...Trump is again the man without a plan

[babylonsister]

Hurricane Laura looms, and Trump is again the man without a plan
Opinion by Dana Milbank
Columnist
August 26, 2020 at 6:28 p.m. EDT

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On Wednesday, Hurricane Laura approached the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Texas with a storm surge that the National Hurricane Center called “unsurvivable” and “catastrophic.” But Trump decreed that the show would go on: The Republican National Convention would resume Wednesday night as scheduled.

Trump’s decision to proceed with a split-screen convention fits neatly with his previous indifference. Just two weeks earlier he signed an executive order stripping the Federal Emergency Management Agency of up to $44 billion from its Disaster Relief Fund. Before that, he did everything in his power to dismantle efforts to ameliorate climate change, which is fueling higher-intensity storms.

It’s another timely reminder that Trump is a man without a plan.

He didn’t create the coronavirus, but he made its impact on the United States worse than in any other country because he had no plan to combat it. More than six months after the virus surfaced, he said his administration was “in the process of developing a strategy” to fight it.

He didn’t cause the economic collapse, but he worsened it because he didn’t have a long-term plan to soften the blow. Congressional Democrats offered him an election-year gift of a multitrillion-dollar stimulus package, but he walked away because Republicans thought it too generous. Now millions of unemployed Americans are seeing government help evaporate.

He didn’t invent police brutality, but he worsened tensions because he didn’t have a plan (or a desire) to fix racism in policing. Instead he demonized racial-justice demonstrators, sent in federal police who inflamed violence and, at this week’s convention, glorified gunmen who confronted demonstrators. The deadly scene this week in Kenosha, Wis., is the latest byproduct of the escalation.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/26/hurricane-laura-looms-trump-is-again-man-without-plan/

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. I did not know about the executive order taking money from FEMA.

That's the kind of thing that Biden and Harris need to be out there talking about.

[babylonsister]

3. That's why I posted this; did not know it either, or

forgot as it's just one of so many injustices.

[crickets]

4. +1

[Nululu]

2. Trump's Hurricane briefing ignores storm

Tuned into Weather channel to hear about hurricane Laura. Banner says "Trump briefing on hurricane Laura" where he talks about sending troops to Portland and Wisconsin??!? Portland is fine dickwad. I'm worried about relatives in Houston.

They looked disgusted when they cut away to report on the storm.

Worst storm in gulf history and the jerk's talking up law and order foolishness.