Is he trying to reduce the emotional impact by describing a minimum further month of mitigation measures as "two weeks", as if they were still due to end by Easter?
Probably. Although it's more likely to be the economic impact he's trying to reduce.
Over here, they announced 2 weeks, then two more weeks, and they are now talking about a progressive unlockdown.
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Is he trying to reduce the emotional impact by describing a minimum further month of mitigation measures as "two weeks", as if they were still due to end by Easter?
He knows the longer it drags on, the lower his chance of re-election. The admission from Mike "expendable" Pence today - that the US is on the same curve as Italy - has totally undermined the big boss.
My internal rage goes off the charts any time I hear that narcissistic prick speak.
Hearing him toss in the occasional aside as a condescension to the death and suffering in his own damn country before going back to praising himself and changing his own narrative makes it that much worse.
What a dick.
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Biden predicts Trump will try to postpone US election.
Most states, including mine, have postponed their primary election and now we might possibly postpone the November elections?
Fine, let them, if no person is elected in time to take his place, Trump is out Jan 20th at 12 noon. That is hard coded in our 20th amendment and nothing overrides that. This can only get more and more interesting.
If he thinks that postponing the election will keep him in office, it will ultimately get him removed.
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SuperMappy wrote:If he thinks that postponing the election will keep him in office, it will ultimately get him removed.
Until the results of the postponed election are in, at least. AIUI, though, the amendment also prohibits the current Vice President taking over for the same reason (thank Goddess!). Would this therefore not leave the U.S. without a leader from January 20th until then? And would this make any difference in practice beyond the media having to find more things to fill the news cycle?
Emoticon and contraction free since... quite a while ago.
I'd have to look up the details to know exactly what would happen.
But I do know that, technically, the third in line - after the President and the Vice President - would be Nancy Pelosi, as Speaker of the House of Representatives, following the line of succession.
Without a President or Vice President, then Congress - collectively - would assume the highest role.
I guess America would temporarily become a Parliamentary system until things were sorted out. So it could keep going, and Congressional elections are quite deliberately placed halfway between Presidential elections - "midterms" - for maximum overlap.
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The Beeb wrote:[Pelosi's] two-year term is up at the end of December. The senior-most official eligible for the presidency in such a doomsday scenario would be 86-year-old Republican Chuck Grassley of Iowa, the president pro tem of the Senate. That's assuming Republicans still control the Senate after a third of its 100 seats are vacated because of their own term expirations.
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Trump wrote:"I don't believe the polls," the president said. "I believe the people of this country are smart. And I don't think that they will put a man in who's incompetent."
The irony meters all just exploded.
"Words ought to be a little wild - for they are assaults of thought on the unthinking."
- John Maynard Keynes
Trump wrote:"I don't believe the polls," the president said. "I believe the people of this country are smart. And I don't think that they will put a man in who's incompetent."
The irony meters all just exploded.
But there's some trut in there ... THOSE PEOPLE VOTED HIM !!! So you see "they are smart"
gilesgoat wrote:
So where's that SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP THAT UK HAS WITH USA ???
.. your best friend seems a little less friendly now ..
I don't know about that one but i'm very worried.
He called our President today. Officially our government is saying that Trump congratulated Portugal on the efforts to fight the virus and then they talked about business. I'm deeply worried.
Note: Speculation is that the business has to do with the research done by Bial Pharmaceutical here in the country.
