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Demovictory9

(32,457 posts)
Fri Mar 27, 2020, 05:29 PM Mar 2020

he is insane




David Frum Retweeted
Sam Stein
@samstein
um. Last night he was saying that his gut told him there wasn’t a need for many more ventilators. WTF is happening?
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Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
· 6h
General Motors MUST immediately open their stupidly abandoned Lordstown plant in Ohio, or some other plant, and START MAKING VENTILATORS, NOW!!!!!! FORD, GET GOING ON VENTILATORS, FAST!!!!!! @GeneralMotors @Ford
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Botany

(70,516 posts)
2. "he is insane"
Fri Mar 27, 2020, 05:33 PM
Mar 2020

Yes he is. An auto body and or engine and or drive train plant is no more ready to make
ventilators right now then I am ready to play this fall in the NFL

Botany

(70,516 posts)
9. Given time the men and women working @ that plant, the engineers, the machinists, ...
Fri Mar 27, 2020, 06:36 PM
Mar 2020

.... and the tool and die folk could make anything in the world you wanted but an open or
shut down plant doing it RIGHT NOW is just fucking nutz.

SWBTATTReg

(22,133 posts)
6. I wonder how many ventilators can trump work all by himself w/ all of his hot air? I'll bet it ...
Fri Mar 27, 2020, 05:49 PM
Mar 2020

is quite a few...maybe he needs to shut up and stick some clear plastic tubes in his mouth instead.

 

Dream Girl

(5,111 posts)
7. He wanted the Lordtown OHIO plant reopened to help him win Ohio
Fri Mar 27, 2020, 05:49 PM
Mar 2020

GM rejected Lordstown because is would have required extensive retooling. Their Indiana plant made more sense but doesn’t help him politically. This what he was negotiating and why he was stalling on ventilators

saidsimplesimon

(7,888 posts)
10. WTF
Fri Mar 27, 2020, 06:37 PM
Mar 2020

"A dollar late and an dime short", Republicans who support the mad man have lost not only their dignity, they are stark raving mad. imo

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