Lets see if we can keep this thread a little more civil.

I found this interview very interesting.  A lot of soft balls thrown at Trump, he explained his back pedalling on his more extreme issues as a lot of his claims as opening bids for negotiation purposes.  Which .. whatever .. I still think that those are insincere claims he used to get elected.

He does now come across way more presidential then he did prior to the election.  A lot of his noise, yelling, and rhetoric has been scaled back.

Do respect this one though:

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Lesley Stahl: Are you gonna take the salary, the president’s salary?

Donald Trump: Well, I’ve never commented on this, but the answer is no. I think I have to by law take $1, so I’ll take $1 a year. But it’s a -- I don’t even know what it is.

Donald Trump: Do you know what the salary is?

Lesley Stahl: $400,000 you’re giving up.

Donald Trump: No, I’m not gonna take the salary. I’m not taking it.

 

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-donald-trump-family-melania-ivanka-lesley-stahl/

man can you imagine someone like Winston Churchill saying "I don't take responsibility" after the fall of France or the sack of Singapore and Hong Kong?

Edited March 13, 20205 yr by johnzo

2 hours ago, do or die said:

Jerry Falwell Jr. says coronavirus is North Korea-China weapon to hurt Trump

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/487494-jerry-falwell-jr-says-coronavirus-is-north-korea-china-weapon-to-hurt-trump

I guess Orange Lord is off the hook, then...

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Falwell said on the segment he is not canceling classes on his campus as many other major universities have to avoid the spread of the virus. 

Then, as young healthy students weather the disease without too much problem the story will flip to "see, it was NBD, all those snowflake libtards with their fake evolutionary science were just reading the script that Pyongyang emailed."

thoughts and prayers.

On top of simply disclaiming responsibility...earlier in the press conference.....

Trump trying to bluster his way  through a "nasty question" about the pandemic office his administration cut in 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8Py8qaAV4M

The part where he turns around to "find out who did it" is pretty cringe worthy.

At lot of Republicans must sure have a high embarrassment threshold....

Edited March 14, 20205 yr by do or die

2 hours ago, do or die said:

At lot of Republicans must sure have a high embarrassment threshold....

Well the Libs won't pwn themselves

This guy is incompetent.  News flash I know. 

https://www.wired.com/story/coronavirus-donald-trump-google-website/

 

Maybe he is infected. 

 

I saw some clips and he definitely gives the impression that he's sick. ******* arrogant ******* gonna infect a bunch more people because of his idiocy. You can't bullshit a pandemic away and trying to is only going to make things worse. Best course of action is be upfront about everything and give people good solid information they can use. This is a global thing. It's bigger than one piece of **** trying to get re-elected. 

Went back to my post, listing the usual traits, that Trump demonstrates in any situation.   He has certainly ticked off all the boxes, yet again.  Sad.

So a new claim going around on Twitter is that Trump rejected the WHO testing kits so that they could be privatized. Fisher is being touted as the new private company manufacturing the tests and Trump supposedly has stock in that company. Another aspect is that with private testing, an FOIA request cannot be made to disclose the number of tests performed and the number of positive results, which could then underreport the real numbers of those affected. Now I have no proof of this claim so I’d like confirm or refute it with evidence, so I invite all those who know to offer evidence for or against it. I do note one key aspect of the Trump presser yesterday was the presence of businessmen from Target, Walmart, Walgreens, and Google involved with the battle against the virus and them being invited to speak as opposed to hordes of medical scientists.  

Google was surprised to learn that they were creating a website to provide info on Covid-19. Despite the President's lie, they are NOT creating a website. 

33 minutes ago, JCon said:

Google was surprised to learn that they were creating a website to provide info on Covid-19. Despite the President's lie, they are NOT creating a website. 

Google is a purveyor of fake news, obviously

****, can you even imagine a pro QB or goalie telling people that a loss or a problem on the team isn't his responsibility? 

They'd be cut instantly.

Edited March 14, 20205 yr by johnzo

fun ad 

Just a reminder of what the idiot tweeted a few days ago 

 

NYT is reporting that the paid sick leave in the bipartisan coronavirus response bill passed by Congress exempts business with more than 500 workers, which exempts a huge portion of the American work force.

******* dems. All the leverage in the world and they won't pry on it.  For Christ's sake, Pelosi.

18 minutes ago, johnzo said:

NYT is reporting that the paid sick leave in the bipartisan coronavirus response bill passed by Congress exempts business with more than 500 workers, which exempts a huge portion of the American work force.

******* dems. All the leverage in the world and they won't pry on it.  For Christ's sake, Pelosi.

And the President can exempt companies under 200.

Weak. And, even with that, 40 or Republicans didn't vote for it. Despicable. 

It will sit on McConnell's desk over the weekend because rich Republicans don't care about the poor or elderly. 

1 hour ago, johnzo said:

NYT is reporting that the paid sick leave in the bipartisan coronavirus response bill passed by Congress exempts business with more than 500 workers, which exempts a huge portion of the American work force.

******* dems. All the leverage in the world and they won't pry on it.  For Christ's sake, Pelosi.

It’s tough because Dems wanted something and the heartless GOP didn’t. So either Dems hold out and blame GOP (play politics) or do what they can do  to get anything they can. 

3 minutes ago, The Unknown Poster said:

It’s tough because Dems wanted something and the heartless GOP didn’t. So either Dems hold out and blame GOP (play politics) or do what they can do  to get anything they can. 

Time to stop playing by Republicans rules. They are not interested in any compromise so stop pretend they are acting in good faith. Play on their level or else things will continue to slide into the abyss.

So the reason he’s slept walked through multiple pressers, slurring his words and looking unwell isn’t the virus.  

11 minutes ago, The Unknown Poster said:

So the reason he’s slept walked through multiple pressers, slurring his words and looking unwell isn’t the virus.  

If you add the bragging, ignorance, and lying.....its merely Trump being Trump

43 minutes ago, The Unknown Poster said:

It’s tough because Dems wanted something and the heartless GOP didn’t. So either Dems hold out and blame GOP (play politics) or do what they can do  to get anything they can. 

I dunno.  The Dems are beholden to a lot of business money -- I don't know if it's less or more than the GOP but don't kid yourself, there is a corporatist wing of the Democratic Party that really really doesn't like rocking the boat.

(and yeah, this is a "they're all the same" argument. I've said before that in certain ways they are all the same. but In a lot of significant ways some are way different.)

1 hour ago, The Unknown Poster said:

So the reason he’s slept walked through multiple pressers, slurring his words and looking unwell isn’t the virus.  

Is this the same doctor who said he wasn't obese?

US government has to get their shiznit together. 

So, the United States, and South Korea announced their first known cases of COVID-19 just hours apart on January 21.  
The US has now tested roughly 11,000 people for coronavirus, total
South Korea, tests nearly 20,000 people per day.

 

Think this orange goblin doesn’t still think it’s all a hoax. Like he has nothing else to do right now.