Well Mulvaney has gone. The Trump has done another dump. Get over it...!!! Mark Meadows a proven Trump turd polisher is in. The man who said he would send Obama back to Kenya and claimed there’s not a racist bone in his body.
I, for one, think Mark Meadows is a great choice and shows Trump's commitment to fiscal responsibility. He has the same initials as Mick Mulvaney so there won't be any need to change the monogrammed hand towels in the bathroom. Hilarious that Mulvaney's new gig is envoy to Northern Ireland. Which I guess means there is an opening at OMB. Or maybe Trump thinks Meadows is going to do that job too.
Yes, he’s the sycophant with real power. Hopefully for not much longer as the legal community target him.
And more in here. GOP-appointed judge orders unredacted copy of Mueller report as he questions Bill Barr’s ‘credibility’ https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/gop-appointed-judge-orders-unredacted-copy-of-mueller-report-as-he-questions-bill-barrs-credibility/
Major oil price war coming!!! https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...siness&utm_medium=social&utm_content=business The production increase and deep discounts mark a dramatic escalation by Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, the Saudi oil minister, after his Russian counterpart Alexander Novak rejected an ultimatum on Friday in Vienna at the OPEC+ meeting to join in a collective production cut. After the talks collapsed, Novak said countries were free to pump-at-will from the end of March. “Saudi Arabia is now really going into a full price war,” said Iman Nasseri, managing director for the Middle East at oil consultant FGE. Record Discounts With jet-fuel, gasoline and diesel consumption rapidly falling due to the economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak, the energy market now faces a simultaneous supply-and-demand shock.
But wait, there is even more to this... https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/10/business/russia-us-shale-oil-putin-opec/index.html Vladimir Putin knows America's fragile oil industry is built on a mountain of debt. So when Saudi Arabia called for production cuts to mitigate oversupply, Putin decided to pounce. Russia shocked the world last week by blowing up its shaky alliance with OPEC. Moscow's refusal to join with the cartel is aimed in part at drowning US shale oil companies that rely on higher prices in a sea of cheap crude. Putin's goal is to wrest market share back from American frackers, whose debt-fueled growth caused Russia to lose its title in 2018 as the world's largest oil producer. ... The energy meltdown threatens to cause a repeat of the 2014-2016 oil crash that bankrupted dozens of American oil and gas companies and caused hundreds of thousands of layoffs. Although the industry survived, the experience proved to be very painful. "Russia sees US shale as particularly vulnerable at the moment," said Ryan Fitzmaurice, energy strategist at Rabobank. "It is our view that Russia was targeting debt-laden US shale producers." So not only is there the COVID-19 panic, the massive sell off of stocks, the closing of universities (going online), businesses telling their employees to telecommute, now we have a possible loss of jobs in the oil industry. Yeah, there is going to be a recession.
Some time in 2028 or 2032 when discussing the economic crisis of 2020, a wise conservative/centrist voice will say that part of the blame was on Obama for allowing too much fracking and for not giving enough tax cuts in 2016...
FoxNews paid for the building and the set-up costs (union stage hands from the local) and they hired local caterers. Of course, all of us picked up the tab for the Secret Service detail, Air Force One, the Presidential limo (which was flown out here the day before on some big, lumbering plane that made a ton of noise as it flew over head at well under the speed of sound), etc. The city and county did their things on the roads and for crowd management. No word that I can find on overtime, and nothing on who paid.
Presidential events are paid for by the Govt but the party cant control ticketing. Party events they control ticketing but they also pay costs. Trump claims one before the fact to control ticketing, and the other after to avoid paying. If you cant recognize a grifter, youre the mark.
Sure, they sent him a bill... and he gave his word that he's an honorable man who is always good for it--he is a Billionaire, right?
This might be fun, for some. Seeing it’s on FOX I’m sure you’ll hear s Trump squeal like a pig. Trump’s adult children targeted by merciless new ‘Grifter’ ad series that will air on Fox News An anti-Trump “conservative group” is taking aim at the president’s “grifter” children in a new series of television ads. The Lincoln Project, an activist group of anti-Trump conservatives, is launching a new ad campaign ahead of the 2020 election showing how President Donald Trump’s adult children are financially benefitting from their father serving in the White House, reported the Huffington Post. A voiceover intended to sound like Ivanka Trump brags that her “daddy being president is the best thing ever” in the first ad, which was released Friday. “Oh, Daddy, you’re so good to us,” says the “Ivanka” soundalike. The ads will appear on CNN, MSNBC and even Trump-friendly Fox News
Nice thoughts. Not gonna happen with this fool, he still thinks he’s king. ‘A clear and public danger’: Making the case that Donald J. Trump must resign — immediately Published Common Dreams - Commentary President Donald Trump is a clear and present danger to the nation’s public health, and he should resign immediately. In a time when protecting the nation’s public health demands clear, truthful, and compassionate leadership, Trump has offered exactly the opposite. He has dissembled about the seriousness of the coronavirus epidemic, either because he refuses to accept the truth or fears the impact on his political fortunes, or both. He has refused to make science-based recommendations (e.g., older people should avoid cruise ships and plane travel) or to declare a public health emergency out of fear about the impact on the stock market. He has misstated his administration’s own policies. He has presided over an administration that has inexplicably failed to deliver vitally needed coronavirus tests to healthcare providers around the country and then repeatedly lied to or misled the American public about remedying the problem. Instead of taking responsibility for the problem and fixing it, Trump has bizarrely blamed it on his predecessor, Barack Obama. He has attacked his political rivals rather than seek to bring the country together. These failings have nothing to do with political ideology or legitimate areas of policy disagreement. They are intolerable failures of leadership in a time of national crisis that have endangered the lives of all Americans. Trump should step down immediately.
Peter Wehner thinks the lame coronavirus response is the last straw and Trump is a goner (I'm not as certain). But he savages him in this one: The president’s misinformation and mendacity about the coronavirus are head-snapping. He claimed that it was contained in America when it was actually spreading. He claimed that we had “shut it down” when we had not. He claimed that testing was available when it wasn’t. He claimed that the coronavirus will one day disappear “like a miracle”; it won’t. He claimed that a vaccine would be available in months; Fauci says it will not be available for a year or more. Trump falsely blamed the Obama administration for impeding coronavirus testing. He stated that the coronavirus first hit the United States later than it actually did. (He said that it was three weeks prior to the point at which he spoke; the actual figure was twice that.) The president claimed that the number of cases in Italy was getting “much better” when it was getting much worse. And in one of the more stunning statements an American president has ever made, Trump admitted that his preference was to keep a cruise ship off the California coast rather than allowing it to dock, because he wanted to keep the number of reported cases of the coronavirus artificially low. “I like the numbers,” Trump said. “I would rather have the numbers stay where they are. But if they want to take them off, they’ll take them off. But if that happens, all of a sudden your 240 [cases] is obviously going to be a much higher number, and probably the 11 [deaths] will be a higher number too.” (Cooler heads prevailed, and over the president’s objections, the Grand Princess was allowed to dock at the Port of Oakland.) And we can only hope he's right The coronavirus is quite likely to be the Trump presidency’s inflection point, when everything changed, when the bluster and ignorance and shallowness of America’s 45th president became undeniable, an empirical reality, as indisputable as the laws of science or a mathematical equation. It has taken a good deal longer than it should have, but Americans have now seen the con man behind the curtain. The president, enraged for having been unmasked, will become more desperate, more embittered, more unhinged. He knows nothing will be the same. His administration may stagger on, but it will be only a hollow shell. The Trump presidency is over. https://amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/607969/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/...action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage The Trump Administration is working to loosen regulations on nursing homes. Apropos of nothing, my father had a saying. "It's amazing the things you see when you don't have a loaded shotgun in your hands."