The media gives almost no coverage about the grand jury that is being/has been assembled. Grand jury=criminal charges and indictments.
The grand jury information in the report is what Barr and his cronies have worked desperately to keep under wraps.
The Stock Market Unraveling is not just from the Coronavirus and Donald Trump's lack of leadership, which has undermined investors' confidence that the government can handle this crisis. (See Wall Street Plunges as Trump Fiddles in response to Coronavirus).
Trump is now showing his true colors to everyone -- that people in this community understood about him all along, but that investors and corporate moguls, often GOP, did not realize -- he's a failed business man and an incompetent leader.
This market drop is also about another set of bungling that is happening at the same time, a perfect storm if you will. We are now watching the lack of cooperation between two power moguls who Trump has admired -- Putin and the Saudi Prince.
These are two cruel and narcissistic leaders who started an oil production war with each other when they should have coordinated. So they have inadvertently succeeded in convincing investors that oil prices are now dropping and the economy is weak, a sign of recession. This weekend, seeing the dropping oil prices, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman said we are now in a recession.
For years I've felt that the one thing that would bring down Trump and the GOP's grip on power would be a massive bone-breaking economic crash. It would have to be, I thought, something that would cause people on both sides of the political spectrum to drop their 4 decade long love affair with businessmen as government leaders. It would have to be something that would hurt so bad, that it will cause the majority of our collective to finally embrace leaders who serve the people, not the corporations.
I think this may be it.
@jeanne-mayell -- I've thought about your prediction quite a bit the last few days. It is a downturn on every level: economic, sociological, domestic, foreign, unpredictable. It has the seeds to expose our system as inadequate to meet the needs of the people, and to expose trump as the sham president he is. I agree this may be it. There will be so much suffering, already is, so I hope something good comes of it.
@practicalnihilist I was at Costco this afternoon picking up coffee. You can’t find toilet paper anywhere. I live in New Jersey. A woman in front of me said “everyone is losing their mind. Not one doctor said this is real “. I just said, yeah sure, ok. It’s true. People don’t want to know.
@febbby23 "Not one doctor says this is real"? Well either she's making that up or she's putting faith in the wrong doctors. Doctors aren't trained in epidemiology unless they go for an extra degree in public health. However, a month ago (Feb 8) I attended a small gathering of friends mainly attended by physicians and people in the healthcare industry who worked at Harvard Medical School.
When I asked them what they thought, mind you this was a month ago before the rush on toilet paper, before there were any cases in the U.S., they were very concerned, shaking their heads, wary, and quite certain we were looking at a serious global pandemic.
When you say, people just don't want to know," I'm thinking, Donald Trump and Fox news doesn't want people to know. It is amazing that people can be continually misinformed by Trump and the Right Wing news machine and still don't see how they are being duped.
*sigh* and here I though Denial was a river in Egypt. Y'all can track it here : https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
Fearless leader's misdirection and calling it a Dem Hoax trying to ruin him and oh so much more as we know... has his Kool-aid drunk AlwaysTrumper's living in an alternate reality.
First case in Georgia was February 21st - currently 17 confirmed cases and people are having trouble getting tested...drs having to fight to get them tested. We went from 5 cases to 17 cases in a matter of days with new cases being announced daily: a teacher at a day care, an employee at a Waffle House etc... these people had wide contact... kind of like that old shampoo commercial " I told a friend who told her friends who told their friends..."
The dream seemed to symbolize how off-the-rails the president's mental state is becoming. But when reality is stranger than fiction, who knows? I see him orchestrating a series of "comeback rallies" over the next few months. Perhaps he will completely lose it on stage at one of those.
Perhaps this is what the "Idles of March" has referred to all along. The ones who "betrayed" Trump this week are two dictators that Trumps admires from two autocratic countries: Russia and Saudi Arabia.
All we need now is for North Korea to cause havoc and we will have a full set.
My sister in law lives in Orange County, CA and traveled to the Caribbean a few weeks ago. Shortly after she got back, she gets a bad URI that hasnt gone away and is accompanied by fever. She tested negative for influenza and tried to get tested for Covid19. After 4 urgent care clinics and 3 ERs, apparently no one is able to test for it in the LA area, and she cant get a test anyway because she hasnt been to China and cannot specifically name the person who infected her. I'm not kidding. That's what she was told. It's insane to refuse to test people, especially someone who recently traveled out of the country and shows significant signs of it.
That was true but the cdc changed their testing criteria, though she still might not fit the profile. Does she have records of what she has been tested so far? She needs to see someone again. People are getting tested who've no history of any foreign travel though there are not the number of kits needed to test people, more labs have just been approved to test, some good news. .
Here is a recent article from 3-10-20 which should be helpful from the Orange County Register about how to get tested. I hope it will provide some helpful current facts. She should try again. Perhaps with her personal doc or with someone new. Squeaky wheel.
https://www.ocregister.com/2020/03/10/heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-testing-for-coronavirus/
The dream seemed to symbolize how off-the-rails the president's mental state is becoming. But when reality is stranger than fiction, who knows? I see him orchestrating a series of "comeback rallies" over the next few months. Perhaps he will completely lose it on stage at one of those.
I had a vision a while back at one of the read the future nights that T. is talking to a crowd and gets stuck on repeat - kind of like when a record or cd skips. It gave me the impression at the time that it was some sort of brain glitch and that the crowd was taken aback by it. I think we have been seeing shorter examples of this “short circuiting” when he can’t pronounce words and has what looks like involuntary spasms.
The irony of any possible “comeback rallies” in the near future would be that everyone there would stand an increased risk of infection. That would just be adding to the public health risk and the suffering that the country is going through. It never ceases to amaze me how everyone there seems to be living in two separate realities. I saw different people at the same retirement community being interviewed about how they viewed the corona virus and those who follow the president were rebellious in their attitudes about the reality of it and those who didn’t follow the president were preparing to avoid being infected. I had a vision that is also somewhere in one of the read the future nights that the country’s shared reality snaps back together with a bang and some point. I really hope it is sooner rather than later for the sake of those who are at risk.
@jeanne-mayell I agree with you wholeheartedly and just can’t understand how people can be so blind. I can get so frustrated which then cranks up to annoyed and then just keeps going. I have chosen, or at least try, to realize these people are souls. Someone loves them, God loves them so maybe somehow they will get a clue, buy a vowel, something. I’ve tried in the past to discuss and maybe shed light, but now I just send them a mental blessing and move on. I prefer to use my energy wisely and not be annoyed at the stupidity. My daughter watched this interaction from another line and saw my expression and knew what had transpired. Let us all take a deep breath and carry on. At least we have each other. I thank God for this place of sanity and friendship. Otherwise I’d be the crazy lady in Costco. Stay safe dear ones. ☮️??❤️
Here is a petition to demand Barr's resignation, for anyone inclined to sign it:
Reposting @Rowsells's post on Ivanka Trump here as not everyone checks the "recent posts" sidebar column or uses their "unread" button (located in the box under forum statistics)
Rowsella:
I saw this referred to and linked in a WaPo comments section:
New York Prosecutors Believe Ivanka Trump Skimmed Millions From The 2016 Inaugural Fund
A new government lawsuit filed in January alleges that Ivanka Trump illegally over-billed the non-profit Inauguration Committee to bilk expenses and benefit the Trump family. It doesn’t take an FBI agent with 30 years of experience to see that all that money pouring in, over $114 million for an inauguration committee, a number that vastly exceeded all previous inauguration funding, despite this being a smaller party. Rumors circulated that much of the money originated outside the United States, which operated as a big red light. Apparently that strobing right light proved too difficult to ignore, and the investigations started.
In the civil complaint, Attorney General Karl Racine charged the Trump inaugural committee and the Trump Organization with using around $1 million of charitable funds to improperly enrich the Trump family.
I suppose the Trumps believe they are a charity. They always seem to vacuum money meant to go to a good cause. To them, there is no “better cause” than newer clothes, vacations, furniture, etc.
An experienced event planner who was working for the inaugural, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, raised concerns directly with Donald and Ivanka Trump that the Trump International Hotel in Washington was trying to overcharge the inaugural committee.
Reposting Rowsella's original post linkand info also into thread on the Unraveling of Donald Trump from:
https://www.jeannemayell.com/community/u-s-politics/ivanka-trump/#post-22326
Today the Orange Fungus among us Impotus is tweeting to get the wall built to keep out Covid-19... and his minions/followers are howling "Yes,Yes,Yes!!!" I was chewed out by a co-workers husband for "spreading rumors and lies about an illness that isn't even as serious as the flu" Mind you he is in his 60's, has had bypass surgery twice and is Type 2 Diabetic" yet I am a fear monger because I say not to panic but to use common sense and take the advice of the CDC for High Risk people.. as I am one. He intends to go on doing his usual life out and about. Yet here our cases went from 17 to 23 confirmed in ONE day! even as testing is having to be fought for to get done in our area!!! (criteria... have you been to China or confirmed contact with someone who tested positive) BTW - they are already shipping cases to the "containment/treatment camp set up at the state park here in Georgia...pt was diagnosed yesterday (works at Waffle House) and sent straight to the area. It is very confusing to so many people the BS.. it's not even as serious as the flu! Yet they can not understand that if it weren't more serious than the flu they wouldn't be setting all these places up to treat people? Heather Cox Richardson again sums it up so succinctly
"It is past time to stop looking to the administration for true leadership. “It will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away,” Trump’s admonishment today, was not worth much, and the insistence of the president and his supporters that the covid-19 is much like the flu (it is not) is hurting our ability to slow its spread."
As Trump and so many of his minions insist on still getting out in public regardless and taking no precautions... I expect to see a lot them contract the virus. Sadly... one can't help but ask oneself.. is this natural selection at work?
@lynnventura and all light working friends-
yes agree. This is my strong feeling around all of the events happening. It’s here to expose the weakest areas everywhere (healthcare, money, how well we take care of the more vulnerable people in the world). I feel there will be pain, but sadly needed as huge change is required. Which all of us here agree and have been feeling for years.
Ides of March for sure- exposures revealed.
I just watched Trump make his address to the nation. First, I will give him credit for at least acknowledging that there is an actual threat from the coronavirus. He was not surrounded by his supporters who spout off support on how great Trump is, that Trump is better than sliced bread, etc.
But beyond that, Trump did terribly. He focused too much on his travel bans and didn't give any real guidance on what resources would be provided to the sick or infected. Further, his promises of financial aid felt hollow, much like his promises for a China trade deal or that Mexico will pay for the wall.
But there is something else that I picked up on. For the last few days, he seems...sick. His right eye seems to be half closed all the time (I picked up on that when he appeared before the public soon after his visit to the CDC). I wondered if he may have had a miny stroke, but tonight he sounded raspy, like his throat was sore.
Now, what does this mean? Hopefully, he is merely suffering from allergies (I myself suffer sore throats as a result from allergies all the time, and am currently dealing with a sore throat now.) But could he be getting the flu or the coronavirus. I sincerely hope not. I have no love for Trump at all, and I look forward to the day that he is dragged kicking and screaming from the White House. But I want it to be with him in an orange jumpsuit and in handcuffs, not on a gurney.
Am I looking too much into this? Or did he appear ill to any of you as well?