I have written and posted before about the GOVERNMENTAL INFRASTRUCTURE that 44 put in place to fight a PANDEMIC.
Here is a Twitter thread about positions going back to 43, that Dolt45 couldn’t be bothered to fill.
Come along for a tour of the top ten most head-smacking personnel vacancies, critical to the Covid Crisis, that Trump himself is responsible for inside the government….
— Garrett M. Graff (@vermontgmg) April 16, 2020
2) Amid the dual challenges of a work-from-home-crisis and budgetary mess, the temp acting official filling in as the head of the US gov's HR department, @USOPM, is *also* filling in as the deputy director of the Office of Management & Budget, which is insane.
— Garrett M. Graff (@vermontgmg) April 16, 2020
Nor are there Senate-confirmed heads of the other two border/immigration agencies, @USCIS and @CBP nor a deputy administrator at @TSAGov, amid a huge crisis for the travel industry and international trade.
— Garrett M. Graff (@vermontgmg) April 16, 2020
5) At @FEMA, the agency Trump has put in charge of the Covid response, both deputy roles are vacant, including the one overseeing continuity planning in case something happens to the USG leadership (like, say, what happened to Boris Johnson in the UK, who ended up in the ICU).
— Garrett M. Graff (@vermontgmg) April 16, 2020
7) At Treasury, as it leads the nation's economic response to the virus, Bloomberg reported, "Of 20 Senate confirmed roles reporting to the secretary, seven aren’t filled, and four are occupied by acting officials." https://t.co/vDnSMlHWAC
— Garrett M. Graff (@vermontgmg) April 16, 2020
9) At the White House itself, Trump downgraded and effectively did away with the role of Homeland Security Advisor, the role created by Bush after 9/11 precisely to coordinate crises like Covid. (Obama's Homeland Security Advisor led the Ebola response, for instance.)
— Garrett M. Graff (@vermontgmg) April 16, 2020
These vacancies are all Trump's fault alone. Not Congress's, a pattern clear for the entire administration. Also: These vacancies are just facts. I'm not even mentioning troubling questions about the competency/experience/longevity of those filling in on these or other roles./END
— Garrett M. Graff (@vermontgmg) April 16, 2020
The Predict Project was Barrack Obama's visionary program to combat the spread of pandemics around the world. Trump killed the program in September – just 6 to 8 weeks before the first #COVID19 case is believed to have surfaced in Wuhan. https://t.co/N9eKjloTvv
— Zev Shalev (@ZevShalev) April 19, 2020
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— Rosa Sparks @ Dainty Thug Podcast🧁 (@MzYummyDread) April 17, 2020
https://twitter.com/propublica/status/1253132499334705154?s=20
https://twitter.com/kate_ornate/status/1253190907102404608?s=20
https://twitter.com/EriceARoni/status/1253488623531331584?s=20
https://twitter.com/HoodlumRIP/status/1253458980355088385?s=20
https://twitter.com/MadisonKittay/status/1253473620501856263?s=20
https://twitter.com/WPJ4/status/1253475255580057600?s=20
https://twitter.com/susanfaleshill/status/1253485059870543872?s=20
https://twitter.com/itisfofe/status/1253450941992501249?s=20
I know that’s right 👏
https://twitter.com/eshap/status/1253366881811083265
Illinois stay-at-home extended until end of May
Well, the owner Jeff Bezos is an asshole. Everyone knows.
https://twitter.com/msainat1/status/1253350460683169794
If he raises the wages of the minions on the frontlines, how on earth is he ever going to afford to pay to sate the many personal demons of his raging midlife crisis.. or afford to take off with the plastic, silicone-filled gold-digger he left his wife and kids for.. cruising on the Mediterranean for 2 month-long million dollar summer yacht-hopping and living it up with other billionaires..
If he pays these workers a decent living/catastrophe wage, how on earth does he with all his tens of billions afford to maintain his new stylist and the ridiculously douche-y ‘cool dude’ makeover he now flaunts.. or the endless Botox and lip fillers for his cheap trick..
Decisions, decisions, decisions..
https://twitter.com/jiveDurkey/status/1253242753397460992
Great ad
https://twitter.com/BulwarkOnline/status/1253308820287299584
Except, lose the ‘president’ title when referring to the soulless buffoon.. can’t be stressed enough, as long as that title is used for him, it essentially boosts him in the eyes of a lot of those who aren’t even necessarily his voter demographic.. we now know just how shallow, uninformed/misinformed and easily swayed far too many are.. and not just those previously cast as the ‘low-info’ crowd..
https://twitter.com/MiamiHerald/status/1253317660953194496
😢😢😢🙏🙏🙏
https://twitter.com/ericawerner/status/1253368429719031809
🙏🏼❤️💔 ..
Mitch McConnell is a demon from hell. I cannot remember in my lifetime a person more despicable in American politics. He is second to none.
https://twitter.com/NYGovCuomo/status/1253358477415788548
https://twitter.com/ewarren/status/1253332675315724289
They were so cute when they were young. I fear for my own family. Three diabetics and one of those with COPD on my husband’s side, and one of my older sisters has lupus.
https://twitter.com/ewarren/status/1253332680898310146
🙏🏼❤️💔 ..
Cuomo bitchslapping a clowning reporter trying to give credibility to the ‘protestors’.
I could watch this exchange on an endless loop.
THIS is how every Democrat should respond when asked about those muthaphuckas:
BWA H AH AH HA AH HA HA
YEAH..GO BE AN ESSENTIAL WORKER IF WORKING MEANS THAT MUCH TO YOU.
Senator Warren just lost her brother to COVID-19
RIP😢
https://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1253324497081507840
Shameful.. infuriating..
May she Rest In Peace..
https://twitter.com/jbouie/status/1253137191309578242
https://twitter.com/byHeatherLong/status/1253300419901755399
https://twitter.com/iamkarmenk/status/1252962273309659136
I loathe her 😠😠😠
https://twitter.com/KaivanShroff/status/1253079529091891201
https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1253109278468079617
I have been buying stuff in preparation for when I do have to go back to the physical office. I’ve been buying different kinds of masks. Alcohol swabs, hand sanitizer. I realize now that I am going to be wearing boots for the forseeable future. Boots that you would wear in the rain. I am going to wear them. Wipe them down when I get to work. Put on the shoes that I have at work. When time to go home, put the boots back on and leave them right outside of my door when I get home.
Since I don’t believe in crossing my door in any clothes that I wear outside, I’ve bought myself 3 new hoodies, so that I can switch up. I also bought 4 new satin lined caps. I will have hat hair all the time now, but, oh well.I am soon gonna be a Black woman who will be washing her hair everyday, so I had to go out and stack up on shampoo and conditioner. I usually only wash my hair once every other week. This is going to be a change for me. Don’t know how my hair will handle it.
https://twitter.com/AndrewFeinberg/status/1252746015309991936
we need large scale testing to find out WHO HAD IT…not just who has it.
The people who had it might have antibodies that can help current patients.
There’s so many reasons why TESTING ON A LARGE SCALE IS KEY for us getting any semblance of our lives back.
https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1253030918501142529
Do you know any place on the ground, that is more of a Petri Dish than a casino?
I shudder just thinking about them. I almost go into a panic thinking about how an outbreak would be there.
Yeah, but according to her, those poor folk can be used as a ‘control group’..
This is yet another example of how women in power aren’t always any less callous, incompetent, greedy, heartless..
https://twitter.com/AdamSerwer/status/1252741132913696770
https://twitter.com/democracynow/status/1253036101926883329
A lot of folks feel this way…
https://twitter.com/RaeElle/status/1252771823864995841
I know that we aren’t supposed to believe in polls, but, I do believe in the polls that have Biden leading with Seniors.
Why?
Because of The Rona, they can’t see their grandchildren. Even if they are Fox watching nuts, a lot of them have children who are like, Nope, not coming to see you.
Whatever bullshyt Fox is selling, folks know when their grandchildren and children can’t see them.
This is what has the GOP stymied. The Fox bubble rubs up against the actual lives folks are leading.
He IS a Trump operative, they have decimated the DOJ.
https://twitter.com/SenBlumenthal/status/1252966100859584513
Wretched, cruel, despicable old bitch…
https://twitter.com/RepRaulGrijalva/status/1253043498347048961
https://twitter.com/MeritLaw/status/1252989406761418756
#StayAtHome 🏡
https://twitter.com/hannahdrake628/status/1252440002086219777?s=21
https://twitter.com/PoliticsWolf/status/1252713965739634689
https://twitter.com/BetoORourke/status/1252635260216578050
Thread
https://twitter.com/jennygadget/status/1252801140053311490
https://twitter.com/atkelli_/status/1252631755657547776
https://twitter.com/portlandmercury/status/1252634920272293888
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https://twitter.com/notcapnamerica/status/1252815783966552066
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https://twitter.com/kendallkarson/status/1252730455163637760
https://twitter.com/abigaildisney/status/1252665808859381760
https://twitter.com/abigaildisney/status/1252665811665334272
https://twitter.com/abigaildisney/status/1252665814337105921
https://twitter.com/report_hood/status/1252634652671643651
https://twitter.com/JoeNBC/status/1252790863324946439
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https://twitter.com/latimes/status/1252396990429687810
https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1252747695741009920
https://twitter.com/DemWrite/status/1251650555564273664
https://twitter.com/GeoffRBennett/status/1252916155242688512
https://twitter.com/marcushjohnson/status/1252916507413303296
https://twitter.com/BenjaminPDixon/status/1252927087754850304
Good Morning, Everyone 😄😄😄