Not too long ago, I shared a timeline here of Donald Trump’s various lie-filled statements concerning the coronavirus outbreak, starting with, “We have it totally under control,” which he said on January 22, 2020. In that post, as you may recall, I not only included quotes from Donald Trump, but, where possible, I added other […]
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What Donald Trump knew about COVID-19, when he knew it, and how his administration made the pandemic much worse
Posted in Health, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Anthony Fauci, Carter Mecher, China, Chris Murphy, coronavirus, COVID-19, Department of Veterans Affairs, Donald Trump, intelligence, Italy, mark Esper, National Security Council, pandemic, pandemic response team, personal protective equipment, Peter Navarro, PPE, Predict, public health, Red Dawn, responsibility, shelter in place, Sherrod Brown, situation report, timeline, treason, USAID, vaccines, Wuhan, zoonotic 112 Comments
“I’ve always known this is a real — this is a pandemic,” says Donald Trump, unaware, apparently, that we can look up his past statements
Earlier today, with American COVID-19 deaths passing the 100-mark, and our trajectory looking like that of Italy, Donald Trump tried to make the case that he’s been taking this very real public health crisis seriously from the outset. Asked by a reporter why his tone was markedly different today than yesterday, and noticeably more serious, […]
Posted in Health, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Anthony Fauci, China, coronavirus, COVID-19, Donald Trump, H1N1, holding people responsible, individual responsibility, International Health Regulations Emergency Committee, miracles, never forget, pandemic, PHE, PHEIC, pneumonia, post-truth, public health, public health emergency, Public Health Emergency of International Concern, rewriting history, World Heath Organization, Wuhan 110 Comments
School shootings, the delay-and-do-nothing right, and those who blame women for “the destabilization of the sexual marketplace”
I’d wanted to write about something else entirely tonight, but then I stumbled across the above tweet, and it sent me tumbling through the looking glass, into a pitch-black world of toxic masculinity and weaponized insecurity, where women, having been debased to the point of no longer being considered human, are seen merely as instruments […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Alek Minassian, anti-abortion, assault weapons, assault weapons ban, Betsy DeVos, blood money, CDC, coined phrases, Dan Patrick, Dimitrios Pagourtzis, Donald Trump, doors, enforced monogamy, Florida, gun control, gun reform, gun rights, gun violence, high capacity magazines, hollow promises, incels, insecurity, Intellectual Dark Web, involuntary celibates, Jeff Sessions, Jordan Peterson, Kirstjen Nielsen, Marco Rubio, masculine spirit, mass shootings, misogyny, National Rifle Association, NRA, Parkland, Paul Gosar, pro-life, Santa Fe, school safety, school shooting, sex, sexism, sexual marketplace, spurned advances, Ted Cruz, Texas, The Handmaid's Tale, the masculine spirit, thoughts and prayers, Toronto, toxic masculinity, violence, weaponized insecurity 60 Comments