That Depends on Your Definition of Nobody
Last night Trump announced that Corona Virus ”affects virtually nobody” except “elderly people.”
200,000 people are dead, not all of them elderly and therefore expendable, and 1,000 more a day are dying. On the upside, Trump is already elderly so when he dies we can says that nobody died.
And can we please make the good guys at the CDC wear white hats and the political guys wear red hats? When stuff is put online in the morning and then deleted in the evening, we need to know which side did which.
Maybe we could have something like a designated truth teller. Just one damn person in the Trump administration who tells the truth every damn time.
“Maybe we could have something like a designated truth teller.”
Perhaps even an amendment to the Constitution adding a 4th branch of government: The Branch of Objective Authenticity. It would have no connection with the other three branches, except for issuing observations on their decisions and conduct.
Given that task, the division would most likely require thousands of members, hundreds alone for a president like Trump.
1I want the press to start counting down to A QUARTER OF A MILLION people. That, IMO, will resonate as a larger number than 250K.
2Let’s start by having Dr Mr Atlas, quack, wear a maggot hat and paint him orange. Unbelievable he keeps repeating wearing masks are useless. On second thought, it’s exactly what we would expect.
3Same for Barrf since he’s now weighing in on coronavirus.
Winston Smith would understand this wonderland, he would not like it, but he would understand it, having worked at the Ministry of Truth.
“Your a man, the last man. Your kind is extinct. We are the inheritors…”
~ Richard Burton 1984
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4Last night on MSNBC they said if people had a hard time wrapping their heads around the 200,000 deaths number, it would be as if the entire population of Salt Lake City was wiped out.
5Kentucky takes a lot of grief for Mitch McConnell, and rightfully so. But last year, the incumbent Rethuglican governor was so unpopular that he lost to Andy Beshear by 5,000 votes. We in Kentuucky are so fortunate for that. Governor Andy is listening to scientists and doing his best to lead this state through the pandemic.
Last week at his daily briefing he said this,
“if you’re a person — whether you’re in the state legislature or at home on your keyboard — that is saying, ‘Oh, but those people are older,’ shame on you.
THESE ARE CHILDREN OF GOD,
just like everyone else, who deserved more time on this planet. Their life is JUST AS IMPORTANT as everybody else’s.”
Andy Beshear supports a woman’s right to choose, but he also cares more about human life than anyone working in tRump’s White House.
6I’d like to have somebody with a blowtorch stand behind Trump and set his pants on fire every time he deserves it. After a day or two there’d just be a little cinder left.
7Bill F @ 6: Let’s stop calling it “right to choose”; that trivializes probably the hardest decision any woman ever has to make. The reality is that it’s not a “choice” like Coke or Pepsi; it’s a decision about what a woman will be able to do with the rest of her life. It may be a decision about whether she can stay in school or drop out; whether she will be able to feed the children she already has; whether she will bring yet another child into an abusive household; whether she will undergo changes to her body that may never be undone and may lead to her death. Those aren’t “choices”; they are complex, painful decisions. “Choice” is the wrong word.
8I think it would be reasonable, at this point, to just assume the “red hat” assholes at the CDC posted whatever lying BS was posted. absent any concrete evidence to the contrary.
9@djw I agree with your point. I was trying to say that Andy Beshear cares much more about human life than anyone working for Trump without implying that he did not also support Roe v. Wade.
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