Sen. Murphy: 'The lack of tests isn't accidental. It's by design.'

[bigtree]

Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT 1h
If you want to know why we have no national testing program, you just need to listen to what Trump said yesterday:

“By doing all this testing,” Trump said, “we make ourselves look bad.”

The lack of tests isn’t accidental. It’s by design.

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Maddowblog
Trump: 'We make ourselves look bad' through coronavirus testing
Trump appears to have a problem with coronavirus testing, despite its critical significance, because the resulting data makes his administration "look bad"
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-we-make-ourselves-look-bad-through-coronavirus-testing-n1202191

[lagomorph777]

1. It's not just about "looking bad" (though he has that ass-backwards).

He enjoys killing people, and stealing all the tests is letting him have multiple death-gasms daily.

[Walleye]

4. Exactly

[iluvtennis]

21. Exactly + 100. nt

[Light63]

5. It's not that I don't have extreme hatred toward Trump

But I hate and despise much more toward the Republican Congress that has absolutely NO gut or backbone to go against Trump’s ridiculuous, childish, cruel, careless, self-center, and dangerous behaviors! How could they keep silent when they damn know that Trump does not want to do adequate testings because the infection number will tremendously increase, and that, Trump feels, will consequently hurt his re-election chance!

[bigtree]

10. that too

...he shares that trait with his base of voters.

[SWBTATTReg]

2. It makes his administration look bad? Way too late...his administration is already looking ...

bad already, massively, and already looking bad way before the CV hit.

Time to nail this desperate scumbag to the wall and throw him out of office w/ Joe Biden, a far better man.

[mr_lebowski]

3. He's been saying this ever since he wouldn't let the people off the cruise ship ...

It's all about how things make him look.

[Doreen]

6. I have been saying all along that he is showing the world

that he has the power to decide whether you live or die.

[Johnnie Mae]

37. Investigation Discovery

We have a serial killer leader. Many of us will die bc of this orange monster. What a horror story we are all living.
But there is power b #'s. We must stick together & defeat tRump & his parasees.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

7. And the first batch of tests that were "defective" was also by design, would be my guess.

[MagickMuffin]

8. I've been saying this since I observe everything

And my thoughts was This is ALL by DESIGN.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

35. +1. Like "I observe everything" !

[robbedvoter]

9. Also they didn't bother to procure them. That's the other side.

Incompetence is always part of it. Recall the repeated bragging from 🍊, press sec about how many tests they’ve got. There was even a Politico article praising Jared for it. As if Governors didn’t have to make secret international deals behind his back to get them. Also, recall they REFUSED the WHO tests offered back in February.

[bigtree]

11. that bragging was like every other utterance from them

...hoping to cover for their complete disinterest in the health, safety, and welfare of Americans.

[2naSalit]

12. That's what we've been saying. ...nt

[scarletwoman]

13. I don't understand how this wasn't bleedin' effing obvious all along!

He does NOT want the numbers!

[patphil]

14. Not as bad as not testing, Donnie.

[Caliman73]

31. To him it does.

Having 2 million people positive for coronavirus is worse than having 1 million. We likely have that many right now, but not knowing because we are not testing per capita like other countries, allows him to lie and deflect.

Even now he and his cronies are trying to figure out how to discredit the number his own CDC is putting out. They are trying to say that the numbers of dead are inflated.

To normal, moral people, who want to increase the number of people who survive, not testing is bad. To Trump, all that matters is winning the battle of perception one day at a time.

[SoonerPride]

15. Well how does 75,000 dead Americans make you look, you motherfucking monster?

I hate him so much it makes my blood boil.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

16. "The official position of the state..."

"... is that global nuclear catastrophe is not possible in the Soviet Union. They told the Germans that the highest detected level of radiation was 2,000 roentgen. They gave them the propaganda number. That robot was never going to work."

Also known as "Boris Shcherbina destroys a telephone."

[Hassler]

17. Given the new hack in charge of USPS, if you vote by mail

Deliver your ballot to a county dropbox, or if you don't have dropboxes, deliver it in person to the county building. POUTS will have his grifters in place to make ballots go missing.

[LiberalArkie]

18. All they ever had to do was get The Who tests like every other country in the world did. WHY not?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

20. Partly because initial WHO tests were flawed as were CDC test. NOT an excuse in May or April. nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

19. It's what Brazil is doing. Another RW autocrat "leading" that country. . . . nt

[Evolve Dammit]

22. "knowing, willfull and reckless" (definition of criminal conduct)

Lock these people up for FCS. Criminals and killing Americans with every passing hour and day.

[yuiyoshida]

23. Another log thrown on an already burning

forrest fire.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

24. Something so fishy from the very beginning. Blaming Obama, then

lying about how many were "gonna" be sent, then bragging about the # of tests vs # of tests needed per capita and to get out of this.

An honest person would have never done any of that.

All this, the lack of testing, PPE, vents -- his hoarding them like personal property doling out like a king.....makes the perfect campaign issue..."do you want this POS doling out future vaccines to whomever gives him campaign $ only?"

[Hermit-The-Prog]

30. It all points to deliberate murder.

[MerryBlooms]

32. The very first bs we discussed in our house was the line...

Nobody needs to wear a mask. I immediately told my sister, that's because there's something wrong, and either there isn't any or the ones they have are contaminated or something. We immediately started scrambling for face masks and wearing them at the doctor, pharmacy and grocery. Maybe for the wrong reasons, or not, but whatever. We had a few from my emergency room visit and wore them. Wasn't long after when we were all told to where a mask. You can't believe a word out of this administration and that includes, FEMA, HHS and CDC.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

33. I agree. But you did the right thing. If you noticed back

then, they NEVER said masks were not warranted, or good....just that you needed to "save for the health care workers." You didn't have to be a genius to see those from China - all of them wearing masks. I flew in February, cross country, and the only people with masks on plane were Asians. That said, in the "jubilant" months, when trump trying to act like all was well, went to Mardi Gras and never thought a single thought about being around hundreds of people.

Like you are pretty much screwed. Where did you find masks?

[Roc2020]

25. Trump thought by not pushing for tests and

holding the numbers down that would help him. Instead no tests means the country can't open responsibly, even if the country opens majority of people won't participate, which further wrecks the economy which Trump needs to help him get re-elected. Bigly smart

[Laura PourMeADrink]

34. So what do you think will happen?

[Lucky Luciano]

26. Why does he think this way of doing things looks good?!?!

[Ohioboy]

27. Hey Trump, you've already done a bad job!

Not testing isn't going to hide it. In fact, not testing just shows how hard you are trying to hide the piss poor bad job you and your administration of butt kissers has done.

[PatSeg]

28. Yes, yes!

I've been saying this for awhile. Though Trump is very incompetent, this lack of testing is definitely by design. More tests = more confirmed cases of COVID-19. Everything for Trump is about appearances. If you don't see it, it never happened. Meanwhile, more people die.

[CaptYossarian]

29. Not long ago, I said he should be charged with 40,000 counts (at the time) of

Manslaughter.

Since those "good old days", we've doubled the deaths and I don't just see his incessant incompetence as the cause anymore.

This is pre-meditated.

This is Murder-1.

Federal murder is capital murder. There are dozens, if not hundreds of accomplices--including those who didn't convict when they had the chance.

Put him in the chair and give his cult following life without parole in Point Barrow. Gitmo's weather is too pleasant for these spoiled desk jockeys. Since this crowd admires Russia so damn much, make their new digs exactly like Siberia. Now, that's justice.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

36. Totally agree. But would our nominee or any of our leaders actually

stand up and address the truth? and the magnitude of his crimes against humanity? It took years to bring impeachment up.

[Blue Owl]

38. Pea-brain's fucking "optics" are more important

Fuck him.