Comments by "wily wascal" (@wilywascal2024) on "Trump wants to slow down coronavirus testing. Hear Fauci's response" video.
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It's like rowing or paddling upstream, or into a stiff wind--if you ease-up too much or stop, you will only have to paddle twice as hard to make up all the previous hard-earned progress that was quickly lost. Failing to maintain isolation and other measures for sufficient time to stop the spread of COVID-19 transmission will cost U.S. more in time, effort, money, and LIVES. Reopening and relaxing measures too early in defiance of the science and data is the ultimate in colossal ignorance, greed, ruthlessness, and arrogance.
We have a segment of Republican cult willfully ignorant, who malevolently seek to sabotage containment efforts. But many do not grasp how important it is that we treat ourselves and everyone else as being infected.
This is because people know that is very unlikely, especially outside dense urban areas, where incidence rates are low. Because of the delay in onset of the disease and asymptomatic carriers, COVID-19 is a stealth killer that uses Americans against each other as its foot soldiers, transporting it, keeping the disease and its train of transmission alive. This is further complicated because people cannot see a virus, see it attacking, see it spreading, until it is too late. For many of us, seeing is believing, and people are incapable or reluctant to make that leap of logic required to keep them and everyone safe--even with the massive public education efforts.
Of course, the problem becomes greatly exacerbated when the President refuses to wear a mask, and his administration works against itself in fighting this deadly global pandemic, sending conflicting messages to the public. Toxic Trump, his administration, and all the Republicans who have aided and abetted him, are directly responsible in our view for the senseless deaths of tens and thousands of Americans. The dead are the worst of it, but there is also the tremendous needless suffering and economic loss accompanying their wanton criminal negligence.
No national testing, no rational national coordinated pandemic response. Republican governors reopening too quickly in defiance of CDC guidelines are only following the President's lead. Democratic governors in many states likewise being adversely pressured by Toxic Trump's pandemic disinformation and Republican opposition to requisite lockdowns. Problem starts at the top. Don't fault even the worst Republican governors as much as this President. The President needed to take the lead, take the hit for the hard decisions--not put all the weight on governors as he as.
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Donald Trump, at White House press conference on 04/07/20:
And we’re going to put a hold on money spent to the WHO. We’re going to put a very powerful hold on it, and we’re going to see.
Trump later at that same press conference:
Q: Thanks. A quick follow-up on that. So is the time to freeze funding to the WHO during a pandemic of this magnitude?
THE PRESIDENT: No, maybe not. I mean, I’m not saying I’m going to do it, but we’re going to look at it.
Q: You did say that you’re going to —
THE PRESIDENT: We give a tremendous —
Q: You said you’d put a hold on it.
THE PRESIDENT: No, I didn’t.
Toxic Trump, one week later, on 04/14/20: "I'm withholding WHO funding!"
WHO held a important meeting on COVID-19 vaccines at the beginning of May, with all nations attending...except, unbelievably, no U.S. medical and scientific representatives sent by the Trump Administration, without any explanation. The absence particularly stunning in light that U.S. has half of world's cases and a quarter of the deaths, although possessing just 4% of the global population. Then, on May 29, Toxic Trump announced the U.S. was completely withdrawing from the World Health Organization!
ME, US, the world: WTF?? Why in HELL is that raving lunatic STILL in charge during this major pandemic health crisis?!? Hasn't he KILLED enough Americans, ALREADY?!?
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We got Big Brag Daddy Baghdad Bob broadcasting direct from Washington, D.C. daily, with Toxic Trump and a revolving cast of his sycophantic minions! Happy talk, disinformation, empty promises, idle threats, vicious smears, bogus pandemic models, dog whistles, continuous crackpot conspiracies--they got it all, and more!
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GOP has gone rogue, doesn't want to play by the rules in America, anymore. Republicans are all about constant deceit and hypocrisy, rigging elections, and rampant crony corruption.
One would hope that his cabinet or the Republican Senate would have done the right thing and removed him. Or, that the Republican SCOTUS would have defended our Constitution, instead of partisan power grabs. In fact, it's more than hope--those are the minimal basic expectation of our public officials. They failed themselves, and they failed our nation horribly. Because they are weak, and ignorant, and corrupt.
Thus, we are forced to suffer another six months of a failed Presidency, a failed Senate, and a failed SCOTUS. While confident Trump would be defeated before the pandemic and ensuing economic collapse, his loss has since become a virtual certainty. So, that isn't really about hope, either.
What does give hope is that the majority of Americans reject Trump. There is hope that the end of Trump will mark the beginning of the end for the Republican cult. There is hope that out of this darkness will come the realization progress is vital to our future, and that reactionary conservatism stagnates and kills.
In short, the GOP has become proto-fascist, bound by the ignorant Republican cult they created, and the fear, bigotry and hate they cultivated and nourished for decades. Fortunately, the cult is not the majority, so there is hope yet for America!
"The problem at the heart of all this is a Republican cult built up over decades by plutocrats, the GOP, and right-wing media. Those Americans elected this pitiful, puerile President, and have continued to support him no matter what travesty he commits! The creators of the Republican cult have always been weak men, and now find themselves harnessed by those they sought to enslave, subject to the fickle whims of a moronic madman and the mob whose ignorance they relentlessly nourished and cultivated."
Conservatism as always been the endless, futile quest to justify greed, but the coin of the realm in GOP land is fear; it's what they peddle, it's what they traffic in, it's what they carry in their pocket at all times. Then, they turn that fear to hate. And that hate is the poison killing them, America, and all of us. It's the poison to which the Republican cult has become addicted.
Republican cultism is the disease, Toxic Trump is merely the most visible symptom and but one carrier of that disease. It existed before Trump, and it will continue when Trump is gone--unless or until the problem is adequately addressed. COVID-19 is also a disease; but a virus is blameless, unlike those who engage in willful ignorance. America would have confronted and easily conquered COVID-19 disease, had America not already been diseased for so long with Republican tribalistic partisan cultism. Racism, xenophobia, homophobia, misogyny and bigotry were central to the formation of the Republican cult, and remain its lifeblood.
The only thing been stopping the GOP cult from turning America fascist has been the long-held universal repulsion and rejection of Toxic Trump's hero, Adolf Hitler, by Americans. Fortunately, the majority of Americans still remember that painful historical lesson many Republicans choose to ignore. There is hope that good will once again triumph over evil; love prevail over hate; common sense outweigh blind faith, mindless tribalism, and silly superstitions.
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Dr. "Babbling" Birx is laying bricks, lying and dissembling! Says she trusts churches and churchgoers to make it safe, not go to church if sick--knowing asymptomatic people don't know they're sick, and can't be detected! Then, there's the fact that many religious people gather at religious shrines and places of worship hoping to be "healed" when sick. Moreover, she knows "Pastor" Tony Spelling in Louisiana was packing his megachurch during the middle of a severe outbreak, busing them in from a 50-mile radius; she knows all about the devastating spread in South Korea from religious services, she knows about the super-spreader event at the church in Oregon defying state lockdown orders. Dr. Birx KNOWS the U.S. lacks the requisite testing capabilities to reopen safely. Dr. Birx KNOWS how Toxic Trump has ignorantly politicized a global pandemic, sent conflicting messages to the public. Dr. Birx KNOWS a good proportion of Americans are NOT following basic CDC guidelines; NOT wearing masks, NOT social distancing. And she knows without detailed specific CDC federal guidelines, we got chaos, sickness, and MORE senseless deaths. Birx needs to have her medical license revoked. She can be the next SmellyAnne Con-Her-Way, that's what she wants.
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Toxic Trump: "I'm the BEST, just absolutely CRUSHING the competition, with over TWO POINT THREE MILLION coronavirus cases and over 120--one-hundred and twenty!!!--THOUSAND deaths! They ALL got eighty-sixed, 'cause nobody else even comes close! With a third of the world's cases and a quarter of deaths--can you even imagine how truly great, how awesome, that achievement is, with only just FOUR PERCENT of the world's population to work with? Believe it or not, I accomplished in only FIVE WEEKS what it took the Vietnam War a whole TWELVE YEARS to do! PLUS, we're not even counting ALL the COVID-19 cases and deaths here in the U.S.! Those other weaklings and losers don't stand a chance, because we're going to keep right on winning--as long as I'm in charge! Now, vacation's over; time to get back to work on increasing those numbers, people! Let's keep America great, get rid of all the excess baggage! As wartime President, I am commanding all CIVILIANS to senselessly sacrifice their lives for my arrogance, stupidity, vanity, malevolence, and greed!"
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