The national stockpile is intended for states’ use, which was explained on the government’s own website—until the language was changed hours after Kushner’s description. https://t.co/bSK8m04hiM
— ABC News (@ABC) April 4, 2020
..who is getting a cut of the profits (the Kushner family?) We need whistleblowers in Customs, DHS, HHS, the White House, to point out who is doing this. And then, when the time comes, we need to hold these monsters accountable.
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) April 5, 2020
It happened again. Somerset County NJ officials ordered 35K N95 masks for front-line healthcare workers. 24 have died in Somerset already. The Trump Administration took their *entire* order without warning. Where'd it go? @joshtpm https://t.co/qInLJ77QQs
— Brian Murphy (@Burrite) April 4, 2020
Sounds pretty clear that this isn't a matter of the Feds out bid or force the vendor to sell to them but rather they commandeered a physical order.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 4, 2020
There are some cases I know about that aren't public. I think in many cases the govt or orgs are still trying to get their stuff back. So they're keeping quiet about it.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 4, 2020
France and Germany described it as piracy. https://t.co/hzgzhNzbNy America's image is being further destroyed. This is the story from the Vatican News agency. https://t.co/hzgzhNzbNy
— PSBlaw (@BregmanPs) April 5, 2020
— Gary Goodman, Ph.D. (@DrGaryNGoodman) April 4, 2020
SCOOP: @SBAGov awarded a $50M contract for coronavirus loan processing to a team including @RocketLoans.
* ROCKET LOANS owner DAN GILBERT donated $750k to TRUMP’s inauguration & $67k to the ’16 GOP convention.
** Trump has called Gilbert “a great friend” https://t.co/KAXWwcf0nu— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) April 4, 2020
RE this thread, just occurred to me that I read somewhere that Kushner is working closely with Navarro. He of the reactionary trade policies. The guy who wants to make supply chains less international. The author of Death by China.
I’m betting he’s involved in this. https://t.co/b5erRCMiM8
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) April 4, 2020
Yep:
Context as Pres Trump touts hydroxychloroquine, which he believes could be a "game-changer" against the coronavirus: The WH coronavirus task force had its biggest fight yet on Saturday, pitting Peter Navarro against Anthony Fauci, per @jonathanvswan. https://t.co/UqQPwwYM3R
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) April 5, 2020
While Kelly Loeffler was insisting fears of coronavirus were being hyped by Democrats to hurt Trump, she and her husband also invested in a company that makes medical protective gear https://t.co/GlVtDYJKts
— VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) April 5, 2020
Former watchdog warns one program could be “be defrauded in massive ways.” https://t.co/6eBLbBuhlf
— ABC News (@ABC) April 5, 2020
?Federal efforts failing to keep pace w/ accelerating economic catastrophe
– Millions of newly jobless overwhelm unemployment lines
– IRS sites, call centers dysfunctional
– Critical small biz loans denied
– Medicaid, food stamps, welfare risk overrunhttps://t.co/MIc6xSLRaR
— Jeffrey Stein (@JStein_WaPo) April 5, 2020
$2T bill is big but $$$ has to actually get out
Treasury's senior ranks are depleted, so Mnuchin is intimately involved in details of huge lifts
Mnuchin has been described as a "bottleneck" by Treasury officials, per ppl familiar
Many at Treasury WFHhttps://t.co/MIc6xSLRaR
— Jeffrey Stein (@JStein_WaPo) April 5, 2020
japa21
Golly gee, I can’t believe anything underhanded is going on. They seemed like such nice people. No way we could see this happening. //
TS (the original)
He is stockpiling a drug – needed for other uses – and didn’t stockpile anything needed for the coronavirus. No doubt he sends one of his minions out every day to buy TP so he can also sell that on the black market.
Deplorable – every last person who voted for him.
Duane
If you know of criminal activity and don’t say something you might end up a criminal yourself.
cmorenc
If indeed a big grift on CV supply / stimulus hijacking by Trump-cronies is going on, a collateral inference is that they are counting on winning the 2020 election, so as to avoid getting caught and prosecuted. The incentives are therefore far stronger for Trump & his GOP allies to cheat to win the 2020 election than simply gaining unscrupulous partisan advantage to improve their odds, such as the 2018 Ga election for governor.
TS (the original)
@Duane:
The US government is now undertaking acts of piracy – when does someone in the administration talk about this as a prelude to being unemployed.
If state governors talk about it – they lose any hope of support – as well as the goods they ordered.
scav
I think we now know what it feels like to be a company bought by vulture capitalists, stripped for parts before and then abandoned by the guys with the parachutes.
A Ghost to Most
So many lampposts, so little hemp.
Miss Bianca
I’m not sure I can read about this right now – my head is about to explode with rage.
Time to take a shower.
ThresherK
Gavin Newsom, tired of waiting for Trump to do something, is building a “consortium of states to buy PPE in bulk” rather than bid up prices against each other.
ThresherK
I am weighing my options: Is Trump the villain in a remake of Catch 22 or The Third Man?
Duane
@A Ghost to Most: Swinging on a lamppost is so much more than a Gene Kelly dance move.
CaseyL
Someone – either here or on Twitter – mentioned that the MSM (particularly the FTFNYT) called on Bill Clinton to resign – for having an affair with an intern. They wrote page-long editorials about how that affair had besmirched the Oval Office.
Interesting that not a single major MSM outlet has called on Trump and his entire Administration to resign. It’s interesting that none of them have written page-long editorials about how the US has been taken over by a bunch of mobsters, or how the mobsters are being enabled and protected by the entire GOP.
IOKIFYAR, to infinity and beyond.
Amir Khalid
I have no background in international law, but seizing urgently needed medical supplies already sold to other nations seems uncomfortably close to an act of war. Also too, do the Trumps plan to sit on these supplies and gloat, like Smaug with the dwarvish gold?
Another Scott
His March 27, 2020 signing statement:
It’s clear that he’s going to try to get his mitts on every dollar, to reward his minions and his family.
We were warned about this during the Impeachment…
Grrr…
Cheers,
Scott.
Barbara
Haven’t seen this mentioned: Boris Johnson has been hospitalized for “persistent” CV symptoms.
Kushner, Navarro, and all of them are ghouls.
dmsilev
Perhaps inevitably,
Giuliani, a familiar voice in Trump’s ear, promotes experimental coronavirus treatments
Dr. Fauci speaks (or thinks) for all of us.
Jinchi
I found that comment by the Surgeon General infuriating. Can you imagine if the country had a week’s notice before the Pearl Harbor attack? And then watched as thousands of Americans lost their lives? G.W. Bush at least has the excuse that he didn’t actually believe that Osama bin Laden was going to successfully strike the US on 9/11. But now we’ve got Trump’s administration soberly warning us that bad things are coming, and yet he still hasn’t nationalized the response. He’s telling individuals to try out unproven cures, asking “what have you got to lose?”. He’s insulting and undermining those governors who are trying to get control of the problem. He refuses to direct American industries to ramp up production of medical equipment. He’s seizing the supplies they do manage to muster. And he won’t even tell the 9 remaining Republican governors to get off their asses and order a shelter-in-place.
This isn’t Pearl Harbor. You idiots are screwing up in real time.
tokyokie
@ThresherK:
Catch-22. Col. Cathcart never suffers punishment, whereas Harry Lime is gunned down in the Vienna sewers at the end of The Third Man. And besides, Trump resembles Gen. Dreedle.
Duane
@TS (the original): Prisoner’s Dilemma?
ziggy
@ThresherK: Good for him, that’s the way to fight this. I can see a block of states making policy decisions together, to get us through the pandemic.
chris
@Jinchi: Rando on twitter said it’s not Pearl Harbor it’s Chernobyl. With extra bells and whistles.
Elizabelle
@dmsilev: My favorite part of that WaPost article:
You know the reporters enjoyed collecting that quote.
J R in WV
These guys still haven’t realized that they are as vulnerable as the bum they ignore as they drive by in their government limo. If there aren’t sufficient PPE for ambulance staff, or ER staff, these rich thieves will suffer for that lack the same as a regular tax payer.
I will be in my hermitage uppa hollow, laughing at the wealthy thieving crooks in DC as they writhe in horror and approach death. I’m sure MSNBC will report the deaths of K-Street bandits with barely subdued glee. I won’t try to subdue my glee.
Jinchi
@chris: Chernobyl. That sounds about right.
Another Scott
Blood donations have come up here recently.
RollCall (from Thursday):
Cheers,
Scott.
Sister Golden Bear
@Jinchi:
Can you imagine if the country had 70 days warning before Pearl Harbor or 9/11….
Ksmiami
@japa21: arrest the fuckers right now
chris
@Jinchi: Ayup, there were warnings ignored and thousands died while the coverup dragged on.
dmsilev
@Elizabelle: Yes, yes, but do we want to be listening to Canadians? I mean, a line has to be drawn somewhere.
Jinchi
It’s astounding that experts are typically really good at one thing, but these guys are f***-ups at everything. Couldn’t Rudy just specialize in treason? Why did he decide to add snake-oil salesman to his resume?
Robmassing
What if Trump and his fellow grifters in the Republican party keep intentionally playing down the threat in the hopes of making more people sick? So they can they make a fortune by commandeering and then selling (at a yooooge markup) medical devices gear and devices?
Another Scott
@Jinchi:
:-/
Cheers,
Scott.
Ksmiami
@A Ghost to Most: So many heads so few guillotines. Oh well line them up…
James E Powell
Our problem is not these thieves & grifters, but the ~42% of Americans who enthusiastically support them, even in the face of a deadly pandemic.
chris
@dmsilev: Kerfuffle in the Canadian version of the village this week because Justin won’t tell them how many are going to die and when it will be over. We’re not that different from the US in some respects. I liked this:
Jinchi
I was giving him credit for being oblivious to the crisis until the moment he made the comment….. Wait? DId that come before or after he made the comparison with deaths due to smoking?
TS (the original)
Everyone keeps saying “vote them out” – but if this pandemic is not resolved in the near future that will probably be an extremely difficult task. Wisconsin is already showing the lengths the GOP will go to to avoid a fair election – this will happen in every state with a GOP administration. It is already and election like no other – the campaigning is virtually gone – so we might hear from Biden – but what about all the senate candidates, the governors, the positions that the democrats must take to return the US to any sort of competent government.
Perhaps there might be a silver lining, the US will get an election process like the rest of the world where campaigning lasts a couple of months, rather than a couple of years – and the billions invested in political campaigns can be spent on more worthwhile endeavors. Members of congress can do the job they are elected to do, rather than spend most of their time fundraising. Perhaps I am dreaming.
joel hanes
@cmorenc:
I’m beginning to think that
I really really want to be wrong about this
ziggy
Keep all your doors locked, and put some headphones on to cover the screams down here.
joel hanes
@Jinchi:
This is worse than Chernobyl
tomtofa
Try searching Google News for “federal ppe confiscations”, “federal mask confiscations” or some variant.
A few twitter feeds, an indie news org or two. Nothing at all from the MSM. This whole – grift? stockpiling for red states? whatever the hell is going on – is invisible to 90% of the population.
Mary G
It’s from December, and Adam probably posted it already, but this Florida Couple story is awesome:
Jinchi
The optimist in me would point out that, since Trump is basically doing nothing, all the real action has been taken by the governors, and it looks like they’re starting to bend the curve.
bemused senior
Just discharged from 4 day hospital stay for an infection ancillary to my second go at cancer treatment. I just wanted to thank FSM and wish for the safety of the health workers in overloaded hospitals. Kaiser Redwood City delivered the most exquisite care. I started in the ER where they analyzed my symptoms before transferring me to a regular floor. Premliminarily ruled out of Covid 19, followed by negative test reults, then getting down to treating a septic bladder infection. Such kindness, patience and nurturing, both in the ER and when sent for “ordinary” care (nothing ordinary about it.) Thank every nurse and doctor you know.
lgerard
Only in Florida could there be a gigantic bonfire of rental cars
Mrs. D. Ranged in AZ
Trump says, “…we’re not an ordering clerk.”
Yes, you numbnut, that’s EXACTLY what you are during a pandemic. I’ve run out of cuss words at this point. I’m just incoherently muttering to myself and I’ve developed a slight tic in my left eye.
tokyokie
chris
@joel hanes: A thing that has been bothering me. Melania’s tennis pavilion is not as I first thought a sort of big tent. It’s a stone building with a copper roof that takes its design from the Whitehouse.
Doesn’t that seem… optimistic in the last year of a presidential term? Maybe it’s just their natural tone deafness but…
tokyokie
@joel hanes:
I think you are crediting them with too much foresight. They’re grabbing the PPE supplies so they can, through their crooked cronies, sell it again, then steal it back, and sell it again, ad infinitum. The thought of their becoming sick doesn’t occur to them, because illness, like laws and taxes, are for little people, not them.
Oklahomo
@Another Scott: But, but, Susan Collins assured me he had learned his lesson!
Jinchi
Well, sure. Nothing is ever average with Trump. It’s always either the best or the worst…….
Okay, it’s always the worst.
prostratedragon
@ThresherK: He makes Harry Lime look like Dr. Schweitzer.
joel hanes
@Jinchi:
it looks like they’re starting to bend the curve
In Washington and California, and thus for the nation as a whole
which leaves us with three weeks of increasing hell in New York, Connecticut, Michigan, and soon Louisiana and Wisconsin, and then the shit really hits the fan in Florida and Mississippi.
This site is the best I’ve found for envisioning data.
Bottom graph.
Change the display to use “deaths” instead of “confirmed cases”.
http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/
Yutsano
It’s worse at the IRS than what the Wapo article says. There is exactly one service centre open right now, and it can only be staffed at 50% capacity at any given time. There were mandatory work from home orders issued but only so many employees could make that work. Every local IRS office is closed. Senior leadership staff are all working from home if they can. It’s a massive Charlie Foxtrot and it’s going to get worse as state lockdown orders get extended. It’s probably going to make my agency look worse. There is even the possibility this filing season falls apart even with the time extension. It’s bad. Really bad. And no one can say how this is going to end.
West of the Rockies
This Republican behavior is no less than a collective sociopathic hive-mind. If four out of ten (mostly white) Americans weren’t comically stupid and xenophobic and afraid of science, the Republican party would have died out in about 1975.
joel hanes
@tokyokie:
Trump resembles Gen. Dreedle
right down to the trophy female.
Remember that Gen. Dreedle, in a fit of temper, instructs Col. Korn to take Major Danby out and shoot him.
Sister Golden Bear
One reason San Francisco has been so aggressive in its response, our health agencies and local government/institutions have living memories of the AIDS plague years.
rikyrah
There is no stockpile.They sent it to China and didn’t replenish it. THAT is why they are literally taking shipments.
The drug thing? Yeah, they are involved in it
NotMax
@Igerard
The employees who rake the parking lots must have been deemed non-essential.
//
Mary G
The Intelligence IG Twitler fired in the Friday night news dump has issued a statement, a strong statement:
Pretty much “I got fired for doing my job, and whistleblowers are patriots who should keep it up.”
mrmoshpotato
@Amir Khalid: What happened to Smaug?
tokyokie
@Yutsano: From working as a lowly seasonal 1040 coder years ago, I know that somebody still has to go through and mark up millions of paper forms, and that’s not work one can do from home.
NotMax
@prostratedragon
Hell, he makes Dr. Mengele look like Dr. Schweitzer.
Amir Khalid
@mrmoshpotato:
Exactamundo.
mrmoshpotato
@Ksmiami: CHOP! “Next!”
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
“And the hobbits returned to the shire in Smaug satisfaction.”
:)
mrmoshpotato
@lgerard: Hahahahahahaha, any word on how a bunch of cars caught fire?
Chris Johnson
@rikyrah: I’m gonna bet it’s Russia.
This is to send masks to Russia. He’s going full traitor.
Putin doesn’t want him, but maybe with enough of this sort of thing he’ll get to fly the coop at last. The guy drives a very hard bargain for useless and ungovernable assets. In order for Putin to accept Trump into his country and under his protection, Trump’s gonna have to kill a million Americans first, plus ship Putin ten million stolen masks.
burnspbesq
@Yutsano:
My good friend and former colleague Erin Collins, the new National Taxpayer Advocate, will not lack for work any time soon.
Feathers
@Yutsano: the IRS is where the COBOL programmers are, if the governor of New Jersey is still looking. Verizon laid off a ton of programmers in the 2008 meltdown. Everybody old enough to know COBOL marched right over to the IRS.
JoyceH
Trump’s Katrina? Trump’s 9/11? Trump’s Chernobyl? Can’t it please be Trump’s Waterloo?
tokyokie
@joel hanes:
And Kushner does remind me a lot of Lt. Col. Moodus (Austin Pendleton).
mrmoshpotato
@Amir Khalid:
@NotMax: You are both boneheads. That was a serious question. :P
Kattails
And then there’s the message from Her Majesty, in case you hadn’t seen it. Made me cry a bit. She mentions, and there’s a brief photo of, her first radio broadcast to the nation, as she and her sister comforted the other children who had to be evacuated. In 1940. I guess no wonder she has the quiet resolution thing down so well.
Anything to avoid thinking about the murderers and thieves
runningdestroying our own government right now.p.a.
We’ll know if trump’s internal polling shows trouble in the base when Fux News goes 24/7 minority crimes… the snark abt the 27% isn’t funny when it seems it’s more like 40% of Americans.
burnspbesq
@Feathers:
The IRS mainframes are so old that the agency can no longer get parts from the manufacturers. They have a little factory/workshop in Martinsburg, WV where they make their own.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@dmsilev: Right, look at what they’re using for masks up there in the Great White North.
p.a.
@?BillinGlendaleCA: the duct tape has to be a hat tip to the Red Green show.
Amir Khalid
@mrmoshpotato:
Sorry. I was not aware you hadn’t read the book. Are you sure you want me to spoil it?
Dan B
@Sister Golden Bear: So true. Seattle had the same response. Healthcare workers stepped up as did the lesbian and gay millionaires Microsoft created. A number of organizations that arose are still doing great work in the PNW.
A friend who was Microsoft’s first or second employee (Was Paul Allen first?) left $60 million to a number of LGBT organizations. I believe our culture changed so we get people like Inslee in charge. He’s not perfect but he’s been far above average.
ziggy
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Ooooh, the duct tape on the eyeball is gonna hurt! Loved the Red Green Show!
joel hanes
@mrmoshpotato:
Smaug, in fury and frustrated at being unable to locate and kill the dwarves + hobbit that have infested The Lonely Mountain, flies off to destroy nearby Laketown. At the height of his attack, with much of Laketown ablaze and the population fled in small boats, Bard the Bowman sees the bare unarmored spot in Smaug’s breast, and shoots his best arrow. Smaug is mortally wounded, and falls in agony full on the blazing ruins of Laketown, to die in the cold water.
chris
@?BillinGlendaleCA: That guy’s a piker. Gorilla Tape or GTFO! One application guarandamnteed to last until the vaccine or the heat death of the universe. (Also excellent for removing wanted/unwanted hair. True story.)
?BillinGlendaleCA
@p.a.:
@ziggy: He mentions the Red Green Show, I’m not familiar with the reference.
chris
@?BillinGlendaleCA: “If the women don’t find you handsome they should at least find you handy.”
?BillinGlendaleCA
@chris:
I agree, I only use Gorilla Tape; then again he’s from Ontario.
Yutsano
@burnspbesq: I haven’t seen enough from her yet, but I know she has some big shoes to fill after Nina Olson. I’m pretty sure she’ll be up to the challenge, but there’s going to be a HUGE demand for TAS services after all this is over. And TAS was already overwhelmed before all this. They were pulling massive overtime because there was a drag on hiring authority. Collins is going to need bodies like mad. Granted that’s true for the entire service, but especially there.
@Feathers: I will say something for COBOL and magnetic tapes. They’re pretty much impossible to hack.
Gin & Tonic
@Yutsano: There’s still plenty of COBOL code running in the insurance industry.
Gin & Tonic
@joel hanes: That’s not the way I remember it.
different-church-lady
MASSACHUSETTS, THIS MONTH:
So… this is where we are: the states are HIDING CRITICAL MEDICAL SUPPLIES FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
If the dems don’t use this fact to pound Trump into sand, then there is no hope.
JaySinWA
@p.a.: It was explicit in the video, they put Red Green’s image up.
different-church-lady
@ThresherK: I’m starting to think he’s fuckin’ Sauron.
mrmoshpotato
@joel hanes: I’m good with going medieval on the traitorous Trump trash mobster crime family.
sdhays
@different-church-lady: Holy fuck. Just….holy fuck.
Ohio Mom
Bill in Glendale: hmmm…how to describe the Red Green show? It’s a sitcom about a Canadian middle-aged would-be handyman who creatively McGyvers broken things with duct tape, mostly, and he’s the smart one in the group.
I see that there is no way to adequately describe the show. I’m sure there are episodes on YouTube.
On the topic of the post, I’ve yet to see anything in the Cincinnati paper on the stockpile shenanigans, which alarms me.
JaySinWA
@chris: In the age of metoo, handy is probably a phrasing problem.
joel hanes
@Gin & Tonic:
not the way I remember it
No?
I left out the thrush …
what do you remember differently than the way I’ve recapped? Genuinely curious.
mrmoshpotato
@different-church-lady: Good fucking god.
mrmoshpotato
@JaySinWA: The term is “handsy.”
JaySinWA
@mrmoshpotato: Kids these days, who can keep up with the terminology. Red would probably like to have been handsy, but didn’t have the dexterity. OTOH he had perfect plausible deniability.
Amir Khalid
@different-church-lady:
I have to disagree. I think that Trump is, at most, Saruman.
chris
@mrmoshpotato: That was my thought.
chris
@different-church-lady: Thread
mrmoshpotato
@JaySinWA:
Don’t you try to pull this shit. The definitions of “handy” and “handsy” never changed.
West of the Rockies
@p.a.:
40% is the figure I used above. 40% of our fellow Americans are cosmically ignorant and wretched.
Amir Khalid
@Amir Khalid:
Or maybe he’s Thenardier at Waterloo, looting from dead soldiers the morning after the battle.
mrmoshpotato
FUCKING HELL!
‘Jaws’ actress Lee Fierro, whose Mrs. Kintner slapped Chief Brody, dies of coronavirus at 91
I hope she gave Roy Scheider a good slap for old time’s sake.
JaySinWA
@mrmoshpotato:“I’m a man, but I can change, if I have to, I guess.”
Gvg
@joel hanes: stop with the first sentence, they are afraid to think about what will happen….
i don’t think Trump and his immediate lackeys actually know what to do or even understand how viruses work. They definitely don’t know how the Federal government works. Trump especially seems frozen in fear and ignorance plus he is unable to admit he is is pig ignorant and ask questions or learn. He undoubtedly is trying to profit in the same type of ways he always has out of habit but I don’t think he really has plans in this situation. It is so totally beyond what he ever bothered to imagine what was involved in being President that he doesn’t know what to do. His main thing has always been manipulating media reactions but this won’t be spun away. It’s too real. He doesn’t even understand enough to predict people’s reactions and yet normal humans think it’s obvious.
Since he isn’t in control, I think multiple others are taking their own actions mostly to benefit themselves and it’s not really coordinated. There were already GOP governors trying to suppress voting before Trump was elected. States control elections. Different states are going to have different results. We’ll have to watch them all. There is stealing and there is political corruption going on at the same time.
mrmoshpotato
@JaySinWA: Change from not being slapped with a dictionary to being slapped with a dictionary?
Mary G
Collateral damage is already occurring:
I think of Twitler as Theodan, with Putin as Wormtongue.
joel hanes
@Amir Khalid:
Trump is, at most, Saruman
Grishnakh
Saruman was actually learned, and in an earlier age of the world had been wise
Trump has always been profoundly ignorant, and has never had an iota of wisdom. He’s an orc: irredeemably selfish, vindictive, greedy, and driven by fear. And he’s not his own master.
randy khan
@cmorenc:
It could be the other way – they think this is it, so they need to grab up everything they can.
Ohio Mom
Original TS@27: In my darkest moments, I think of Ohio’s botched primary as a test run of election throwing.
What the Republicans in Columbus have come up with is guaranteed to depress turnout. For people who voted early, they are set; all others, who expected to walk into the polls on March 17, must ask for a mail-in ballot. That entails dealing with a convoluted web site or calling into the Board of Elections.
Why didn’t they mail anything out? Not even an announcement about how to get a ballot? They are practicing to steal the election.
mrmoshpotato
@Mary G: AAAAAARRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!
joel hanes
@Gvg:
To be more clear, I attribute the foresight and planning to Jared Kushner.
debbie
@japa21:
And only in blue states, too. Jeez, I was so hoping not to go to bed angry. Alas.
There better be a bunch of AGs jumping on this real quick.
PenAndKey
The entire show is on YouTube, and as far as I can tell they’ve officially uploaded all the episodes for your viewing pleasure. The only thing missing that I can see is their movie “Duct Tape Chronicles”. Which is too bad, because it’s absolutely hilarious.
Raven Onthill
Me, on Friday.
George Takei: “Jared Kushner isn’t qualified to run a lemonade stand, let alone tell governors how to manage critical supply chains.”
Me: “Competent to hold the bag, though, while Mnuchin fills it.” – Tweet
Raven Onthill
Someone, several someones, somewhere, has a vision of a purified America without black or brown people, without weakness or illness and so they intend to wreck the US health care system and then ration health care. This is the culmination of a 75-year program of rationing health care in the USA. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was a modest limited reversal of this program and look how much opposition has been raised to it!
(Full article at https://adviceunasked.blogspot.com/2020/04/they-intend-to-wreck-us-health-care.html.)
opiejeanne
@Chris Johnson: Russia just delivered 60 tons of PPE and other much-needed equipment to the US. Meanwhile, the hospitals there are crying out for these items.
Jay
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
bought 3 boxes of 100 MN-95’s today, 5 boxes of 100 MS-235’s -MS-325’s today at a local small neighborhood store for $52.75 plus GST, PST.
dropped all but one of each off at the Hospital. The other two boxes will go to the Street Medics and unHoused.
Still handing out N95’s at work to the Contractors and workers who need them.
Also have toilet paper.
I’d ship it to Jackals in need but the Facists in the USA would just seize it for gifting on to Russia.
debbie
@different-church-lady:
And you just know Trump’s grinning from ear to ear because he thinks the Post is referring to him and Jared.
ETA: Didn’t see your recap of your adventure until last night. Whew, glad you’re better!
debbie
@Ohio Mom:
It’s like a Canadian version of Tim Allen’s Home Improvement.
Jay
@West of the Rockies:
so Red Green built impossible stuff out of duct tape and found crap at Possum Lodge almost a decade before Tim Taylor created the hybrid dishwasher/pressure washer that removed the patterns from her Royal Dolton heritage china.
Ben Cisco
Tomorrow I start week two of self-quarantine.
Test results may take another two weeks.
Trump sucks.
End Message.
Kent
How about Trump’s Stalingrad? Might as well go out big while remaining in denial until the last.
Duane
@debbie: As I recall if anyone were attempting to manipulate the PPE market US AG Barr would take care of it. So not to worry.
Kelly
@Ohio Mom: Keep your stick on the ice. We’re all in this together.
Jay
@Ben Cisco:
sorry, be well, hoping for the best for you and yours,
seconded on the Fuck Trump.
Duane
@Jay: Damn I think you procured more masks today than the US government. Legitimately, I mean.
Jay
@Duane:
yeah, It’s not so bad here. The Corner Store owner brought in 100 boxes of 100, donated 75 to the Hospital and other First Responders.
through the Corp, ( essential, you know, not enough for a living wage, but enough to keep consumerism alive),
I get boxes of N95’s, Surgicals, gloves, sanitizer, etc for my Department, ( always needed long before Covid19), so I share them out, other departments, employees, ( personal/family use) contractors.
joel hanes
@Kent:
I’m afraid it’s going to be Trump’s raft of the Medusa.
Another Scott
@Ben Cisco: Fingers crossed for you Cisco. Hang in there.
Cheers,
Scott.
Kent
@joel hanes: The 91,000 German soldiers who survived until the surrender at Stalingrad (out of the 1 million+ in the original invasion force) were shipped into slave labor in Siberia. Only 6,000 survived to return to Germany after the war.
That seems about right for the end of the Trump Administration.
James E Powell
@Kent:
I just wrote then deleted a long comment – fueled by red wine and an anger that’s been smoldering since 2016 – wishing evil things to happen to Trump, Republicans, the press/media, Comey, Cillizza, and everyone who voted for that a hole. I deleted it because it was just getting out of hand and what difference does it make?
Even through my Valpolicella induced haze I can see that they are all going to get away with it. All of them. Several are going to get rich off this, at the expense of the poor and powerless, and no one is going to do a damn thing about it.
We are learning some hard lessons about our country, about the people we stand in line with, about the things we thought we all agreed on.
Yutsano
@Ben Cisco: Please be well. May the blessings of the Prophets be with you Emissary.
Also: Dolt45 sucks.
patrick II
@debbie:
Kraft did a good thing here. Too bad he worked so hard to get Trump elected in the first place.
Jack Canuck
@chris: Please please please tell me this is actually true and not an exaggeration! After all, he’s just following in his father’s footsteps with this sort of thing!
Aleta
@Ben Cisco:
Astronomy photo of the day for tomorrow (= today):
barred spiral galaxy NGC 1672.
Damn that family of frauds. Hard to believe how the testing is still allowed to be so messed up. I hope you feel OK.
Jay
Jay
Jay
Last one, off to bed,
Stay safe,
6 feet,
wash your hands,
Stay home.
cain
@J R in WV:
actually to treat them, there will suddenly be masks and ventilators available just for that. No.. they need to die by the disease. It’s what they deserve.
cain
I swear to God, the Democrats when they get in charge.. they better not pull some dumb ass shit and try to make peace with everyone – because I know the media will demand it. I’m basically sick of us cleaning up the messes, but also sick of our party leaders desperately wanting to be loved by Trump supporters.
It’s no wonder they are entitled fucks, everyone is chasing after their favor. We need complete and utter investigations with air tight convictions – and everyone goes to jail. EVERYONE.
TS (the original)
@Ohio Mom:
I do not understand why 60% of the country are not calling for him to resign. Because they are corrupt the Senate will not remove him & with the voter suppression that is going to happen – and is happening – they are going to retain the Senate – if trump can’t stop the election.
gbbalto
@Ben Cisco: I hope for the best for you
cmorenc
@TS (the original):
Historical perspective:
And so it’s unlikely Trump and his minions will try to actually stop the election of 2020, but they certainly will try to steal it in states where the GOP controls the election machinery in whole (Fla, Ga) or in part (Pa, Wisconsin, & Michigan have Dem governors, but the state legislatures are still R-majority). The more that their own internal models show a likely loss in a fair election the closer we get to the election, the more egregiously aggressive the means will likely be. The effort by the Wisconsin GOP legislators to block extension of mail-in voting in the Wisconsin primary is an example of the sort of means they’ll employ in states where control is divided between a D governor and an R-majority legislature. And that’s just a sampler – they will use every means at their disposal (including ways related to the CV pandemic) to throw sand in D efforts to turn out D-inclined voters, and ease the way for R-inclined voters to turn out.
SFAW
@tokyokie:
Might ThresherK have been referring to Milo Minderbinder? Since he was a big supply-chain guy. Although there was enough evil to go around in that book.
SFAW
@Mary G:
Oh, come ON. Theoden was a good king before being semi-corrupted by Wormtongue, and returned to his former self with Gandalf’s help. The Murderer-in-Chief has NEVER been a good person, and thus could not return to being one.