It took a while — I thought MSNBC had episodes on its website, but either I misremembered or their policy changed — but I found a somewhat blurry version here. No guarantees how long it will remain available.
The relevant part of the clip is right at the beginning (about 1:00).
Not only are the profits-to-supporters-of-Trump 95% of the point of the Administration’s border policy (with the other 5% being the sweet, sweet racism), profits-to-supporters-of-Trump IS THE ENTIRE POINT OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. According to Trump and those making $$$$$$$$$, of course.
Corner the market–control availability of life-saving equipment–award equipment to those making concessions or contributions to Trump------the ways to profit are endless.
And that’s what the pandemic is, to Trump: a way to profit, and a way to extend his power via creation of loyal oligarchs.
No longer available. It must be somewhere out there. I can understand why MSNBC would delete it, it crosses a line in some ways, but that is exactly the attitude the press must have. In these daily briefings, otherwise known as Trump rallies, the press can no longer sit there respectfully asking questions and sitting there while he rambles on and on. They need to stand up and say “That is bullshit, Mr. President.” Anyone who does that will be immediately banned, but many others will be there to replace that person.
God help us; there’s more–and more off the rails nuttiness–at the link.
A few things stick out.
The governors are not part of the president’s administration. Yet again the idiot-in-chief shows he has exactly zero knowledge of the American government.
“Opening our country council”? Are you shitting me? Even a five year old would come up with a better name than that.
He didn’t think of this issue until fucking yesterday? Then what has been blathering about for the last few weeks? Is he even aware of how long some places have been locked down? For example, Wuhan was stopped for eleven freaking weeks.
He wants to be guided by the vice-president? Yeah, I don’t think it works that way. Anyway, look at the nutjob who’s veep now. Hooh boy.
Good Lord. Look at this nail he’s hammered into the coffin of stay at home orders:
In closing he blathered this nonsense:
He hopes to God? Yeah, right. This is the same clown who demonstrated the depth of his understanding of his stated faith, Christianity, with this latest gem:
Of course we all know that Trump is merely pretending to be pondering this momentous decision. In actuality, he’s going to do what he’s wanted to do since Day 1: go back to normal. Open businesses. Resume sports. Make Dow go up. Make people happy – except for those who die, but screw them.
He doesn’t realize, however, that he doesn’t have much authority to open or close anything besides his mouth.
If he had responded early to the pandemic with Federal guidance/orders, he’d have something who could lift, so he kind of fucked himself here while fucking the rest of us.
For Trump, normal is telling everyone what a great job he’s doing. Right now, he’s annoyed at reality because it’s telling him he’s wrong in a louder voice than usual.
And while I’m no economist, I’m willing to bet that the Dow won’t go up if he “reopens” the country. On the contrary, I suspect it will plummet some more.
Strange, it still works for me. Here’s the link again, on the off chance that it got garbled.
Regarding your observations, Ms Wallace said (damn near shouted) “Lies!” after playing a clip of a particularly mendacious Trumpism. And she referred to another of his bloviations as “bullshit,” which produced some interesting reactions from the others around the table with her. Granted that she’s a third-party commentator rather than an interviewer, she does have the right attitude. Which is kind of remarkable, given that she was Bush XLIII’s communications director and worked on John McCain’s campaign.
So… the pandemic will be declared over in Republican counties because there will be no new cases! (Because we’re not testing any more.) Winning!! That was easy! Why are the Dems making such a fuss? Clearly because they just want to get on TV.
I see it now. I don’t think she was consciously giving the finger but who knows? And it shows not all Republicans are assholes. She has been against Trump for a long time, so has SE Cupp and Steve Schmidt. Unfortunately they are not in the Congress.
I don’t want to watch the whole 40 minuutes, when does she say lies and bullshit.