DR. RAMIN OSKOUI (GUEST): ‘Well, you know, the whole idea of lockdowns obviously was to suppress viral spread, but it’s come at a huge social and economic cost, and what we have to understand from that Icon School of Medicine study that you showed, beautifully done, and with very thorough testing is that social distancing doesn’t work, quarantining doesn’t work, masks don’t work.
This is really settled science, and those in the media, and those in the public, who want to cling to those illusions, they’re fooling themselves. And they’re hurting society.”
as president joe said “what the hell is wrong with these guys?”
where are they getting this script, which quack came up with this unadvisable advice? sen. rant said the same thing:
the hill:
at this rate after 94% of country gets COVID and give or take a million more die, the d’umpsters will shout “I told you so” when we have achieved herd immunity. meanwhile their herd mentality is presenting a good case for negligent homicide.
D’ump demonstrates that there is one thing that will not be tolerated in his administration- the TRUTH.
Ben Sasse agrees with every thinking human being that he was doing his job and should not have been fired.
… and from the same article, “This is outrageous but not surprising — @realDonaldTrump has made a habit of firing those who are highly competent, have integrity and courage, and stand up for the #RuleOfLaw,” said John Mitnick, a former DHS general counsel who was fired last year during one of several DHS shake-ups under Trump. Thomas Bossert, a former top White House cybersecurity official who was forced out in 2018, decried the move. “If the grounds of removal were insubordination, it’s a very twisted rationale,” he said. “Insubordinate to the president or insubordinate to the Constitution? I think Krebs had no choice.” And of course the Ghoul, in his first argument in federal court in almost 30 years showed that he’s still unable to make chicken salad from chicken shit. … the judge listened patiently for hours on Tuesday in Williamsport, then lobbed tough questions to Giuliani and other Trump lawyers. The Trump campaign has made bold swings at President-elect Joe Biden’s win in Pennsylvania, and the state’s use of mail-in ballots, claiming that two voters in Lancaster and Fayette counties couldn’t cure absentee ballots they cast with procedural mistakes in them, while those in other counties were allowed to correct ballot problems. *** Tuesday, Giuliani argued that the Trump campaign has been blocked from observing ballot processing in key cities and saying Democrats could have conspired to commit election fraud by counting absentee votes — both assertions others judges have rejected repeatedly in court… Read more »
And the spread of COVID in the Rose Garden event for Amy Phony is proof that lack of masks and no social distancing and no testing DOES enable the spread. These Republican asshats just say whatever suits their needs. Goebbles is alive and well and speaking for the Republican Party. Lying to dumbasses who will believe anything they are told, if a Russian-Republican spews it.
None of those things work if you don’t do them.
we’re going to find out by 6:00 pm ET if Trump is going to put his money where his mouth is – that is, pay the required $7.9 million for Wisconsin’s recount by today’s state deadline.
“his money”?
“HIS”? when has he ever used his own money?
remember this reported by cnn back in 2016:
Well, yeas, the $7.9M is ultimately his money – there are more avenues to funnel campaign funds to service the debt of the candidate than Carters has pills. If the $7.9M goes to Wisconsin for a recount it won’t be available to cover campaign debt – which will become D’ump’s debt, not that he pays his debts, but I’m just sayin’…
today’s marlette
And on the coronavirus front
New daily reported cases rose 22.9%
New daily reported deaths rose 9%
Covid-related hospitalizations rose 24.2%
Among reported tests, the positivity rate was 10%.
The number of tests reported rose 11% from the previous week.
And so you know, the positivity rate according to Johns Hopkins was 4.0% in early to mid October. That’s only a 150% increase in the positivity RATE in a month or so.
Sorry, but I don’t see any “turning the corner” good news in those figures – 2 weeks after the election. Hmmm, I wonder if that could possibly have been a factor in the increased numbers?
Pogo is correct, all this fundraising for his bogus lawsuits is headed straight for his pockets in various ways, so anything he actually spends comes off his bottom line
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/17/politics/trump-biden-natsec-transition-fires/index.html
It’s time to take the freaking keys away from the tyrant toddler. Wake up, Republicans, if you want to have a country left to pillage in years to come.
And if the numbers I posted above aren’t sobering enough, this from Wapo may be. More than 3 million people in the United States have active coronavirus infections and are potentially contagious, according to a new estimate from infectious-disease experts tracking the pandemic. That number is significantly larger than the official case count, which is based solely on those who have tested positive for the virus. The vast — and rapidly growing — pool of coronavirus-infected people poses a daunting challenge to governors and mayors in hard-hit communities who are trying to arrest the surge in cases. Traditional efforts such as testing, isolation of the sick and contact tracing can be overwhelmed when a virus spreads at an exponential rate, especially when large numbers of asymptomatic people may be walking around without even knowing they are infectious. To put the 3 million–plusfigure in perspective: It is close to 1 percent of the population. It is about equal to the number of public school teachers in the entire country, or the number of truck drivers. If the University of Michigan’s football stadium were packed with a random selection of Americans, about a thousand of them would be contagious right now. Columbia University epidemiologist Jeffrey Shaman said his team’s model estimated that 3.6 million people are infected and shedding enough virus to infect others. That’s a 34 percent week-to-week increase that followed a 36 percent increase in the previous seven-day average, he said. The estimate does not include an approximately equal number of latent infections… Read more »
FOX BREAKING: The Trump Campaign will be filing for a recount in the state of Wisconsin today.
Eager to see how they’re paying the $7.9m required up front
They have gone for the discount price of two counties: Milwaukee & Madison (the two major blue counties).
$$$upfront??????? Hahahahaha. It will never happen
Kayleigh McEnany on FOX described state-level guidance intended to curb the spread of the coronavirus at Thanksgiving as “Orwellian,” contradicting local authorities and arguing that such proposals were un-American https://t.co/uHFKqm1H9o
It didn’t do them any good in Georgia and made them some serious enemies
Have they actually paid and what do they expect will happen in the recount. Trudee Ghouleeanni has nothing down his pants to save the day
Ha, so they’re going to waste $3m proving Madison and Milwaukee hate Trump. Genius!
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/18/politics/adam-kinzinger-republicans-election-results-cnntv/index.html
“Waiting” equals propping up a wanna-be dictator AND ignoring the will/votes of the American people. This is the END OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY!
Milwaukee and Madison. So, they must have a plan to disenfranchise black voters by nullifying their votes. Probably Rudee’s plan, though.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/17/politics/georgia-recount/index.html
Georgia, part one, is in the homestretch.
Georgia, part two, is on track to flip the Senate.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/18/politics/biden-transition-trump-delay/index.html
What on Earth is Erin Murphy afraid of? I don’t get it.
Ha!…. reading this thread makes me feel like I’m in some crazy fantasy such as Alice in Wonderland. Maybe the repugs are all smoking opium…
wapo: Three lawyers, including the former head of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, have filed an ethics complaint with the Senate against Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) for his alleged attempts to pressure a Georgia election official to toss legally cast ballots. The complaint was filed with the Senate Select Committee on Ethics around midday Wednesday. It urges the committee, which is led by Sens. James Lankford (R-Okla.) and Christopher A. Coons (D-Del.), to investigate Graham’s conversations with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in which he allegedly urged Raffensperger to try to discount all absentee ballots in counties with high signature-matching rejection rates. […] “There can be no legitimate reason for the Judiciary Committee’s chairman to call a top election official regarding an ongoing vote count,” the complaint states. It urges the committee to investigate whether Graham threatened anyone with a Senate investigation or has taken steps to initiate such a probe. But it states that even the evidence already in hand points to conduct that constitutes an abuse of office and conduct unbecoming of a senator. The complaint is signed by Claire Finkelstein, the faculty director of the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law at the University of Pennsylvania; Richard Painter, a law professor at the University of Minnesota and President George W. Bush’s chief ethics lawyer; and Walter Shaub, former director of the Office of Government Ethics. The complaint urges the committee to impose appropriate penalties if it finds the allegations to be true.… Read more »
SFB said no one would be talking about COVID after the election. What he meant was. He wouldn’t be talking about
With the election over, i was actually looking forward to catching-up with Republican-leaning friends, between whom and myself politics had driven a wedge, but with their leader dragging it out, they are all still off-the-radar and stewing among themselves.
The more people Trump fires the more who are available to brief Biden.
Asked if Trump will campaign for Perdue and Loeffler, Meadows said that depends on Presidents official work schedule
“Presidents official work schedule“
Sleep until 10am
Watch FoxNews
Eat
Tweet on toilet
Eat
Tweet from bed
Get dressed
Go golfing
Eat
Update from Rudy
Tweet
Eat
Tweet
Eat
Tweet on toilet
Bedtime
Typical selfish Trump indifference to human life, forcing Wisconsin ballot officials into enclosed facilities for a pointless recount as their pandemic numbers soar.
Lol Bink
Craig – one up for you.
https://www.texastribune.org/2020/11/18/el-paso-coronavirus-texas/
Greg Abbott, Governor from/of hell, continues to mis-handle COVID. Inmates are now handling dead bodies in make-shift morgues.
Alexandra – 🤣 Hi! I’m Rudy Giuliani! Have you been injured in an election? Do you think you should be president, but due to an unexpected setback, you’ve wound up short by thousands of votes in key states? Hire me, and you will get the settlement you deserve! And I mean the settlement you deserve! I put the “personal injury” in “personal injury lawyer”! Most lawyers are chasing after the ambulance, and not the reverse, but I guarantee that if you have not already suffered a strange injury, I WILL inflict one on your case, through my precise level of knowledge of the law! Do you have a weird laptop of unclear provenance? Do you need, not a good lawyer, just someone who is technically a lawyer? Call me, the former mayor of New York, a man who has been a candidate for president and who once took down mobsters but is in a Different! Place! Now! Have other law firms withdrawn from your litigation on the grounds that an attempt to undermine the legitimacy of the election is not something they want to be a part of? I won’t! Call me! My cellphone number is readily available! Maybe TOO available, and I DO text back, even if I don’t know who you ARE! I have almost THREE DECADES OF EXPERIENCE since the last time I was in a courtroom! But my skills remain just as sharp as my understanding of the law! Please pay me $2,000 an hour, unless… Read more »
If I had a mind like that I’d probably take it out and play with it……
America is now schizophrenic, in the clinical sense. Welcome to the Monkey House.
The more I see of Murder TV the more I realize that “Fargo” is an American masterpiece of astounding perspicacity.
Now that Trump desperately in courts trying to throw out Black votes Abraham Lincoln moving back in front as their best president ever.
Bye bye
Sturg, I’m just fortunate that there’s no clasp & hinge on my skull. If there was I probably take my brain out to play with it and drop the damn thing.
think about it, how often do you see a word like “perspicacity” in blogs/social media nowadays?
how can you not love the trail 🙂
jamie, here’s one for you
NBC:
Owl be like: “I wouldn’t need you to rescue me if you didn’t chop down my 75 year-old tree”
Sooooo, Dumbass has had nothing on his calendar for 4 days. Does this mean TRUMP QUIT? Just asking.
…he’s taking some “Me, Me, Me time”.
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