Trump Hosts COVID-19 Positive Brazilian at Mar-a-Lago

This was inevitable. As the president continues to hold public events without regard to the health and safety of other Americans much less his own…it was inevitable that he would come into contact with someone who would test positive for COVID-19. White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham in a statement…

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COVID-19 In The US? Ssssh…it’s a secret:

From Reuters: The White House has ordered federal health officials to treat top-level coronavirus meetings as classified, an unusual step that has restricted information and hampered the U.S. government’s response to the contagion, according to four Trump administration officials. The officials said that dozens of classified discussions about such topics…

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The Coronavirus Task Force Met And Decided TO:

cut taxes… now I applaud the move to protect employees who don’t have sick leave pay…but really: tax cuts? airline help? hotel help? small business loans? Where the hell are the test kits? Where are we on plans for quarantines? Where are we on plans to protect large events and…

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I Don’t Care That Trump Was At Mar-A-Lago This Weekend But:

He doesn’t do much of anything anyway. Well except throw a party for a minor celebrity. Some people complain that the optics are terrible given the continuing spread of coronavirus and the additional concerns around the nation. Otoh: he’s totally useless when it comes to a crisis that he didn’t…

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Trump Abandoning Sick People At Sea To Protect His ‘Numbers’?

If nothing else we should have learned a lot from the ‘quarantine’ of the Diamond Princess at Yokohama Japan…that leaving sick people and healthy people in a confined space…with no way to effectively separate them or treat the sick…we end up spreading the virus around the ship. So now we…

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Coronavirus Task Force: What Are The Priorities?

Although there are some faces on the coronavirus task force, you have to wonder about Vice President Mike Pence’s (and the White House’s) when his first two picks are Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow. Money, Money, Money, Money? His third appointment was Surgeon General…

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Coronavirus: Proof Positive The US Needs Comprehensive Universal Single Payer Health Insurance.

I am not going to get into the finger pointing around cuts to federal staffing against communicable diseases, cuts to budgets at the CDC, or the appointment of Vice President Pence as the lead in containing the coronavirus outbreak. [but I couldn’t resist getting snarky and opening with this!] But…

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So Betty DeVoss and Mike Pence are Socialists!

President Donald Trump has stated time and again that there is no room for Socialism in the United States. And his GOP apologists have continued to trumpet that statement up and down the breadth of the United States. Meanwhile, the rest of us enjoy Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Interstate highways,…

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So Trump Finally Gets An Ukrainian Investigation!

But surprisingly for President Trump and the White House…they won’t be looking into anything related to the Bidens. Nope! Instead they will be looking into allegations that US Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch was under surveillance by associates of Rudy Giuliani with the full knowledge and consent of the president. U kraine…

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Trump Email: Is Pence Getting Impeached Too?

An interesting email today from the Trump campaign. They are looking for input on four designs for impeachment defense membership cards. Some of them feature the Trump Pence 2020 campaign logo. So are they expecting the vice president to get impeached too? And what exactly is an official impeachment defense…

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