In other news today - King Orange filed a lawsuit vs. the NYTimes for libel based on an opinion piece that was written in March, 2019. He's alleging that an Op-Ed article published by the newspaper falsely asserted a “quid pro quo” between Russian officials and the 2016 campaign.
Although the charges themselves are just mind-boggling for any thinking, functioning human being, the suit itself will allow the newspaper to do "discovery" and therefore uncover more information about the campaign. There are also some assertions in the lawsuit about the Mueller report (which wasn't released until the month following this opinion piece!).
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/26/business/media/trump-new-york-times-lawsuit.html
Trump doesn't even begin to understand what is going to happen yet.
First, people who feel sick will still push themselves to go to work because (1) they need the money, (2) their insurance if awful or non-existent, and (3) they will be convinced by Trump that it can't spread further.
Second, Trump's self-proclamation about how he single-handedly stopped the coronavirus by doing travel restrictions to China will have its own issues. Already I am viewing some of the pro-Trump websites for their usual conspiracy theories, and some people are expressing concerns about whether products made in China and overseas are safe (after all, a person who had the coronavirus could have sneezed on it or something.)
Whether this is true or not remains to be seen. But if people are afraid to buy products online because of fears of the coronavirus, how soon before the economy takes a hit from that?
Also, you can guarantee that vacation travel will take a hit. Tourism will be affected (a big issue for Tennessee, my home state, as we are very reliant on tourism).
Is the coronavirus Trump's fault? No. But Trump has touted the economy as his strength for so long while fudging the numbers and taking credit for the efforts of others. If the worst should befall us and the economy tanks, how would Trump handle it?
Probably not well.
@deetoo trying to rap your head around what Turd says is an act of futility! It will drive you insane andthan your insurance won't pay because three years of Turd mush will be considered a pre-existing condition! Seriously how in the world can anyone sound this dump and still be President. Appointing Pence, who doesn't believe in science, to head a pandemic team is just rediculous. I guess he will want national prayer for the sick days? They have no concept of how the world works. I used to go to work sick beause I was paid by the hours I worked. No work, no pay. This is still the norm in a lot of lower income jobs. A great many of these jobs are food service. What would the Turd do if McDonalds closed due to employee illness! I read an article a few months ago about McConnell, the devil of Ky, and the point was he doesn't care about the people because they aren't worthy of his concern. He doesn't acknowlegde that people not in his spear exist. This is true of the whole Republican party. Alright a slight exageration but not that much!
I don't watch the debates anymore because it's gotten to be like watching a mother eat their young. I agree with Amy thought, they are playing right into Turds hands with all the infighting. It isn't enought to say they will support whoever the Dem candidate is, they need to show solidarity as a party. I'm sure after the primaries that may happen but the reteric needs to be toned down now. I did see a snipent of the townhall the Biden had on CNN. He, by the way, does much better in his town halls then inthe debates. SOmeone ask him if he was afraid the Turd wouldn't leave the WH if he was defeated. Bidens answer was golden. He stated that considering the way Turd has treated the military, the interllegence community esp the FBI, he had no doubt he would be taken out of the WH if necessary. Loved it!
On a brighter note, Amy McGraft has out raised MoscowMitch again! There was reported a record number of voters registered in Kentucky and it seems the majority are registered as Dems! Iswear if MM is defeated in Novemeber I'm going to party like a college freshman!
Once again please excuse my spelling, I am fighting off cold and have brain fog! Oh No ! does that mean I've cought the great Trump disease!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Remember discussing astrologically that things would go south for T in late Feb? Here we are. Between the coronavirus outbreak and stock market correction, T's support will tank. It's a one two knockout punch. I am feeling a lot of anger rising directed at him concerning the virus. Mother nature will remove him from office, one way or another.
and maybe also his administration saying that not everyone will be a Leo to afford the Coronavirus vaccines. This is a disaster in the making. I hope this helps even more to get him out of office. Imagine making a vaccine not affordable for each and every American citizens/ non citizens. Thinking about this makes me worry even more for the immigrants that are already being denied the flu vaccine imagine the death toll of the virus hits them.
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar on Wednesday declined to promise that a coronavirus vaccine would be affordable for all Americans.
"We would want to ensure that we work to make it affordable, but we can't control that price because we need the private sector to invest," Azar told members of Congress during a hearing concerning the coronavirus outbreak and the administration's budget request. "Price controls won't get us there."
Welcome to our world and nice to hear from you!
Many here feel that March is the beginning of the end for Trump. So what you were seeing fits right in.
But what you saw in your mind's eye was especially de-light-full.
Seeing him a plastic clamshell container, completely confined is a great image especially symbolically as in "clam up" unable to have a voice or our being able to hear a single "tweet" out of him.
Time for the drab olive green green security guards to pack him up and take him on out to seclusion in his own private inpatient facility in his new olive green Mar Lago full on retreat.
Hi, I am new here, have been lurking for awhile and finally registered this evening. On my way to sleep the other night, not thinking about DT consciously, all of a sudden I saw him in my mind's eye, and it was the month of March, and he was in a tight enclosed space like very large clam shell plastic packaging that was olive drab green. Like he was a captive.
Per the New York Times, Pence will be spearheading all communications now; no one from the CDC is allowed to comment.
“The decision to put Mr. Pence in charge was made on Wednesday after the president told some people that the vice president didn’t “have anything else to do,” according to people familiar with the president’s comments.”
VP Fall Guy is on the case, I see.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/27/us/politics/us-coronavirus-pence.html
@michele-b and jeanne
TY for the warm welcome. This is a haven in these crazy times. I keep getting mini-hits, thinking about a friend havent talked to in months and 5 min later she texts me, images and then hear corresponding song.
Funny one, all of Tuesday (Democratic debate Tuesday eve. ) I had an ear worm, the pop song from the 80s or 90s, "Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting.."
Such weird energies. Has anybody here read the book by Penny Gill, What In the World Is Going On?
A Wellesley professor who involuntarily became a channel for Manjushri, an enlightened Buddhist spirit. Written in 2015 maybe and Described a lot of this upheaval.
Exactly. Pence and his "God made coronavirus to punish all the gays because mother told me so" shit is going to get him fried publically when people start dying and no "rapidly developed" vaccine is out there. In comes Haley for 2nd term VP candidate and out goes Pence.