#JAILTOTHECHIEF- Shit Just Got Real

[Sredni Eel]

 

[Sredni Eel]

You know things aren't good when this happens.

 

[Romana]

And the health care workers better not let on that they're not getting enough PPE either:

Trump contradicts nurse in testy Oval Office exchange over coronavirus protective gear

President Donald Trump contradicted a nurse who said that access to sufficient supplies of personal protective equipment during the coronavirus pandemic "has been sporadic."

www.cnbc.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

The Rest of the World Is Laughing at Trump

The president created a leadership vacuum. China intends to fill it.

www.theatlantic.com

There is no presidential leadership inside the United States; there is no American leadership in the world. Members of the G7—the U.S. and its six closest allies—did meet to write a joint statement. But even that tepid project ended in ludicrous rancor when the American secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, insisted on using the expression “Wuhan virus” and the others gave up in disgust. Not only is the president talking nonsense, not only is America absent, but the nation’s top diplomat is a caricature of a tough guy—someone who throws around insults in the absence of any capacity to influence events.


Others are drawing even more radical conclusions, and with remarkable speed. The “disinfectant” comments—and the laughter that followed—mark not so much a turning point as an acceleration point, the moment when a transformation that began much earlier suddenly started to seem unstoppable. Although we are still only weeks into this pandemic, although the true scale of the health crisis and the economic catastrophe is still unknown, the outline of a very different, post-American, post-coronavirus world is already taking shape. It’s a world in which American opinions will count less, while the opinions of America’s rivals will count more. And that will change political dynamics in ways that Americans haven’t yet understood.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Mail in ballots?

 

[Jolene Benoir]

Mail in ballots?

Of course. He's taken control of damn near everything else. I'm sure lost ballots will just be coincidental.

 

[Kara Spengler]

Mail in ballots?

Ugh, he just has a bug up his ass about Bezos since he is actually a billionaire and owns the Washington Post. Amazon already pays what is a good deal for the postal service.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

“TRUMP IS REALLY AIMING TO TAKE DOWN FOX”: A GROUP ASSOCIATED WITH DONALD TRUMP JR. IS BUYING A MAJOR STAKE IN OANN

Trump’s frustration with Fox has only intensified during the coronavirus pandemic. As the nation’s COVID-19 death count rises, and Trump’s poll numbers slide, Fox executives have sidelined the network’s most flagrant coronavirus deniers. In late April Fox cut ties with MAGA stars Diamond and Silk after the duo promoted bizarre COVID-19 conspiracies, including speculation that the virus was man-made or that New York state was inflating deaths totals to hurt Trump politically.


Trump’s view that Fox is insufficiently loyal has motivated him to look for a more reliable media partner. On April 26, he tweeted: “The people who are watching @FoxNews, in record numbers (thank you President Trump), are angry. They want an alternative now. So do I!”


Trump now is on the verge of having that alternative. According to sources, an investor group aligned with his son Don Jr. and the Dallas-based Hicks family has acquired a major stake in One America News Network, the fledgling conservative cable-news channel that features hosts like Jack Posobiec, a chief promoter of the Pizzagate conspiracy. “[RNC co-chair] Tommy Hicks and Don Jr. have been looking to buy a station for Trump TV,” said one source briefed on the talks. “This is all about building a Fox competitor. Trump is really aiming to take down Fox,” the person briefed on the deal told me. (A person close to Hicks said he resigned his position from the family business when he joined the RNC and isn’t involved in the OANN deal).

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Thread

 

[Kara Spengler]

“TRUMP IS REALLY AIMING TO TAKE DOWN FOX”: A GROUP ASSOCIATED WITH DONALD TRUMP JR. IS BUYING A MAJOR STAKE IN OANN

One of those stories with 4 main players ... and somehow you do not want any of them to win.

 

[Fionalein]

Life imitates art: Trump not wearing a mask at a mask factory (where it is required to not contaminate the product), with "Live and Let Die" playing in the background. Special Grammy Award to whoever set up the sound system.

What mask company was that? Asking so it can be blacklisted for breach of production security standards.

 

[Clara D.]

What mask company was that? Asking so it can be blacklisted for breach of production security standards.

Honeywell.

They're being made for a government contract.

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

The Rest of the World Is Laughing at Trump

The president created a leadership vacuum. China intends to fill it.

www.theatlantic.com

No kidding. That world leadership vacuum started the day His Supreme Oral Flatulence moved into the white house.

Step 1: Be a president whose few non-empty words still mean nothing due to constant reactionary self-contradiction.
Step 2: Gut the State Department, throw out established diplomats and leave positions unfilled
Step 3: Witchhunt and purge all apolitical 'DEEP STATE!' civil servants who keep our country on track
Step 4: Go full 'isolationism' with regards to the U.N. climate change, NATO, etc & betray our allies
Step 6: Suck up to world tyrants like an affection-starved abused puppy

All this MAGA crap stuff is done is abdicate the position of world leader to whomever has the discipline and focus to pick up the pieces. The only thing changing is how other nations, like China are responding to it.

Trump, the thug, thinks Military superiority alone makes us a 'world leader'. It doesn't count for shit.
And if we use it to force our advantage, we're likely to get nuked in the face.

 

[Jolene Benoir]

Of course. He knows more than the CDC. So do assorted governors.

Trump administration shelves experts' detailed guide to reopening country

 

[Free]

Of course. He knows more than the CDC. So do assorted governors.

Trump administration shelves experts' detailed guide to reopening country

 

[Pamela]

And now the DOJ drops charges against Flynn.

America is a failed state now.

 

[Dancien]

America has been a failed state since November 8th, 2016.

 

[Free]

A bit late, but seeing Giuliani prove he no longer has a brain is always enjoyable.

 

[danielravennest]

What mask company was that? Asking so it can be blacklisted for breach of production security standards.

Honeywell.

 

[Soen Eber]

Q

What mask company was that? Asking so it can be blacklisted for breach of production security standards.

I'm pretty sure the White House advance team would coordinate with the company's operation officer, even this White House because of staging (flags) and camera angles.

What we're seeing isn't crowded enough with machinery to be a production area. It's just a set with props, some place with enough elevation and changes in elevation for people to stand pretty for the cameras.

This is the White House. This is Honeywell. They both have six inch thick manuals on staging political appearances.