What stupid shit has Trump done today?

[krtek a houby]

Nice to see Jonathan Karl call him out for lying to the people. More of that, please.

Trump stands by comments made in Woodward interview: 'I didn't lie'

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

There's just no low too low:

EXCLUSIVE: Trump administration secretly withheld millions from FDNY 9/11 health program

The Trump administration has secretly siphoned nearly $4 million away from a program that tracks and treats FDNY firefighters and medics suffering from 9/11 related illnesses, the Daily News has learned.

The Treasury Department mysteriously started withholding parts of payments — nearly four years ago — meant to cover medical services for firefighters, emergency medical technicians and paramedics treated by the FDNY World Trade Center Health Program, documents obtained by The News reveal.

The payments were authorized and made by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, which oversees the program. But instead of sending the funds to the city, the Treasury started keeping some of the money.

“This was just disappearing,” the program’s director, Dr. David Prezant, told The News. “This is the most amazing thing. This was disappearing — without any notification.”

Prezant said he was docked about half a million dollars each year in 2016 and 2017. Then it crept up to about $630,000 in 2018 and 2019. This year, Treasury has nearly tripled its extractions, diverting $1.447 million through late August, according to Prezant.

“Here we have sick World Trade Center-exposed firefighters and EMS workers, at a time when the city is having difficult financial circumstances due to COVID-19, and we’re not getting the money we need to be able to treat these heroes,” said Prezant, the FDNY’s Chief Medical Officer.

Prezant was never able to get an explanation from NIOSH or the mammoth Department of Health and Human Services which has the agency under its umbrella.

After years of complaining, Prezant did get a partial answer when Long Island Republican Rep. Pete King put his political weight behind the inquiry. That answer was that some other agency in the city has been in an unrelated feud with the feds over Medicare bills.

For some reason, Treasury decided to stiff the FDNY. Neither the Treasury Department nor the White House answered requests for comment.
King said whatever the circumstance is that forces a premier program for sick 9/11 first responders to go begging for help on the eve on the 19th anniversary of the attack — it has to end.

“It’s disgraceful,” King said.

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This, like everything else will just fade into the woodwork like it never happened.

 

[Streathamite]

Iirc, he is a big fan of Churchill.
One of the first things he did as president was to move Churchill's bust back into the oval office.

Trump lashes out at Woodward and invokes British WWII slogan in rally speech

‘They wanted me to come out and scream, “people are dying!” No, we did it just the right way’

www.independent.co.uk

The only thing he has in common with WSC is that Churchill was more than a little racist himself

 

[krtek a houby]

The only thing he has in common with WSC is that Churchill was more than a little racist himself

And (correct me if am wrong) didn't he send in armed police against strikers?

 

[Chilli.s]

WSC hated paying tax too, did whatever he could get away with and some things he had to be pulled up about and not get away with. Paid all his bills late or not at all if possible. Paid his writers £20 to write his articles that he then sold for £700.

 

[spring-peeper]

Iirc, he is a big fan of Churchill.
One of the first things he did as president was to move Churchill's bust back into the oval office.

Trump lashes out at Woodward and invokes British WWII slogan in rally speech

‘They wanted me to come out and scream, “people are dying!” No, we did it just the right way’

www.independent.co.uk

Hubby says that Trump is more like the band leader on the Titanic.
Play music to keep people calm as the boat sinks.

 

[krtek a houby]

Hubby says that Trump is more like the band leader on the Titanic.
Play music to keep people calm as the boat sinks.

Strikes me as more the kind of rich prick who sneers at those in Steerage.

 

[David Clapson]

Here's an explanation of Trump's ramblings about his new nuclear weapon: Trump reportedly claimed that the US built a secret nuke. Here's what he's probably talking about It's not new, but it's worth keeping in mind - the US has a new policy of 'limited' nuclear war. They can nuke people in a precise, targeted way, without incinerating the whole planet.

 

[two sheds]

Trump Twitter Account Hacked by Dutch Hackers With The Password "Yourefired"

'Nederlandse hackers schrokken toen ze Trumps Twitteraccount binnendrongen'

"Ze wisten dat ze potentieel in de problemen waren, want het kan worden uitgelegd als een cyberaanval op een presidentskandidaat", zegt de journalist die de hackers heeft geïnterviewd.

nos.nl

They extracted the password from a LinkedIn database of 117 million usernames and passwords. It also contained details of the prominent Republican. The password 'yourefired', commonly used words by Trump on his TV show The Apprentice, was also found to work on his Twitter account.

"They were shocked when it worked," says Janssen. "The Dutch knew they were potentially in trouble because it could be interpreted as a cyber attack on a presidential candidate." The trio had done the login attempt off the cuff, as it were, they told the journalist, just to see if it was possible.

 

[Streathamite]

And (correct me if am wrong) didn't he send in armed police against strikers?

Yep, Tonypandy

 

[Streathamite]

There's just no low too low:

EXCLUSIVE: Trump administration secretly withheld millions from FDNY 9/11 health program

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This, like everything else will just fade into the woodwork like it never happened.

That is just disgusting and despicable beyond belief

 

[Streathamite]

Here's an explanation of Trump's ramblings about his new nuclear weapon: Trump reportedly claimed that the US built a secret nuke. Here's what he's probably talking about It's not new, but it's worth keeping in mind - the US has a new policy of 'limited' nuclear war. They can nuke people in a precise, targeted way, without incinerating the whole planet.

sounds like the 'bunker buster' bomb. Very much not new.

 

[gosub]

There's just no low too low:

EXCLUSIVE: Trump administration secretly withheld millions from FDNY 9/11 health program

NY Daily News - We are currently unavailable in your region

www.nydailynews.com

This, like everything else will just fade into the woodwork like it never happened.

Nah. That's big news. The biggest killer in 9//11 will probably end up being the dust, and that went EVERYWHERE. FDNY's case is beyond reproach . If Treasury thinks other cases can also be made, they just opened the floodgates. Will be interesting to see who's the other agency. Expensive way of saving money.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Nah. That's big news. The biggest killer in 9//11 will probably end up being the dust, and that went EVERYWHERE. FDNY's case is beyond reproach . If Treasury thinks other cases can also be made, they just opened the floodgates. Will be interesting to see who's the other agency. Expensive way of saving money.

I just read a rather harrowing story in Esquire magazine that said that they figure 200 people ended up jumping, mostly from the north tower. If so that puts jumping at around 7% of deaths that day. But yes, the dust will eventually be the biggest killer and not just of firefighters, but anyone who was in the area afterward for any great length of time.

<edited to add>
This one: The Falling Man | Esquire | SEPTEMBER 2003

 

[StoneRoad]

Nah. That's big news. The biggest killer in 9//11 will probably end up being the dust, and that went EVERYWHERE. FDNY's case is beyond reproach . If Treasury thinks other cases can also be made, they just opened the floodgates. Will be interesting to see who's the other agency. Expensive way of saving money.

Quite Utterly despicable behaviour.

Which got me thinking - not that I could prove anything, so just speculating ... isn't there a really, really expensive white elephant down south somewhere near Mexico ?

 

[agricola]

There's just no low too low:

EXCLUSIVE: Trump administration secretly withheld millions from FDNY 9/11 health program

NY Daily News - We are currently unavailable in your region

www.nydailynews.com

This, like everything else will just fade into the woodwork like it never happened.

He had a few of them all around the WH to sign the renewed health cover, didn't he?

 

[gosub]

I just read a rather harrowing story in Esquire magazine that said that they figure 200 people ended up jumping, mostly from the north tower. If so that puts jumping at around 7% of deaths that day. But yes, the dust will eventually be the biggest killer and not just of firefighters, but anyone who was in the area afterward for any great length of time.

Would have been. I sadly suspect Covid made a significant dent on those most impacted

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

He had a few of them all around the WH to sign the renewed health cover, didn't he?

Of course. The photo op is the important thing, isn't it? Doing the right thing and saving lives is for losers not important people like Trump.

 

[two sheds]

Trump Twitter Account Hacked by Dutch Hackers With The Password "Yourefired"

'Nederlandse hackers schrokken toen ze Trumps Twitteraccount binnendrongen'

"Ze wisten dat ze potentieel in de problemen waren, want het kan worden uitgelegd als een cyberaanval op een presidentskandidaat", zegt de journalist die de hackers heeft geïnterviewd.

nos.nl

aww a comment on that story:

This dutch article that the OP is based on, is actually about the 2016 twitter password. It's old news. The only new thing is that the hackers published a timeline of what happened at the time.

still does show his general ineptitude though.

 

[moochedit]

aww a comment on that story:



still does show his general ineptitude though.

He probably changed the password to "makeamericagreatagain".

 

[quiet guy]

Don't think he could type all that in one go, most likely just MAGA

 

[StoneRoad]

I thought the buffoon was saying "keep america great" this time around ?

 

[two sheds]

I thought the buffoon was saying "keep america great" this time around ?

that would involve changing his password though

 

[moochedit]

Actually it is probably "password" or "123456".

 

[Orang Utan]

Actually it is probably "password" or "123456".

Or Ivanka4eva

 

[krtek a houby]

I just read a rather harrowing story in Esquire magazine that said that they figure 200 people ended up jumping, mostly from the north tower. If so that puts jumping at around 7% of deaths that day. But yes, the dust will eventually be the biggest killer and not just of firefighters, but anyone who was in the area afterward for any great length of time.

<edited to add>
This one: The Falling Man | Esquire | SEPTEMBER 2003

Reminds me of this article from years ago

The poisonous legacy of 9/11

 

[David Clapson]

sounds like the 'bunker buster' bomb. Very much not new.

Bunker busters are dropped by aircraft, which are slow and vulnerable. The low yield warhead is like a smaller Trident, but possibly on this new hypersonic missile which travels at 5 times the speed of sound and can jink around to avoid anti-missile systems. Nobody can defend against it yet. A first strike weapon which theoretically could win a conflict without the enemy destroying the planet in retaliation.

 

[existentialist]

Bunker busters are dropped by aircraft, which are slow and vulnerable. The low yield warhead is like a smaller Trident, but possibly on this new hypersonic missile which travels at 5 times the speed of sound and can jink around to avoid anti-missile systems. Nobody can defend against it yet. A first strike weapon which theoretically could win a conflict without the enemy destroying the planet in retaliation.

Fair enough, dramaqueen, but I think the Russians have already played this card...

 

[Nylock]

Bunker busters are dropped by aircraft, which are slow and vulnerable. The low yield warhead is like a smaller Trident, but possibly on this new hypersonic missile which travels at 5 times the speed of sound and can jink around to avoid anti-missile systems. Nobody can defend against it yet. A first strike weapon which theoretically could win a conflict without the enemy destroying the planet in retaliation.

With a weapon like that in the mix, the likelihood of a massive response as a 'Just in case' when a hostile US launch is detected becomes more, not less likely. If you're on the receiving end of a potential nuclear attack, you're not going to wait around for the first thing to go 'bang' before you retaliate -because by then it's too late.

 

[NoXion]

With a weapon like that in the mix, the likelihood of a massive response as a 'Just in case' when a hostile US launch is detected becomes more, not less likely. If you're on the receiving end of a potential nuclear attack, you're not going to wait around for the first thing to go 'bang' before you retaliate -because by then it's too late.

A nuclear strike from a single weapon is not going to knock out Russia's entire response in one go. Even if they didn't have nuclear subs.