I Think Maybe She Was Grading On The Curve
Melinda Gates, co chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, said that she would give Trump a D- grade on how he’s handled coronavirus.
Well, I imagine she was grading on the curve with Stalin, Pol Pot, Attila the Hun, Ivan the Terrible, Nixon the Crazy, Queen Mary I, Mussolini, Mao, and other folks so horrible that even Robespierre got a D+.
Gates cited, “a lack of a coordinated, national response.” She said governors were stepping up with “50 different homegrown state solutions,” instead of a national response coming from the top. And that was the good part of it.
Thanks to SGray for the heads up.
A D- puts him in a league with Peppermint Patty of Peanuts fame. She always got a D- on every assignment, but unlike Trump, she had a heart.
1Reminds me of an old joke:
Student: “I don’t deserve an F!”
Professor: “I agree, but it’s the lowest grade I’m permitted to give.
2Well, Ms Gates is entitled to her opinion on Trump or anything.
3To me a D- is a tad generous. However as a public school teacher, parent and advocate I would grade the Gates Foundation with an “F” for their years long campaign to bully,
bribe and browbeat public educators to conform to their prescriptions to make schools private hot houses of testing and technology. Now Bill Gates is ram-rodding his way into New York schools under the general notion that these damn billionaires have to never miss a dollar to be made in a crisis.
He is so smug. I would love to slap him silly.
What with all the Flat Earth morons and the 7% of Americans who think that chocolate milk comes from brown cows and all the covidiots running around loose, not to mention the QAnon crowd, it’s pretty obvious that something isn’t working all that well with the public school system. I’m not blaming the teachers, mind you—some of my best friends yadda yadda, but for all the lip service we as a country give to the idea of the importance of education we sure don’t want to spend any tax dollars on it. I live in an affluent town on the CO Front Range and the schools here are pretty good but they still have to beg for money for new schools and teachers to work in them, but as a State CO is down in the bottom 5 or so in per student spending. That’s shameful.
4That’s definitely graded on the curve. If there’s a grade lower than F, Trump deserves it. If he had paid attention and cared about anyone but himself, a whole lot of deaths in this country could have been–and still could be–avoided.
5In life, there are degrees of “F.” In school, not so much. There is no “high F,” unlike getting a “high C,” which might indicate you could work a little harder and get a “B-.”
In life, an “F” may in fact be high or low, just south of passing, or so low you’ll never be able to hold your head up in polite society.
There are not enough minuses to add to Fat Donnie’s “F” to fully explain how badly he’s screwed the pooch here, and Mrs Gates of course doesn’t want to pick on the slow child, hence the D-.
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So Bill Gates is evil for trying to improve schools now?
This is the purity viewpoint that might very well allow Trump to win by splitting Democratic votes.
Hate him AFTER the election!
7I think it’s a bit early to give him a grade. Wait until he’s been around as long as Pol Pot, Mao, Stalin, and all those dudes and see what his final body count is. It may very well approach theirs.
So far, all we’ve had to contend with is disease. His supporters are doing stuff like this:
https://twitter.com/shannonrwatts/status/1259864848935968769?s=20
I’m afraid we’re going to have literal armed conflict before this is all over.
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