Official LRC President Donald J Trump Thread

Trump's PCs have also seemed to eliminate the CDC aka Dr. Fauci from participating or even showing his face. Trump is probably concerned that the CDC people will make him look bad...and he's right. We need medical people up there and not politicians.

Trump's basic understanding of governing is at a near zero level. He doesn't get that he doesn't need to know everything, he just needs someone to turn to who knows a lot about specific issues. This is how Reagan governed. Trump is too stupid to get this.

TTH wrote:

Trump's PCs have also seemed to eliminate the CDC aka Dr. Fauci from participating or even showing his face. Trump is probably concerned that the CDC people will make him look bad...and he's right. We need medical people up there and not politicians.

Trump's basic understanding of governing is at a near zero level. He doesn't get that he doesn't need to know everything, he just needs someone to turn to who knows a lot about specific issues. This is how Reagan governed. Trump is too stupid to get this.

Trump and his supporters are too stupid to do much of anything right.

Rigged for Hillary wrote:

Sally Vix wrote:

Rigged knows more about this than I do, but didn't Trump stop incoming flights from China almost immediately? And wasn't he called a racist for doing so? How many deaths do we have now? 180? Maybe we might have already have had 1500 deaths if not for his quick and very astute action.

Announced on Jan 31st, took effect on Feb 2nd.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/31/21117403/trump-coronavirus-ban-travel-non-us-citizens-china

That measure really worked brilliantly.

It done nothing to stop the virus getting here.

Trump is begging governors to NOT release unemployment figures because they will evidently be much worse than last weeks 281,000 people applying for unemployment benefits.

In an email sent Wednesday, the Labor Department instructed state officials to only “provide information using generalities to describe claims levels (very high, large increase)” until the department releases the total number of national claims next Thursday.

The email, which was shared with The New York Times, noted that the reports were monitored closely by financial markets and should therefore remain embargoed. “States should not provide numeric values to the public,” wrote Gay Gilbert, the administrator of the department’s Office of Employment Insurance.

Two points:

1. Here in NYC I am surrounded by Dems/libs and not one has made a comment in my hearing that the 1/31 exclusion of foreigners who'd recently been in China was either racist or a bad idea. In fact more than one opined that the exclusion seemed like a reasonable, measured step to take and (reluctantly, of course!) gave the Trump administration props for taking it.

[Then, after taking that reasonable step, the President and his administration spent the next month in Sitzkrieg, pooh-poohing the disease's dangers rather than aggressively trying to get ahead of it with research, organization, and production.]

2. "Ten investigations were conducted into the 2012 Benghazi attack, six of these by Republican-controlled House committees"--and every one of them, including the last (chaired by Trey Gowdy), came to the same conclusion: no culpability on the part of H. Clinton.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigation_into_the_2012_Benghazi_attack

Two additional facts:

1. I have been a voter for 40+ years and have never checked the Democratic box for any office in any election.

2. SV is a troll. (Someone came up with a brilliant analysis of the trollage procedure weeks ago.) It would be nice if people stopped feeding the troll. It would be nice if people entirely stopped replying to the troll's posts, a step that I and others have taken.

The USA cases are way under reported and your situation is out of control due to bad leadership.

Most of Australia's cases came from USA whilst you had little to no numbers in the locations from which they came. Australia was more concerned with offending their BFF, whilst banning flights from China and Iran

I am Sam wrote:

The USA cases are way under reported and your situation is out of control due to bad leadership.

Most of Australia's cases came from USA whilst you had little to no numbers in the locations from which they came. Australia was more concerned with offending their BFF, whilst banning flights from China and Iran

Australia is currently in summer or now early fall, that’s the reason your cases are down compared to the US

Releasing all of these prisoners is going to backfire, mark this down.

California is going to a state-wide "shelter in place" order. That has to be good news in slowing this thing down.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/more-half-californians-could-become-220056523.html

agip wrote:

. . .

( P tell me exactly what data you are looking for. )

Hi agip - thanks for the offer. What I would find useful would be raw numbers of deaths on a daily basis in Italy and Spain for as far back as they are available. Maybe this is easy to find and I am just lazy. But if you have anything along those lines that would be awesome.

I showed the ones for Iran in my previous post. But I only have them because I started recording them at the same time I started this whole tracking and modeling project.

Thanks!

Drain the Swamp, yeah right.

https://www.propublica.org/article/senator-dumped-up-to-1-6-million-of-stock-after-reassuring-public-about-coronavirus-preparedness

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/second-republican-senator-reportedly-sold-off-stock-holdings-ahead-of-coronavirus-market-plummet/

Elites looking out for other elites.

So, P, I read a couple positive posts from you on the subject at hand... I mean relatively positive. I'm liking the direction! (Not saying we are close to out of the woods but...)

Anyhow here's a question for all to ponder:

I'll ask again to the general audience (not directed towards you, P).... given all that is going on in the world currently why would anyone want to be a troll here at this time?

(I suppose this is rhetorical... unless of course one of the trolls wants to answer.)

Best to all, even the resident trolls!

Joe Blow wrote:

I am Sam wrote:

The USA cases are way under reported and your situation is out of control due to bad leadership.

Most of Australia's cases came from USA whilst you had little to no numbers in the locations from which they came. Australia was more concerned with offending their BFF, whilst banning flights from China and Iran

Australia is currently in summer or now early fall, that’s the reason your cases are down compared to the US

That is not the point I made, quite the opposite. USA cases are and were higher than what is reported. You were late in testing/acknowledging, your president called the Dem concern a hoax etc....yet you were exporting more cases to Australia than came from China

Ciro wrote:

Drain the Swamp, yeah right.

https://www.propublica.org/article/senator-dumped-up-to-1-6-million-of-stock-after-reassuring-public-about-coronavirus-preparednesshttps://www.mediaite.com/politics/second-republican-senator-reportedly-sold-off-stock-holdings-ahead-of-coronavirus-market-plummet/

Elites looking out for other elites.

Both parties do this kind of stuff. Until we escape the 2 party system this is unfortunately a reality.

Ciro wrote:

Drain the Swamp, yeah right.

https://www.propublica.org/article/senator-dumped-up-to-1-6-million-of-stock-after-reassuring-public-about-coronavirus-preparednesshttps://www.mediaite.com/politics/second-republican-senator-reportedly-sold-off-stock-holdings-ahead-of-coronavirus-market-plummet/

Elites looking out for other elites.

They all need to resign:

Sen Richard Burr

Sen Kelly Loefner

Sen Dianne Feinstein

Sen Ron Johnson

Sen Jim Inhofe

They do all need to resign but they won’t and you’ll vote R again no matter what.

Rigged for Hillary wrote:

Sen Dianne Feinstein

She sold a stock that has dropped less than 10% compared to the 30% the market has dropped.

She has a net worth of $80M.

Your link says she sold $1M and $5M but the disclosure says between $0.5M and $1M.

She sold maybe 1% of her net worth.

Not the Republicans, like Ron Johnson dumped 1/2 to 2/3rds of his entire net worth in his stock sale.

dump trump wrote:

Rigged for Hillary wrote:

Sen Dianne Feinstein

She sold a stock that has dropped less than 10% compared to the 30% the market has dropped.

She has a net worth of $80M.

Your link says she sold $1M and $5M but the disclosure says between $0.5M and $1M.

She sold maybe 1% of her net worth.

Not the Republicans, like Ron Johnson dumped 1/2 to 2/3rds of his entire net worth in his stock sale.

Sneaky reporting by the right wing media?

Ciro wrote:

dump trump wrote:

She sold a stock that has dropped less than 10% compared to the 30% the market has dropped.

She has a net worth of $80M.

Your link says she sold $1M and $5M but the disclosure says between $0.5M and $1M.

She sold maybe 1% of her net worth.

Not the Republicans, like Ron Johnson dumped 1/2 to 2/3rds of his entire net worth in his stock sale.

Sneaky reporting by the right wing media?

Maybe. Certainly not cut and dried like some of the others. Feinstein's stock holdings are all in a blind trust, and she reportedly has no control over her husband's stock holdings. Her husband is an investment banker, and it's possible he talked to her and then he pulled the trigger on some sales, but, like I said, not cut and dried like with the others. Feinstein has a net worth of about $59 million dollars, but her husband is worth a billion dollars. What has been reported they sold (or he sold) is peanuts to them. Probably nothing happens to her.