Thus does the man the article describes as “the nation’s top infectious disease expert” finally convey to the country the same information our eldest son Jon related to us at the outset of the Wuhan “pandemic”.
We don’t refer to him as Dr. Faux-Chi for nuttin’!
Since we’re on the subject of those useless as a…
…this series of videos chronicling the outrageous treatment accorded Bill Barr by the House Judiciary Committee confirm while an…
…may come in every size, shape, sex, color, religion and sexual orientation, they primarily enjoy only ONE political affiliation!
We should note the Hank Johnson shown above seeking to reclaim his time is the same brain-dead Dimocrat featured below voicing his concerns about the island of Guam capsizing to our old ACM instructor and F-14-driver-extraordinaire Bob Willard:
Next up, writing at his Morning Jolt, Jim Geraghty details how…
“If you want to make the argument for the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine, you can point to the Henry Ford Health System study. You can point to the assessments of Harvey Risch, professor of epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health.You can point to the statements from the Association of American Physicians & Surgeons encouraging its use.
You can point to the fact that a widely-cited study declaring hydroxychloroquine dangerous, published in The Lancet, was retracted after questions about its accuracy and the expertise of those conducting the study.
If you want to make the argument for the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine, you would probably want to avoid using a term like “cure,” because that’s more or less the terminology of every snake-oil salesman. Hydroxychloroquine is a treatment. There are positive studies that indicate that it could mitigate and minimize the effects of COVID-19 and give patients a much better chance of survival.That would be good enough as is; no one needs to oversell it.
If you wanted to make a really effective argument that reassures people you’re looking at all the data clearly and not just seeing what you want to see, you would probably want to at least acknowledge that some other studies show less encouraging results. One recent study showed no effect compared to a control group, the National Institutes of Health halted one clinical trial, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a warning. Human beings have different physiologies and their bodies work in different ways. Few drugs are effective in 100 percent of patients. A drug that works as an immunosuppressant might not always be exactly the right treatment for a patient fighting off a virus.
But you probably would not want to cite Steve Bannon as an authoritative source and endorse the contention that “Dr. Fauci has misled the American public on many issues,” as the president recently did on his Twitter feed, and you would probably want to check out Stella Immanuel a little deeper before you cited her as an authoritative source. If a doctor discusses “gynecological issues that are the result of having sex with witches and demons” at length, you’re probably going to want a second opinion.
…Statements from the president of the United States are dependent solely upon what he sees in his Twitter feed and whether he interprets it as praise. The president has done this from the moment he started running, and there is no indication that Donald Trump has the desire or ability to control this habit.
If Trump does not win a second term, his sweeping lack of impulse control and unwillingness to evaluate sources will be big reasons why. Even when he’s got a plausible or defensible argument, he tends to make it in the least effective possible way. The president’s attention is much more likely to be drawn by sweeping statements on Twitter or conspiracy theories about sinister doctors covering up a cure than by lengthy, detailed, and even-handed medical-journal studies. But what is most persuasive and intriguing to the president is not necessarily what will persuade vast swaths of the public.
This is often characterized by the president’s ardent supporters as, “You just don’t like how he Tweets!”No, it’s that he’s such a poor communicator, he undermines his argument, even when he’s right.
We see this in issue after issue…
…Yesterday, during the coronavirus briefing, Trump complained that Drs. Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx have high approval ratings but he doesn’t. “And yet, they’re highly thought of — but nobody likes me. It can only be my personality.” He is constantlypublicly exhibiting insufferable self-pity when Americans are trying to get through a pandemic. Welcome to the presidency. As Harry Truman may or may not have said, “if you want a friend in Washington, buy a dog.”
Right now, Joe Biden is not beating Donald Trump. Donald Trump is beating Donald Trump.“
Unfortunately for the rest of us, Trump’s weapon is on full-auto with an inexhaustible magazine. Though in fairness, as The Boss recently observed, Trump is his second-worst enemy; the hopelessly biased anti-Trump MSM is his most implacable foe.
Sorry, but this is a subject Trump raises through some surrogate, not one he brings up personally four months before the election, particularly when he’s already been accused, however falsely, with intent to unconstitutionally continue to occupy the Oval Office. The man thus provides the words which enable his enemies to flesh out what were heretofore baseless charges.
Here’s the juice: we’re not and never have been a die-hard Trumpeteer. We don’t credit The Donald as a magical deal-maker, nor do we believe him possessed of preternatural negotiating skills. We generally find him a bumbling, bombastic boor for who English is a second language; and while we largely approve of his policies…certainly more than those of the last two Republican presidents…there’s plenty he’s done with which we find fault, including, as of late, his SCOTUS picks.
We didn’t vote for him in the GOP primary, and likely wouldn’t have cast our ballot for him in any other election against any other candidate. Except 2016 wasn’tjust any other election, and Trump wasn’t running against just any other candidate; it was, until this year, the most important election in our lifetime, and he was running against Satan in a XXX pantsuit.
Our opinion of him…as well as the reasons we’ll be pulling the lever for him again on November 3rd…remain unchanged.
Speaking of those deserving to be damned with faint praise, we found this quote from Mike Huckabee on the legacy of John Lewis particularly ironic:
“This is a man who finished well,” Huckabee concluded, “and who left a wonderful legacy of loving people, of caring about people, of believing that the best way to achieve the appropriate, the rightful civil rights for every human being regardless of who they are, was by nonviolence.“
“Loving”…”caring”…about “the rightful civil rights for every human being”…seriously?!? What about the unborn?!? Yet another reason we consider Huckabee tied in distant second for the title of…
…behind only the one former President to turn a eulogy into a political attack ad, an inexcusable indignity so contemptuous we decline to recount it. Though we must note, as this meme from Breeze Gould accurately relates, if the Senate filibuster is racist…
…explain to us again which is the party of racism?!?
In an incongruously related item forwarded by James Nichols, while we certainly don’t rejoice in John Lewis’s passing…
(We were never much a fan, as, in our view, he allowed his politics to place in bondage on Uncle Sam’s plantation those for whom he claimed to care, devoting himself instead to the welfare of the political party which first enslaved them…not to mention the fact he actively advocated for unrestricted abortion…which has killed FAR more Black children than guns, gangs and crooked cops combined!)
…it would have better served Americans of every color had Blacks and woke White Millennials reserved their rioting to mark his passing rather than the scumbags listed here:
And just when you thought The Left’s catalogue of things racist couldn’t get more all-encompassing, this item from ABC News via Bill Meisen should serve notice you ain’t seen nothin‘ yet:
“As millions of Americans escape home quarantine to the great outdoors this summer, they’ll venture into parks, campgrounds and forest lands that remain stubborn bastions of self-segregation. “The outdoors and public lands suffer from the same systemic racism that the rest of our society does,” said Joel Pannell, associate director of the Sierra Club, which is leading an effort to boost diversity in the wilderness and access to natural spaces.
New government data, shared first with ABC News, shows the country’s premier outdoor spaces — the 419 national parks — remain overwhelmingly white. Just 23% of visitors to the parks were people of color, the National Park Service found in its most recent 10-year survey; 77% were white. Minorities make up 42% of the U.S. population.
“That tells me that we’ve got a lot of work to do,” said David Vela, acting director of the National Park Service. Government officials and environmental advocates agree that the racial disparity in the outdoors is an existential crisis. (Right up there with anthropogenic global warming, no doubt!)
…Lack of transportation to national parks and the cost of visiting were cited as the top reasons people — especially Black and Hispanic Americans — don’t visit them more often, according to the study. Twice as many black and Hispanic Americans said they don’t know what to do in national parks than whites. When asked if they share the same interests as people who visit national parks, 34% of Black respondents and 27% of Hispanics said no, compared with only 11% of whites…”
You know…because minorities don’t own cars. And even if they did, they don’t know where the nearest DMV is located, so they can’t get a drivers license. Besides, if they drive, it’s only a matter of time until they’re unjustly pulled over and likely killed by a racist cop.
No wonder minorities prefer the safety of America’s inner cities!
Location being everything, Groper Joe continues lacking the faintest clue where he is:
We can just see Biden’s handlers standing in front of the podium waving their hands and shaking their heads.
Moving on, courtesy of The Daily Caller via White House Dossier, we learn how a…
“Documents declassified on Tuesday detail an intense debate between the CIA and FBI in late 2016 over the handling of information from Christopher Steele, with one CIA official telling the Senate Intelligence Committee that the former British spy’s allegations about Trump-Russia collusion were “very unvetted.”
Despite the CIA’s concerns about Steele’s allegations, the FBI successfully lobbied to include his information in an Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) regarding Russian interference in the 2016 election. The bureau also continued using information from Steele to conduct surveillance against former Trump campaign aide Carter Page…”
Please note: then-CIA Director John “Pound Me in the Ass Prison” Brennan and then-FBI Director James “Door #2” Comey weren’t in disagreement, only their underlings, with Obama’s FBI water-carriers winning the day.
Here’s another dose of the juice, courtesy of Ed Hickey:
Which brings us to The Lighter Side:
Then there’s these varied memes from Breeze Gould…
…another series from Ed Hickey…
…two more from Balls Cotton…
…along with one each from Ed Harvey…
…Carl Polizzi…
…Fielding Cocke…
…and last, but certainly not least, this classic from Speed Mach:
Finally, we’ll call it a month with another sordid story straight from the pages of The Crime Blotter, courtesy today of another deranged Dimocrat (like they come any other way!), as Townhall.com‘s Katie Pavlich reveals…
“A banned former Democratic volunteer was arrested for arson Wednesday in the fire that destroyed the party’s Maricopa County headquarters in Phoenix last week, authorities said. Matthew Silvanus Egler, 29, was booked on one count of arson of an occupied structure, a class 2 felony, in connection to the blaze set early Friday morning in central Phoenix.“
Yet another “hate crime”…perpetrated against Liberals…by a Liberal. Self-loathing seems to run in their genes!
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