Trump Will Add U.K., Ireland To European Travel Ban | Talking Points Memo

Trump’s newest tweet, pinned to the top of his feed, shows video of jets releasing green, white, and red smoke, and it says this:

W.T.F.

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It’s not that hard to discern a pattern of Trump’s speech. He knows so few words and must repeat them often.

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Excluding Ireland and and the UK never made much sense anyway…unless you believed he excluded them because he has properties there. Personally, I didn’t think so and expected this news even sooner.

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How about a national day of epidemiological science? Maybe go with what works, you semiconscious moron.

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All I can say is “Fore no more”.

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The leprechauns, brownies, fairies, and Druids were all set cast spells on us.

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But not Russia or Cyprus.

Somewhat off topic, but another blog mentioned the “what’s was the big deal” psychology.
Mitigation steps are taken that work in some emergency and some members of the public are puzzled about all the excitement that SEEMS to have been unwarranted. Example is the y2k phenomenon. We took just in case steps such as with ICBMs. Afterwards people trivialize the concern.

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Critics will also note the door to China and other asian countries is still open (the ones with 5-digit infection counts).

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Sure, it’s raining; you have an umbrella; you’re dry. Maybe time to get rid of it then?

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Not that this is news but I’m listening to Trump introduce today’s press conference earlier and it’s painful and embarrassing. Just rambling on and on, trying and failing to pretend he’s on top of things.

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Too little too late again!

discounted rate = rack rate + 20%

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It will be done in the schools, which will be re-opened for just that day.

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My bother made an excellent point about Trump’s recent appearances — that if we saw our dad acting and talking like that, with all the slurring, rambling, and incoherent babbling, with all the vacant and lost looks, and then the stumbling and wandering around, we would have to gather the family for a serious talk about whether it’s time to put him in a home.

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OK, but just not today.

Today belongs to circumference ÷ diameter.

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précisément, mon vieux.

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A slight OT observation on his ‘pronouncements’:

I live on the South Texas Coast in a small fishing town deep in the heart of Trump Country. Two days ago - I was at my local grocery (HEB) and all was normal.

I was just there to pick up some butter - and the place had been picked over by locust. Seriously. I’ve lived in hurricane country most of my life - and this was worse than panic buying before a storm.

What happened?

Trump told his idiots it was an emergency.

I think they’re taking it seriously.

(It’s insane. Nobody needs to shop like this.)

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ICYMBI. Also, Japan has recorded its first case of reinfection of a person who recovered from covid-19 a month ago.

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