Meanwhile, Yertle is going to hold the needy jobless hostage, so he can protect businesses (and Trump) from being sued for COVID-45 cases resulting from the total absence of a national TrumpPandemic plan.
1 Like
Fatso is no Harry S. Truman
1 Like
1 Like
The anonymous accusations against Dr. Fauci were “enormously sad and totally inappropriate,” said Dr. Margaret Hamburg, a former special assistant to Dr. Fauci who served as commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration under President Barack Obama. “Never have we needed his expertise and focus more than right now. Why would we both undermine him and his ability to do his important work?”
Dr. Fauci is also a public figure unlike any other health official in the federal government, well known for his decades organizing its responses to diseases like AIDS and Ebola. In his office in Building 31 on the campus of the N.I.H., he keeps a wall of photographs of himself with celebrities and presidents.
Disagree
He might not sack Fauci before the election (that’d be crazy), post election (especially if he wins) is another story.
A million years ago when Lillian was pretty old I went to a talk she was giving, with an assistant by her side. We in the audience were allowed to ask a few questions, and I don’t remember the specific question, but she couldn’t immediately summon the answer. She turned to her assistant and said sotto voce “what was the name of that colored girl?”
She gets credit for being out in front of liberal issues because of the film Julia, IMO, but it was her friend Dorothy Parker who really was the shining and generous beacon for liberal causes who left her estate to the NAACP.
“I don’t know anything about that. You have to ask (insert name from Cohen to Barr and more)”.
It was Fauci who explained the AIDS epidemic to Reagan who up to that point hadn’t even used the word.
1 Like
Hyperbole. Because he’s a scientist and a WH advisor of long standing, Fauci wants to advise about the pandemic. trumPP knows he needs a science guy around to make him look like he gives a damn.
Their current ‘plan’ and Fauci’s guidance are two different things.
Their plan is, we can live with the dying.
Fauci’s guidance is, we can come back from this.
Both can’t exist, not in this environment.
He’s not tall enough either!
Do you remember the scandal when the woman whose story she had appropriated forJulia wrote a book about it? IIRC, she sued, but then Hellman died and the it was dropped.
That film came out when I was in high school, and I loved it. Was sadly disillusioned to find out she’d stolen the story.
1 Like
Lyin` Kayleigh says …
If their lips are moving, they are lying. All of them. From Trump on down.
Kayleigh. I don’t think I could pick Grisham out of a crowd of two.
I remember now that you mention it, but from everything we’ve always known, Hellmann was a fraud and a cranky, terrible woman to be around. Knowing how misanthropic she was, it would’ve been easy for her to create the despicable Regina Giddings of The Little Foxes.
But I love Julia for Fonda and her scenes with Robards/Hammett and with Redgrave/Julia.
1 Like
I will have to watch it again; it’s been years. It was a great movie.
Makes me wonder also how much bullshit was involved in her stories of Hammett and the HUAAC in the 1950s.
1 Like
I watched Trumbo (played by Bryan Cranston) the other eve, about the writer who was blacklisted because he refused to name names to HUAC but continued to write screenplays for many years under other people’s names. It was when the very influential Kirk Douglas was going to make Spartacus which Trumbo had written that he finally had the freedom to use his own name.