DAMN!! How will HISTORY look back on Trump, Fox News & all his supporters during Coronavirus & AFTER he leaves office? UPDATE: Trump WON
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The debate over a post office bailout, explained
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‘Fox & Friends’ Weekend Co-Host Jedediah Bila Blasts Donald Trump For Chris Wallace Criticism: “Seriously. Enough.”
'Fox & Friends' Weekend Co-Host Jedediah Bila Blasts Donald Trump For Chris Wallace Criticism: "Seriously. Enough."
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| Cuomo calls Trump’s claim of absolute authority “dictatorial.” |
| Throughout the coronavirus outbreak, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has insisted that the crisis requires him to be above politics and partisanship. |
| But on Tuesday, as Mr. Cuomo battled President Trump over who had the authority to reopen public life, the governor struggled to walk the line between antagonistic and conciliatory. |
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| On Monday, he and the governors of six other Eastern states said they were banding together to make a coordinated plan for reopening their economies. Mr. Trump responded that only he had the authority to decide when states could reopen. |
| “That is not an accurate statement,” Mr. Cuomo said at his daily briefing in Albany on Tuesday. |
| Earlier, in four television appearances, Mr. Cuomo took issue with the president’s assertion, saying at one point that any move to follow through on it would be “dictatorial.” |
| On CNN, when asked what he would do if Mr. Trump directed him to reopen New York, Mr. Cuomo said, “If he ordered me to reopen in a way that would endanger the public health of the people of my state, I wouldn’t do it.” |
After Mocking ‘King’ Trump, Cuomo Says Virus Should Be ‘No-Politics Zone’
Gov. Andrew Cuomo attacked the president in a string of television appearances on Tuesday but then pulled back, saying the “president will have no fight with me.”
Hours after comparing President Trump’s daily briefing to a “comedy skit,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said at his own briefing that he did not want to further engage Mr. Trump.Credit...Gabby Jones for The New York Times
By Luis Ferré-Sadurní and Jesse McKinley
Since the coronavirus began to ravage New York, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has used a fine mix of outright flattery and back-room diplomacy to draw down a variety of federal support, preaching nonpartisanship while mostly avoiding direct attacks on President Trump.
In a span of about 24 hours this week, however, Mr. Cuomo, more typically known for his bruising political style, appeared to return to his roots.
In a frenzy of television appearances on Tuesday, Mr. Cuomo urged the president to avoid being “dictatorial.” He said on CNN that Mr. Trump’s coronavirus response had been “schizophrenic.” About 30 minutes later on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” he compared the president’s daily briefings to “a comedy skit,” while saying no governor should watch them because “there’s no value in it.”
Mr. Cuomo’s comments were prompted by Mr. Trump’s unsubstantiated claim during a White House news conference on Monday evening that he had “total authority” over the states when it came to reopening the economy.
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That claim was quickly rebuked by several governors, including Gov. Larry Hogan of Maryland, a Republican who heads the National Governors Association. But it was Mr. Cuomo who used the sharpest language, threatening to undo weeks of diplomacy toward the White House.
Mr. Cuomo’s shift in tone comes at a time when New York’s once-urgent need for immediate resources from the federal government has lessened, with many indicators showing a so-called flattening of the curve in the state.
It also followed the introduction of the governor’s new coalition with his counterparts from six neighboring states to draft a plan to reopen the region’s economy — a move that displeased President Trump, whose exasperation grew Tuesday after Mr. Cuomo’s media appearances.
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“Cuomo’s been calling daily, even hourly, begging for everything, most of which should have been the state’s responsibility, such as new hospitals, beds, ventilators, etc.,” the president wrote on Twitter. “I got it all done for him, and everyone else, and now he seems to want Independence! That won’t happen!”
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Mr. Trump followed up with another post in which, referring to the film “Mutiny on the Bounty,” he compared the governors’ coalition to mutineers turning on their captain.
105K people are talking about this
But given a chance to respond at his daily news briefing later Tuesday morning, Mr. Cuomo, a third-term Democrat, held back, repeatedly saying that he did not want to argue with Mr. Trump.
“The president was clearly unhappy,” Mr. Cuomo said, noting the “Mutiny on the Bounty” tweet and other remarks by Mr. Trump, who he said “was clearly spoiling for a fight on this issue.”
But Mr. Cuomo said he would not engage further, saying the coronavirus crisis should be a “no-politics zone.”
“The president will have no fight with me,” he said.
The governor said that he still needed the federal government’s help, particularly as the response begins to shift to restoring economic and social activity.
“In this reopening, we could lose all the progress we made in one week,” he said.
On Tuesday evening, Mr. Trump appeared to reverse course on his claims of absolute authority, saying during a White House news conference that he would allow states to implement their own protocols to reopen the economy.
Addressing Mr. Cuomo directly, he said, “I want him to take his time, do it right and then open New York. I’m not putting any pressure on the governors.”
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Asked why he had criticized the president in his spate of morning television interviews, Mr. Cuomo said that he felt it was his duty to correct and rebut the notion that Mr. Trump had unfettered power.
If the president did order the state to reopen, Mr. Cuomo said, “that would be the worst possible thing he could do at this moment, would be to act dictatorial and to act in a partisan, divisive way.”
Indeed, Mr. Cuomo used his briefing to opine on the distinct roles of federal government and states, quoting Alexander Hamilton and citing the principles of the 10th Amendment.
“We don’t have a king in this country; we didn’t want a king,” he said. “So we have a constitution and we elect a president.”
Earlier, Mr. Cuomo, who served in the federal government as the secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Clinton, also seemed acutely aware of the ability of the federal government to both assist and, potentially, hamstring efforts in New York, even as new coronavirus cases and hospitalizations are starting to ebb.
Mr. Cuomo has been successful thus far in securing cooperation from Mr. Trump, who the governor has said has “delivered for New York,” a sentiment he echoed on Tuesday.
“He is right: I did call and say I need federal assistance,” Mr. Cuomo said, adding, “And I praised him for his actions.”
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Continue reading the main story
At the governor’s request, the federal government loosened testing restrictions during the early days of the outbreak, greatly increasing New York’s capacity to test hundreds of thousands of people. It sent thousands of ventilators from the national stockpile to New York.
Last month, the Navy deployed the U.S.N.S. Comfort, a 1,000-bed hospital ship to New York City, and the Army Corps of Engineers sent its personnel to retrofit the Javits Center, a gargantuan convention center in Midtown Manhattan, into a makeshift hospital with thousands of beds for coronavirus patients.
Many of those federal resources, however, appeared more urgent when state officials were citing worst-case forecasts showing New York would need up to 140,000 hospital beds and 40,000 ventilators at the peak of the outbreak.
Instead, the state’s hospitals have been strained, but not overrun.
Still, the one-day death toll rose again on Tuesday, to 778, following two days of declining number of deaths, bringing the statewide death toll to 10,834. More than 200,000 people have been infected with the virus in New York.
Mr. Cuomo acknowledged the daunting challenges faced in reopening society, including ramping up diagnostic testing, cleaning transportation vehicles, stations and public spaces, and tracing and stomping out new outbreaks.
“There’s a lot to do here,” he says. “The states cannot do this on their own.”
Gov. Andrew Cuomo attacked the president in a string of television appearances on Tuesday but then pulled back, saying the “president will have no fight with me.”
Hours after comparing President Trump’s daily briefing to a “comedy skit,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said at his own briefing that he did not want to further engage Mr. Trump.Credit...Gabby Jones for The New York Times
By Luis Ferré-Sadurní and Jesse McKinley
- April 14, 2020
Since the coronavirus began to ravage New York, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has used a fine mix of outright flattery and back-room diplomacy to draw down a variety of federal support, preaching nonpartisanship while mostly avoiding direct attacks on President Trump.
In a span of about 24 hours this week, however, Mr. Cuomo, more typically known for his bruising political style, appeared to return to his roots.
In a frenzy of television appearances on Tuesday, Mr. Cuomo urged the president to avoid being “dictatorial.” He said on CNN that Mr. Trump’s coronavirus response had been “schizophrenic.” About 30 minutes later on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” he compared the president’s daily briefings to “a comedy skit,” while saying no governor should watch them because “there’s no value in it.”
Mr. Cuomo’s comments were prompted by Mr. Trump’s unsubstantiated claim during a White House news conference on Monday evening that he had “total authority” over the states when it came to reopening the economy.
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Continue reading the main story
That claim was quickly rebuked by several governors, including Gov. Larry Hogan of Maryland, a Republican who heads the National Governors Association. But it was Mr. Cuomo who used the sharpest language, threatening to undo weeks of diplomacy toward the White House.
Mr. Cuomo’s shift in tone comes at a time when New York’s once-urgent need for immediate resources from the federal government has lessened, with many indicators showing a so-called flattening of the curve in the state.
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It also followed the introduction of the governor’s new coalition with his counterparts from six neighboring states to draft a plan to reopen the region’s economy — a move that displeased President Trump, whose exasperation grew Tuesday after Mr. Cuomo’s media appearances.
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“Cuomo’s been calling daily, even hourly, begging for everything, most of which should have been the state’s responsibility, such as new hospitals, beds, ventilators, etc.,” the president wrote on Twitter. “I got it all done for him, and everyone else, and now he seems to want Independence! That won’t happen!”
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Continue reading the main story
Mr. Trump followed up with another post in which, referring to the film “Mutiny on the Bounty,” he compared the governors’ coalition to mutineers turning on their captain.
105K people are talking about this
But given a chance to respond at his daily news briefing later Tuesday morning, Mr. Cuomo, a third-term Democrat, held back, repeatedly saying that he did not want to argue with Mr. Trump.
“The president was clearly unhappy,” Mr. Cuomo said, noting the “Mutiny on the Bounty” tweet and other remarks by Mr. Trump, who he said “was clearly spoiling for a fight on this issue.”
But Mr. Cuomo said he would not engage further, saying the coronavirus crisis should be a “no-politics zone.”
“The president will have no fight with me,” he said.
The governor said that he still needed the federal government’s help, particularly as the response begins to shift to restoring economic and social activity.
“In this reopening, we could lose all the progress we made in one week,” he said.
On Tuesday evening, Mr. Trump appeared to reverse course on his claims of absolute authority, saying during a White House news conference that he would allow states to implement their own protocols to reopen the economy.
Addressing Mr. Cuomo directly, he said, “I want him to take his time, do it right and then open New York. I’m not putting any pressure on the governors.”
ADVERTISEMENT
Continue reading the main story
Asked why he had criticized the president in his spate of morning television interviews, Mr. Cuomo said that he felt it was his duty to correct and rebut the notion that Mr. Trump had unfettered power.
If the president did order the state to reopen, Mr. Cuomo said, “that would be the worst possible thing he could do at this moment, would be to act dictatorial and to act in a partisan, divisive way.”
Indeed, Mr. Cuomo used his briefing to opine on the distinct roles of federal government and states, quoting Alexander Hamilton and citing the principles of the 10th Amendment.
“We don’t have a king in this country; we didn’t want a king,” he said. “So we have a constitution and we elect a president.”
Earlier, Mr. Cuomo, who served in the federal government as the secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Clinton, also seemed acutely aware of the ability of the federal government to both assist and, potentially, hamstring efforts in New York, even as new coronavirus cases and hospitalizations are starting to ebb.
Mr. Cuomo has been successful thus far in securing cooperation from Mr. Trump, who the governor has said has “delivered for New York,” a sentiment he echoed on Tuesday.
“He is right: I did call and say I need federal assistance,” Mr. Cuomo said, adding, “And I praised him for his actions.”
ADVERTISEMENT
Continue reading the main story
At the governor’s request, the federal government loosened testing restrictions during the early days of the outbreak, greatly increasing New York’s capacity to test hundreds of thousands of people. It sent thousands of ventilators from the national stockpile to New York.
Last month, the Navy deployed the U.S.N.S. Comfort, a 1,000-bed hospital ship to New York City, and the Army Corps of Engineers sent its personnel to retrofit the Javits Center, a gargantuan convention center in Midtown Manhattan, into a makeshift hospital with thousands of beds for coronavirus patients.
Many of those federal resources, however, appeared more urgent when state officials were citing worst-case forecasts showing New York would need up to 140,000 hospital beds and 40,000 ventilators at the peak of the outbreak.
Instead, the state’s hospitals have been strained, but not overrun.
Still, the one-day death toll rose again on Tuesday, to 778, following two days of declining number of deaths, bringing the statewide death toll to 10,834. More than 200,000 people have been infected with the virus in New York.
Mr. Cuomo acknowledged the daunting challenges faced in reopening society, including ramping up diagnostic testing, cleaning transportation vehicles, stations and public spaces, and tracing and stomping out new outbreaks.
“There’s a lot to do here,” he says. “The states cannot do this on their own.”
This helps the argument about players being paid. If they are that vital to the state of Oklahoma, so much so, that the entire state is affected economically by their absence, shouldn't they receive some type of financial compensation.
Nick Searcy Explains Why Hollywood Doesn't Understand Trump
During his guest-hosting gig on the Rush Limbaugh radio show, the actor broke down the disconnect between Tinseltown and the president
Nick Searcy Explains Why Hollywood Doesn't Understand Trump
During his guest-hosting gig on the Rush Limbaugh radio show, the actor broke down the disconnect between Tinseltown and the presidentwww.lifezette.com
WTF???
Yo was a big fan of this guys acting...
Nick Searcy Explains Why Hollywood Doesn’t Understand Trump
During a guest-hosting gig on Rush Limbaugh's radio show, actor broke down the disconnect between Tinseltown and the president
BY ZACHARY LEEMAN
DECEMBER 27, 2017
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Left-wing Hollywood has not harbored the best attitude toward President Donald Trump in 2017.
Instead, many entertainment elites have unleashed their anger toward the chief executive on awards shows, in press interviews and on social media.
Some artists, however, have held the line and refused to join the ranks of blind-rage liberalism. And “Justified” star Nick Searcy is one of those people.
The openly conservative actor guest-hosted Rush Limbaugh’s radio program on Wednesday afternoon and touched on the disconnect between Hollywood and the president.
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Leftists in Hollywood are “missing the point really badly,” according to Searcy, “because they don’t understand professional wrestling.”
While it may seem an odd analogy at first, the actor broke it down well enough for the audience.
Wrestling, Searcy said, began with two types of wrestlers. There was the “heel,” the man who would break the rules and cheat in the ring. Then there were “babyface wrestlers,” who would often take a terrible beating while refusing to cheat. They played by the rules.
They “always get cheated, but never cheat back,” said Searcy.
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He added, “In their mind, they were playing fair and they were playing with integrity.” Over time, the actor theorized, Democrats became the “heels” and the GOP lost its spine and became the “babyface GOP.”
“They [the Democrats] changed the rules to suit themselves when they had the votes to do it,” said Searcy, criticizing Republicans for not sticking to their promises and missing their opportunities to fight back again and again.
Related: ‘Justified’ Actor to Hollywood: ‘You’re on Thin Ice’
The arrival of Trump in politics, continued Searcy, was like the arrival of Hulk Hogan in the wrestling world.
“[Hogan] would hit the heel back with [objects],” said Searcy — and the audience loved Hogan because “they’d been waiting for this for years.” They finally had a wrestler to root for who was willing to employ the same tactics used against him.
Hogan kicked off the “attitude era” in wrestling, in which matches were less predictable and the personalities of the stars were bigger than ever.
The arrival of Trump, like Hogan, had people excited, said Searcy, because he was “a throwback to the attitude era” and was willing to fight back and fight back hard.
“He leads with the chair,” said Searcy of Trump. “He starts clocking people before the bell even rings.”
Searcy then ran some old audio clips of 1980s wrestlers playing tough for cameras — and compared the language to how Trump communicates to crowds.
Hollywood doesn’t understand Trump and is so frustrated by him because they just don’t understand professional wrestling, concluded Searcy.
Related: Nick Searcy Is Proud of Voting for Donald Trump
Asked whether he feared any professional blowback from his hosting of Rush Limbaugh’s show, Searcy waved that off.
“I’ve probably already suffered all the consequences I’m gonna suffer,” he said.
His conservatism actually helped him in one professional instance, he added. He was interviewed by Rush Limbaugh during his years on the popular “Justified” TV series — and the writers of the show enjoyed the interview so much they wrote a scene into the program: It featured Searcy’s character listening to the conservative radio host. It was not a scene played for irony, either.
They were suggesting Searcy’s character listened to the program.
They were suggesting Searcy’s character listened to the program — and they did not make fun of that fact, as many other Hollywood productions likely would have done.
Searcy called his guest-hosting gig “the greatest role I’ve ever been assigned.” That’s quite a comment from a man who stars in not one but two Oscar contenders this year: “The Shape of Water” and “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.”
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Actually hearing this a lot in Michigan. A lot of people feeling embarrassed by it.
WTF???
Yo was a big fan of this guys acting...
Nick Searcy Explains Why Hollywood Doesn’t Understand Trump
During a guest-hosting gig on Rush Limbaugh's radio show, actor broke down the disconnect between Tinseltown and the president
BY ZACHARY LEEMAN
DECEMBER 27, 2017
Share Tweet Share Flip It Comment Print
Left-wing Hollywood has not harbored the best attitude toward President Donald Trump in 2017.
Instead, many entertainment elites have unleashed their anger toward the chief executive on awards shows, in press interviews and on social media.
Some artists, however, have held the line and refused to join the ranks of blind-rage liberalism. And “Justified” star Nick Searcy is one of those people.
The openly conservative actor guest-hosted Rush Limbaugh’s radio program on Wednesday afternoon and touched on the disconnect between Hollywood and the president.
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Leftists in Hollywood are “missing the point really badly,” according to Searcy, “because they don’t understand professional wrestling.”
While it may seem an odd analogy at first, the actor broke it down well enough for the audience.
Wrestling, Searcy said, began with two types of wrestlers. There was the “heel,” the man who would break the rules and cheat in the ring. Then there were “babyface wrestlers,” who would often take a terrible beating while refusing to cheat. They played by the rules.
They “always get cheated, but never cheat back,” said Searcy.
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He added, “In their mind, they were playing fair and they were playing with integrity.” Over time, the actor theorized, Democrats became the “heels” and the GOP lost its spine and became the “babyface GOP.”
“They [the Democrats] changed the rules to suit themselves when they had the votes to do it,” said Searcy, criticizing Republicans for not sticking to their promises and missing their opportunities to fight back again and again.
Related: ‘Justified’ Actor to Hollywood: ‘You’re on Thin Ice’
The arrival of Trump in politics, continued Searcy, was like the arrival of Hulk Hogan in the wrestling world.
“[Hogan] would hit the heel back with [objects],” said Searcy — and the audience loved Hogan because “they’d been waiting for this for years.” They finally had a wrestler to root for who was willing to employ the same tactics used against him.
Hogan kicked off the “attitude era” in wrestling, in which matches were less predictable and the personalities of the stars were bigger than ever.
The arrival of Trump, like Hogan, had people excited, said Searcy, because he was “a throwback to the attitude era” and was willing to fight back and fight back hard.
“He leads with the chair,” said Searcy of Trump. “He starts clocking people before the bell even rings.”
Searcy then ran some old audio clips of 1980s wrestlers playing tough for cameras — and compared the language to how Trump communicates to crowds.
Hollywood doesn’t understand Trump and is so frustrated by him because they just don’t understand professional wrestling, concluded Searcy.
Related: Nick Searcy Is Proud of Voting for Donald Trump
Asked whether he feared any professional blowback from his hosting of Rush Limbaugh’s show, Searcy waved that off.
“I’ve probably already suffered all the consequences I’m gonna suffer,” he said.
His conservatism actually helped him in one professional instance, he added. He was interviewed by Rush Limbaugh during his years on the popular “Justified” TV series — and the writers of the show enjoyed the interview so much they wrote a scene into the program: It featured Searcy’s character listening to the conservative radio host. It was not a scene played for irony, either.
They were suggesting Searcy’s character listened to the program.
They were suggesting Searcy’s character listened to the program — and they did not make fun of that fact, as many other Hollywood productions likely would have done.
Searcy called his guest-hosting gig “the greatest role I’ve ever been assigned.” That’s quite a comment from a man who stars in not one but two Oscar contenders this year: “The Shape of Water” and “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.”
This dude is literally a drinking all of Drumpfs kool-aid.
Sorry I haven't had the time to read this thread, so apologies if I'm repeating someone else's post...
Typically, REAL politicians care how history will view them, but since day one, trump really hasn't gaf.
That has me as concerned as anything
Typically, REAL politicians care how history will view them, but since day one, trump really hasn't gaf.
That has me as concerned as anything
If history correctly accounts for this era it should state this was the most chaotic era in American since Pearl Harbor. The worst mainland diaster since 9/11. The time when America lost its way. Turned its back on its allies because Americans stupidly elected an unscrupulous, underhanded lying racist POS who cared nothing about the people unless it meant more money in his pockets.
It should also acknowledge how totally inept he's proved himself. He fell apart like a wet tissue when this country was challenged by a virus. An how he bungled preparation to fight a virus that to date has cost over 32,000 deaths (and counting) of U.S. citizens.
The Three Stooges could've done no worse. This all would be funny if his lack of leadership wasn't costing thousands of lives everyday.
It should also acknowledge how totally inept he's proved himself. He fell apart like a wet tissue when this country was challenged by a virus. An how he bungled preparation to fight a virus that to date has cost over 32,000 deaths (and counting) of U.S. citizens.
The Three Stooges could've done no worse. This all would be funny if his lack of leadership wasn't costing thousands of lives everyday.
Holy hell...
See this right here?
Makes you realize the enemy is truly all around us in plain sight.
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