The next time you see right-wingers getting on their soap-box to preach about the value of life, and the pro-life movement, and true believers shout with righteous indignation against the pro-choice movement, you might want to remember what happened last night on FOX VIEWS.
"As the coronavirus continues to spread in the United States, forcing people to stay in their homes and causing an economic downturn, Lieutenant Governor of Texas, Dan Patrick, joined Tucker Carlson Tonight where he made headlines by suggesting we get back to our normal lives to save the economy even at great risk to the country’s senior citizens. Patrick, who turns 70 next week, believes it’s up to older Americans to take that risk.
“Tucker, no one reached out to me and said, ‘As a senior citizen, are you willing to take a chance on your survival in exchange for keeping the America that all America loves for your children and grandchildren?’ And if that’s the exchange, I’m all in,” Patrick said, later adding, “My message is, let’s get back to work. Let’s get back to living. Let’s be smart about it, and those of us who are 70-plus, we’ll take care of ourselves.”
Sorry grandma and grandpa, you have lived your life, it's now time to take one for the team. Forgetting, of course, that thousands and thousands of you are raising your grandchildren. But hey, businesses comes first, and we have to get the economy back open and running again. (Remember when the right was up in arms about imaginary Death Panels?)
This narrative from Lt. Governor Patrick is now manifesting itself because the president of the United States said yesterday that he wants the country open for business again. This pesky virus is hurting his election chances and he is getting claustrophobic sitting in the White House and not being able to go golfing and holding his rallies with his MAGA cult members.
trump declared that he disagrees with the doctors about how long we should be locked down and staying way from each other, and he believes that we can all go back to business as usual. He believes that we should just be careful about how we interact with each other. trump even believes that there is a miracle cure for this virus, and not surprisingly, the medical professionals disagree with him about that as well.
The scary thing about trump's declarations and his ignorance, is that a man has actually lost his life because he listened and believed in trump's pronouncements.
It's sad, but the Lt. Governor of Texas would call what happened to the poor man in Arizona a useful sacrifice.
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Not Even New Coronavirus Shut Down Can Stop Shootings In Chicago
https://patch.com/us/across-america/s/h263c/not-even-new-coronavirus-shut-down-can-stop-shootings-chicago
Box: Regular storage procedure. The same as the other food. The other food stopped coming. And they started.
Logan 5: What other food?
Box: Fish, and plankton. And sea greens, and protein from the sea. It's all here, ready. Fresh as harvest day. Fish and sea greens, plankton and protein from the sea. And then it stopped coming. And they came instead. So I store them here. I'm ready. And you're ready. It's my job. To freeze you. Protein, plankton...
-- Box
dr drumpfuck the dumbfuck really is not helping things....
https://fox6now.com/2020/03/23/arizona-man-died-wife-critical-after-taking-fish-tank-cleaner-to-prevent-coronavirus-infection/
Contains the drug drumpf pushes as a cure for Covid-19 because he is smarter than all doctors.
This is a horrifying development. To think that we could switch to to the “herd immunity” non-solution (i.e., just let everyone get sick), which the British toyed with before abandoning it after realizing it was unworkable ...
The problem here is that Trump still mostly has his eye on his reelection chances. Someone needs to sit him down and explain that he has no reelection chances:
“Don, I know you’re thinking that if you boost the stock market and blame China a lot, then you could get reelected. But that’s not going to happen. At this point, lots of people are going to die, you’re going to get blamed no matter what, and Biden is taking your job. It’s over. The best you can aim for is to make sure the history books don’t describe you as a monster. Minimizing deaths will help with that.”
If he cannot be convinced, then he must be removed.
Wasn't too long ago stoopid fucking wingnuts in then Senate had a chance to save America from this POS and refused to do their duty and remove the criminal from office. Everything bad that happens is on them.
Jenny Agutter was fine looking in the movie.
The GOAT is posting on Twitter and offering words of wisdom, good advice and stories to make people feel good. Not once has he criticized or ridicuked the POS in the kremlin annex. Words thatb will never be said about the POS in the kremlin annex.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/obama-logs-amid-coronavirus-pandemic-n1167061
What a real statesman sounds like. Phuck drumpf.
And he'll be re-elected. This is what happens when you elect Republicans. Don't worry, Republican Hey-zoos will save us.
Feelz, I always thought liberals should get abortions, it does not matter if they are men or women (or the other 50 plus other genders you folks believe in). Not sure how it works for men, but Julian Castro assured me that it's possible. That's good enough for me.
"And he'll be re-elected. This is what happens when you elect Republicans. Don't worry, Republican Hey-zoos will save us."
He won't be re-elected. Once COVID-19 deaths start hitting Redneckistan, he's going to become unpopular in a hurry, even with his base. He'll be left with just the Nazis as fans.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/03/23/trump-president-need-right-now-141906
rumpf is becoming a socialist and free market wingnuts who have been sucking his orange li'l Donnie have no principles left to stand on. drumpf has sold them all out to make himself look like a leader.
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Zimbabwe admits that blacks make incompetent farmers, offers farms back to former white owners:
https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/other/zim-to-give-back-farms-taken-under-land-reform-programme/ar-BB112nfB
They did this in Detroit where the blacks admitted they needed a white mayor to fix things. The next step is to admit that blacks aren't competent voters, officials or workers either.
Anonymous said...
Not Even New Coronavirus Shut Down Can Stop Shootings In Chicago
10:03 AM
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Corona19 can't stop all the shootings in all the other gun-loving, American cities either. I wonder how many French citizens were shot in Paris today or yesterday; have any idea? It's probably zero.
Anonymous
Zimbabwe admits that blacks make incompetent farmers, offers farms back to former white owners:
1:34 PM
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Exactly who in Zimbabwe "admits that blacks make incompetent farmers"? Does he/she have a name?
Blogger mike from iowa said...
Jenny Agutter was fine looking in the movie.
11:15 AM
I would still tap it.
He won't be re-elected. Once COVID-19 deaths start hitting Redneckistan, he's going to become unpopular in a hurry, even with his base. He'll be left with just the Nazis as fans.
1:04 PM
You were wrong in 2016 and you are wrong now.
TRUMP 2020!!
Moar empirical evidence stoopid fucking wingnuts will believe any bullshit Fake Noize feeds them, especially at night.
https://www.vox.com/2020/3/24/21192222/fox-news-coronavirus-coverage-dan-patrick-drugs
I would still tap it.
1:53 PM
I hear you. Ever see the Aussie movie "Walkabout?" She spends much of that movie walking around in the buff with her little brother and a younger Neville Bell from the Crocodile Dundee movies.
I have no further comment on her as she was of legal age, but barely(no pun intended) looked it.
Well, I guess here we go by way of Italy, wine, cheese, and dancing in the streets for the tourists, there you have it! The almighty buck always wins don't it...
$35 million for the Kennedy Center is essential for battling the Coronavirus, says Nancy Pelosi.
Ahhh the good life! The American life! Jet set here, jet set there, airplane here, airplane over there, why don't people just stay put and farm or do something productive for a change
Why would wingnuts demand to oversee state spending and then turn Munchkin loose with a half trillion in goodies for wealthy folks with no oversight?
Kennedy Center does good works.
drumpf body count climbing higher....
United States
Coronavirus Cases:
51,678
Deaths:
667
Recovered:
368
“why don't people just stay put and farm or do something productive for a change”
Too late, Lilac. The economy is global now, with global supply chains and global migrations of labor. It’s not feasible to put that genie back in the bottle. All we can do is manage it better than we have been.
Genie is getting stuffed ass-first back into that bottle.
And the gleaming cherry on top of the shit sundae: Liberty University is planning on bringing its students back on campus after spring break.
Proving once and for all that Falwell is running a death cult.
We need disaster relief, pronto.
We'll also need economic stimulus as the second wave of job losses breaks across the country, but that can wait until it is drafted properly, as the disaster relief will function as first line economic stimulus.
And for all of you brain wizards decrying the "pork" in the stimulus, could you maybe go fuck yourselves? Spending is the fucking point of stimulus. It works like this: one person's spending is another person's employment, and avoiding unemployment is the goal.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
We will never beat this virus without monitoring carbon emissions from airplanes.
VOX quietly deletes a January 2020 tweet without formal retraction where they said:
"Is this going to be a deadly pandemic?"
"No."
https://archive.is/G6u8I
Tis a bit early for farming in NW iowa. Frost can be found 4 inches down and until the frost is gone and the top soil moisture dries up, farming/gardening is out of the question. But I do spend most of my days/every day right here at home, all alone and by myself with my computer. And i saw my first ground hog of the year. Prolly a wingnut/Russian spy.
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/489205-abortion-is-not-a-safe-procedure-in-louisiana-or-anywhere-else
anti-abortion propaganda and lies at its finest.
“Liberty University is planning on bringing its students back on campus after spring break.”
I don’t believe Virginia has a shutdown order yet. And without an order in place, morons gonna moron.
A new analysis released Tuesday shows that more U.S. workers filed unemployment claims last week than during any other week in the nation’s history.
An estimated 3.4 million Americans filed such claims for the week ending March 21, according to the findings from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI).
“This will dwarf every other week in history,” wrote EPI’s Aaron Sojourner and Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, adding, “The true impacts are undoubtedly of larger scale than described here.”
Anonymous 3:18 P
Too late, Lilac. The economy is global now, with global supply chains and global migrations of labor. It’s not feasible to put that genie back in the bottle. All we can do is manage it better than we have been.
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Oh don't worry, mother nature always wins, it's the way of the future...
Anonymous3:29 PM
Genie is getting stuffed ass-first back into that bottle.
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Umhum!
“Genie is getting stuffed ass-first back into that bottle.”
Nah. Genie is taking a nap. It’ll wake up next year and resume global business as usual, unconcerned about the people who got snuffed out by this virus.
Every country has got to listen to epidemiologists and adapt to be better prepared to put the brakes on global pandemics, because we are all interconnected now.
Otherwise, we will get to experience terrible plagues every couple of decades. The next one could be much worse than COVID-19.
Just look at this banana-republic dictator shit. It seems like Trump barely restraining himself from making his lackeys literally lick his boots at these press conferences.
This is not normal.
For all you FN Donkeys "preachers" (who have NOTHING good to say about 45), interestingly, 45 wants to reopen churches by Easters. Meanwhile, your democratic Massa issued an Order to keep the church doors closed. Yet, all you FNs church goers keep cutting off your nose to spite your face by voting for the enemy of the church. Who does that (?)!
The criminal enterprise keeps criminally enterprising and potentially fucking all Americans in need of Covid 19 vaccine.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/03/24/massive-scandal-trump-fda-grants-drug-company-exclusive-claim-promising-coronavirus
Anonymous said...
“Genie is getting stuffed ass-first back into that bottle.”
Nah. Genie is taking a nap. It’ll wake up next year and resume global business as usual, unconcerned about the people who got snuffed out by this virus.
Every country has got to listen to epidemiologists and adapt to be better prepared to put the brakes on global pandemics, because we are all interconnected now.
Otherwise, we will get to experience terrible plagues every couple of decades. The next one could be much worse than COVID-19.
7:20 PM
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Exactly! and just as you are thinking and feeling that way so are thousands of others!
“Yet, all you FNs church goers keep cutting off your nose to spite your face by voting for the enemy of the church. Who does that (?)!”
People smart enough to realize that skipping church for several months is worth it in order to not die?
“Exactly! and just as you are thinking and feeling that way so are thousands of others!”
I’m just saying that adapting to prevent global pandemics won’t entail retreating from global trade. The economic costs of that would be untenable.
Trump can’t even accept the economic cost of a couple months of COVID stay-at-home orders needed to prevent millions of American deaths. He’s already whining about it and suggesting maybe it’s okay to kill grandpa to keep the stock market humming. How would he (or any other political leader, for that matter) tolerate the truly immense economic pain of trying to permanently wall off the United States from the rest of the world? It won’t happen.
Libs think it's okay to kill Grandpa in order to keep the unending stream of immigrants flowing in.
The effects of the COVID-19 precautions are really freaking out the economic ruling class, demonstrating the kind of power we all have over them in a general strike scenario.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
"Libs think it's okay to kill Grandpa in order to keep the unending stream of immigrants flowing in."
You mean Republicans in Texas in order for the billionaire class to keep getting more obscenely wealthy? That's who is proposing killing grandpa and why.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
“Libs think it's okay to kill Grandpa in order to keep the unending stream of immigrants flowing in.”
Immigration has absolutely nothing to do with the current pandemic. Only racists believe it does.
“The effects of the COVID-19 precautions are really freaking out the economic ruling class, demonstrating the kind of power we all have over them in a general strike scenario.”
I think they are more afraid that some of the concessions they are forced to make for COVID-19 will stick, long after the crisis ends. For example, some businesses are having to give sick days to their employees who did not have them before. Many employees are gaining the right to work from home. The longer the crisis lasts, the more likely those rights become permanent. Not to mention that the need to keep everyone healthy and virus-free bolsters the case for more radical measures like Medicare4All.
They really, really don’t like that.
So, yes, I think this is an additional motivation, besides Trump just living in the fantasy that he can let grandpa die, re-inflate the stock market, and all will be well for his re-election.
The effects of the COVID-19 precautions are really freaking out the economic ruling class, demonstrating the kind of power we all have over them in a general strike scenario."
You don't even work. How are you going to go on strike?
66% of all new US Coronavirus cases are coming out of NYC area.
Trump's fault.
Oh wow, president of the AMA is a sista!😃
https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/press-releases/patrice-harris-md-inaugurated-174th-president-ama
"66% of all new US Coronavirus cases are coming out of NYC area.
Trump's fault."
Yes, Trump's fault. Last I heard, New York is in the US, the country Trump is the president of.
The US federal government, which he heads, has the best resources for fighting disease epidemics. But Trump did not mobilize it in any meaningful way, because he convinced himself that he could keep COVID-19 outside our borders simply by shutting down flights from China. When that didn't work, he had no plan B.
"Oh wow, president of the AMA is a sista!"
Affirmative Action knows no bounds!
"The US federal government, which he heads, has the best resources for fighting disease epidemics. But Trump did not mobilize it in any meaningful way, because he convinced himself that he could keep COVID-19 outside our borders simply by shutting down flights from China."
Yeah, we could have taken in a million infected Chinese and it would have been no problem, but Trump!
Racist!
“Yeah, we could have taken in a million infected Chinese and it would have been no problem, but Trump!”
Do you have impaired reading skills? I didn’t have a problem with Trump shutting down flights from China in response to their epidemic. That was a wholly justified and prudent step, under the circumstances.
What I had a problem with was this:
“When that didn't work, he had no plan B.”
It’s all well and good to TRY to keep a highly contagious and deadly disease out of your country, but you cannot guarantee this will happen. Almost no country has, in fact, succeeded in keeping COVID-19 out. Soon, it will be literally everywhere on earth. And yet, Trump apparently didn’t do any planning for what the next step would be if it did take hold in the US.
Hell, he still gives no sign of truly comprehending the scope of the problem and what needs to be done!
He is hopeless.
Fake News tells me it Trump's fault, so it must be.
"Affirmative Action knows no bounds!"
The jealousy of uneducated and mediocre white males knows no bounds! 😂
ADL asks Congress for $60 billion coronavirus national non-profit bailout package.
Oy vey!
"Fake News tells me it Trump's fault, so it must be."
Nah, trump is doing a heckuva job. I mean millions are losing their jobs, the economy is shit and the worst is ahead but yeah trump is just fantastic.
PilotX said...
"The jealousy of uneducated and mediocre white males knows no bounds!"
I would never go to a black doctor.
I believe that there are many brilliant black people, and many great black doctors.
But I also know that affirmative action means that many blacks are admitted to medical school who shouldn't be there.
At the lowest range of acceptance criteria, MCAT scores of 24-26 and GPAs of 3.00 to 3.19, less than 5% of whites and Asians gain acceptance to medical school. With the same scores, 60% of black candidates do.
If you go to a white or Asian doctor, you can be pretty sure they earned their way and know their stuff. If you go to a black doctor, you are flipping a coin.
Without AA, I'd have no problem seeing a black doctor. With AA, forget it.
The global coronavirus pandemic and the associated economic dislocations are Trump's fault.
End of story.
"I would never go to a black doctor."
Who gives a good fuck where you go? Your toothless ass probably needs to go to a dentist of any goddamned color. I'm sure negro doctors around the world are crying their eyes out because your dumb ass won't use your medicaid to see them. Boo fucking hoo.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/3/23/21190713/coronavirus-trump-china-cdc-embed-quick
This could have been prevented. But her email!!!!!!!
If Hillary were President we'd be owned by China by now.
BREAKING: Party Of Love And Tolerance Wishes Death On Political Opponent
https://babylonbee.com/news/party-of-love-tolerance-wishes-death-on-political-opponent
Louisiana is being hit hard. Apparently Mardi Gras infected a lot of people.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Well, there's all kinds of affirmative action. White males benefitted from it for centuries so many white doctors are unqualified. Some are legacy babies who's parents went to certain schools thus their kids got in (you know like trump and Jared Kushner). You might as well not go to a doctor at all if you don't trust the medical schools and certification boards that certify them. I guess looking at their work doesn't matter then either huh? I mean you can check their ratings but I guess it's easier to be a stupid racist and avoid certain doctors. It's not cool being that fucking stupid.
Affirmative Action is okay for the post office, but can't we agree that important jobs be left to the competent?
"If Hillary were President we'd be owned by China by now."
Instead of Russia?
"Affirmative Action is okay for the post office, but can't we agree that important jobs be left to the competent?"
Affirmative action should be understood before someone comments on it. Can we agree with that?
"White males benefitted from it for centuries"
No, there was never affirmative action for white people.
Whites who excelled did so because they earned it.
Some whites benefited from the facts blacks were excluded from some opportunities.
But there were never laws that mandated favoritism towards whites.
Trump setting a restart timeline is good politics and good economics.
it gives business owners and wall st hope that things will return to normal soon.
it gives citizens a little reassurance that they'll be released from their cages soon.
it makes shelter-in-place policies psychologically easier on the public since there may be an end in sight.
"Essential Work" is whatever is necessary to keep our Gay Jew and Wine Aunt Media Overlords fat and happy while they file hysterical Orange Man Bad articles from their guest bedrooms in between Netflix binges and LARPing like they're living through the Blitz.
It is kinda funny that the comfy upper-middle class saying shut everything down the loudest are, of course, assuming all the people they rely on will still have to go to work: grocery and pharmacy staff, delivery drivers, warehouse workers, plumbers, etc.
EVERYBODY STAY HOME! (I mean, except for all the proles who make my stuff, or package my stuff, or deliver my stuff, or are in any way associated with making and/or delivering my stuff cause, just to be clear, my stuff is very important to me, that shit needs to keep coming, and i don't actually give a damn how many of them die, I don't know any of those people and don't ever plan to, cause i'm not a loser, I WENT TO GRADUATE SCHOOL!!!)
"Some whites benefited from the facts blacks were excluded from some opportunities."
Um, that's affirmative action.
If it doesn't crash we're stuck with Weimar sex party infinity migrant America forever.
You guys get that, right?
Things need to get bad before they get better.
Fuck the economy.
The shocking degree to which the left's response to the pandemic has been flat-footed and tone-deaf surprised even me. But perhaps it shouldn't have. Shouting "Racism! Sexism! Bigotry! Homophobia!" solved so many problems for the left for so long that it was inevitable that they'd become overly reliant on it until they finally hit a major problem that it *couldn't* solve, at which point they would find that they had forgotten *any* other possible response to *anything* that might come up.
And that's exactly what's happened - their frontrunner for the presidential nomination seems to have shut down and gone into hiding, and their congressional leaders have handled things so badly that even their party faithful have turned against them.
Alinsky warned them to vary their tactics every so often so they didn't get stale and the party didn't get overly dependent on them. But they found one that seemed never to get old, and ran with it until it disaster hit. Much like Custer, who knew only one tactic - a full-speed charge - which worked well for him until one day it didn't, and an Indian walked away with Custer's scalp tied to his belt.
Strange, Congress still has not passed legislation providing for emergency cash payments to Americans. This would be so simple -- a one page bill -- but it's just not happening for some reason. Great government we've got on our hands!
"But there were never laws that mandated favoritism towards whites."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartheid
God you're dumb.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
"God you're dumb."
I'm glad you said it. Most racists aren't too bright.
https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/28/books/review/when-affirmative-action-was-white-uncivil-rights.html
Good read.
From Taegan Goddard:
Trump Administration Froze Pandemic Models
March 24, 2020 at 10:54 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 122 Comments
“The Department of Homeland Security stopped updating its annual models of the havoc that pandemics would wreak on America’s critical infrastructure in 2017,” Politico reports.
“From at least 2005 to 2017, an office inside DHS, in tandem with analysts and supercomputers at several national laboratories, produced detailed analyses of what would happen to everything from transportation systems to hospitals if a pandemic hit the United States.”
“But the work abruptly stopped in 2017 amid a bureaucratic dispute over its value, two of the former officials said, leaving the department flat-footed as it seeks to stay ahead of the impacts the COVID-19 outbreak is having on vast swathes of the U.S. economy.”
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Anonymous Rockford said...
Trump setting a restart timeline is good politics and good economics.
it gives business owners and wall st hope that things will return to normal soon.
it gives citizens a little reassurance that they'll be released from their cages soon.
it makes shelter-in-place policies psychologically easier on the public since there may be an end in sight.
12:18 AM
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I think so too
it makes shelter-in-place policies psychologically easier on the public since there may be an end in sight.
The end in sight drumpf wants is for old and poors to die off by the millions so the wealthy can have their SS payments as tax breaks.
Wingnuts never miss an opportunity to reward the wealthy for having been born wealthy, including drumpfuck the poorest excuse for a human beoing since Vlad the Impaler.
Anonymous said...
"If Hillary were President we'd be owned by China by now."
Instead of Russia?
Instead of Russia and China. Fixed it.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/trump-rages-on-twitter-after-hes-busted-saying-new-york-must-treat-us-well-to-get-pandemic-help/
With friends like this, who need a bumbling drumpfuck?
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/internet-explodes-as-foxs-brit-hume-says-its-entirely-reasonable-to-let-grandparents-die-for-the-stock-market/
Box:
Welcome Humans! I am ready for you.
VP Pence says that the very promising malaria pill is being readied for shipment to the hotspots of NY, CA and WA, but Democrat governor Steve Sisolak is evidently a science denier and is refusing to allow chloroquinine to be used by Nevadans.
By the end of this, there will only be two genders again and nobody will be 'gluten intolerant' anymore.
“Trump setting a restart timeline is good politics and good economics.”
It’s not good politics or economics or anything else if his deadline isn’t informed by the science but is just something he pulled completely out of his ass. Which is the case here.
Trump wants to relax quarantine restrictions by Easter. That’s not going to happen. Virus cases won’t be under control until sometime in May at the very earliest. And that’s under very optimistic assumptions.
Trump may just be talking shit here, and state governors will probably ignore him in any event, but if he did somehow get his way, a lot of people would die as a result.
And actually, the scenario Trump talked about — churches full of people, or any other large public gatherings not related to business — is unlikely to be able to restart for many months, not a matter of weeks.
Jim Jones' flavor-aid drinking followers believed him, too.
Anonymous The soft bigotry of low expectations said...
I would never go to a black doctor.
I believe that there are many brilliant black people, and many great black doctors.
But I also know that affirmative action means that many blacks are admitted to medical school who shouldn't be there.
11:43 PM
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My OB/GYN is a black woman. In 2014 during my annual checkup, she insisted that I get a colonoscopy, which I did. As a result, I was diagnosed with colon cancer. Two weeks later I underwent surgery. When I got home from the hospital, I sent her flowers with a note that said, "Thank you for saving my life."
That was exactly six years ago and I am cancer free. So from my prospective, your post is just grotesque. So don't go to a black doctor. That leaves more of them for us who aren't bigots to go to.
Dr. Whitey said...
Affirmative Action is okay for the post office, but can't we agree that important jobs be left to the competent?
11:57 PM
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Of course important jobs should be left to the competent. The awful performance of our incompetent president during this pandemic supports this conjecture. Determining in advance who is competent is not always clear. Skin color, ethnicity, sex, or national origin, is not a reliable index for determining competency.
In the days of the Silk Road, plagues would start in China, then infect Persia, then Northern Italy, then everywhere. That pattern has recurred this time. What a curious coincidence!
A modest proposal: that every year this country set aside, via government, about 1% of its income in a sovereign fund; to be tapped for emergencies such guaranteed income for all citizens for the duration of any pandemic lockdown.
Another modest proposal: that we no longer say that a person "has" a virus, but the reverse; that the virus "has" the person. Or rides, infects, occupies. Also, a person does not "give" the virus to another person; instead the virus "jumps" from one person to another. Or moves, transfers, spreads. This transfers blame from the human prey to the microbial predator. It's galling to attribute agency to a life-form so low that it's a stretch to call it a life-form; but discredit where discredit is due. We humans are in this together, and infighting is stupid, so blame the virus.
“We have to take care of the cure, that will make the problem worse no matter what”
-Joe Biden
Can any of you lunatics decipher what this means? My school never offered "imbecile" when I was growing up.
BTW, you folks need to find a different candidate, Trump will destroy this buffoon during the presidential debates.
Paradoctor said...
"It's galling to attribute agency to a life-form so low that it's a stretch to call it a life-form;"
I agree, we should start calling liberals "low-lifes".
Trump, the “war president.”
"So from my prospective, your post is just grotesque."
From my perspective, it is completely rational.
We have a medical system structured to ensure competency of medical professionals through school admission screening, demonstration of skills and knowledge, and licensing restrictions.
With AA, those provisions are tossed aside for racial favoritism.
If you have two populations of physicians, one that has a 95% confidence level in terms of competence, and one that has 50%, it only makes sense to limit your exposure by choosing your doctor from the group that has had to demonstrate their ability by objective, relevant standards.
I agree it's not fair to the black doctors who would have made it anyway without AA, but that's just the reality of the situation.
Anonymous The soft bigotry of low expectations said...
From my perspective, it is completely rational.
We have a medical system structured to ensure competency of medical professionals through school admission screening, demonstration of skills and knowledge, and licensing restrictions.
With AA, those provisions are tossed aside for racial favoritism.
1:14 PM
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So you are saying that American Medical Schools are passing students who haven't earned their passing scores? They are not demonstrating the proper skills? What evidence of that do you have?
As I recall from my work in higher education AA is used only to determine admission to underrepresented student, not for grading students' work or competency.
After the fall of Vietnam, many so called "boat people" youths were admitted by Affirmative Action guidelines to the university where I worked. Some went on to medical school. Do you include them in you judgement of incompetency because they came in through AA? Or it just Blacks that aren't competent? You attitude seems to be illogical.
If Russia did what China did with the coronavirus, does anyone doubt the media would be calling it an act of war?
COVID-19: U.S. at a Glance*
Total cases: 54,453
Total deaths: 737
as of 4 PM Tuesday. drumpf death count steadily climbing.
"Do you include them in you judgement of incompetency because they came in through AA?"
Anyone who gained their credentials by anything other than straight merit - whether by AA, legacy admissions, or nepotism is suspect.
"as of 4 PM Tuesday. drumpf death count steadily climbing."
Why does Trump keep killing us?
Features
A JBHE Check-Up on Blacks in U.S. Medical Schools
There is widespread agreement on the urgency in the United States of training more black medical professionals. But the bad news is that instead of an increasing number of blacks in medical schools, recent years have seen a significant drop in overall African-American enrollments in U.S. medical programs. The good news is that African Americans are making good progress at the nation's highest-ranked medical schools. And contrary to public beliefs, blacks who are admitted to these top medical institutions are graduating at a very high rate.
This past September the Sullivan Commission on Diversity in the Healthcare Work-force, an independent public health effort funded by a grant from W.K. Kellogg Foundation, released an ominous report warning of an impending healthcare crisis in minority communities. The principal problem identified by the commission was the shortage of black and other minority healthcare providers. The Sullivan Commission, chaired by Louis W. Sullivan, president emeritus of the Morehouse Col-lege of Medicine and former secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, concluded that while blacks, Hispanics, and American Indians make up more than 25 percent of the U.S. population, they are only 9 percent of the nation's nurses, 6 percent of the doctors, and 5 percent of the dentists.
Also, blacks make up only 4 percent of all faculty members at American medical schools. But even this figure greatly overstates the picture because a very large number of these blacks who are called faculty members are practicing physicians who are affiliated with the medical school but who are almost never in the classroom.
Given these findings, it is important to assess the progress, if any, of blacks in American medical schools. Fifty-five years ago in 1950, only 133 blacks graduated from all U.S. medical schools. And the vast majority of these earned their medical degrees at the historically black medical schools at Howard University and Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee. These black medical school graduates made up a mere 2.4 percent of the 5,553 U.S. medical school graduates that year. In the late 1960s affirmative action programs became common at large numbers of traditionally all-white U.S. medical schools. As a result, the number of black medical school graduates increased more than threefold from 153 in 1969 to 571 in 1974. This progress slowed but continued steadily for most of the 1980s and 1990s.
https://www.jbhe.com/features/47_medicalschools.html link for above article from journal of black higher education.
Interesting read.
"Also, blacks make up only 4 percent of all faculty members at American medical schools"
Whites make up zero percent of NFL cornerbacks.
The soft bigotry of low expectations said...
Anyone who gained their credentials by anything other than straight merit - whether by AA, legacy admissions, or nepotism is suspect.
2:08 PM
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I guess you missed my point. Credentials are awarded on the basis of performance, not on the basis of admission. AA only gives a person a foot in the door, not passing grades, diplomas, or credentials. Legacy rewards are another topic entirely. I doubt many Blacks are lucky enough to get into college on a legacy award.
"Credentials are awarded on the basis of performance"
Not always.
If Fergus can't handle the politics surrounding the actual truth of this crisis, he's not qualified to do the damn job.
Perhaps Fergus could go on a long golf outing and come back when things are easier for him to deal with.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
“Perhaps Fergus could go on a long golf outing and come back when things are easier for him to deal with.”
If only. The country would be much better off if he’d hand the entire COVID-19 response over to Anthony Fauci and then just go golfing at one of his clubs.
Instead, we’re stuck with his obstruction of providing necessary resources and his disturbing, lie-filled press conferences.
"Perhaps Fergus could go on a long golf outing and come back when things are easier for him to deal with."
Perhaps Sugar Tits in the Pines could go back to Oakland where it belongs.
Fergus may want to "reopen" the country by Easter, but since he didn't close anything, what does he think he can reopen?
-Doug in Sugar Pine
"The Federalist" is suggesting "COVID-19" parties to intentionally infect children.
Anyone connected to The Federalist needs a visit from CPS immediately.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Wow, that Trump.
Pandemic not over.
Orange Man Bad!
-Doug in Dingburg
Reasons said...
"Also, blacks make up only 4 percent of all faculty members at American medical schools"
Whites make up zero percent of NFL cornerbacks.
2:50 PM
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False analogy - Apples and oranges. And your point is? Maybe you should take Logic 101?
Mike from Iowa said...
As a result, the number of black medical school graduates increased more than threefold from 153 in 1969 to 571 in 1974. This progress slowed but continued steadily for most of the 1980s and 1990s.
2:19 PM
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Great article, Mike. Thanks for the info!
You don't find many white cornerbacks in colleges, either. Wasicus used to make up all cornerbacks until blacks were allowed to participate in college and then NFL.
Something to do with waycysm, segregation... you know, that kind of stuff.
You are welcome, Gambler.
Worldmeters/Corona Virus
US Cases >64k
drumpf death count 913
March 25, 2020
Anonymous said....
"Alinsky warned them ..."
12:57 AM
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Oh please, get off that Alinsky bull shit. It was old and boring when you guys talked about twelve years ago in you unsuccessful attacks on candidate Obama. Find some new, interesting talking points.
dumpf admits American lives mean nothing to him on twitter.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/narcissist-in-charge-trump-decimated-after-admitting-keeping-country-closed-is-detrimental-to-my-election-success/
Always and only acts in his best interests. Makes you prowd to be a mound of dog shit, donut?
Why does Trump keep killing us?
Anonymous said...
Why does Trump keep killing us?
7:42 PM
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Maybe he thinks we are all Democrats??
How is everybody hanging in? I'm getting on Mrs. X's nerves but other than that we're ok.
"Not Even New Coronavirus Shut Down Can Stop Shootings In Chicago"
Damn right, if I have beef I have beef!
I'm just glad black people can't get coronavirus.
Good to see Republicans rely on prayer to keep the ronas away. Then again it's Mississippi so what do you expect?
https://twitter.com/tatereeves/status/1242845607309565956?s=20
Ha ha ha! Stupid Christians praying in the face of a deadly pandemic.
I'm so superior.
Good Evening,
Field, PilotX, Mike, Gambler2, Lilacpr, dinthebeast, and you folks sitting silently in the background observing the comments.
China has reported almost no new cases over the past week.
Anybody buy that?
This is a great article that tells it like it/.
https://www.theroot.com/coronavirus-has-exposed-americas-sickness-of-selfishnes-1842413162
There is hope. Although many people behave as the author describes, most people in my state are obeying the stay at home orders. Furthermore, millions of people are helping each other. For example my daughter and I along with others living in our community are sewing masks for desperate nurses in Washington state. And retired health-care workers are coming out of retirement to help out.
LOL!
Washington state radio station won't air Trump briefings because of 'false or misleading information
https://thehill.com/blogs/news/blog-briefing-room/489439-seattle-radio-station-wont-air-trump-briefings-because-of-false-or
“China has reported almost no new cases over the past week.
Anybody buy that?”
Yes. Lockdowns work.
But now I want to see how well they are able to maintain suppression of the virus after ending the lockdown.
"Yes. Lockdowns work."
Not like that.
But accepting China's lies helps make Trump look bad, and that's what's important here.
"Washington state radio station won't air Trump briefings because of 'false or misleading information"
Ha ha ha! That's great! Media undermining President during a national crisis to feed the petulant resentments of a deranged opposition.
“Ha ha ha! That's great! Media undermining President during a national crisis to feed the petulant resentments of a deranged opposition”
Well, then you’re going to love what CNN and MSNBC are considering: no longer showing Trump’s press conferences live, but editing them to remove the usual Trumpian bullshit. To wit:
“We might take it from the top and then cut away after the first lie, and return when the lies stop,” said one cable-network producer.
CNN and MSNBC Staff Push Back on Airing Trump’s Coronavirus ‘Lies’
If CNN and MSNBC adopted a no more lies policy, they'd be showing a blank screen 24/7.
So Mississippi's governor Reeves has overridden local efforts to contain the spread of the virus in places like Tupelo and now businesses that were trying out teleworking strategies are ordering their employees to start showing up together at the business again.
This is what you get when you elect goddamn Republicans. Dead citizens for a bankrupt ideology and overrun medical facilities in the middle of a pandemic.
The GOP is a death cult.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
"This is what you get when you elect goddamn Republicans."
Governors actively working to kill their own citizens! I know that sounds hard to believe, but Doug never lies.
Minnesotans: Please do not call the government with questions, unless you don’t speak English, then we’ll take your calls:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1242987499477139459
America! What a country!
Fauci on CNN saying that Italy got hit so hard because a lot of tourists and workers from China brought coronavirus in and spread it widely before anyone there knew what was going on.
New York ground zero for the outbreak was in Flushings, home to a large Chinese population.
Cuomo said today the New York has so many cases because "We welcome everybody".
But Trump was a racist for shutting down travel from China in January.
"the Usera Seniors’ Center in Madrid, where soldiers found some of the bodies."
https://apnews.com/8bd9ec1261d19913a301a9bfb8684321
"From the 2000s Usera became Madrid's Chinatown. About 11,000 Chinese citizens reside in this district."
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usera#Barrio_chino
Self isolation is like Vegas... You lose money by the minute. Drinks are free-flowing. And no one knows what day it is.
When Cheese Nips first came out, they were called Cheese Nipples.
I was hoping it would be a sheep, but a grizzly bear will do:
https://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2020/03/trump-doesnt-care-about-what-you-have.html
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Democrats kept holding out these past days for.. (get this) a body that would have subpoena power to investigate all aspects of the Trump pandemic response. Unbelievable. (Impeachment mentality, still...) They didn't get their wish.
300 years ago everyone taking a two week-vacation simultaneously would not be economically ruinous (aside from maybe the middle of harvest season).
Perhaps having a totally financialized economy where nearly every, single business and individual is two weeks from insolvency is bad?
The news media are social distancing from Trump’s lies.
“Democrats kept holding out these past days for.. (get this) a body that would have subpoena power to investigate all aspects of the Trump pandemic response.”
The Dems already have that body. It’s called the House of Representatives. Which they control.
Governor Exempts Businesses from Social Distancing
March 25, 2020 at 10:14 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 174 Comments
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves (R) “signed an executive order early this evening superseding a patchwork of local bans on public gatherings in Mississippi and other heightened restrictions that several municipalities across the state have ordered or considered in the wake of COVID-19’s spread inside Mississippi,” the Jackson Free Press reports.
“The order seems to declare that most types of businesses in Mississippi are ‘essential’ and thus exempt from social-distancing requirements suggested in the order.”
-Doug in Sugar Pine
"For all you FN Donkeys "preachers" (who have NOTHING good to say about 45), interestingly, 45 wants to reopen churches by Easters."
I rest my case.
But Trump was a racist for shutting down travel from China in January.
Fucking liar. drumpf is, has been and always will be a racist. Just like impeachment will stain this stain for ever.
"For all you FN Donkeys "preachers" (who have NOTHING good to say about 45), interestingly, 45 wants to reopen churches by Easters."
I rest my case.
8:18 AM
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What the hell? What preachers hate Trump? And no one with half a brain has anything good to say about Trump. He is a pathological liar, bumbling fool, who only cares about himself. Your post makes no sense to me.
Sammy said...
Self isolation is like Vegas... You lose money by the minute. Drinks are free-flowing. And no one knows what day it is.
12:05 AM
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LOL! Good one, Sammy.
TRUMP 2020!!
BIDEN 20:20!!
Anonymous @2:05 AM
Perhaps having a totally financialized economy where nearly every, single business and individual is two weeks from insolvency is bad?
Well said. It's an exaggeration. Restaurant workers, for example, are laid off for a bit more than just two weeks. But you make a valid point. Most of us are no more than three months away from homelessness given the worst of circumstances.
Anonymous Gambler2 ASKA White Woman said...
BIDEN 20:20!!
5:35 PM
Please run him and whatever disaster VP pick....pleaze.
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