US Election 2020

[OrbitalDawn]

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The operating principle behind Trumpism.

Jared Kushner's shadow coronavirus task force used a spreadsheet called 'VIP Update' to procure PPE from inexperienced high-profile Trump allies over legitimate vendors

I'm guessing that we'll hear nothing about this from the Trumpets.

Gee, random 20-something year old grifters are fscking it up? Weird!

Kushner’s Inexperienced COVID-19 Volunteers Bungled Hunt For Medical Supplies: Reports

A whistleblower said in a complaint that a volunteer coronavirus force recruited by Jared Kushner was "falling short" and had "little to show" for their work.

www.huffpost.com

And yeah, the corruption and cronyism is just accepted now.

“You mean District of Columbia, a state? Why? So we can have two more Democratic — Democrat senators and five more congressmen? No thank you. That’ll never happen.” - Donald J Trump

For Republicans, saying the quiet part out loud might be more contagious than Covid.

Something refreshing about Trump just openly embracing the GOP's anti-democratic instinct rather than BS around with nonsense rationales.

 

[TysonRoux]

Donald Trump denies link to Venezuela armed raid by US citizens

Two US ‘mercenaries’ held after Caribbean coast attack foiled but Trump says: ‘It has nothing to do with our government’

www.theguardian.com

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/ex-green-beret-led-failed-attempt-to-oust-venezuelas-maduro/2020/05/01/d7f52050-8c1c-11ea-80df-d24b35a568ae_story.html

Trumptard speaks.

Venezuela: captured US mercenary claims he planned to abduct Maduro

Luke Denman was one of two US citizens seized this week after what appears to have been a bungled bid to overthrow Maduro

www.theguardian.com

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Trumptard speaks.

Venezuela: captured US mercenary claims he planned to abduct Maduro

Luke Denman was one of two US citizens seized this week after what appears to have been a bungled bid to overthrow Maduro

www.theguardian.com

Hilarious. Absolute amateur hour.

They documented it all on Twitter, too.

Don’t Tweet About Your Coup

The mercenaries from Silvercorp USA, who allegedly tried to topple Venezuela’s government, decided to tweet about it in advance.

nymag.com

Good read on the background:

The Invasion of Venezuela, Brought To You By Silvercorp USA - bellingcat

The video begins with Jordan Goudreau posing confidently, flanked by a man wearing an armour plate and a Venezuela flag wrapped around his shoulder.

www.bellingcat.com

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Fresh from solving COVID-19 in the US and the Middle East previously, Kushner will now be in charge of getting the vaccine developed.

Kushner’s Screwed Up His COVID-19 Jobs—Now He’s Got an Even Bigger One

Operation Warp Speed is certainly ambitious. But Trump’s own advisers say it’s overly so, even with his son-in-law involved.

www.thedailybeast.com

 

[TysonRoux]

Hilarious. Absolute amateur hour.

They documented it all on Twitter, too.

Following in the masters footsteps.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Trump wants to spend $500m to unnecessarily paint his wall black.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/trump-border-wall-black-paint/2020/05/06/dbda8ae4-8eff-11ea-8df0-ee33c3f5b0d6_story.html

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Well, how about that...

On the Same Day Sen. Richard Burr Dumped Stock, So Did His Brother-in-Law. Then the Market Crashed.

The brother-in-law, a Trump appointee, sold between $97,000 and $280,000 worth of stock. Burr is under federal investigation over whether he traded on non-public information gathered through his work in the Senate.

www.propublica.org

Sen. Richard Burr was not the only member of his family to sell off a significant portion of his stock holdings in February, ahead of the market crash spurred by coronavirus fears. On the same day Burr sold, his brother-in-law also dumped tens of thousands of dollars worth of shares. The market fell by more than 30% in the subsequent month.

Burr’s brother-in-law, Gerald Fauth, who has a post on the National Mediation Board, sold between $97,000 and $280,000 worth of shares in six companies — including several that have been hit particularly hard in the market swoon and economic downturn.

 

[cerebus]

This is equal parts hysterical and terrifying:

S01E01

https://twitter.com/x/status/1257476755574718470

S01E02

https://twitter.com/x/status/1258136404363808769

No Virus Deaths by Mid-May? White House Economists Say They Didn’t Forecast Early End to Fatalities (Published 2020)

Outside economists have criticized a model built by economic advisers in the Trump administration, which appears to predict zero coronavirus deaths in the United States by mid-May.

www.nytimes.com

S01E03

https://twitter.com/x/status/1258137098298839041

https://twitter.com/x/status/1257469940665384963

 

[cerebus]

Kemp Warns Of Growing Outbreak Stressing Northeast Georgia

Gov. Brian Kemp warned on Tuesday that a growing coronavirus outbreak is stressing resources in northeast Georgia. Kemp has moved aggressively to allow businesses to reopen even though infections are on the rise in some areas of the state. He made his remarks about northeast Georgia while...

www.wabe.org

Kemp Warns Of Growing Outbreak Stressing Northeast Georgia

Gov. Brian Kemp warned on Tuesday that a growing coronavirus outbreak is stressing resources in northeast Georgia

Per-capita infection rates in Gainesville’s Hall County and in nearby Habersham County are now in the top 10% of counties statewide, a list that otherwise remains mostly dominated by counties in south and southwest Georgia.

“They’re being stressed pretty hard up there at the moment,” Kemp said Tuesday while touring a temporary medical pod in southwest Georgia, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The Republican governor said contract medical workers have been sent to the Gainesville area to help fight the outbreak. A temporary medical pod is planned there as well.

 

[Techne]

He'll do just fine... All he has to do is answer every question in the debates by reading a list of the names of dead Americans.

Biiig problem

 

[rietrot]

Wait for when the Confederates start defending this.

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? There isn't even anything to defend.

 

[cerebus]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-ginsburg/supreme-courts-ginsburg-discharged-from-hospital-idUSKBN22I2

Supreme Court's Ginsburg discharged from hospital

 

[rietrot]

Well, how about that...

On the Same Day Sen. Richard Burr Dumped Stock, So Did His Brother-in-Law. Then the Market Crashed.

The brother-in-law, a Trump appointee, sold between $97,000 and $280,000 worth of stock. Burr is under federal investigation over whether he traded on non-public information gathered through his work in the Senate.

www.propublica.org

? Along with a shít load of other people. That's why the market fell 30%. The quoted bit doesn't mention the most important thing. Did they time it well enough to get back in when the fed started printing? If so well done to them.

 

[cerebus]

 

[AlmightyBender]

LOL No you just couldn't put two and two together like a grown up boy.

You don't seem to get the idea of a discussion forum do you It's not all about you buddy boy.

You and discussion?! Fark me, pull the other finger mate.

 

[greg0205]

If you had Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin in a twitted feud with Axl Rose on your 2020 bingo card, you're a winner. Please come to the front and collect your Cinnabon voucher.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1258265406050951169

 

[SoldierMan]

You and discussion?! Fark me, pull the other finger mate.

I think you've got it backwards there mate, considering the load of rubbish you lot post on here day after day after day.

 

[RanzB]

? There isn't even anything to defend.

What? Murder?

 

[TysonRoux]

Trump contradicts nurse he's honoring over PPE availability

President Donald Trump contradicted a nurse he was honoring in the Oval Office on Wednesday, insisting there are no personal protective equipment shortages in the US despite her account that availability could be "sporadic."

www.cnn.com

 

[rietrot]

What? Murder?

Whot??