The Donald Trump Score Card

Reality TV show proposal: Trump stuck on a cruise ship with three thousand of his supporters and the corona virus spreading among them.



US cruise ship in limbo as anti-virus controls spread
JOE McDONALD
March 7, 2020, 2:08 AM EST

US cruise ship in limbo as anti-virus controls spread

excerpt:

"BEIJING (AP) — Officials in California were deciding Saturday where to dock a cruise ship with 21 coronavirus cases aboard and four U.S. universities canceled in-person classes, as Western countries imitate China by imposing travel controls and shutting down public events to contain the outbreak.

The Grand Princess cruise ship was waiting off San Francisco with 3,500 people aboard. Authorities want it to go to a non-commercial port for everyone aboard to be tested amid evidence the ship was the breeding ground for a deadly cluster of 10 cases during an earlier voyage."

 

I'll let you know what Schiff and Nadler say about that.

 

If that happens then we can say America is now a nation which protects rich criminals all the way to the White House, while poor men sit in prison because they stole $165 from a beer joint.

 

Erik Prince Recruits Ex-Spies to Help Infiltrate Liberal Groups

 

Some people in our neighborhood live adjacent to a large windmill farm . They might
complain of a relatively incessant noise . Hummm ... that it'll get in the bones . Otherwise ,
we've had a high cancer rate anyway . Pesticides I suppose .

 

That figures. I would like to see him in prison for a thirty year sentence … in Iraq.

 

I took time to read it. Prince is using O'Keefe, huh? Both of them are pieces of shit. Erik Prince should be turned over to Iraq's street people. They'd love to show him some local hospitality at Nisoor Square..

 

A germaphobe who railed against globalization and China, where the coronavirus is said to have started, and who boasted about his border wall has difficulty handling the very situation for which he claimed he would provide protection.



The Coronavirus Is Coming for Trump’s Presidency
Will a nationalist president be undone by his underreaction to a foreign threat?
By Ross Douthat
Opinion Columnist
March 7, 2020, 4:14 p.m. ET

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/07/opinion/coronavirus-trump.html\

excerpts:

"Instead, Trump fell into the same trap as the cosmopolitan sophisticates — acting as though the specter of panic is worse than the disease itself, focusing on the more reassuring estimates of the virus’s fatality rates instead of recognizing the wide spread of possible scenarios — while mixing in his own short-termist fixation on the stock market. And then when, at last, even the cosmopolitans became alarmed, he took their anxiety as a partisan insult, and lapsed into “hoax” accusations, pulling a certain percentage of his co-partisans into irresponsibility along with him."


"And how ironic that would be. In 2016 we elected a China hawk who promised a “complete shutdown” in response to foreign threats, a germaphobic critic of globalization who promised to privilege the national interest above all."

 

Trump harbors a considerable amount of trepidation over the virus he claims to be overblown.

 

Mulvaney is ousted.

Trump is on his fourth chief of staff.



President Trump hopes the fourth time will be the charm
Can Mark Meadows, the president's new chief of staff, avoid the "natural slow death" of working in the White House?
By MERIDITH MCGRAW and DANIEL LIPPMAN
03/07/2020 10:15 PM EST

President Trump hopes the fourth time will be the charm

excerpts:

"It’s a gnarly set of challenges for Mark Meadows, but then again, each of Trump’s three previous chiefs of staff saw their fair share of chaos: Reince Priebus often just tried to keep the administration afloat in its calamitous early days; John Kelly sought to rein in a boss he saw as mercurial and dangerous; Mick Mulvaney helped him stumble into an impeachment scandal."


"“I think he’ll calm things down for a while,” a person close to the president said of Meadows. “He’s a quality big player who will command a lot of respect.”"

 

Coronavirus is now in 32 states. The numbers are going up fast. The government is saying it is now tracking another infected ship. 19000 Republicans held a big conservatives meeting and now at least one person who attended has tested positive. Three members of the armed forces have tested positive. As it stands things don't look good and it is not going to disappear as Trump claimed. The government of Italy is imposing forced quarantine on 16 million people in the northern part of the country. The virus has spread to nearly the entire planet in just a few weeks.

 

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Mulvaney is now special envoy to Northern Ireland.



Trump Picks Mark Meadows, Who Had Talked About Sending Obama “Back to Kenya,” as New Chief of Staff
By Daniel Politi
March 07, 202010:24 AM

Trump Picks Mark Meadows, Who Had Talked About Sending Obama “Back to Kenya,” as New Chief of Staff

 

Ireland is not as far as Mongolia where Trump sent Bolton.

 

What History Has to Say About the ‘Winners’ in Trade Wars
By James B. Stewart
March 8, 2018

What History Has to Say About the ‘Winners’ in Trade Wars

excerpt:

"There were also unintended consequences. American automakers, insulated from foreign competition by the tariffs, failed to modernize, improve quality or reduce costs, setting the stage for a decades-long decline, which for Chrysler and General Motors ended in bankruptcy.

Much the same can be said of the United States steel industry, which since World War II has probably received more protection from tariffs and quotas than any other industry. “They just used the protection to raise prices, fatten profits, pay their executives more and avoid automating and reducing costs,” Professor Conybeare said. “They didn’t use the breathing space they gained to modernize. So much of the U.S. steel industry is using obsolete technology, which is why they can’t compete.”

Decades of tariff protection have done little to stem the industry’s decline. Domestic steel employment dropped from 135,000 in 2000 to 83,600 in 2016, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics."

 

General Motors survived the Great Depression with-out going bankrupt. They even made money during the Great Depression. But, they lost money during the period of Republican Bush administration economic policy prior to Obama's corrections. Now The Republican Trump style of Organized Crime Economic Policies is going to have an impact on the car business and then some.

 

Trump has appointed specific people to the Internal Revenue Service. Their specific job has become evident after they used their position to protect the man who appointed them to it. It's an obvious case of cronyism. The policy behind all the Shenanigans at the IRS has also become apparent. The IRS is now more tolerant of rich white business types and members of the Republican Party. To make it easier for themselves when refusing to release Trump's tax records to Congress, they are also making superficial inquiry into corporations and businesses. I know of several small Republican owned businesses which are not being investigated for tax fraud. Many of these businesses deal in cash transactions and keep double sets of books. It's fraud the likes of which you ain't never seen before.

 

Mark Meadows (North Carolina politician)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mark Meadows (North Carolina politician) - Wikipedia

excerpts:

"In February 2013 Meadows voted against renewing the Violence Against Women Act. Meadows has said he casts his votes based not on his personal feelings but on what the majority of his constituents in "God's Country" tell him to do.[61]"


Meadows opposes the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), and has stated that it should be replaced by private enterprise.[59]

Less than a year after taking office, Meadows wrote the letter that initially urged House Speaker John Boehner to shut down the government unless the ACA was defunded. Some constituents have criticized him as responsible for the 2013 government shutdown; The Washington Post called him its "chief architect". His district lost up to $1 million per day during the shutdown because the national parks were closed.[64]

 

oooooo--what a surprise! Them-there repubs never disappoint.

 

Well.... I've never said these people were overly smart.