US Politics, April 2020 -- Where's the Vax Returns?

Didn't Mengele do something with bleach injections?

Chance the Gardener!

Birx isn’t helping anyone by making silent, horrified faces in the background.

I’m sorry. He is suggesting that doctors “look into” bleach injections.

so fucked

this should just be a private embarrassment for his sycophantic employees, we shouldn’t have to hear it

she can't show disrespect to trump or he will fire her. and it appears to be just her and fauci that know what they're talking about? there's also the surgeon general, but he got demoted for showing disrespect to trump last week by mentioning that there racial disparities in coronavirus health outcomes.

Maybe the bleach injection guy shouldn’t be the president then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-fifth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

otm

I absolutely love Trump's slight emphasis on "That you're gonna have to use *medical* doctors with," since of course he's actually a PhD rather than clinically qualified.

Birx isn’t helping anyone by making silent, horrified faces in the background.

What would you want her to do? I don't know the particulars of the 25th Amendment, but I assume removal requires a lot more than her and Fauci wanting him out of there, and you've already seen that played out with the impeachment. So the two of them try their best in an impossible situation.

yeah, probably good to be kind to people in impossible situations, because someday you might land in one too and it's excruciating

She seems excruciated.

"[Trump is] so attentive to the scientific literature & the details & the data. I think his ability to analyze & integrate data that comes out of his long history in business has really been a real benefit” -- this is shocking, hackish stuff from Dr. Birx. pic.twitter.com/c2phsRYaJs

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 27, 2020

knowingly on camera there, too. i guess like most people in prominent positions in this administration, she knows how to turn on the asskissing when she knows he's watching

After hearing presentation President Trump suggests irradiating people's bodies with UV light or injecting them with bleach or alcohol to deal with COVID19. pic.twitter.com/cohkLyyl9G

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 23, 2020

was choking with laughter at this

“He’s frustrated,” said Stephen Moore, an outside economic adviser to Mr. Trump who was the president’s pick to run the Federal Reserve before his history of sexist comments and lack of child support payments surfaced.

an amazing sentence

Same here Calzino - so fucking good!

strong Tim Heidecker vibes from that one

who was the president’s pick to run the Federal Reserve before his history of sexist comments and lack of child support payments surfaced

wow even before

hard times

From the manufacturer of Lysol: “As a global leader in health and hygiene products, we must be clear that under no circumstance should our disinfectant products be administered into the human body (through injection, ingestion or any other route)” https://t.co/AeXC2QgFLR

— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) April 24, 2020

Just randomly putting that out there, pure coincidence if that connects with anything said by Trump at a press conference to the entire nation

Whoops!

President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence both called Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Tuesday night and expressed support and praise for the Republican's move to reopen businesses in his state starting Friday, a source familiar with the call said. Trump later said the opposite -- that he told Kemp he disagreed "strongly" with the decision.

The call came as public health officials warned that Kemp is moving too quickly, some business owners said they would keep their doors closed and mayors said they feared Kemp's action would deepen the coronavirus crisis in their communities.
Trump and Pence complimented Kemp on his performance as Georgia governor, the source said. Another person familiar with the call said it went well.

But the President said during Wednesday's news conference that he told Kemp he disagreed "strongly" with the governor's decision to reopen some businesses in his state.

Don't know anything about this guy--he looks pretty religious; for me, not good--but credit for this.

I wonder when he's going to recommend his followers drink bleach to guard against the virus. https://t.co/e2eeheBwio via @phoenixnewtimes

— Wesley Clark (@WesClarkjr) March 23, 2020

Guys, Trump's words were taken out of context. He didn't mean "literally inject someone with Lysol". He meant we need some kind of treatment that can kill the virus inside our body.

Clearly, the way he said it was the only possible way to say it, you all have Trump Estrangement (sp?) Sindromed or whatever

(that's the latest line from the Trumpers i know)

that line is amazing because it supposed Trump had the genius idea of "hey guys...what if.... there was a medicine we could inject in the body that kills coronavirus?? anyone ever think of that?"

i think the line will be that he didn't tell anyone to do it, and he himself didn't actually believe it, he was just urging testing and "looking into it", and what's wrong with that etc

i have to admit, i'm still having trouble processing what he said. it doesn't seem real! you finally agreed that 2+2=5? lame. now tell me that 2+2=125 *extreme guitar riff*

I argued with a Trumper that he wasn't taken out of context because "disinfectant" was clearly the subject of the first sentence, so "something like that" basically meant "disinfectant or SOMETHING LIKE THAT", and they replied that no, "UV Rays" was the subject, even though that phrase appeared nowhere in the portion of the quote I had shared (I had left out the portion about UV)

that line is amazing because it supposed Trump had the genius idea of "hey guys...what if.... there was a medicine we could inject in the body that kills coronavirus?? anyone ever think of that?"

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, April 24, 2020 10:47 AM bookmarkflaglink

"I see the damage that mashing the Triangle and Square buttons does on Tekken, and I can't help but wonder, what if boxers just did that?"

I'm impressed Trumpers have the kind of mental muscles required to even attempt those gymnastics to defend him.

Saw the UV ray stuff on fb just now, too. I guess someone on Fox must have riffed on this and now the chuds have their binky

i have to admit, i'm still having trouble processing what he said. it doesn't seem real! you finally agreed that 2+2=5? lame. now tell me that 2+2=125 *extreme guitar riff*

― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Friday, April 24, 2020 9:51 AM (sixteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yes, my gf mentioned reading this last night and because I never seem to learn that there's no ceiling to his profound stupidity I just assumed she was reading some out-of-left-field and totally made-up attribution on FB or something. The uncountable number of sub-moronic things I never would've believed I'd experience that have since come to pass over the past four years...

We all live with an Orange sub-moron

i always assume trump is feeding back in mangled form either something stupid from fox or something told to him in briefs. so with on the latter idear i tried to search for what an invasive UV procedure to clean out ronas in your lungs could even be.

maybe if trump used the dpa he could order musk/tesla to make some and unveil it live with a rock-throwing demo video. “here’s a patient being intubated to bathe his lungs in uv light...” *throws baseball-sized rock at patient”

Maybe that disinfectant comment came after Trump saw “First Reformed”

Trump's not fat, it's just the suicide vest!

even if he really meant UV treatment rather than disinfectant, it's further evidence that he can't communicate well. And uh that's kind of an important part of being President. How many instances have their been now where his remarks need "context" or "clarification" or whatever (or the totally plausible excuse that he "misspoke" when saying he didn't know why it would be Russia"). I can't recall any other public official, at any level, being so imprecise with their language that they create all these "wait, wtf did he MEAN there" moments. Especially ones with the best words.

sure he's not a good communicator, but it's that he thinks his own random tossed-off ideas will uncover something that everyone else in the world has missed that makes him so dangerously stupid

yikes that's a bad sentence

https://i.ibb.co/vh82FTX/received-555919431720819.jpg
banana in face mask

^^i love that one. I’ve had great fun just posting it in random GOD MAGA TRUMP PATRIOT CRYING EAGLE.GIF groups

I wonder what those chuds who claim we're overcounting COVID deaths will say when someone explains to them that the seasonal flu death estimates aren't actually based on the number of people who had "influenza" listed on their death certificate

https://i.imgur.com/yqdsAtH.png

sadly, drinking bleach to cure various diseases has been a thing for some time

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_Mineral_Supplement

I'm more than happy for any Trumpers that want to act as a control group for this one.

sure he's not a good communicator, but it's that he thinks his own random tossed-off ideas will uncover something that everyone else in the world has missed that makes him so dangerously stupid

It does seem that overestimating your own intelligence is always coupled with underestimating everyone else's

We've deleted an earlier tweet and updated a sentence in our article that implied that only "some experts" view the ingestion of household disinfectants as dangerous. To be clear, there is no debate on the danger.

— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 24, 2020

Oh, well, that makes it OK then ("it" being the Times' entire relationship to Trump for the last 5+ years).

we're through the bothsides looking glass here

President Trump on his comments about possibly injecting disinfectant and light into a person's body as a Covid-19 cure: “I was asking a sarcastically to reporters just like you to see what would happen.”

— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) April 24, 2020

omg

well!

NEW: About 6 percent of Miami-Dade’s population — some 165,000 residents — could have been infected by the novel coronavirus, dwarfing the DOH tally of ~10,700 cases, according to preliminary @umiamimedicine study results just announced by Mayor Gimenez.

— Ben Conarck (@conarck) April 24, 2020