WORTH REPEATING INDEED. IN 2018, TRUMP FIRED THE ENTIRE US PANDEMIC RESPONSE TEAM. Today, Every..

[Cha]

Link to tweet

Retweeted! Stay Safe Everyone!

[Perseus]

1. Was this done by design?

I posted something here about it...yes, its conspiracy theory, but I cannot doubt anything dubious or evil form this administration.

[SKKY]

3. From my research, it was spearheaded by John Bolton...

...but with Trump’s approval.

[Cha]

8. Every single American is Paying the Price!

Mahalo, SKKY.. take Good Care.. I know I'm trying.

[SKKY]

61. Oh yea, for sure. And it's not going to get better.

Likewise! Be safe!

[Cha]

68. ..

[DENVERPOPS]

36. they have video

of Trump saying: "I'm a business man, I don't just have hundreds of people standing around in case something might happen."

[Scarsdale]

55. He is a FAILED businessman.

Everything he touches dies. He likes to THINK he is successful, but he is a joke. Bloated, repulsive joke.

[philly_bob]

58. PLEASE: Can anybody provide a link to video of Trump saying this?

I've done a half-hour search and can't find it.

To use for anti-Trump video piece.

[DENVERPOPS]

60. I just watched it yesterday

I will try and find it. It's perfect.....

[Pathwalker]

78. Here:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213092535

I hope this works.

[philly_bob]

88. Bingo, Pathwalker. Thanks!

I was able to download the video and create a video:

[link:http://www.philly-bob.net/images/Vtrump.mp4|]

Hope you can see it. Technically the only problem was downloading video from Twitter.

[Cha]

94. Mahalo for the link, Pathwalker!

[Cha]

96. A Stupid Ass "business man" who's his own Worst Enemy... Fixed

It!

Link to tweet

[malaise]

5. Check this thread

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213098193

[Cha]

9. Who knows.. it could have been that trump was/is Jealous

of everything President Obama did.. and stupidly acts accordingly.

This stupid is hitting every American and the world.

[Dem2theMax]

21. Ding ding ding!

We have a winner. I swear that's what he's done. Anything Obama did, Trump Must Destroy.
Along with the help of the evil GOP, of course.

[Cha]

25. And, trump goes down on his own petard..

just like he did when he tried to get manufactured dirt on Joe Biden from Ukraine.. but tragically he's taking many innocent people down with him this time

Mahalo Dem2theMax!

[Dem2theMax]

39. That is the absolute heartbreaker in all of this.

His refusal to do his job, his incapacity to care about anyone but himself, is causing people to die. As far as I'm concerned, it's murder. He could have prevented much of this from happening. He could have the United States working with the whole world. Instead he has us being the bad guys.

This is a time when we all have to come together in a global community. Who in the world would want to work with us, knowing he's the 'leader?'

To you Cha

To those now gone,

[tblue37]

105. He would go up on it (hoisted *up*)--a petard is a small bomb. nt

[DSandra]

66. All of this because Trump couldn't take a roast by President Obama?

Trump makes Dubya look like a genius.

[erronis]

72. See? It's Obama's fault. If he hadn't ridiculed that failed businessman, failed person...

I do agree that the dumpster is inordinately obsessed with obliterating anything Obama (OOO) that's the shit-faced orange-utang is willing to kill everyone in the country.

Amazing!

[Cha]

95. Yes.. jealous asshole that trump is.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

19. Yes, absolutely.

They didn't think such an office was necessary. Having the CDC, NIH, NIAID, in place, trumpie's little mini-mes thought the office was ---- 1) redundant, 2) they did not believe that such an office (with their mandate) would be necessary during his tenure, 3) as with NOAA, during the hurricane that DIDN'T hit Alabama, they learned that other agencies within the administration had the authority to release public statements and hold press conferences that did NOT line up with their agenda and they didn't want THAT to happen again, 4) cutting this agency was in keeping with his pledge to downsize government and 5) President Obama had created this office after the H1N1 outbreak and the Ebola scare hit us and as we all know -- If President Obama created/signed/ordered something, then trumpie must destroy it.

That is an answer in a nutshell. Hope it helps.

[pangaia]

33. Of course it was! MY god, everything he does, whether told to do it by his own 'deep state'

wrecking crew or putin, is designed to destroy the USA...





Sorry for the face palm... He's been doing this since day one.. everywhere. every agency

[Gore1FL]

49. I can think of two issues with the premise

1> It gives credit of competence to the admin
2> There doesn't seem to be a benefit for the success of such a scheme.

Using the Occam's razor approach, I'm leaning towards incompetence and their desire to do things on the cheap when they don't think it will affect them.

[Hekate]

70. Yes, it was by design. Remember Bannon saying he wanted to "deconstruct the administrative state"?

Remember Grover Norquist saying he wanted to reduce the federal government to the size where it could be drowned in a bathtub, then pull the plug? Remember John Bolton saying the UN was so useless you could take a wrecking ball to the top 10 stories of the building and it would be all to the good?

These evil mf-ers did it all in plain sight, and told us their intent, over a span of at least 40 years. The architects of this catastrophe hate the US government, and public education, and everything else that might be considered the commons, social welfare (ie the social good ) , and the Social Contract.

When Democratic politicians and media people bleat about "the norms," the Social Contract is exactly what they're talking about.

And now Newt Gingrich, one of the most enthusiastic proponents of this destruction, is stuck in Rome (where Callista, wife #3, is ambassador to the Vatican) calling for the full might of the US federal government to be marshalled as it was in WW II for this terrifying battle. Well tough shit, Newt, you had your part in this and it is too late. Try praying.

[erronis]

75. Thank you for that succinct recap. We all need to be reminded of the history of this disaster.

Remembering Norquist and Gingrich way back then and wondering at that time if there wasn't an alternate reason, and alternate payment options.

The Mercers and Murdochs and Kochs and the USSR were already in cahoots to destroy this US experiment in democracy.

[bdamomma]

84. Hekate

your comment is so true. This POS is so evil. He takes no responsibility for anything.

[Cha]

91. Hope newt is enjoying the fruits of his

labor.

Mahalo, Hekate.. Take Good Care and Stay Safe

[empedocles]

2. Worth repeating, . . again . . . and again . . .

[Cha]

10. Absolutely Vital! TY empedocles!

[malaise]

4. Adding this

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213098193

[Kingofalldems]

6. Kick this one.

[Cha]

12. Mahalo, King.. it needs it!

[2naSalit]

7. So your organization should put that up on a few

well placed billboards. And maybe a teevee ad or two.

[Cha]

15. Absolutely, 2naSalit! Put it Everywhere! trump

eliminated the positions.. and Everyone is paying for it!

Thank you!

[2naSalit]

16. I think it should be at the front of everyone's mind until

we have another president in January. I think all billboards should be devoted to ads exposing the crimes of this criminal enterprise. All of his enablers and co-conspirators should be exposed on billboards too so that they are voted out in landslides.

[Cha]

18. Excellent idea.. I hope Bloomberg uses his

money for This! as well as other vital issues.. but this has top priority!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. Donny Six Words denies it. Says his administration did it, he didn't do it. . . . nt

[Cha]

22. The dead ass Liar denies everything.. The Truth

will Persevere.

Gracias, La Paz:candlle:

[flibbitygiblets]

30. Tried to throw some guy named "Tony" under the bus about it.

My guess is he meant Anthony Fauci, you know, the medical expert who definitely did NOT do that.

Also, Trump admitted doing it months ago. It's on tape. Because of course it is.

[Cha]

107. Fucking Lying Idiot in charge of a Deadly Global Pandemic..

Thank you, flibbitygiblets.. StaySafe!

[liberalmuse]

13. I hope everyone watches Sen Sherrod Brown's speech on this.

It really hammers it home how horrible Trump's decision was. Jesus. And now Newt Gringrich is stuck in Italy and wants our government to go back to what it was before he and the GOP systematically dismantled it in order to save his ass, because a thing only matters to a Repubican if it directly affects them, and screw everyone else. Yes, Newt, it was FDR's and Truman's government responsible for our resolve during WWII, but thanks to you, the GOP and their puppet Trump, that America is dead, so good luck with that. Every day gets crazier.

[Cha]

29. Yes! I'd like to hear what Sen Serrod Brown has to say

about this, too!

Wow.. I did not know that gringrich was stuck in Italy.. there's some irony there.

My sister and her family had their flight to Italy in August.


trump and the gop are killing Americans.

Take Good Care, Liberalmuse

[liberalmuse]

41. You too!

I knew Trump would be a disaster, but it's something else to have to actually witness reality being warped and pulled into further and further depths of craziness every day.

You take care as well, Cha!

[flibbitygiblets]

31. Holy shit, interesting about Newt G stuck in Italy, singing a different tune now that affects him

link from newsweek here: https://www.newsweek.com/newt-gingrich-i-am-italy-amid-coronavirus-crisis-america-must-act-now-act-big-opinion-1492270

[Cha]

37. No kidding.. TY for that link, flibbitygiblets.

[liberalmuse]

42. It's like watching karma unfold.

The very government he loathed and helped cripple is a tattered rope he's trying to grab onto to pull himself to safety. Now maybe he knows what it feels like to be one of the human beings he pulled the rug right out under from by cutting services paid with our tax dollars to fund the rich. Maybe one of his donors will fly him out of Italy and let him stay in their bunkers with them. Good luck with that, Newt.

[NCjack]

50. Newt v. Corona Virus. Doing root cause analysis will reveal Newt

to be the major nodule (growing out of Reagan) for the evil happening now. I'm on the side of CV in this case.

[ProfessorGAC]

56. Not Totally

He's still gasbagging about economic growth which he has proven to know nothing about. And, there's a veiled shot at the package the House has passed.
He's still an idiot.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

14. People will die because of the Grotesque Orange Pustule.

[Cha]

32. And, not the first time.. but this is

potentially on a pandemic level.

You and yours stay safe, Hermit.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

38. The entire GOP is complicit in exacerbating this crisis.

We're used to 'holing up' for a week at a time; we just have to stretch it now.

You stay safe, too, Cha!

[Cha]

45. Yes they are.. not just trump.. they all need to be

held seriouly accountable for enabling the sadistic monster.. Especially Moscow mitch.

Mahalo, Hermit.. glad you're dealing.. this is all comforting just to talk to others about it.. I feel safe when I'm at home like now. But, I have to go out to get food on the bus.. so just am really careful

[bdamomma]

79. Moscow Mitch

you wonder if he has contracted it, hopefully he has. Bastards all of them.

[Cha]

80. Yeah, didn't he send the Senate home?

Thank you, bdamomma

[bdamomma]

81. you take care

Cha.

[Cha]

83. You and Yours, too!

[Demovictory9]

17. k&r

[Cha]

48. TY, Demo!

[turbinetree]

20. John Bolton...............................I wonder if he put this in his book...............

after he witness treason and did nothing, maybe it's in the foot note section........................and just for giggles where did that money go, in the back pocket of the sleaze ball(s)................................

[Cha]

64. Yeah, I wonder if Bolton is proud that will be

his legacy.

[turbinetree]

65. He will wait until he gets a subpoena....................then he will stonewall

[spanone]

23. THIS SHOULD BE TATTOOED ON TRUMP'S FOREHEAD

It set this entire fiasco up.

[Cha]

92. Yes, spanone.. trump needs to be held

ultimately accountable for these Firings and killing of the agency.. no matter how much he tries to slither out of it.

Take Good Care and Stay Safe!

[LaMouffette]

24. "What would Donald do?"

Sue, of course!!!

That is Trump's reflexive action for any real or imagined injury to himself, his ego, the criminal enterprise called Trump, Inc.

I think that we, the American people, should sue his ass in state court for negligent homicide. If causing the deaths of hundreds, potentially thousands of Americans by, first of all, firing the pandemic response team in 2018, and then, once we actually had a pandemic on our hands, by delaying widespread testing, deliberately suppressing the testing to keep the numbers of infections low, and then, with the help of Faux News, downplaying the severity of the corona virus . . . if all this is not tort worthy, I don't know what is.

Of course, a lawsuit would drag on for years and would be dismissed by the Trump loyalists in the Supreme Court anyway. Another impeachment trial would take too long. And there is no way Mike Pence would 25th Amendment him.

I read somewhere online today that, thankfully, Trump does not have the power to delay the 2020 election. That power rests solely in Congress.

Which makes me wonder: Is there ANY way that Congress could move the election UP so that we could speed up Trump's removal from office???

[Blue Owl]

26. Don Corona is a piece of shit

n/t

[Newest Reality]

76. That has...

That has a nice, mobster ring to it.

Is Don Corona that crazy, obese guy who talks like a mobster and does cameos in a bring red baseball cap, wearing Depends and constantly blathering all kinds of things you would hear in a crack house or psychiatric ward? I bet that's him.

That guy thinks he's a President. Loony, for sure.

[Blue Owl]

87. Yes!

That is indeed the sort of Don Corona I envision in my mind...

[Laura PourMeADrink]

27. But he said no worries..I can pick up doctors anywhere anytime.

That was after he said he knew zero about disbanding team.

[mcar]

28. Cannot be said enough

[Cha]

46. No it can't, mcar!

:hug : candle:

[Grokenstein]

34. Trump's final defense:

"I was just following orders."

[Cha]

89. right.. admitting he's not the boss.

[LakeArenal]

35. "his abject incompetence."

That is all.

PuraVida

[Cha]

71. Hola and Aloha, Lake Arenal

Gracias

[lpbk2713]

40. Trump is a public menace. He must be stopped NOW. In any way possible.

Many will die and Trump will go on.

I can't be any more specific or this post will be deleted.

[bdamomma]

77. instead of starting a

war he picked his fight on Americans, sounds like a fucking criminal to me, putting Americans at risk. This idiot boy needs to go.

[SunSeeker]

44. K & R & Retweeted!

[Cha]

74. Mahalo, SunSeeker!

[struggle4progress]

47. Putin says: You tell Americans FU or we release your P tape!

[Champp]

51. Was the Republican fool acting evil, or acting stupid?

[robbob]

53. Can't it be both?

😁

[Champp]

63. 'spose so. Republicans are, demonstrably, complex fail freaks

too bad they have infested the USA.

The Republicans have truly crapped on America, and all that is good, noble, honest, and decent in our nation.

[Grins]

52. Bannon's "deconstruction of the administrative state"

“It’s working!”

And we are now seeing the Reich-wing’s “brilliant” governing philosophy in our everyday lives. We are going to be hit. Hard.

Cue Mr. Mencken....

[blue-wave]

54. Yes, we need to scream this from the highest mountain tops, nonstop!!

Thanks for posting Cha!! Mahalo!!

[Cha]

86. I thought you were going to say "the highest rooftops"..

but your "mountain tops" is Much Better!

Mahalo, blue-wave..Stay Safe!

[warmfeet]

57. Barack Obama and his administration could be

characterized as highly competent. This is in stark contrast to the current maladministration. Orange kills, and we need to disinfect our country from his influence.

[Cha]

90. Yes We Do.. Before he kills more of us.on

putin's orders. I really believe he's behind a lot of this.

[EndlessWire]

59. Firing the team

did not create this pandemic. I despise Trump and the entire GOP. They all have to go. But, this pandemic arose from nature (to not believe this is to believe that a certain unnamed country created it in a lab and it escaped.)

What the team would have provided is THE PLAN. Surely they had some kind of plan. There was a push by the government in the past (Obama) to train as many people as possible to react on a broad scale to any community disaster. We are not hearing about that anymore. It's like the government is cut off on Trump Island.

He wants to manage this disaster according to what is best for him politically, but he is overwhelmed by it. The team is irrelevant. They would have been irrelevant, just as the entire USPHS and the Surgeon General is irrelevant, even if they were not fired. He wants his own loyal minions in there to twist things in his favor. That's all he cares about, but it sure fell apart fast.

So, I think it is important to distinguish the fact that although it is optically bad for Trump, he would not have followed whatever emergency plan they might have provided had they been in place. He doesn't listen to anyone but his own gut instinct.

I love the fact that he is on tape about firing them. I love the fact that he said he doesn't accept any responsibility for any of it. That's the way he thinks, and it's on full display.

Maybe his base will think twice before expecting Jared to solve the problem, when Jared has only been brought in to manage Trump's optics for the election.

[bucolic_frolic]

62. The virus doesn't discriminate as has been posted

but MAGAzis have been told, and surely many believe, it is a hoax, it's just the flu, and feel immune.

Our job is to take it seriously and protect everyone we can however we can convince them. But you can't argue with rock heads.

[Hekate]

67. Not "incompetence" -- maliciously DELIBERATE

[bdamomma]

69. I hate saying

this but everything tRump' touches dies


take care everyone

love you guys.

[Zambero]

73. As Steve Bannon once put it...

"A primary goal of this administration is to dismantle the administrative state".

[BlueJac]

82. K&R

[William769]

85. Kick & highly recommended.

[Cha]

93. Mahalo, William.. Still Worth Repeating!

[BidenBacker]

97. Holy shit, Cha

Just watched that Heilemann video you recently posted in mid-thread...man, is that ever devastating for dumbshit Donnie. That's a Biden campaign ad all by itself later this summer and fall. I guess all those open dates on his calendar were when the "coronavirus is a Democratic hoax" guy was going to rallies or went golfing.

I saved the video address but I'm not a Twitter user so don't know how it works. Is that link I just saved a permanent one where I can call up that vid anytime I want or send it to others?

[Cha]

99. Here it is.. just right click on the stamp date at the bottom.. and left click on

"copy link" and you can paste it most anywhere. That's the way mine works, anyway. Let me know if you have any problems c/p.. I remember back when I was learning.

Link to tweet

[BidenBacker]

100. Danke, Cha

I'll try that if what I did doesn't work. If you right click on the video it says "Save Video Address". When I did that I got this...

//twitter.com/jheil/status/1240056993290821640

I took out the https: part at the beginning so DU doesn't show it as a tweet.

What I wanna know is this a permanent link? IOW, if I put that in days or weeks from now will that video show up...or is Twitter always moving all this shit around? Thanks for the help.

[Cha]

101. It stays the same unless it's deleted and Bette

Midler isn't going to delete that tweet.

You should be able to copy that in your post from the directions I gave you and you would have the tweet and the vid..

Link to tweet

You're Welcome.. thank you for kicking the thread, BB.

[BidenBacker]

104. That video deserves to be kicked

Almost as much as who it's about.

[Cha]

106. Yes! Thank you!

[Brainfodder]

98. K&R because I am furious!

Scumbags to the end it seems for these fucking super assholes?

[Champp]

102. Republicans weakened America

and the PROFITEERED at America's expense.

[Tanuki]

103. Sing it loud, every single day. Don't let Mr. "I don't take any responsibility"

scapegoat anyone and everyone but himself. He, and he alone, is responsible for our nation's lack of preparedness for this catastrophe.