Very readable article with also a sharp analysis what the effects are of Trump’s loyalty phobia. Nobody in his entourage can speak their mind or they are fired. Intellectual sparring partners are all gone.This can only lead to disaster in the end.
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How can an intellectual “spar” with a poisonous snake or reptile? See how far you get trying to convince a Komodo dragon that eating your goat is not in its best long term interest. The wisdom and intellect of Trump and a reptile are probably about the same.
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That’s why they are probably all gone…
Here we go again. The original question was not about signs. But running off the track is rather evident.
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The government has just now given a statement about the support for companies, small businesses and retail companies. Those that have applied for shortening working hours for their employees are reimbursed 90 percent of their wage costs. Self-employed persons and people with a zero-hour (on-call) contracts receive social assistance benefits more quickly and for at least a period of three months. Furthermore there are a number of other measures taken like tax reductions and financial support without payback requirement.
While going along in time other support is foreseen depending on developments.
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What should they have done?
They should have found someone smart enough to consider second order effects to make plans instead of using the idiot son-in-law.
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"Birds of a feather … "
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Told the truth. As opposed to:
POTUS, Jan. 22: “We have it totally under control…"
POTUS, Feb. 14: “We’re in very good shape…"
POTUS tweet, Feb. 24: “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA. … Stock Market starting to look very good to me!”
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Soon after he offered public assurances that the government was ready to battle the coronavirus, the powerful chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Richard Burr, sold off a significant percentage of his stocks, unloading between $582,029 and $1.56 million of his holdings on Feb. 13 in 29 separate transactions.
As the head of the intelligence committee, Burr, a North Carolina Republican, has access to the government’s most highly classified information about threats to America’s security. His committee was receiving daily coronavirus briefings around this time, according to a Reuters story.
A week after Burr’s sales, the stock market began a sharp decline and has lost about 30% since.
On Thursday, Burr came under fire after NPR obtained a secret recording from Feb. 27, in which the lawmaker gave a VIP group at an exclusive social club a much more dire preview of the economic impact of the coronavirus than what he had told the public. [emphasis mine]
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Another pardon in the wings to keep him quiet? Oh, silly me, corruption is no longer a crime for that bunch.
I’ll forgive him the insider trading before I’ll forgive him upholding the President’s lies about the epidemic.
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On the matter of pardons, who’s going to pardon Trump? At what point does Pence say, “I don’t wanna.”?
I’m suspicious that the same type of shenanigans are happening with the “miracle” drugs that were mentioned today by Mr. Trump. Before today I saw mention of chloroquine only on Breitbart. Breitbart being a feeder for manipulated info to Fox News, where the president gets his talking points.
Then, out of nowhere the president mentions this obscure drug, talking it up even as his experts tell people not to get their hopes up.
My suspicion is that someone planted the mention where Fox News would see it, to drive the stock price of the manufacturer up. Not particularly to benefit the president, but to use him as a dupe to manipulate the stock.
No evidence. Just a hunch. Maybe propublica will investigate.
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Chloroquine and its buddy primaquine are far from obscure in malaria country. From my Navy time to me those are practically a hyphenated word.
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I saw Trump giving a lecture on some pretty useless drugs, well that is for the cure of this virus. Why getting the people’s hope up? There probably will be a run on these medicines and that is only good for the stockholders satisfaction. Be honest and say that at this moment there is no cure for the Corona virus.
At last the truth, Trump is right about the coronavirus. Interesting article. Social distancing doesn’t stop the spreading, it only delays it and then it could go on up to 2023. On the other hand delay might be good as in the mean time a vaccine could be developed.
Yes, Yesterday I saw that the “power law” is a better model then simple exponential
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