Rep. James Clyburn said Wednesday the COVID-19 crisis is “much, much worse” than the 2008 Great Recession because the U.S. is without a national strategy to contain the coronavirus.
But we do have a national plan.
“Every person for themselves” might not be a great plan, but it’s definitely a plan.
Bit of an understatement: ‘Clyburn said, “That’s not the way you run a national government.”’
What if everyone in the US stayed home for 3 weeks? That’s possible, and would go a long way toward getting this virus under control by starving it of hosts. After that, have a robust testing and contact tracing program (while retaining mitigation measures, including masks, keeping bars closed, etc.). That’s still not looking so possible; after all this time, it’s still taking too long to get a virus test and/or a test result. Sad.
Clyburn:
[“The House did its work,” he said. “And, of course, Mitch McConnell told us at the time that it was literally a joke. He didn’t see the seriousness of it.”]
There are at least 10 pressing issues any one of which should have brought Impeachment and ultimate expulsion of Trump from the Presidency.
We are so far adrift from Normal Times.
We cannot go into this election allowing for Trump to make that exercise also blatantly corrupt.
But he said it’s not appropriate for President Donald Trump to use the White House as the backdrop to accept the Republican Party’s nomination, as Trump has suggested.
“Let him do it from the golf course,” Clyburn said.
Yeah that would be appropriate, that’s where he spend’s all his time. Otherwise he can call in to Fox & Friends and read his acceptance…
Trump meanwhile indulges in an encomium to himself.
Daniel Dale
@ddale8
Geraldo presses again about whether Trump wouldn’t say he did anything wrong at all in handling the virus. Trump says he’s done an “unbelievable job,” did great China and Europe “bans” (not bans), “our testing has been unbelievable” (a major failure), testing causes cases (no).
6:53 AM · Aug 6, 2020
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Trump says that after he aced the cognitive test, the questions about his “brain power” all “disappeared,” “literally disappeared.”
No.
The USPS handles the far greater Christmas mailings and it cannot handle an election??? Give me a break!! Desperate Donnie is devious as hell.
"Clyburn said he hopes Biden will consider naming a Black woman as the vice presidential pick, but it’s not a “must.”
On a smaller scale ,we have and African American Woman Lt Governor here in New Jersey,if you didn’t know it you wouldn’t know it.
" but it’s not a “must.”
I agree.
The only plan is that the numbskull in the WH gets tested for the virus probably every day. Who cares about anyone else.
The most disgraceful POS ever.
Thanks to Clyburn, like what he had to say.
The GOP has no plan, either, Congressman.
Not one it will make public, anyway.
I read all of Daniel Dale’s tweets on this interview and I have to say he may be growing more delusional. I read an interesting thing once: He said once on TV that “The Apprentice” had been the number one show every year, and Billy Bush told him, Donald, that’s not true. It was only number one the first year. And Trump said I know but people will believe it. So obviously he was at one time consciously lying, and I’m sure that’s in the mix now, but I’m equally sure he began believing his lies at some point and now he can’t tell the difference, and his lies are becoming cruder and more obvious and at the same time apparently something he thinks are truer and truer.
Yes, he’s still a liar, but he’s moved into fabulism. @inversion, if I remember correctly, sometimes refers to Trump as “Baron von Orangehausen.”
LOL that’s a good one.
How many of the RWNJ’s have a radio show, or YouTube show? Don’t they all sell preppers supplies? How can they make more $$$ if the government steps in and runs things smoothly and efficiently?
That’s a great line. I’m looking forward to Trump’s petulant and possibly racist response.
The National Plan in use here is “King of the Hill.”
You need to climb to the top over all the dead bodies beneath you.
It is what it is.
I’m not exactly sure what Congresswoman Bass is being accused of as being “wrong”, but she was, as Rep. Clyburn points out, only 19 at the time.
Meanwhile, McCain and Bush engaged in serious wrongdoing well into their 30s and 40s which were brushed away as “youthful indiscretions”.
When you’re a minority, you’re not entitled to a childhood. When you’re a white male, life is a perpetual childhood.
While I believe I understand white privilege and how I’ve benefited from it, I assure you that my life has not been a perpetual childhood. Far from it. We all suffer through life while seeking some joy. I am deeply saddened by the fact that non-whites continue to suffer under the millstone imposed by racism and I’m working to change that. I wish I could snap my fingers and make it go away, but it is going to take a lot of work and good policy to reverse centuries of racism.
Definitely an overstatement on my part, but if you look at the lives Trump or George W have led, it does seem as if they have caused significant damage around them without paying much of a price personally.
