Everything Trump touches dies

It doesn't matter how many lives are lost! Trump knows that he MUST be reelected or else he's going to prison! To win reelection, he's got to have the economy humming and unemployment must be low. That's not happening with things being shut down. Further more, because urban centers are more densely populated, they are likely to be more savaged by corona than rural areas. And we all know that urban are more likely to be anti Trump.

From the WHO site:

Older people, and people with pre-existing medical conditions (such as asthma, diabetes, heart disease) appear to be more vulnerable to becoming severely ill with the virus.

Most seniors and other vulnerable people would voluntarily quarantine themselves because they know what could happen if they don't. Furthermore, many would be in a position to restrict visitors and to impose a strict sanitizing regimen on those that do visit.

For those rare instances that seniors would need to venture out (i.e. food shopping, doctor visits, etc.), special accommodations could be made such as opening the stores an hour early or implementing (food) shopping from home as is done by stores like Shoprite, Walmart, etc.

Get America back to work. We will quarantine ourselves!

"The current guidelines would not have called for me to get tested nor quarantined. It was my extra precaution, out of concern for my damaged lung, that led me to get tested."

The fact that he had a damaged lung should have placed him high on the list to receive a test.

Other than getting people "on the record", there is no reason to continue interviewing Trump sycophants; they will deny the obvious. Furthermore, the job of being a Trump sycophant; just repeat what he says. When he changes his position, just repeat what he says. When he lies, just repeat what he says. When he bad mouths the press, just repeat what he says.

There is no need for a communications director or staff other than to have more mouths repeating what he says.

Trump's Lies Are Going to Extract a High Cost on the Public

"Everything Trump Touches Dies". Goodnight America.

Where is the TEA party? They bitched and complained about bail outs during the Obama administration and now they are no where to be found. They were a bunch of hypocritical --------------- hoping for an Obama failure.

There should be no corporate/small business bailouts. However, money should be provided in the form of low or no interest loans. These loans may be forgiven at some future date if and only if student loan debt is forgiven.

He's a total fcckup who only cared about his reelection

Of course! You would too if you knew that you were going to prison if you didn't win re-election.

Trump is on a deadline. After all, he promised Putin that he'd have the job done in four years

Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding! Good answer!

Until the SCOTUS rules on whether individuals can be compelled to respond to HOR subpoenas, no one receiving a subpoena from Congress will ever appear unless it is in their best interest.

It would be nice for dems and rethugs to agree on the language but, rather than delay funding any further, dems in the HOR should just past the bill and dare Moscow Mitch to let it rot on his desk.

Chris Matthews Quits MSNBC

Glad to see him go. Recently, his bias against Sanders was getting tiresome. The same can be said of Scarborough of Morning Joe.

Sanders is not my first choice, Warren is. But Sanders is a VERY close second.

It's becoming obvious why Sanders is not well liked among democrats; he believes in what he says and is willing to take a principled stand in support of those beliefs. This inflexibility has not endured him to many dems.

Relative to repubs, dems are far better on most of the issues that I care about. But dems do just enough structurally to keep things in minority communities from boiling over; not enough to keep them from heating up in the first place.

Many of the issues affecting minority and poor communities are best addressed at the state level. However, there has to be more that can be done at the federal level to address those issues i.e. ensuring that federal funds allocated to states are spent in such a way that ensures minority and poor communities benefit just as much (perhaps more so) as non minority and non poor communities. I believe that Warren and Sanders would advocate for such policies. Corporate dems would only pay lip service.

MICHAEL BLOOMBERG: No, private prisons will sacrifice quality of care and rehabilitation services for profit

The fact that private prisons are run by private companies is not the problem. The problem is lack of oversight and regulations to ensure that prisoners are treated in a safe and humane manner. Just like probably most government services that are privatized, government turns a blind eye to abuses committed by the private contractors until the abuses rise to such a level as to be embarrassing. Then, government has somebody to blame.

I am in favor of privatizing as many government services as possible AS LONG AS the government maintains a SIGNIFICANT and PERVASIVE role in the oversight and management of the private contractors.

White House to Promote Alternatives to the Degree

Not a bad thing. A complex society/economy such as ours, needs/requires workers of all types.

In America, every American child is entitled to a free education through the 12th grade. There is no reason not to extend it through to two years of Community College. However, before spending the money on extending it, I would ensure that the free education through the 12th grade is of high quality.

I like the idea of having tuition at public colleges be free as long as there is equivalent support for free tuition for students to learn vocational skills to become electricians, plumbers, machinists, carpenters, etc.

Trump Speaks to Massive Indian Crowd, Mispronounces Almost Everything

These public displays of stupidity are totally avoidable. It demonstrates to the world, Trump's contempt for his hosts. There was no reason he couldn't have spent sufficient time prepping for his speech to learn the proper pronunciation of words.

The GOnP doesn't want it back until a dem is in the whitehouse.

And the dems will be stupid enough to do it early in the administration of the next dem president. I am all in for congress wresting control back from the executive but do it near the end of the next dem presidency. If there is anything that has previously been very difficult to get bipartisan agreement on (i.e. sensible gun regulation) can be done by executive over reach early in the next dem administration, do it.

In case it's not obvious to some of you, Trump's SOP is to personally (try to) avoid doing things that are illegal and rely on his underlings to do the illegal stuff. His underlings, being the dumb asses that they are, follow thru on his wishes. If they don't, they are fired. This classic mob behavior.

However, RICO statues were set up to deal with criminal enterprises which is what the Trump administration is becoming. Unfortunately, as president, DOJ rules prevent Trump from being indicted while in office. However, his loss in November is going to set in motion a bunch of pardons and the resignation of Trump as president. One of those pardons will be for Mike Pence for any federal crimes that he may have committed while in office. After Pence is pardoned, Trump will resign and then Pence can pardon Trump.

The one thing that Trump hasn't been able to do yet is figure out a way to get out from under the NY State and NYC prosecutors. His extortion of New Yorkers will not work because they know him to be a lying POS. Dem senators need to put their republican colleagues on notice that they will turn a blind eye when the next dem president seeks to target red states for retribution.

Biden would too. Buttegieg and Bloomberg as well. They all would.

There is a difference between saying someone lies and calling someone a liar. The first is passive aggressive and the second is straight out, put up your fists, aggressive.

How can Democrats run against a candidate who will simply deny his unpopular positions and make up nonexistent
accomplishments

This is why Trump will not participate in any debates. Unless the democratic candidate is Biden, Trump will be called a liar to his face. Warren, Sanders and Klobuchar would have no problem calling him a liar and would probably do so in their opening statements.

Trump is a compulsive liar. He will say whatever he needs to say to get through the moment. There is a reason why NY attorneys involved in any negotiation with him will not meet with him one-on-one.

"He's holding New York state hostage to try to stop investigations into his prior tax fraud," tweeted Rep. Val Demings.

Trump knows that he is going to jail if he loses re-election. There is no limit to what that lying POS will do. Let's see just how much his republican enablers will tolerate. Dem senators need to put their republican colleagues on notice that they (the dems) will turn a blind eye to next democratic president over stepping his/her authorities.

The GOP is a danger to democracy. This isn't news for most black people.
The GOP has been trying for decades to deprive blacks of the voting and other civil rights. Dems have been partly complicit hence the need for criminal justice reform. Preventin Trump from acting as a dictator doesn't have the same sense of urgency as protecting your black children from being shot down in the streets by cops and other thugs.

Trump Fires Gordon Sondland

If Sondland had any ba... he would announce that he will be contributing $1M to the democratic nominee; whoever he/she is.

One of the things that I don't get about the people Trump has kicked in the a.. is why they don't strike back. Republican senators/reps etc. that have been bad mouthed by Trump should announce their intention to run as an independent. I am sure they would likely siphon enough votes from the republican candidate to ensure a democratic win.

All they need to do if follow Justin Amash's lead.

Here's another way of looking at the relationship between Trump and the Republican Party.

Trump and the republican party are embraced in a deadly embrace. Republicans know that they have him captive (he will go to prison if he doesn't get re-elected) and are extracting from him, everything they have ever dreamed of. Trump knows that he has republican office holders captive because he owns the republican base voter. If 2018 election results are any indication, there will be a wholesale rejection of Trump and the republican party in 2020 and dems will control both chambers of congress and the WH.