I thought the Chinese lied to us... that they were the cause of this whole thing.

That's one helluva facepalm... jb.

"Donald Kitchens" running that 4th and 9 draw against China....

@vambo said:

Chicken Little Syndrome

250 health care workers testing positive in NYC says otherwise. Italy, Spain, NY State, La and Georgia say otherwise. The Moron in Chief is about to experience algorithmic explosions that he can't verbally bludgeon out of existence. He has fucked this up on a daily basis right before your own eyes and ears, but all you can say is Chicken Little? Wake up. He is still nothing but a con artist and he can't con this out of existence. This "plan" of his is totally insane. You need to quit listening to him and Fox. They can't stop this steam roller like they do political rivals. It doesn't listen. It just keeps on multiplying relentlessly.

I mean really think about this. When he said there were 15 cases soon to go down to zero, did you really believe that outright moronic lie? Did you then wonder how it could go from that to now the leading nation in the world with cases with over 85,000. Deaths will follow that trend shortly. 

Stop listening to him. He isn't capable on comprehending this. Start listening to the numbers, 15 to 85,000+. That is not Chicken Little talking to you. And that is low compared to the actual because we can't test to get the underlying data. And since we can't, trumpy's latest plan is insane.

Has it disappeared, V?

Did "five soon go to zero?"

How the hell can someone of your apparent intelligence not see what has happened to every predictive statement Trump has made?

@westside-steve said:

Not even the Great and Powerful Joe Biden can enforce a nationwide state of martial law. But it's nice to dream isn't it?

Dream? Hell, no... nightmare. But also no need for martial law, Steve... not yet anyway. Step One is to take control.... not issue another set of "guidelines" but take honest-to-God control of the levers of government and set a national standard... and that step is weeks overdue.

Every state should have shelter in place in effect.

Madis Gras and Spring Break should not have happened.

The idiot Mayor of NO said she had no clear guidance from Washington... duh... so ask someone else1

The idiot Gov in Florida announced that his big health safeguard was to request all passengers arriving on flights from NYC to self-quarantine for 14 days. This after allowing Spring Break to go on and then send kids back to their home states this past week.

The even bigger idiot Gov of Mississippi issued an order that local Mayors had to vacate any stay at home orders they had put in effect because "Mississippi will never be China!" How does that make sense?

Non-essential interstate travel has to end.

And most of all... States should not be competing with other states and the Feds for masks, ventilators... Fed should take the lead. Actually use the DPA to direct production. Do all the buying. Distribute on an anticipated need basis and deliver them with out consideration of which Gov kissed the Big O's ass the longest.

This ad hoc, laissez faire, backward-looking, "I banned travel from China" approach has to end now. A real president would have followed thru on his first action weeks ago. This dithering, blithering TV-President is providing no leadership whatsoever. A fucking grocery store business is running circles around him.

We just passed a $2+Trillion bill to sustain us for up to three months. If Trump pisses away this opportunity to starve this virus now, we will be in deep shit come the Fall... and another $4-trillion bill will be needed.

@texasag1969 said:

Trump is a moron who is going to get a lot of people killed by prematurely changing the rules to suit his own goals. The virus doesn't care.

Chicken Little Syndrome

@vambo said:

Trump said the administration is “working to publish new guidelines for State and local policymakers to use in making decisions about maintaining, increasing, or relaxing social distancing and other mitigation measures they have put in place.”

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-new-coronavirus-guidelines-will-advise-potential-changes-social-distancing-rules

Trump is a moron who is going to get a lot of people killed by prematurely changing the rules to suit his own goals. The virus doesn't care.

@tour2ma said:

Yup... it's as if we need someone to step up and take action on a national scale.

See above...

Trump said the administration is “working to publish new guidelines for State and local policymakers to use in making decisions about maintaining, increasing, or relaxing social distancing and other mitigation measures they have put in place.”

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-new-coronavirus-guidelines-will-advise-potential-changes-social-distancing-rules

@tour2ma said:

Yup... it's as if we need someone to step up and take action on a national scale.

See above...

@tour2ma said:

Yup... it's as if we need someone to step up and take action on a national scale.

See above...

Not even the Great and Powerful Joe Biden can enforce a nationwide state of martial law. But it's nice to dream isn't it?

??

WSS

@diehardbrownsfan said:

The way people are disregarding the so called 'stay at home' rules and lack of enforcement, I don't doubt we will be 'number one' very soon, and by quite a lot.

Yup... it's as if we need someone to step up and take action on a national scale.

@westside-steve said:

No doubt bud. The entire thing is Trump's fault. Not only here foot worldwide. So, aside from bitching about it being called the Chinese flu, where does anyone suggest we go from this point? Martial law? Forced incarceration forced testing and immediate execution and cremation of anyone found with the virus? The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few?

See above...

@vambo said:

If he would stick with his initial planned statement and stick with his "speakers", then get the shit out of dodge without going into his "shitshow" Q&As it would be fine. But his shitshow is just horrible and almost always contradictory to the rest of what you hear initially from him and the team. Just STFU when you are ahead. Compare that to Cuomo's daily Q&A. Night and day.

@texasag1969 said:

Trump can't even follow the "playbook" when it is stated right in front of him by his team at the podium. Every night is a shitshow of inability to comprehend.

@westside-steve said:

Just think if it had worked we'd be laughing through this outbreak. Well everybody except the Democrats, they never laugh about anything. Anything positive anyway...

WSS

Just think of all the good things that could have happened had the Dems worked with him rather than against him.

@vambo said:

He's been trying to close off the border since 2016.

Just think if it had worked we'd be laughing through this outbreak. Well everybody except the Democrats, they never laugh about anything. Anything positive anyway...

??

WSS

@westside-steve said:

How about this one step, if he closed the borders tight as a drum three weeks earlier than we actually did. And they still aren't that tight. I think that would have helped? Think the opposition would have had a fit?

WSS

He's been trying to close off the border since 2016.

WSS

@westside-steve said:

Got to love the very last line. "said a second former official."

No doubt bud. The entire thing is Trump's fault. Not only here foot worldwide. So, aside from bitching about it being called the Chinese flu, where does anyone suggest we go from this point? Martial law? Forced incarceration forced testing and immediate execution and cremation of anyone found with the virus? The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few?

WSS

The fault is with the Chinese. When they knew they had a major problem with a flu spread instead of contacting the WHO and bringing in medical experts they arrested those who tried to warn about the flu. When the world finally found out about what was going on in Wuhan China they had a full blown crisis on their hands. Now we have a world wide flu pandemic. 

No doubt bud. The entire thing is Trump's fault. Not only here foot worldwide. So, aside from bitching about it being called the Chinese flu, where does anyone suggest we go from this point? Martial law? Forced incarceration forced testing and immediate execution and cremation of anyone found with the virus? The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few?

WSS