Well it's Sunday, and you know what that means -- everyone is on TV.
1) The director of the Center for Health Security at Johns Hopkins said that large events (cough rallies cough) should just not take place.
He also said Pence should be in quarantine, which he is not. Also, he said it on FOX News.I think there is clear danger in having events where there are many people close together without wearing masks for a long period of time, especially where loud voices are used
2) Steve Cortes was the sacrificial lamb that Trump's campaign threw at Chris Wallace and, oh boy, did he draw the short straw.
And it went downhill from there. What kind of fucking idiot would dare say "masks aren't that important" to Chris Wallace's face right now?“Do they think that the health and safety rules for everybody else do not apply to them?” Wallace asked Cortes on “Fox News Sunday.”
“Everybody was tested before that event, as you well know,” Cortes responded.
“It doesn’t matter, everybody that was in that room was tested and the Cleveland Clinic’s regulation was that it didn’t matter,” Wallace said. “Everybody was tested beforehand, everybody was told to wear a mask, why did the first family and the chief of staff feel the rules for everybody didn’t apply to them?”
“We also believe in some element of individual choice … people were distanced and they had been tested,” Cortes responded.
“They weren’t distanced and there were rules and there was no freedom of choice …they broke the rules, why did they break the rules?” Wallace pressed.
2a) Another Trump campaign advisor tried the same trick with George Stephanopoulos.
That same advisor actually saidAdvisor: I’d push back on that because President Trump is one of the most tested people in the entire country, and there’s a lot we still don’t know about this virus.
Stephanopoulous: So even with all of these things in place, we’ve seen where President Trump did contract COVID but he’s one of the most safe people that’s out there
No really, wanna see the video? He actually said that while Trump was in the fucking hospital.You know, I would say that with regard to Joe Biden, I think too often he's used the mask as a prop. A mask is very important, but even if he's — he could be 20, 30 feet away from the nearest person and still have the mask on
3) Ohio governor DeWine went on CNN and said, basically, we should all learn from Trump's mistakes.
"Which ones? There are thousands."
Hardee har har.
DeWine went on to say that the White House has yet to offer any help with contact tracing despite effectively intentionally bringing infected people to his state, lying about it, then leaving. Maybe "despite" is the wrong word.What I hope is what we've seen with the president is a cautionary tale.
This should be kind of an alert to everybody, that anybody can get the virus — even the president of the United States.
So people who maybe haven't worn masks in the past, I'm hoping they'll look at this and say, ‘the president can get it, I can get it.’ It can happen to anybody, I hope that's what happens and that's what comes out of it
Ohio is a tossup state.
4) Sen. Klobuchar also went on FOX News, because at this point why not bring in Democrats, and called for the postponing of the SCOTUS vote because
Circle the part where she's incorrect. Oh, she's fearmongering, but she's correct. And considering what McConnell just did with floor votes, it's hard to argue against that, other than "we're willing to risk your lives to be hypocrites".We’ve got the fact that three senators have it, two are on the Judiciary Committee … we don’t know how many other Republican senators had it
5) One of Biden's advisors says they are not concerned, because they are being safe.
That was fucking stupid.
6) It's time again for Guess the Speaker!
-- Jim Carrey as Joe Biden on SNLYou can trust me because I believe in science and karma. Now, just imagine if science and karma could somehow team up and send us all a message about how dangerous this virus can be. I’m not saying I want it to happen. Just imagine if it did.
7) Before Chuck Todd interviewed the same guy that "Biden's mask is a prop" guy, he said "We should note, the White House would not provide a doctor or a senior White House official to offer an update on the president’s condition"
Hmm. Subtle.
8) This ABC News poll says that 72% of people believe Trump didn't take the COVID-19 outbreak seriously, and did not take appropriate precautions. That means there's some 10-15% out there, minimum, who said that but will still vote for him anyway during the outbreak Trump caused.
9) The CDC projected death by Oct 24 is 232,000 which means the death count is projected to increase. I don't know why Oct 24 is so important, but if I were working for Trump, I would question my life choices that led me there and not expect to be paid absolutely never give any further projection about the deaths further increasing as the flu season goes on.
Several states are already seeing new records.
Welcome back, @Benggaul you're not going to like that part very much.On Saturday alone, four states - Kentucky, Minnesota, Montana and Wisconsin - saw record increases in new cases and nationally nearly 49,000 new infections were reported, the highest for a Saturday in seven weeks, according to a Reuters analysis. Kansas, Nebraska, New Hampshire, South Dakota and Wyoming also set new records for cases last week.
10) The movie industry and the airline industry are struggling to stay alive, while McConnell refuses any votes. There have been recent stirrings and rumors of progress, but we should have been talking about that months ago.
11) But of course, we still need to talk about Trump's taxes.
The CARES Act allows businesses to carry back losses from 2018, 2019, and 2020 for up to five years. It also removed the maximum that the tax cut for the rich, oddly enough, put in place. If this sounds familiar, Obama basically did the same in 2010 due to W's recession.
Which is when Trump got the massive refund he's being audited for.
Meaning, that since Trump had run out of ability to offset his massive losses because he's such a horrible businessman, he very likely took advantage of the COVID outbreak to retroactively take advantage of them again. We've all seen reports of Trump businesses losing money, even in 2018 and 2019 pre-COVID. Trump is set up to loophole that shit because of a law he signed.
It's also possible Trump lost so much money, he'll get a relief check. No, really. Remember, the NYTimes said he claimed a total loss of $40 million in a year he claimed income of $400 million. If his adjusted gross income is negative again, he'll sign a check and hand it to himself.
None of that affects the House and NYState presses to find out exactly how much Trump owes and to who. Or, you know, if he flat-out lied on his taxes and defraued the government he now runs.
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Trump has played the "they won't let me" for his own decisions in the past. Remember not going to the cemetary?