Ben Carson Replaced Health Secretary Azar At Wednesday’s Coronavirus Briefing | Talking Points Memo

There was a noticeable absence on stage Wednesday when members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force gave a press conference: Health Secretary Alexander Azar.


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He’s a neurosurgeon…he knows everything.

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So… let me see if I understand this… the guy tRump put in charge as Secretary of Health and Human services, gives way to the guy who tRump put in charge as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and we are supposed to be impressed?

It doesn’t take a brain surgeon to know that tRump is delusional, and his only goal is to profit off his presidency

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I feel more and more relieved…

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They’re just putting their own necks in the noose. Unbelievable. This is the policy equivalent of defying the gods. No good can possibly come of it.

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Secretary Doctor Carson looks mostly awake - should get credit for that.

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From the sublime(ly idiotic) to the ridiculous.

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Eyes open and everything? Wow. They must have given him a shot of stimulant.

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Like Mike Pence, who professionally disbelieves in the theory of “evil-lution,” wasn’t bad enough. Like Larry Kudlow, that financial gee-nee-us who was singing “Happy Days are Here Again!” through the first six months of the Great Recession wasn’t bad enough. Like Steve Mnuchin, last seen applying Purell to a freshly-printed sheet of $100 bills, wasn’t bad enough. Now we get Sleepy Ben Carson taking on the global pandemic, to build confidence among the American public.

You know what all this means, right? Yep. It’s for sure now. We’re all gonna die.

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I think Carson would be the guy to have on the stage if there were a pandemic of twins conjoined at the head. Otherwise, he’s useless. Not to mention low-energy.

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“The pharmaceuticals, who normally are rivals, have worked together voluntarily,”

Yeah, Ben. Pharma, funded by your federal government to produce a Covad-19 vaccine, will “work together” to get the maximum price for their product. They’ll work in lockstep to either get each individual American to pay out the nose for what their tax dollars funded, or stick that same federal government with outrages per dose charges. Cooperation! Aka, “cartel.” Win-win!

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I wish someone would check the success rate of Ben Carson’s surgeries and the quality of life of the patients afterward; I suspect not too good.

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“Low-energy” can be calming. Just sayin’ …

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Too many cooks spoil the stew…as well as the necessary message.

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Pyramids for EVERYONE! Fill them with grain, like the Egyptians did.

Problemo solved.

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Well, that was gonna happen anyway. Maybe later than sooner, but more inevitably than taxes.

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Alex “punking for Big Pharma” Azar and the anti-abortion zellot running CDC fucked the pooch.

Not just buying test kits, making one that did not work, then trying to hide that fact by limiting testing and requiring samples get sent to Hotlanta for testing, made this irredeemable as of about February 1.

The US lacks supplies, we don’t have the testing capacities, and people will not seek care as some of them are not insured. A real witches brew.

Even FOX will not be able to cover this up…

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As COVID-45 claims yet another hapless victim.

Sad!

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Azar is unavailable since he’s probably off collecting pharma industry bribes for Trump and Moscow Mitch.

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please just make it stop

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