“The president got bored with it,” David Carney, an adviser to the Texas governor, Greg Abbott, a Republican, said of the pandemic. He noted that Mr. Abbott directs his requests to Mr. Pence, with whom he speaks two to three times a week. https://t.co/DLM96aZKhw— Patrick Svitek (@PatrickSvitek) July 19, 2020
The language spoken today in continental Europe would be German. Or Russian. In a good chunk of Asia and Oceania, Japanese would be spoken.
Dealing with a global crisis requires hard work and dedication to the task, two things that Trump has never been known for. Trump is presiding over the largest failure of presidential leadership, if not since Herbert Hoover, then since James Buchanan. Trump and the GOP have made this country into a global laughingstock.
It's not just Trump, of course. The GOP has been pushing a platform of "we don't need no science or book-larnin'!" since Nixon. Gingrich began the fight to cripple the Federal government's ability to handle problems. The utter failure of the Federal government to deal with the pandemic, to knock it back to the levels of cases and deaths now seen in almost every other First World nation, is a result of Trump's willful inattention and the GOP's unrelenting war on science and competence.
This is a prime example of the GOP's choice of willful ignorance:
While local health officials have the authority to keep school districts closed for in-person instruction through the fall, Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a letter to schools Friday that private religious schools are free to decide for themselves whether to reopen.The idea that infectious disease has a religious component is an idea that is stuck in the 14th Century. (Funny how conservatives blast Muslims for "being stuck in the 7th Century", when the evidence shows that the evangelicals are hardly any different in that regard.)
it's no accident that COVID-19 is rampaging through this country. It is by the design of Trump and the GOP. It is by design of the know-nothings who believe that Their dear and Fluffy Lord will protect them from diseases.
And it is why the rest of the world is looking upon the U.S.A. with a mixture of horror, pity and, yes, schadenfreude.
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I see, so private "religious" schools can go ahead a reopen as if there were no threat to health? Maybe because they exist solely on private income has something to do with this? Perhaps because Cruella DeVos has a soft spot in her hardened heart for private schools? I just don't see the rush to kill off our kids as being "OK".
ReplyDeleteI suppose they are trying to force herd immunity on us, but I am not about to be their guinea pig.
I'm a great grandparent now, so it's not my choice to make, but I know the kids have a good heart and a quick brain so they can see through this on their own.
"Only 14,000 plus kids will die", and that is the problem as I see it.
To hear this from our Fearful leader is just ridiculous.
w3ski
He's preznut-in-name-only. so while he is in the seat he is not functional.
ReplyDeleteDeVos is also a source of problems... definitely a deep state idiot.
We have the blind leading the unknowing into the unknown wondering why
the pretty green leaves of three makes them itch.
A fun ride till the wheels come off.
Eck!
There are a number of parents arranging teaching pods of kids with retired teachers to supplement online education efforts here in Texas, and sharing the cost of what is effectively babysitting. All signs point to a big dip in Private School income if they hold to the in person model starting next month. The majority of Private School kids are from families who can make the kids staying at home work financially, unlike a significant portion of the Public School kids. And there is the rub, because Abbot has prohibited in person Public School classes before Labor Day, which is normally 2-4 weeks into the school year.
ReplyDeleteAs it stands, all Public Schools in Texas are approved for the first four weeks of instruction being online, and waivers will be approved to make it eight weeks total...after that, the future is unclear. Many districts still haven’t offered clarity to their staff as to their intentions, but decisions are now coming down daily as the biggest districts release their instructional plans. Parents are getting desperate for information so they can try to plan how to make this work, especially with benefits cuts coming.
And do we FINALLY come to the heart of a fake pandemic, supported by pozzed statistics, fake news, and scientific illiteracy:
ReplyDeleteOrange Man Bad
I yam shocked. SHOCKED, I say!
There is much good that will come of this though. The crash of the public schools and the teacher’s unions will be a win for everyone. Mom’s staying home with the family is a good deal too. More of them need to do that and take part in actually raising and educating their children...
“Orange man bad”= “I have run out of arguments.”
ReplyDeleteLets see:
ReplyDeleteCrash of public schools - check
Break a Union - check
Chain women back in the home - check
Women who work don’t do anything to raise their kids - check
OK, I put the Canuck Gaddafi at about 1930...maybe 1945
It would be true if he offered an argument, just one...
ReplyDeleteCan't run out of nothing.
Just one I'd like to see him offer a argument and not preznut
talking points. He's all hoax, fake.
Eck!