Mega-Thread: Trump Focused Discussion

[Benggaul]

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/27/trum...ction-act.html

And, having successfully wasted critical days of production time, Trump is finally using the DPA to force GM to make ventilators.

My understanding was that they were already prepped to do this and just waiting on the government to contract and pay them to do this, but it's still progress nonetheless.

Glad that Trump decided to wait days to do this. That's strong, decisive leadership that clearly prioritizes the health and safety of the American people. (/s)

Welllll he had to take a day to posture for his imbecilic base first and declare that the US isn't Venezuela with that derned socialism nonsense BEFORE he capitulated. You know, so they have something to quote while they continue to ignore reality.

[Paranoid Android]

Trump signs $2 trillion stimulus package. "I want to thank Democrats and Republicans for coming together and putting America first," he says. But he had five Republican congressional leaders and no Democrats for the signing.

https://twitter.com/peterbakernyt/st...837042688?s=19

I read Trump did not invite Pelosi but likely any Democrat. Maybe no Democrat chose to attend, idk.

Remember Trump states it's not political. More to the point, just try not to be a partisan piece of crap when you sign the bill.

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General Motors MUST immediately open their stupidly abandoned Lordstown plant in Ohio, or some other plant, and START MAKING VENTILATORS, NOW!!!!!! FORD, GET GOING ON VENTILATORS, FAST!!!!!! @GeneralMotors @Ford

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...395410957?s=19

ROFL!

So Trump enacted the Defense Protection Act for GM and this is how he announces it.

What a clown!

[Shadowferal]

So Trump enacted the Defense Protection Act for GM and this is how he announces it.
What a clown!

Still, it's something.

[Pendulous]

But I thought we didn't need that many ventilators

[Benggaul]

https://twitter.com/peterbakernyt/st...837042688?s=19

I read Trump did not invite Pelosi but likely any Democrat. Maybe no Democrat chose to attend, idk.

Remember Trump states it's not political. More to the point, just try not to be a partisan piece of crap when you sign the bill.

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https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...395410957?s=19

ROFL!

So Trump enacted the Defense Protection Act for GM and this is how he announces it.

What a clown!

The funny part about that is that GM doesn't own the Lordstown plant. It was sold a while ago...and Trump Tweeted about it.

[Edge-]

https://www.texastribune.org/2020/03...mpression=true

Texas AG say gun stores are "essential businesses" because...I guess we're gonna have to put a cap in the coronaviruses ass.

This is truly unhinged nonsense.

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https://www.propublica.org/article/e...rent-convinced

More on this.

The issues with the response to the coronavirus aren't just a Trump problem. Yes, he's spectacularly failing to lead the country, but it's not all him.

It's conservatism in the US that's the root of the problem. Case in point, the reporting in this ProPublica article - https://www.propublica.org/article/e...rent-convinced

More than 160 million Americans have been urged to stay home in what the World Health Organization has declared a global pandemic. Nonessential businesses and schools in states like New York, Illinois and California have shuttered. In parts of the country, coronavirus patients are flooding hospitals.

Yet listeners of Mark Levin’s syndicated radio program heard on March 16 that much of the furor is a politically motivated overreaction. “I don’t want to be part of the hype machine,” Levin said. One of the country’s most-listened-to talk radio hosts, Levin averages 11 million listeners a week, according to the trade publication Talkers. “People on TV who lied to you about Russia and the Ukraine and so forth, trashing the president, using this as another opportunity to hype and dramatize their agenda.”

Levin, a prominent conservative commentator, called the virus a “serious” matter. But he also emphasized that the death toll from the “Wuhan coronavirus” was significantly lower than that from the seasonal flu in the U.S. “We have 30,000 deaths this flu season,” he said, according to a ProPublica review of broadcasts since March 10.

As with his presidency, Trump is a symptom of the broader problem within American conservatism.

[Shadowferal]

To be fair, after being deluged with covid-19 stuff nonstop...24/7...on the radio (the only format I primarily use for news and music), well, after 15mins, I turn it off.

[Orbitus]

I have a real problem with people like you. Fucking hypocrites. Yes, Trump is a disgusting human being. Maybe he is worse than the Democrats.

However, he's not that much worse. Both are mostly filled with lying, sociopathic, greedy scumbags. You act like you are the conscience of the nation but the truth is if Biden gets in surprisingly little will actually change. There will be some flowery rhetoric about inclusivity. That's it. The inequality will still be there, the meaningless foreign wars will go on, the corruption will go on. You'll just have someone mouthing worthy platitudes instead of Trump's verbal incontinence.

The truth is most Americans don't give a damn about the monstrous evil they carry out against other nations and the hardship they inflict upon their own poor. Trump is exactly what you people are, not some aberration. You are as guilty in this as any one, quit with the damn sermons.

While you may be banned, I know you will just make another account, but fucking seriously? You think Democrats are even close to Republicans? Are you high?

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...says someone who is too afraid to say what he wants without the anonymity of a new account. Clearly, you don't give enough of a damn, either, I guess.

I don't think his original account exists anymore. This guy has made hundreds of accounts over the last few years, and MMO-Champ won't do anything about it.

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AOC out there doing her best "Look at me I'm still important don't forget me" act on the House floor.

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1243549110180941824


I'd post this in the "Democrat Sh*tshow thread", but we don't have that, so it's going here.

I don't know why that is a shitshow, she is right, fuck the corporations. Did you get your opinion from Andrew McCarthy again?

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You don't see the irony, do you. Fuck you are as dumb as they come.

He get's almost all of his opinions from Andrew McCarthy, so that tells you all you need to know about him.

[Waniou]

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/cri...-and-terrorism

Right wing extremism

[PhaelixWW]

Wait, so were the Democrat Congressional Leaders simply not invited to the White House stimulus signing... or were they just smart enough to avoid this complete lack of physical distancing?

[Dead Moose Fandango]

Wait, so were the Democrat Congressional Leaders simply not invited to the White House stimulus signing... or were they just smart enough to avoid this complete lack of physical distancing?

If there were any justice in this world, almost everyone pictured in that photo...well, you know.

[Orbitus]

Wait, so were the Democrat Congressional Leaders simply not invited to the White House stimulus signing... or were they just smart enough to avoid this complete lack of physical distancing?

They weren't invited. Trump is that fucking childish and petty. I wouldn't want to go to it either anyway.

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In other news Trish Regan from Fox Business was fired, "supposedly" for her comments about the Corona Virus being another "Democratic Impeachment Scam".

https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-bu...ment-scam-rant

Who wants to bet she ends up on something like Sputnik TV, OANN, or some other right wing bullshit conspiracy laden channel. Probably Infowars wouldn't be out of the question.

[Inuyaki]

The briefing right now is fascinating.
You guys really should get him into a clinic and treat him for dementia.

The best part was "we call it data"

[Edge-]

Wait, so were the Democrat Congressional Leaders simply not invited to the White House stimulus signing... or were they just smart enough to avoid this complete lack of physical distancing?

https://twitter.com/Yamiche/status/1243633539226177536

They weren't invited.

Let's all take a moment to apprciate a room of smiling Republicans, almost elusively white dudes, being in the room for this. Republicans, the party of "small government", smiling and congratulating themselves on being the very thing they have professed to be against most of their political careers.

Oh the sweet, delicious irony.

[Inuyaki]

"It's our currency. We can do whatever we want."

...

Yeah, go tank the Dollar, you idiot
So what will be the next world reserve currency? Yuan?

Edit
Obviously Yuan, I doubt it will be the Yen

[Edge-]

"It's our currency. We can do whatever we want."

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Yeah, go tank the Dollar, you idiot
So what will be the next world reserve currency? Yen?

...is he talking about printing our way out of debt again?

[Benggaul]

"It's our currency. We can do whatever we want."

Said by the guy who kept whining about China being a currency manipulator.

Also:
"You can call it a germ. You can call it a flu. You can call it a virus. You can call it many different names. I'm not sure anybody even knows what it is."

Fuck him and anyone who still supports him.

[Breccia]

"It's our currency. We can do whatever we want."

Hey, remember when Trump accused China of currency manipulation? Well, hold that thought. Based on that Trump line, it's coming back eventually.

[Inuyaki]

...is he talking about printing our way out of debt again?

Yes... /10

[Orbitus]

LOL, he just called Murdoch's newspaper, the Wallstreet Journal, fake news. Wonder how Murdoch is going to respond to that.