"BWAAAHAAAA! I wanna be the ruler of this country! I want them governors to do what I want! WAAAHHH!"
"This president's inability to transcend himself, to think of anything that isn't immediately about him, makes him un-briefable, makes him uneducable, and unable to think clearly. These are all the characteristics that are really crucial in a leader in a crisis. They have to be able to listen. Anyone who's ever briefed a leader knows there has to come a moment when they remain quiet and listen to you. He never has that moment, only caring about what affects him and how he's perceiving it. And that's what makes him so dangerous right now and what's putting us behind the eight ball in terms of our response to this virus." Tom Nichols, author of 'Trump Is Making Us Worse People', on 'All In' last night
"If Donald Trump did not have the authority to lock down the state or states, he does not have any authority to open them back up." - Lawrence O'Donnell last night, Last Word
"This is a total reversal of the president's first position. He has total authority to open up the economy? Then why did he leave it to the states and governors to close it down? He had taken the position it was up to the states to buy medical equipment, etcetera. It was none of his responsibility but all the states'. And now all of a sudden he's in charge of the reopening? Doesn't work that way. " Gov. Andrew Cuomo, this morning on CBS, answering Gayle King's question about Trump having final say on when to open the economy.
Well, in truth, the denizens at FOX news ought to have seen they were leashed to loser ratbag pretender bratsky long ago. A deranged dingbat resident whose sole accomplishments in life have been to con and grift others into compliance and financial loss. But hey, we on the left will take redemption by Trump's suckers whenever we can get it, and so it's nice to see Fox n' Friends finally coming to see the human garbage fouling the White House. This was especially after the asswipe ridiculed Chris Wallace in a tweet, which provoked the justified anger of Fox n' Friends weekend host Jedediah Bila, who fired back in her own tweet:
My one complaint is that it's taken so long to see Dotard for the fecal orange fungus he really is. This presents the larger question of why so much of the nation is still under the spell of this sorry imp who acts half the time like he has a Pangolin's spiked tail up his fat ass. Why else continually carry on like a dyspeptic brat - who in the latest iteration- actually believes his power extends to ordering state governors around?
In his latest display of 2- year old temper tantrums this pretender bellowed at a briefing:
“The president of the United States calls the shots. They can’t do anything without the approval of the president of the United States.”
Sorry to disabuse you, Trump Turd, but only a dictator gets to "call the shots" - and you aren't that yet, and certainly not if we stop you from grabbing another term.
The ass clown stomped his feet to make his uninformed "point" of Trumpian rule more forcefully, after the governors earlier responded to graffiti he wrote on Twitter, i.e. that such a decision (to open up) lies with the president, not the states. It appears none of his sorry aides told the orange fruitcake that the only way he could make that happen is to: a) declare martial law and b) federalize all state national guards. At that point, of course, every citizen in all the sane states would rise up in revolution to finally overthrow this scumball and his cabal - now acting as de facto pirates to raid critical medical supplies. Thereby adding to the woes of our real front line heroes, as he adds to the deaths already caused by his own hubris and failure to act in the current crisis. As we know from a NY Times report April 6th:
"Two months before the novel coronavirus is thought to have begun its deadly advance in Wuhan, China, the Trump administration ended a $200-million pandemic early-warning program aimed at training scientists in China and other countries to detect and respond to such a threat. The project, launched by the U.S. Agency for International Development in 2009, identified 1,200 viruses that had the potential to erupt into pandemics, including more than 160 novel coronaviruses. The initiative, called PREDICT, also trained and supported staff in 60 foreign laboratories — including the Wuhan lab that identified SARS-CoV-2, the new coronavirus that causes COVID-19."
In addition, we know Trump and his gangsters sat on their asses for over two months doing nothing, making light of a deadly disease (calling it a 'hoax') even after being notified by the National Center for Medical Intelligence (a division of the DIA) in January. So now this rabid baboon wants to lead the effort at re-opening the economy - deciding when every state has to cease restrictions? I don't think so! He will have to sit in a corner, take an 'x' weeks time out and STFU.
Asked what provisions of the Constitution gave this asswit the power to override the states if they wanted to remain closed, Donnie Dotard sputtered:
“Numerous provisions!”
Without naming one. Of course, because there aren't any normal ones.
“Numerous provisions!”
Without naming one. Of course, because there aren't any normal ones.
The man brat's daylong assertions of power appeared to have been spawned by the fact he's finally come against a foe - a relentless nonhuman entity - which can't be bullied, or threatened or bluffed. It is a remorseless virus that wreaks havoc on human lungs, especially of the most vulnerable, but which Janice hopes will finally lay low Trump. "I know it's probably bad karma", she said after watching his latest histrionics, "but I just want him gone! So let this virus finish him off while he chokes on his own snot!" Hey, I can't begrudge her given just about everyone in our immediate circle wants the same. Why? Because he is a pestilence and what better than for a pestilence to take out another pestilence?
On a more realistic and real world level, Trump's latest tirade also had little effect on the governors. As Gov. Tom Wolf of Pennsylvania said:
“Well, seeing as we had the responsibility for closing the state down. I think we probably have the primary responsibility for opening it up.”
Having already caused nearly 24,000 deaths of fellow citizens by his delays, inaction, mendacity and snake oil acts, Trump has no right now to try to enter to dictate anything. He does have the right to learn a few things, shut his fat yap, and finally begin to process the magnitude of the common foe we are all up against.
But don't look for it, because as author and former Republican aide Tom Nichols noted last night on All In, Trump in the end is capable of neither empathy - as for the thousands of people his slackness, indifference and piracy has killed - or remorse for his crimes.
What he was impeached for pales beside his current monstrous transgressions: stealing medical supplies using Jarad K and sending thousands to their deaths while he invoked a "national emergency" but didn't do jack shit. Now, the bellicose numbskull believes he can - by fiat- reopen states to business without even a plan to massively test to see how many citizens remain infected. As Chris Hayes observed, the maggot delayed restrictions at the outset causing thousands of needless deaths. And he's now ready to make the converse error by too early lifting of restrictions imposed by state governors- triggering more thousands of needless deaths.
Nobel winning economist Paul Romer on All In last week posited over 300 million tests needed nationwide before we can even think of returning to business as usual. This country isn't even doing one hundredth of such tests per week, so how can there be the most remote hint of reopening? Further, the U.S. federal government "has yet to launch a national test and trace strategy to find and isolate virus carriers" (WSJ, today, p. A9), without which it is sheer madness to reopen. But look, a criminal like Trump doesn't even care, as it's all about him, his re-election etc.
The long and short of it is that Trump is simply aching in his rabid dog, gaslighting brain to kill 20,000 more of us while his Reich lapdogs insist the virus will only take those "on their last legs anyway." Yeah, let Hannity, William Bennett, Bill O'Reilly, Limburger and all the rest of these roaches get the Covid-19 and "choke on their own snot"- to use Janice's apt parlance!
See also:
Trump Says He Faces "Biggest Decision" — but the Ones He's Already Made Have Killed Thousands
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Excerpt:
"In the face of President Donald Trump’s truly galling press briefing on Monday, CNN’s Kaitlan Collins finally took a step so many have hoped to see from the White House press corps. She directly confronted Trump with the fact that a claim he made was plainly wrong.
Trump began claiming Monday morning on Twitter that he had the authority to lift the coronavirus shutdowns in place across the country, despite the fact that the Constitution gives him no such powers...
When Collins got the chance to speak next, she politely informed him that his claim was flat-out incorrect.
“You said when someone is president of the United States, their authority is total,” she said. “That is not true. Who told you that?”
Many observers pointed out that, had a Democratic president claimed to have “total authority” — in general, or with regard to telling governors what to do — right-wing media would have been up in arms. But when it’s Trump, conservative media completely swallows his absurd claims whole and without complaint."
"In the face of President Donald Trump’s truly galling press briefing on Monday, CNN’s Kaitlan Collins finally took a step so many have hoped to see from the White House press corps. She directly confronted Trump with the fact that a claim he made was plainly wrong.
Trump began claiming Monday morning on Twitter that he had the authority to lift the coronavirus shutdowns in place across the country, despite the fact that the Constitution gives him no such powers...
When Collins got the chance to speak next, she politely informed him that his claim was flat-out incorrect.
“You said when someone is president of the United States, their authority is total,” she said. “That is not true. Who told you that?”
Many observers pointed out that, had a Democratic president claimed to have “total authority” — in general, or with regard to telling governors what to do — right-wing media would have been up in arms. But when it’s Trump, conservative media completely swallows his absurd claims whole and without complaint."
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