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turbinetree

(24,685 posts)
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 02:12 PM Apr 2020

Operation reopen America: are we about to witness a second historic failure of leadership from Trump

Without mass testing, contact tracing, and protective equipment for health workers – all in critically short supply – the president’s plan could be disastrous

by Ed Pilkington and Dominic Rushe in New York


On Thursday evening, Donald Trump took to the dais in the White House press briefing room and declared that he was leading America in a “historic battle against the invisible enemy” that amounted to the “greatest national mobilisation since world war two”.

Warming to his theme, the US president said the country was now ready to move to the next phase in the war against coronavirus. It was time, he said, “to open up. America wants to be open, and Americans want to be open”.

Unveiling new guidelines for the loosening of the lockdown, he committed his administration to a “science-based reopening”. “We are starting our life again, we are starting rejuvenation of our economy again, in a safe and structured and very responsible fashion.”

Beyond the cloistered confines of the White House an alternative interpretation of events was gathering force. On a day in which the US suffered its highest death toll from Covid-19, with a total of more than 680,000 confirmed cases and 34,000 deaths, public health experts were scrutinising the president’s new guidelines and coming to rather different conclusions.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/18/operation-reopen-america-are-we-about-to-witness-a-second-historic-failure-of-leadership-from-trump

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On Thursday he effected a 180-degree about-turn and passed the buck to the 50 states. “You are going to call your own shots,” he told governors on a call on Thursday.

Trump’s sudden switch to offloading federal responsibility to the 50 states has prompted questions about his motive. Current and former senior officials in the Trump administration told the Washington Post that he wanted to “shield himself from blame should there be new outbreaks after states reopen”.


This is how he always supposedly wins in his narcissistic mind of being a sociopath liar, he passes the responsibility onto someone else.....................he is a abject failure and he takes no responsibility in his chicken shit demeanor............and always passes that failure unto someone else's shoulder....................FUCK HIM.......................

Ron Klain:

“This isn’t a plan, it’s barely a powerpoint,” spluttered Ron Klain on Twitter. Klain, the US government’s Ebola tsar during the last health crisis to test the White House, in 2014, said the proposals contained “no provision to ramp up testing, no standard on levels of disease before opening, no protections for workers or customers”.

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Operation reopen America: are we about to witness a second historic failure of leadership from Trump (Original Post) turbinetree Apr 2020 OP
No then it would be the governor's fault. doc03 Apr 2020 #1
Then he can get on some podium and say see I told you so, they failed, I tried to help turbinetree Apr 2020 #2
Why should we be surprised? GWC58 Apr 2020 #3
The REAL reason why Repugs want to "open things up" Freddie Apr 2020 #4
Paging John Grishom GusBob Apr 2020 #5
Americans are already dying pandr32 Apr 2020 #6
The pandemic becomes a pandumbic. tanyev Apr 2020 #7
The Republican Party has gone all in Wellstone ruled Apr 2020 #8

turbinetree

(24,685 posts)
2. Then he can get on some podium and say see I told you so, they failed, I tried to help
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 02:18 PM
Apr 2020
.............. he really is f**king psychotic, along with those that are in his administration.....of chickenshit......they take no responsibility for ones actions none, zilch, zero, nada................

Freddie

(9,257 posts)
4. The REAL reason why Repugs want to "open things up"
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 02:24 PM
Apr 2020

If your workplace is now open you can’t collect unemployment. And if you refuse to work because of unsafe conditions, you can be fired. It’s all about controlling the peons again.

pandr32

(11,562 posts)
6. Americans are already dying
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 02:26 PM
Apr 2020

DT claimed we had passed "peak" last week but deaths are still on the rise.
No testing means no tracking and no tracing.
It is negligent homicide.

DT is psychopathic. He is also determined to scoop another term. He really doesn't care about the people--only his own power and opportunity to self-enrich at our expense.
He has had three years to learn our Constitution and how our government functions. Instead, he has shoved his gangster methods on us all and obviously has no intention of fulfilling his oath or respecting our laws. They are inconvenient and troublesome.
Without forcing the country to get back to work DT will have no way to claim a recovery in time for re-election. We can assume Russia is on board to help with hacking and interference to keep DT in office but he still needs cover. This makes for a very dangerous situation for the rest of us.
Batten down the hatches. We are in for a very rough ride.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
8. The Republican Party has gone all in
Sat Apr 18, 2020, 03:33 PM
Apr 2020

with this. They could give a damn less about the people because this Pandemic is hitting the people of Color the hardest and those same people do not vote for them.

As one Ex Republican Party Chairman said,the Party has taken off their Hoods and hang on,it will get ugly from here on.

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