‘Disastrous’: Why It’s So Damaging For Trump Admin To Doctor The CDC’s COVID Reports | Talking Points Memo

Once again, the Trump administration is politicizing something it doesn’t understand.

In this case, Trump officials have been pressing CDC officials to manipulate the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report on the spread of COVID-19 to benefit President Trump politically as Election Day draws near.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1331932

Donnie’s just applying Uncle Joe’s model: with a commissar in every department, you’re assured of getting them to produce the results you expect, invariably meeting, or exceeding, the five year plan.
ETA: And, of course, when you go there, you’ve just got to have internal enemies and counter-revolutionaries working against you.

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Caputo and his gang need to be facing some serious criminal investigations come January, 2021.

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Damage and chaos is Donnie and the entire mal-administration’s game, for Christ’s sake.

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Fat Nixon should stick to playing doctor with Ivanka.

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More things that would be just fantastic to screw with …

  • tide tables - make high tide and low tide be when ever is most pleasing - not just when science says
  • weather forecasts & rainfall results - make them sound more attractive …
  • blood pressure readings - so I can have all the salty & fatty food that I want
  • fuel gauge on the car - it really sucks to see “E” … make it show “Full” all the time!
  • bank account - show the deposits but not the checks written

That fixes everything !!!

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Reality doesn’t care if your incompetence makes you look bad, Donnie.

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Maybe Donnie gets Putin Points for every act that causes death.
If he gets an unknown number points he gets to build a Trump Tower in Moscow.
One would think having a 17 year old killing two would put he over the top.

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Xi Jinping uses his authoritarian hammer to stop COVID from killing more Chinese people. DJT uses his authoritarian hammer to keep COVID killing Americans.

It’s like Goofus and Gallant for despots, but in double reverse.

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In supporting Trump the GOP Senate is making the gravest mistake in United States History.

This is not incompetence or neglect. This is willfully directed genocide against Americans.

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Well, we all realized a very long time ago that he plays to one America his cult members. He tells them what they want to hear you know propaganda fake lies and they swallow it hook line and sinker and then go through Mary way. That’s why it’s a waste of your time to try to reason with that Trump deplorable . They like their messages trumped up to make it easier just well that’s why so many are right wing nuts they’re blinded by their faith they can’t see beyond the pages of their Bible even use their Bible to cover for this worthless sack of evil that they were ship .

Why is it that is always a republican that ruins our economy anytime there’s a republican president it seems that conversation is the same economy is in the tank, like it was with George W. Bush at the end of his presidency and he took a democrat to put it back on its tracks and it was gaining speed and here comes another Republican and look what he’s done . The other Republican president George W. Bush started any illegal war in Iraq and didn’t have it financed or paid for along with his deregulation at the markets and here we are again with another liar like trump who is a coward and won’t even fight the war on this pandemic he runs from it. And when he even beats he’s lied about it it’s on tape his evil little hot here is it an excuse is it . That’s why I say save your breath even when he admits he’s lied to his deplorable‘s he still following like a bunch of boot licking rock steppers because that’s who they are they can’t think for themselves they ruin our country did not even believe in their own Bible or they practice what they preach. Which they don’t.

God help us all, my god not theirs.

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OT As soon as cops in LA got a little sympathy because of the unprovoked shooting of two deputies they do this… but yeah it’s Obama and the Media the ones putting a bullseye on their backs.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/kpcc-reporter-josie-huang-forced-174210762.html

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New tide tables coming.

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Why It’s So Damaging For Trump Admin To Doctor The CDC’s COVID Reports | Talking Points Memo

Put very simply . . .

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This is pretty much the plot of 1984. Edit the news and statistics so that they match what Trump wants them to be.

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If you changed the standard kilogram at NIST, trump wouldn’t need to lie so much about his weight.

the GOP is putting us into the world their craziest supporters live in, where everything produced by the gummint has been faked to please the powers at the top.

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What’s been clearly revealed during Trump’s criminal time in office is just how unprepared for a rogue, sociopath POTUS our systems of checks/balances are. It’s unthinkable that he’s been allowed to stay in office for a full term; and might serve another. Our government relies to a great degree on simple human decency and shared understanding of what’s legal/ethical. Trump has no capacity for any of that. He’s a wild, rabid freak-creature that’s ravaging the village, but no one seems to know how to bring him down. Sure, he might lose the election, but the fact that he’s stayed in office exposes just how impotent our government is when it comes to dealing with a terror like Trump. He’s opened the door for others like him, so we damn sure better shore up our defenses for the next Medusa who attacks us.

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I have an old college friend I talk to now and then. He’s a bit of a nut (too much acid back in the day) but he’s always fun to catch up with. His take this weekend is that Trump is an actual Satanist and this is all just human sacrifice. He doesn’t think Trump is dumb or crazy, but is the actual antichrist. Not metaphorical - actual. I don’t subscribe to that theory myself, but got a little freaked out enjoying my Sunday afternoon joint.

I couldn’t tell my wife since she’s been forever scarred by her older sister babysitting and taking her to see The Exorcist at the drive in.

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Scientists described the situation to TPM as “disastrous,” saying that it threatens to undermine a key tool spreading health knowledge around the country while also reflecting a profound lack of understanding about the CDC’s mission.

Scientists, they’re just so naive. The CDC’s mission is to support Trump first, then they can go do their other job.

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Trump’s ultimate goal for America and the world:

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