On March 3, Brian Kolfage tried to reach the U.S. government — through Instagram.
The Air Force veteran, who’s best known for running the crowd-funded border wall project “We Build The Wall,” had stumbled into a new line of work: Medical supply middleman.
You can’t talk to the folks that know what they are talking about unless you filter it through us that don’t know what we’re talking about, but have an agenda.
And unquestionably, the Trump, Pence, Barr squad will steadily keep trying to move in their fascist direction for the next eight months or so unless the press and the people keep calling them out on it . . . .LOUDLY!
Around 1,500 New York transit workers have tested positive for the coronavirus, and 5,604 others have self-quarantined because they are showing symptoms of the infection.
Remember Lev Parnas’s associate Robert Hyde, the wanna be repub congressman who appeared to be in touch with Ukrainian spooks who were tracking Amb. Yovanovitch?
He was also trying to make it in the mask game. There was a story about this a few weeks ago here on TPM.
Is there any other country in the world where people are trying to make a killing (pun intended) on vital PPE equipment? And where the head of the government is telling states (or their equivalent) to find their own supplies and then pulling them out from under them like Lucy takes a football from Charlie Brown? And then peevishly doling those essential life-saving supplies as political favors? It’s seems infuriating, disgusting, immoral. I’m sure you all can find a better adjective here. And makes me so sad that in a crisis we have such a vacuum of national leadership. Rant over.
If only someone had alerted the president early on about the coronavirus and how it would become a crisis, he could have done many things to mitigate all the sickness and death.
Well I guess in the now infamous words of former acting Navy Secretary whatshisname, all those people waiting for Trump to perform that Presidential pivot are “naive and stupid”.