And He Believes In The Easter Bunny
So now Trump says we’ll be back at work by Easter.
President Trump said he wants the nation “opened up and just raring to go by Easter,” a date just over two weeks away that few health experts believe will be sufficient in containing the spread of coronavirus.
Speaking during a Fox News town hall, Trump reiterated he was eager to see the nation return to normal, even as doctors warn the nation will see a massive spike in cases if Americans return to crowded workplaces or events.
He sys things like that because he has a fever. And he’s nuts.
I know you can’t holler fire in a crowded theater, but if you go on teevee and say that eating a frog will cure you of arthritis and some fool eats a frog and dies, is that free speech?
Easter? Really? You know, that’s almost as ridiculous as him assuring us that he’d watch over how the $50 gazillion is spent and expect us to trust him.
Nope. Watching over. No Easter working.
No, Donnie*, hell to the nizzie, no. Sorry about your* approval ratings or lack thereof, but after closing the casino doors, the smart people (not you*) will not be performing the exercise only to repeat it because you* are too st00pid to wait for the medical “all clear” signal. C’mon Donnie* surely you remember from your “Viet Nam” days with STDs, complete the course of treatment …
1What is the over/under odds of the demented one announcing a big rally in a state with an equally stupid governor ( basically almost all of the old traitor states) to “celebrate” the end of social distancing and other actions to fight the virus?
2Maybe on Easter Sunday to celebrate the “resurrection” of the US economy.
LAWS… NOT reporting to committees!
Death Ogre video: “Look I’ll be the oversight, I’ll be the Oversight.”
The Washington Post reported Tuesday morning that Trump administration officials “agreed to allow an independent inspector general and an oversight board to scrutinize the lending decisions.”
“The most recent precedent for this is the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program that was created during the 2008 financial crisis,” the Post noted. “To oversee TARP, Congress created an independent inspector general, a regulatory oversight board and a congressional oversight panel. Over the course of several years, investigations uncovered numerous cases of fraud at large and small companies as firms sought to obtain taxpayer money through various programs.”
HuffPost senior reporter Zach Carter noted in a series of tweets Tuesday that while TARP oversight teams did great work exposing misuse of taxpayer funds during the financial crisis, “the abuse continued” nonetheless.
“You can’t do a big bailout without oversight,” Carter wrote. “Somebody has to enforce the rules. But oversight isn’t a substitute for real rules. You need concrete prohibitions against abusive activity. Without them, the best oversight panel in the world is basically a PR team for decency.”
Zephyr Teachout, a professor at the Fordham University School of Law and anti-corruption expert, cautioned Democrats against accepting toothless oversight requirements that do nothing to prevent corporate or government malfeasance.
Zephyr Teachout
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@ZephyrTeachout
Democrats!!! Watch for the terms. “Oversight” or “reporting” on big corporate bailouts is a Bullshit method of keeping them from looting for themselves.
Don’t give away our money to thieves with a false and unenforceable set of promises.
Laws, not “reporting to committees”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/03/24/critics-warn-democrats-mere-oversight-500-billion-corporate-bailout-much-too-weak
3Let us not forget how the Repugs looked the other way during the impeachment trial. They cannot be trusted with oversight.
4Zephyr is absolutely correct, we need laws passed ASAP to govern what can and cannot be done with this fortune.
And hearing Drumpf* state that he would be the oversight made me choke. He’s salivating over that money like he can almost taste it. Not a pretty sight.
He misses those love fests called rallies. He wants to go out there and pummel Biden and feel the love from the crowds. It’s driving him crazy that nobody has a good word to say about him.
5Maybe we should let the MAGA-crowd and their spray-tanned “leader” get together and schmooze. There is more than one way to thin the herd. But I feel sorry for the health care providers who will get swamped, so maybe never mind.
1) ensure that the demented one doesn’t decide to use any money in bills to help build inane wall.
62) Mark Meadows, contrary to Constitional prohibition, continues to hold his seat in the House and votes while acting as chief of staff in the wh. But like emouluments clause and any other constitional limits this can be ignored with a subservient judiciary ( espiacially the dishonorable scotus) and a nuetered doj with a pet ag as a partner in crime.
3) Make any violations of bill and/or oversight mandatory outside of prosecutorial judgement. And make them draconiam ( for CEO”s mandatory 20 years in solitairy, complete and total forfeiture of any and all asset, companies who do it twice lose charte/business license and all board members spend a mandated 5 years in pelican bay plus total forfeiture of any and all “family” assets – trust funds for children assets in wife’s or children’s name and other sleazy workarounds)
Hey one can dream.
Heard on the news today: amazingly, his approval ratings have ticked up since the crisis began. Because that’s what Americans do. We rally behind our leaders in a crisis.
Right up till they pull a stunt like trying to resurrect their ratings and ensure their reelection by making things worse. Which he is going to do if the governors let him.
He said he was going to run the country like one of his businesses. I think we’re at the point, now, where he would declare bankruptcy and run away.
7Actually, we reached that point about 2 years ago. It’s just too bad the Senate didn’t give him an out when they had the chance last December.
Trump would conduct the same level of oversight over that $500 billion dollars as he exercised over the Trump Foundation.
8Sometimes I think Trump misunderstands what he’s watching on Fox News, and doesn’t pause to consider whether what he thinks he heard makes any sense or not. Then we end up in a Caddyshack-like situation:
Sandy [Scottish brougue]: Carl I want you to kill all the gophers on the golf course
9Carl: Correct me if I’m wrong Sandy, but if I kill all the golfers they’ll lock me up and throw away the key.
Sandy: Not golfers, you great git! Gophers, the little brown, furry rodents!
Carl: We can do that. We don’t even need a reason.
Sandy: Ayye! Well do it, man!
Carl: OK, but why don’t we do the same thing, but with gophers?
[Sandy storms off]
Carl: It’s not my fault nobody can understand you.
Press conference right now:
Pence is citing infection incidence in units of “% of infected per 1000 people”…
Trump talking about his “Beautiful Timeline”.
God help us.
10Y’all remember the play about Tuna, Texas? It was located halfway between Odessa and Hell? That’s about the only location that would be safe for a his majesty rally.
11He wants business as usual because his hotels and golf courses are losing money. Bad businessman, bad president
12And Trump will provide everyone with chloroquine soon. Just watch Fox “news”, it really works. It’s just crazy stupid stuff.
13It’s disheartening to hear there are 50% of the people approve of Trump’s handling of Coronavirus. His brainwashing must be working.
Oh, and I can hardly wait to find out how difficult and expensive it will be to find hydroxychloroquine that I have to take for rheumatoid arthritis.
That boy Pence never was real bright, was he?
14I know I’m stating the obvious, but if this is just an attempt to allow the mega-congregations to have Easter together, this feels like he’s planning an extinction level event for all the overweight old smokers that attend those kinds of churches.
I mean it. This seems like Russian Roulette planned by the Antichrist for the vulnerable…
15Just tweeted Trump…
I expect he and his family to attend church services on Easter Sunday.
And then personally thank EVERY person that attended services with him.
It’s only right, if they put their lives on the line, so should Trump.
16Sounds like he’s already walking it back. Somebody must have gotten through to his thick brain.
17We all know what the real reason he’s jonesing to get everyone back to work–it’s just killing him that he can’t get out on the golf course. That’s why he was so cranky last week. I live in VA and we had gorgeous weather and he was stuck inside having to pretend to be preznit.
At least he got the message that photos of him hitting local links would not be appreciated right now. And he can’t sneak off to Florida either. Poor whiny butt baby.
18And then there is this: https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/heres-how-a-single-soccer-game-fueled-the-spread-of-coronavirus-in-italy/
19“He wants business as usual because his hotels and golf courses are losing money. Bad businessman, bad president”
this is why. his company is so heavily in debt, that even a short-term drop-off in cash flow could put it under. right now, they are getting crushed.
20“….right now they are getting crushed”. From your lips to God’s ears. Fitting end to his “ dynasty”… just realized “ nasty” is in the word “ dynasty”…..Maybe I have been isolated tooo long.
21The man is a barking idiot but you’ll never convince my in-laws in LA.
It is past time to cease Secret Service protection for this clown!
22What he see in packed churches on Easter Sunday is a wave of obsequious praise from evangelical preachers as he takes a victory lap–declaring this “war” over and himself the conquering hero. Mike Pence will have a literal and metaphorical orgasm just trying to think of a new level of sucking up.
23FTT: The real reason Trump wants to end #CoronavirusLockdown early.
Check out the Mother’s Day Brunch Menu for his Trump D.C. Hotel: $149/adult + $59 drinks! [EACH! $49 per child.]
Trump can’t stand the thought of losing all that money lobbyists were planning to spend at his hotels on Easter & Mother’s Day!
https://twitter.com/LongTimeAmy/status/1242641114747809793
24“There really is no middle ground, and it’s very tough to say to people, ‘Hey, keep going to restaurants, go buy new houses, ignore that pile of bodies over in the corner. We want you to keep spending because there’s maybe a politician who thinks GDP growth is all that counts.’ It’s very irresponsible for somebody to suggest that we can have the best of both worlds.” — Bill Gates
25AG Barr has now declared that spreading or attempting to spread the corona virus is an act of terrorism and can be prosecuted as such by federal prosecutors.
Since ending the “distancing” and quarantine efforts will result in an explosion of cases, and deaths–many multiples of the deaths from 9/11–it seems only reasonable to arrest and prosecute any and all politicians, industry leaders, or “thought leaders” who have publicly supported such a plan. Starting at the top with Trump, and coming right along with Grassley and our own Dan Patrick. I have sent a message to AG Barr suggesting this to him. Don’t expect anything to come of it, but maybe he’ll be stupid enough to tell Trump to quit talking like that, and get himself fired.
26Elizabeth Moon, if Billy Bob Barr were serious about prosecuting home grown terrorists, he’d begin by supporting the 25 the 45 movement so NY AG Leticia James could move on the prosecution of the head* of this
maladministrationcrime family.Seriously hope the next Democratic President and AG has the intestinal fortitude to investigate all the criminals including Moscow Mitch and Elaine Chao.
27He must think all Christians are conservative and ignorant enough to listen to him. Who else goes to church on Easter but Christians (he may not understand that)? So, it looks like he is trying to kill off his base by sending them into enclosed places with lots of people. Damn that is dumb.
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