Posted on 04/17/2020 11:43:39 AM PDT by Starman417
He did it again. Trump gave them enough rope and they hanged themselves.
Led by the selfish bi-, er, witch Nancy Pelosi, there has been non-stop criticism from democrats when Donald Trump began talking of re-opening the country.
Intentionally left off the criticism is the fact that Trump has been abiding by the advice of Drs. Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx.Speaker Nancy Pelosi lashed President Donald Trump during a private call with her caucus Monday, saying he was putting Americans in grave danger if he rushes to reopen the economy at the end of this month.
Pelosi sharply criticized Trump’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak, telling Democrats it was “almost sinful” how his administration had failed to live up to promises to make testing available to all Americans and quickly address the mask, gown and glove supply shortage in hospitals across the country.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tAdXs4LoVU
Keep that in mind
Yesterday Trump unveiled a plan to re-open the country in three phases, carefully and slowly.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and members of the White House coronavirus task force are set to hold a briefing Thursday to discuss the three-phase plan for reopening the country. Watch the briefing live right here.President Trump gave governors a road map Thursday for recovering from the economic pain of the coronavirus pandemic, laying out a phased approach to restoring normal activity in places that have strong testing and are seeing a decrease in COVID-19 cases.
“We are not going to open all at once,” Trump said during his Thursday briefing.
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In phase one, for instance, the plan recommends strict social distancing for all people in public. Gatherings larger than 10 people are to be avoided and nonessential travel is discouraged.More details can be seen at the link.In phase two, people are encouraged to maximize social distancing where possible and limit gatherings to no more than 50 people unless precautionary measures are taken. Travel could resume.
Phase three envisions a return to normalcy for most Americans, with a focus on the identification and isolation of any new infections.
It is a thoughtful and well considered plan and it is based on the recommendations of Fauci and Birx. It gives Governors the discretion to selectively open whatever parts of the states they feel safe with and that meets the guidelines.
I've said over and over that I do not give too much attention to what Trump says and watch for what he does. He often says things just to provoke the left into saying stupid things and then undermine them, as he has done here. Wonder why Trump was saying he had "total authority"? Read on. He was chumming the waters.
The left overreacted, as expected. Biden was even more stupid. Someone is giving him some really bad advice. After the President's briefing- which was arguably the best one so far- Biden joined the morons on CNN for a town hall meeting in which he said this:
https://twitter.com/AC360/status/1250957069068492801
It wasn't a week ago when democrats were screaming that Trump wasn't a king and didn't have the authority to open the country.
"The President's powers are not 'total,' " Susan Low Bloch, a professor of constitutional law at Georgetown Law School, said in an email. "Our government is a government of divided powers. We call it 'separation of powers' with 'checks and balances.' "Then out of nowhere Trump, Fauci and Birx present a sensible plan based on Federalism and how does the left respond?
Predictably. The Washington Post:
(Excerpt) Read more at Floppingaces.net...
There are 26 GOP Governors let’s roll. The rats are mobilizing, they are going slow walk this as much as possible. If they can keep the economy crushed through May no way it recovers before the election.
The American people are overwhelmingly in favor of opening up, so the president is on the right side of this issue.
Agreed.
It's no use if we wait until "the patient" (the U.S. economy) is entirely Covid-19 free, if "the patient" is dead by then.
The needle that must be threaded is to revive the economy without starting new outbreaks that overwhelm our hospitals.
This should be done at the state, city and county level.
President Trump is supernatural.. No mere mortal could endure, let alone Win, the fight he has been through.
The price of rope has gone up substantially. I don’t know how many more trillions we can afford.
Its pretty clear by now
-This disease is greatly focused on the elderly
-Covid-19 deaths are very highly focused among people who have other health problems
-Children are basically not-affected
-People <35 years old have minuscule hospital or ICU admittance.
-You can see large clustering of cases in Hospitals and nursing homes in particular.
Re-open the economy - put great efforts into isolating hospitals, nursing homes and the elderly. Give states recommendations for social distancing and common-sense mask use, but let them decide.
End this national economic suicide now!
It reminds me of the old Mark Twain story, The Tale of Donald Trump and the Picket Fence:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3836056/posts
Our governor in MA ran as a Republican but he’s a total rhino and will hang with the Democrats.
Seems to be a thing with MA Republican Governors, don't it?
They are playing Donald's game and will lose.
As long as they open up the economy, Trump will get the credit, because they won't beat him to the start.
3 posted on 4/13/2020, 5:22:04 PM by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
I expect Trump will receive strong pushback on this as there are a lot of authoritarians and "experts" invested heavily with edicts that require face coverings; their public reason being that masks help control the spread of the Chinese Flu ... but I'm convinced their true reason for mandating these damn things is that masks serve as a constant reminder that if you venture outside your home you're facing certain death and thus you must remain under our control.
To borrow an (in)famous phrase: "Resisss we much!"
"President Trump please stand firm.
The left overreacted, as expected. Biden was even more stupid.
All US states and territories need to enact laws anaologous to the War Powers Act -- no more of this unconstitutional gov't-by-decree by the colluding fascist Demagogic Party governors.
Your analysis of polling data is:
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/15/poll-dont-stop-social-distancing-coronavirus-spread-187290
well, you figure it out....
It sure does.
DIMocRATs are always “disappointed and bitter”. This is because at some deep level they realize that their ideas are worthless and malignant...and they realize that they are doomed to worthless lives as losers. I laugh at their predicament...and their worthless existence.
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