This is just getting pathetic.
Courtesy of CNBC:
White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney suggested Friday that Americans ignore the media’s coverage of the coronavirus, arguing that journalists are ratcheting up fears to try to hurt President Donald Trump politically.
Mulvaney, who also heads the Office of Management and Budget, also said that there will “probably” be school closures and transportation issues due to the impact of the virus.
“Are you going to see some schools shut down? Probably. May you see impacts on public transportation? Sure,” Mulvaney said as he attempted to assure his audience that the Trump administration was on top of the virus.
He was interviewed Friday morning by Stephen Moore, Trump’s onetime nominee for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland.
Mulvaney claimed that the media has only started paying close attention to the coronavirus because “they think this is going to be what brings down the president.”
Mulvaney claims that the media did not cover the coronavirus in January because they were too busy talking impeachment and that now they are only covering it because it might do what the impeachment trial did not and take Trump out.
Which, by the way, is not true because I definitely read coverage about the virus in January, but at the time the reports were sporadic and the number of dead was still quite small.
Now that there are just under 3,000 deaths, and the virus is spreading beyond China, of course, the media has taken notice.
Let me just take a moment to point out that the only people who would even consider following Mulvaney’s advice and ignoring the news are conservative Trump supporters, so he is literally putting his boss’s voting base in danger.
Three types:
1) Those hoarding supplies.
2) Those crying over their 401K.
3) Me.
Turns out the “Anti-Greta” is a Nazi. Who knew?
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/naomi-seibt-white-nationalist-cpac-stefan-molyneux_n_5e5974c5c5b6450a30be4a4d
“Naomi Seibt, the 19-year-old German climate science denier being marketed as the right’s answer to activist Greta Thunberg, praised a white nationalist while speaking on a panel at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Friday.
During a question-and-answer session at the end of the panel entitled “Energy, Costs and Defeating the Climate Delusion,” a Business Insider reporter asked Seibt if she is still a fan of white nationalist Stefan Molyneux, a Canadian vlogger.
“I am still a fan, absolutely,” Seibt responded.
Just an hour earlier, The Guardian had published an article unearthing Seibt’s past praise for Molyneux, whom she called one of her “inspirations.”
Molyneux has for years peddled racist “white genocide” conspiracy theories in videos posted to YouTube. At the CPAC panel Friday, Seibt was asked specifically about 2018 comments Molyneux made in which he explicitly praised white nationalism, claiming Poland was “peaceful, free, easy, civilized and safe” because it is “essentially an all-white country.” ”
Yeah, that’s not going to go over real well with anyone except Trump’s cult, who are already climate change deniers and white nationalists. So…what’s the point?
The base eats this shit up.
Having separated themselves from nature because of seeing only literally, they can be sold anything. There is simply no sense of nature itself.
Like H1N1 swine flu, this too shall pass.
So does the Nomadic Politics site, if that’s okay to say here. Calm down, people.
https://www.politicususa.com/2020/02/28/mick-mulvaney-calls-the-coronavirus-a-hoax-to-bring-down-trump.html
Trump’s chief of staff also told people to turn off their TVs for 24 hours, because the coverage is media panic.
The White House is treating a potential pandemic like a political problem, and the results could be disastrous if the US experiences a coronavirus outbreak.
The coverage IS media “panic” to its viewers and they’re eating it up for ratings as ever.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/02/billionaire-trump-supporter-seeking-to-oust-twitters-ceo-and-take-over-control-of-the-company-report/
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-29/singer-s-elliott-is-said-to-seek-to-replace-twitter-ceo-dorsey
https://news.yahoo.com/donald-trump-jr-democrats-hope-coronavirus-kills-millions-173531091.html
“There has been speculation in the media that a prolonged stock market downturn — the Dow Jones has lost more than 3,000 points this week — could hurt Trump’s reelection bid, although Trump himself has used stock prices as a barometer of the success of his economic policies.”
Just like we were told to ignore the
Catholic priests havibg sex with minor children, that it’s liberals trying to take away god. Yah right.
Tom Lehrer
Accomplished math professor and satirist 1965
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgASBVMyVFI
At least trump will have something to blame, other than himself, when he LOSES in NOV.
Lawd do I hope he does, because if there’s no one that’s leaving it’s HIM.
Imagine Junior and Ivannnnka. Must See TV.
lol. not happening but lol.
Trump and Don Jr. are now declaring the Coronavirus is a “hoax”. Forwarding the public of the probable spread of this virus aa is done annually about the flu is now deemed a “hoax”. Trump supporters who chose to only believe Trump’s distorted messaging will suffer consequences if this virus becomes widespread here. This will impact and infect more people. Blind and deaf followers will escalate the spread due to their ignorance. In the medical field we believe in preparedness if the worst happens and believe in preventative measures. This does not constitute a hoax. This pandemic is real.
40% of Americans don’t think the Trump Administration can handle the coronavirus.
https://news.yahoo.com/40-americans-dont-think-us-174942805.html?guccounter=1
“This polling seems to bolster warnings from public health experts that President Donald Trump’s history of lying about crises could strongly undermine his credibility as the US braces for coronavirus. ”
Gee, ya think? His lying is coming back to bite him in the ass. Even his uneducated Deplorables are going to have to admit they don’t trust him because he lies.
Meanwhile Obama’s Ebola “Czar” is ripping Trump a new one.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/obama-ebola-czar-coronavirus-trump_n_5e5a1da4c5b6010221110d1a
“Ronald Klain, who former President Barack Obama appointed to lead the U.S. response to the Ebola epidemic, on Friday ripped President Donald Trump and his administration’s messy handling of the coronavirus outbreak.
Klain — who was dubbed the “Ebola Czar” — told MSNBC’s Ali Velshi there was a “crisis of both confidence and competence” in the way Trump’s White House was tackling the spread of the COVID-19 virus.
“On the confidence side, anyone who believes what Donald Trump says kind of gets what they deserve at this stage of the game,” said Klain.
Trump has told more than 16,000 lies during his time in office, according to The Washington Post.”
Basically Trump and his ass kissers are lying to us and those with the expertise to inform us are being censored and muzzled. No wonder 40% of people think we are all screwed. Watch that number increase with each passing day and new report as it spreads and Pence tries to pray it away.
I think Covid19 is going to do what no Democrat can guarantee. That Trump loses in November. Between the virus and the stock market, Trump is toast.
He can’t even spell it and we are suppose to think he can handle it, I don’t think so.
Puts Pence in charge and we’re supposed to think he can handle it.
Know who else is on that committee of experts?
None other than Mnuchin, EYE ROLL.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-identifies-the-real-coronavirus-victim-his-presidency?ref=home
“Trump has appeared preoccupied with his theory that liberals and the press were attempting to use coronavirus to make him “look bad” prior to the November election.”
“He made a joke about how he could invent a cure for the coronavirus tomorrow, and [House Speaker] Nancy Pelosi would still find ways to criticize him for it,”
said one individual who spoke to Trump in the past week on the matter.”
https://www.politicususa.com/2020/02/29/trump-pence-last-two-people-on-earth-who-should-be-leading-global-health-crisis.html
” this administration stumbles from crisis to crisis, they have repeatedly shown the country that they are unable or unwilling to set politics aside and be straight with the American people.”
https://www.politicususa.com/2020/02/29/mike-pence-is-holding-political-fundraisers-instead-of-leading-the-coronavirus-response.html
“Pence’s apparent disinterest in leading a response to this global health emergency comes as the president is pushing the dangerous lie that the coronavirus itself is a myth.” – “heading to Florida on Friday for a fundraiser.””
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elizabeth-warren-mike-pence-coronavirus_n_5e5a50a2c5b601022111391a
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mike-huckabee-coronavirus-scenario-backfires_n_5e5a1197c5b6beedb4eb74fc
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/02/stephen-millers-new-wife-is-in-charge-of-approving-all-coronavirus-communications/
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/27/politics/pence-messaging-coronavirus/index.html
According to administration sources, Trump has been displeased with Azar for failing to keep him updated on crucial decisions concerning the virus.
Following Trump’s decision to have Pence lead the coronavirus effort, the vice president’s office announced Thursday that four new administration officials would be joining the task force including Kudlow and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin.
https://www.politicususa.com/2020/02/29/trump-asking-for-do-over-after-first-coronavirus-press-conference-flopped.html
After an usually quiet Saturday morning on Twitter for the president, he announced he would be holding another press conference on the coronavirus, which he called a hoax just last night.
“I will be having a 1:30 P.M. Press Conference at the White House to discuss the latest CoronaVirus developments,” the former slumlord and game show host said.
First coronavirus death in the U.S. happens in Washington state
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/1st-coronavirus-death-u-s-officials-say-n1145931
First coronavirus announced in Oregon, now at Kaiser Permanente in a Portland suburb.
Soon to be the second death, if you know anything about Kaiser……..