The Trump Pandemic

[Tero]

Let's bomb Iran! Wait! Let's not do anything!
CNN
Trump's unpredictability was not a national secret. US adversaries were keenly aware that his own advisers and the institutions and agencies they lead were often in the dark about the President's intentions and therefore sought to take advantage, said Susan Gordon, who served as the United States' second-highest-ranking intelligence official as principal deputy director of national intelligence.
"Our partners, adversaries, and competitors know we don't know the next play," Gordon said.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/06/politics ... index.html

[Tero]

Legislature discussing meat packing. But governor will veto it.
https://www.1011now.com/2020/08/07/unic ... ng-plants/

[JimC]

The US is really into packing heat packing meat...

[Svartalf]

actually, both, since, as we all know, Chicago used to be, at the same time, the corned beef and violent crime capital of the US.

[JimC]

They can prise those lumps of animal flesh from my cold dead hands!

[Tero]

Are you poor? You get a ventilator.
CNN
Foster, a member of the House coronavirus subcommittee, imagines a potential nightmare scenario where "poor people are dying in overcrowded hospitals because they can't get the adequate doses of the curative antibody therapeutics, while rich people are getting preventative doses by signing up for the week stay at the presidential suite at Mar-a-Lago," he said. "There's really very little public trust of Jared Kushner and Donald Trump and the White House to make a fair allocation of emergency medical treatments."
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/07/politics ... index.html

[Tero]

Thousands of motorcyclists gather yearly near the Black Hills. We saw a group at Kansas City.

[Tero]

Negative Positive Man meets Trump:
The Republican governor had to take a Covid-19 test Thursday morning in Cleveland as part of White House protocol for anyone scheduled to come in contact with the president. DeWine was administered a rapid point-of-care antigen test at a mobile testing site facilitated by the Republican National Committee, according to DeWine spokesperson Dan Tierney.
DeWine then headed to meet Trump at the airport to greet him.

[Tero]

Harvest time!
https://www.kios.org/post/without-feder ... vest-crops

[Tero]

Elsewhere:
-I would take a Trump vaccine, if it makes Trump go away.
-you're supposed to take it before you contract Trump.

[Tero]

Trump everywhere!

[rainbow]

TRUMP: "No, I wouldn't have done that. I think it's been amazing what we've been able to do. If we didn't close up our country, we would have had 1.5 or 2 million people already dead. We've called it right, now we don't have to close it. We understand the disease. Nobody understood it because nobody's ever seen anything like this. The closest thing is in 1917, they say, right? The great pandemic. Certainly was a terrible thing where they lost anywhere from 50 to 100 million people. Probably ended the Second World War, all the soldiers were sick."

https://www.axios.com/trump-obama-resig ... 37331.html

[pErvinalia]

Is that for real?

[Brian Peacock]

Yep. It's his reply to a reporter who asked: "If 160,000 people had died on President Obama’s watch do you think you would have called for his resignation?"

[JimC]

...and the US elected this ignorant buffoon...