Cold and sunny, but you could have looked up the weather report yourself.
Regarding the old Newsweek article - Yes, There were many people who did not support Hillary in the 2016 election. I blame the unregulated use of Facebook by Russians and unscrupulous opponents to spread outright lies about her. My own mother (formerly very liberal and not american) to this day believes that Pizza-gate was a real thing. She would have voted for Trump in the belief that Hillary was a pedophile!
How do you even counter that? https://www.theatlantic.com/magazin...ticle&utm_campaign=10-for-today---4.0-styling
A former California congressman confirmed in an interview with Yahoo News' Michael Isikoff that he did offer to broker a pardon for Julian Assange in exchange for information that would exonerate Russia from the theft of emails from the Democratic National Committee and members of the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign organization. Republican Dana Rohrabacher was seeking to prove that the emails were leaked by DNC staffer Seth Rich, who was murdered in July 2016-and were not the product of a hacking campaign by Russian intelligence organizations.
Former California Republican congressman Dana Rohrabacher confirmed in a new interview that during a three-hour meeting at the Ecuadorian Embassy in August 2017, he told Julian Assange he would get President Trump to give him a pardon if he turned over information proving the Russians had not been the source of internal Democratic National Committee emails published by WikiLeaks.
First reported by the New York Times, the February 13 briefing led to Trump reprimanding Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire, and accused him of being disloyal after aide Shelby Pierson told lawmakers aggressive Russian actors were continuing election-intrusion from 2016.
Trump fisting the air and leading the rabid red hatted MAGAs in a chant to Jail Maguire.....Jail 'em!....Jail 'em!
Welcome to the 'new normal'.
Pierson addressed Russia's overall efforts, including weaponizing social media, hacking, and diminishing election infrastructures, according to reports. She was not well perceived by House lawmakers who are loyal to Trump, according to CNN.
President Trump's latest tweet indicated that more aid could be headed to farmers adversely affected by the U.S.-China trade war.
In an all-caps tweet, he wrote: "If our formally targeted farmers need additional aid until such time as the trade deals with China, Mexico, Canada and others fully kick in, that aid will be provided by the federal government, paid for out of the massive tariff money coming into the USA!"
Ummmmm....no...that 'tariff money' is coming out of the pockets of the American consumer.
The farmers will simply be awarded funds from obligations on the US taxpayer............ new and greater fiscal deficits.
And here we go with the Russian 'Long Game'.
The goal, reduce the influence of the US and press forward with unopposed acquisitions ( of other weaker nations ).
Either Russian supported candidate is essentially a win for Putin.
U.S. officials have reportedly told Sen. Bernie Sanders that Russia is attempting to help his presidential campaign, a revelation that follows U.S. intelligence officials briefing Capitol Hill that the Kremlin may also be attempting to help President Donald Trump in 2020 as they did in 2016.
"I don't care, frankly, who Putin wants to be president. My message to Putin is clear: stay out of American elections, and as president I will make sure that you do."
Maybe so, but Putin cares a lot. For Russia and their 'Long Game' it's a win-win scenario no matter which one wins.
Putin just needs to get Bernie on the Democrat ballot.
The rest will be Russian history in the making whether Bernie likes it or not.
"It looks like the coronavirus is being weaponized as yet another element to bring down Donald Trump," Limbaugh said at the start of his lengthy, misinformation-filled rant.
"Now, I want to tell you the truth about the coronavirus. ... I'm dead right on this. The coronavirus is the common cold, folks."
Limbaugh claims the deaths in China, the economic destruction going on in China from coronavirus ......is an attempt to bring down the Trump Administration.
Drug abuse often has a lot of deleterious effects.
Read the above link, Rush seems to be experiencing it.
It appears that Trump feels that he won't be re-elected if markets crash.
If the markets crash because of a pandemic, then he will need a scapegoat. <Sarcasm>After all, his eviscerating the CDC and other agency's that Obama fortified to guard against pandemics couldn't possibly affect the spread of the virus<\Sarcasm> https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-cuts-programs-responsible-for-fighting-coronavirus-2020-2
"In 2018, for instance, the CDC cut 80% of its efforts to prevent global disease outbreaks because it was running out of money. Ultimately, the department went from working in 49 countries to just 10."
Not to mention the Fed has no tools in it's toolbox to combat the next big downturn - all wasted on trying to make Orange-A-Tang economy look good - smoke and mirrors.
The stock market continues on a dive this morning.
I got to wondering...how are Trump's businesses holding up?
He has had a habit of leveraging what he owns, in the past, in attempts to acquire more.
The Trump Organization is a group of about 500 business entities of which Donald Trump is the sole or principal owner.[4] About 250 of these entities use the Trump name.[5][6]
IMO, the threat of coronavirus merely triggered the run in an already volatile market..
There's been talk for quite a while about an inflated market.
For Trump, the unexpected merely upped the timetable to a pre election event.
My impression of the Trump org is that is mostly invested in real-estate, so it is not directly affected by the stock market.
That is not to say that his political fortunes are not tied to the DOW's index. I maintain that his popularity will drop along with the markets. The only question is if he will get a pass for not being responsible for the Covid-19 virus.
Most will hold him to account for an inadequate response, but I think his hard-core (evangelical) supporters will see the outbreak as an act of god.
Trump is into real-estate as a developer/investor.
The likes of hotels, entertainment, gambling, etc....where big money is spent on things not seen as must have necessities.
If he's leveraged for future and ongoing acquisitions, as in the past, if/when his cash flow is interrupted, he's going to have a lot of creditors looking for him
And inside investors are likely hip to Donald's predicament.
WASHINGTON - A federal judge issued an order on Thursday for the Justice Department to release to the court an unredacted version of the Mueller Report, which contains the findings of former special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into President Donald Trump and Russian interference in the 2016 election.
D.C. District Judge Reggie Walton also sharply criticized Attorney General William Barr, accusing him of making "misleading public statements" in advance of the release of the partially redacted version of the full report in April of 2019.
The George W. Bush-appointed judge wrote on Thursday that Barr's representation of the Mueller report had "inconsistencies" with the report itself, and that the court was "troubled" by the haste with which Barr released his initial letter before releasing the redacted report.
The inconsistencies, Walton said, caused him to "seriously question whether Attorney General Barr made a calculated attempt to influence public discourse about the Mueller Report in favor of President Trump despite certain findings in the redacted version of the Mueller Report to the contrary."
Trump learned a bad lesson from his 18-month trade war with China, when he was generally able to talk markets up with some happy chatter about breakthroughs that were always just around the corner. This time, however, markets are completely ignoring Trump and his minions and paying a lot more attention to public health experts.
...........Trump simply fails to instill confidence. Investors know his first instinct is always to blame others, his second instinct is to calculate how he might profit and his third instinct is to see if it's an opportune time to take out an enemy. At some point after that, he might think about solving a problem in a way that's in everybody's interest.
(Edit: and more bad stuff)
If you took Kudlow's advice and put $1,000 into an S&P 500 index fund, you'd be down to $939 by now. Kudlow looks like a fool willing to lead investors into a wood chipper if it will please his boss for five seconds.
The entire Trump White House needs to learn to shut up.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Ohio State reached an unspecified settlement with nearly half of the roughly 350 men who say they were sexually abused decades ago by a team doctor who was jokingly known among some athletes by nicknames like "Dr. Jelly Paws."
The settlement announced Friday is the first for accusers of the late Richard Strauss, who say the doctor groped and otherwise mistreated students for two decades while school officials knew about concerns but did little to stop him.
By the Washington Post's estimate, Trump has played around 217 rounds of golf as president and has visited one of his golf clubs on around 250 days. More broadly, Trump has visited one of his properties "a little less regularly than once out of every three days of his presidency," notes the Washington Post. "In other words, for every week he has been president, he has spent, on average, at least part of two days at one of his properties."
The president will attend a "Catholics for Trump" event at the Wisconsin Center in Milwaukee on March 19, his campaign said Tuesday.
About an hour before the campaign announcement, the administration's coronavirus task force held a briefing at the White House in which Vice President Mike Pence and the nation's leading public health officials were flanked by a sign that cautioned people to "avoid crowding" and to consider limiting attendance at large gatherings.
There was also discussion of making the payroll tax rollback permanent, said the official, who declined to be named. Payroll taxes are used to fund Medicare and Social Security. When asked about the potential cost of a payroll tax cut, the official pushed back and asked why there is always a focus on the cost of tax cuts.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, the nation's longest serving leader since Josef Stalin ruled the Soviet Union, has ended any question about his political future by backing a constitutional amendment - quickly approved by the State Duma - that will allow him to stay in power until 2036.
The Kremlin-controlled Duma passed the measure on third reading Wednesday 383-0, with 43 abstentions, to remove the constitutional barrier to the 67-year-old Putin staying in office beyond 2024.
With Trump, everything that goes wrong is someone else's fault.
Never mind the President has an Intelligence Agency, or that the Chinese scrambled to build a massive hospital in two weeks, or because the Chinese government didn't tell The Donald personally back in December they had an epidemic, it's the Chinese's fault that Trump was 'incompetent'.
"I wish they could have told us earlier about what was going on inside," Trump said during a briefing on the federal government's coronavirus response. "We didn't know about it until it started coming out publicly."
Trucks line up for the construction site of a field hospital in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province Friday, Jan. 24, 2020. The builders will complete the 1,000-bed hospital by Feb. 3 to cope with the surge of 2019-nCoV patients in the city.
Logically, our intelligence services would have known in January and likely been monitoring the situation since at least early January.
But even all that doesn't cover the Trump Administration's cutbacks in emergency health services that would normally address preparedness for such disasters as COVID-19.
The president introduced his fiscal year 2021 budget proposal on Feb. 10, just 11 days after the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency of international concerns. The spending plan included a 16 percent reduction in CDC funding from the 2020 spending levels.
As the coronavirus upends the economy, the Trump administration plans to make changes to the food stamp program that could lead to nearly 700,000 people losing assistance.
Interested in more on Trump and his 'incompetence'?
Simply use the search terms: " Trump Administration's cutbacks in emergency health services "
When Trump was a liberal Democrat, he was really just a malevolent opportunist.
When Trump was an Independent, he was really just a malevolent opportunist.
When Trump bought his way into the Republican Party, nothing changed, he was still the same old Donald, a malevolent opportunist.
And now we're really screwed.
Trump didn't cause the epidemic.
But he did cause a lot of unnecessary misery, pain and suffering, and death than wouldn't have occurred with competent leadership.
And a lot of blame should go to Congress at the same time!
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