This Incompetent Administration's Response to Coronavirus

[Chicks]

Coronavirus lays bare all the pathologies of the Trump administration
By
Max Boot
Columnist
Feb. 26, 2020 at 10:23 a.m. PST

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...aos-president/

Seeking to undo everything that his predecessor had done, Trump dismantled the epidemic-fighting infrastructure the Obama administration had built up at the National Security Council and the Department of Homeland Security. One of John Bolton’s first acts upon becoming national security adviser in 2018 was to dismiss the NSC’s global health team led by Rear Adm. Timothy Ziemer, a widely respected public-health expert.

These moves are emblematic of the president’s contempt for apolitical civil servants who know what they are doing. He prefers unqualified political hacks whose only loyalty is to him rather than to the country. Many top administration posts are already filled by “acting” placeholders while further purges are being launched by the new head of presidential personnel, the president’s 29-year-old former “body man” (i.e., gofer), John McEntee, with the assistance of a 23-year-old college senior.

Even as America mobilizes against a global epidemic — soon to be a pandemic, according to a former CDC director — two-thirds of the top jobs at DHS are devoid of Senate-approved appointees. The second acting secretary in a row, Chad Wolf, inspired incredulity from both Republicans and Democrats with his Senate testimony on Tuesday. He claimed the mortality rate for covid-19 is around 2 percent — roughly the same, he said, as the common flu. In fact, the mortality rate for influenza is around 0.1 percent.

Meanwhile, the acting deputy secretary, arch-nativist Ken Cuccinelli, took to Twitter to ask for the public’s help in accessing an online map from Johns Hopkins University tracking the virus’s spread. Imagine if the head of U.S. Strategic Command asked the public for helping in learning about nuclear weapons, and you start to comprehend the scale of the problem.

Trump was said to be furious that the State Department had overruled the CDC and flown 14 sick Americans home from Japan on aircraft with healthy passengers. He wasn’t notified until after the fact, and neither were some members of his coronavirus task force. The “chaos president” will try to find scapegoats, but he has no one but himself to blame for this chaotic response. He can’t figure out how to spell “coronavirus,” much less how to fight it.

At a time like this, it would be a lot more reassuring to think that there were actual, you know, experts in charge of the government rather than ignorant ideologues chosen for their dedication to a supreme leader unconstrained by fact, logic or morality. Where’s the “deep state” when you need it most?

[donquixote99]

Forget what I said about vaccine truncating the infection pyramid. The administration says the vaccine will be deployed not to save lives, but to maximize profit.

The immorality of 'pure capitalism' was never more sharply highlighted.

[Chicks]

Bernie Sanders ✔@SenSanders

Trump's plan for the coronavirus so far:

-Cut winter heating assistance for the poor
-Have VP Pence, who wanted to "pray away" HIV epidemic, oversee the response
-Let ex-pharma lobbyist Alex Azar refuse to guarantee affordable vaccines to all

Disgusting.

[Chicks]

Listening to the CA Government’s press conference right now. Nobody kissing the guv’s ass here, no politics, the experts detailing the issue without BS. So unlike Donny’s presser the other day, where his incompetent toadies kissed his fat orange butt and floundered.

[Pio1980]

Not mentioned, but does anyone else see the possibility of using this as a pretext to declare martial law and cancel the election?
https://www.businessinsider.com/coro...ion-2020-2?amp

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by Pio1980

Not mentioned, but does anyone else see the possibility of using this as a pretext to declare martial law and cancel the election?
https://www.businessinsider.com/coro...ion-2020-2?amp

If stocks continue to tank, and the election is thrown into grave doubt, they could jump this way. Why not?

[Chicks]

The coronavirus and Donny’s diseased credibility

https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/...redibility.php

[Ike Bana]

So...why did Dondillion's POTUS (ACK!!!) sit in front of the cameras yesterday and tell the country how it doesn't matter what the CDC he has decimated says about it...the Coronavirus is just going to disappear befor any Americans get sick, much less die. Why would he say this? Really?

One reason. The stock market. For three years he has been taking credit for the DOW streaking up to 29,000. And in a week the DOW is under 25,000. If Trump won't take responsibility for this necessary correction, he can't take credit for the run up. Could his emotional dysregulation have generated enough intellectual disorganization that he actually believes that when he says the coronavirus is going to disappear...that the day traders and hedge funders will automatically go on a buying spree...ending the correction and insuring his re-election?

He's a fucking lunatic...of course he does. And his finger is on the button.

[Dondilion]

Trump' s political fortune will not depend on corona nor the stock market, but largely on what occurs in the Democratic party.

The globalization wheels coming off plays to Trump's base.

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

The globalization...

What are we gonna do about those fuckin' globalist kikes, eh man?

PS - my post was not about the realities of your POTUS' political fortunes, it was about the pathological ways he chooses to attempt to enhance his political fortunes.

I can see it now, Dondillion finally gets to shake the hand of his POTUS. "It's such an honor to meet you Mr. President. And I want you to know that whenever you have the time, you're invited to come over to my house and fuck my sister."