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Trump’s resignation is needed.
Probably because Disaster Donnie was first trying to purchase said companies to maximize his gouging potential.
In the past nations could respond to trying times by putting a great many people to work, both to keep them busy and produce needed products. Roosevelt created the WPA and TVA in part to respond to the Great Depression. Similarly Pearl Harbor and German aggression caused an all hands on deck building effort to produce everything needed to fight a world war. These efforts employed millions. But they were performing tasks as teams, in factories, often in close proximity to each other.
This virus outbreak negates that as an option. It’s going to be tricky to finesse making what we need, in the almost incomprehensible and possibly unattainable quantities we need all of it, when people are supposed to be avoiding each other. I suppose every factory could employ the same measures you see in videos of the workforce in a clean room lab, with everyone in a hazmat suit, mask and goggles.
It has to be done, but it’s not going to be easy.
They’re a finely tuned machine, all right.
Too bad the song they are tuned to is “Dust in the Wind.”
The Trump Administration is simply a total Fuster Cluck because the guy at the top has ego derangement and must have his fingers in everything. Bad bad management.
He seems nice.
This 3 1/2 year frat boy party needs to end
Ttump: I hereby order…
he has no friggin idea what he’s doing or what to do… and the only thing his ‘advisors’ are concerned with is how to profiteer from this
If the virus was a drywall contractor Trump could bankrupt its ass and put it out of business.
Trump can only give orders.
He does not have solutions and never has.
His six bankruptcies,believing Putin and Xi,Iran, North Korea are all his failures.
His only hope is Tweeting people to pickup after him and then take credit for cleaning up his messes.
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For some reason (job security I guess?) people around Trump exist in a constant state of dread over his renowned fits of anger and dressing downs in front of others when he’s displeased with something they’ve said or done. Which is weird because we read and hear of him having this effect on people worth tens or hundreds of million of dollars. They don’t need his sorry ass or their job. They’re set for life.
I think it’s these same people that are not pushing forward with helpful solutions to this pandemic, or even putting forth good ideas. And maybe much of their inertia is out of fear of saying or doing the wrong thing. So what happens is everyone waits on Trump to institute solutions, but he’s a certifiable idiot. So no one does much of anything. Out of fear and idiocy.
Sounds like a plan.
Those around Trump, i.e. his enablers in this disaster, are more afraid of injuring Trump’s ego and suffering his wrath than they are in protecting Americans!! Their silence in the face of his grotesque mishandling of this crisis is mind boggling! The response is FUBAR!
The idea that you would ask corporate executives to respond to a Survey Monkey questionnaire to list all their inventories of potential and existing medical equipment is so mind-boggling… the WH is clueless.
Meanwhile, there is just another little problem:
SOP for the Orange Death Star.
All that matters is LOOKING like you are doing something, not actually doing something.
Just like his TeeVee show, where he looked like a businessman, rather than was a businessman.
Turns out their feelings of Imposter Syndrome are quite well validated.
ETA: @benthere
As we received no advance notice of this announcement and we have received no additional guidance from the Administration
This pretty much sums up how the Trump administration operates in all matters.