https://twitter.com/alx/status/1244693072761565192
IMDB had a great incredulous emoticon I miss that was perfect for situations like this.
Oh my! I am trying to write down what he is saying but its near impossible!
shareHe's trying(and failing) to say Trump needs to use the defense production act.
shareWhich Trump has already done. Apparently that Biden interview was the same one where he called Wuhan "Luhan" while making various false claims.
shareAfter weeks of price gouging and governors pleading for him to do something. Then on March 27 when every worker is fearful of catching the virus, that's when he chooses to go all in on manufacturing.
Progressives have been telling him to do this for a month. Where the hell were repubs at? They were busy listening to Trump while Trump was busy listening to corporate monkeys that want the right to price gouge.
Horseshit. Trump invoked the National Defense Act on March 18 and was actively rallying private sector companies long before that more effectively than I've ever seen a president do. Most companies have been great about volunteering to help and don't need a formal order to do something specific from the national government, something anyone should be cautious about imposing in a free country. He applied it to GM because they backpedaled on commitments, not because of whining by Democrat governors, let alone by "progressives" who have focused more on falsely calling people “racist” for saying Chinese virus than actually saving lives, and were opposed to Trump’s early actions like imposing travel restrictions. Making an example out of one company is likely sufficient. You don't have to make examples out of every company.
The overwhelming weight of empirical history also tells us that central government planning is vastly less efficient than a multitude of individuals and companies freely acting and innovating. That's both why your side lost the Cold War and why the CDC/government dominated testing system, which proved so inadequate to this new, broader pandemic crisis, has been supplanted by a mostly private sector effort, guided by the government and its stated needs for this emergency, that has been amazing at developing, faster, more accurate, more convenient tests and distribution methods in a record setting short period of time, ramping up manufacturing until the US was dwarfing any other nation in daily testing, and building a new infrastructure to deal with this crisis and others going forward, improvising under fire during a stressful situation.
As I asked earlier while responding to your lie claiming there were no large gatherings in NYC's Chinatown celebrating the Chinese New Year.....
https://moviechat.org/bd0000082/Politics/5e7e5ec57f382870c87e18b7/NYCs-Dem-Health-Commissioner-and-Council-Health-Chair-repeatedly-dismissed-virus-encouraged-mass-Chinese-New-Year-parties?reply=5e80377a5122f12d6502f824
.....when was the last time you posted something true?
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/31/us/politics/coronavirus-defense-production-act.html
But to you, all NYT does is lie about Trump, right?
Yep, or it's filled with rabidly biased opinions. This garbage piece is mostly just vague whining and speculation from "critics", a typical dishonest Times smear job. For example, it misleadingly conflates the Pentagon simply buying a specific product from a company that's making it anyway with forcing a company like GM to retool and make something completely different than what it normally does on the government's terms. And it mostly ignores the results Trump was getting anyway. Leftists always assume nationalization and central government planning is best, and that the private sector is garbage full of villains that shouldn't even exist.
It and you are just regurgitating the desperate and mindless DNC talking points of the week as your comrades grasp at straws to nitpick at the administration's far reaching and amazingly competent handling of the crisis.
Oh and don't think I didn't notice you completely ignore my correction of your factual lie about Chinatown on the other thread I linked to.
You didn't specify a date before my reply on the other thread. You don't seem to care about what is actually being said. You're too interested in looking for a 'gotcha' moment that you can twist to mean something else. But the fact remains, gatherings in Chinatown were not a cause of spreading the disease in New York. You are basing it on a "gut feeling" because Chinatown has the word China in it. To most people, that counts as xenophobia.
shareLiar. I specifically cited the Chinese New Years celebrations, and quoted the incompetent NYC health officials telling people to attend them.
I don't have to look for "gotcha" moments. Almost every line you type is a lie. Not merely technical falsehoods but substantive lies that render your larger claim the opposite of the truth. My above question is sincere. When was your last truthful post? One containing no lies. I assume you've typed a lie-free post at some point but it's been so long since I've noticed one from you that I don't remember when it was.
Was New York an epicenter of the coronavirus on Feb 9?
shareChina still was. But New York would become the US epicenter soon after.
Not that it matters whether it's the "epicenter" or not. You're floundering.
PS - But I love how on the other thread you just dedicated a reply to seizing on a typo to pretend I meant "China" when context shows I obviously meant "Chinatown", truly looking for "gotcha" moments as you falsely accused me of above, while ignoring almost the entire substance of my post. 😄
You don't just lie. You project.
Context matters. I specifically tied the timeframe of gatherings to when New York became an epicenter of the coronavirus.
You turned around and said I was wrong because you were talking about Feb 9 gatherings. I don't care about Feb 9.
My statement is that xenophobia had reduced Chinatown's gatherings right before New York became an epicenter for the coronavirus. Not weeks before. Not months before. Not years before.
Your lies continue. The post you replied to was specifically about the NYC health officials' encouragement to attend the Chinese New Years celebrations, as is much of that thread. "Encouraged mass Chinese New Year parties" is literally in the thread title. Your reply was about "those gatherings", meaning the ones I was talking about. You didn't say you were talking about other gatherings.
https://moviechat.org/bd0000082/Politics/5e7e5ec57f382870c87e18b7/NYCs-Dem-Health-Commissioner-and-Council-Health-Chair-repeatedly-dismissed-virus-encouraged-mass-Chinese-New-Year-parties?reply=5e7f98295122f12d6502f17e
Aside from your diversionary and dishonest prattling about when which region was the "epicenter" (not yet being the epicenter doesn't make that purely political encouragement from health officials responsible; by the time New York is the epicenter it's too late), your statement worrying at all about "xenophobia" instead of people dying shows how brainwashed and warped you are, and how out of whack your priorities are. There is nothing "xenophobic" about avoiding a nation, neighborhood, house, ship, etc. where one has reason to believe there might be a higher risk of infection, especially if it's a tightly packed crowd. It's a sound precaution.
I know it was about Chinese New Year. Here's the problem though. I referred to another time, and you missed it. By you missing it, you thought I was referring to Chinese New Year gatherings. It's a simple mistake. Just let it go.
shareLOL! No, you directly referred to the gatherings I had been posting about, you called them "those gatherings", you lied by denying they happened (as I proved), then you went on to make a broader point about Chinatown activity drying up over time.
Your were trying to claim the NYC officials' encouragement did no harm because people ignored it anyway, due to what you call "xenophobia". Your claim was a lie.
The mistake is yours, by continuing to wallow in your own lies when you should have cut your losses.