WH COVID Task Force Members Push Back At Trump’s Bogus Claim Of Inflated Death Rates | Talking Points Memo

Trump probably did not take a comparative statistics course at Penn. In fact, I’ll give you 10-1 that he didn’t.

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Well, that would mean 12 great red spots on his ass, when I thought they were on his neck.

Jupiter doesn’t wear Depends and all that goes with it.

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I don’t think they allow interviews of inmates, so we may never know.

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And Marjorie Taylor Green (R-Qanon) refuses to wear a mask on the House floor. I’m waiting for the diner stories about what the rest of America thinks about these traitors. Anyone?

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jesus, picking another fight with Fauci while he is trying to carry out a coup, and these Republican fuckers are good with. Ron Johnson was on Meet The Press to talk about Jan 6, but he rambled about everything, including how COVID would have been so much better with early treatments, in reference to quack cures.

The COVID deaths are absolutely real. CDC weekly all cause mortality data versus COVID. Feel free to reuse. (The drop off the last few weeks is normal reporting delays; dishonest people weaponize this to fabricate lies that excess deaths are not real.)

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By my count, just three of these eleven made the trip to Moscow: Steve Daines [MT], John Kennedy [LA], and Ron Johnson [Cheeseheads].

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I’m really hoping for an end to diner stories; anyone eating-in at a restaurant these days clearly has an IQ lower than their body temperature, and I see no reason to listen to stupid.

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as a native New Yorker, I’ve known that for 30 years or more.
if most Americans would have seriously researched when he went for the power grab, he would not have ever been allowed anywhere near Washington DC.
They believed and here we are.

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“Something how Dr. Fauci is revered…”

Something how Donald isn’t.

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Well, there goes that conspiracy theory.
And thanks.

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Serious people who know about this stuff say the progression is already a real concern. It’s entirely possible he’ll be in some assisted living situation by the time the midterms gear up. Having seen dementia close up that would be my guess.

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“The deaths are real deaths,” Fauci said. “All you need to do is go out into the trenches, go to the hospitals, see what the health care workers are dealing with. They are under very stressed situations.”

Trump hasn’t seen anyone collapse and die in a fit of coughing on the golf course, and draws his own conclusion.

Maybe he should get out a little more often.

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Mine also, and I’ve seen a lot of people with dementia.

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Nonsense…most conspiracy theories are wild-ass lies and fantasy. You just have to let loose a little and go

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He can whine incessantly from now on - won’t change anything. He is responsible for the deaths of almost 400,000 Americans now and the number won’t go down.

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In a tweet on Sunday morning, Trump repeated his xenophobic reference to COVID-19

Let’s go ahead and call it “racist”. There is a long history of accusing the Chinese of bringing in disease ('cause they’re so dirty, ya know) – and of damaging public health in the process.

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L.A. hospitals were using every square inch of space to create beds for Covid patients. All over the country hospitals are competing for agency contracted nurses, respiratory therapists, etc. due to staffing shortages. In December three people I know were diagnosed with Covid -one is very ill, one was symptomatic but recovering, the other asymptomatic. The one who is quite ill lost his mother to Covid early in the pandemic here in WA state. But sure Mr. President, the number of Covid cases and deaths are exagerated and gosh maybe you didn’t have Covid either.

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La plus ca change…

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Net progress in 120 years: Zero.

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