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Tuesday, September 22, 2020

A Few Things

In an interview on WBAY news in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, with Joe Biden, the anchor/reporter asked:
Wisconsin just surpassed 100,000 COVID-19 cases in the state, what’s not working and what needs to be done

He replied:

“What’s not working is the president has turned all of this over to governors without all the resources. He says I don’t have any responsibility. Look, this is a man who did an interview with Bob Woodward on tape, said he knew how fatally dangerous he knew this virus was and he didn’t say a word. If he had let people know that, it would have changed things, I believe, drastically.… we’re in a situation now where it’s estimated to be somewhere between 178,000 and 200,000 more deaths between now and January.

What’s he doing? He’s holding rallies with thousands of people, cheek to jaw without masks on… So this, this is a charade. It’s about, for him, whether or not acknowledging the extent of the crisis ends up having an impact on the stock market, which is what he sees. He sees everything from Park Avenue and I see it from Scranton, Pennsylvania, where ordinary people live, where I was raised. They’re the ones who are getting hurt very badly because of his total lack of leadership”
~~~snip~~~
…number one, I would make sure that we are in a position that we provide for real testing so you can test and get results back in two hours… I’d make sure that everybody had the PPE, the masks and other vital needs they have, to protect themselves as first responders. I would make sure we were in a position that we provided the wherewithal that schools would be able to open, by having more teachers, more funding for schools to sanitize the schools… he’s done none of this. In the meantime, he has withheld the money from the states.”
Same interview, on the subject of expanding the Supreme Court (should Prez Weasel Fucker and his Fascist party succeed in appointing another right wing, whack job toady).
“It’s a legitimate question, but let me tell you why I’m not going answer that question. Because it will shift the focus, that’s what he wants, he never wants to talk about the issue at hand & he always tries to change the subject.
~~~snip~~~
“Let’s say I answer that question, then the whole debate's gonna be about what Biden said or didn’t say, Biden said he would or wouldn’t. The discussion should be about why he is moving in a direction that’s totally inconsistent with what founders wanted,” Biden says.

YES – THIS!!!

Then there’s this piece from the New Yorker – RFK's grandson Max was on Jar-Jar’s COVID task force and becomes a whistle-blower. Read the, article – it’s stunningly horrifying.

“The Administration’s coronavirus response, he said, “was like a family office meets organized crime, melded with ‘Lord of the Flies.’ It was a government of chaos.” (source)
More damning criminality from that vilely incompetent, egomaniacal shit for brain’s administration:
A $1 billion fund Congress gave the Pentagon in March to build up the country’s supplies of medical equipment has instead been mostly funneled to defense contractors and used for making things such as jet engine parts, body armor and dress uniforms. (source)

Healthcare angels who’ve been working their asses off, trying to keep us alive, have had to resort to garbage bags and used masks while defense contractors have been reeling in the bucks.

As of this past Wednesday, September 16th, over 1,198 nurses, doctors, paramedics, nursing home works and support staff have died from Trump’s Plague. It didn't need to be like this.

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