California Governor Gavin Newsom unveiled a six-point proposal for getting the Golden State back on the road to economic reopening. His new favorite phrase- “meet the moment”- enjoyed several iterations during the Governor’s Tuesday presser. Newsom was vague about any sort of end date for statewide lockdown measures.
“I hope all of us are sobered by the reality of the moment but left with a little optimism that this is not a permanent state. You’ve met this moment in a remarkable way for us to present a roadmap but it is all conditioned on us staying the course, staying at home and continuing to practice appropriate social distancing.”
Newsom’s plan is unsurprisingly creepy and totalitarian, with a dash of ignorance thrown in for good measure (bullet point list courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter).
1.The ability to monitor and protect communities through testing, tracking positive cases, properly isolate and support individuals who are positive and/or exposed to COVID-19.
So, let’s think about this…the state of California has released hardened criminals from prison over coronavirus fears, has declared itself a sanctuary state that refuses to track, report or deport illegal aliens (even those wanted for heinous crimes), has denied law enforcement the ability to arrest vagrants for health violations like open drug use and public defecation (seemingly an important thing to be on top of in these times, no?), won’t allow business owners to clear homeless encampments from their own properties, and now has outlawed independent contracting as of January 1st…but if you’re a law-abiding, taxpaying, peaceful citizen just trying to earn and move about freely you will be monitored, tracked and traced by the state. Not the homeless people. Not the felons they just released into the streets. Not the illegal aliens. You…the taxpayer. You’re the dangerous one.
2.The ability to prevent infection in high-risk groups, including older residents, homeless and those with underlying health conditions.
How does a government stop a virus? You don’t. You stop people. Notice how vague this point is. Think about what it would mean to have the ability to “prevent infection” in high-risk groups. That requires some serious policing. Again, policing that would be enforced on law-abiding, peaceful taxpayers but not on those currently breaking the laws of this state.
3.The ability for hospitals and health care systems to handle a potential surge in cases through adequate staffing, hospital beds and supplies including ventilators, masks and other personal protective equipment.
Did we not just send 500 ventilators out of our state to other states in need? Is Newsom working to shore up this point or is he just pulling words out of his pie-hole? Also, California dismantled their state of hospital readiness all the way back in 2011. Again, another example of the state asking people to make sacrifices for their own incompetence.
4. The ability to develop therapeutics to meet the demand.
So…we’re not getting out of our homes until a vaccine or 100% effective treatment has been developed? How long can California claim the mantle of the world’s fifth-largest economy if everything that drives this economy – sports, the entertainment industry, arts, Silicone Valley – is shut down? What happens to Hollywood when they realize they can’t film in this state for the next 6 months but South Dakota is open for business? Do they stay in L.A. or simply take their dollars to a free state and set up a new mecca? These are things a governor must consider.
5.The ability for businesses, schools and child care facilities to support physical distancing guidelines as well as provide supplies and equipment to workforces and customers to keep them safe from illness.
Newsom says offices and retail spaces will have to redesign, restaurants will have to have half the tables, etc. This is a man who has never missed a paycheck or had to struggle to make a payroll saying he and a handful of others intend to redesign the entire California economy.
Nope.
Newsom needs to be arrested and charged with Treason,Abuse of Power and being a all around idiot and yes i live in California Northern California and Our Govenor is a jerk
I guess it just makes being a governor easier if everyone stays inside and never moves? Has Gavin noticed how many TRILLION is state is in debt? Going to be awfully hard to squeeze tax revenue out of people that are broke and getting THEIR revenue from him. Definitely like the part about not moving forward until the filthiest state in the union (thanks to just a few cities) can verify its sanitation.
Take serious note, sanctuary cities and states: if any of this is your criteria, you start out in a serious hole which you dug for yourselves.
So, in other words, never.
This makes Newsome dictator-for-life.
And Californians might just allow it.
@Deplorable Me: Trump’s getting back to business program by allowing the governors to have their own timeline/program for their own state is a vast trap for Democrat governors. Watch the speed that Republican governors get their economy back on track compared to the Democrats.
@Randy: Tonight tyrant Evers has granted curbside service for craft stores, the peasants marvel at his generosity.
That means I must be psychic as to what patterns of cloth they have in stock.
He does have his p100 which looks like a gas mask, if he wore that to the grocery store just 5 months ago they would have had him in the back of a squad car off for evaluation.
@Randy: And watch how Democrat states whine and demand more money poured into their self-destructed cities and states.
Unfortunately, a large portion of the United States’ economy is dependent on Democratically controlled states that have large populations, and the economy that Trump is trying to jump-start (in part to insure his reelection) will not return to health without them. That places Trump in an uncomfortable position of having to work WITH those states if he wants to be reelected.
Trump is confounded by what the Constitution WON’T permit him to do. He can’t ORDER people back to work unless they work directly for the Federal Government. (All this talk of charging Democratic governors with “treason” is just humorous saber-rattling.) Trump can PRESSURE states by withholding all sorts of discretionary federal spending, but that won’t budge the states – instead it will increase their resolve to oppose him.
Trump has positioned himself where he thinks he will be able to take political advantage of any successes, but at the same time will be able to avoid blame if things deteriorate. That’s why he ultimately said that the timing of the “opening” was up to the states.
“Opening” was one little mine-trap that the Democrats set for Trump. Another is the issue of testing. If Trump takes over testing, then however imperfect that goes will be on him, and the Democrats will cry “Incompetence!” And they’ll scream bloody murder when people start dying in increasing numbers because #1. the economy was opened too soon, and #2. There wasn’t enough testing to justify opening, and #3. The “experts” said this was going to happen and Trump ignored them. That’s the Democrats’ plan. And if Trump DOESN’T take change – and accept the risks that comes with that – the Democrats will cry that he refused to help. “Dereliction-of-Duty!” Of COURSE that isn’t fair. It’s POLITICS. Fair politics is a myth.
Trump has to figure out a way to work with states that have large populations BESIDES Texas. Large populations mean big cities mean large minority populations mean many Democrats. Trump can’t get the economy humming without them, and he can’t win reelection if the economy is still intubated and ventilated on the largess of the Federal Reserve.
@George Wells: Why does Trump have to figure out a way all while also making sure testing, therapies, vaxx development and supplies needed get coordinated and dispersed?
They wanted him to be king and force companies to produce desired products paid for by the federal government and donated to them. None of them looked into their own capabilities in private testing labs that also had to be coordinated by the national CDC not their own health depts.
NY crammed their citizens in fewer subway cars but shut down businesses where people are no where near as close to each other. Last time you went for a hair cut how far away was the next guy getting his trim? Nail salons the girls have always worn masks to not breathe in the dust from filing nails.
The idea we must have the capacity to test every single person 350 million daily is insane as we have a large retired population, and many that can work from home.
@George Wells: The food for the US comes from Red counties and Red states. Most food is processed in Red counties and Red states. The Blue state populations will need to have money to buy food and products produced by red states and Red Counties. Are you ignorant enough to believe that the people controlled by Democratic governors will not rebel to get their jobs back? Michigan and Pennsylvania are already rebelling. As usual, you assessments are wrong.
@George Wells:
He doesn’t have to order them back to work; they WANT to go back to work.
He will naturally get credit for success; it’s his agenda. It’s no coincidence that Democrats have been lying overtime to turn success into failure. For instance, death count predictions ran as high as 2,000,000; if Trump has been totally responsible for any “failure”, how is he not totally responsible for saving 1.5 million lives? Further, until someone can provide the Democrat that WASN’T contradicting Trump’s recommendations for halting travel and social distancing, how can his response be criticized? Trump will benefit from the gigantic monster the left made this out to be (after they got through minimizing and denigrating it) when we turn the corner (and that corner is being turned) because, unless you want to deny “science”, the outcome under Trump was a fraction of what was predicted.
Contrast that with…. Biden. IF he gets a cognitive sentence put together, he too can suggest nothing that Trump hasn’t or is doing. I would shudder to imagine what the results would have looked like had someone like Biden or Hillary been President. Even Obama failed miserably to address N1H1 and left the nation vulnerable to the next epidemic.
Democrats obviously want the economy to continue to crash; misery and calamity is all they can hope for to exploit. This is obvious by how they callously block increasing the PPP funds in order to squeeze liberal concessions out of Republicans. It is clearly apparent that only Republicans care about people thrown out of their jobs by the reaction to the virus and only Republicans care about small businesses, which comprise 80% of our economic strength.
It’s not a coincidence that EVERY part of Trump’s agenda, though not intended to address this specific threat, it had the effect of mitigating every aspect of this epidemic; reducing dependence on China, building a strong economy, increasing manufacturing capabilities and securing our borders.
@Deplorable Me:
Numerically speaking, 1/3 think it’s taking too long, and 2/3 think it’s opening up too fast. Do you think that the economy can work on 1/3?
EVERYBODY is looking for guidance, because EVERYBODY is afraid of making a deadly mistake.
Plus, if left to each governor, we will end up with 50 different plans, and they won’t mesh well together. Trump would rather have nobody herding 50 cats than risk all 50 of them following him off a cliff. I get that.
You might have failed to notice (once again) that I am more critical of the Democrats than of the Republicans. Randy misses that completely. He talks about red states and blue states as if one “color” can live independently of the other. The only point of having 50 states instead of 50 independent countries is that there are many advantages to not having to do everything yourself. Sure, a lot of food is grown in red states, but it’s not worth much unless you can get it to millions of hungry mouths, and not so many of them live in the middle of corn fields.
The premise I work on is that one political party doesn’t have a monopoly on good ideas and the other party has a monopoly on bad ones. I have already acknowledged REPEATEDLY that Trump has done a good job in this very difficult time. But that doesn’t give anyone license to act as if every last thing Trump does is “perfect.” It isn’t. And a fair assessment of the situation and an open-minded search for ways to improve the outcome must necessarily include a critical examination of what BOTH sides are doing. Since you NEVER EVER acknowledge a Trump mistake, what conclusion should be reached? That you believe he is GOD? That you suffer some sort of partisan blindness?
My whole #7 was a critique of the present situation in which I not once criticized Trump. I said that if he failed to find a way to work WITH the governors of populous (and often Democratic) states and HELPED them as they wanted, the result would be that they would delay the economic recovery that everyone wants. That’s not a partisan observation, it’s a fact of life.
Perhaps you and Kitt and Randy are itching for a fight between Democrats and Republicans, but I think that in this time of extreme trial, the adage “United we stand, divided we fall” applies. Yes, there is abundant bitterness and recrimination, but it will take powerful leadership to break that cycle of failure. Don’t look to Pelosi or Biden for that leadership – they are unworthy. IF it is to come from anyone, it will have to come from THE PRESIDENT.
That, Kitt, is why it has to be Trump.
It’s because HE’S the president. NOT Pelosi, NOT Biden, NOT 50 governors.
@George Wells: The President has released a plan, its now up to the governors to personally assess their states county by county perhaps carving out extra hot spots, get their health DC counterparts in on spikes.
The Feds dont have the man power to nanny up the 50 governors.They have had many calls with the president if they cant do the job and lead perhaps they should resign.
No argument just pointing out that Trump cant do this all by himself. No amt of toilet paper or wet wipes seems to be enough for 1 particular Governor to get his ass wiped for him.
@George Wells:
Based on what?
No doubt there are vast numbers who cannot be opened up because they live in the tightly-packed large metro areas… what liberals have envisioned for everyone. But the VAST MAJORITY of the nation is not in that boat and can readily go back to almost normal.
Well, that would be difficult to prove in THIS crisis since the Democrats have been the party of NO ideas. All they’ve done is whine about how bad whatever Trump has done is while ignoring their own stupid advice and offering nothing that would have been any better.
Really? In reality, Democrat governors would be highly critical of Trump… until they got into virus trouble. THEN they would ask for help and he came through… THEIR assessments… and helped them, usually with more help than they needed.
The REAL failure here? The models. The projections. Relying on “the experts”, which would include the CCP and the WHO. Almost everything they’ve recommended or projected has been wrong; now we are awash in ventilators. Of all the tests conducted in the WORLD, 1/6th of them have been done in the US. Are the tests any good? Many weren’t, thanks, CDC; thanks FDA; thanks China.
But, through all that, we’ve sustained a MINIMAL number of fatalities, less than projected, less (per capita) than most countries. NO country did better addressing this crisis than we did; the ONE thing that would have helped would have been for China and the WHO not to have lied about the transmission of the virus. THAT was a biggie.
@George Wells: The issue here is that the Governors are not working with Trump. Look at the stupid arrests of people who are meeting the separation requirements yet are arrested. Look at the paddle boarder in CA who was not within 1000 feet of anyone else was arrested. In MI, one can go to the grocery store, but can not pick up vegetable seeds to start a garden. Look at NJ where the same type of stores can be ok in some areas but not others. In Kentucky, people are arrested or fined for attending a drive in church service when they do not leave their cars. These are not exceptions.
The Democrats and their media are doing and saying everything they can to try to make Trumps efforts look wrong. Fortunately, the voters are not as ignorant as the resisters would like them to be. That is why there are the increasing protestors. As far as the food issues, who do you think is getting the food to the markets now?
It is the responsibility of the governors to get along with the President. One of his responsibility is interstate commerce. When a governor attempts to subvert that, the president has the power to require that state to comply under penalty of law. If the Democrats wanted the best for this country and the people, they would support instead of campaign against the president. If the state governments would fulfill their responsibilities under a federalist government, the US would have been better prepared for a pandemic.
@Deplorable Me:
Just out of curiosity, would you prefer for us to be a “one-party” nation like Russia, China, or the rest of one-party countries who inevitably become totalitarian dictatorships every time the fox gains exclusive dominion over the chicken coop?
I am sure that you see no problem with Trump and his GOP-dominated Senate locking up a conservative judiciary for the next quarter-century, and by itself that wouldn’t be the worst imaginable turn of events, but considering my prediction that Trump WILL be reelected, and YOUR prediction that the GOP will retake the House AND hold the Senate, that will leave ALL branches of the government in the hands of one political party. Considering how power inevitably corrupts, do you think all of that power will be allowed to just sit fallow? How far are you willing to turn the clock back? End gay marriage? End abortion? End affirmative action? End Social Security? End Medicare? End female suffrage? Legalize slavery? Where would it end?
Mind you, I asked the same question when the Democrats held the White House, the House and the Senate, but they hardly controlled the courts, and they proved surprisingly inept at taking advantage of the power they had. I don’t credit the GOP with that same degree of stupidity, so I am worried… particularly as Trump has made no secret of his jealousy of the power wielded by dictators.
@George Wells: No, I don’t want one party and it pisses me off that Democrats are heading us in that direction. To survive, we need to reject them (in their present configuration) but the Democrats are striving to institute one party rule (the purpose of HR1).
Yes, I am glad that Trump has nominated Justices that respect the Constitution and don’t “interpret” it to suit liberal ideology. The main reason I voted for him was to keep Hillary’s hands off the Supreme Court.
@Deplorable Me:
Are you suggesting that the Republican Party is in danger of not surviving?
Didn’t we just agree that the GOP would control the White House, the Senate, the House AND the judiciary come November?
You know that HR1 is going nowhere, so why does it even concern you?
And look at the shapes of voting districts all over the country. Yes, both Dems and Reps have gerrymandered the crap out of the map, but everybody KNOWS that the GOP won that battle, and also that the courts won’t interfere with the results. So the GOP wins the Electoral college even when the Dems win the popular vote, which is really nothing but a consolation prize, since it means nothing.
So explain if you will why you are pissed off at the Democrats, because it seems that they are handing you exactly what Donald Trump wants: VICTORY, VICTORY, VICTORY. Soon enough you’ll be able to deport all the gays, liberals, feminists and Blacks to Massachusetts and excommunicate the state out of the Union. What more do you want?
@George Wells: If you were smarter, you would have realized that Deplorable Me wants the Republican Party to have competition that wants to do the right thing for the country. That would allow voters to vote for the best person for the position instead of having to vote for the best party.
No vote will be worth a damn if we let them change rules or pressure states to do all mail in voting without cleaning up their voting rolls, and when a precinct reports numbers no more votes can be “found” to count against the total.
Know how many registred voters there are and have enough people to feed them into the tally machines.
@Randy:
I have no doubt that Donald Trump does what he does first and foremost because he believes that it is what is best for his constituents (the people who voted for him once and who will likely vote for him again) and also that it is what they WANT him to do.
Similarly, I have no doubt that Democratic politicians say and do what they say and do because it is what THEIR constituents want THEM to do.
In this way, politicians of BOTH parties are approximately equal. They BOTH play to their respective audiences and do that to insure their continued employment. And just as an added bonus, BOTH sides make the very weak argument that what is good for their respective constituents is also conveniently good for the WHOLE country. That part is a bold-faced lie.
That is because what is drastically different are the two constituencies themselves. Each constituency sees itself as the beating heart of the country, but in reality each is but half, and the country cannot survive without both. It COULD split apart, the two halves going their separate ways. That was tried back in the 1860’s, but failed.
You might look no further than the ideological divide on the Supreme Court for evidence of the ideological difference that splits out country – one side believes that the Constitution must be considered from an originalist perspective, while the other side believes in a “living” interpretation of that document.
What is supremely difficult is that the two opposing sides have little interest in compromise, yet the country cannot function without it. The issues are complex, and neither side is always right nor always wrong, but both act as if it were otherwise.
Democrats see income redistribution as a tool to fix everything – tax the rich, they say, and spend the money on correcting social injustices – while Republicans want an end to the bloated and overly-abused “entitlement” system. The Democrats never offer a realistic way to pay for all that they promise, and Republicans never offer a realistic way to still support the people who cannot live without it.
I don’t have many answers that address this divided land – as Randy observes, I’m stupid – but I DO know that we have to keep trying. The “red” states need the “blue” states and visa-versa. Any other perspective dooms us all.
@George Wells:
Democrats would not eradicate the Republican party; who would they blame when they failed? They merely want a perpetual majority in Congress and control of the White House. What concerns (and disgusts) me about HR1 is that anyone would actually propose that as the law of the land. It codifies voter fraud, illegal immigrant voting and destroys the sanctity of the vote. This from the people who pretend to worry about voter suppression.
Gerrymandering has nothing to do with national votes. The high probability that Hillary’s popular vote advantage was due to fraud and illegal immigrants voting aside, she simply played the wrong game. The game is electoral votes and Trump was smarter. Constitutionally, Trump won.
Because unlike Democrats, I don’t want to see victory on the backs of people forced to suffer. Had the virus not occurred, Democrats had little chance of winning. Every indicator was good and the only negatives Democrats could must they had to make up. Democrats saw their opportunity with COVID19 and, totally ignoring the MAJOR LIE that the virus was not transmissible between humans, blame an imperfect reaction on Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump. The media, ever the Democrat lackey, aids and abets the lies. It is difficult right now to tell the effect that has, but it is more than clear that Democrats want as much misery, fear, panic and death as possible to exploit. The FACT that Democrats try to block and destroy every bit of hope, positive news and action to help those suffering only serves to drive that point home.
We don’t need one-party rule, but we need a party different from these Democrats.
Hmmm… really. When there IS compromise, which side is it that usually does the compromising in order to get vitally needed legislation passed and which side has made unreasonable demands and, often, purposeful poison-pills to kill legislation, which they then come back and blame on the OTHER side for failing to get passed?
Republicans see a free economy and economic opportunity as the pathway out of poverty and that has proven to be true. Poverty was at its lowest after World War II when citizens of every stripe could get good jobs. Democrats prefer people on subsidies, dependent upon THEM for sustenance. After the War on Poverty, poverty in the US actually GREW, and it was apparently by design. Dependent people vote Democrat. Under Trump, minority unemployment dropped to its lowest levels in history and support for Trump by blacks, for instance, is at record highs. People don’t want welfare, they want opportunity.
@Deplorable Me:
As I have already agreed with what you say about Democrats generally, I won’t bother to restate the obvious. However, I DO question this:
If you mean that Blacks’ support for trump has risen from zero to miniscule, I will accept that characterization of Black support, but if you are suggesting that Trump will get as much as 30% of the national Black vote in November, I’ll take that bet. A record high that is also a small fraction doesn’t mean a hill of beans.
@Deplorable Me:
And here’s another thought:
I am beginning to see an alarming pattern in our President’s behavior. It seems as if he is making decisions on the COVID-19 pandemic in a vacuum, not listening to his experts and instead relying solely on his own flawed instincts. Then, surprise-surprise, a vigorous backlash ensues and Trump rather quickly reverses himself.
First, let’s look at a few recent examples of this behavior:
1. Trump announces his intention to open the country on Easter Sunday, a declaration that draws an immediate groundswell of objection from both politicians and the general public that is afraid of opening prematurely. Both Democratic and Republican governors, along with a great many other voices of authority, scream and pull their hair out over that plan. Trump is date-stubborn, but eventually agrees to move his target opening date to the end of May.
2. Trump announces to the nation that his power to “open” states is absolute and that the governors will have to follow his orders in that regard. Both Democratic and Republican governors, along with a great many other voices of authority, scream and pull their hair out over that assertion, and Trump reverses literally the next day (having discovered the hard way that a slowly executed flip-flop isn’t worth the pain) saying that it is all up to the governors.
3. After being barraged by requests for testing help from the states, Trump insists that testing is a local issue up to the states to arrange and control. Both Democratic and Republican governors, along with a great many other voices of authority, scream and pull their hair out over that assertion, and Trump reverses literally the next day, saying that the federal government WILL get involved in testing, taking over what the states are unable to.
There are several problems with our President’s apparent lack of resolve.
For one, the President runs the risk of teaching his opponents how to make him reverse himself, right OR wrong – just scream and pull your hair out.
For another, the nation gets terrible leadership. Either Trump is making a bunch of terrible decisions that require frequent reversal, or he is allowing his opponents to force him to reverse GOOD decisions. Which is it?
@George Wells: No, support has risen from around 12% to 30% or more.
Well, that is totally YOUR problem because that is not the case. He has shown he makes his decisions based on collaboration with his experts.
1. For instance, he NEVER said he was going to open by Easter. He set that as a GOAL. Businessmen work to GOALS. It was a lofty goal, but a goal nonetheless and it motivates people to follow the rules and work towards something positive.
2. Democrats have been clamoring for Trump to implement the Defense Production Act, which he HAS used… judiciously. So, what if he determined it was necessary manufacturing plant in some state that had closed it down? Would that not be opening it up AND within his powers?
3. Testing IS a local issue, unless and until some governor requests Trump’s aid. The federal government can provide the materials and, if so desired, the tests can be funneled to federal facilities (a bottleneck long ago criticized) but unless REQUESTED to come in and take over, the federal government can do no more.
What I can see is you base your opinions solely on what the liberal media presents as facts, not what Trump actually does. I read comments from many people complaining about how Trump’s briefings are rife with lies and nothing but a campaign rally, only to go on and admit they don’t even WATCH them. They get their information from Democrats that denounce everything Trump does and has done even though they offer not a single alternative suggestion that might be better, but only obstruction.
Why do Democrats have to leverage desperately needed financial aid to small businesses and employees to wring out petty liberal concessions? Who appears to care more about the American people… Trump or Democrats?
@George Wells: #1 have you never set a lofty goal and unable to meet it?
#2 A bluff, but well within his emergency powers.
Funny they screamed the 10th amendment while taking away the Constitutional rights of their citizens.
#3 The day before the Scarf lady advised there were testing facilities and resources medical colleges, private labs ect that were not being tapped that she would coordinate with states cdc people and advise.
Is it the Governors not listening or Trump?
It has nothing to do with Trumps resolve it is stiff necked people that cant think outside the box, sometimes a psych game has to be utilized.
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas only a hippopotamus will do. You dont have children you simply cant comprehend.
Governor of NY wants a state budget bailout, what snuff.
@Deplorable Me:
True. He said it would be great to reopen the nation on Easter. Think about the symbolism. Of course, there are those that will say because it was a goal, he definitely said he would reopen the nation by Easter. Like George. Just chalk that up to either deafness or stupidity or both.
Trump said he was in control. What happened then? Governors, like Complaining Cuomo, said “Oh, no, you’re not and if you want to have a fight over that, bring it on.” This after Complaining Cuomo had been saying the feds were not doing enough and how was he going to plug his budget hole with a paltry $3.5 billion?
Game, set, match. You complaining governors think you are in charge of your states, then be in charge and quit demanding that the federal government wipe your butts for you. Take care of testing. It’s your job. Do it. And if you don’t, the feds will under the War Powers Act exposing how totally incompetent you are.
There you have it. Liberal media bias is basically what is being fed to a huge number of Americans. It requires reporting a story biased toward the DNC. And those like Comrade Greggie and King George lap it up like a cat laps up milk.
Our nation needs to open up. Lives are being destroyed day by day. Family businesses are being shuttered, never to open again. The engine of our economy, small businesses, has thrown a rod. And when this all finally comes out in the wash, I think Fauci, Brix and the Bill Gates funded IMHI will have egg on their faces. Remember, Fauci was a dedicated Hillary guy and I don’t think that leopard has changed its spots.
And what if these experts were right?
@retire05: Funny, don’t you think? Democrats held up the original stimulus which included the PPP, for two weeks so they could “improve” it and help the little, forgotten guy. Then, when all they had to do was nod and another $250 billion could be immediately added to help MORE small businesses, Democrats stall it for another two weeks so they can “improve” it and help the little, forgotten guy. Now, who actually believes that?
@kitt:
That’s funny. The best explanation for all of Trump’s flipping and flopping around is that he’s just bluffing as if he’s playing a card game, and the rest can be excused because Trump is a visionary in the midst of governors who have no imagination. Too bad he isn’t enough of a leader to get them all behind him…
That’s right, he ISN’T a perfect genius GOD who has absolute power to pull all of the strings single-handedly. He HAS to work with the rest of us, or nothing gets done. But half of the country (or so) has little stomach for a bluffing buffoon who takes delight in mimicking dictators. If he knows what he wants, Trump should stay on script and tell it like it is, not play a feckless fool who can’t make up his own mind.