Trump says states need to "work out" competing bids for medical equipment for themselves

[RandySF]

President Trump on Thursday said states need to work out competing bids for medical equipment among themselves, and continued to blame states for failing to stockpile medical equipment like ventilators. Governors are sounding the alarm that they are bidding against themselves, as well as the federal government, for much-needed medical equipment and supplies.


"Well they have that, and they have to work that out," Mr. Trump said, when asked about what should be done when states are fighting over orders of medical equipment.

Mr. Trump said states "should have been building their stockpiles," adding that the federal government is a "backup."

"We're a backup, we're not an ordering clerk, we're a backup, and we've done an unbelievable job," Mr. Trump said.



https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-states-bids-medical-equipment-ventilators-supplies/

[ProfessorGAC]

1. Proving The Radical Agenda...

...that the federal government is unnecessary for all but the military.
Of course.

[AlexSFCA]

2. they were going to but you told them it's all a hoax, nothing to worry about

[Iliyah]

3. t-rump, administration, republican party knew back at the end of 2019 . . .

But just do not care. Money money money, sell needed medical items for the highest bid, screw lives, it's all about money, profit.

Vote them out!

[madaboutharry]

4. Donald Trump is a psychopath.

He enjoys the chaos. He is like the arsonist who sets a fire and then watches the destruction. He is a very sick man.

May all who have enabled, protected, and supported this monster one day find the meaning of Karma, not in the sense of physical pain or suffering, but rather in experiencing a moment of epiphany in which the must own their role in providing the matches.

[LuvLoogie]

7. Whatever karma is due, may it befall them.

But let's not leave it to karma. Let us make sure they fall to ruin and suffer all they have inflicted.

[2naSalit]

21. May it befall them

INSTANTLY!!! Enough is enough.

[Alacritous Crier]

34. Some men... er, psychopaths...

[Botany]

5. Mr. Trump said states "should have been building their stockpiles,"

So states should have stockpiled medical equipment for a disease that they didn't know
about? But the US government had stockpiled a lot of that equipment already but Mike
Pompeo shipped 18 tons of to China in Feb. of 2020.


The mother fucker needs gone now.

[underpants]

13. The states were each supposed to fund advance observation and diagnostic teams across the globe

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and fund preventative health care and detection programs. Each sate would need a team in China, India, etc. In the event that an outbreak was detected or anticipated by one of the 50 teams of scientists, each state would then need to establish their own immigration policy and screening procedures. Each state would do this hoping and praying that all the other states were doing all of this at the same time.

For states like Virginia that requires a balanced budget, these programs would have to be fully funded from General revenues.

[Botany]

15. There is no reason on God's Earth we should be going through this shit now.

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Obama left the people, the procedures, and the infrastructure in place to deal w/
this C-19 in place and Trump got rid of the lot and now Jared is busy selling off the
Fed. Government's P.P.E. to the highest bidder.

And to think "they" investigated Bill Clinton for 7 years and 77 million $s for a fucking
blow job.

[crickets]

16. +1

[The Magistrate]

6. Governors In States Where Manufacturers Of Needed Items Are Located, Sir

Ought to simply seize them and control distribution. The same for stocks held in hand by brokers. National Guard troops ought to be up to, and by now up for, the task.

It could well be not quite legal, but the thing could be a fait accompli before any court could rule, and even then enforcement of a court order is an executive, not a judicial function....

[Phoenix61]

9. I like the way you think. Set up an

emergency union of states.

[2naSalit]

22. +1

Well stated, Sir! I agree.

We do have an issue out here in the "nobody worth mentioning and over represented" states with those well armed but hardly regulated militias assembling around the vast properties of those millionaire/billionaires who have private compounds in the mountains now.

They want a showdown so there's that.

[The Magistrate]

26. I Agree That Is A Problem You Face, Sir

Are these people actually beginning to serve as de facto security for the wealthy out there? The question is genuine, not a lure or gambit. If the answer is yes, that would be a very bad development.

It was, by the way, a pleasure to cross words with you, Sir, and make your acquaintance. Be well, and stay safe!

[2naSalit]

28. The answer is yes.

I have been seeing them showing up individually and small groups. There are some well funded looking rigs and some very wealthy folks who are very afraid of the commonfolk now that we're really pissed off.

I suspect that a certain brother of a certain Cabinet member *cough DeVos* who has been preparing an insurgent militia since Wcheney. And now they are here with idiotBundy egging them on.

It's not a place to "bug out" if you aren't one of the "in" crowd right now. It's preppertime!

Yes, the second wave of nonlocals are the militia here to protect the trophyhomers who showed up a month ago.

[The Magistrate]

31. Not Good At All, Sir

Thank you for the information.

[2naSalit]

32. You're welcome, Sir.

[notdarkyet]

27. Do it.

[tanyev]

8. This is all just another season of The Apprentice to him.

[lark]

10. He is a fucking mass murderer and he's doing it for personal profit.

It's gotten out of hand, so he just doubles down putting one of the people responsible for giving him horrible advice that brought us to being the worsst in the world and now has given him even more power to fuck us over. He is killing us on purpose for personal profit and also to help PUtin, one of the few who profits from hs killing of America and Americans.

[NoRoadUntravelled]

11. It's a New Twist on the Old Adage

Divide and Conquer.
He will do anything to pit one against the other.
First it was religions when he banned travel from countries with large Muslim populations, then it was brown immigrants when he broke international law and caged the babies of asylum seekers. After Heather Heyer was murdered in Charlottesville he said Nazis were good people.

Now he wants the states to compete against one another in a life or death struggle. He would love nothing better than to make us forget that we are the UNITED States of America. He desires to pit one state against another. He wants governors to grovel for the survival of their citizenry.

He blames the mountain of his inadequacies on others and calls those who disagree "enemies". And yet, those closest to him are willing to sacrifice the lives and well being of millions of people just to gain favor with him.

wtf Universe are we living in?

[2naSalit]

23. The alternate facts one, I would guess. ...nt

[MineralMan]

12. Now, Why Would a President Do Such a Thing?

You'd think a President would be trying to find ways to get supplies to the places that need them the most. But, no? Our President wants the states to bid up the prices for those supplies at wholesale outlets. Make a deal, as it were.

But why would a President do such a thing? The only thing I can think of is that our President will personally benefit in some way if the prices rise. What other reason could there be?

Time to check the flow of money, I would think, in those supply lines.

[2naSalit]

30. +1

Milton Friedman's wet dream is what I'm guessing. I'm sure Ayn Rand is smiling up at us from "down there" too.

[cayugafalls]

33. Perhaps his handlers will benefit as well. IMO he is a corporate tool.

I could be wrong but the way he surrounds himself and appoints elite corporate types that then tear down our institutions is quite telling and leads me to believe that a corporate coup has taken place and this is all a big power/money grab.

They care not one wit for We The People, they care only about power/profit.

I am sure he will benefit in some way, but I think he is having to work for it by doing their bidding and selling America to the highest bidder.

[treestar]

14. It would be absurd to stockpile for rare events

Always having extra ventilators around that don't get used until there is an occasional crisis. Likely beocming obsolete over years in which they are never used.

[crickets]

17. What a load of horseshit

for not only putting the entire nation in such danger, but now willfully refusing to perform his duties in service to the citizenry to the point of mass deaths.

He should be up on charges RIGHT NOW.

[librechik]

18. clearly, he's getting kickbacks. Oh, that Kushner! what a scamp!

[spanone]

19. says the 'art of the deal' bullshit artist

[ooky]

20. Ask the Wharton School of PA if this is how they

teach supply chain management.

The only way this moron got a degree from anywhere is his Daddy bought it.

[2naSalit]

24. A form of doublespeak, get used to it. That's all they will offer from now on...

Not that it's all they've ever offered, but by now, we should expect nothing more.

[Brainfodder]

25. Unbelievable feels accurate, nothing more to see here, MOVE ALONG SHEEPLE!

[padah513]

29. He sold it all already

And now he's hiding the books

[NoMoreRepugs]

35. My son has a sourcing company in China.

He just sent me this text...”I just had a supplier say that their KN95s got confiscated by customs and were actually given to the Fed government for usage… Total racketeering shit going on”