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Tom Halstead's avatar

Thanks to POSOTUS, COVID deaths in the U.S. were twice what they might have been. Then he attempted to overthrow the government. Then we re-elected him. Now he’s crashed the economy and started a war. What’s wrong with us?

Tracey's avatar

A rather large portion of us are idiots.

Beth Winfrey's avatar

That is an understatement!!! I have never hated anyone as much as Trump. My dream is to have him tied to a chair, a gag in his mouth, and with an extremely sharp, pointed knife, terrorize and slowly cut him so he bleeds just enough that he finally understands what it's like to hurt like hell. It's called payback. He has earned it.

Tracey's avatar

POSOTUS is perfect! I must steal it, do you mind?

Tom Halstead's avatar

I most definitely do not mind!

Martha MacRae's avatar

I wonder what the answer to that question really is.

Deepak Puri's avatar

Check this map of the 1,200,000 Americans who died from COVID as Rand Paul attacks Dr. Fauci. Notice the deaths by county and the Republicans who blocked vaccines and masks and are now persecuting someone who worked so hard to save lives.

https://arcg.is/1H4WyS3

Roger W Wilde's avatar

Good God!!! When, Ladies and Gentlemen Are We Going To GET IT!!!???? That The Heart Of Republican Conservatism Is, And Always Has Been, White Supremacy and Full Bore Facism!!! The Middle Class, The Lower Class, The Disabled, And The Non-White Must Be "Exterminated"!!! But, Then Who Does All The Real 8am to 6pm Work!!?? Well, That's All Of The Above Under Slave Labor, Who Live In Warehouses!!! So, How Do We Manuver Population Growth?? Sperms Banks, And Artificial Insemination!!! And All Of The Above In Perpetuity!!! Good God, Help Us All!!!

Tim Everton's avatar

I don't believe that it WAS like that. I remember Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, and they were not like that. These Trumpublicans are an entirely different, racist, sociopathic (if not psychopathic) species. The Republicans of the earlier 20th century were actual human beings and cared for people, the Constitution, and the U.S.A..

I've NEVER been or supported a Republican, but what Nixon did, as far as authorizing breaking into the Watergate to discover Democratic election strategy, was "politics as usual", and nothing more. The current Trumpublicans are inhuman.

William Farrar's avatar

The Darwin award went to those who died or got long COVID because they refused to be vaccinated. Let them inject bleach.

Don't interfere with the enemy when it is making a mistake: Napoleon.

The children of anti vaxxers grow up to be just like their parents, and there is less of them reproducing and that is a good thing for the rest of us.

Fay Wells's avatar

There wasn't a vaccine for COVID when the return to work order was issued

William Farrar's avatar

Return to work order? What are you talking about? The government issued no such order,nor has it the ability or authority to do so. Maybe the company you worked for.

The one good thing with Trump was Operation warp speed. The vaccines came out real quick

Fay Wells's avatar

Read Thom's article re Trump forcing "essential workers" back into their jobs.

Covid vaccines came out December 2020, and it was not until well into 2021 that everyone in the USA was given the opportunity to be vaccinated. Here in Western Australia, we stayed virtually Covid free until early 2022 when our borders opened, by when everyone had received multiple jabs

William Farrar's avatar

That is different than your post. Trump ordered ESSENTIAL Federal workers, back to their post.. Mot all FederalWorkers are essential.

Jeffrey Hobbs's avatar

The Covid shutdown had the effect of a general strike, so no wonder the business community was in a blind panic to get things going again. Workers are not valued for anything but their output, so shoving Hispanics back into the packing plants was an easy call for them. Race is poverty and poverty is race--Covid just made it obvious.

Sir Okie Doke's avatar

A+++++, Mr. Hartmann. Just an awesome recap of the US's brush with an R Final Solution.

Fauci is a hero. Period. End of story.

Josh Hawley RAN on January 6th. Flying through the Capitol as rioters broke into the building.

Earlier, The Coward Hawley raised his fist in solidarity with pro‑Trump protesters gathered outside the Capitol bldg.

According to the Jan. 6th committee, that gesture helped rile up the crowd of traitor-scum, per law enforcement interviews.

Later, when rioters breached the building, surveillance video captured frightened Hawley scampering, nay, slithering down a hallway and descending stairs as senators were evacuated to a secure location.

Said committee juxtaposed his febrile fist‑pump photo with the footage of the craven coward spastically fleeing, prompting audible reactions as well as widespread online mockery.

The scrawny punk has repeatedly said that he does not regret his intense cowardice; his tail remained tucked firmly between his thin legs. A place where it's always been.

Finally, the pasty sissy thinks all criticism of his congenital fear is just jealous “trolling” because of his Tab Hunter-esque looks, especially his non-existent chin.

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They [Rs] Hate Black People, Don't They? And Browns. And Poor and/or Dem Whites.

#VOTE to say Eff 'em and the Horses They Rode In On

#DRAFT Jared and the Witkoff Scions for Iran deployment

Ed Nuhfer's avatar

Absolutely. Science is about arguing evidence for explaining the physical world. There has NEVER been a scientific argument for attacking the character of a person. That is politics, not science. Whether the virus originated as a natural species jump or lab creation is not the issue. Fauci NEVER said the virus was not lethal and dangerous. The clowns doing the character attacks ALL did that, and Republican MAGA maggots caused the highest mortality rates to occur to their own constituents in their own home states. They royally SUCK.

Patricia Lane's avatar

I remember that obvious and despicable turn of events.

Once they found that minorities were more susceptible to COVID that resulted in death , their crusade of black and brown genocide began in earnest.

Dr Fauci did his best job sticking to a known path of recovery based on sound medical practices including masks , isolation protocols and measures to survive this deadly disease. But the bigots got their way . They should be prosecuted.

No wonder these hating Republicans are happy to persecute Dr Fauci, he knows what they did. He was onto them .

Of course that’s when Trump turned on Fauci upon learning how he could endeavor to eliminate safety measures for people of color. Send them back to work at high risk workplaces . No more encouragement of life saving measures.

These MAGA republicans are creatures of hate . So not only did they operate by putting minorities in harms way of COVID , but then they had to attack the man opposing their bigoted agenda. Years later they continue to attack good people with their lies of fake self righteousness. They are a pitiful group to be sure . And ought to be prosecuted starting with Trump and the toad Kushner. As well these sleazy senators this week .

shee-rah's avatar

As Thom writes in his article, more White people were in jobs where they could work from home, whereas many minority workers in meat packing and factories could not. I also think that more minority workers died because they didn’t have access to healthcare.

Martha MacRae's avatar

Shocking in the extreme. I thought I knew what was happening, but I didn’t have a clue.

Trump’s America should not be allowed to continue! It’s an evil empire

Protect the Vote's avatar

Michigan: Where Big $$ Meets Morality

The Lever’s David Sirota(bit.ly/4gxOji1) sat down in a brief interview with Abdul El-Sayed to talk about his position on Israel and the antisemitism issue. Huge $$ amounts are being spent by AIPAC to disparage El-Sayed’s position, wanting to paint him into the corner of antisemitism. The fascist AIPAC view doesn’t equate to morality but El-Sayed fears that the Zionist movement itself will provoke antisemitism. He believes Judaism is divorced from Zionism but unfortunately they are equated.

So El-Sayed, an Egyptian, is against our taxpayer $$ going to all foreign governments that rob from our own domestic solvable issues, eg schools, infrastructure such as roads, and protection of our communities. For him it becomes a moral issue. He questions the US government policy that supports genocide by a foreign government while it doesn’t support its own needs at home. And that’s for any foreign government, not just the current fascist apartheid Israeli government running Israel now.

Of course the Zionists of the Democratic establishment are threatened by such a radical shift in foreign policy that would result in lack of US military aid to Israel. Democratic political consultants like Simon Rosenberg of the substack Hopium Chronicles, a self professed Zionist, has for years steered AIPAC $$ to Israeli supporting candidates and El-Sayed threatens the viability of those efforts.

Barry J Kaufman DO's avatar

I will say that both parties love their political theater, and this time it's the Republicans putting on the show. Americans think they know so much about science that somehow Fauci has become a victim when he really has been the benefactor of partisan preening and cult of celebrity fawning by you Thom and the "liberal" (really center-right) media. Fauci has practiced some very unscientific, and he was the idiot who initially told the public that masking was not necessary or helpful in regards to COVID, which is like saying don't scrub your hands and wear sterile gloves prior to performing surgery. Thom, you nor your minions definitively know the true origins of COVID, and there is significant evidence pointing to human engineering in its characteristics. So again, you become part of the problem, practicing audience capture with those who somehow revere Fauci as a national hero, which he most certainly is not. The bottom line is that the WHO recently published a paper stating we still do not know the origins of COVID as no living organism has been identified as its host. That doesn't change that Republicans are full of it and the manner in which these hearings are being conducted is pure political theatre, but it also doesn't change the fact that you're an establishment hack who could care less about reality or science.

Emmanuel Annor's avatar

Hey Barry, your ad-hominem about Thomm is a low blow. As a DO, you ought to know that science info changes with new evidence. Dr. Fauci may have downplayed face masks at the onset of the virus, but when it became evident that masks help, like a true scientist, he hastened to recommend them.

Political theater by both parties or not, President Trump mishandled a virus so spectacularly that it almost killed him. Thank God for the scientists at Walter Reed hospital.

Thom Hartmann’s essay should be a full a chapter in any book written on the early stages of the pandemic. Excellent piece, Thomm!

Martha MacRae's avatar

Agreed. Fauci is a heroic human being - not a God who could instantly know everything about a totally new epidemic.

He acted as soon as he had facts and the people of the US and the world owe him a great debt.

Watching these Congressmen attack him makes me physically ill. There is no known cure yet for the sickness that is Trump and the Republican Congress.

Dianne Walter's avatar

Thank you for getting this down in black and white! No pun intended.

J. Newman's avatar

As I read your title, I thought that after reading it, my comment would be to add the following reminder regarding the targeting of Dr. Fauci. RFK Jr. has repeatedly said that the COVID virus was specifically designed to spare Jews and the Chinese -- part of Fauci's blueprint shared with the Chinese lab that we still are not sure was the source. You know the Jewish rich folks who fund the great replacement of whites by people (immigrants & aliens of color).

Also, if I am remembering correctly, Bob Woodward, in promoting his book about Trump, recounted that Trump had called him, to personally inform him of what he knew (of course the opposite of what Trump said in public: COVID wasn't going to "disappear", it was going to be bad and widespread; it would affect children to name just two.

I wondered why Trump did not take credit for "warp speed" creation of a successful vaccine. It seemed that he had spoken of "waiting for the election". Therefore, I concluded, he was like the arsonist who starting the fire (or let it burn), so that he could be the hero (fireman in putting it out).

As if all this wasn't bad enough to consider, now you have added the fine details of another, even more insidious purpose -- an opportunity for a targeted genocide of the people of color who are rising to significant power and voice right at home.

One last thought: now that the anti-vax, anti-science, anti-health movement that was seeded during the pandemic and has reached an apex with the appointment of a worm-brained, proud addict, who wrangles snakes, is proving to make MAGA, red states' mortality higher than "blue" states, maybe we can publicize that. Furthering the fracture and loss of Trump voters, perhaps we can incite a "pro-vaccine" movement in MAGA and on Fox -- and save us all from measles and other infection diseases.

One Gardener's avatar

IT IS HAPPENING NOW. ANYONE TRAVELING SHOULD GO HOME NOW. TRUMP IS CAUSING THE COLLAPSE NOW!!

WRITE DOWN YOUR PEOPLE’S CONTACT INFORMATION BECAUSE THE INTERNET IS GOING TO BE SHUT OFF BY TRUMP.

Here’s why I believe this to be true: Iran's strategy does not include direct attacks on the American homeland. THAT would be counterproductive. That means Trump or the people around him approved the water system attacks and Russia or Israel carried them out. 

🔥 So it is happening now. Rather than face accountability, they are actively creating civil war conditions and it is happening within days, not weeks or years. 

I’m telling you to go home now because when Martial Law is declared, per Biological War by Annie Jacobsen, (day 6): FOR STARTERS, the airports are closed to anything but military use. They throw a switch and the internet becomes for military use only. GO HOME NOW.

Dan Rogers's avatar

This history timeline needs sharing !

Blair S. Gelbond's avatar

Vimala Thakar:

“A tender, loving concern for all living creatures will need to arise and reign in our hearts, if any of us are to survive. And our lives will be truly blessed only when the misery of one is genuinely felt to be the misery of all. The force of love is the force of total revolution. It is the unreleased force, unknown and unexplored as a dynamic of change.”