You thought it couldn't get worse?

[Deleted]

This is what the president does with information he doesn't like. This is how a dictator behaves, not a president. www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ap-exclusive-top-white-house-officials-buried-cdc-report/ar-BB13Ow7B?ocid=spartanntp

[Tennesseer]

Burying the report goes hand-in-hand with this post I made earlier today on another thread.

Trump tightens grip on coronavirus information as he pushes to restart the economy

President Trump in recent weeks has sought to block or downplay information about the severity of the coronavirus pandemic as he urges a return to normalcy and the rekindling of an economy that has been devastated by public health restrictions aimed at mitigating the outbreak.

His administration has sidelined or replaced officials not seen as loyal, rebuffed congressional requests for testimony, dismissed jarring statistics and models ,praised states for reopening without meeting White House guidelines and, briefly, pushed to disband a task force created to combat the virus and communicate about the public health crisis.

Several Republican governors are following Trump’s lead as an effort takes shape to control the narrative about a pandemic that has continued to rage throughout a quickly reopening country. With polls showing most consumers still afraid to venture out of their homes, the Trump administration has intensified its efforts to soothe some of those fears through a messaging campaign that relies on tightly controlling information about a virus that has proven stubbornly difficult to contain.

“If the message were to go out with complete objectivity, it would be disastrous for Trump,” said Max Skidmore, a political science professor at the University of Missouri at Kansas City and the author of a book on presidential responses to pandemics. “So he is doing his best to prevent experts from speaking out or using their expertise, and he’s simply trying to divert attention.”

Complete article here: Trump tightens grip on coronavirus information as he pushes to restart the economy

[Deleted]

The corruption, the outright dishonesty and lies, the collusion of everybody who works for/with him, who follows him, who thinks he can do no wrong...OMG. This is what we've come to. This is what we accept. This is what could go on for another four years. 

"His" country, "his" economy. He doesn't give a rat's rear for any of us, just what feeds his ego and his bank account.

This just makes me want to cry. He'll quote chapter and verse from The Book of Trump: Fake news. And his followers will believe him.

[grumpyhermit]

If this doesn't get rooted out in November, it's going to go on for a hell of a lot longer than four years. Watching the utter capitulation to the rapid erosion of political norms has been disheartening to say the least. 

[jelloshots4all]

I hope the virus runs rampant in the WH.  I don't want anyone to die, but I want them to feel the pain the American people are feeling.  To "maybe" understand that they are not bigger than this extremely deadly disease that trump ignored for 70 days and said it was a hoax and would go away

[billisonboard]

May 8, 2020 20:45:00 GMT -5 jelloshots4all said:

I hope the virus runs rampant in the WH.  I don't want anyone to die, but I want them to feel the pain the American people are feeling.  To "maybe" understand that they are not bigger than this extremely deadly disease that trump ignored for 70 days and said it was a hoax and would go away

Not part tense "said", he says today:

May 8, 2020 21:13:14 GMT -5 happyhoix said:

Well, Trump's stupid ass statement of the day is that we don't need to come up with a vaccine, it'll just 'go away.'

www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-says-coronavirus-will-disappear-without-a-vaccine-fauci-has-said-the-opposite/ar-BB13Ooiu

Idiot. 

[The Walk of the Penguin Mich]

I just can’t do stupid anymore.  It is exhausting.

[crazycat]

It’s just insane , as is he . Just when I think it can’t get any worse , it always does 

🤯

[NastyWoman]

May 8, 2020 20:37:48 GMT -5 grumpyhermit said:

If this doesn't get rooted out in November, it's going to go on for a hell of a lot longer than four years. Watching the utter capitulation to the rapid erosion of political norms has been disheartening to say the least. 

I have said for many years that making a decision of where I will retire is hard and it will be bittersweet. For the longest time I phrased this in terms of "where DS2 decides to raise my grand babies" since I have no family on this continent and from a Tax POV it could be very expensive to leave.. If trump gets reelected the ONLY thing that could keep me here is if DS2 were to move back to the US and even that is not certain as I have a lot of family in Europe.

[countrygirl2]

I told hubs if I was younger I would leave the US, he would not.  I don't know what son and DIL will eventually do. She is Russian so not where she wants to go.  


I think if he gets in we will lose SS, medicare, and everything, we will live in extreme poverty, many will die. I think he is in league with putin to destroy us.

[Deleted]

It's surprising that there's no twitter storm from him this morning trying to defend the indefensible. I did see Dr. Birx last night saying that the CDC report wasn't being hidden from the public, that she was "editing" it. I call BS. 

As we speak, his aides, his "best people" are probably trying to figure out a spin they can put on the whole sorry mess before he starts his rallying cry of fake news.

Burying the CDC guidelines is part of trump's transparency Really? It was buried so that trump could pump up "his" economy at the expense of God knows how many more lives. 

Each time he does something outrageous, we think he's topped himself, but no, he then does something even more outrageous. He's a thug. Worse than Hitler, worse than the Duvaliers, Pol Pot, Mao Zedung, and he has us living in Auschwitz, Sobidor, Treblinka, praying that we will survive

Three people in or close to the WH now testing positive. even Ivanka's personal assistant. Unfortunately, even this won't get the attention of people who could put a stop to trump's theme song "My Way."

The time for "his" people to stand up to him has come and gone. They need to resign and instead of saying it's to spend more time with their families, speak up and say they can no longer work in an administration that points fingers rather than finding solutions.

"My Way"

And now, the end is near
And so I face the final curtain
My friend, I'll say it clear
I'll state my case, of which I'm certain
I've lived a life that's full
I traveled each and every highway
And more, much more than this, I did it my way

Regrets, I've had a few
But then again, too few to mention
I did what I had to doAnd saw it through without exemption
I planned each charted course
Each careful step along the byway
And more, much more than this, I did it my way

Yes, there were times, I'm sure you knew
When I bit off more than I could chew
But through it all, when there was doubt
I ate it up and spit it out
I faced it all and I stood tall and did it my way

I've loved, I've laughed and cried
I've had my fill, my share of losing
And now, as tears subside
I find it all so amusing
To think I did all that
And may I say, not in a shy way
Oh, no, oh, no, not me, I did it my way

For what is a man, what has he got?
If not himself, then he has naught
To say the things he truly feels
And not the words of one who kneels
The record shows
I took the blows
And did it my way

Yes, it was my way

[happyhoix]

11 secret service agents have also tested positive now.

And have pence and trump self isolated to prevent sharing the virus with others? Nope, pence visited an old folks home. While not wearing a mask.

[countrygirl2]

And a bunch of faith leaders and execs in meat packing. I would refuse to meet with the guy or I would have a mask and gloves on.  How horrible to expose people. It likely will run rampant through the WH since they are taking no precautions, one can only hope.  

I read a post today, said Pelosi is only 2 ventilators away from the presidency.

[Deleted]

Trump is a malignant narcissist and acts just like one. He slept with Hitler's book next to his bed growing up. He wants to be him. This is a well known fact that many people apparently choose to ignore. 

Perhaps they didn't plan on a pandemic where Trump would have so much help and ease of killing the poor by making them work to serve those who have money, aka the economy.

"We’ve seen him stumble reading a teleprompter, and we’ve heard he doesn’t or can’t read daily CIA intelligence briefing reports. But Trump kept one book bedside, studying it carefully, according to his first wife, Ivana: Adolf Hitler’s “My New Order.”

“My New Order” held Trump’s attention as he read how to control a nation using propaganda. After Germany’s Parliament was destroyed by a suspicious fire, Hitler issued the 1933 “Reichstag Fire Decree,” giving him extraordinary powers that crushed democracy under the jackboot of dictatorship."


www.mercurynews.com/2019/02/24/letter-hitlers-my-new-order-afavorite-book-of-trumps/

[countrygirl2]

I believe he is working toward that and I think he is planning on "giving" control to putin. Or is leading him to believe that.  He owes him, but with his arrogance wants to rule this country as h is own kingdom.  He is well on the way, has to subvert the military and likely could. That would be difficult for them to turn against their chief.

[Rukh O'Rorke]

May 8, 2020 20:37:48 GMT -5 grumpyhermit said:

If this doesn't get rooted out in November, it's going to go on for a hell of a lot longer than four years. Watching the utter capitulation to the rapid erosion of political norms has been disheartening to say the least. 

to say the least, indead.

And it wasn't even ever ideal to begin with.

[jerseygirl]

Some of this should be in conspiracy thread- ridiculous

[pulmonarymd]

May 9, 2020 19:22:17 GMT -5 jerseygirl said:

Some of this should be in conspiracy thread- ridiculous

Why, trump has not released the cdc recommendations, he says one thing then contradicts himself the next day, and routinely proves he is incapable of leadership in regards to the pandemic. He is now backtracking in vaccines

[countrygirl2]

I still think he has dementia or some mental disability.  A sick man

I did weight pulldowns tonight and leg lifts, it actually felt good.  I walked on the treadmill, sad, used to run on it.  I did 560 steps or about .10 of a mile, was afraid to do to much in one day. Have gone up and down the stairs maybe 6 times today. So was watching my heart rate on the treadmill. I have got to do something to strengthen my legs and my posterior looks bigger with all the sitting. I do not need that.

But its like a disconnect when I get down and try to get up off the floor. I have to consciously make myself try with my legs and not pull up with my arms.  Just crazy stuff. I'm getting answers piecemill. But my legs feel better after that. I won't give up.

Finished a different kind of mask for hubs.  I have made 3 this evening, could have done more but exercised and stuff. I have clothes down here I started to alter, think I will work on a pair of shorts while here, about to make one last trip upstairs. I am going to see if the daughter of the renter can wear one I already have made. Then I need to make a friend of mine in Texas a few and me some and I quit for awhile.

I tried that one pair of shorts on. NO, they are floral what was I ever thinking. I am reassembling them and donating.  I wouldn't be caught dead in those, wonder if DD picked them out, I could not cut them down for either of us without totally taking them apart, not worth it. Repaired a pair of hubs old overalls. Found 2 pair of MIL's pants I need to shorten.  Want to do those, get all t his misc stuff done and out of here.

Later

[jerseygirl]

May 9, 2020 19:39:27 GMT -5 pulmonarymd said:

May 9, 2020 19:22:17 GMT -5 jerseygirl said:

Some of this should be in conspiracy thread- ridiculous

Why, trump has not released the cdc recommendations, he says one thing then contradicts himself the next day, and routinely proves he is incapable of leadership in regards to the pandemic. He is now backtracking in vaccines

Putin taking over?

[tractor]

May 9, 2020 22:28:46 GMT -5 jerseygirl said:

May 9, 2020 19:39:27 GMT -5 pulmonarymd said:

Why, trump has not released the cdc recommendations, he says one thing then contradicts himself the next day, and routinely proves he is incapable of leadership in regards to the pandemic. He is now backtracking in vaccines

Putin taking over?

Yeah, haven’t you heard it was in the fine print of the Alaskan purchase deal. After 50 years, the rest of the country reverts to Russia, but we get to keep Alaska as our own private getaway.

I suggest everybody who doesn’t want to be Russian should move up there now and claim their spot before everybody finds out 🙂

[oped]

Putin doesn’t want to take over. He wants our position in the world destroyed.

And seriously name one thing Trump would have done differently if that was also his motive?

[pulmonarymd]

May 9, 2020 22:28:46 GMT -5 jerseygirl said:

May 9, 2020 19:39:27 GMT -5 pulmonarymd said:

Why, trump has not released the cdc recommendations, he says one thing then contradicts himself the next day, and routinely proves he is incapable of leadership in regards to the pandemic. He is now backtracking in vaccines

Putin taking over?

You think Putin wants things to go well for us, taking over is hyperbole, but weakening our position is his goal

[hoops902]

I cannot believe the President of the United States kept something secret from the American people.  I'm so disillusioned right now!

Can we please stop posting political stories in places other than politics?

[thyme4change]

May 9, 2020 19:22:17 GMT -5 jerseygirl said:

Some of this should be in conspiracy thread- ridiculous

I agree. I think Trump is a disaster, and ruining the country, but there is a lot of paranoia and crazy talk on both sides.

[hoops902]

May 11, 2020 14:29:20 GMT -5 thyme4change said:

May 9, 2020 19:22:17 GMT -5 jerseygirl said:

Some of this should be in conspiracy thread- ridiculous

I agree. I think Trump is a disaster, and ruining the country, but there is a lot of paranoia and crazy talk on both sides.

Paranoia?  It's not paranoia to know that Trump is burying reports on confirmed extraterrestrial life and thereby suggested we start mining the moon for resources to appease his new alien overlords.  Pretty much anyone with a brain knows this new coronavirus was created by him, to prepare the human race to host alien symbiotes.  Anyone with the cellular structure to resist the symbiote and thereby serve as a potential nemesis to them is destroyed, and only viable hosts survive the virus to serve as worthy vessels.  Also anyone old, because what symbiote wants to get some old wrinkly body?  Gross.

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

Nah why would aliens want a bunch of fat unhealthy earthlings that aren't primed for space travel?  It makes WAY more sense that they are weeding us down to the point where only the healthiest remain and they will use them to  breed a new food source.   Trump sells us out in exchange for getting his name on the new alien slaughter plants.

[hoops902]

May 11, 2020 14:58:35 GMT -5 NomoreDramaQ1015 said:

Nah why would aliens want a bunch of fat unhealthy earthlings that aren't primed for space travel?  It makes WAY more sense that they are weeding us down to the point where only the healthiest remain and they will use them to  breed a new food source.   Trump sells us out in exchange for getting his name on the new alien slaughter plants.

Maybe Earth is to be the intergalactic Australia...they send their criminals here and everyone is too fat and unhealthy to leave once they've bonded with their new hefty hosts.

[moon/Laura]

May 11, 2020 8:10:17 GMT -5 hoops902 said:

Can we please stop posting political stories in places other than politics?

Hmmm, let's see. YEARS ago, I complained about people on YM refusing to post on the "correct" board.

Some people only post on YM, I was told. How dare you expect them to step out of their comfort zone? The horror!

And lo, YMOT came into existence. As far as I'm concerned, you'll (in general) have to deal with whatever gets posted here. It's "off topic", after all.

And if you don't want that, then I'd suggest everyone else start posting where topics truly belong, too.

[oped]

May 9, 2020 19:22:17 GMT -5 jerseygirl said:

Some of this should be in conspiracy thread- ridiculous

Don't suppose you took a look at Trump's twitter feed yesterday?