Donald Trump

[mat]

In non Twitter based news. Trumps slagging match with China is impacting stock prices. This will give them a sticky problem. If he ramps this up through the campaign it will blow a big hole in his central theme that he is good for the economy. Whispers on wall street expect further trade tariffs and negative rhetoric and the markets are pricing it in.

He can't have it both ways.

According to some independent news reports he owes the Chinese a lot of money and they are preparing to call in the debt. The Chinese attacks make sense, he'll accuse them of rigging the elections once the polls shows a full Democratic lockdown of the political houses in the country.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

In non Twitter based news. Trumps slagging match with China is impacting stock prices. This will give them a sticky problem. If he ramps this up through the campaign it will blow a big hole in his central theme that he is good for the economy. Whispers on wall street expect further trade tariffs and negative rhetoric and the markets are pricing it in.

He can't have it both ways.

He's got himself in to a very precarious position. Essentially he needs an 'enemy' to blame for the COVID crisis to distract from the abysmal job his administration have made of it, but he also needs the economy to do well, which relies on him not having a trade war slanging match with China.

Either one of these things going South will harm his re-election chances, but the kicker for Trump is that the each situation opposes the other. He's definitely painted himself into a corner. Add to that the fact that he personally owes a Chinese State bank a truck load of money and he's left himself very little wriggle room.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

He used to say "when you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero [cases]".......

 

[super_city_si]

He used to say "when you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero [cases]".......

Why does he keep mentioning numbers? They're on around 1.5k - 2k deaths a day and with some states going gung-ho with their openings its going to spiral. They will continue to have cases and deaths until a vaccine is found. this isn't going to just suddenly stop. They will hit 100k this year no problem. Probably before the summer is out.

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

Why does he keep mentioning numbers? They're on around 1.5k - 2k deaths a day and with some states going gung-ho with their openings its going to spiral. They will continue to have cases and deaths until a vaccine is found. this isn't going to just suddenly stop. They will hit 100k this year no problem. Probably before the summer is out.

We will hit 100k before the summer begins, mate.

Roughly, 1 in 300 Americans has it, and by mid-June 1 in 3500 Americans will have died from it.

I should also note that despite the openings, the vast majority of folks aren't going back to their normal ways -- eating out, gathering at offices, etc. I think the one industry opening that will see a flock of business will be barbers and hair salons though when they are accepting customers again!

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

This is why Trump is so bad for America. He's done nothing to halt the rise of malignant racism. In fact, if anything he's emboldened the racists.

 

[SWP's back]

This will annoy the fuck out of him

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

This will annoy the fuck out of him

I follow Rick Wilson (co-founder of the Lincoln Project) on Twitter.

Some of the Tweets he gets from MAGA assholes generally vary somewhere between epically dumb and rage filled death threats. He really seems to boil their piss.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

This just demonstrates the lengths that the Trump campaign are willing to go to in order to keep their guy in place. Buttigieg was only a Democratic Party candidate, but the fact they were prepared to have this in the bag 'just in case' shows they mean business.

This is going to be a dirty campaign, and if Biden ends up skirmishing in the trenches with Trump, there is only one winner.

 

[pudge]

The task force originally assembled to tackle the virus have been prohibited from testifying before congress because reasons.