iamwhatiseem
Diamond Member
Congratulations for being the most blindly partisan person of USMB for the month of October.From this we must assume that Trump has now been served the truth about his dismal re-election prospects. Because this is the act of a desperate, flailing man with zero interest in the welfare of the American people, who sees his end approaching and is determined to make all Americans pay the price for it:
As reported by the New York Times:
This is simply one man’s sociopathic rage, acted out: a final dose of pure, unadulterated spite by Donald Trump, in willful collusion with Mitch McConnell and the rest of the Republicans in the U.S. Senate. What it means, in practical terms, is that millions of Americans are going to lose their jobs, their health insurance, and for many, their homes, by the end of this calendar year as businesses struggling to stay afloat in the worst pandemic this country has seen in living memory finally give up the ghost, forced to lay off those workers they’ve struggled to retain. Then, the businesses themselves—hospitality, travel, leisure, personal services, restaurants, small businesses of every imaginable kind—will simply go belly up and fold.President Trump on Tuesday abruptly ended talks with Democrats on an economic stimulus bill, sending the stock market sliding and dealing a final blow to an intensive set of on-again-off-again negotiations to deliver additional pandemic aid to struggling Americans before the November elections.
This means there will be absolutely no relief for any states with budgets for social services already crushed by the pandemic; no relief for businesses; no provision of any medical equipment, testing, PPE or other preventive funding to cope with the crisis; and not a penny for those rendered unemployed by the pandemic-- until Joe Biden is sworn in. By that time the economy-- as Fed Chairman Jerome Powell stated today with crystal clarity--will have re-entered recession or something worse. Thanks to Donald Trump, it’s going to be a very, very bleak winter for millions.Trump announced that he was pulling the plug on the effort in a series of afternoon tweets in which he accused Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California of “not negotiating in good faith" and urged Senate Republicans to focus solely on confirming his nominee to the Supreme Court in the coming weeks.
Ms. Pelosi and Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary, had been scheduled to speak later Tuesday afternoon, after days of detailed talks aimed at a last-ditch compromise.
Instead, Mr. Trump said that he had instructed Mr. Mnuchin to stop negotiating, sending the S&P 500 down as much as 1 percent in the immediate aftermath of his tweet. It had been up more than half a percent in the moments before.
In abandoning further COVID relief, Trump signals he intends to bring the country down with him
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