is any more deserving of my vote today, and find it unlikely that this position will change.
everlast75 wrote: » https://twitter.com/jeneps/status/1238678006182350849?s=19 I believe that this goes again CDC recommendations. What possible reason does he have *not* to be tested?
duploelabs wrote: » Because if he does, and he is infected, it'd be chaos
everlast75 wrote: » If he doesn't, he still may be infected, he will be in serious danger, and he will put others in jeopardy. So that "reason", is no reason at all.
duploelabs wrote: » Putting others in jeopardy is never high on Trump's concerns
MadYaker wrote: » He has to get tested and he should be self isolating. If he has it he will most likely die in the next few weeks anyway so why not get tested? This is going to be unmitigated disaster is the USA. I have family there and they are oblivious. Schools still open, everyone going about life as normal. Deaths will be in the hundreds of thousands.
