President Donald Trump seems to have finally caught on to the fact that hospitals need more ventilators to treat people with severe cases of coronavirus.
Madness
As if we didnāt have enough to worry about. The entire GOP is the Gambino Family on steroids.
There comes a time when an infected mad animal should simply be put down. Weāre way past that.
If we had voted in a President with actual business experience and a lifetime of being accountable we may have been able to get through thisā¦
I would almost guarantee you that tRump doesnāt even know what a ventilator is, what it does, what it looks like, who its for and any other relevant information about that specific spoken-of medical equipment. tRump is an ignoramus. That is all.
" Trump Yells For Companies To Produce Ventilators While Dithering On Specifics."
Only the best dithering. Very, very classy dithering. G-dās gift to dithering!
Issue an Executive Order or use DPA, you Stooopidly Greedy Moron instead of tweeting!
If the Greed-Over-People Party can give a $1.5Trillion scam tax cut, why are millions of American lives NOT worth the $1B price for the 80k ventilators?
Addendum:
Why is Kushner - with no scientific qualification - put in charge of the much needed ventilators? How much is he grifting from this pandemic? Any delay he causes (like the research that the WH claimed he was doing) because of his greed are literally killing Americans!
Profiting in Office in times of adversities like a pandemic will guarantee you Kushner a special place in HELL!
At the center of the discussion about how to ramp up the production of ventilators is Jared Kushner, the presidentās son-in-law and a senior White House aide, who has told people that he was called in two weeks ago by Vice President Mike Pence to produce more coronavirus test kits and who has now turned his attention to ventilators.
Update:
Per Peter Bakerā¦finally, Trump invokes DPAā¦problem is itās NOT science basedā¦itās seems to be at whims of Azar who is under Covidiot Trump!
The order Trump signs directs Azar āto require General Motors Company to accept, perform, and prioritize contracts or orders for the number of ventilators that the Secretary determines to be appropriate.ā
https://twitter.com/peterbakernyt/status/1243629529224171522
ralph
Donāt even know why people are paying Trump any attention anymore.JARED KUSHNER !
In hindsight, the takeover of our system of government by incompetent malefactors, something we all though to be far fetched and unlikely, turned out to be easy and actually completely predictable. Viz. Mann and Ornstein and others.
It wasnāt too long ago that the country was blessed with a president who had a Harvard MBA and was an experienced bidnessman. The good old days.
Does an all-caps rant on Twitter amount to using the Defense Production Act? I can understand why people would be confused on that point.
Itās probably Obamaās faulty anyway. MORE WINNING!!!
By itās very nature, Narcissistic Personality Disorder is such that if you elect someone who has it president, that president will be the worst possible president imaginable when a crisis comes along, no matter what the nature of the crisis. There may be mental disorders that it would be worse for a president to have, but there arenāt any I can think of that someone could have and still get elected president, if only by an amazingly unlucky confluence of events.
There is no better him, no rising above himself to meet a challenge, no capacity for reasoned calculation of his long term best interest like youād get with someone with pure Antisocial Personality Disorder (which yeah, he also has).
When I was heaving my guts out on election night, I didnāt know what the crisis would be, but I knew there would be one and and I knew this is how it would go.
There is a current article on Slate to the effect that even though Trump cannot successfully sue to have political ads against him taken off the air, the fact that he sued at all serves as a chilling effect.
Well, a recent presidential candidate was willing to spend close to a billion dollars on his vanity campaign. He should volunteer to pay the legal fees of anyone chilled by Trump.
We can start with the killer ad showing Trump yapping his mouth while the infected persons curve soars exponentially, and we can follow that up by something equally devastating regarding ventilators, maybe the sounds of people gasping for air set against Trumpās sniping about Cuomoās plea for help. The backdrop an image of a monitor beeping, then going flatline.
" Freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Friday slammed the $2.2 trillion coronavirus stimulus passage passed in the Senate earlier in the week as āshamefulā and argued that the bill was one of āthe largest corporate bailoutsā in āAmerican history.ā
I didnāt vote for him so Iām off the hook. I didnāt vote for anyone with private business experience and this, may I say, is the reason why. Government is not a business, let alone your own private business which tRump thinks is now his. Besides, heās not a āsuccessfulā businessman, never has been. Heās a cheesy gameshow host. At the very most, by way of business, heās basically a fucking realtor that uses OPM as a pass through to buying, operating and maintaining his acquisitions. Heās always been a criminal money launderer except for all the money his dad gave him that he lost on owning a damn casino. He just liked to pretend he was some kind of mogul in the real estate business, and NY let him get away with that for way too long. I blame NY for that shit. They let a bogus reputation as a successful businessman to build into the menace we see today. tRump is the Bernie Madoff of the real estate business.
His people were the problem. So he is projecting that onward. Standard issue Trump Tactics.
One thought, the difficulties with him are soundly based on his disorders, but one fact is creeping in as well. Not only will they not do the right thing, they flat do not know how. Something he does not want to admit.
Layman as I am, if I were suddenly the POTUS, I would be reaching out, rapidly to the people who knew how to do things in the past. This means previous presidents and administration folks as well as all the downstream players. First day I would get a team of people who know where to go, what to look for and how to make it happen. Then let them loose. But he is too ignorant and narcissistic to do this. He wants to be the only mover and shaker and damn the consequences. The fact Jared is even close to this issue is repugnant.
But reaching out to knowledgeable people, his narcissism will not let it happen and then he has to share credit.
Iām sure heāll invoke the DPA when red states and swing states yell loudly enough.
Iām no fan of Xi, but Iād take him in a heartbeat over this idiot whoās getting us killedā¦deliberately. At what point do we call it murder? Iām there now.
