NY Gov Cuomo announced that 1000 respirators arrived at JFK airport yesterday from China. This is bring widely reported. What is not being reported by the anti Trump media outlets is that they were the result of a call between President Trump and President Xi.
This post is for you ballz....the idiot wonder of NY!!!!
oronavirus briefing on Thursday. His behavior hasn’t changed during the pandemic. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) Image without a caption By Daniel W. Drezner Daniel W. Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a regular contributor to PostEverything. April 3, 2020 at 6:00 a.m. EDT In January, when Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar first tried to brief President Trump about the coronavirus threat, the president got distracted and wanted to talk about vaping instead. That same month, Trump told a CNBC reporter that he was not worried about a pandemic; by March, he was claiming, “I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic.” After declaring a national emergency, Trump fumed about the images of empty airports and grounded planes on television. He has publicly compared his poll numbers with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s. He has responded to anodyne questions from reporters by saying they are “nasty” and demanding that journalists “be nice.” In other words, not even a crisis as massive as the novel coronavirus has stopped the president from behaving like a cranky toddler. Trump’s toddler traits have significantly hampered America’s response to the pandemic. They aren’t new, either. In the first three years of his term, I’ve collected 1,300 instances when a Trump staffer, subordinate or ally — in other words, someone with a rooting interest in the success of Trump’s presidency — nonetheless described him the way most of us might describe a petulant 2-year-old. Trump offers the greatest example of pervasive developmental delay in American political history.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi took a trip to China as the Virus was breaking. Why did she tell America? Why haven't Pelosi, Schumer, Biden and Bernie taken the test and publicly told us the results.
Trump said intelligence community I. G. Michael Atkinson was wrong to alert Congress to the whistleblower's complaint, although that is required by law.
Another opinion by a trump hater that has many facts our ball less wonder will dispute.....BWAAAAAAAAA!!!!
By Dan Balz April 4, 2020 at 6:09 p.m. EDT President Trump downplayed the coronavirus threat, was slow to move and has delivered mixed messages to the nation. The federal bureaucracy bungled rapid production of tests for the virus. Stockpiles of crucial medical materials were limited and supply lines cumbersome. States and hospitals were plunged into life-and-death competition with one another. When the public looked to government for help, government sometimes looked helpless or frozen or contradictory — and not for the first time. The country and its leaders were caught off guard when terrorists on hijacked airplanes attacked the homeland on Sept. 11, 2001. The financial crisis of 2008, which turned into a deep recession, forced drastic, unprecedented action by a government struggling to keep pace with the economic wreckage. The devastation from Hurricane Andrew in Florida in 1992 and Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005 exposed serious gaps in the government’s disaster response and emergency management systems. “We always wait for the crisis to happen,” said Leon Panetta, who served in government as secretary of defense, director of the CIA, White House chief of staff, director of the Office of Management and Budget and a member of the House. “I know the human failings we’re dealing with, but the responsibility of people elected to these jobs is to make sure we are not caught unawares.” In interviews over the past two weeks, senior officials from administrations of both parties, many with firsthand experience in dealing with major crises, suggest that the president and his administration have fallen short of nearly every standard a government should try to meet.
In January, President Donald Trump dismissed warnings from Health Secretary Alex Azar about the threat posed by the coronavirus as "alarmist," reported The Washington Post Saturday.
Azar was reportedly concerned that the president was not taking his warnings seriously enough, but officials told the Post Azar could've stressed the urgency of the problem more strongly.
A White House spokesman dismissed the report as "palace intrigue."
In the early weeks of the outbreak, Trump dismissed the coronavirus as no worse than the common flu, described it as a "hoax," and predicted the problem would pass in a matter of weeks.
The US now has more coronavirus infections than anywhere else in the world.
Trump ‘Wasted’ Months Before Prepping for Pandemic April 5, 2020 at 9:32 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
“As the first alarms sounded in early January that an outbreak of a novel coronavirus in China might ignite a global pandemic, the Trump administration squandered nearly two months that could have been used to bolster the federal stockpile of critically needed medical supplies and equipment,” the AP reports.
“A review of federal purchasing contracts by The Associated Press shows federal agencies waited until mid-March to begin placing bulk orders of N95 respirator masks, mechanical ventilators and other equipment needed by front-line health care workers.
“By that time, hospitals in several states were treating thousands of infected patients without adequate equipment and were pleading for shipments from the Strategic National Stockpile.”
“A review of federal purchasing contracts by The Associated Press shows federal agencies waited until mid-March to begin placing bulk orders of N95 respirator masks, mechanical ventilators and other equipment needed by front-line health care workers.
For the federal bureaucracy that is lighting fast.
“By that time, hospitals in several states were treating thousands of infected patients without adequate equipment and were pleading for shipments from the Strategic National Stockpile.”
New York got everything they asked for, so did California, Washington, Florida, New Jersy, etc. erc.
Bet they didn't say which states didn't have adequate equipment?
fact base report and not an opinion or some anecdotal nonsense.
So cramps.......How many tests have been completed ???? Trump promised millions and millions would be available!!!! That is fact.....1.2 million done so far.....sad.....as to mask shortages......For the wantonly lazy and stupid.....
Here you go, Commensa. This is fact based. No "anecdotal nonsense" here. _____________
Trump administration tells states to step up as governors plead for aid
The surgeon general says states need to be “Rosie The Riveter” as the country prepares for a crisis resembling World War II. 04/05/2020 02:48 PM EDT
The federal government’s top public health spokesman invoked World War II as the U.S. heads into a new, deadlier phase of the coronavirus pandemic, warning in interviews Sunday that this is a “Pearl Harbor moment.”
Surgeon General Jerome Adams also told states that are still pleading for medical equipment and aid that they have to “be Rosie The Riveter” — a cultural icon whose "We Can Do It!" slogan became a symbol of the American war effort — and “do your part.”
“The next week is going to be our Pearl Harbor moment. It’s going to be our 9/11 moment,” Adams told NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “It’s going to be the hardest moment for many Americans in their entire lives, and we really need to understand that if we want to flatten that curve and get through to the other side, everyone needs to do their part.” He made strikingly similar remarks on “Fox News Sunday.”
Republican and Democratic governors alike pushed back, saying the Trump administration has failed to mount the kind of national coordinated response needed to address the crisis and that shortages of tests, ventilators and protective equipment for physicians persist.
PERSIST? BUT COMMENSA SAYS THEY GOT ALL THEY ASKED FOR.
“This is ludicrous,” said Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, a Democrat. “The surgeon general referred to Pearl Harbor. Can you imagine if Franklin Delano Roosevelt said, ‘We’ll be right behind you, Connecticut. Good luck building those battleships?’”
Gov. John Bel Edwards of Louisiana, one of the areas of the South hit hardest by the virus, said the state’s medical resources will be overwhelmed in less than a week without an influx of federal aid.
“We now think it’s probably around the 9th of April before we exceed our ventilator capacity, based on the current number on hand, and that we’re a couple of days behind that on ICU bed capacity being exceeded,” he said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
Governors’ long-simmering frustration has erupted in recent days as the death toll from the virus has increased and the Trump administration has moved to imply that it’s not the federal government’s responsibility to ensure states have the resources they need and they are instead a “backstop” to states leaders’ own efforts.
Earlier this week, President Donald Trump again declined to implement a national stay-at-home order, and scolded governors for their appeals for help, part of a bigger push to shift responsibility away from the federal government. Jared Kushner and other White House officials also said states should not depend on the medicines and medical equipment in the Strategic National Stockpile.
“It’s supposed to be our stockpile. It’s not supposed to be states’ stockpiles that they then use,” he said.
The government’s website for the stockpile, which previously said it was “for use in a public health emergency severe enough to cause local supplies to run out,” WAS ALTERED TO ALIGN WITH KUSHNER'S REMARKS. It now says the stockpile’s role “is to supplement state and local supplies during public health emergencies. Many states have products stockpiled, as well.”
KUSHNER AND THOSE WHO LIE LIKE THAT SHOULD BE SHOT.
Leaving states on their own, however, has had serious consequences. Many governors say they’ve been forced to bid against one another, the federal government and other countries for supplies on the open market and pay exorbitant rates for basic protective gear.
“It literally is a global jungle that we’re competing in now,” Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, a Republican, said on “Meet the Press.” “I’d like to see a better way, but that’s the reality in which we are.”
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker blasted Trump in an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” telling host Jake Tapper that Trump “does not understand the word ‘federal.’”
“If he were right, why would we ever need a Federal Emergency Management Agency? It’s because individual states can’t possibly do what the federal government can do,” the Democratic governor said. “We don’t have a Defense Production Act. There’s no way that we could stockpile in anticipation of a pandemic that no one anticipated. And yet the federal government is responsible for doing precisely that.”
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer similarly expressed frustration that the U.S. has no national strategy. The current “patchwork based on whomever the governor is,” Whitmer said, is “creating a more porous situation where Covid-19 will go longer and more people will get sick and sadly more lives may get lost.
“That’s precisely why think we all have to do our jobs. We are not one another’s enemies,” Whitmer, a Democrat, told host Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday.” “The enemy is Covid-19, and it has to be all hands on deck from the federal level to the state level to the local level. And that's precisely what we’re trying to do because Covid-19, as I said, doesn’t discriminate on party line or state line, and that’s why we have to have a national strategy, and we all have to be working on the same team.”
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NY Gov Cuomo announced that 1000 respirators arrived at JFK airport yesterday from China. This is bring widely reported. What is not being reported by the anti Trump media outlets is that they were the result of a call between President Trump and President Xi.
This post is for you ballz....the idiot wonder of NY!!!!
oronavirus briefing on Thursday. His behavior hasn’t changed during the pandemic. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
Image without a caption
By
Daniel W. Drezner
Daniel W. Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a regular contributor to PostEverything.
April 3, 2020 at 6:00 a.m. EDT
In January, when Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar first tried to brief President Trump about the coronavirus threat, the president got distracted and wanted to talk about vaping instead. That same month, Trump told a CNBC reporter that he was not worried about a pandemic; by March, he was claiming, “I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic.” After declaring a national emergency, Trump fumed about the images of empty airports and grounded planes on television. He has publicly compared his poll numbers with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s. He has responded to anodyne questions from reporters by saying they are “nasty” and demanding that journalists “be nice.”
In other words, not even a crisis as massive as the novel coronavirus has stopped the president from behaving like a cranky toddler.
Trump’s toddler traits have significantly hampered America’s response to the pandemic. They aren’t new, either. In the first three years of his term, I’ve collected 1,300 instances when a Trump staffer, subordinate or ally — in other words, someone with a rooting interest in the success of Trump’s presidency — nonetheless described him the way most of us might describe a petulant 2-year-old. Trump offers the greatest example of pervasive developmental delay in American political history.
Drenzer, a Trump hating rino who left the gop in 2017. So what?
James April 4, 2020 at 12:51 PM
Tell me James where do you think your food will come from if you lock down the rural states.
I've looked at the documentation for two rural states under lockdown orders and there are exemptions for food producing entities.
Reply
KansasDemocrat April 4, 2020 at 1:08 PM
Really, which two states?
Speaker Nancy Pelosi took a trip to China as the Virus was breaking.
Why did she tell America?
Why haven't Pelosi, Schumer, Biden and Bernie taken the test and publicly told us the results.
MI and NC. Actually, all such states have exemptions for agriculture.
NY Gov Cuomo announced that 1000 respirators arrived at JFK airport yesterday from China.
Better make sure they work.
Drenzer, a Trump hating rino who left the gop in 2017. So what?
Of course coming from a NY trumpist loser....!!!!
Your opinion....ballz....WHO FUCKING CARES!!!!! At least he was smart enough to see the light....unlike you.....BWWWWWWAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
And don't forget CALIFORNIA.....THE VEGETABLE BASKET OF THE COUNTRY!!!!! But cramps marches to the beat of a different entity......idiocy!!!!!!
BTW.....Plenty of Local produce in FLoriduh in spite of the goat fucker saying no farmers are working....>BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
Another Sunday Funny
Trump said intelligence community I. G. Michael Atkinson was wrong to alert Congress to the whistleblower's complaint, although that is required by law.
Another opinion by a trump hater that has many facts our ball less wonder will dispute.....BWAAAAAAAAA!!!!
By
Dan Balz
April 4, 2020 at 6:09 p.m. EDT
President Trump downplayed the coronavirus threat, was slow to move and has delivered mixed messages to the nation. The federal bureaucracy bungled rapid production of tests for the virus. Stockpiles of crucial medical materials were limited and supply lines cumbersome. States and hospitals were plunged into life-and-death competition with one another.
When the public looked to government for help, government sometimes looked helpless or frozen or contradictory — and not for the first time.
The country and its leaders were caught off guard when terrorists on hijacked airplanes attacked the homeland on Sept. 11, 2001. The financial crisis of 2008, which turned into a deep recession, forced drastic, unprecedented action by a government struggling to keep pace with the economic wreckage. The devastation from Hurricane Andrew in Florida in 1992 and Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005 exposed serious gaps in the government’s disaster response and emergency management systems.
“We always wait for the crisis to happen,” said Leon Panetta, who served in government as secretary of defense, director of the CIA, White House chief of staff, director of the Office of Management and Budget and a member of the House. “I know the human failings we’re dealing with, but the responsibility of people elected to these jobs is to make sure we are not caught unawares.”
In interviews over the past two weeks, senior officials from administrations of both parties, many with firsthand experience in dealing with major crises, suggest that the president and his administration have fallen short of nearly every standard a government should try to meet.
Another Sunday UNfunny:
In January, President Donald Trump dismissed warnings from Health Secretary Alex Azar about the threat posed by the coronavirus as "alarmist," reported The Washington Post Saturday.
Azar was reportedly concerned that the president was not taking his warnings seriously enough, but officials told the Post Azar could've stressed the urgency of the problem
more strongly.
A White House spokesman dismissed the report as "palace intrigue."
In the early weeks of the outbreak, Trump dismissed the coronavirus as no worse than the common flu, described it as a "hoax," and predicted the problem would pass in a matter of weeks.
The US now has more coronavirus infections than anywhere else in the world.
DO NOT READ THIS, FROM THE AP
Trump ‘Wasted’ Months Before Prepping for Pandemic
April 5, 2020 at 9:32 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
“As the first alarms sounded in early January that an outbreak of a novel coronavirus in China might ignite a global pandemic, the Trump administration squandered nearly two months that could have been used to bolster the federal stockpile of critically needed medical supplies and equipment,” the AP reports.
“A review of federal purchasing contracts by The Associated Press shows federal agencies waited until mid-March to begin placing bulk orders of N95 respirator masks, mechanical ventilators and other equipment needed by front-line health care workers.
“By that time, hospitals in several states were treating thousands of infected patients without adequate equipment and were pleading for shipments from the Strategic National Stockpile.”
your eyes have to be brown, what bullshit.
"James April 5, 2020 at 7:16 AM
MI and NC. Actually, all such states have exemptions for agriculture"
Yet another reason you must keep to your cunt n paste.
By Taegan Goddard
Thay means it's from Taegan Goddard.
“A review of federal purchasing contracts by The Associated Press shows federal agencies waited until mid-March to begin placing bulk orders of N95 respirator masks, mechanical ventilators and other equipment needed by front-line health care workers.
For the federal bureaucracy that is lighting fast.
“By that time, hospitals in several states were treating thousands of infected patients without adequate equipment and were pleading for shipments from the Strategic National Stockpile.”
New York got everything they asked for, so did California, Washington, Florida, New Jersy, etc. erc.
Bet they didn't say which states didn't have adequate equipment?
New York got everything they asked for, so did California
Really.....like masks, gowns and test kits that are millions short??????
Really? link?
You know a real fact base report and not an opinion or some anecdotal nonsense.
fact base report and not an opinion or some anecdotal nonsense.
So cramps.......How many tests have been completed ???? Trump promised millions and millions would be available!!!! That is fact.....1.2 million done so far.....sad.....as to mask shortages......For the wantonly lazy and stupid.....
https://www.ibtimes.com/coronavirus-n95-mask-shortage-trump-invokes-defense-production-act-against-3m-2952222
Here you go, Commensa. This is fact based. No "anecdotal nonsense" here.
_____________
Trump administration tells states to step up as governors plead for aid
The surgeon general says states need to be “Rosie The Riveter” as the country prepares for a crisis resembling World War II.
04/05/2020 02:48 PM EDT
The federal government’s top public health spokesman invoked World War II as the U.S. heads into a new, deadlier phase of the coronavirus pandemic, warning in interviews Sunday that this is a “Pearl Harbor moment.”
Surgeon General Jerome Adams also told states that are still pleading for medical equipment and aid that they have to “be Rosie The Riveter” — a cultural icon whose "We Can Do It!" slogan became a symbol of the American war effort — and “do your part.”
“The next week is going to be our Pearl Harbor moment. It’s going to be our 9/11 moment,” Adams told NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “It’s going to be the hardest moment for many Americans in their entire lives, and we really need to understand that if we want to flatten that curve and get through to the other side, everyone needs to do their part.” He made strikingly similar remarks on “Fox News Sunday.”
Republican and Democratic governors alike pushed back, saying the Trump administration has failed to mount the kind of national coordinated response needed to address the crisis and that shortages of tests, ventilators and protective equipment for physicians persist.
PERSIST? BUT COMMENSA SAYS THEY GOT ALL THEY ASKED FOR.
“This is ludicrous,” said Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, a Democrat. “The surgeon general referred to Pearl Harbor. Can you imagine if Franklin Delano Roosevelt said, ‘We’ll be right behind you, Connecticut. Good luck building those battleships?’”
Gov. John Bel Edwards of Louisiana, one of the areas of the South hit hardest by the virus, said the state’s medical resources will be overwhelmed in less than a week without an influx of federal aid.
“We now think it’s probably around the 9th of April before we exceed our ventilator capacity, based on the current number on hand, and that we’re a couple of days behind that on ICU bed capacity being exceeded,” he said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
Governors’ long-simmering frustration has erupted in recent days as the death toll from the virus has increased and the Trump administration has moved to imply that it’s not the federal government’s responsibility to ensure states have the resources they need and they are instead a “backstop” to states leaders’ own efforts.
Earlier this week, President Donald Trump again declined to implement a national stay-at-home order, and scolded governors for their appeals for help, part of a bigger push to shift responsibility away from the federal government. Jared Kushner and other White House officials also said states should not depend on the medicines and medical equipment in the Strategic National Stockpile.
“It’s supposed to be our stockpile. It’s not supposed to be states’ stockpiles that they then use,” he said.
The government’s website for the stockpile, which previously said it was “for use in a public health emergency severe enough to cause local supplies to run out,” WAS ALTERED TO ALIGN WITH KUSHNER'S REMARKS. It now says the stockpile’s role “is to supplement state and local supplies during public health emergencies. Many states have products stockpiled, as well.”
KUSHNER AND THOSE WHO LIE LIKE THAT SHOULD BE SHOT.
Leaving states on their own, however, has had serious consequences. Many governors say they’ve been forced to bid against one another, the federal government and other countries for supplies on the open market and pay exorbitant rates for basic protective gear.
“It literally is a global jungle that we’re competing in now,” Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, a Republican, said on “Meet the Press.” “I’d like to see a better way, but that’s the reality in which we are.”
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker blasted Trump in an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” telling host Jake Tapper that Trump “does not understand the word ‘federal.’”
“If he were right, why would we ever need a Federal Emergency Management Agency? It’s because individual states can’t possibly do what the federal government can do,” the Democratic governor said. “We don’t have a Defense Production Act. There’s no way that we could stockpile in anticipation of a pandemic that no one anticipated. And yet the federal government is responsible for doing precisely that.”
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer similarly expressed frustration that the U.S. has no national strategy. The current “patchwork based on whomever the governor is,” Whitmer said, is “creating a more porous situation where Covid-19 will go longer and more people will get sick and sadly more lives may get lost.
“That’s precisely why think we all have to do our jobs. We are not one another’s enemies,” Whitmer, a Democrat, told host Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday.” “The enemy is Covid-19, and it has to be all hands on deck from the federal level to the state level to the local level. And that's precisely what we’re trying to do because Covid-19, as I said, doesn’t discriminate on party line or state line, and that’s why we have to have a national strategy, and we all have to be working on the same team.”
No mere "anecdotal evidence" there.
A lot of actual NAMES got mentioned.
Whining of incompetent Democrat politicians.
see next thread. spammer.
Gladly. You come out equally -- no, even more poorly there.
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