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It's not about the WHO, and less about blame. It's about the MONEY. How much is he looking to collect/conserve/cover up and where will he spend it instead? Follow the money... always, but especially with a narcissistic psychopath.

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Yes so true. Where did this come from? His Dad? He is pretty thick and his greed and narcissism must come from his upbringing?

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Judd, thank you! It's so hard to keep up with everything today in this constantly changing and information-saturated environment, but your daily newsletters really help cut through the noise and focus on the most important topics we should be paying attention to. I love how you directly link all of your sources so we can read it for ourselves if we want. Keep up the good work!

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He has the media blazing his daily message in living rooms every where. Why the hell does this continue? Have we gotten one good piece of info from his briefings. I just can not longer watch his sickening me-ism filled rants and ignorant gibberish. The more you see him, if you are unintelligent, the more normal he becomes.

In my conservative area, the push back to the stay home and non essential war cry in Virginia is getting louder. Lansing, Michigan is a similar good indication of what the Trumpers are believing from this president.

His message of blaming everyone but himself has been part of his life since childhood I am sure.

Things are going to be tough for the next year or so.

He never stops. Miller must be pushing this because Trump isn't bright enough to think it up on his own.

I read yesterday, Trump apparently is talking about dismissing Congress because his judgeships are stalled in the Senate.

Wake up, America. There is nothing stopping this wannabe dictator short of November elections. By then, all bets might be off.

My mantra remains:

Stupidity is killing America.

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SarahWall where you been? I've missed you!

I am so tired of my own company. I have the Beatles so much that my daughter is complaining. LoL. How are things your way?

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Well, here in my little corner of NC, my county has just announced finding 105 positive Covid cases with 8 people dead of Covid related disease. Most of these cases have been found in extended care facilities here as we have a fairly large number of retirees here. So far we have been lucky. We’re both retired so don’t have to get out any more than necessary. When we do get out, it’s to walk around our small neighborhood to get some sunshine and fresh air which still is free. Like many too, this last market dump has taken a bite out of very limited retirement funds BUT we are grateful that we have a paid for roof over our heads, we have food to eat, all of our children and grandchildren are, so far healthy and most still employed. We try to limit our visual exposure to all the bad news(especially that ignorant blowhard doing his press rallies)but do stay well informed via this newsletter and several trusted news sources. We’re just taking things one day at a time, trying to help our neighbors as we can. Personally, one could drown in the deluge of all the A-hole has done and is continuing to do throughout this crisis so I’m just trying to tread water and stay healthy myself so I don’t infect my compromised husband and neighbor. Thank goodness for this wonderful newsletter and Judd for doing the legwork to inform us and for people like you Cathy who check in with others. Stay well and stay sane 💜.

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Stay safe my friend. We are in Bizarro World. You will be in my prayers.

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So true What I cannot understand is why the GOP cabinet has not used amendment 25 to remove his? He must have had some upbringing by his German father?

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They are a bunch of ass-kissers. Sworn oaths of loyalty to the Turdking.

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Remember: ... The purpose of The Media is to MAKE MONEY.... Truth, not so much.

Anything the media whores can do to promote the Mango Mussolini Show FOR PROFIT, they WILL DO with glee.

Then they will creep back in timidly, too late, with "Real Journalism" and pat themselves on the back while counting the cash.

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They are mostly owned by the 1%. The rest are driven by ads which go with the age of suck-up reporting.

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True William. The media fawning at the imbecilic remarks of the Ugly American is awful. Fox news the pits. Truth has gone except of course for Fauci. America now a sad place.

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This only goes through March

Trump bullshit Coronavirus

Jan 21: "We have it totally under control. It's one person coming in from China."

Feb 02: "We pretty much shut it down, coming from China."

Feb 26: "And the 15 in a couple of days is gonna be down to close to zero."

Feb 28: "Coronavirus. This is the new hoax... You'll be fine."

Mar 02: "They're going to have vaccines very soon."

Mar 03: "Not only the vaccines, but the therapies... another word for cure."

Mar 04: "We're talking about very small numbers in the United States."

Mar 06: “Anybody... that needs a test gets a test... the tests are beautiful."

Mar 10: "It's really working out, and a lot of good things are gonna happen."

Mar 12: "It's gonna go away."

Mar 13: "No, I don't take responsibility at all."

Mar 29: "If... deaths remain under 200,000, we... have done a very good job.”

Mar 30: "Buy MyPillow!™"

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If this weren’t so sad, it would be funny.

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It's definitely in the realm of dream-horror.

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Hardcore, diehard Trump supporters won't be converted by anything mainstream media reports, but (call me Pollyanna) when he consistently goes off the rails, some in that percentage who still approve of his presidency have got to be having 2nd thoughts. We know he can't stay off "the stage," significant numbers have not only left but are actively working to defeat him (the Lincoln Project,) and I'm hoping for more. Inch by inch.

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Well, now he has his talking points for the election (summed up in short, "IT'S EVERYONE'S FAULT BUT MINE!"), and his supporters on Conservative talk radio, Fox News and OAN will lap it up and spew it forth to the mindless supporters who will accept it without question. That will make fighting this election very difficult for the Biden campaign.

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True this.

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Thank you for another great article. I’d like to point out though that WHO discourages travel bans in response to epidemics because it leads to less transparency and countries being less likely to provide accurate information. In addition it makes it more difficult to trace the spread as people will be incentivized to keep hidden or lie about where they have been in order to get where they want to go. https://www.statnews.com/2020/01/31/as-far-right-calls-for-china-travel-ban-health-experts-warn-coronavirus-response-would-suffer/

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New Zealand locked down tight very fast, and they have done the best of all countries it seems.

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Thanks and quite right. Also Germany has done extremely well.

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My point is, Trumps travel ban was against advice from the WHO and experts - it was not the best thing to do to slow the spread and in fact, probably made it worse by causing panic and encouraging people not to be transparent, etc

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I think that might be old protocol now. The new protocol is "slow down the spread" to protect hospital facilities.

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Well better surely to remove him but that ain't about to happen as you say.

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Well simple. Remove him as mentally unfit and dangerous, eh GOP? There is a clause in the constitution that legally provides this way to remove mentally deranged Presidents.

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The cabinet must remove him and they're too busy dismantling democracy for the Russian mob and ‪#Mangowanker‬

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This cabinet has shown it has no intention of removing him. Do we have to wait till November? Have Americans lost their marbles? How much more before he is pushed out? Ukraine showed how despicable the GOP is. But they have sunk much lower. America is in the hands of a lazy, ill informed dunce and sociopath.

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How quaint. You think we're going to be allowed to vote in November?

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It would be great if we could be more like New Zealand. I don’t think the comparison stacks up though.

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