You talk about one issue where you think you can get past partisanship and pettiness, and now you talk about helping communities where people are dying, and you say they are blue states? If there was ever a time for humanity and decency … and a time to stop your obsessive political bias and anger, now is the time. This announcement was met with a sharp retort from New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who will be faced with even more devastation if he's forced to lay off first responders, firefighters, teachers and other state and municipal employees in the epicenter of the pandemic. Of course the man who blithely passed massive tax cuts for the rich and allowed military spending to grow to unprecedented levels over the past three years, without batting an eye, is now deeply concerned about budget deficits in Democratic states. He later made clear just exactly which states he was talking about by putting out a memorandum in which he described the states requesting help as "Blue State Bailouts." He said these states and cities can use this crisis to solve their "pension problem," and that he's saving he's saving future generations from their fiscal irresponsibility. On Wednesday, McConnell told right-wing radio personality Hugh Hewitt that state and local governments facing revenue shortfalls from this crisis, some of which are forced by law to balance their budgets, may have to go bankrupt because he has no plans to allow the federal government to help them out. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is planning to use this crisis to break the backs of public employee pension funds in liberal states and punish people who vote for Democrats. When asked about the desperately needed help for state and local government, which he'd previously said he favored, this was the president's response: One might have thought he'd spend the entire rally patting himself on the back for Thursday's passage of the CARE Act extension to help small business, but he seemed uninterested in that. We can only imagine what kind of "trials" for internal UV light and Clorox cures they are scrambling to set up as we speak.īut that wasn't the only disturbing thing Trump had to say. So if anyone was thinking that these "directives" from Dr. Katherine Eban's reporting for Vanity Fair about the White House hydroxychloroquine debacle reveals that Trump sent government health agencies into a tailspin trying to fulfill his desire for a miracle cure. It brings to mind former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's famous quote after trying to teach him some basics about international relations: "He's a fucking moron." One shudders to think what it must be like to be in meetings with this person.
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