Coronavirus - Will the US end up being the basket case

[Black Orchid]

The nurse is calling you Red.

[Redneck]

Poor old Donald.... The yanks are finally waking up...

Just wait until the CoronaVirus figures reach 100,000 or 150,000 ... less than a fortnight ago Donald claimed they would max out at 60,000......

The Democrats will win by default...

Poor Donald he really is a TWIT (Added for BO)

(CNN)As he huddled with advisers on Friday evening, President Donald Trump was still fuming over his sliding poll numbers and the onslaught of criticism he was facing for suggesting a day earlier that ingesting disinfectant might prove effective against coronavirus.

Within moments, the President was shouting -- not at the aides in the room, but into the phone -- at his campaign manager Brad Parscale, three people familiar with the matter told CNN. Shifting the blame away from himself, Trump berated Parscale for a recent spate of damaging poll numbers, even at one point threatening to sue Parscale. It's not clear how serious the President's threat of a lawsuit was.
The White House did not immediately respond to a CNN request for comment and the Trump campaign declined to comment.

Faced with an increasingly uphill battle for reelection and aides trying to steer him in new, sometimes conflicting directions, Trump has grown increasingly unnerved in the last week about his reelection prospects.

Lashing out at Parscale was just the most recent manifestation of that anxiety.

"He's p*ssed because he knows he messed up in those briefings," one Republican close to the White House said of Trump lashing out.

Last Wednesday, two days before Trump lashed out at Parscale, his campaign manager and several other top political advisers briefed him on internal campaign and Republican National Committee data showing the President was heading for defeat in key battleground states. Parscale, RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel and other advisers urged him to scale back his daily, combative news conferences and pointed to data showing that the briefings were hurting him with critical swing voters in those states.

Trump has complained to aides that his restricted travel has hurt his numbers, not the briefings.

One person familiar with the call said the message didn't appear to sink in with the President, who instead changed the subject away from the issue of briefings.

But the next day, Trump's outlandish comments about disinfectant only amplified those advisers' urgings.

Even as he erupted at Parscale on Friday evening, during that day's briefing the President took no questions. And the next day he scrapped the briefing altogether.

While Trump has scaled back his news conferences this week and even opted for a less combative tone during a news conference on Monday, aides are unsure whether the new approach will stick.

And Trump has still found venues to field questions from reporters and share his views on the day's news, including during lengthy pool sprays in the Oval Office.

Despite the outburst, two sources said Trump and Parscale patched things up later that Friday night.

But Parscale, who has been working from his south Florida home for the past month, flew back to Washington on Tuesday to get some face time with his boss.

Two sources familiar with the matter said Parscale spent several hours at the White House where he discussed reelection strategy with Trump and secured his approval for new campaign ads that will knock former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, for his stance on China.

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/29/poli ... index.html
CORRECTION: This story has been updated to accurately reflect Parscale flew back to Washington on Tuesday.

[Redneck]

Another Donny brain fart !

Joe must be rubbing his hands together in glee !

(CNN)On Monday, President Donald Trump instructed states to "maximize the use of all available testing platforms and venues" as they begin to plan their reemergence from coronavirus lockdown.

On Wednesday, he downplayed the edict and mused that maybe blanket testing wasn't necessary as states move to reopen.

"You'll see some astonishing numbers -- I don't know that all of that's even necessary,"

Trump said of nationwide testing efforts during an event at the White House.

"You have some governors that love the tests, you have others that like doing it a different way, an old-fashioned way, with some testing."

The comments -- contradicting his own administration's previous guidance and rebutting the expertise of health officials -- were the latest in a string of confusing steps that appear to pit Trump against his own advice as he pivots to a post-pandemic American revival.

Read it all here
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/29/poli ... index.html

[billy the kid]

Betting on the election...
Trump eased out to $1.90 from $1.50
Biden into $2.25.....
Age old saying amongst punters...…..never.. ever.. back an easing favourite…….
But hay...that's just opinion......
Some time ago I thought that Trump was a shoe in...
The only thing against him was if the economy shat itself.....
Then along came covid 19......
And guess what.....
The economy shat itself......
I wouldnt touch betting on this election with a barge pole.....

[Redneck]

Betting on the election...
Trump eased out to $1.90 from $1.50
Biden into $2.25.....
Age old saying amongst punters...…..never.. ever.. back an easing favourite…….
But hay...that's just opinion......
Some time ago I thought that Trump was a shoe in...
The only thing against him was if the economy shat itself.....
Then along came covid 19......
And guess what.....
The economy shat itself......
I wouldnt touch betting on this election with a barge pole.....

My predictions are usually wrong, but just like sticking it up the rightard dopes!

[billy the kid]

I would be interested to read any comments about the suggestion that an ex Bush aide has implied Trump is
sacrificing lives in an attempt to get the economy up and going which in turn will help him win the election...
"In a thread on Twitter, David Frum claimed reports the White House is now pivoting its pandemic messaging to the economy showed Trump is “consciously choosing to risk higher virus casualties” in the second quarter of 2020 “in hope of jolting the economy into revival in Q3 to save his re-election” in November.
“It’s a desperate gamble to save himself by sacrificing others,” wrote Frum, who is now a senior editor at The Atlantic, warning: “It’s also not very likely to work.”

Actually Id have to agree that this is probably what he is doing.....

[Redneck]

I would be interested to read any comments about the suggestion that an ex Bush aide has implied Trump is
sacrificing lives in an attempt to get the economy up and going which in turn will help him win the election...
"In a thread on Twitter, David Frum claimed reports the White House is now pivoting its pandemic messaging to the economy showed Trump is “consciously choosing to risk higher virus casualties” in the second quarter of 2020 “in hope of jolting the economy into revival in Q3 to save his re-election” in November.
“It’s a desperate gamble to save himself by sacrificing others,” wrote Frum, who is now a senior editor at The Atlantic, warning: “It’s also not very likely to work.”

Actually Id have to agree that this is probably what he is doing.....

Not beyond him I'd suggest.

Here are a couple of links on that!

https://www.aol.com/article/news/2020/0 ... /24142457/

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/trump- ... ve-author/

[DreamRyder]

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Americans are far different than any people that you may have ever known. Within them there is a deep sense & desire for Liberty & Freedom. It has been passed on in the blood......generation to generation........life in & of itself means virtually nothing without Liberty & Freedom.

This pandemic has placed itself between the American People & their Liberty.........And they would rather risk dying, losing their lives, than risk loosing the Liberty & Freedoms they cherish ....losing them to this virus.

The American People will not give in.......they will do whatever it takes to rescue their Liberty from the clutches of this virus.......whatever the cost.........even if it means that they have a possibility of dying........Their Liberty & Freedom is more precious to them than life itself. They will live their lives the way they must.....the way they always have.........The American Way.....With Liberty & Freedom!


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[brian ross]

I understand the majority of Americans are backing prolonging the lock down. What does that do your arguments? Mmmm?

[billy the kid]

I wanna puke.....