Coronavirus:

[Chris Webster]

Need to get rid of Birx; obvious political sycophant.

I have to disagree with you about her.

Dr. Birx just talks very diplomatically, like an Ambassador -- which she is! (Her normal job is being the Global AIDS Coordinator, an Ambassador-at-Large position in the State Department.)

[HONDO74]

Apparently 60% of Americans think the President has done a good job in this epidemic. What are these people smoking?

Or it's misplaced loyalty. Remember the 1972 election campaign slogan?

"Don't change dicks in the middle of a screw. Vote for Nixon in '72"

Don't remember that back then but I didn't vote for Nixon. Didn't vote for the democrat either. Wrote somebody's name in. Might have been Pat Paulson from laughin.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Need to get rid of Birx; obvious political sycophant.

I have to disagree with you about her.

Dr. Birx just talks very diplomatically, like an Ambassador -- which she is! (Her normal job is being the Global AIDS Coordinator, an Ambassador-at-Large position in the State Department.)

Go ahead. I know what her job is........and if she's in State then she's really a politician. I've just been waiting for her to say anything of real substance since her 1st appearance.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Don of the Dead...[is]...just a cheap knock-off of Wink Martindale.

You're insulting the Winkster. Wink has better hair and can speak in complete coherent sentences.

No offense intended, to game show hosts. Do you think we could bundle Don-Boy up with some other orange plastic waste, and sell him to the Bangladeshis?

We'd have to pay them too much.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Apparently 60% of Americans think the President has done a good job in this epidemic. What are these people smoking?

Or it's misplaced loyalty.

That and the ignorance that permeates the herd of sheeple that enjoy being lied to daily.

[HONDO74]

Apparently 60% of Americans think the President has done a good job in this epidemic. What are these people smoking?

Or it's misplaced loyalty.

That and the ignorance that permeates the herd of sheeple that enjoy being lied to daily.

I sure hope all you liberal democrats have a big life insurance policy for you family. I not sure any of you will survive another 4 years with Trump as president.

[Neil]

I've lived through Nixon, Reagan, George W. Bush. I can live through Donald Trump. My emotions are more sadness than anger. I don't spend a lot of time worrying about things outside my control, for obvious reasons.

It's the poor and disenfranchised members of society that suffer under these champions of corporate welfare, enemies of the working man, not those of us who are more fortunate in our circumstances by our choice of parents , or blind luck in life.

In any case, I'm too old to worry about life insurance.

[HONDO74]

I've lived through Nixon, Reagan, George W. Bush. I can live through Donald Trump. My emotions are more sadness than anger. I don't spend a lot of time worrying about things outside my control, for obvious reasons.

You forgot Lyndon Johnson who escalated the war in Vietnam and got 50 thousand young men slaughtered. And then there was the peanut farmer who instituted the grain embargo and hid in the white house for a year while the hostages suffered because he had no clue what to do.

Then there was Bill Clinton who who signed NAFTA and opened the door for china so all those corporate people could move production south of the border and to Asia. And you don't think the democrats are in the pocket of corporate America.

Who did Wall Street support in 2016. It wasn't Trump.....

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Who did Wall Street support in 2016. It wasn't Trump.....

They already owned him.

[Neil]

I wasn't eligible to vote when Lyndon Johnson was elected. Kennedy and he made some dumb decisions (Bay of Pigs for one). Jimmy Carter wasn't nearly as bad as Reagan, Nixon, Bush Jr. when it comes to getting Americans killed and killing innocent civilians. Clinton didn't involve us in any quixotic foreign wars. The Balkans action was actually a rescue operation. Obama was fortunate in reigning in a time of few crises.

Trump is someone who might well get a lot of Americans and foreign civilians killed if things don't go his way. He's already contributed to many more deaths than need be by his nincompoop handling of the coronavirus disaster. But obviously he isn't fully responsible for the suffering, just more suffering than was necessary. That said, so did the leaders of many Western democracies who didn't want to face the truth. My main issues with Trump are his total lack of conscience, wisdom and his empowering the violent racist and fascist elements in our society. Oh, and his lack of understanding and compassion for the poor. Great Christian is he. Not.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

My main issues with Trump are his total lack of conscience, wisdom and his empowering the violent racist and fascist elements in our society. Oh, and his lack of understanding and compassion for the poor. Great Christian is he. Not.

Fold in a marginal acquaintance with truth and a near pathological propensity for lying and just making stuff up and I can work with that....Yup!

[HONDO74]

New York City stockpiled ventilators for a pandemic, only to later auction them off: report
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/new-yo ... off-report

In 2006, then-New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration began purchasing ventilators to allow the city to be prepared for a pandemic like the current coronavirus crisis -- only for the city to later auction them off, according to a report.

ProPublica reported Monday that the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene issued a report in 2006 on the city's preparedness for pandemic influenza -- similar to the 1918 Spanish Flu or the 2019 novel coronavirus -- that projected the city would need thousands of extra ventilators in order to properly treat all of its residents who got sick. The plan was then put into action, with the city initially buying 500 ventilators before it ran out of money to buy more and to maintain the ones it had already stockpiled, according to ProPublica.

Those ventilators were then auctioned off some time before 2016 because the city could not afford to maintain them in working order, partially because the model of ventilator the city had purchased was no longer in production after 2009, the report said.

[up148]

[quoteand then the moronic repubs in Wisconsin are going to force an in person election.....next time anyone wants to accuse Dems of playing politics, just think of Wisconsin and stop right there.][/quote]

Won't happen...it will change. Difference is the Dems get away with most of the BS they pull. Reps seem to be very afraid of mail in voting.....wonder why that is?

[up148]

Need to get rid of Birx; obvious political sycophant.

I have to disagree with you about her.

Dr. Birx just talks very diplomatically, like an Ambassador -- which she is! (Her normal job is being the Global AIDS Coordinator, an Ambassador-at-Large position in the State Department.)

Agree Chris.

[up148]

I've lived through Nixon, Reagan, George W. Bush. I can live through Donald Trump. My emotions are more sadness than anger. I don't spend a lot of time worrying about things outside my control, for obvious reasons.

It's the poor and disenfranchised members of society that suffer under these champions of corporate welfare, enemies of the working man, not those of us who are more fortunate in our circumstances by our choice of parents , or blind luck in life.

In any case, I'm too old to worry about life insurance.

And you think the equally wealthy Dems, who hypocritically pretend to be on the poor mans side are champions. They just want the vote from this group. Why don't you and all their supporters invite these poor disenfranchised members of society into your homes and change them one by one. Start a grass roots movement by doing something instead of running your mouth.