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April 3, 2020

With so little testing and so many asymptomatic carriers, what are the best estimates for real cases

of covid 19? We are currently at about 250,000 KNOWN cases in the US with the bulk of those in NY. So are the actual numbers 3X as much 10Xs as much? I can't find anything giving a good assessment of this. Are there any reliable models that are trying to pinpoint the realistic numbers?

April 2, 2020

Is Bloomberg still planning on helping Biden?

Or has he lost too much in the stock market? We need a tsunami of ads exposing Trump's incompetence leading to more deaths than all the wars combined since WWII. They need to be relentless from now until Nov.

April 2, 2020

In Early February Army Memo Warned Of 150,000 Possible Coronavirus Deaths

Trump's inaction will likely lead to more deaths than all of the wars we have been in since WWII.


By Llowell Williams
04/02/20 AT 10:17 AM

KEY POINTS
Army memo projected between "80,000 and 150,000" coronavirus deaths in the U.S.
That memo was originally distributed on Feb. 3
Trump recently admitted to being aware of the pandemic risk long ago
Latest estimates predict up to 240,000 American deaths


As the coronavirus death toll in the United States surpasses China’s, President Donald Trump and his administration have come under increased criticism over downplaying the pandemic’s danger and hesitating to take action. Now it’s come to light that in February officials in the Army had projected the disease could cause hundreds of thousands of American deaths — raising questions about when the government was aware of the impending crisis.

This week, the Daily Beast viewed an Army briefing memo drafted on Feb. 3 predicting “between 80,000 and 150,000” coronavirus deaths in the United States. At the time, this was filed as a “Black Swan” report, usually a label reserved for extreme, unlikely scenarios. Even still, it prompted Secretary of Defense Mark Esper to order the military to begin “prudent planning” to prepare for a response to the pandemic.

As of Thursday, coronavirus deaths across the country surged towards 5,000. This came with dire new projections that show as many as 240,000 could die during the pandemic. In less than two months, the Army’s worst-case scenario memo appeared to have severely underestimated the potential danger.

Although President Trump is seemingly beginning to acknowledge the seriousness of the pandemic publicly, he repeatedly played down the disease’s danger in February and March. At the time, he repeatedly disputed figures from health experts showing the coronavirus’ ability to spread, including a report from the World Health Organization (WHO) estimating that 3.4% of those infected would die.

More: https://www.ibtimes.com/early-february-army-memo-warned-150000-possible-coronavirus-deaths-2951550

April 2, 2020

MOTLEY CRUE STAR TOMMY LEE SHARES A SERIOUS OPEN LETTER TO DONALD TRUMP: "DEAR FU*KING LUNATIC!"

You may need a cigarette after reading this.

I think this screed has been updated to reflect more recent Trumpfuckwittery. Note: This was written by Craig Alan Wilkins and shared into popularity by Tommy Lee.

"An Open Letter to the president"....... A re-tweet from Mötley Crüe drummer, Tommy Lee, who soooooo wins the literary scribe of the day award........🤘🏽🤩🥳🤩🤘🏽 :

"Dear Fucking Lunatic,

At your recent press conference - more a word salad that had a stroke and fell down stairs, you were CLEARLY so out of your depth you needed scuba gear. Within minutes of going off air, your minions were backpedaling faster than Cirque De Soliel acrobats... In India a week ago, i couldn’t get past the bit about your being the most popular visitor in the history of fucking India — a country of a BILLION human souls that’s only 3000 years old, give or take.!!! Trust me - Gandhi pulled CROWDS.. You pulled a cricket stadium and half WALKED out...

Do you know how fucking insane you sound, you off-brand butt plug? That's like the geopolitical equivalent of “that stripper really likes me” — only 10,000 times crazier and less self-aware.

You are fucking exhausting. Every day is a natural experiment in determining how long 300 million people can resist coring out their own assholes with an ice auger. Every time I hear a snippet of your Queens-tinged banshee larynx farts, I want to scream!

We are fucking tired. As bad as we all thought your presidency would be when Putin got you elected, it’s been inestimably worse.

You called a hostile, nuclear-armed head of state “short and fat.” How the fuck does that help?

You accused a woman — a former friend, no less — of showing up at your resort bleeding from the face and begging to get in. You, you, YOU — the guy who looks like a Christmas haggis inexplicably brought to life by Frosty’s magic hat — yes, you of all people said that.

You attempted — with evident fucking glee — to get 24 million people thrown off their health insurance.

You gave billions away to corporations and the already wealthy while simultaneously telling struggling poor people that you were doing exactly the opposite.

You endorsed a pedophile, praised brutal dictators, and defended LITERAL FUCKING NAZIS!

Ninety-nine percent of everything you say is either false, crazy, incoherent, just plain cruel, or a rancid paella of all four.

Oh, by the way, Puerto Rico is still FUBAR. You got yourself and your family billions in tax breaks for Christmas. What do they get? More paper towels?

Enough, enough, enough, enough! For the love of God and all that is holy, good, and pure, would you please, finally and forever, shut your feculent KFC-hole until you have something valuable — or even marginally civil — to say?

You are a fried dick sandwich with a side of schlongs. If chlamydia and gonorrhea had a son, you’d appoint him HHS secretary. You are a disgraceful, pustulant hot stew full of casuistry, godawful ideas, unintelligible non sequiturs, and malignant rage.

You are the perfect circus orangutan diaper from Plato’s World of Forms.

So fuck you Mr. President. And fuck you forever.

Oh, and Pence, you oleaginous house ferret. Fuck you, too. You'll be as useful as a chocolate teapot against a medical crisis you Bible thumping cock socket."


Facebook Link: https://www.facebook.com/treed.composer/posts/4279996785359343

https://metalheadzone.com/motley-crue-star-tommy-lee-shares-a-serious-open-letter-to-donald-trump-dear-fuking-lunatic/?fbclid=IwAR07OM7gTt6IZTxUbiDkMtBLjBB8eowGfdTVUpkwUCHv8pnStDVM5ddt3cQ

April 2, 2020

Troop Zero - Official Trailer Prime Video

Everything about this movie rocked. Highly recommended if you need something uplifting and renewed belief in the human spirit right now.


April 2, 2020

Trump has put the MAGAs between a rock and a hard place

Many still seem to be arguing the flu is worse than this and that Libs are sheep, bla, bla,bla. But now they are in DIRECT conflict with Trump's own policies. So if all this is overkill (under-kill to them) then why do they still support what Trump is doing? I keep asking these folks if they want Trump to fire Fauci and his pandemic team since they are taking the Democrats original stance on social distancing and shutting things down. Of course they have no way to answer without contradicting themselves. At first they avoid the question but I just keep asking them over and over until they give an answer.

If they say yes then I point out that if they are right (which they aren't) then I tell them: "According to your logic Trump is taking the economy down for nothing. Do you support that? Why are you taking the opposite position of the Presidents current position? You must think Trump is a terrible President."

If they say no he shouldn't fire Fauci then I ask them: "Oh, so now you believe this is worse than the flu then since that is Fauci's stance. So then you do realize you are now taking the same stance the Democrats were ORIGINALLY!"

Trying to think what the name for this is? Intellectual chaos? Dumfuckery? They really don't know what the hell they believe on this and even though Trump looks horrible anyway you slice it, they of course still think he is doing a great job.

April 2, 2020

Saw this comment on a youtube video

Trump "We will have the best death tolls in the history of death tolls. More people will die than ever before, more than ever before. And we have the best mortuaries in the world to look after the dead. No one in the history of the dead has looked after the dead as great as America. We are making new mortuaries, at a great time, more mortuaries than has ever been made before and as fast. We have the best mortuaries in history. We are building the best mortuaries now. People do not know that in the past there were no mortuaries, now we have the best ones and we will keep making them faster than anyone has done before. We are making America great again."

April 1, 2020

New York Prosecutors Believe Ivanka Trump Skimmed Millions From The 2016 Inaugural Fund


If it's millions she was doing more than skimming. More like taking a backhoe loader and putting it in a dump truck with the name Trump on it.


POLITICS
New York Prosecutors Believe Ivanka Trump Skimmed Millions From The 2016 Inaugural Fund
BY AND JASON MICIAK
MARCH 9, 2020

A new government lawsuit filed in January alleges that Ivanka Trump illegally over-billed the non-profit Inauguration Committee to bilk expenses and benefit the Trump family. It doesn’t take an FBI agent with 30 years of experience to see that all that money pouring in, over $114 million for an inauguration committee, a number that vastly exceeded all previous inauguration funding, despite this being a smaller party. Rumors circulated that much of the money originated outside the United States, which operated as a big red light. Apparently that strobing right light proved too difficult to ignore, and the investigations started.

More: https://www.politicalflare.com/2020/03/new-york-prosectors-believe-ivanka-trump-skimmed-millions-from-the-2016-inaugural-fund/

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