Senator Sherrod Brown on Senate floor talking about Trump dismantling pandemic response team

[Maraya1969]

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Two years ago, President Trump fired the entire global health security team at the White House. Their job?<br> <br>Managing pandemics. <br> <br>Now we're all paying the price for President Trump's decisions. <a href="https://t.co/TiXVOnRGLa">pic.twitter.com/TiXVOnRGLa</a></p>— Sherrod Brown (@SenSherrodBrown) <a href="

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?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 13, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

[Frasier Balzov]

1. Did he wander into the wrong chamber?

[Cirque du So-What]

2. Did you?

[dchill]

3. That's the Senate chamber, not the House.

[Bucky]

5. LoL

I think the appropriate response is "Did your mama?"

[whistler162]

6. Obviously....

he should have taken a left at Albuquerque!

[Eyeball_Kid]

4. Remember Steve Bannon?

It was he who coined the phrase, "The Deconstruction of the Administrative State." He was putting his words in Trump's mouth.

THIS is what Bannon and Trump really want. They want chaos. Deaths don't matter. Chaos matters, because in chaos, Trump can consolidate MORE power.

Firing the entire global health security team was and likely still is a priority. Dismantling administrative structures that WORK is a meaningful action to Trump.

Folks, Trump is ambivalent, at best, about catastrophes that cause massive death. He doesn't care. He only cares about accumulating POWER. He is reluctantly capitulating and announcing remedial action against the COVID-19 spread, but his heart's not in it. See the "hot-mic" film clip just after his Oval Office speech. You'll understand. He is really OK about letting hundreds of thousands die and millions to suffer. HE HAS NO EMPATHY. That's why the US' response to the virus is so anemic. The federal government has no empathy and it emanates from the top.

This is not hyperbole. It's not fantasy. The US is headed for a massive crisis that is no where near peaking right now. And Trump is okay with it.

Trump will only realize his fate when the economy plunges into deep recession. And that's a certainty. Unemployment will skyrocket. Consumer spending, the lifeblood of the US economy, will freeze. Nothing but absolute essentials will be produced, if that. And look for the price of those essentials to go through the roof.

Every day that passes without getting the virus is a day to treasure.

[yortsed snacilbuper]

10. Isn't bannon in Italy,

he might get the CV?

[malaise]

7. You know the irony of this is that MoscowMitch was a polio victim

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Bravo Sherrod!

[Bayard]

8. I did not know that

Thx!

[malaise]

11. Look where he got treatment

In 1944, at the age of two, McConnell's upper left leg was paralyzed by a polio attack.[2][5] He received treatment at the Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation. The treatment potentially saved him from being disabled for the rest of his life.[6] McConnell stated that his family "almost went broke" because of costs related to his illness.[7]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_McConnell

[ooky]

9. This needs to be made into an ad we run in battleground states for the general election. nt

[MagickMuffin]

12. Damn it was just getting good

and it stopped.