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JonF Member (Idle past 169 days) Posts: 6174 Joined: |
US stays away as world leaders agree action on Covid-19 vaccine
quote:Once the US was a world leader. Now we're not even a world participant.
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jar Member (Idle past 395 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
Trump has decided that instead of the VP giving a virtual graduation speech to the class il Donaldo will address the class in person. He has instructed that 1000 grads be brought back to West Point, given covid-19 tests and then quarantined in separate rooms for 14 days before being herded to the ceremony.
quote: source That the Superintendent of West Point would even consider such an order makes one wonder.
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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 8513 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 5.3 |
That the Superintendent of West Point would even consider such an order makes one wonder. What's to wonder? The Superintendent is a 3-star general. Military through and through. His orders may seem unusual but they are not illegal in a Nuremberg sense and they are not unconstitutional. There is no reason to question. At least not publicly. There should be no doubt that the military see the Orange Bastard for the incompetent narcissistic idiot that he is, but in this instance, as in so many others, this is not sufficient reason to violate those orders. Even going in harm's way. Factio Republicana delenda est.
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jar Member (Idle past 395 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
So a three star General sending a whole graduating class into unnecessary harm to create a photo op for the President is not unreasonable.
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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 8513 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 5.3 |
Of course it's unreasonable. We're talking Donald Trump here.
But it is not illegal and military duty is to obey the legal orders of the Commander In Chief regardless of risk or circumstance. In this country military command is not allowed to substitute its own political judgement in place of its civilian leadership. That would be a violation of their oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution which specifically gives the President the right to issue such legal, if questionable, orders. Edited by AZPaul3, : No reason given.Factio Republicana delenda est.
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DrJones* Member Posts: 2284 From: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Joined: Member Rating: 6.8
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JonF Member (Idle past 169 days) Posts: 6174 Joined: |
Irish Times editorial
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anglagard Member (Idle past 837 days) Posts: 2339 From: Socorro, New Mexico USA Joined: |
quote: source Is anyone running to the left of Bismarck? Oh well, at least he killed Coronavirus on time. Edited by anglagard, : clumsy sentenceDeath is only the end if you assume the story is about you. - Night Vale podcast |
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Phat Member Posts: 18262 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: Member Rating: 1.1
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Notice that Macron is taking center stage.
quote: The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.Calvin Coolidge "A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." ~Mark Twain " As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness.-RC Sproul, Essential Truths of the Christian Faith - You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. Anne Lamott Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.~Andre Gide
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Percy Member Posts: 22394 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 5.2 |
jar writes: Trump has decided that instead of the VP giving a virtual graduation speech to the class il Donaldo will address the class in person. He has instructed that 1000 grads be brought back to West Point, given covid-19 tests and then quarantined in separate rooms for 14 days before being herded to the ceremony. I'd guestimate the probability that one or more of the cadets who pass the initial covid-19 test come down with it during their 14-day quarantine at around 50/50. Those cadets simply won't attend, and of course none who provide services (meals, janitorial, etc.) will attend, but what about all the other military brass would who normally attend a West Point graduation? What about the crew of civilians necessary to put on an event of this size? Drivers? Parking attendants? Ushers? Will they quarantine too? Is there nothing this president won't sacrifice for his vanity? --Percy
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Percy Member Posts: 22394 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 5.2
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I missed this somehow.
Stile writes: But this could just as easily be written as:
quote: I was making a different point. Of course all countries and their leaders are wrestling with these opposing concerns. I was offering them as the explanation for why Trump's behavior, as opposed to that of other countrys' leaders, is schizophrenic. He isn't balancing these concerns like other leaders. He's bouncing back and forth between them. --Percy
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JonF Member (Idle past 169 days) Posts: 6174 Joined: |
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JonF Member (Idle past 169 days) Posts: 6174 Joined: |
No More Mister Nice Blog: THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY IN SIX WORDS
Actually from WaPo: "Fulfill the president's needs and impulses".
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PaulK Member Posts: 17822 Joined: Member Rating: 2.2 |
The Republican Governor of Maryland has called out the National Guard to protect a shipment of coronavirus tests. The threat - the Federal Government - which has already seized supplies intended for other States.
Outbidding the States for medical supplies is bad enough. Seizing them from the States is going much further.
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Percy Member Posts: 22394 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 5.2
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Fact check: New White House press secretary makes false claims in first briefing - CNNPolitics, says a CNN report.
When Trump talks he lies. If you could bet money on each Trump sentence on whether it was true, false or misleading you could make a fortune just betting mindlessly on "not true." Now we know his new press secretary lies too. Trump's latest lie is Page No Longer Available - The New York Times. I of course have no evidence that it's a lie, but Trump said it, so I'm on pretty safe ground. This Wuhan lab thing is blowing up in the news media, but it's just another Trump distraction. He wants to be at the top of the news cycle every day, and this is how he does it. If it gains a little traction like this Wuhan lab thing seems to be doing then he just keeps pushing it until one day it just melts away and disappears like so many other Trump lies. By reporting all these lies, often multiple times for each outlet, the news media is acting as a Trump propaganda arm. This realization has been gradually dawning on the news media over the past few months, and they try to counter it with fact checking, but as they say, a lie can circle the globe three times before the truth puts its shoes on. Trump is much more effective at spreading lies than the news media is at correcting them. It won't happen, but we need the news media to only report the verifiably true things that the Trump administration says. They can continue reporting on what the Trump administration does - not on what they say they do, but on what they actually verifiably do. When, for example, Kushner goes before the cameras and touts the administration's accomplishments in battling the coronavirus they should carry only the portions that are true, and for the rest they can just say that Kushner said a bunch of things that were contrary to known facts or were unverifiable. There's no need to correct the same lies in detail day after day. Just quoting lies to correct them spreads them. It's the genius of Trump that he has coopted the entire news media to spread his message of lies. --Percy
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