Trump's Response to COVID-19

is that why you wear a cowboy hat and ride a horse ?

 

UP to 31000 cases and 346 death

 

It doesn't seem to praise the US for making the most sweeping changes to emissions requirements either. Seriously, air in the US is cleaner now than it has been in a century. And not just a little cleaner. Consider how rare it is to see a car or truck belching smoke in the US.

What's interesting about this is that the engineers who have devised these measures for limiting and cleaning our pollution are not "Tree Huggers" by any means. They're doing it because they are being paid to by companies the government says must do it. But a few do it because they too like clean air and water.

 

What does that even mean? Are you of the opinion that ANY regulations are considered "Big Government"? Or is this just a snarky point of some sort?

 

Back around 1972 or 73 they had an accident at a GE Plant in Fort Wayne. 28 or 29 men died instantly from some sort of toxic chemical. They closed all 9 GE factories in Fort Wayne. The feds declared them super-fund sites. They are still closed and the city is trying to convert a couple to shopping centers or maybe an art school?

 

If the foreign person has a desire to come to America, the Republicans have special circumstance visa and special talent visas which could be utilized as in the case of Melania Trump and her parents.

 

Could you be more specific please?

 

this made me think about a job at Wash U in st. louis mo. they built a new lab and classroom. ok , now we all looked at the blueprint for the HVAC , and noted that the return air from the lab went INTO the air handler for the classroom. and the return air for the classroom went INTO the air handler for the lab. we questioned the general contractor about it but , said "build it like the print" . the lab tests mice who are given various diseases to be given a cure...maybe . we didnt like it that the air from the lab and air from the classroom were being exchanged all the time

 

is that you or just an avatar

 

In 1868, Sand Creek was the site of a massacre of Cheyenne women, and children, by the us cavalry. It's what made this country "great", don't you know.
That's good you got to meet him. I was never a big fan of his, I am more a fan of Tony Hillerman.

 

that is just not true,especially in California. Air quality here is regressing because of trump policies.

However, trump wants to roll back emission standards, something car manufacturers oppose, ironically.
by the way, I have been a proud tree hugger since 1970.

 

How? Seriously, who in California is actually listening to Trump? What "policies" are you referring to?

Yea, me too, since 6th grade.

However, I don't know what vehicle standards Trump has anything to do with. I say this because EPA regulations are surrounded by legal barbed wire. Trump can't just wave a wand and cancel these regulations unilaterally. It will take a bipartisan congress. Good luck finding one of those.

Also, the vehicle makers don't care (Volkswagen is a prime example) except that they can charge more money for a car by adding a gas muzzle. But if they fail, they face ruin at the EPA. Power plants are able to sell their wattage for more money by investing in emissions hardware. So they're in no hurry to see emissions standards go away.

At least he didn't wait 194 days to deal with an epidemic.

 

Oh yes, I like Tony Hillerman. I have read most of his stuff. I always liked The Milagro Beanfield War by Nichols. I liked another New Mexico writer. His name is Rudolfo Anaya. He wrote about an old Granny witch who had come to live with his family. He told of six herbs/plants which grew along the river and were used for medicinal purposes by the Rio Grande people. The Arapaho friends I have tell me most of the Sand Creek Massacre victims were Arapaho. That was in eastern Colorado and at the hand of Major Chivington and his militia men. I have visited that place and prayed for the souls of the victims. The place is near the Kansas line, and near Cheyenne Wells. I camped with Louis L' Amour at Sand Creek Pass which is near the Wyoming Border and west of Red Feather Lakes -- in the mountains. Louis was a cool guy. He was very much a product of WWII and he loved adventure. His favorite books were the same as mine: Wanderer Of The Waste Lands and Two Years Before The Mast and The Three Musketeers original Alexander Dumas. He liked Plutarch's Lives and didn't care for The Brothers Karamazov. The man was no dummy. He was like a walking encyclopedia under a cowboy hat.

 

That's admirable.

I have my opinion about the response. I may as well put it out there.

I feel like Americans are a little bit apathetic when it comes to politician; Donald Trump especially. They don't think they have to do anything. Sort of a "if it ain't broke" attitude. They don't think they have to make a vote count. Well, he's polling badly right now. But I predict that 1) the stimulus is half to get Trump reelected and 2) that once it's announced his polling numbers will go up.

That's my thought.

About the response; the stimulus "idea" since they don't have a law yet... I think it's necessary. People will be homeless without it. They can't pay their mortgage. Banks will foreclose them. And because of the foreclosure threat, and similarly the eviction threat, I think there should be something in the law that says "Hey wait! In this particular national emergency we don't want you to do that!".

and then the question becomes how far does it get to go in the direction of letting the government mandate free-market businesses. I don't mind it one bit. But I'll bet if that happens landlords won't be thrilled about it.

 

I really like that one.

 

We haven’t heard much about gender-neutral bathrooms, pronouns, micro aggressions, white privilege, cultural appropriation, or any other trivial thing of political correctness lately.

Almost as if when we are faced with REAL problems like a pandemic, these made-up problems become irrelevant

 

And yet here you are, bringing it all up

 

Almost like if you're on fire you don't care if your house has termites.

 

Yes the visible kinds of pollution are cleaner, things like fine particulates and nitrogen compounds have been reduced. Unfortunately the elephant in the room is invisible CO2. That is, of course, the crux of the greenhouse problem and by any measure it continues to increase. Neither Trump, big coal, big oil or the Republican Party has done anything even remotely positive for the environment in general or the atmosphere. We are neither fooled nor bullied (the President’s tactic of choice) into believing the lies and propaganda. Me, I rather hug a tree than Trump any day. Even the Douglas Fir in our backyard is more honest.

 

The emissions thing still predates Trump by a substantial margin. He's very limited in what rule changes he can make. So speculating that whatever he does is fucked up isn't reality, it's lazy politics.