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Trump Blames Obama Administration For Lack Of Medical Supplies: "The Shelves Were Empty" (Original Post)
ClearSky24
Apr 2020
OP
If that were true, Trump could have gotten a whole lot of good PR by restocking the shelves.
OAITW r.2.0
Apr 2020
#4
When all else fails blame EVERYONE else, especially that guy who publicly humiliated you in prime
SammyWinstonJack
Apr 2020
#16
C_U_L8R
(45,021 posts)1. What's Trump been doing the last three years? Golfing?
OAITW r.2.0
(24,610 posts)4. If that were true, Trump could have gotten a whole lot of good PR by restocking the shelves.
"See? I fixed Obama's empty pandemic shelves." But that wasn't the case and Trump made things immeasurably worse.
lisa58
(5,755 posts)2. It's three freakin' years....
Resign...
handmade34
(22,758 posts)7. yes, resign
and immediately
Remember now
'I don't take responsibility at all'
bluestarone
(17,043 posts)3. Put a cork in it fucker
MontanaMama
(23,337 posts)6. Lying motherfucker.
Just catch the virus already.
eleny
(46,166 posts)8. So where did he get the tonnage to sell to China?
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)9. It does not matter.
You check your stock, just like in a store. His MalAdminstration obviously did nothing. They didn't even check the condition of what was there from what I am hearing. We pay taxes for this.
However:
The current administration had ample warning about a likely pandemic. In fact, a high-level simulation was run as recently as last October. Trump has reacted during his years in office in the manner to which we have become accustomed: by defunding and dismantling every relevant part of government and assiduously implementing the instructions of his corporate masters to eliminate the regulations that impede profits while saving lives and leading the race to the abyss of environmental catastrophe, by far his greatest crime in fact, the greatest crime in history when we consider the consequences.
By early January, there was little doubt of what was happening. On December 31, China informed the World Health Organization (WHO) of the spread of pneumonia-like symptoms with unknown etiology. On January 7, China informed the WHO that scientists had identified the source as a coronavirus and had sequenced the genome, which they made available to the scientific world. Through January and February, U.S. intelligence was trying hard to reach Trumps ear, but failed. Officials informed the press that they just couldnt get him to do anything about it. The system was blinking red.
https://truthout.org/articles/chomsky-ventilator-shortage-exposes-the-cruelty-of-neoliberal-capitalism/
It is not like the possibility of this was not even on the radar. It was. If so, then what's the first thing you would do to protect your country in advance?
His lies don't hold up.
kentuck
(111,110 posts)10. Right! It's been more than three years since Obama left.
Why didn't you re-stock the shelves??
SWBTATTReg
(22,166 posts)11. Liar. Prove it. Disgusting POS.
Blue Owl
(50,505 posts)12. Nice try, fucko
Now go eat shit and die.
lame54
(35,324 posts)14. Trump and Kushner looted and sold it
Laelth
(32,017 posts)15. Pathetic excuse. Truly. n/t
-Laelth
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)16. When all else fails blame EVERYONE else, especially that guy who publicly humiliated you in prime
time. 😠
CousinIT
(9,257 posts)17. WRONG. Tea Party REPUBLICANS - are to blame . . .
https://www.propublica.org/article/us-emergency-medical-stockpile-funding-unprepared-coronavirus
How Tea Party Budget Battles Left the National Emergency Medical Stockpile Unprepared for Coronavirus
Fiscal restraints imposed by Republicans in Congress in the early years of the Obama administration left the U.S. less prepared to respond to the coronavirus pandemic today.
(this is a version of "nobody could have known!" ) --- and it's BULLSHIT.
How Tea Party Budget Battles Left the National Emergency Medical Stockpile Unprepared for Coronavirus
Fiscal restraints imposed by Republicans in Congress in the early years of the Obama administration left the U.S. less prepared to respond to the coronavirus pandemic today.
Dire shortages of vital medical equipment in the Strategic National Stockpile that are now hampering the coronavirus response trace back to the budget wars of the Obama years, when congressional Republicans elected on the Tea Party wave forced the White House to accept sweeping cuts to federal spending.
Among the victims of those partisan fights was the effort to keep adequate supplies of masks, ventilators, pharmaceuticals and other medical equipment on hand to respond to a public health crisis. Lawmakers in both parties raised the specter of shortchanging future disaster response even as they voted to approve the cuts.
There are always more needs for financial support from our hardworking taxpayers than we have the ability to pay, said Denny Rehberg, a retired Republican congressman from Montana who chaired the appropriations subcommittee responsible for overseeing the stockpile in 2011. Rehberg said it would have been impossible to predict a public health crisis requiring a more robust stockpile, just as it would have been to predict the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Among the victims of those partisan fights was the effort to keep adequate supplies of masks, ventilators, pharmaceuticals and other medical equipment on hand to respond to a public health crisis. Lawmakers in both parties raised the specter of shortchanging future disaster response even as they voted to approve the cuts.
There are always more needs for financial support from our hardworking taxpayers than we have the ability to pay, said Denny Rehberg, a retired Republican congressman from Montana who chaired the appropriations subcommittee responsible for overseeing the stockpile in 2011. Rehberg said it would have been impossible to predict a public health crisis requiring a more robust stockpile, just as it would have been to predict the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
(this is a version of "nobody could have known!" ) --- and it's BULLSHIT.
Progressive dog
(6,918 posts)18. In three years that psychopathic POS did nothing
except continue as the conman he has always been.
crickets
(25,983 posts)19. *sigh*
1. You're LYING.
2. You've had ample opportunity to do something about it if it were true.
Shut up and go away.