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Freeloading Rusty

Freeloading Rusty

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Trump plans to cut daily coronavirus briefings
President Trump plans to pare back his coronavirus press conferences, according to four sources familiar with the internal deliberations.

  • He may stop appearing daily and make shorter appearances when he does, the sources said — a practice that may have started with Friday's unusually short briefing.
Why this matters: Trump's daily press conferences — televised to a largely homebound population — have dominated the public discourse about the coronavirus.

Behind the scenes: A number of Trump's most trusted advisers — both inside and outside the White House — have urged him to stop doing marathon televised briefings.

  • They've told him he's overexposed and these appearances are part of the reason polls aren't looking good for him right now against Joe Biden.
  • "I told him it's not helping him," said one adviser to the president. "Seniors are scared. And the spectacle of him fighting with the press isn't what people want to see."
But Trump has defended the practice, telling critics that the briefings get good ratings.

  • One source cautioned that decisions like this one are never final until they're final.
  • A senior administration official involved in the discussions said: "He should keep everyone guessing as to whether he appears day by day. And leave the technical briefings to others. Be there to announce victories."
Another source close to the deliberations said there simply isn't enough new material to justify Trump appearing before the press every day. "I mean, you wonder how we got to the point where you're talking about injecting disinfectant?" the source wondered aloud.

  • These conversations were underway before Trump suggested that researchers investigate whether doctors could cure coronavirus by injecting people with disinfectant. But a source said it finally seems to have dawned on Trump, after this incident, that these briefings aren't helping him. The CDC and other public health officials responded obliquely to the comment by telling people not to drink bleach.
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Freeloading Rusty

Freeloading Rusty

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RaginCajun said:
Amazing how now everyone is pretending like they care about the health of people when nobody gave a shit for years while tons of people go bankrupt due to medical bills, pharmaceutical companies rape the American public with inflated prices, and lobbyists write our laws.
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Thats what I dont get... Here in Canada and there in America. All of a sudden we care about those struggling and unable to participate in the market economy.

In Canada (in BC), those on 'welfare' get $625 per month. $375 of that must go to rent - not available for those unsheltered. So homeless (those without a landlord to sign off on their welfare papers) get $250 per month for living expenses (food, shelter, hygiene, transportation....).

Those on permanent disability services get $1100 per month.

Yet those impacted by COVID get between $1250-$2000 per month... because, you know, that is the minimum they could live off.
 
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Freeloading Rusty

Freeloading Rusty

Here comes Rover, sniffin’ at your ass
Jan 11, 2016
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GOP memo urges anti-China assault over coronavirus
The memo includes advice on everything from how to tie Democratic candidates to the Chinese government to how to deal with accusations of racism. It stresses three main lines of assault: That China caused the virus “by covering it up,” that Democrats are “soft on China,” and that Republicans will “push for sanctions on China for its role in spreading this pandemic.”
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“Don’t defend Trump, other than the China Travel Ban — attack China,” the memo states.
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Sheepdog

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MC Gusto said:
Thats what I dont get... Here in Canada and there in America. All of a sudden we care about those struggling and unable to participate in the market economy.

In Canada (in BC), those on 'welfare' get $625 per month. $375 of that must go to rent - not available for those unsheltered. So homeless (those without a landlord to sign off on their welfare papers) get $250 per month for living expenses (food, shelter, hygiene, transportation....).

Those on permanent disability services get $1100 per month.

Yet those impacted by COVID get between $1250-$2000 per month... because, you know, that is the minimum they could live off.
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The true fiscal conservatives are dead, so we are just left with liars instead of idiots. They've embraced crisis-only Keynesianism now. Which is actually a big problem.

Unfortunately the rise of MMT has actually been a total disaster for left-wing politics. Rather than being heard by the peasants it was heard by the lords who hadn't caught on yet. They know they can turn on the taps now when things get hectic. That means they can put off the crises that will actually bring them down even longer.
 
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