Trump - speaking in India - said that RBG should recuse herself from cases involving him because she opposed him in 2016.
Ignoring how soaringly dumb that is, let’s follow that to its logical conclusion: if RBG is conflicted, then so are Trump appointees Gorsuch and Boof, as well as Thomas whose wife Ginny is currently working for Trump’s re-election.
I’ll trade 1 for 3 all day long.
Watching his press conference on the Coronavirus is scary. On most days, one can listen to his incoherent ramblings and hope it won’t affect your life. This is a more serious matter.
Also, our press corps is terrible: almost half the questions were irrelevant to preparation for a public health crisis. Seriously, what does the stock market and gdp have to do with preparedness.
Social media, mostly Twitter, has killed what we used to know as the the press corps. Google helped dig the grave. The world wide web birthed the assassins.
Meanwhile Joe Biden is running for the senate. There are still no American flags on the debate stage either.
That’s not really true, but are you confused in which country this election is taking place?
No, I’m not confused but I think Bernie might be with his comments on Castro. We don’t like communism in America. I don’t think he knows that.
To say I think Cole is a good pitcher, does that make me a Yankee lover?
If you honestly can’t tell the difference between saying that Castro did some things that were great and saying LET’S FOLLOW CASTRO’S EXACT MODEL, I’ve got nothing for you, as you’ve crossed over in to the fingers-in-ears-covfefe zone.
Re-posting from FB:
So we have finally reached the point where Trump and his winnowed administration get to face a major life and death crisis. His people have demonstrated nothing but incompetence, having been chosen for fealty to Trump, with everyone else getting shipped out. We see the stark contrast between career professionals like those at the CDC who are trying to give people the information they need and administration officials who are trying to retcon Trump”s tweets
Case in point yesterday: Trump said that he had the “Caronavirus” (sic) under control because he’d banned people from infected countries. He said that we had only 15 cases and that would likely be zero very soon. He also claimed the flu is worse and that we’d have a vaccine soon. Absolutely none of that is true; not even close. And it’s extraordinarily dangerous.
The US has over 50 suspected cases and now has its first confirmed case of “community” acquired infection; which means the victim hadn’t been anywhere that would have exposed him/her, they just “got” it. People are infectious before being symptomatic, so this person may have infected others already who don’t know it and who are passing it on too.
Experts predict that each victim on average will infect 2 to 3 more people. A vaccine is at least a year away,. The US is not even testing for the virus yet (and when other countries have started doing so they’ve seen their infection-count skyrocket because the disease takes while to show itself within those infected). The virus is here and we need a strong response that includes clear information for the public on how best to avoid infection.
What is Trump’s administration doing? A few days ago, the acting Deputy DHS Secretary - Ken Cuccinelli, who’s on the coronavirus task force while having no relevant experience - was asking Twitter for help getting past Johns Hopkins’ paywall so he could see a map of which countries had Infections. Just think about that…
Yesterday, Trump put Mike Pence in charge of the effort; Pence being famous for allowing Indiana to suffer a major AIDS epidemic during his tenure as governor because he blocked efforts to effect a needle exchange program, citing religious objections. It was clear that the CDC had no idea this was happening, Trump just wanted to look like he was doing something. Pence has some experience in dealing with an epidemic therefore, and it’s all bad.
But what has Trump himself been doing? Desperately saying whatever he can to avoid a stock market crash that hurts his re-election chances. The superficially strong market indices are all he has going for him, and reports say he’s furious that they’re tanking right now. His tweets about the virus have often included nonsense about how the stock market it still great.
The coronavirus is not Trump’s fault, but the response to it is his to own, in the same way that Bush owned the botched response to Hurricane Katrina. That mess killed thousands; the coronavirus kills 2% of its victims. There are 330 million people in the US and 7 billion worldwide; the math is truly horrifying. Yet, Trump tells us it’s not here, it can’t get here, and a vaccine is coming soon. All lies.
In a time like this, we need a strong leader who speaks clearly, plainly and truthfully. Instead, we have Trump.
That’s fine because I don’t need anything from you. If you like socialism, high taxes, high gas prices and declining jobs then by all means vote for Bernie.
No, it doesn’t. But when a fellow Democrat questions whether Bernie has communist views it does make you wonder though.
It’s not like he called Castro a “friend” who has “a great and beautiful vision for his country” and that “we fell in love.” Oh wait, that was Trump about brutal communist dictator Kim Il Jong.
If Bernie is my choice over Trump, I definitely will.
It does not make me wonder. It is something that the “right” will use to justify voting for Trump.
Just so we’re clear, you don’t consider the farmer bailouts President Mumblefuck is shouting about/throwing around to be Socialism? Or the previous bailouts of tons of major companies/industries Socialism?
It’s just healthcare and college?
Do you like the US military? Having police? Having a fire department? Freeways? Courts? Street lights? Jails? Schools? Mail? Air traffic control? Border security? Border fences? (I know you love those last two).
Do you or a friend or relative draw Social Security? Get Medicare or Medicaid benefits?
All paid for collectively by the public through taxes. If only there was a word for something like that…
Bloomberg is not a Democrat. Ironically, neither is Bernie.
Many conservatives either don’t understand the difference between socialist policies and socialism, or they think that the former is necessarily a slippery slope to the latter.
Socialism is a word used most lustily by people that have no fucking idea what it is.
All of this business that involves paying taxes and then getting shit in return, you know, roads, schools, a police department, people making sure the chicken you buy at the HEB doesn’t kill you, and who knows, maybe one day healthcare, none of that is ‘socialist.’ What it is is living in a society.
Yet they are running as Democrats.