fishtm2001
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It's time for you to consider some remedial English courses.
President Trump
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DriveInDriveOut
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So you got your panties in a bunch for nothing. Hilarious.
UPSER1987
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In response to all that was learned from the H1N1, SARS and Ebola outbreaks, President Obama's White House National Security Council left the Trump administration a detailed dossier on how to respond to an impending pandemic. The document was entitled — conspicuously enough — the “Playbook for Early Response to High-Consequence Emerging Infectious Disease Threats and Biological Incidents.”
The playbook contained step-by-step advice on questions to ask, when to ask them, decisions to make, when to make them, an assignment of critical tasks to various federal agencies, and how the agencies should coordinate the implementation of those tasks in the face of an impending pandemic. It even included sample documents that officials could use for inter-agency meetings. And lest there be any doubt, the dossier explicitly identified novel coronaviruses as one of the pathogens that could require a major coordinated response.
Additionally, outgoing senior Obama officials led an in-person pandemic response exercise for senior incoming Trump officials in January 2017 -- as required by a new law on improving presidential transitions that Obama signed in 2016.
It is now obvious that the Trump Administration followed none of the guidance provided by the outgoing administration. Even though Trump had been warned of the seriousness of COVID as early as January, he publicly downplayed the threat (and even the existence) of the virus throughout January and February, pretending it would just go away while playing golf and holding campaign rallies. When it was obvious the virus was rapidly overtaking us and wishing it away wasn’t a viable option, he and his HHS administrators still wasted precious time gearing up to act, and completely fumbled the ball getting critical PPE and testing supplies distributed to areas of the country with the greatest need — pitting desperate states against the federal government and, indeed, even against each other.
Now that virus is not receding, but instead is continuing to spread at alarming rates — indeed, it is literally exploding in populous states such as Florida, Texas and California — Trump again simply pretends it doesn’t exist anymore. That is because acknowledging the current rates of infection would be admitting his abject failure to responsibly deal with the crisis.
But the ultimate outrage is that, at the very moment when: (1) the virus is again exploding; (2) millions of Americans have or will be infected; and (3) hospitals are again on the verge of being overwhelmed, Trump files a brief in the United States Supreme Court asking that the Affordable Care Act be declared unconstitutional. If he is successful, millions of Americans will lose their health care insurance at the precise moment they will need it most. What will millions of Americans who get infected over the next few months do if they need medical care? By all accounts, Trump could not care less.
The sad truth is that Trump’s entire response to the pandemic has been driven not by science, empathy, or concern for the health of our nation, but instead by rank political calculation. He has placed his own political ambitions over the health and safety of the American public. He has failed the most basic test of leadership in the face of the most serious public health crisis this generation has ever faced. And his failures have come at a cost of a hundred thousand lives, and counting. Enough is enough.
The playbook contained step-by-step advice on questions to ask, when to ask them, decisions to make, when to make them, an assignment of critical tasks to various federal agencies, and how the agencies should coordinate the implementation of those tasks in the face of an impending pandemic. It even included sample documents that officials could use for inter-agency meetings. And lest there be any doubt, the dossier explicitly identified novel coronaviruses as one of the pathogens that could require a major coordinated response.
Additionally, outgoing senior Obama officials led an in-person pandemic response exercise for senior incoming Trump officials in January 2017 -- as required by a new law on improving presidential transitions that Obama signed in 2016.
It is now obvious that the Trump Administration followed none of the guidance provided by the outgoing administration. Even though Trump had been warned of the seriousness of COVID as early as January, he publicly downplayed the threat (and even the existence) of the virus throughout January and February, pretending it would just go away while playing golf and holding campaign rallies. When it was obvious the virus was rapidly overtaking us and wishing it away wasn’t a viable option, he and his HHS administrators still wasted precious time gearing up to act, and completely fumbled the ball getting critical PPE and testing supplies distributed to areas of the country with the greatest need — pitting desperate states against the federal government and, indeed, even against each other.
Now that virus is not receding, but instead is continuing to spread at alarming rates — indeed, it is literally exploding in populous states such as Florida, Texas and California — Trump again simply pretends it doesn’t exist anymore. That is because acknowledging the current rates of infection would be admitting his abject failure to responsibly deal with the crisis.
But the ultimate outrage is that, at the very moment when: (1) the virus is again exploding; (2) millions of Americans have or will be infected; and (3) hospitals are again on the verge of being overwhelmed, Trump files a brief in the United States Supreme Court asking that the Affordable Care Act be declared unconstitutional. If he is successful, millions of Americans will lose their health care insurance at the precise moment they will need it most. What will millions of Americans who get infected over the next few months do if they need medical care? By all accounts, Trump could not care less.
The sad truth is that Trump’s entire response to the pandemic has been driven not by science, empathy, or concern for the health of our nation, but instead by rank political calculation. He has placed his own political ambitions over the health and safety of the American public. He has failed the most basic test of leadership in the face of the most serious public health crisis this generation has ever faced. And his failures have come at a cost of a hundred thousand lives, and counting. Enough is enough.
DriveInDriveOut
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A judge ruled it unconstitutional.
Law and order my good friend.
It will be fine
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He says he was never briefed. Whoever made his PDB that day must not have made a nice cartoon that showed Putin with a bag of money paying terrorists to kill American troops. It was just written in words that Trump was too lazy to read.Just so I have the white supremacy straight,
a black football player respectfully kneeling is TREASON, but a white President allowing aing BOUNTY on US soldiers is PATRIOTIC?
newfie
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that was not a reversal , they have been supporting many testing sites all along. they do not however support all testing sites.
this is one of those little gitchy goo's liberals like to hang their hats on to pretend they got a win.
newfie
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There is still hope trump will provide you with an education and free you from such a title
Benben
Working on a new degree, Masters in BS Detecting!
newfie
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i've heard that happens when the house does not even show up for work much less legislate anything other then fantasies
newfie
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Just so I have the white supremacy straight,
a black football player respectfully kneeling is TREASON, but a white President allowing a
fake news , even NBC mother of MSNBC was unable to confirm the story was true.
its clearly another attempt by the liberal media to rekindle the bull
russia collusion narrative. expect a retraction on page 13 of the NYT tommorrow
Up to each state, not to the Federal government, to do what they could to stop the virus. And Democrat leaders are on record during the same time frame downplaying the seriousness of the virus. The virus has shown that all it needs is a toehold and it starts increasing exponentially. No one, president, Congress, Governors and mayors could have stopped it. Did you know that while China was keeping quiet about it they were gathering up PPE from around the world? And when France went to them asking to buy some of that PPE the Chinese said they would sell it to them as long as the French accepted the Chinese telecom giant Huawei as their primary telecommunications provider. Nice people and it was their government, not ours, that was the irresponsible party behind the virus spreading around the world.
UPSER1987
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It’s funny that the president of the United States never seems to know anything...or he was joking...or no he wasn’t joking
It will be fine
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You’ve seen the results of every other western country, right?
Have you looked at the rate per 100,000 of every other country? Have you realized that our Constitution has us operating differently than their laws? Have you taken time from contemplating your navel to realize there's no cookie cutter, one size fits all way to do things in this country?
It will be fine
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He should take some, but it's not all his fault by a long shot.
Will never happen. Dude could use some lessons in leadership from Jocko Willink.
DriveInDriveOut
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The question Trump was asked was 'do you take responsibility for the lag in test kits'.
Why should he take responsibility for that? It's literally not his fault in any way. The US created and started making test kits in record time.
The CDC screwed up making the tests. The role of making the kits was centralized to the CDC by Bush, the requirement to toss them out when only one of the reagents was bad was put into place by Hussein Obama.
Only a deranged leftist would blame that on Trump.
