Trump Administration Seeking to Block Funding for Testing, Contact Tracing And CDC In COVID Relief Bill | Talking Points Memo

Linsey, does this stupid red hat make me look
fat?

No sir. I recommend you stop all testing just in case.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/42GSOLGJDEI6VKBFQ4RAATSBKA.jpg&w=916

ETA. Image in Washington Post article.

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Perhaps Trump knows a miracle vaccine is here! Testing is obsolete!

Or he wants us all to die.

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This is a man with a criminal mind. The more destruction, chaos, and misery, the more entertaining it is for him. He doesn’t want to stop the pandemic, he wants to see it burn out of control. I’m afraid that this is just a warmup, these next six months are going to be those “interesting times” that the famous curse refers to living through.

criminal%20mind

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Well, clearly Jared isn’t making money off of testing. So axe it.

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And, he’s pissed at the polls because it means he is unloved, and he CANNOT abide being unloved!

“I’ll teach you to love me or else!!”

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This should win an Oscar in some new category of trump tantrums

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Government by madman, and by a legion of accomplices, whose conduct is, if anything, more reprehensible, if that is even possible. They are supposed to be at least sane.

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People will invade the suburbs and who knows where they’ve been?

— Full blown unapologetic racist incitement to racism. How much does Trump’s racism feed into his coronavirus nonresponse?

https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/1284599642047512576

Trump in tele-town hall last night on Biden: “They’re going to bring people, eliminate single-family zoning, they want to eliminate single family zoning, bringing who knows into your suburbs, so your communities will be unsafe and your housing values will go down.” Per

@DJJudd

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What will Senate republicans do? Pass a veto-proof bill,“coming to the rescue” to ensure re-election?

Forget about it, you horrible enablers. You’re done.

I’m not reading what Trump said about John Lewis. I’ve very much loved all the wonderful things said about him. Not going to tarnish any part of that.

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I get that he’s a three year old sociopath.
But what of all the many worker bees he has in his administration doing his bidding? Who the hell are they? Where did he find so many evil and crazy people?

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He is against testing and contact tracing because it will find people who have COVID-19. And, when you start finding people who test positive for COVID-19, you will need to trace the contacts that they have had over the past days or weeks, and test them. Trump does not want to see any more positive cases because he has been saying for months that it is a hoax, or it is over, or it will be over tomorrow. Because it makes him look bad, and people will think he is a total failure. He wants to make money again, and the economy to thrill us again. He doesn’t give a rat’s patootie if hundreds of thousands are dying, or millions of people have gotten horribly sick. And millions have lost their jobs. And maybe he won’t get re-elected, and maybe he will be indicted, prosecuted, and found guilty for his treasonous and criminal activities. And his life will be over, in shame and poverty. 'Nuff said?

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“many White House officials argue that some of that money remains unspent since the last major coronavirus spending bill Congress approved in April included $25 billion to increase testing”

NO! Trump doesn’t want testing because it results in higher number of reported cases in the short run and he thinks that makes him look bad. Or he wants to kill Americans. Who knows, it doesn’t matter, he has been against testing, against anything to contain the virus since day 1.

[If you tried to tell him that you need tests to contain the virus, that you will get to a point where you do lots of tests with very few positives, he would not understand, or care.]

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This is objectively crazy - and the question is, why are there so many willing to join him in his insanity?

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He’s addressing an Arizona tele-rally and is making fabulistic claims that are total nonsense and palpably delusional.

https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1284615480389652481

Trump tells people in Arizona: “You had the best three years” in the history of the state, “and you’re having a good year now.” ?

Take it from me, the previous three years we didn’t have much fun and this year we are not having any fun at all.

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I think its the latter choice.

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This is another version of there goes the neighborhood only with a Trump twist and bull horn.

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Whatever he’s doing, he believes it will help him win in November.

How or why, even he may not understand. But he’s convinced.

Just as he is convinced the virus will go away like a miracle, or there will be a vaccine or a cure.

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Oh come on it’s his official Quisp or Quake cereal mug because he was a fan as a kid.
You can always look at it this way, his infatuation with QAnon might mean he can cause fewer problems for New Yorkers.

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We live in that hope.

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The Congressional Budget Office reported that the federal government ran a deficit of $864 billion in June. This monthly deficit is more than 100 times larger than last June’s deficit of $8 billion. The budget deficit so far this fiscal year has surged to $2.7 trillion, $2 trillion more than at the same point last year.

On January 21, 2021 the GOP will once again become fiscal conservatives par excellence and demand that the entire budget, other than defense spending, be drastically slashed to rein in the “debt we’re passing on to our children and grandchildren.”

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