Trump retweets message that says “Time to #FireFauci” after the disease specialist acknowledges that more lives could have been saved if the government had acted sooner to shut down society.
Dr. Fauci you tried. But mincing words to please a lunatic isn’t helping anymore. Just quit, so you can tell us what you really think. Outside government you could probably save more lives by publicly undermining Trump’s stupidity.
if IMpotus fires the good doc, maybe there’ll be a massive walkout of the task force team (including data, tech & WH med staff) and hopefully doc Debbie, surg gen adams and hhs sec azar join it if not lead it with pitchforks held high.
all of them in last couple of days have said/implied much should have been done earlier to save lives.
Called my 94 year old uncle yesterday to wish him happy Easter and of course after the Lord, yada yada the conversation turned to C-19 and more specifically tRump “leadership” on the issue. Background- Uncle Oz is a Baptist conservative who is living in an independent living apartment and has assistance 16 hours per day since he lost his sight 6 months ago. He watches Fox News all day and thinks SFB has done a masterful job. Now I don’t argue with him – he’s been through enough having lost two wives and a girlfriend as well as the ability to see and walk. He buys it all hook line and sinker. At one point he said he wondered what the death count would be if SFB hadn’t started so early with the restrictions. I never agree with him and I also don’t argue with him – it’s just to point out what people who rely on Faux for coverage of this. As a side note he mentioned an old friend of his who goes to some thumper church in Birmingham that has some affiliation with Robert Morris and his nutty Gateway Church ministry and they firmly believe SFB is a spiritual person who is very religious – the guy who worships only money, power and adulation. It is sad seeing this transformation of an elderly person I love who has been converted to utter bullshit through the lies Faux fills the airwaves with daily.
Wow…..virus lockdown and now torrential rain an tornado watch. I may be about to make heard a discouraging word. If I do, just pretend you didn’t hear it.
This morning was a breakfast of garlicky scrambled eggs. I used a little of the roasted garlic, mashed up and blended into the scrambled eggs. I let it all sit for an hour to let the garlic infuse into the eggs. A bit of butter in the pan and then the eggs. Heaven as the light garlic flavor was in every bite, but it was soft and delicate. No slap you in the face.
I like to enjoy a nice breakfast now that there is no need to stuff a packet of instant oatmeal in my lunch so I have something once I get to the office.
In the midst of the deluge, one lone badass turkey hen says, “I AM the storm”.
On the big things I’m a bit disgruntled, but the little things are cool.
If a discouraging word were to fall on ears out west would it make a sound?
“It’s them danged deer and antelope, always galloping around playing their silly games—I can’t hear myself think!”
Sturg, you’re getting what’s left of this: 18 dead as tornadoes sweep across the south. My sis in Birmingham and I spok elast night – asa of about 9 she said most of it went north of Birmingham. I was watching a bit of the Weather Channel and they showed a radar image of a very strong cell that was just West of I-59. I did not recognize the name of any of the towns on the map except Laurel – so I assumed it was in Mississippi. I was stunned that I knew none of the towns on the map , knowing and having hung out in such booming metropoli as Goodman, Kosciusco, Camden, Philadelphia (no Liberty Bell there that I know of), etc. when I would visit my buddy in college while he was going to Holmes Jr. College.
I did time in West Point and Biloxi, had a bassist from Laurel, and used to forage down for adventure while stationed in Memphis. Once drove from Memphis to B’ham and back, 69, that was interesting. Was glad I had sailor hair. I think we stumbled across that famous blues tree on one of the adventures. We’d just keep turning off onto this road or that and get good and lost knowing that we’d come out somewhere. Always did. Bottomless cooler of bud in the back seat.
So Bernie’s sponsoring party – the Democratic Socialists of America, won’t endorse Biden in the fall. Nose, meet face.
Sturg, that’s the only way to drift around in rural Mississippi – which is a strange land by any measure.
Socialist Democrats of America Won’t endorse Biden
Now there is a headline team Biden can live with. They may even turn it into a political ad.
How many votes does he lose? 5?
Jack
I’m surprised that Dr. Fauci lasted this long. Agreed, Craig, if trump fires him then he’s free to say what he really thinks.
Bernie…. now THERE’S a discouraging word for ya!
I heard that.
Trump is also a virus we need to rid ourselves of this fall. And, yes, there will be an election. As a Joe said, we held elections during wars and illnesses before, so we will have an election.
My first thought when I heard about Twit’s tweet on Fauci was that he’s threatening the good doctor, to keep him in line. Trump doesn’t realize that WE WILL CONTINUE TO LISTEN TO DR. FAUCI. In fact, without Dr. Fauci at SFB’s daily lie-fest, there would be NOTHING worth covering.
Waiting to find out where the leak is coming from. Not much water, just enough to know it’s there and shouldn’t be.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/13/media/george-stephanopoulos-coronavirus/index.html
His wife was really sick, but George is asymptotic. This is the weirdest, damned virus.
Tiptoe – Wow, another 6-8 weeks for NYC. Think the TX Gov. is going to try to re-open this state sooner than later. I guess more folks will have to die to prove that a longer quarantine was necessary.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/13/politics/theodore-roosevelt-sailor-coronavirus/index.html
Sailor died from Trump’s plague.
Rasmussen has SFB at a 43% approval rating, 15 points upside down. He’s been as low as 40% in the first year or so of his presidency, but 43% looks like his “floor” in that poll for all intents and purposes. So much for his “bounce. Overall he’s at 44.9%, upside down by 6.5%, based in large part on 3 polls – Fox, Monmouth and CBS that appear at 49 and to a lesser extent 46 (they are now a week old, btw) – that appear to be outliers. I think he’s got trouble abrewin’ so long as he continues to lie as the death count goes up.
Fauci should quit and take a regular gig fact checking the murderers daily briefing
Like stat boy
From Lame-o the Duck in response to Jennifer Rubin’s latest at WaPo:
Sounds right to me.
Dr Fauci is pushing 80-y.o.. He doesn’t need the income from a government job—he needs the reputation that he earned over a lifetime of work on the public’s behalf. He needs that reputation intact and untarnished by President Trump. What can we do individually, or as a group, to protect Dr Fauci?
MSNBC is just now reporting that Bernie has endorsed Biden.
Biden to select missus Saunders to be VeePee?
IMpotus can only fire doc fauci from his task force, not his job as dir of nat’l institute of allergy & infectious diseases which he’s been since 1984. he certainly can’t take away his med license or right of free speech.
Yeah… let me do the fair thing and bring in a link…
Bernie Sanders endorses Joe Biden for president
Flatus, good point about Fauci. Yes, he would love to retire with his well-earned reputation intact I’d wager.
patd, is his position an appointed one or a civil service position? He would report to Sleepy Ben Carson through the Director of NIH, but I have no idea what the org chart looks like.
I don’t know the chart either Pogo. But really do think he’s at or near the point of having to quit to preserve his legacy. He ccan do more good outside government instead of advising a president who doesn’t listen to him.
Yep, Poobah, I think you’re right. Despite the WH denials, I bet he’s on borrowed time at this point.
SFB fires anyone who is smarter better informed and makes him look like the idiot he is.
What does that say about the people who remain on his staff?
OH, and this should piss SFB off – I got my absentee ballot application in the mail this weekend. I did not request it – it was sent to all voters, and it requires no reason to be stated to receive the ballot – here in East Bumfuck WV.
It snowed 2″ here yesterday. Now, it’s 32F and snowing again.
He is Frizen !
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/coronavirus-recession-wpa-arts-programs-wellness-style/index.html
RR – This includes weavers.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/13/politics/michelle-obama-mail-in-voting-support-coronavirus/index.html
Go, Michelle, go!
Fauci: Whether he says on the job is unimportant. The Republicans ignore him and the Democrats are too afraid of Trump to do what Fauci recommends, except in cautious, halfhearted gestures that are ultimately ineffective and force them to share the blame for this epic disaster.
*****
Sanders’s endorsement: Trump now has the opponent he wanted all along, “Sleepy Joe” Biden. There was a reason Obama chose Hillary Clinton to be his Secretary of State. Obama was grooming Hillary to succeed him because he was well aware of Biden’s weaknesses. Biden was a joke as VP, routinely saying dumb things. He couldn’t even handle that stupid job.
So we now have the guy Obama thought was weaker than Hillary, going up against Trump, who beat Hillary.
Bernie Sanders will do everything he can to help Biden, just as he did for Hillary, and most of Sanders’s supporters will hold their noses and vote for Biden. But they also know that if Biden loses, they will get blamed.
Thousands of people are dying and the economy is falling apart, but don’t assume that this will be an easy win for Biden. Trump is very clever about controlling the narrative. He will present himself the “decisive man in charge” and portray Biden as an inept clown whom even Obama didn’t want as a successor.
Since that is true, it may work.
Nash, yes to clever. Kudos to CNN and MSNBC for cutting away from the rally after it became clear that there was no news to report.
They should once again cut away. He’s being abusive, and god knows that is not news.
Fuck him, I need to make dinner for the dog.
BiD…. I belong to a very good craftsmen guild. There are relief programs and my guild has made us aware of them. I am no longer a full-time crafts artist. I call myself “semi” retired… but I really only work about 1/4 of what I used to. I don’t do craft shows… haven’t done one in 4 years. I make enough through selling at galleries to cover my costs and have a little bit of mad money left over. But I do know many who still depend on their craft income to pay the bills… I feel for them right now. All the spring big shows have been canceled… and I’d bet good money that the summer ones will be too.
thanks for the article…
Wow, CNN not messing around
First, I hope each of you and your families are well. I also hope you are not impacted by the economic impacts.
Interesting, The lens of each person on to the situation. True Trump gets political but he has gathered a very strong team. Many 100,000 of lives have been saved by the guidance. PERIOD He has followed their guidance and protected the team from the political fire from the biased media. Separate the political Trump from the much approved outcomes that are happening.
I know this is impossible for 99% of you on this blog to have this ability as seen in the divisive negative aspects in your posts.
Trump must be doing very well to see the attacks gaining strength. And Oh Wow Bernie endorsed Biden… Snooze and Dems Lose.
TRUMP WILL HAVE FOUR MORE YEARS….
I have not seen (not do I care to be assaulted with lies) the new, corona-response, Trump timeLInE video. However, it’s now Bloomberg time! The truth will set us free from Orange Julius’ reign of terror.
Felt a little bad for Dr. Fauci. He must think he can do more good if he has SFB’s ear than if he’s out if the loop. Trump ain’t gonna listen, Doc, unless the info directly benefits him and Ivanker. He’d let his boys twist in the wind, but he’s got a gross fixation on his little girl. Blech! Get out with your good name while you can; plenty of news outlets will disseminate the truth to them what’ll listen.
The 4th estate continues to appear as an extension of the DNC with the very rude and IGNORANT treatment of Dr Fauci. Who pulls the strings of the press? Great coordination to undermine the efforts to resolve this crisis. Such an insult and danger to the safety of our Country.
GET OVER THE POLITICAL ASPECTS AND FOCUS ON THE FACTS. I know you hate President Trump but you are not helping this situation. People have died, People have lost jobs, People are in bad situations and your comments are not helping. You are selective revisionist that ignore your own allies statements, ie NY Times in January, Attacks on President Trump for closing flights to China…….
RR – I still have the pretty scarf. TY
Glad to see governors are banning together to coordinate their regions of the country. SFB is only smart enough to work an on/off switch. A graduated dial that works in both directions is beyond his capacity as a spoiled toddler.
Pretty much people at high risk won’t be going anywhere until there is a vaccine.
Lardbutt the golfing president is a big fat liar
There is no constitutional issue with contact tracing
Fatass should know there is no problem with contact tracing. I mean how many stds has he had?
BiD… I still make scarves. I still use hand painted yarns. I put more what’s called novelty yarns in them. I go on eBay and buy any ribbon or sparkly yarn that catches my fancy. I mainly just play now… too much arthritis… to work hard any longer. But I guess I’ll weave until my fingers don’t or won’t work.
460,000 people flew into the US from China in January and February and into March after the situation in Wuhan was known to everyone except SFB, 40,000 of them after he banned travel from China and Europe. Those are facts, Ping. The idea that the 570,000 cases confirmed in the US came from one Chinese guy from Wuhan is preposterous. He screwed around for two months to make things look less serious than they were, at a cost of some large proportion of the 21,662 American deaths experienced thus far. Every day we get flat out lies from him and cudos to CNN and to a slightly lesser extent, MSNBC, for refusing to cover it when it devolves into his bullshit.
Looks as if this is being called for the Democrat
Wisconsin State Supreme Court :
Jill Karofsky (D) 52.9%
Daniel Kelly (R-inc) 47.1%
Wisconsin republicans fought all the way to the US supreme court thinking that Kelly was a cinch.
So ping, better look at your hole cards before you decide to raise.
Jack
Cuomo leads, again! It’s excellent that he called an alliance of NE governors (D) to meet and figure out health/work issues. There were no repube govs.
I keep hearing it’ll be 12 to 18 months before anything like “normal” happens.
That’s a LONG time! Necessary, but a LONG time! Just sayin’.
1. I’m figuring right now that the Dems gain 6 Senate seats.
2. Fauci, Kelly, Nielsen, Tillerson, Mattis, Scarramucci, Stormy & McDougal, michael cohen, igor and lev, Shep, Wilson, Schmidt, Rubin & Kristol, bolton, amash and possibly Ivana. They’d make great faces and voices for adverts, either touting Joe or dissing the racist russophile rapist. Call Bloomie and ask (nicely) for $50 M!LL!ON$ to put these folks all over the tv, radio, and internet.
Wisconsin results may make SFB change his mind about vote by mail
Good job Wisc Democrats
trump announced that he was shutting down flights from commieChina. 5 weeks later he actually did – after the airlines no longer flew to/from commieChina.
Pong, trump is laughably feeble, admittedly too feeble to make people stay home and therefore too feeble to ‘open the country.” For his sake, the republican party has committed suicide. Good.
Lock him up.
Nash, you’re attempting to use feckless conjecture as if it were fact in order to advance your own pet theories. Tedious.
“feckless conjecture”
Now there is a good band name
};-)
Jack
x-r, “republican party has committed suicide. Good.
Lock him up.” YEP!!!
Jack, took the words out of my mouth
rippers are now pushing the story that Dr Fauci was downplaying C19.
Apparently republicans think Fauci was the president in early 2020, a low-energy, ‘far left socialist,’ deep state, never-trumper president.
Lock them up ! Lock them ALL up !
Fantasy :
Feckless Conjecture – an upscale grunge band, hq’d in the Cambridge, MA. They’re all about the futility of getting a Harvard MBA or a Doctorate at MIT. They rage against the microchip.
End Fantasy
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-authority-is-total-trump-claims-he-has-power-to-decide-when-states-reopen/ar-BB12zYXV?ocid=spartanntp
trump claims Absolute Authority, but also claims that he’s too feeble to order a ‘stay at home.’
Stupid turd. Flush him down ! Flush them ALL down !
BiD said what she’s done. So here’s mine. I’ve read a few books.
Just happened upon this, and it’s very timely vis-a-vis C-19.
An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives
By: Matt Richtel
A magnificently reported and soulfully crafted exploration of the human immune system – the key to health and wellness, life and death.
I watched a few old Woody Allen movies. We didn’t know about what he became now back then. It’s chilling. His themes are sexual and a lot about dating younger women, etc. In fact, creepy. Then I watched a 2 part more recent documentary about him.
Then I turned my attention to Woodstock and watched “Creating Woodstock” and then Woodstock the 1970 movie.
Then I moved onto my favorite man, Arlo Guthrie.
At that point I realized I don’t have a long bucket list. I went to the ocean a few years ago. That was one thing. Another is to go back to Arlo’s church in Housatonic, MA. He’s very family oriented regardless of his persona, and I used to take the kids there a couple of times a year. We’d stay in a hotel with other Arlo groupies, plant flowers at the church and stay for his concert and then just hang out.
So, my plan is…to do the grand tour of NY. I’ll go to Rochester and meet up with the few folks who are still there and go to Canandaiguaa and visit a long time friend. We still text. Drive on to Husatonic and then head south to NYC and visit my nephew and two sons. It’ll be exhausting, but after the 15th I’ll have NO time crunch. Should be interesting.
Then I finally got to doing some cleaning, not my favorite thang. The porch garden is nicely taking care of itself and will continue that way until hell sets in here.
They’re saying 12 to 18 months now. By then I’ll be stark raving mad!
interactive rating starsA magnificently reported and soulfully crafted exploration of the human immune system – the key to health and wellness, life and death.
Al Gore suggests that antibody testing be set up at November polling places.
https://www.instagram.com/tv/B-8RvZOJidr/?igshid=1piv1lbm2lg62
The spread of swine flu: When Pigs Fly (an old one explained)
The spread of Covid-19: When People Fly…but I still wanna fly, so dang bad! I wanna go to NYC in the fall; I’m always either too early or too late to see Central Park in autumn leaves.
Refuting Trump’s mindless followers is quite easy. They spew something SFB has said and you just counter with the exact opposite thing…which he said, also. Eventually, they will realize they’re caught in an infinite loop and their heads will ‘splode.
TT – Agreed about Woody A. “Sleeper” was on TV last year and I couldn’t watch it. I loved it the first time I saw it so long ago, but now it’s just kinda gross.
We don’t even know if or how long the cofeve anti-bodies would be protective…if we had an anti-body test.
Then folks who’ve had it can donate blood/plasma.
Trump never did test well. He hates tests.
Just found out today is only Monday. Easter was just yesterday?
TT “…after the 15th…” Are you actually traveling this month? Next month?
Read 1. The Miracle of Speedy Motors 2. Read Household’s romanticization of the travels of Miles Philips 3. Started Hakluyt’s Voyages, but the language was so arduous that I switched to a modern ‘translation’ of Hakluyt’s Voyages, a book which includes the statement of Miles Philips about his adventures. 5. Reread Rosengarten’s Spices. 6. Reread The Man Who Sold the Eifel Tower.
Sweetie and I watched Modus and 2 seasons of Frankie Drake on PBS Passport, and are now plowing through the World On Fire series, also on Passport. Watched The Greatest Showman, and loved the actors/performers, but hated the anachronistic music and diction.
Thinking of tackling Camoen’s Lusiads in translation. I think that if I do, I’ll probably have trouble handling the casually cruel and bigoted mindset of the Portuguese adventurers, and of the poet who celebrates them. As I write, I’m talking myself out of reading Lusiads.
sigh
the hill: