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originally posted by: shooterbrody
a reply to: gortex
Did you not?
He can implement policy, which he has and it's been fantastic for the markets . Funny, I didn;t see you give him any credit for the booming us economy these last 3 years.
U.S. stocks plunged again Wednesday, after triggering circuit-breakers that temporarily halted trading, as investors dashed for cash as governments announced a plethora of plans to limit the economic blow of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell another 10% and has now erased all of its gains since President Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 2017. The benchmark S&P 500 index fell below its level last seen during the December 2018 slump.
www.marketwatch.com... =home-page
Mainly though, your continued use of every ill under the sun to bash your political enemies is quite pathetic.
Give it a rest, FFS.
originally posted by: Xcalibur254
Got it.
Trump can do no wrong and even when things don't go right excuses will be made.
It was handouts to all those euros who couldnt/wouldnt play nice together.
....borders anybody?????
originally posted by: vonclod
originally posted by: spiritualarchitect
Does anyone really think Bozo Biden or Bullsh*t Bernie would do any better.
That is not even a question because the answer is NO.
Probably not..so what.
Trump said some dangerous sh#t, like, it's no big deal, all the fuss surrounding it is a hoax, people are getting sick, and going to work, tad amount to saying its ok to do that..very irresponsible.
Otherwise, I doubt anyone else would of took the big steps needed.
originally posted by: Flesh699
originally posted by: vonclod
originally posted by: spiritualarchitect
Does anyone really think Bozo Biden or Bullsh*t Bernie would do any better.
That is not even a question because the answer is NO.
Probably not..so what.
Trump said some dangerous sh#t, like, it's no big deal, all the fuss surrounding it is a hoax, people are getting sick, and going to work, tad amount to saying its ok to do that..very irresponsible.
Otherwise, I doubt anyone else would of took the big steps needed.
You're not very smart. The public is not smart, either. Had trump came out and told you # was about to hit the fan people would've died by trampling in the stores. How do I know this?
I work in public, i see first hand what panic does. Had they not eased us into it all those god loving Christians would've came out of the woodwork with #ing shotguns and shot you over butt paper. The murder rate would've went through the #ing roof.
You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about and clearly do not work with large crowds.
At such times, it's more important that the words of our leaders should inspire and encourage calm, rationality and preparedness; not ignite the fires of paranoia and panic.
Those manic voices who are still venomously attacking our president in an effort to convince us all that his words and decisions will lead only to death and destruction will make our situation worse, and ultimately cause more sickness and death.
Battles in our streets for food and supplies, with a wave of injuries and deaths to go along with it?
A: Trump's PAST actions and decisions
The Trump administration fired the U.S. pandemic response team in 2018 to cut costs.
Why did HIS administration do that...? What were the reasons given at the time for doing so...?
Media, Democrats Ran With False Claim Trump ‘Disbanded’ Pandemic Office
The official who once ran the White House pandemic program dismissed a false Democratic talking point that Trump eliminated the pandemic-response team and criticized reporters for parroting the claim in news stories.
"No, the White House didn’t ‘dissolve’ its pandemic response office. I was there," wrote former National Security Council adviser Tim Morrison for the Washington Post on Monday.
"It has been alleged by multiple officials of the Obama administration, including in The Post, that the president and his then-national security adviser, John Bolton, ‘dissolved the office' at the White House in charge of pandemic preparedness," Morrison wrote. "Because I led the very directorate assigned that mission, the counterproliferation and biodefense office, for a year and then handed it off to another official who still holds the post, I know the charge is specious."
As part of an effort to slim down the historically bloated National Security Council, the directorate of global health and biodefense was merged with two other positions—not eliminated—according to Morrison.
"If anything, the combined directorate was stronger because related expertise could be commingled," he wrote.
Are you sure about that or is that what you've been conditioned to think?
Could the below be true?
The official who once ran the White House pandemic program dismissed a false Democratic talking point that Trump eliminated the pandemic-response team and criticized reporters for parroting the claim in news stories.
"No, the White House didn’t ‘dissolve’ its pandemic response office. I was there," wrote former National Security Council adviser Tim Morrison for the Washington Post on Monday.
"It has been alleged by multiple officials of the Obama administration, including in The Post, that the president and his then-national security adviser, John Bolton, ‘dissolved the office' at the White House in charge of pandemic preparedness," Morrison wrote. "Because I led the very directorate assigned that mission, the counterproliferation and biodefense office, for a year and then handed it off to another official who still holds the post, I know the charge is specious."
[As part of an effort to slim down the historically bloated National Security Council, the directorate of global health and biodefense was merged with two other positions—not eliminated—according to Morrison.
"If anything, the combined directorate was stronger because related expertise could be commingled," he wrote.
It’s thus true that the Trump administration axed the executive branch team responsible for coordinating a response to a pandemic and did not replace it, eliminating Ziemer’s position and reassigning others, although Bolton was the executive at the top of the National Security Council chain of command at the time.
originally posted by: mtnshredder
a reply to: Involutionist
A: Trump's PAST actions and decisions
The Trump administration fired the U.S. pandemic response team in 2018 to cut costs.
Why did HIS administration do that...? What were the reasons given at the time for doing so...?
Are you sure about that or is that what you've been conditioned to think?
Could the below be true?
Media, Democrats Ran With False Claim Trump ‘Disbanded’ Pandemic Office
The official who once ran the White House pandemic program dismissed a false Democratic talking point that Trump eliminated the pandemic-response team and criticized reporters for parroting the claim in news stories.
"No, the White House didn’t ‘dissolve’ its pandemic response office. I was there," wrote former National Security Council adviser Tim Morrison for the Washington Post on Monday.
"It has been alleged by multiple officials of the Obama administration, including in The Post, that the president and his then-national security adviser, John Bolton, ‘dissolved the office' at the White House in charge of pandemic preparedness," Morrison wrote. "Because I led the very directorate assigned that mission, the counterproliferation and biodefense office, for a year and then handed it off to another official who still holds the post, I know the charge is specious."
As part of an effort to slim down the historically bloated National Security Council, the directorate of global health and biodefense was merged with two other positions—not eliminated—according to Morrison.
"If anything, the combined directorate was stronger because related expertise could be commingled," he wrote.
freebeacon.com...
The directorate was disbanded when a May 2018 change in organizational structure by John Bolton, Trump's recently appointed head of the National Security Council, resulted in the effective elimination of the office then led by Rear Admiral Tim Zeimer, Sr. Director for Global Health Security and Biothreats. Remaining staff were moved to other NSC departments, prompting Zeimer's resignation, thus completing the elimination of the office.[25][26][27] The responsibilities that formerly belonged to the directorate, along with those of arms control and nonproliferation and of weapons of mass destruction terrorism, were absorbed into a single new directorate, counterproliferation and biodefense, and assigned to Tim Morrison in July 2018 as director. Morrison characterized the consolidation as part of an overall NSC "reduction of force" and called it "specious" to say the office was "dissolved," adding "the bloat that occurred under the previous administration clearly needed a correction," and "That is why Trump began streamlining the NSC staff in 2017."[
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: mtnshredder
So, a body dedicated to pandemic response and begun due to the ebola outbreak went away because it was just "bloat?"
Is that what that says?
Yeah, pretty sure it does.
But fortunately the admin seems to be taking it seriously now. I wonder if such a body might show up again. Nah, just bloat.
Yeah. I got that part.
according to Morrison
Am I?
I'm not sure what you're confused about?
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: mtnshredder
Yeah. I got that part.
according to Morrison
Am I?
I'm not sure what you're confused about?
A body dedicated to pandemic response was absorbed into a larger group. That means there is no longer a body dedicated to pandemic response. That means that those in the body who were dedicated to pandemic response have other responsibilities.