White House COVID-19 response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx reportedly told Vice President Mike Pence recently that Dr. Scott Atlas, who peddles anti-science talking points about the virus that bolster President Donald Trump’s attempts at PR amid his botched handling of the pandemic, needs to go.
Trump has agreed to concede to Birx’s request. He plans to replace Scott Atlas with Lynne Patton.
Translation:
Birx knows Trump is
“Confronted” seems so…well…un-Birx-ish
Dr. Birx is hoping to salvage her reputation by leaking this. I don’t think it’ll work. Fauci has done a better job separating himself early from the mounds of shit surrounding Trump’s.
Ah, well, boys will be boys! What’s the worst that could happen?
That Atlas got in there in the first place and how that can be stopped in the future is worth looking at.
While we’re at it, the SC is being filled with a doofus. There needs to be a better way to filter out poor candidates.
Brix: I’m Trump’s doctor/scientist beard and I don’t appreciate being replaced.
Also, Trump’s latest Biden attack/insult: If you elect Biden, he’ll listen to scientists!!!
She’s upset with Atlas’ credibility. Meanwhile, she sat mute while Trump suggested ingestion or injection of disinfectants and swallowing UV lights.
Though her facial expression while he was doing so never fails to give me joy.
One wonders how Pence, the lickspittles’ lickspittle, responded. Frankly, they are all complicit is some way.
Her scarfs aren’t getting enough air time dammit!
True that…but Birx may well be the first to come out with a book.
Is Lysenko available?
I can’t recall. Did anyone in the employ of the Federal government ever publicly state Trump’s suggestions were not feasible and almost certainly dangerous and not to be attempted, on the record?
Well, he’ll “go” right along with Trump/Pence. At the latest, January 20th, 2021.
We can all criticize her pusillanimity up till now. And it was late in the game. But the fact that she confronted the vice president of the United States (who probably DOES have a future (as he is enough of an unprincipled chameleon to separate himself from Trump if Trump goes down hard, and the Bible bangers will dutifully prop him up), shows at least some intelligence, even if a tardiness in courage.
Hey, I’ll take good news wherever I can get it these days.
But, she doesn’t have the guts to RESIGN!
That is all that is left for her to do to salvage any last shred of her dignity and reputation, but she won’t do it.
She is a lost cause.
Fauci also needs to come out and DEMAND Trump stop telling people that COVID is not dangerous and back it up.
But, he won’t either. He likes his power position too much.
Trump is a mean, vengeful man. Turning on him carries risks, particularly if one does not have 1,001 lawyers. Trump has always had a “going-after list”
The next two weeks may be interesting.
Postscript on Birx and people like her. Cowards like Birx are better indicators of trouble in the Trump Mob (and similar organizations). They only get out of the foxhole when the enemy is weak or running.
The courageous folks simply say, “this is wrong”. They sometimes die for their efforts. That’s why people give medals for that.
“He’s even more complicit than me!”
As Josh Marshall observed last week, the rats are fleeing the sinking ship. One after another, they try to separate themselves from the person they’ve been enabling for years. Suddenly! they see the light.
Yeah, sure.
It’s nice that all these folks are starting to throw a little shade on the Wreck of the SS Trump, but they could have done so much more, had they not waited until a month into early voting.