Here's an article from Florida about a brazen political theft from a former state SENATOR with a history of dubious dealings before he was even elected and continuing with the help of the state Republicans to do the dirty on current campaigns!
All over this country, republicans are repeatedly and blatantly breaking campaign laws to not only disenfranchise voters but to enrich themselves from donor monies. AND NOTHING is being done about it!
It's like third world politics in a supposedly industrialized country! With the help of the very same people who they are sticking it to. No offense, but aren't older people suppose to get wise from experience? Is the Florida sun bleaching the brains of its older people?
You misunderstand. I agree completely with you. But I don't know how politics can be conducted without deal making (to get wanted legislation passed ) and the process of making any deal puts the politician at risk of having to accept crap from the other side to get your meaningful stuff passed. It's not a world for idealists.
We need more than two parties and to engender coalition style govts. Every view gets represented and politicians have to have serious chops to get elected in such a climate.
The first solution is to reform the Supreme Court. No affiliations or opinions from any justice! Term limits. Middle of the road and only address the law. Frequent oversight of their financial status. Any deviations should entail serious jail time!
This objectivity then trickles down to all the other courts. This means that no illegal lobbyists will survive because they will be prosecuted! That means that all legislation will be law abiding and objective! There won't be any more fake news because of fear of prosecution.
His administration had a crucial part in expediting development of vaccines. How many lives and jobs were saved by that?
Dude I urge you to continue to live in the twilight zone!
Only in your mind and similar geniuses, you can spin your delusional crap.
He actively discouraged people from getting vaccinated or mask wearing or social distancing. A practice still encouraged in republicans as a badge of stupidity! But, in your warped mind he secretly masterminded the Covid-19 recovery process?. I have a few bridges I need to sell. Going really cheap. You interested?
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Why don't you show us how he did?
His administration had a crucial part in expediting development of vaccines. How many lives and jobs were saved by that?
But Trump personally lied and misled millions of Americans and THAT caused millions to ignore recommended covid mitigation. Trump's personal behavior and language in the capacity of IMPOTUS had enormous influence on the language and behavior of his devotees. We are still paying the very steep price of that negligent, incompetent and dishonest covid stance.
It's still too early to count lives saved by vaccines when covid case counts are again rising and Trump supporters are still thumbing their noses at mitigation AND vaccination. Lives would have been saved if Trump hadn't made dishonesty the foundation of the federal covid response. There's lots more. Do you want articles?
Over 560,000 dead. Remember when Trump put his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, in charge of the nation’s response to the pandemic. Kushner sidelined career officials who knew how to source medical supplies, for example, in favor of young volunteers from investment banks and consulting firms. The administration touted what its leaders called an innovative public-private partnership to respond to the country’s needs, but a report from Representative Katie Porter (D-CA) documented that as late as March 2, the administration was urging American businesses to take advantage of the booming market in personal protective equipment (PPE) to export masks, ventilators, and PPE to other countries. Porter’s office examined export records to show that in February 2020, “the value of U.S. mask exports to China was 1094% higher than the 2019 monthly average.” Meanwhile, American health care providers were wearing garbage bags, and people were sewing their own masks.
When the crisis became clearer in late March, business leaders turned to Kushner to provide national direction. He told them: “The federal government is not going to lead this response…. It’s up to the states to figure out what they want to do.” When one leader told him the states were bidding against each other for PPE and driving prices up, he responded: “Free markets will solve this…. This is not the role of government.”
Meanwhile, Trump’s trade adviser Peter Navarro was so worried about the administration’s failure to buy critical medical supplies that he undertook to find them himself, haphazardly committing more than $1 billion of federal money to invest in drugs and supplies. Among other things, he bypassed normal procurement chains and arranged for a loan for Eastman Kodak, a company known for its work in the process of photography, to produce drugs to fight the pandemic. (The company’s stock price jumped from about $2 to $60 a share upon the news of the deal, and the loan was put on hold. Navarro called Eastman Kodak executives “stupid.”)
As infections and deaths continued to mount, the administration repeatedly downplayed the emergency. Today we learned that by May, science adviser Paul Alexander and his boss, Michael Caputo, the assistant secretary for public affairs at Health and Human Services, were working to change the language officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention used to warn of the dangers of the disease. “I know the President wants us to enumerate the economic cost of not reopening. We need solid estimates to be able to say something like: 50,000 more cancer deaths! 40,000 more heart attacks! 25,000 more suicides!” Caputo wrote to Alexander on May 16.
By July, Alexander was calling for the administration to adopt a strategy of herd immunity, simply letting the disease wash over the country. "Infants, kids, teens, young people, young adults, middle aged with no conditions etc. have zero to little risk….so we use them to develop herd…we want them infected," he wrote to Caputo.
In keeping with the theory that the federal government had no role to play in combatting the pandemic, as the fall progressed and it appeared there might be a workable vaccine by 2021, the Trump administration made no plan for federal distribution of the vaccine. It figured it would simply deliver the vaccine to the states, which could make their own arrangements to get it into people. The states, though, were badly strapped for money either to advertise or to deliver the shots.
Infections surged terrifyingly after November until by late January, when Trump left the White House, new infections had reached about 250,000 a day and about 3000 people were dying of Covid-19 daily.
In contrast to Trump, President Biden has used the pandemic to show what the federal government can do right.
The night before he took office, he held a memorial for the Americans who had died in the pandemic. Once in the White House, he dedicated the federal government to ending the scourge. On January 21, he issued a national strategy for responding to the crisis that began by declaring “the federal government should be the source of truth for the public to get clear, accessible, and scientifically accurate information about COVID-19.”
He begged Americans to wear masks, used the federal Defense Production Act to get supplies, got money to states and cities, bought vaccines, and poured money into the infrastructure that would get the vaccines into arms. As of today, the U.S. is averaging 3 million shots a day, and a third of the population has received at least one dose of a vaccine. Twenty percent of us are fully vaccinated, including 60% of those 65 and older.
Cases of infection are dropping to about 66,000 cases a day-- well below the January surge but still high. The arrival of new, highly contagious variants continues to threaten worrisome spikes, but we are not, so far, facing the sort of crisis that Brazil is, where right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro has also done a Trump and murdered hundreds of thousands of his fellow Brazilians.
As usual when it's all over with, Americans will forget what Biden has done as they did with Obama and vote republicans again to expose us to the next disaster.
Those who forget their history is doomed to repeat it!
His administration had a crucial part in expediting development of vaccines. How many lives and jobs were saved by that?
BUT How many lives were lost because of his "non-mask" philosophy in words and actions, and adding doubt in scientific achievements with his "fake news"? The mishandling by JARED and others? And now we have all these vaccine reluctant people. Trump was secretive about when he got the vaccine:
Ah maybe I am being too negative..I will name something after him. We now use "Trump Wipes" in the bathroom...a shade of orange you may be familiar with and will find their home in our cities' sewer with the other rodent population. (after all, their scarcity came about when he failed to provide a congent plan for the pandemic, I do believe something should be named for him that is related to his incompetence)
BUT How many lives were lost because of his "non-mask" philosophy in words and actions, and adding doubt in scientific achievements with his "fake news"? The mishandling by JARED and others? And now we have all these vaccine reluctant people. Trump was secretive about when he got the vaccine:
Ah maybe I am being too negative..I will name something after him. We now use "Trump Wipes" in the bathroom...a shade of orange you may be familiar with and will find their home in our cities' sewer with the other rodent population. (after all, their scarcity came about when he failed to provide a congent plan for the pandemic, I do believe something should be named for him that is related to his incompetence)
Orange toilet paper would be therapeutic ...you could get rich on this. It boggles the imagination to come up with other products. I'm gonna save that for my sweet dreams tonight.
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Why don't you show us how he did?
His administration had a crucial part in expediting development of vaccines. How many lives and jobs were saved by that?