Quote:Sunday on MSNBC’s “AM Joy,” former Obama National Security Advisor Susan Rice said that President Donald Trump’s “extraordinary failings” caused an increase in deaths and economic suffering during the coronavirus pandemic.

When asked about Jared Kushner calling the federal government’s coronavirus response “a great success story,” Rice said, “Well, it’s really offensive when you digest the reality that now nearly 70,000 Americans have lost their lives. As you said, well over 1 million infected, 30 million Americans have lost their jobs. We know that number is an underestimate. How one could possibly declare that a success of any sort, mission accomplished is just bewildering, and it is offensive because so many Americans are suffering. We’re suffering loss of life, loss of loved ones and the degree of our suffering in human terms and economic terms is, frankly, far greater than it needed to be because of this administration’s incompetence, the president’s denials and dishonest statements and their refusal to act on the information they had a beginning in early and mid-January when we learned this was a major problem in China. Any person with knowledge and experience of pandemics knows this was going to come to us in a major way.”

Reacting the president saying the Obama administration left “bad, broken tests,” Rice said, “It’s, of course, preposterous. The notion that we left them faulty tests when we left office in January of 2017, and there wasn’t a novel coronavirus to test for at that time is false on its face. But the broader narrative that somehow the Obama administration left this new administration unprepared is ridiculous. First of all, this is 3 1/2 years into the Trump administration. They own whatever the situation is. Secondly, we understood very clearly the real likelihood of a pandemic. President Obama spoke to it publicly in December 2014 as we were wrestling with the Ebola epidemic. I set up an office at the White House, solely for the purpose of tracking global health events and possible pandemics and responding to them. We left them a 69-page playbook, which I called “pandemics for dummies,” which was designed to enable an administration to walk through a set of issues and questions and begin to prepare a response.”

“They dismantled the office, discarded the playbook,” she added. “They disregarded the exercise we prepared for them to enable them to work through these kinds of issues in the transition, and they never prioritized pandemics as the catastrophic threat we all knew it could be. And that, more importantly, Joy, they wasted the months of January and February in terms of gearing up our response. That’s the time when we should have been surging the acquisition and procurement of PPE and ventilators and tests, and all of the things that we now know that all Americans now know are so badly needed. We knew that to be the case. We left a whole and complete national strategic stockpile. For the Trump administration to blame the Obama administration or blame anybody else is purely an effort to cover up and distract from their own extraordinary failings.”

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Does this ***** really think she is important? One of the biggest liars ever.

Dem Gov. Cuomo: The Federal Govt. In Partnership With State & Local Govts “Has Literally Saved Lives”

She belongs in a jail cell. She was in the meeting with Obama, Biden, Comey the day before Comey paid Trump a visit in Trump Tower with the phony pee Dossier.

They see what’s coming their way. Pandemic or no pandemic.

She’s one of the conspirators.

Scum

She’s an afterthought...

I’m far from a trump supporter but Democrats are going to lose big by trying to win an election by blaming Trump for a virus. All it does is make them look petty and desperate.

(05-05-2020 10:46 PM)Thewavefan Wrote:  I’m far from a trump supporter but Democrats are going to lose big by trying to win an election by blaming Trump for a virus. All it does is make them look petty and desperate.

I'm with you from the first word of that post to the last.

Unless you're a hard core Dem who is going to root for your side regardless, I just don't see how anybody can come down on the side of an attempted coup, a Russian hoax, a partisan failed impeachment over a phone call, an attack on Trump for the coronavirus, etc.

Especially in light of the Dems attacking him for the flight ban in January as being racist, and the double standard of Kavanaugh vs. Biden.

It's mind boggling what the Dems have pulled in the last 4 years, and what they are still doing.

#grudgeFk

(05-05-2020 10:53 PM)TripleA Wrote:  

(05-05-2020 10:46 PM)Thewavefan Wrote:  I’m far from a trump supporter but Democrats are going to lose big by trying to win an election by blaming Trump for a virus. All it does is make them look petty and desperate.

I'm with you from the first word of that post to the last.

Unless you're a hard core Dem who is going to root for your side regardless, I just don't see how anybody can come down on the side of an attempted coup, a Russian hoax, a partisan failed impeachment over a phone call, an attack on Trump for the coronavirus, etc.

Especially in light of the Dems attacking him for the flight ban in January as being racist, and the double standard of Kavanaugh vs. Biden.

It's mind boggling what the Dems have pulled in the last 4 years, and what they are still doing.

sig line 1b) easily sums 'dem' up....

I have to get a body cam....the shite I see in the 'sip on a daily basis when in the field is fk'n priceless...

#muhSect8Cellu-LIT-upBabes ..... get them running their ebonic'd yammer, and it's tough not laughing in their feces....

Wasn't there supposed to be a million dead Americans by now? I'm pretty sure that was the numbers spouted off in February if "Trump didn't take the virus seriously". Guess the Demos wanted him to take the virus even more Super-Serious?

Notice Obama has chimed in out of nowhere on the Congressional investigation over Biden's worthless son in China? 2 reasons:

1. he knows its about to hit the fan w/ Comey, FBI, etc

2. Trump's approval isn't taking a hit over COVID

Obama writing an official letter is tell tale sign that the Democrats know they are in serious trouble in November. Getting him involved this early is sheer desperation.

(05-06-2020 07:39 AM)49RFootballNow Wrote:  Wasn't there supposed to be a million dead Americans by now? I'm pretty sure that was the numbers spouted off in February if "Trump didn't take the virus seriously". Guess the Demos wanted him to take the virus even more Super-Serious?

yep....#~1mos.

@stillLaughing

I think Trump has done a decent job. I'd give a B+ overall. Not perfect, he should have told CDC and FDA to go F themselves earlier and gotten state, local, and private entities involved sooner. He does get a plus for shutting down the China flights sooner than his staff recommended.

At Vandiver's recommendation, I have been reading geopolitical analyst and former STRATFOR founder George Friedman's new book, The Storm Before the Calm. He puts forth the thesis that the USA is currently in a struggle between experts (mostly academic and/or highly educated, and with a theoretical approach) on one hand and common sense (mostly practical) on the other. He sees it all coming to a head some time in the next decade. I think of Yogi Berra, "In theory, theory works in practice. In practice, it doesn't." The "experts" are the ones who pretty badly screwed the pooch on this one. CDC and FDA badly screwed up testing, which got us off to a slow start. The "roadmap" or "gameplan" prepared by the "pandemic response team" was nothing but a bunch of bureaucratic gobbledegook with no relevance to actual response. The "experts" recommended against the China travel ban. The projection models have been consistently and absurdly inaccurate. CDC sent Dr. Chu (who first identified the virus in Washington state) a "cease and desist" order.

Would Hillary or any other democrat have done better? I think probably worse. The democrat establishment is so far in bed with the academic elite that they would have been loathe to do anything other than what the 'experts" recommended. So no China ban. We'd still be waiting for CDC to produce and evaluate tests at a snail's pace. And everything would have been shut down until the economy almost completely died. "Keep 'em dumb, keep 'em poor, keep 'em dependent on handouts, and you'll keep 'em voting democrat."

The worst thing Trump did IMO is to put too much trust in the "experts" for too long.