You’re not wrong about the imagery, but istm that such lighthearted levity is inappropriate to the seriousness of the situation facing our country.
(Forgive me if my tone seems curt; I’ve been bingeing ST:TOS, and finding myself adopting a Spock-like demeanor at times…)
I’m kinda partial to Tronald Dump.
iDJiT takes credit for “only” 200,000 deaths.
No wonder he admires Third World tyrants so much.
President Trump on Wednesday said a plan by the Food and Drug Administration to issue tough new standards for emergency approval of a coronavirus vaccine “sounds like a political move” and warned that the White House might reject it.
Trump said he had “tremendous trust in these massive companies” developing prospective vaccines and suggested that they, not federal regulators, could best determine when a vaccine should be made available to the American people. “When you have great companies coming up with these vaccines, why would they [the FDA] have to be, you know, adding great length to the process? We want to have people not get sick.”
“I don’t see why it should be delayed further,” he said. “That is a lot of lives you’re talking about.”
His comments raised questions about the integrity of the vaccine approval process on the same day that four top administration health officials, including FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn, in a Senate hearing, tried to reassure the public that any vaccine decision would be free of political interference and based strictly on data reviewed by FDA career scientists.
Trump suggested that the vaccine makers were getting good results in their late-stage trials. In fact, the trials have not produced any results — it’s too early. The White House, the FDA and the companies do not know yet whether the vaccines work.
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Everyone really IS out to make him look bad, amirite?
“These massive companies” gave us thalidomide, DES, Belviq and aprotinin, so why don’t those nib-nosing bureaucrats at the FDA just get the hell out of the way?
Ya know, I wasn’t even gonna bother to vote this year (My state will no doubt go Biden. And I sure as HELL would not vote for ‘Shit Gibbon’), but hell, I can literally mail it in. Why not? Only take a few seconds…
Fuck it! I’m gonna vote Dem for first time ever! One more grain of sand for that landslide!
Good for you!
If he’s not going to let the FDA attempt to ensure the safety of the vaccine, maybe the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program should consider bumping their excise tax from $0.75/dose to $1.50/dose until the pandemic is past. We don’t want that program running dry.
Yes, because giant, for-profit companies have no incentive to rush out a product with a customer base of 328 million people.
Hey, I’ve got my vaccine. Just mix together bleach, hydroxychloroquine, colliloidal silver, infected blood plasma, and bovine growth hormone according to my secret recipe and you are good to go. Yes there are reports of side effects such as painful lingering death, but its all ready to be manufactured today. All I need is a few hundred mil to start production and we can have it out the door by November 2nd.
The downside of this deal is that I’m out a couple hundred million.
The upside is that you probably won’t deliver anything, so no one will die from your “cure”.
Mike? Mike Lindell, is that you?
Painful OR lingering … maybe. I can’t do both.
No, no, no. “Two weeks” is Trump-speak for never.
He’s going to turn me into a goddamn anti-vaxxer.
So, Trump is begging for money with a call-in pledge program. Gives an 800 number on the commercial.
Wonder what happen if everybody called that line and just wasted time and not pledging? My, what a dreadful thought!
Interesting. I was able to tie that line up for a good 5 minutes before I grew weary of the experiment.
Just think if 20 million people did that…
You can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant…
Today? Today, he amused me, actually. Watching him get boo’d at RBG’s funeral was a thing of beauty.
Yeah, it was unseemly and undignified, but tough titties. Trump is the practically the dictionary definition of unseemly and undignified.
I have to admit that, loathe him as I do, it bothered me. There’s a time and a place for everything. On the steps of the Supreme Court, in the presence of RBG’s flag-draped coffin, is not the time or the place.