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Me too!

artappraiser — Fri, 27 Mar 2020 06:19:20 +0000

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Me too!

And what we were dealing with until now is that things were going along all fine and dandy for him doing his own p.r. on Twitter, was fun for him and who was doing the actual presidenting that got done was whoever could manage to stick around by kowtowing. He always liked to do that, he likes being a filmflam man, creating a persona and selling it, i.e. calling the NYPost under a fake name with "leads". The bigger the sucker the more fun for him, i.e, rich Russians.

I mean think on it seriously. With executive appointments he's getting input from Jvanka or friends or people who donated to campaigns, with like judicial appointments, he's not coming up with those names himself, someone's been feeding it to him. Etc. He golfs and attends p.r. events (i.e., met and greet at the White House) and ran his rallies. Didn't really have to do any presidenting until now. He chose to do this now, could have left Pence run it, but he chose it, and as in many have noted in this other thread, sure seems like it may have been a fatal catch 22 choice

I'm convinced the story line

ocean-kat — Fri, 27 Mar 2020 06:01:29 +0000

In reply to oh right, thanks for

I'm convinced the story line that he never wanted to be president is true. It was all just a marketing ploy that people were too stupid to see and they voted for him.

oh right, thanks for

artappraiser — Fri, 27 Mar 2020 04:17:23 +0000

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oh right, thanks for reminding me! I saw that whole thing either on CNN or MSNBC, I saw her corner him! He actually not only backed down but ending up muttering some complement about how he was no match for her, it was crazy. It was like this: he was probably instructed by lawyers or White House people to only use this or that line of spin, same thing over and over. But he was like: fuck the shit they told me to do, she's not going to buy this, I will just agree to cover it. He gave in and gave up! Was like: why did I ever take this job, what am I doing here?

Robert Redfield, the Trump

NCD — Fri, 27 Mar 2020 02:02:28 +0000

In reply to Internal Emails Show How Chaos at the CDC Slowed the Early Response to Coronavirus

Robert Redfield, the Trump appointed CDC director is totally over his head, has never led even a small agency or organization. He is purported to be popular in evangelical Christian circles. CDC directors do not require Senate confirmation.

In the video below, Texas Democrat Katie Porter, in testimony before Congress, tried to get Dr. Redfield to answer whether the CDC would institute it's emergency powers to pay for free emergency coronavirus testing for Americans, she asks repeatedly for a yes or no answer, he blathers platitudes and bs. Ms. Porter is now herself suffering with coronavirus infection.