Many believe that Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s greatest single line came in his 1933 inaugural address when he declared that “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Fear is a precursor to panic and FDR gave the country hope. President Trump has repeatedly said that he wants to maintain the same positive attitude but it was hardly a FDR moment yesterday when Trump told citizens “Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t let it dominate your life.” Many of us have denounced the statement as absolutely reckless for a president to make in the middle of a pandemic. At the same time, Trump critics have denounced the President while engaging in utter hysteria over the President’s release. Yesterday, for example, Washington Post columnist and MSNBC commentator Jennifer Rubin appeared to become utterly unglued over the release and tweeted that his doctor should be stripped of his license and Walter Reed “defunded.”I cannot imagine a more irresponsible comment than telling people not to fear Covid. I can understand the push to reopen the economy despite the ongoing pandemic. I can understand the opposition to inconsistent state rules governing protests or gatherings. I also understand the need to remain optimistic. However, with over 200,000 dead Americans, there is every reason to be afraid of this incredibly contagious virus, as shown by the President’s own contraction of Covid-19.
On the other side, the same unhinged rhetoric was in full display. Ruben was a case in point. She excoriated the medical team at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and White House physician Dr. Sean Conley for releasing the President. Rubin declared “Any MD who publicly endorses this insanity needs to lose his/her license. Period.”
The “insanity” was a determination that the President could continue to recover at the White House where there is a full medical facility and staff. Not only did the team confirm that every criteria for release had been satisfied as much as a day earlier, but there are a myriad of reasons why such a release is warranted. First, the hospital staff needs to address acute patients and the huge staff assigned to the President was hardly justified if he was showing no signs of decline after meeting the benchmarks for release. Second, he is the President of the United States. If he can recover at the White House, it is important to have him closer to the situation room and other secure areas in case of emergency. Staff must be able to share classified material and engage the President on matters of state. While the Presidential Suite at Walter Reed is ample, it create logistical and security concerns for staff in interacting with a president.
Rubin however was not finished with her Twitter tirade. She added that “Congress might want to defund Walter Reed. It is a public health hazard.” She added that the President could not be trusted and that the public needed to be protected from him: “A 74 yr old [obese] man with covid – who might have lung damage – and a pattern of disregarding medical advice is returned to an environment in which he may infect others. What planet does Conley inhabit? Where is the rest of Walter Reed? The VP? They are remarkable cowards.”
Anything President Trump said would have led to attacks.
If he said this is a terrible disease and he feels awful and everyone should be concerned he would have faced 24/7 gloat from the media and paid commenters on web sites. Karma! Hubris!
Instead he chose to speak with courage and optimism in the face of adversity both for himself and for the country.
He gave us a fine example of genuine public and private virtue. Many, and I am one, were heartened by his behavior.
Thanks to shows like Oprah and the corrupt pontifications of many in academia we have begun to embrace whining and weakness to the point that we are becoming narrow-shouldered wimps who despise strength and rush to malign it with contemptible eagerness.
Whining, and the sentiments behind whining, are vices that corrupt the souls of those who degrade themselves by wallowing in it. The Left loves indulging in it.
Jennifer Rubin, on the other hand, is merely a nut.
You bring in weakness and strength to the scene. Trump is the quintessential whiner. The media hates me. Everybody’s mean to me. And so on. Trump is a poltroon. He made his life primarily on lies and privilege; a shaky foundation that lead to six bankruptcies and twelve failed businesses. Along the way Trump never, ever, had the strength to admit his mistakes. It has always been the fault of others. You applaud Trump as virtuous. Boy, you eclipse Trump when it comes to idiocy. And, that is saying something.
Thank you for reading.
“courage”, “optimism” , “genuine public and private virtue”, evidenced by lying to the American people and creating a false sense of wellness as a result of being dosed up with steriods and other drugs? The only people who see this creature as anything other than a lying, bloated narcissist are Trump Disciples. You don’t even have the facts, like when he last tested negative, what his chest CTs show, how much supplemental oxygen he was and probably still needs, and what narcotics they gave him so he could appear brave and continue lying about the seriousness of a disease that has sickened 7 million + and has killed 211,000+ Americans. Remember how he was bloviating to his cheering disciples how Biden needed a shot in the ass to get going? Now, who’s getting shots in the ass and elsewhere so he can appear courageous and give a false impression to the American people that Covid is no big deal? Covid IS a big deal, which is why the rest of the world takes it seriously. It is immoral to allow people to suffer and die from a contagious disease that can be prevented. And, you Trumpsters claim to be pro-life.
Fortunately, most Americans are not Trump disciples, and they believe the scientists. It is neither “whining” nor “weakness” to take reasonable steps to avoid an illness that is so new that the long-term effects, like lingering brain fog, lung scarring, breathing problems and excessive tiredness are not known. It is neither “whining” nor “weakness” to follow reasonable guidelines to avoid getting sick in the first place.
preposterous and yet somehow boring repetition of talking points, mantras, slogan, and assorted verbal garbage from Natch
“they believe the scientists.:
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Which scientists? They are all over the map on these issues.
One thing never mentioned but everyone should agree to: This Is China’s Fault!
Dear Professor,
One must never be afraid of anything. You can be wary, cautious etc. BUT NOT AFRAID. Afraid is fear . What Trump and FDR were saying were virtually identical.
As far as Rubin is concerned she is a complete irrelevancy who lost it years ago, and the saying of Max Reger applies to her viz:- “I am in the smallest room of the house. I have your review in front of me. Soon it will be behind me.”
Trump doesn’t smoke. He should talk to America about the 485,000 who die each year from smoking. The media ignores the topic. Many in the media are dumb smokers.
Trump:. Say it loud. Smokers went in dumb and come out dead too.
Go Trump!
Infection Fatality Ratios for COVID-19 Among Noninstitutionalized Persons 12 and Older: Results of a Random-Sample Prevalence Study
https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-5352
The overall noninstitutionalized IFR was 0.26%.
Humoral Immune Response to SARS-CoV-2 in Iceland
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2026116
We estimate that the risk of death from infection was 0.3% and that 44% of persons infected with SARS-CoV-2 in Iceland were not diagnosed by qPCR.
Before you skip over it too far to leap past the commie crap most of that dealt with other countries. Currently the percentage of those eposed is one sixth of population citizens and visitors. Number dea point zero zero five. Of the verified exposed number of dead currently is point zero two eight. It’s printed daily and source is the four major institutions dealing with the subject.
Talk about tirades! Turley cannot criticize Trump for his ignorant, arrogant display of narcissism without devoting most of this piece to criticizing Jennifer Rubin. So, Turley, your agenda and marching orders are clear: you were hired to lend credence to the “main stream media are biased against Trumpy Bear” meme. We see through you, Turley.
Dr. Sean Conley, who is an osteopath and not an infectious disease expert, intensivist, or pulmonologist, is an established liar, so to the extent Turley relies on the accuracy or veracity of his claims of readiness to leave the hospital, he is unreliable. Did you notice, Turley, how the number of physicians standing behind Conley dwindled substantially? They didn’t want their name associated with this circus side-show. Did you notice how he huffed and puffed after climbing the stairs at our White House (where he doesn’t deserve to be, and despite the Dexamethasone), and how he tried not to mouth-breathe while posing for the campaign photo with him silhouetted against the sunset, with the Washington Monument in the background? Did you notice his pallor, despite the make-up he was wearing? Of course, the first thing he did was doff the mask. He continues to lie to the American people about the dangerousness of COVID (continuing to compare it to influenza–COVID is 5Xs more deadly) and continues to politicize the wearing of masks. Trump lies–people die. But, what about Dr. Conley?
There is literally no credible physician who is not under the control of Trump who would approve of an obese 74 year old leaving the hospital 3 days after diagnosis, pumped full of Dexamethasone and other drugs, including an experimental treatment that is not even available for emergency use authorization. Part of yesterday’s shameful display is due to the effects of the steroid, and not Trump’s “manliness”, and even with the steroid, Trump was short of breath. Conley refused to respond to questions about when Trump last tested negative, so it’s reasonable to assume that he went around knowingly infecting others, and Conley’s helping him get away with it.
Is Jennifer Rubin really that off-base for suggesting that a physician who would publicly endorse this conduct (which is the product of a form of mental illness known as narcissism) and who publicly lied to the American people has displayed a level of irresponsibility that warrants investigation into his medical license? i don’t think so. Conley allowed Trump to use his medical credentials for political reasons, and the result was that the American public was misled. Conley wasn’t just advising one patient–he was publicly endorsing allowing Trump to leave the hospital, and that changes the analysis. Plus, cherry-picked the information he provided–omitting and downplaying the negative and playing up the positive, to leave a misleading impression that fits in with Trump’s narrative not to fear COVID. If, as Conley said, Trump was afebrile, felt fine, had normal pulse oximeter readings, why was he hospitalized in the first place? The lies don’t add up.The results of this will be deaths of more Americans. Trump has a knack for getting attorneys to violate their Oath of Professional Responsibility (like Bill Barr, for example), and he’s tried to bully physicians at the CDC and now, the FDA, to allow insufficiently-tested vaccines to be approved for emergency use authorization, all for political reasons.
Bottom line is: Turley’s trying to get us to believe there is anything truthful coming from the current occupant of our White House.
Commie tirade of the day over we can go on to comments that occasionally have some sourced facts and leave the Seig Heilers behind.
Well, apparently rock bottom has a basement, and Turley is just digging it deeper. We are fighting two pandemics coronavirus and stupidity.
What, exactly, is wrong with the president’s statement? In spite of overstating by the media and politicians – and pundits – COVID-19 is a virus that produces mild symptoms in some 99% of cases. By the CDC’s on statements, only 6% of those who died were free of morbid conditions and most had 2.6 such conditions. I know several who have or have had it and only one was hospitalized and one was put on oxygen for a few days. One of my acquaintances had the virus along with his wife. None of their employees in the takeout pizza parlor they own had it. He told me it was “like a bad cold when you feel really bad.” President Trump’s statement was apropos. After all, he’s now had the virus and knows what it’s like.
“COVID-19 is a virus that produces mild symptoms in some 99% of cases”
According to Johns Hopkins tracker, the U.S. case fatality ratio is 2.8% (https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality). Additional cases are serious; over 400,000 people have been hospitalized (https://covidtracking.com/data/national/hospitalization). So your claim is contradicted by data.
It is stupid for anyone, including Trump, to overgeneralize from their personal experience with the virus, since it’s clear that people’s experiences vary greatly, from being asymptomatic on one end to dying on the other.
“only 6% of those who died were free of morbid conditions”
When I see the people making this kind of argument use it in analyzing other deaths (from flu, from heart attacks, etc.), I’ll accept that they’re not hypocrites.
2.8 % of what. i use the same source each day and if it’s bidenesque or natachisized i just ignore it the statement of the President valid the statement for example of Biden on Roe is not valid.
There is nothing wrong with Trump’s statement. Turley has an unbridled thirst to grow his web traffic with inane comments like: Many of us have denounced the statement as absolutely reckless for a president to make in the middle of a pandemic.. HIV is a pandemic and it has been with us since the 1980s.
Stranger still is a mucky muck with the WHO, Dr Mike Ryan, the executive director for emergency programs no less:
An estimated 750 million, or 10 per cent of the world’s population, have been infected by Covid-19, World Health Organisation (WHO) official Dr Mike Ryan has said.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/covid-19-world-in-for-a-hell-of-a-ride-in-coming-months-dr-mike-ryan-says-1.4370626
This is a reckless claim. There is no hard data to support his point, but let us suppose it is true. 1,000,000 global deaths “due to COVID” divided by 750,000,000 estimated infected is vanishingly small: 0.13%. That is less than the most recent data being reported at 0.3%.
We wont know for years the number of people actually infected. Till then, this big wig with the WHO just undermined the shills peddling the end of the world, with many of them being physicians.
I also disagree with Professor Turley’s take on Trump’s statement. Look at how many encounters he has had with people working on our behalf before he got the virus. The CDC report that was just released almost proves his point of not being afraid. The reports outlines latest survival rates for people who test positive (a tiny fraction to begin with in a population of 330 million people). age 0-19: 99.997%. / age 20-49: 99.98% / age 50-69: 99.5% / age 70+: 94.6%. If you are younger than 50… The death rate is .02%.. Flu estimated death rate is .01- .02%. People Over 70 and those who have have underlying health conditions still need to exercise more care.
Another interesting fact in the report was how many total deaths occurred In the country from Feb 1 thru Sept 26. 2,074,250. Covid deaths during this period 192,877. How many total deaths might have been prevented if people had not been shut down from other care options or afraid to seek them. One other statistic that needs to be corrected is the crazy 250,000+ people that became Ill from the Sturgis Bike Event. The AP recently released the numbers they found. 124 cases in South Dakota and 290 reported from 12 other states. I person died. Not bad for an attendance of almost a half million people.
Nobody got shivved at the Sturgis Rally? No alcohol or drug induced heart attacks? Nobody fell off their bike and got road rash? that’s usually quite an event, lol
i bet a lot of cases of the clap went around however
3 Professors of Epidemiology from Harvard, Oxford, and Stanford speak about our idiotic response to the virus…this is MUST SEE:
finally the truth comes out
will Democrats now, “listen to the experts?”
Don’t let the virus dominate your life. That’s the real message. My own widowed sister (a Trump supporter) hasn’t left her house since the beginning of this virus outbreak back in the March or April time frame. She hasn’t ventured out of her house for 6 months. The virus has her completely panic stricken. As a family, we (my wife and me) go out and buy the things she needs (groceries, etc) then drop them off on her back porch.
The point being is the virus and all of the “over the top” reporting has her living as a hermit. I am sure she isn’t the only one.
I am 8 years older, closer to Trump’s age and I do her grocery shopping because I refuse to let this virus dominate my life. I follow the guidelines wearing a mask in stores or when in close contact with others. I carry hand sanitizer in my car and clean my hands before touching the steering wheel. However I am living my life as best I can under the circumstances. I enjoy target shooting, fishing, and other outdoor activities. While out on my boat, I was astonished to see some people kayaking many hundreds of feet from the nearest person and wearing a mask. Though long retired I still consult to the Steelmaking industry and adhere to the restrictions determined by the facility when I am called in to help. I am living my life as best I can under the circumstances. I have not let the virus dominate my life as in my sister’s case. I hope that Trump’s message of not letting the virus dominate your life gets through to my sister. As her older brother, her unnatural fears have placed quite a burden on me.
Trumps words “I just left Walter Reed Medical Center and it’s really something very special—the doctors, the nurses, the first responders—and I learned so much about coronavirus” Trump said. “And one thing that’s for certain, don’t let it dominate you. Don’t be afraid of it. You’re going to beat it. We have the best medical equipment, we have the best medicines—all developed recently—and you’re going to beat it.”… “Don’t let it dominate. Don’t let it take over your lives. Don’t let that happen.”
The job of the media today is the divide this country so severely that blues stay with blues, reds stay with reds and being a purple is considered the leprosy of 2020.
Read what Trump said. Basically, dont let it control you or your life. I do not let it dominate me, but I am careful. I also dont stand under trees in thundershowers, run outside in tornados or go shirtless in snow storms.
There is nothing reckless or irresponsible to tell people not to live in constant fear of something that they have very little control over. Stop being a helicopter parent Professor Turley.
As much as everyone wants to attack the President over COVID 19 and claim he is responsible for the deaths I would remind you that the death rate keeps getting lower in this country. There is zero consensus on the “right” course of actions, and the Western world was all hit at the same time. We like to look at our own tiny fishbowl and forget that the rest of the world has been struggling and has seen deaths in waves. They have not been much better than Trump has. It’s just our media wants to protray everything as the fualt of one man and one country,
There is nothing wrong with telling people not to panic and live in a never ending cycle or fear and hysteria. Much like most people that end up testing positive, the President got sick, is recovering, and isn’t likely to die despite having a few risk factors that most Americans don;t have, Think about that again, most people that contract covid-19 will recover, they won’t die. Stop living life in constant fear.
And…what are the long-term effects of COVID? Do you know? Does anyone know? Why do some people have brain fog that lasts for months? Why do some people continue to have shortness of breath months later? What are the long-term effects of scarring of the lungs– will it be COPD, greater susceptibility to seasonal influenza or other lung infections? Has COVID been around long enough for any reasonable scientist to provide reliable answers these questions?
The majority of scientists agree that the safest course of action is to avoid getting the disease in the first place. That way, you won’t have to wonder. The only ways to prevent COVID are: wearing masks, social distancing, avoiding crowded indoor spaces, hand washing and avoiding sick people. It is not reasonable to rely on a vaccine. Trump has already politicized that, and is trying to bully the FDA into disregarding the usual testing protocols to get a vaccine available before the election. It’s also not reasonable to rely on drug treatments or the experimental monoclonal antibody treatment he received, because it hasn’t been tested, either. Remdesivir is supposedly only to be used for critically ill people, and according to Dr. Conley, that doesn’t describe Trump. Remember that hydroxychloroquine and convalescent serum, both of which Trump bullied the FDA into approving for emergency use authorization, turned out to be duds.
You call it “fear” to take the only known steps to prevent a disease that is 5Xs more deadly than influenza, that killed about 66,000 in one year that had the largest number of influenza deaths. COVID has killed more than 211,000 Americans just since February. People should be afraid not to wear masks, not to socially distance, to go into crowded indoor spaces, airplanes, buses and other places where people are concentrated, especially with the fall season upon us. You should also be afraid to believe anything coming from the Trump administration, because he constantly lies and bullies scientists into doing unsafe things for political reasons.
The disease we should fear us the fear disease or mental illness itself. Rubin is manic.
The virus should be called “Trump 74 Virus”.
He’s 74 and stinking up honky tonks.
I have ‘conditions’ — including old age — that put me at high risk of dying from the virus, but I do not want to spend however many years I have left cowering behind closed doors. That is not living; that is imprisonment. That is being locked down, isolated from my fellows, and unable to lead a normal life.
I take the usual precautions — washing hands (something I learned as a kid before Sauk developed a vaccine for polio), not hugging strangers (or taking candy from them), and keeping things around the house clean (something my mother taught me). I wear a mask only when absolutely necessary, since I am aware that its gaps are much larger than the virus and that it can have adverse affects on your health if you wear it too long.
The media loves to yank things out of context and pretend that they mean something that was not intended. I cannot read Trump’s mind (but neither can the presenters on CNN), but the reality is that the phrase “do not be afraid” is not the equivalent to “be reckless.” It is actually reasonable advice for people under the age of 60 who do not have underlying health conditions because their risk of dying from the virus is so low as to be negligible.
With this virus (and all diseases), it is crucial to distinguish between dying ‘of’ it and dying ‘with’ it. If you consult the CDC website, or any official national health website, you will find that a great many people die “with” this disease than of it, something that is also true of pneumonia and flu, which can be just as deadly to the elderly and those with underlying conditions. But we are not told how many diagnosed in hospital with the virus were admitted for the virus, nor what percentage of patients who died with it had another condition that would have killed them had they caught a the flu or a bad cold. The statistics are simplistic, and so is the narrative we have been sold.
It is not just age that is a factor; it is age and the frailties that come with age. If you are over 60, you are more likely to be diabetic, to have heart problems, to suffer from kidney or liver disease, and to have other ailments that, when combined with this virus or with pneumonia or with the flu can send you on to a better place.
The lack of a serious discussion in the public square (Congress, the media, academe) by a variety of experts who do not agree with one another regarding this virus and its effects has been depressing. Instead of an intelligent, well-informed conversations, we have had a 24/7 echo chamber featuring modellers like Neil Ferguson who has yet to get a model right, but whose dire predictions of millions dead in the Anglosphere drove the British and American governments to impose harsh lockdowns on their citizens.
Sweden offers a useful control which suggests that Britain, the United States, the European continent, and the rest of Scandinavia got it wrong by locking down, a drastic reaction that crashed their economies, immiserated their citizens, and disrupted their societies. Check the Johns Hopkins website and compare deaths/million from Sweden and other major countries. It is not in the top ten, but it has very few new deaths and has not only flattened its curve, it seems to have done so without destroying its economy, more than can be said for the rest of the western countries.
Trump, whether you like the guy or not, is right — you would do better not to let the fear of this virus that the media has promoted dominate your life.
‘Fun movie storyline:
1) POTUS forces China into trade deal good for US
2) China NOT happy
3) Immediately virus leaks from Chinese bioweapons lab and decimates US economy
4) China bagman takes $1.5B, runs against POTUS
5) POTUS, staff, Senators infected just before election’ @RealJamesWoods
These 5 points seem to be facts, not a storyline.
I am 84. I take precautions and am concerned but will not become a hermit like my son and his wife, who have become obsessed with fear. Trump is right. JT is wrong. I expected better from him.
As for Jennifer Rubin I have been reading her stuff since she was hired by The Washington Post as a fake conservative. She has now fully escaped from that closet and shown herself to be just another pinko media hack.
Question…Did Donald get Russian Sputnik V vaccine treatment?
Last night, Trump returned to the WH, took off his mask, and went inside.
He is still in the infectious period for COVID-19. His choice to remove his mask and then go into the WH is reckless. He simply does not care about other people’s well-being. From what I’ve read, the WH staff are concerned about becoming infected. We don’t even hear about all of the low-level staff: the cooks, cleaning people, … The WH is just telling them to stay home if they feel sick. The WH has refused to allow the CDC to do contact tracing for those who’ve already tested positive.
Trump said “I learned so much about coronavirus” at Walter Reed. Maybe if Trump had taken a virus that has infected more than 7 million Americans and killed more than 210,000 more seriously, he would have learned these things before now. He said “Don’t let it take over your lives” when it has literally killed so many.
He lied and said “We have the best medical equipment, we have the best medicines, all developed recently,” when most of the equipment and drugs he used in his treatment were not developed recently. He echoed it again later, saying “We have the best medicines in the world. And it all happened very shortly, and they’re all getting approved and the vaccines are coming momentarily,” when the vaccine won’t be available to most people “momentarily” even if it’s approved soon, and again lying that the medicines used in treatment are “all” new, when most are not.
He said “Two days ago I felt great. Like better than I have in a long time. … I said just recently, better than 20 years ago.” Doctors have commented that this may be the dexamethasone talking. Someone on steroids may feel great even though they’re quite sick. His breathing was clearly labored last night just from walking, and several doctors commented on him being obviously dyspneic.
Patrick Radden Keefe (New Yorker):
“If Trump does recover from this it will be because he had access to every conceivable 5-star structural advantage, and to him it will seem that he recovered because of his smarts and moxie and personal fortitude. A metaphor, in other words, for his entire life.”
I hope he’s soundly defeated in November. Now that Trump is back at the WH, it’s time for Biden to put his negative ads back up. We know that Trump never took his negative ads against Clinton down when she was ill in 2016; quite the opposite, he tried to use her bout of pneumonia against her.
In other Trump news, E. Jean Carroll’s lawyers filed a brief last night opposing the DOJ’s effort to take over from Trump in Carroll’s defamation suit against him:
“There is not a single person in the United States—not the President and not anyone else—whose job description includes slandering women they sexually assaulted.”
https://twitter.com/JoshuaMatz8/status/1313303418988101635
More venom from a morbid person who is blind as she reports on the days events. We do have the best medicine and the newest and Trump recovered like the vast majority of people recover even if they are sicker than him.
If the medical equipment attached to Trump we on TV24/7 Needs to be Committed would have her eyes glued on the pulse oximeter hoping to seen a fall in his saturation. Ugh.
Allan is a toddler who follows Commit around, whining about her. Insulting people is among Allan’s favorite trolling strategies. Allan Needs to be Committed.
Anonymous talks and talks but says nothing.
Allan insults others by describing himself.
I am only saying the truth and you are responding with a whine.
+10
Trump just tweeted “I have instructed my representatives to stop negotiating [a new coronavirus relief bill with the Democrats] until after the election. … I have asked @senatemajldr Mitch McConnell not to delay, but to instead focus full time on approving my outstanding nominee to the United States Supreme Court, Amy Coney Barrett. Our Economy is doing very well.”
Trump doesn’t care that the American people need a COVID relief bill more than a 9th SCOTUS Justice right now. As long as Trump isn’t harmed by COVID, that’s all he cares about. The economy is OK for the wealthy, but not for many average Americans.
I hope that Trump’s lack of concern for the average American makes it easier for undecided voters to choose Biden.
“The U.S. stock market’s reaction to Trump cutting off stimulus talks with the Democrats until after the election…”
https://twitter.com/EMPosts/status/1313553619447410688 — image in the tweet of the precipitous drop
So wise of Trump to tank the markets. /s
Josh Marshall: “Four weeks is one thing. More ominous, if Trump loses you can pretty much guarantee he will refuse to sign any relief bill to spite the country that rejected him. that puts any more covid relief off almost five months into the future.”
Andrew Feinberg:
“This hands a nice big hammer to every single competitive Democratic candidate for the Senate: ‘Senator XXX isn’t working for you, he’s working for Donald Trump and neither of them care if you lose your house or if your kids go hungry because they want to punish some states.'”
PUNISH THE CORRUPT INSIDERS OF ILLINOIS FOR THEIR DECADES OF GRAFT AND MALADMINISTRATION OF PUBLIC EMPLOYEE PENSIONS, YES!
let Chicago billionaires like fat Gov Pritzker reach in his own pocket for this. 11 billionaires in his family! he alone is twice as rich as orange man
https://www.forbes.com/profile/jb-pritzker/#5f991cc73814
add them all up and they don’t even come up to Mikey Bloomberg’s bootstraps, however,.
oh NY there’s another blue state with a rotten pensions system. says, how’s CALPERS while we’re at it? hmmmm
Yeah, the 10 million + unemployed Americans and struggling small businesses can just wait for their stimulus check, but we gotta hurry up and get Amy COVID Barrett onto that SCOTUS, so that she can vote on the election challenges when Trump loses in November. Democrats in the House passed the stimulus bill last May, and McConnell refuses to call it for a vote so that people can see which Senators care about them and which do no. Trump is holding the money hostage, believing this will help him get back into office. Guess what, Trumpsters? He won’t sign the bill in November, December or January, either, because McConnell won’t allow it. Your help is coming from the Democrats.
How even Trumpsters can fail to see the depth to which Trump’s desperation is showing is beyond me.
Burisma admits to bribing Joe Biden with a lump sum payment of around $900,000 USD in a Ukrainian criminal court today.
Link? Something to back up your claim?
ROCK ON TRUMP JUST LIKE I SAID YESTERDAY FLYOVER IS NOT GONNA BAIL OUT THE DECADES LONG MALADMINSTERED BLUE STATE PENSIONS!
excuse me i have to go sell some VIX which just popped up as anticipated. back in a while after i get paid for correct prediction
Kurtz, on average, the red states get more federal help than the blue states do. If I only cared about the election, I’d say “fine by me” for Trump to do this, because it’s going to hurt him in the swing states, but it’s not actually fine by me, because in the meantime it’s hurting lots of my fellow Americans.
your fellow americans who had goobermint jobs in blue states maybe it hurts, not us
as for red states get more help, that was a statistic from 2020 alone, not prior periods. i linked a correction to whomever asserted that overly broad generalization and it was ignored, yesterdfay
hold on i gotta go make some more money
No, it wasn’t from 2020 alone. For example, here’s 2016 data:
https://taxfoundation.org/federal-aid-reliance-rankings/
your little conclusory blurb there only covers what it says it does, which is not much
it is a small sliver of all the possible things we might attribute to wealth transfers from one location to another
don’t pretend that means more than it does. or how about you bend your mind for details to a list of precisely what ‘federal grants in the national interest” that blurb supposedly encompasses then we can talk more …. for now it looks pretty small sliver and weak sauce to me
different goalposts than yesterday too
AS I mentioned earlier methodology counts. CTDHD just looks for something to confirm what she wants to believe. She doesn’t bother with the data that is far above her capabilities.
Suffice it to say the states in the worst fiscal condition are the blue states and each citizen in that state has been handed a debtors note of a lot of money that has to be repaid. The states with the best financial conditions are red. Their citizens have credits instead of debts.
Allan likes to criticize people for behavior that only exists in his imagination. It’s one of his go-to attack tactics.
Allan the Hypocrite doesn’t provide any proof at all for his own claim about red and blue states.
Suffice it to say, Allan is a troll.
Allan criticizes arrogant and venomous people that are Stupid. That should be the rule of behavior. You don’t belong near human life.
“Trump doesn’t care that the American people need a COVID relief bill ”
Trump cares and has been willing to give more than for Covid, but Pelosi is using the American people as hostages to pass things having nothing to do with Covid. That is the nature of the gruesome left which you are a distinct part of.
Michelle Obama and Barack Obama are not as popular nor as well-liked as the Democrats think they are. The more we see and hear from Barack and Michelle Obama, the more the hard reality will sink in that they are not well-liked by much of the country. So let’s see more of Barack and Michelle on the campaign trail. Your unlikeability has nothing to do with “racism” Michelle, it has to do with the big chip on your shoulder. Voters know when they are being lied to and deceived and Barack and michelle are two of the biggest liars there are. The 2016 election was a direct repudiation of an Obama/Biden third term. And now voters will again reject a Biden/Obama third term. Keep putting out videos Michelle! Get out on the campaign trail Michelle! Get out campaigning Barack! You will find out that the more people see and hear from you, the more they dislike you and that neither of you are even remotely as popular as the media and Hollywood keep telling YOU you are.
‘Vice President Biden has habit of routinely saying things which demean the Black community. Latest entry: “The reason I was able to stay sequestered in my home was because some black woman was able to stack the grocery shelves”…who is he talking about? It tells you about his brain.’ @NewtGingrich
Look at this demented old man. This is not someone anyone wants in the Oval Office steering the direction of the country.
Biden pandering to those who care about identity politics. He sees color wherever he goes, as do other racists like him.
I disagree with you on this one, Professor Turley. I don’t see Trump’s statement as “unhinged,” or ” irresponsible.” It was a common sense statement – stop living in fear. Take precautions so you don’t get the virus, but if you do, odds are better than ever that you’ll be alright. I understand what he’s saying. Unlike the brainhumped leftists who’ve succumbed to their TDS, I don’t use a faulty universal translator that contorts every word he utters. I’m still going to wear my mask when I’m out and about. I’m still going to keep my distance from people. But I appreciate the positive message from the President. It helps.
Unlike you foam-flecked, shrieking brainhumped leftists. You people are little more than static at this point.