The Trump legacy on COVID-19: https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1282363715426422786
I slapped a “Trump’s COVID-19 Legacy” in red in the upper left corner and started passing that around; thanks for sharing it.
They should do something similar for the monstrous separation of children from asylum seeking parents.
Separated: Inside an American Tragedy Hardcover – July 7, 2020
by Jacob Sob
" The award-winning NBC News correspondent lays bare the full truth behind the Trump administration’s systematic separation of desperate migrant families at the US-Mexico border
“It’s the law.”
“Obama did it by Executive Order.”
Sessions “It was me who ordered it.” (It wasn’t)
“There’s nothing I can do.”
“I doodled up an Executive Order to stop it.”
psst “Destroy the list.”
psst “Don’t stop doing it.”
psst “Lose the children.”
Actually, I take many Southerners at their word when they say they like the Confederate flag and that for them it’s not about slavery. They’re just deluded and/or have no sense of, or don’t care about, how many of their fellow citizens, including the vast majority of POC, see it.
I’ll accept what you say and note that my statement is accurate regardless.
I grew up in the South. Maybe it’s not consciously about slavery for some of them, but the implicit racism isn’t far from the surface. And, if I’m being honest about the people I grew up with, rather than “not about slavery”, it’s more like “it’s not only about slavery” for them. But they know they can’t say that part out loud. Most of them, anyway.
Also, I still get a kick out of how many Southerners love Trump. He’s been known to mock people with Southern accents and think less of them or even think them stupid (the irony is palpable), and they come back for more. They just reinforce his notion that they’re a bunch of easy marks and rubes to take advantage of.
The part of the South I grew up in, racism was hit-you-over-the-head, rub-your-face-in-it explicit.
The part of the South I grew up in (Northern Virginia, Southwest Georgia, East Tennessee) and the parts I’ve visited or been stationed in (Florida Panhandle, Kentucky, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas), there has never been an attempt to hide the racism whatsoever. What is new today is, as one commentator (I really don’t remember, but I think Trevor Noah) put it: The racists don’t mind being racists; what they complain about now is being called racists. Somehow it’s their victims’ fault that the racists are being called racists. Being a racist jerk apparently isn’t a bad thing, but being called one is offensive to the racist jerks.
Now he’s trying, in the midst of a pandemic, to muzzle the CDC on school reopenings: White House blocks CDC director from testifying on school reopenings
“Science should not stand in the way” of schools reopening, idiotically says his flack: McEnany: 'Science should not stand in the way' of schools reopening
Oh, I have seen the right wing idiot sphere claiming that the flack was being misquoted. That she clarified that she had the science that did agree with them. As one thread in The Quarantine Zone showed to me, the science is there to preliminarily be a bit confident that little children are not spreading the disease as much as adults and pediatricians are concerned about the children’s development to advise that schools should open.
Forgetting that those experts also explained that the caveat was that there should be a reduction in the infection rate, more testing available, masks, more aid for schools, etc. for that to happen.
So, it was incomplete and cherry-picked science that the idiotic administration used, it really deserves the “unfair” way the mainstream media did report about the White House Mouth of Sauron speaker.
Yeah, they said it. But of course, the “science” she was referring to was a study of infant mortality (among other terrible things) in PICU units compared to adult outcomes.
So, her ‘scientific’ justification for opening schools was literally saying that tremendously sick and/or dying children were not getting sick or dying as much as adults were. Dying children somehow translates to “safe” in her book.
Of course, focusing solely on the children also ignores all the other terrible things - like not considering the health or well-being of school faculty or staff.
Tangerine Spittoon: “They knew what they signed up for.”
#dumpsterfire #adultdiaperonhead #frontodemensia
They would have been more beautiful still if he had been alive to serve in them and if he had not regrettably been prevented from doing so by those pesky bone spurs… or some other disqualifying medical condition appropriate to the time.
As inspiring as it would have been to see trump run into a school with an active shooter situation, imagine the splendor of him facing the might of the German war machine. I get shivers just thinking about it.
I sort of imagine it being like that show where they shoot pumpkins out of cannons and every once in a while it comes apart in the cannon and orange stuff goes everywhere.
On a more serious note, this nonsense of sending federal agents into cities uninvited has to stop. This is just a dress rehearsal for Nov 3, when they’re going to be sent to minority voting sites to stop the vote.
I’m afraid you may be right. He still seems unable or unwilling to draw a distinction between peaceful protest and mob violence: Portland protests: Neither side is backing down as federal agents and protesters clash | CNN
That’s not a fault; it’s a feature.
Individual 1 is trying to change the rules on who should be counted by the Census.