The Trump administration has known for Three to four months that the coronavirus was on its way to the United States.

The National Security Council and the Department of Homeland Security each had, when Trump came into office, specific divisions to deal with epidemic diseases like this. Donald Trump closed them both down two years ago and fired all of their employees.

Because Trump has done absolutely nothing about this & knew it was coming, we now have coronavirus all over the United States, almost certainly thousands to tens of thousands of cases, without the ability to easily test for it and with our hospitals and healthcare systems unprepared.

First Trump ignored it, then he tried to cover it up, and now he's trying to behave like he's doing something, but all he really seems to be doing is pushing the Fed to lower interest rates to help rich investors even more. The incompetence of the Trump administration is breathtaking, and has put every American at risk.

-Thom

Tuesday's Daily Stack

Article: "Severe acute respiratory syndrome" (SARS) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Super Tuesday" (March 3 in 2020) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump Has Sabotaged America's Coronavirus Response" by Laurie Garrett.

Article: "'National Scandal': ER Doctor Slams Trump Administration's Coronavirus Testing Logjam" by Mary Papenfuss.

Article: "Hundreds of Oregonians likely infected with coronavirus, state health officer says" by Brad Schmidt.

Tweet: "I live in Seattle, I have all symptoms of COVID-19 and have a history of chronic bronchitis.
Since I work in a physical therapy clinic with many 65+ patients and those with chronic illnesses, I decided to be responsible and go to get tested. This is how that went." by sketchy lady.

Speech: "1944 State of the Union Address" (Second Bill of Rights or Economic Bill of Rights Speech) by Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Speech: "March 29, 1952: Truman Announces He Will Not Run Again".

Article: "The Trailer: What we learned from the South Carolina primary" by David Weigel.

Article: "Student quarantined for coronavirus days after classmates shook Mike Pence's hand" by Travis Gettys.

Article: "Rush Limbaugh on coronavirus: 'The common cold' that's being 'weaponized' against Trump" by Allyson Chiu.

Speech: "John F. Kennedy inaugural address: Jan. 20, 1961".

Article: "Civil Rights Act of 1964" by Wikipedia.

Law: "Voting Rights Act of 1965".

Speech: "A Rendezvous With Destiny", Franklin D. Roosevelt, 27 June 1936 speech to the Democratic National Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. "These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power. Our allegiance to American institutions requires the overthrow of this kind of power."

Quote: "There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny." - Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Article: "Major supply chain conference cancelled: TPM20 called off due to COVID-19" by Inside Logistics.

Article: "Stock market live updates: Dow down 500, surprise Fed rate cut, 10-year nears 1%" by Pippa Stevens, Maggie Fitzgerald, Yun Li.

Article: "Gov. Cuomo: NY gets OK to run its own coronavirus tests" by Rebecca Carballo.

Article: "Bernie Sanders is the new Ronald Reagan" by Sam Tanenhaus.

Site: Harborview Medical Center.

Video: Gov. Jay Inslee asks people to stay home if sick amid coronavirus concerns.

Article: "Trump demands pharma come up with a vaccine for coronavirus - but he's been spreading vaccine conspiracies for years" by Sarah K. Burris.

Article: "Latest Polls" by RealClearPolitics.

Article: "Latest Polls" by FiveThirtyEight.

Hour Two: Is the U.S./Taliban Agreement About to Fall Apart?
- Professor Andrew Bacevich, President - Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft / Professor Emeritus-History & International Relations at Boston University / Author of numerous books including America's War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History and his latest, Age of Illusions

Article: "US and Taliban sign historic agreement" by Jennifer Hansler.

Article: "Trump's Afghanistan 'Peace' Will Be Vietnam All Over Again: A Mess America Leaves Behind" by Andrew Bacevich.

Article: "Bush rejects Taliban offer to hand Bin Laden over" by The Guardian.

Article: "Marshall Plan" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Konrad Adenauer" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Fireside Chat. May 26, 1940" by Franklin D. Roosevelt. "Our present emergency and a common sense of decency make it imperative that no new group of war millionaires shall come into being in this nation as a result of the struggles abroad."

Quote: "Our men are so happy at home that they will not hire themselves to be shot at for a shilling a day. Hence we can have no standing armies for defence" - Thomas Jefferson.

Article: "Death toll from coronavirus in Kirkland, Wash. - and the US - rises to 6" by Richard Read.

Article: "Seattle Children's Hospital CEO announces five more mold-related deaths since 2001" by Scottie Andrew.

Article: "B.C. has tested more people for COVID-19 than the entire United States, premier says" by Simon Little.

Article: "China's Unprecedented Quarantine Of 11 Million People In Wuhan Is 2 Weeks Old. Here's What It Is Like In The Isolated City." by Business Insider.

Article: "New York confirms lawyer who worked in Manhattan is the state's second case of coronavirus as the city disinfects subway cars, stations and trains every 72 hours to prevent the spread of the disease" by Frances Mulraney.

CDC Stops Reporting CoVid19 Test Numbers & Daily Calling Fact Checking Facebook?!
- Judd Legum, Founder - Popular.info (former founding Editor-in-Chief, Think Progress.org)

Article: "The Mike Pence show" by Judd Legum.

Tweet: "BREAKING: The CDC has stopped disclosing the number of Americans tested for coronavirus.
On the left is how the website looked last night. On the right is what it looks like now, with the testing info removed.
The lack of testing is a scandal.
This is the coverup." by Judd Legum.

Article: "Defense Secretary Esper warns military commanders: Don't go off message with coronavirus response" by Laura Clawson.

Article: "South Korea launches 'drive-thru' coronavirus testing facilities as demand soars" by Hyonhee Shin.

Article: "The Daily Caller uses status as Facebook fact-checker to boost Trump" by Judd Legum.

Article: "Trump rallies his base to treat coronavirus as a 'hoax'" by Nancy Cook, Matthew Choi.

Video: Trump calls coronavirus Democrats' 'new hoax'.

Article: "Trump wants fewer immigrants from “shithole countries” and more from places like Norway" by Jen Kirby.

Law: "G.I. Bill" (Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Republicans urging GOP voters to vote for Sanders in South Carolina primary: report" by Marty Johnson.

Video: Donna Brazile Shocks Fox's Ed Henry By Telling Ronna McDaniel 'Go to Hell!'.

Article: "International Denver conference, expected to draw 11,000, canceled due to coronavirus" by Shelly Bradbury.

Article: "Japan to close all schools until early April to control spread of virus" by Mari Yamaguchi.

Article: "South Korea postpones opening of all schools by two weeks to March 23" by Reuters.

Article: "How to Prepare for the Coronavirus" by Gina Kolata.

Site: Tracking COVID-19 - Johns Hopkins University.

Article: "Political host Chris Matthews abruptly retires from MSNBC" by Clyde Hughes.

Article: "Chris Matthews Apologizes to Bernie Sanders for Remarks on Nevada Win" by Michael M. Grynbaum.

Article: "Dan Rather Defends the News Report That Got Him Fired: 'We Didn't Do It Perfectly,' But 'We Reported a True Story'" by Lindsay Kimble.

Hour Three: Science Revolution: Why I Protested Costco, Topless
- Eva Hamer Legal Coordinator, Direct Action Everywhere

Article: "Why I Protested Costco, Topless" by Eva Hamer.

Law: "Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Supply-side economics" by Wikipedia.

Article: "David Petraeus" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Iraq War troop surge of 2007" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Commander's Guide to Money as a Weapons System" by Center for Army Lessons Learned.

Quote: "If bad things happen, we'll go back. We'll go back with a force like nobody's ever seen." - Donald J. Trump.

Article: "How contagious is the Wuhan coronavirus and can you spread it before symptoms start?" by C Raina MacIntyre.

Article: "Coronavirus Death Rate vs. Flu: How Deadly Is It?" by Jessica McBride.

Article: "Dow closes down almost 800 points as reality of epidemic sinks in" by Lucy Bayly.

Article: "Donna Brazile rips RNC Chairwoman McDaniel on Fox News: 'Ronna, go to hell!'" by Joe Concha.

Article: "CDC diagnostic coronavirus test gets FDA emergency approval" by Dr. Liji Thomas, MD.

Article: "Coronavirus testing in King County" by Aaron Kunkler.

Article: "New York governor to force insurers to limit patient coronavirus testing costs" by Rachel Cohrs.

Article: "TB (Tuberculosis) Tests" by WebMD.

Article: "New TB hospital opens" (2010) by Don Finley.

Article: "Trends in Tuberculosis, 2018" by CDC.

Article: "Texas closes hundreds of polling sites, making it harder for minorities to vote" by Richard Salame.

Article: "Supreme Court Invalidates Key Part of Voting Rights Act" by Adam Liptak, June 25, 2013.

Article: "Who Turned The Stars Upside Down?" by YCNightingale.

Article: "Cramer: 'I'm more nervous than I was before' about coronavirus economic risks after Fed rate cut" by Kevin Stankiewicz.

Article: "Fed makes largest emergency cut to interest rates since the financial crisis" by Heather Long.

Book: The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy by Yanis Varoufakis.

Article: "Here's what happens to the votes for candidates who drop out" by Meg Kinnard.

Book: The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War by Stephen Kinzer.

Book: In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power by Alfred W. McCoy.

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