Your friend Jim George thinks you'd be a great addition to Ricochet, so we'd like to offer you a special deal: You can become a member for no initial charge for one month!
Ricochet is a community of like-minded people who enjoy writing about and discussing politics (usually of the center-right nature), culture, sports, history, and just about every other topic under the sun in a fully moderated environment. We’re so sure you’ll like Ricochet, we’ll let you join and get your first month for free. Kick the tires: read the always eclectic member feed, write some posts, join discussions, participate in a live chat or two, and listen to a few of our over 50 (free) podcasts on every conceivable topic, hosted by some of the biggest names on the right, for 30 days on us. We’re confident you’re gonna love it.
I thought it was fantastic – even phenomenal! I was impressed again with Trumps ability to get the leaders of American business behind him. Both my wife and I – who heard it together – had an immediate thought of “how are they going to spin this?”
People were always overreacting and panicking. I am not saying this is a nothing burger, but one wonders how we will ever again survive the seasonal flu. We went to the store for a few items and I wandered around checking for panic shopping. Sure enough, no TP and hand sanitizer. Ditto for ingredients, per social media, to make your own hand sanitizer. Cleaning supplies mentioned on social media, gone, but rest assured, you can clean those nasty norovirus germs from the walls of your shower thanks to well-stocked shelves.
NCAA and pro sports overreacting. Meanwhile, schools here still open, for now, and two teams playing baseball tonight in local minor league ballpark. The invite to come included a tongue in cheek comment that the stadium had TP.
12,000 deaths from Swine Flu got Obama kudos from the media while 32 deaths from this, mostly in two states, had Dems calling for impeachment again.
Will Trump Derangement end when they realize the worst will be in cities, not flyover country, blue cities, Dem mayors?
That is the power of incumbency. Biden has a dandy plan on his website, but Trump has unleashed companies to do what they do best. Google doing technology, drug companies making innovative test kits, Walmart & Target setting up drive-through test stations. I trust those companies to do wonderful job. While has a plan on a website, Trump will have an army of healthcare workers in the field. Powerful!
I believe this is key. I find that the President does so well in this sort of forum. He seemed in his element, comfortable and confident. Reassuring. This is a man who solves problems and gets things done.
The press, however, makes me angry. There may not be any points scored by sporting teams in the next few days or weeks but the press sure is trying to fill in that gap.
greedy corporate entities scalping money off the backs of the plebes! How can you sleep at night? Too little too late! Another lie by the liars that lie. <lefty trope off>
phenomenal. in caps and bold.
I missed the conference but glad to hear it went well. How prominent was the emphasis on doing social distancing, cancelling large events, and avoiding travel?
I sensed Trump knocked it out of the park. My immediate thought was that it doesn’t matter how much they try to spin it to make people doubt the positive reaction they had. There’s a deeper level on which that won’t work. My better half also thought everyone did a fantastic job of telling us what they were doing and going to do.
Some ESPN announcers were as bad as the newsies. Now they have tanked their own jobs thanks to TDS. ESPN down to reruns on almost all channels except the main ESPN one.
My husband watched it on Fox Business as it occurred. The producers split the screen. Pretty darned exciting to see! :-)
A pseudo conservative at Althouse. Sounds like an NT here.
Chuck said…
This Tweet from today, from the account of Senator Sherrod Brown, may well be the single most devastating anti-Trump tweet of Trump’s 4-year presidency.
The story is simple enough that everyone will get it.
Today, in the Rose Garden, Trump was asked a question by PBS News Hour reporter Yamiche Alcindor. It was a single, articulate, direct question. In a word, she asked about Trump’s having disbanded the Executive branch team assembled during the Obama Administration (under Ron Klain, now a senior advisor to the Biden campaign) to address pandemic infectious diseases.
Trump called it a “nasty question.” Everyone who watches the video will know that it was not a nasty question.
Trump had no good answer. He didn’t even have an honest answer. Trump tried to foul it off by saying that he didn’t personally order the shutdown of the office. That was a lie, even going by Trump’s own words from earlier this week. Where he answered another question about the office by saying that he didn’t want to have “thousands” of executive branch staff not doing anything, and that if there were an emergency, they could re-staff the problem very quickly.
But then there was Senator Brown’s tweet from today. In which he pointed out that 600 days ago, he had demanded an explanation from the President about the closure of the pandemic emergency office.
The Biden campaign, with Bloomberg money, is going to jail-sex Trump with this story.
I just can’t stand these people. I’m going to read a book.
So how many corrections will they have to issue for this speech?
You don’t have to correct a speech about the past as often as you have to update one on a rapidly evolving event.
Could you NeverTrumpers give it a rest until this is over? And maybe forever after that? Kthnxbai.
I see the NT caucus has come out to quibble and take potshots at an event they probably did not even see. If this particular complainer actually did see the press conference, along with some of the most inane questions imaginable, would it not be entirely appropriate to suggest he would be in the best position to propose his own “corrections”? I am sure we all look forward to the many ways the NT delegation would improve upon the President’s approach!