Saturday, July 18, 2020

"Science Should Not Stand in the Way"--Kayleigh McEnany



"Hastily developed"?  I'm not an anti-vaxxer, but I'm no guinea pig, either.  I still remember the Salk vaccine that was rushed to market.  The second batch was improperly processed and injected children with live polio virus.  They gave the kids polio, IOW.  If haste is involved, I'll gladly wait until the bugs are worked out, thank you.

Actually, what's most interesting is that this is NOT an "opinion piece."

In new advertising, tweets and public statements that began to appear earlier this month, Trump has argued that the presumptive Democratic nominee is a harbinger of chaos and destruction, depicting a fantastical scarecrow largely divorced from reality.

“Joe Biden and the Radical Left want to Abolish Police, Abolish ICE, Abolish Bail, Abolish Suburbs, Abolish the 2nd Amendment — and Abolish the American Way of Life. No one will be SAFE in Joe Biden’s America!” Trump tweeted Wednesday. In fact, Biden opposes calls to abolish police or U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, seeks new gun regulations under current judicial interpretations of the Constitution and sees the nation’s suburban voters, especially women, as a core part of his political base.

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In the talking points he distributed, Biden’s elevation to the White House was described as an event that would “surrender America and its citizens to the violent left-wing mob,” “import terrorists,” and “allow left-wing fascists to destroy America.” In an echo of the speech Trump delivered at Mount Rushmore on July 3, the talking points alleged that Biden will empower “the mob to rip down every statue, vilify our heroes, erase our history” and let radicals indoctrinate our children. (Biden launched his campaign with a video quoting the Declaration of Independence and has condemned the removal of statues that do not commemorate the Confederacy.)

The document also includes false, and even contradictory, policy attacks that have long been a staple of the Trump campaign’s digital advertising.

“Biden will impose a socialist takeover of health care,” the talking points document reads. “He will massively cut Medicare and Social Security.” (Biden, who has fought against Medicare-for-all, supports adding a public Medicare option for those without private health insurance and increasing funding for Social Security.)

Miller himself pushed the harsher line in an appearance Wednesday on Lou Dobbs’s Fox Business show, where he spoke about the Central Ameircan gang MS-13 and charged that Biden and former president Barack Obama “unleashed these killers into our communities” and “never apologized.” The Obama administration prioritized deportation of undocumented criminals and gang members.Miller framed the election in nearly apocalyptic terms. “That’s the choice everyone faces: Public safety under this president or lawless mayhem under the radical left,” he said.
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Since then, the Trump campaign has earned the ire of fact-checkers by claiming that Biden wants to defund the police or that he considers police “the enemy,” neither of which is true. The Trump campaign has nonetheless spend nearly $14 million since July 2, according to a Democratic ad tracker, to air a television spot that suggests police departments won’t respond to 911 calls if Biden is elected.

Trump has occasionally struggled to deliver the new message. In an interview set to air Sunday on Fox News, the president claims that the Biden and Sanders statement included plans to “defund the police.” It does not, but Trump nonetheless called for a temporary stop to the interview to check the document.

And it's not just Joe Biden:

The document also claims the United States has a lower fatality rate from covid-19 than France, Italy, the United Kingdom, Spain, the Netherlands, Japan, Denmark, Germany and Finland.

According to Johns Hopkins University Coronovirus Resource Center, the United States has the second highest number of deaths as a share of population among the 20 countries most affected by the coronavirus, behind only the United Kingdom. When measured by the number of deaths per confirmed cases, the U.S. has the ninth highest rate in the world.
BTW:  Covid-19 is not just for old people anymore:

I mention that because of this line from that WaPo article:

The talking points document distributed by Stephen Miller lays out a direct message on the coronavirus: “Our strategy is to shelter the vulnerable while allowing the young and healthy to return to work.”

Stephen Miller is also the "brains" behind the child separation policy at our southern border.  He really isn't fit to be among humans, nor should he be allowed outside an institution where he can't harm others. And while we're on the subject, let's just talk about Texas a little bit:




“We currently have 85 babies under the age of one year in Nueces County that have all tested positive for COVID-19,” Annette Rodriguez, director of public health for Corpus Christi Nueces County, told CNN.

“These babies have not even had their first birthday yet,” she said. "Please help us stop the spread of this disease.”

Still no lockdown; still no statewide mask mandate.  Still members of the state GOP condemning Abbott for allowing countie to require masks of business patrons.

"Contempt" is far too gentle a word for the people who could do something, and who do nothing.
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  1. The Thought Criminal7:17 PM

    I think the "Anglo-American" mindset has set us up to be vulnerable to a number of things, Covid, Murdoch, Putin (big report on Putin influence on the Boris Johnson government is set to come out soon). It's not an accident that the worst of what's happening is sold through an appeal to "freedom" which proves that there is freedom that kills and freedom that leads to life.

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