On Thursday, White House Senior Aide Jared Kushner left quite the impression at his rare press briefing appearance as he insisted that the National Strategic Stockpile was for “our” use, not the states’.
Shorter version: Trump and Kushner are blatantly lying. Again. As always,
“As the disease tears through New York City, victims succumb to grisly ‘autocannibalistic’ tendencies.”
Azar: “I want to thank President Trump for his bold, decisive leadership in this fight against grisly autocannibalistic tendencies.”
(“And when I say there are ‘no’ grisly autocannibalistic tendencies in the US Navy, I mean there is a certain amount.”)
Are we sure Jared isn’t Donnie’s spawn, vs Ivanka?
it makes one wonder: Are there any autocannibalistic tendencies that are not grisly?
Are there examples of dainty, heartwarming autocannibalistic tendencies?
“Our use” Obviously means the deserving as the Trump family understands deserving as opposed to the undeserving according to the same metric.
Ourselves.
All his excuses, his blaming, his twisted self regard are not working for him now. People are dying. Even Rich Lowry is saying Trump won’t get reelected after his disastrous handling of this pandemic.
Jared Kushner can take his f_ckin’ crystal ball and go bowling! Outrageous!
OT I guess.
Let us not forget that 8 years after “The Cobra Event” there was Max Brooks’ “World War Z”, with it’s world wide zombie plague. Brooks lectured at the Naval War College to help train officers for pandemics, like hey that thing that Trump thought was no big deal.
My point is that Trump and am going say Republicans have a failure of imagination. They can’t see past the end of their noses.
And he built all of this with his two little hands. He picked his members of the Trump cabal. He chose who he would listen to. He chose who to get rid of.
“The federal government needs it too, not just the states,” he added, yelling at the reporter.
WTF does this even mean? Is he talking about himself and his cabinet?
The National Stockpile, born from the pages of a thriller has now been transformed into a true crime novel.
His cabinet and his bizness buddies.
And adding to my other post in the he chose who to get rid of, Bolton’s book was scheduled to come out last month, then delayed by the WH til May, who thinks they’ll delay it again?
Bill Clinton, aside from all his personal flaws, was serious about public policy and clearly a long-term thinker. we’re always thanking Obama–let’s thank Bill once in awhile.
Only if Trump had an affair with Madame Tussaud.
If he’s lost such a fervent acolyte as Rich Lowry, Trump is well and truly fucked.
Its stores were seriously depleted during the Obama administration. According to a Health Security study, 75 percent of respirators and face masks in its stockpile were used to protect health-care workers during the 2009 swine flu outbreak.
Then there is a link to USAtoday…
There is no indication that the Obama administration took significant steps to replenish the Strategic National Stockpile after it was depleted from repeated crises during Obama’s tenure. Calls for action came from experts at the time concerned for the country’s ability to respond to future serious pandemics. Such recommendations were, for whatever reason, not heeded.
The article below is a worthwhile read to give more context to the article I’m commenting and the linked USAtoday article mentioned above:
When this too shall pass someone will write a treatise that will be used well into this century in PoliSci classes. It will be formally known as “How Not to Ruin a Once Great Super Power-Trump’s Failure to Lead”, and informally “Kids Don’t Do What Trump Did”.