Sunday Reads: Fuck Trump
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Fuck Dr. Phil
Fuck Dr. Oz
Fuck Dr. Drew
Fuck Trump— Angela Belcamino (@AngelaBelcamino) April 17, 2020
I’ve had a migraine for two days…
View this post on Instagram2020 to-do list. #dumptrump #trumpvirus #fucktrump #magaisformorons #thedailydon
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Here’s a few tweets:
Liberate.
America.
November 3, 2020.
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
— Hakeem Jeffries (@hakeem_jeffries) April 18, 2020
still trying to wrap my head around how we've gone from "anyone who wants a test can get a test" to "we're doing the most tests" to "governors, you're on your own" to "look, nobody really needs a test, now open your state the fuck up or I'll send in my armed and crazy worshipers"
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) April 18, 2020
While many Kentuckians are struggling to get by on $1,200, Mitch made sure his wealthy friends got millions. #SenatorForSale https://t.co/1TjRH7IVen
— Amy McGrath (@AmyMcGrathKY) April 17, 2020
As the President continues to use his platform of 70M followers to get us all killed, let’s remind ourselves of this glorious moment that left a mediocre white man shook. pic.twitter.com/oltQTU0MO5
— chris evans (@notcapnamerica) April 18, 2020
Texas contact tracers may find this video useful some day soon, sadly https://t.co/R0uIvehJMK
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) April 18, 2020
The first sign of a cult is being willing to die for your leader. https://t.co/8oouFQl73Z
— Lira (@LoudmouthLira) April 18, 2020
A tech C.E.O. was asked to start a Web site that would match hospitals and medical suppliers. What followed provides an inside glimpse of the dysfunction emanating from Trump’s Washington in the midst of a pandemic.
https://t.co/9GfnVrnGqD— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) April 18, 2020
The chief executive of a MA hospital, outbid for PPE by the feds multiple times, cut a deal, paid extra, hired the trucks — and then was interrogated by the FBI and had to get his Congressperson to intervene to keep DHS from heisting the shipment.https://t.co/zsgCjNOZ0N pic.twitter.com/Wgcf5u0WCY
— Maryn McKenna (@marynmck) April 18, 2020
“Two semi-trailer trucks, cleverly marked as food-service vehicles, met us at the warehouse. When fully loaded, the trucks would take two distinct routes back to Massachusetts to minimize the chances that their contents would be detained or redirected.” #COVID19
— NEJM (@NEJM) April 18, 2020
Watch, share, share some more.
Brutal and effective ad. pic.twitter.com/5dz8UrGoFe
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) April 18, 2020
This is an open thread.
Regarding the Biden ad…
I can’t stand to watch most of these people, but I skimmed that ad because it got such glowing reviews.
For me, Eltawahy has gone off the deep end about some things, but I agree with her on this. It rubbed me the wrong way too.
Maybe, since the Dump is setting up to have Chinese bogeymen for November (it’s apparently not going to be ZOMG! Caravans! this year), this is Biden’s way of taking that away from him.
Maybe it’s practical politics.
Whatever it is, it’s still smelly.
Huh? I didn’t get that impression at all from Biden’s ad. I couldn’t see anything in it which would encourage racism against people of Asian descent. The ad was attacking Trump. I don’t think Eltahawy’s got a point here.
Agree.
I just skimmed it, so I missed the finer shades. But listening with half their mind — at best — is probably how most people will absorb it.
What leaves the icky (to me) impression is the agglomeration of China-poor-response-China-Trump-flattered-them-China-he-let-Chinese-people-in-China-no-CDC.
The *point* is the Dump did NOT fend off Chinese bogeymen like he’s going to pretend he did.
The *impression* is zomg-this-is-China’s-fault. That’s what will remain like scum on a bathtub for people who aren’t already pro-Biden.
The biggest problem is there’s enough truth in all of it to be really damaging as half-truths.
Politically, it may be smart to direct someone who already would like to be mad at China to be also mad at Trump.
And epidemiologically, China definitely dropped the ball badly at the outset and that did enable all the downstream problems.
But humanly, hammering home the Chinese connection like that enables picking on Asian-Americans. Whether this factor should be outweighing the political factor, I don’t know. Ethically, it’s a huge NO. But we are in a fight over the survival of the country, so ethics may be a luxury. Which is also ultimately lethal.
There are no good choices because a bunch of idiots made bad ones long ago.
No more than hammering home the Russian connection with Trump enables picking on Russian-Americans.
I still can’t see anything in the ad other than hammering home that Trump screwed up — there’s the lies about how it’s under control, etc. And Trump is the one who ran an ad implying our former Ambassador to China, (WA state’s former governor Gary Locke, who is Asian-American) was a Chinese official.
Theoretically. Except that Russian-Americans are harder to pick out of a crowd. (C’mon, Luna!)
I’m not saying it’s a good way to see the clip, or that Biden even meant it that way. But let’s check back in a couple of weeks. If I’m wrong, it won’t add to any of our problems. (And, admittedly, is pretty mild and presumably wouldn’t add much in any case.)
I didn’t see it either. I can try watching again.
What bothered me was Biden saying he would demand that the CDC go into China to assess the pandemic. IIRC WHO wanted to do that but China wouldn’t let them in. Is there a treaty or international law that allows one nation to enter and inspect another upon demand? If Russia or China wanted to send in their epidemiologists to assess the F*** up that is our pandemic response, we as a country would be okay with that? Biden’s outrage was too much for me. He is just another bully without filters.
P.S. i will hold my nose and Vote for Biden but right now his only redeeming feature, other than not being trump, will be a wowza VP choice of the woman persuasion.
My understanding is that it wouldn’t be unusual during an event of significant medical or scientific interest to have other medical or scientific professionals there to learn. Someone knows someone who studied with Dr. A or published with Dr. B or spoke on a panel with Dr. C, or there’s contact through one of the international professional orgs. There are International Associations of Whatever Specialists in any field. I don’t think it’s odd. A nation does not have to let anyone visit they don’t want visiting, of course, but if approached through medical channels I doubt there’d be a real problem, except of course in totalitarian countries like China. Which is not to say it shouldn’t be tried.
The Chinese government has recently been very good about cooperation to deal with flu and emerging diseases. It was *Trump* who got rid of the CDC’s epidemiologist on the spot in China in October 2019.
Thanks, ladies! Still think Biden is a hot head and my expectations of his leadership and “healing” skills are so, so low. He will inherit an economic disaster of epic proportions. We need a woman, stat!
Yes. Yes, yes, yes, and yes.
Interesting report about that at TalkingPointsMemo (with links to sources).
It looks like the undercount of covid-19 deaths is by a factor of about 2. So if they say there are 15,000, there are really 30,000.
And that does not count all the people who died of other causes, such as heart attacks, who normally wouldn’t have but who the hospitals were too overloaded to care for.
Grim.
The cause-of-death category on death certificates is somewhat problematic. In some states you can list several diagnoses; in others you’re limited to one diagnosis. In the end we’ll simply have to estimate off the available data as to what % is directly due to coronavirus and what % is due to a combination of factors including coronavirus.
Republican whackos in New Orleans picking on my mayor wanting us to die for their greed and their white male privilege
Except all the population staying at home is doing their small bit to push that thing out too!
The story about the “redirected” — hijacked! — PPE? That is, for the love of Christ!, in the New England Journal of Medicine.
That’s a bit like the Wall Street Journal editorial page suddenly becoming an organizing center for Women’s Resistance marches.
I’m just sitting here, while the Russian mob behavior of this Administration slowly sinks and settles into my mind.
I mean, I’m the one who’s been saying (as Sarah Kendzior so perfectly said) they’re a transnational crime syndicate masquerading as a government.
And yet, to see it in the New England Journal of Medicine still floors me.
/*gobsmacked*/
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/04/hospitals-face-a-white-house-blockade-for-coronavirus-ppe.html
Interesting use of “evacuated.” In a medical context, that means “shat out.”
“having evacuated federal responsibility”
Sounds about right.
Suspect that was intentional.
somebody made THAT comparison? Really? No. Really?
This is the Tower of Babel. We just live here. Words mean nothing.
So many. So much too young.
I saw that today. That is surreal.
Love this!