An outbreak of incompetence

[babylonsister]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/03/pandemic-incompetence/?fbclid=IwAR19YCcrXMsFwnFo68B5jXC1D3YZgSFSJGpBtwX1HK3VjNRAqxVFxIAyfAg


An outbreak of incompetence
By Jennifer Rubin
Opinion writer
April 3, 2020 at 9:30 a.m. EDT


White House adviser Jared Kushner broke the irony meter as he — not someone qualified, such as Anthony S. Fauci — took over the daily coronavirus briefing on Thursday to inform us: “What a lot of the voters are seeing now is that when you elect somebody ... think about who will be a competent manager during the time of crisis.”

Yes, President Trump’s voters, along with those who elected the similarly ignorant and slothful Republican governors in Florida and Georgia who failed to act promptly to stem the coronavirus, should remember that next time. Better to elect someone like California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) or Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) rather than someone continually pandering to Trump, resisting readily available scientific advice and attacking the media.

One has the sinking feeling that things are going from bad to worse. Trump and the feds declined to act swiftly, in particular failing to get widespread testing up and running. Now they are failing to remedy the dire medical crisis that their negligence brought on. Kushner said the federal stockpile of medical equipment is for the feds to use, not the states. His father-in-law seems allergic to implementing fully the Defense Production Act, so the bidding war among the states for critical equipment continues.

Republican governors in Florida, Georgia, Mississippi and Alabama declined to issue prompt stay-at-home orders. Now? Trump refuses to issue one nationally despite Fauci’s advice. “I don’t understand why that’s not happening,” he said in a CNN interview. “As you said, the tension between federally mandated vs. states’ rights to do what they want is something I don’t want to get into. But if you look at what is going on in this country, I do not understand why we are not doing that. We really should be.” The answer: We have a total lack of federal leadership and competence.

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The chaos, confusion and incompetence at the federal level magnify our daily anxiety and uncertainty. We have lost control of our lives, and those supposed to lead us through this ordeal are deepening our national trauma. Years of contempt for expertise, for competent government and for truth itself on the right now haunt us all. God help us.

[global1]

1. This Chaos, Confusion And Incompetence Is Now Going To Carry Over To This Administrations....

ability to distribute the money from the rescue/stimulus bill.

What I'm worried about - is if/when a vaccine is available - how will this administration deal with getting it to all American People. There should be a Planning Commission appointed - right now - to deal with the distribution of a vaccine to all American People. We shouldn't be waiting until the time that a vaccine is identified to try and figure out how it will be distributed and administered to all Americans.

[MyOwnPeace]

5. Not to worry..........

Here's the announcement:

OK, Governors,

The "kiss" line forms on the right. Please have your tally sheet showing how many voters you've thrown off of your qualified voters lists - er, correct that - how many "cheaters" you've discovered and disqualified, and be sure to have your copies of "THANK YOU, SIR!" that have been printed in your local papers, you know, the ones that do not do "FAKE NEWS!"
If you don't have any of the required data, just take a seat over there and I'll call you ........... soon."

[empedocles]

2. Good title

[KY_EnviroGuy]

3. It's been there for a very long time in plain sight....

as Democrats have been trying to ring alarm bells for decades to no avail. President Clinton and later Secretary Clinton and President Obama told America there is a vast right-wing conspiracy disease among the populace many times.

Now, it's completely out in the sunlight.........

Would any corporation worth its existence hire key new employees whose openly stated goal is to destroy the company?....

[MyOwnPeace]

4. Can you believe that TWERP said this?

from the article: White House adviser Jared Kushner broke the irony meter as he — not someone qualified, such as Anthony S. Fauci — took over the daily coronavirus briefing on Thursday to inform us: “What a lot of the voters are seeing now is that when you elect somebody ... think about who will be a competent manager during the time of crisis.”

HOLY MOTHER OF GOD!!!!!!!

They sent him out there with that speech just to have a bloodless way of saying: "I could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and I wouldn't lose any votes."

YES, "what a lot of voters are seeing now" - is a yuuuge group of incompetent ASSHOLES who have NO idea of what to do - and know that their RepubliCon partners-in-crime don't and won't give a damn - as long as they keep lining their pockets and keep "sticking it to the Libs!"

[Mopar151]

6. I've had to deal with these assclowns since 5th grade.

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