American response

fryup

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkU1ob_lHCw

Grab All Association

Turning his attention to USPS now. So demanding USPS make it more 4X times more expensive to send parcels just to get at Bezos. Amazon will just deliver these themselves and other businesses will just use FedEX and UPS instead.

“The Postal Service is a joke,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. To obtain a $10 billion line of credit Congress approved this month, “The post office should raise the price of a package by approximately four times,” he said.

https://twitter.com/SenSchumer/status/1254249586958499841?s=20

Delivering packages has been a good business for the Postal Service, making up just 5 percent of the Postal Service’s volume, but accounting for 30 percent of its revenue. And package volume jumped 53 percent last week, compared with the same period in 2019, as a homebound nation dives into e-commerce for groceries, prescriptions and household essentials.

0lddog

dogbert27 wrote: »

Watching Cuomo's live press conference. What a fxxking difference to Trump.

Amazing what an articulate, humble message he gives compared to Trump.

This ?

hetuzozaho

0lddog wrote: »

This ?

That's todays one yep

Harry Palmr

Amazon should buy the post office or maybe just the president, I doubt he'd say no. Did I read something about him being in hock to the Chinese a few days ago?

threeball

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Amazon should buy the post office or maybe just the president, I doubt he'd say no. Did I read something about him being in hock to the Chinese a few days ago?

Yes he owes a Chinese bank 300 million and its due early next year. No American banks will touched him since he went bankrupt again on his Atlantic city casino. Hes literally been living on russian money since.

Outlaw Pete

Beach in California at the weekend:

hetuzozaho

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

Beach in California at the weekend:

Newport Beach, Orange County I believe. Manhattan looking very different to Orange County here!

https://twitter.com/GettyImagesNews/status/1254458556553838593

I'm a bit jealous of that nice weather and beach I must say!

threeball

joe40 wrote: »

I would consider myself to be of very average intelligence. The scary thing is though, I'm smarter than the president of the United States....

I would say you're probably more intelligent than a number of US Presidents. The role hasn't been filled with geniuses down through the years.

Kermit.de.frog

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

Beach in California at the weekend:

In fairness the angle can be misleading in terms of distancing.

But clearly not a good sight at the current time! There will always be a subset who only care about themselves and no one else everywhere.

hetuzozaho

A few updates from the POTUS over the last hour, he never stops working:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1254767509460234243

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1254769296280031232

Leroy42

It is hardly a surprise that many people are ignoring the social distancing being called for, when the POTUS continues to claim that the solution is right around the corner, that everything is fine and under control.

2u2me

This is going on in Dublin, Not sure they are any further apart then those guys on the beach in California.

Boggles

hetuzozaho wrote: »

A few updates from the POTUS over the last hour, he never stops working:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1254767509460234243

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1254769296280031232

Did the media make him muse about injecting bleach as a cure?

Damn media!

Outlaw Pete

Leroy42 wrote: »

It is hardly a surprise that many people are ignoring the social distancing being called for, when the POTUS continues to claim that the solution is right around the corner, that everything is fine and under control.

This is just another false narrative that people like you are pushing because it suits you to and the mainstream media facilitate you in doing so given that they only show the snippets from the pressers that they want people to see and which they can twist.

Here's the truth and it's quite clear that Trump has encouraged people to follow the socially distancing rules, particularly in states badly affected. In the following clip when the Phases were announced he also made it clear that he did not approve of Governors who ignored the CDC/Administration's guidelines:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnT2XPG9Jbo

Most of the major networks cut away during the above and also when the three Phases set out by the CDC and the Administration were being discussed (an example of Phase One below):


https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1250955902376726529


There's an agenda at play . Not suggesting that the current administration are doing everything perfectly but what the public are being presented with by CNN/MSNBC/CNN (and then relayed by RTE/BBC this side of the pond) is not anywhere near a true reflection of either how hard the administration is working or how seriously they are taking it and if you want to blame the message being sent for why the US public is not adhering to the rules, then perhaps think about who is diluting that message and choosing to chop it up into soundbites like: 'The President is suggesting people inject bleach!'

one armed dwarf

The President has also tweeted support for protesters of the lockdown and said that the virus will end with a 'miracle' end. These are things that I've seen just on his twitter, not on MSM which I don't even watch these days.

hetuzozaho

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

Here's the truth and it's quite clear that Trump has encouraged people to follow the socially distancing rules, particularly in states badly affected. In the following clip when the Phases were announced he also made it clear that he did not approve of Governors who ignored the CDC/Administration's guidelines:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnT2XPG9Jbo

An 8:36 minute snippet by MSM from hours of footage. Making sure people see what they want them to see. Don't fall for it. They are just creating a narrative.

Tell me how

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

This is just another false narrative that people like you are pushing because it suits you to and the mainstream media facilitate you in doing so given that they only show the snippets from the pressers that they want people to see and which they can twist.

Here's the truth and it's quite clear that Trump has encouraged people to follow the socially distancing rules, particularly in states badly affected. In the following clip when the Phases were announced he also made it clear that he did not approve of Governors who ignored the CDC/Administration's guidelines:

Nonsense.

What about his 'LIBERATE' texts to 3 states.

He is talking out of both sides of his mouth in encouraging people to go out in one moment and saying he disagrees with what the Governor is doing in the next.

This is so that whichever way things go, he can say that that is what he said should happen.

As for how hard he or the administration is working? Where is the evidence of that, he spends all his time complaining about the media?

I'm in the US but thankfully am in a state where there is a strong Governor who is ignoring what is going on in the White House as much as they can.

Harry Palmr

Todays POTUS Presser abandoned.

NSAman

and they wonder why Black populations are being affected more???....

http://https://www.facebook.com/100001211358701/videos/3108523795864635/

jibber5000

threeball wrote: »

Yes he owes a Chinese bank 300 million and its due early next year. No American banks will touched him since he went bankrupt again on his Atlantic city casino. Hes literally been living on russian money since.

Fake news. The loan was sold off in 2012.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/24/trump-biden-china-debt-205475

extra gravy

Biden says he'd pick Michelle Obama as vp running mate "in a heartbeat," but adds that he doesn’t think she would want the role. Would love it if she said yes, something else to p**s off the racist Trumpsters.

Leroy42

Ah now Pete come on. He said it was nothing, 15 and soon to be zero. He said open to up by Easter, then May 1st.

The clear message from all that is that the solution is going to be soon. Give that type of message to people who think that they are unlikely to suffer anyway and you get people looking to get out.

Again, you seem to have moved completely to the position that nothing Trump really has any effect on anything. At which point surely you must acknowledge that he is simply wasting everyone's time by speaking, or tweeting.

Which is it? Is he in charge or isn't he?

Leroy42

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Todays POTUS Presser abandoned.

Along with the people of the US.

A real leader there everyone. Makes a fool of himself and runs away.

He can't even put the lives and fears of others ahead of his own fagile ego.

Is this really the leader of the free world, the leader of the best country in the world. A man that is literally running away from the press because they are not being nice to him?

Good grief.

walshb

Leroy42 wrote: »

Along with the people of the US.

A real leader there everyone. Makes a fool of himself and runs away.

He can't even put the lives and fears of others ahead of his own fagile ego.

Is this really the leader of the free world, the leader of the best country in the world. A man that is literally running away from the press because they are not being nice to him?

Good grief.

It’s absurd....an absolute horror of a man

Yet still people will defend this, facilitate this, and allow this...

pjohnson

walshb wrote: »

It’s absurd....an absolute horror of a man

Yet still people will defend this, facilitate this, and allow this...

He was bullied by the big mean media. They never bullied Obama like this.

Make America Great Again


Wheres my Dettol?

lawred2

extra gravy wrote: »

Biden says he'd pick Michelle Obama as vp running mate "in a heartbeat," but adds that he doesn’t think she would want the role. Would love it if she said yes, something else to p**s off the racist Trumpsters.

That would be a tad cynical no? Would she not be the ultimate parachute candidate?

J. Marston

Why are they like this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kkBseVTUow

pjohnson

J. Marston wrote: »

Why are they like this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kkBseVTUow

Christ hes brave to go there. Lord knows what you'd catch by attending at the best of times. Let alone during this.

Infini

J. Marston wrote: »

Why are they like this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kkBseVTUow

Because pig ignorant stupidity suits the republican party and it's agenda just fine as they're too easy to manipulate. There's also a sizable amount of idiot's, bellends and gullable gobshítes that have no concept or ability to rationally or coherantly think, they're like Gemma O'Dumbáss and her cohort only much larger and more toxic. The one's shouting "freedom" are too dim or stupid to even realise that this virus does not give a shít who it kills it just kills end of and that the whole lockdown isnt to take their freedom but to preserve it by starving the virus that's taking it.

It should also be said that some of these open up campaigns are in fact coordinated astroturfing campaigns by some buisness interests that don't care if people die they only want their money end of. They'd rather see innocent people die and will manipulate the stupid and ignorant into doing their work for them.