If this is true, it's...there aren't words for how evil and depraved it is. This is from Trump's Senior Advisor, aka daughter. Let's look at what was happening at this time.
January 23, 2020: in a meeting, Richard Bright expresses the need for urgent access to funding, personnel and clinical specimens. HHS responds by excluding him from further meetings.
January 23, 2020: Michael Bowen emails HHS again saying, “We are the last major domestic mask company...I can help you preserve our infrastructure if things ever get really bad.”
late January, 2020: Dr. Richard Bright (program leader within the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA)) warns Trump administration that there is a critical shortage of PPE needed for a response.
February 7, 2020: In a meeting with other health officials Richard Bright warns again that the federal government needs to place orders to ramp up production of N95 masks in order to protect healthcare workers and first responders.
An HHS supply chain team pushes back, saying there was “no indication of a supply chain shortage or of issues with masks."
February 18, 2020: FDA warns labs against testing on their own; still has not provided instructions to labs as to how to get their non-functioning test to work.
I will stop here for now. (it gets worse. Much worse, as you know).
250,000 of us are dead.
He didn't care when it started - outside the context of how it might affect him personally - + he doesn't care now.
Every step of the way, this administration has obstructed + bungled.
Every step of the way, as they obstructed and bungled, they've known exactly how bad this would be.
Every step of the way, they had opportunities to save lives. They didn't.
They admit doing it on purpose if/when it benefitted them.
Their obstruction continues as they disallow the Biden administration - who actually cares if we die - to transition into the presidency.
They're disallowing a transition as a quarter of a million of us are gone, and we huddle at home waiting for a tsunami of death to hit.
I just never thought I'd see something like this. Never.
We have a president who literally does not care if hundreds of thousands of us die needlessly.
I want to know if they bought stock in vaccines.
BTW, a longer, sourced timeline can be found here. It only goes through May. Much has happened since then - I'll pick it back up again when I have a chance. sutori.com/story/coronavi…
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
As we learned at Sunday school, Jesus also paid a porn star hush money to cover up the affair he had while his wife was pregnant, and had his mobbed-up lawyer cover up the payment. Yes, Jesus (Jesus!) was notorious for his Russian-doll, mob-boss cover-ups.
On Sunday, I will reflect on how Jesus was caught on tape laughing about grabbing women by the pussy, and how Jesus rode a golden escalator and told us how much he disliked certain immigrants.
I will awake early and think about how Jesus said, “I have the right to take things!”
Today’s a great day to remember that Trump’s casinos got caught money laundering not once, but twice. Also, when his helicopter pilot was caught running drugs, Trump personally vouched for him and set him up with an apartment.
Hey, while we’re here, also worth remembering that Trump was excluded from bidding on a casino in Australia due to his mafia connections.
I don't know if I find it funny, but I do wonder if all the MAGA small business owners are willing to implode themselves for Trump. You can't run a business without a bank account.
And for those who aren't business owners, it's difficult to pay rent, mortgage, utilities, or the credit payments for their flags + trucks without a bank account. Are they going to spend a few days a week going from place to place to pay all their bills with cash?
Are they giving up vacations for the foreseeable future? Hard to book flights or hotels using cash.
"We're holding your digital security hostage until you give us 8 bucks" seems like a really winning business and PR plan.
Twitter has become the bargain airline of social platforms. "Oh - did you want to arrive at your final destination? HAHAHAHA! That'll be another $1000."
Now, if Twitter had treated people well, not squished us up against racists, misogynists and other nasty people for months, not torpedoed the whole verification system, etc. ETC., I would maybe consider forking over cash. But this ain't it.
In more than one case, I’ve seen younger, influential, entrepreneurs - usually within some sort of highly niche space - create marketing plans around proactively leaving social media completely out of the equation, while encouraging others to do the same.
The reason: they discovered the hard way what happens when an entire business plan is centered around a single social media platform.