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Why Trump's pardon-a-thon is stupid. Under Burdick v. US, anyone who accepts a pardon - even these "not gonna tell you what for" pardons - is confessing to a federal crime. Any of them who accept, whether the CFO or @IvankaTrump or anyone, will be asked in civil depositions...
...what federal crimes they committed that led to a pardon. If they say "none" then the pardon should be void (hard to tell, because preemptive pardons have never been done before.) Then, @POTUS can be deposed and asked what he was pardoning these people for having done.../2
...if he doesnt identify one, there is a strong argument under Burdick that - if the president didnt know what he was pardoning someone for, there is no valid pardon. A pardon is not a blanket to prevent prosecution of cronies. If they do acknowledge a crime, that can be used../3
To everyone freaking out about what Trump's doing with Pentagon: Don't. No military officer would follow an unlawful order to do anything to keep him in office. Generals might remove him if he goes too far, though.
HOWEVER, from a national security perspective, bad things.../1
HOWEVER, from a national security perspective, bad things.../1
...are going to happen, and we are seeing them coming fast. He has a LOT of Putin appeasing to do. Remember, this asshole is $1 billion in debt, no bank will touch him, and he needs cash. So...yah.
So we will pull out of Middle East, send lots of weapons to countries who he.../2
So we will pull out of Middle East, send lots of weapons to countries who he.../2
...bribed with promises of weapons to get them to do the Israeli deals. He's rushing an arms "agreement" with Putin, that Im sure Putin has dictated to him. However, this will put us in a very dangerous place in the Middle East. #DimwitDon is too stupid - or probably doesnt.../3
Watching Trump bring up swine flu (H1N1) shows the magnitude of his stupidity & his belief in the the stupidity of his followers and of conservative media.
The H1N1 response was a huge lesson in how *to* respond to an imminent pandemic and how the USA could lead the world...1
The H1N1 response was a huge lesson in how *to* respond to an imminent pandemic and how the USA could lead the world...1
...in response. That a deadly disease killed people is a truism: It is only after deaths begin that anyone knows a deadly infectious outbreak has begun. How you measure success is how a government responded. And Obama's H1N1 response is practically a case study in competence...2
...just start with one comparative date: The key, most important moment in the development of a potential pandemic is when the @WHO, relying on its massive detection network, declares there to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. Let's look at the dates and...3
Well, looks like someone just told #DimwitDon that 1/3 of the voters identified as "Hispanic" in Florida polls are Puerto Rican, and that they are breaking massively to Biden. So, of course, he is using tax dollars to FINALLY help our fellow citizens.
Won't work. And might...1
Won't work. And might...1
...backfire. Reaction of a Puerto Rican friend was not: "Oh, thank goodness. Oh, thank you, the great beneficent Don." It was (first words out of her mouth): "Oh FUCK him." And then the anger flowed out (paraphrased). "NOW the money exists. NOW, after ignoring us for 3 years...2
...he finally decides to do something. Does he know how many Puerto Ricans died??!!? Does he know how many died who didnt need to because he abandoned us? And now he wants our vote. Oh, fuck him! This makes me furious. How stupid does he think we are? He'll probably...3
There will be no vaccine distributed before the election. Not even a fake one, because - once again - Trump is too incompetent.
The key problem: Vaccines require *very* specific bottles. It is made out of a special sand that is STILL in short supply, months after Trump was...1
The key problem: Vaccines require *very* specific bottles. It is made out of a special sand that is STILL in short supply, months after Trump was...1
...told. The sand we have is being used for the flu vaccine being produced and going out now. The bottles we have are being used for that. They have invested a comparatively small amount of money to increase production of bottles, but not enough for mass production as needed...2
...for this kind of D-Day undertaking. The distribution system has had *nothing* done - all planning has been handled by the distributors with no national plan (what a surprise) but they are not capable of expanding to the extent that they could distribute flu, other standard...3
Ah, the old pick-and choose. Ok, let's go.
If you start with case totals, red states in the top 15 have 2.5 million cases. Blue have 1.7 million. (Note: red and blue make up America. And Trump is president of America.)
So, he picks a data category and picks one category. But...
If you start with case totals, red states in the top 15 have 2.5 million cases. Blue have 1.7 million. (Note: red and blue make up America. And Trump is president of America.)
So, he picks a data category and picks one category. But...
...now, the reason why case numbers are more reflective of performance than death rates: As only idiots and #DimwitDon don't know, what determines death rates in global dealing with Covid is the timing of outbreak. The coasts had the earliest outbreaks because the virus came...
... in from Europe and those visitors tend to be on the coasts, as do business folks traveling back and forth from europe. Early on, doctors were still struggling to figure out what to do (for example, they were much more sold on ventilators than now, they believed in patients...
Now that Ive shown data proving #DimwitDon @POTUS & @WhiteHouse dont even know that ISIS attacks are growing rapidly, thus can't protect us because theyre so busy claiming a victory that doesnt exist, the question is -HOW did ISIS reconstitute itself?
Thanks #DimwitDon!.../1
Thanks #DimwitDon!.../1
...yes, the best friends that ISIS ever had are #DimwitDon @POTUS and this @WhiteHouse. Just like always, they can't bring themselves to backtrack on their lies, so they just pretend.
Trump's reckless, unplanned pullout from Syria - done because Erdogan asked him to - brought...
Trump's reckless, unplanned pullout from Syria - done because Erdogan asked him to - brought...
...ISIS back to power, just like *everyone* told him it would. But he didn't care - he has a hotel in Istanbul, Erdogan attended the opening ceremony, so who cares about lives - including our troops in Iraq -when money is on the line.
How do I know that Trump's recklessness...
How do I know that Trump's recklessness...
As predicted right here in early 2018, Trump's trade war with China has caused long-term/perhaps permanent damage to US agriculture. #DimwitDon was too dumb to know, if China couldnt get soybeans etc from us, theyd just set up trade with other countries... rawstory.com/2020/08/trumps…
...and once those trade relationships between China and, say, Brazil were established, it would be very hard for the USA - having proven itself to be both an unreliable and a stupid trade partner - to get back to where we were in 2017.
THIS is what happens when an incompetent...
THIS is what happens when an incompetent...
...becomes president - he blathers on about how simple things are, because he is too stupid to understand them,& too stupid to *know* he is stupid. American farmers got sold-out for Trump's ego. Then again, the whole country is paying that same price with his Covid incompetence.
I knew it. I knew in early June, before number started falling, that Trump would at some point start bragging about "deaths per case"as a sign of success. This number means nothing EXCEPT that policy has failed, & @WhiteHouse and @POTUS are too stupid to know that.
To explain..1
To explain..1
...In early June, the "open 'er up with no policies in place" mindset had already started to show an impact: the average age of the infected started dropping. The reason? Trump and his dumb cronies kept chirping that young people would be fine, so the number of that age...2
...group would start running outside, taking risks, etc. Thats why the average age of infected started dropping. Second, all other countries got on crushed the curve early on, when MDs were still figuring out the best way to treat this thing. They learned, patients on their...3
The GOP and @POTUS are not only incapable of understanding viral outbreaks, they are incapable of understanding business.
@mcuban made a great point the other day on @TheBeatWithAri: Businesses pay money to operate - salaries and all other variable costs. Opening a biz with.../1
@mcuban made a great point the other day on @TheBeatWithAri: Businesses pay money to operate - salaries and all other variable costs. Opening a biz with.../1
...significantly limited numbers of customers (America has lots of stupid people, but not enough to bring business to where ir was) would, for many businesses, not offset the variable costs of operating. So *opening* with significantly cut number of customers will cost some.../2
...businesses more than the cost of not opening at all. Without fundamentals - testing, tracing, monitoring, health care systems support, and government support of small business variable costs (not "finance wall street!) - "opening" as panacea to economy is magical thinking.../3
1st, Trump blamed democrats for "lying" about COVID-19
Then, the media for saying it was serious.
Then, China (after weeks of praising its response) when he admitted it was serious
Then, media again
Now, he blames @WHO for his incompetence
Lets review reality, shall we?.../1
Then, the media for saying it was serious.
Then, China (after weeks of praising its response) when he admitted it was serious
Then, media again
Now, he blames @WHO for his incompetence
Lets review reality, shall we?.../1
...On December 26, a doctor in China informed her hospital that there was a cluster of patients with a similar, unusual respiratory disease. They informed Wuhan CDC equivalent on December 28. That organization informed @WHO on December 31. So - remember that date. 12/31.
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...on 12/31 - the same FRIGGING day that WHO learned of the report - the WHO transmits the report to the American CDC. They notified us THE DAY they knew.
By January 3, China identified 44 cases to WHO. Chinese were working to determine whether this was novel virus or known.../3
By January 3, China identified 44 cases to WHO. Chinese were working to determine whether this was novel virus or known.../3
Since @larry_kudlow is too stupid to look up basic info about pandemics/epidemics - & thus says "nobody could have predicted" COVID-19 would have an exponential rise - thus *proving* Trump Admin is not consulting even mildly qualified experts, let's explain to him.../1
...the exponential rise, @larry_kudlow was proven to be coming on Jan 23 (day after Trump said "we have it totally under control” and the day before he said "“It will all work out well.”)
The key to knowing it is from calculating Basic reproduction number of a virus..../2
The key to knowing it is from calculating Basic reproduction number of a virus..../2
...(notice how the word "basic" is there? Remember that, because this is a BASIC infectious disease issue.)
The reproduction number is cited as r0. It is the average number of people who will be infected by one person with the disease. This is simple math: If r0 is 1 or less../3
The reproduction number is cited as r0. It is the average number of people who will be infected by one person with the disease. This is simple math: If r0 is 1 or less../3
1. @PressSec: How do we combat stupid falsehoods about an epidemic from @POTUS, the dumbest man in the world?
By Trump's ridiculous abuse of data, leading him to say coronavirus is not a big deal, then kids with polio should go to school, cause the infection is no big deal...
By Trump's ridiculous abuse of data, leading him to say coronavirus is not a big deal, then kids with polio should go to school, cause the infection is no big deal...
2...in fact, using #DimwitDon's stupid, ignorant, uninformed, and destructive use of data on @seanhannity , the following diseases are LESS serious than coronavirus:
1. Measles.
2. Polio
3. Viral and Bacterial Meningitis
4. Tuberculosis
I could keep going. The reason why...
1. Measles.
2. Polio
3. Viral and Bacterial Meningitis
4. Tuberculosis
I could keep going. The reason why...
3....is the vast majority of MOST viral infections do present as serious in a majority of the people infected. Take polio: 99% of the people infected present with what's called non-paralytic or abortive polio. The symptoms are mild. 1% present with paralytic polio. The issue...
1. I don't care about Trump's ego self-gratification with his celebration of himself. It is how, through his ignorance, #DimwitDon is abandoning what Independence Day is all about, throwing out history he doesn't know, and undermining everything the celebration means....
2...unlike Bastille Day - which inspired this nonsense of Trump's - Independence Day is specifically not about a military campaign. It is about a philosophy of freedom, captured through the Declaration of Independence. There was no battle that gave America the power to sign...
3...this document. The Revolutionary War had barely started. There was a small battle in April 1775, followed by a long period of nothing, then a siege on Boston in March 1776, after which George Washington was named commander of the Continental Army. But we don't celebrate...
1. #DimwitDon, in his continuing effort to remind the world that he only got into UPenn through the intervention of his father and brother, urges people to read Article II of the Constitution, proclaiming it gives the president "powers that you wouldn't believe."
Ummm...nope...
Ummm...nope...
2...in this, the President of the United States demonstrates he doesn't know or understand fundamental history of the United States, or the Constitution he pledged to uphold.
America had been under the rule of a sovereign - King George III, who exercised "powers you wouldnt...
America had been under the rule of a sovereign - King George III, who exercised "powers you wouldnt...
3...believe." While there was interest in giving George Washington sweeping powers, he rejected that, on the conviction that America did not need another sovereign.
So, Article 1 is about the power of Congress - a power that limits the power of the President that once could be..
So, Article 1 is about the power of Congress - a power that limits the power of the President that once could be..
1. The most important story of the day, the week and possibly the month is being largely overlooked in the wake of Mueller.
China has just made one of the most terrifying declarations it ever has regarding the USA. If they arent bluffing, things are about to get very very ugly..
China has just made one of the most terrifying declarations it ever has regarding the USA. If they arent bluffing, things are about to get very very ugly..
2...in an editorial in the People's Daily - the organ of Chinese government, whose words reflect the policies of its leaders - it issued huge threats against the USA, along with the phrase that basically translates into "Don't say I didn't warn you."
That has enormous import...
That has enormous import...
3...this is not some throwaway line in China. This has huge historic import. It has been used only a few times in the official Chinese media, and always as a declaration of major threats.
In 1962, it was used just before China went to war with India. The next time, in 1979....
In 1962, it was used just before China went to war with India. The next time, in 1979....
1. How to be a political figure.
@FLOTUS tweets gracious words of support to the people of Paris, and the those putting their lives at risk....
@FLOTUS tweets gracious words of support to the people of Paris, and the those putting their lives at risk....
@FLOTUS 2...while #DimwitDon spends the day tweeting about himself, proclaiming HE knows how to put out massive fires in ancient buildings - yet not ONE WORD of condolences from his personal account. (The account with tweets that usually HE, not staff, write.) Below: his tweets today.
@FLOTUS 3...i know everyone knows this but his cult, but this man is a sociopath and malignant narcissist. and his reaction to the burning of Notre Dame Cathedral is just more evidence of that.
