The worst and dimmest
How to deal with a pandemic if you’re Donald Trump:
The director of the office involved in developing a coronavirus vaccine says he was abruptly dismissed from his post in part because he resisted efforts to widen the availability of a coronavirus treatment pushed by President Donald Trump.
Dr. Rick Bright had led BARDA, the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, since 2016 until Tuesday, when was reassigned to a narrower position.
Brilliant. Let one festering shit’s vanity and spite decide who leads vaccine development at the height of an emergency in which the vaccine will save thousands of lives. What do people’s lives matter in comparison to Donald Trump’s ego?
He also announced he will file a whistleblower complaint with the Department of Health and Human Services’ inspector general.
“I believe this transfer was in response to my insistence that the government invest the billions of dollars allocated by Congress to address the Covid-19 pandemic into safe and scientifically vetted solutions, and not in drugs, vaccines and other technologies that lack scientific merit,” Bright said in a lengthy statement issued Wednesday. “I am speaking out because to combat this deadly virus, science — not politics or cronyism — has to lead the way.”
He cited “clashes with political leadership” as a reason for his sidelining, as well as his resistance to “efforts to fund potentially dangerous drugs promoted by those with political connections.”
This is failed state territory. This is scandalous and criminal. Trump should be removed from the White House in shackles.
Maybe someone needs to convince Trump that his being removed from the White House in shackles would get huge ratings.
Sastra, we wouldn’t even have to lie to say that! People all over the world would tune in to see.
Sastra: The live TV ratings would beat the day Neil Armstrong walked on the Moon. You know, Trump could possibly be persuaded on that basis.
We’re talking shackles here, he doesn’t need to agree!
OB, the cops have all sorts of ways of inducing these egotistical types to each go quietly through their little patch of limelight and into the paddy wagon.
Welllllll I want him to be in shackles every step of the way. I don’t want to watch him be tricked, I want to watch him dragged out screaming.
That would probably DOUBLE the ratings.
Perhaps he could be persuaded on that basis. ‘Donald, the more you rant and scream, the more the eyes of the world will be upon you.’ Captain Bonespurs-Pussygrabber could finish up as the centre of the most watched event in the history of the Universe. Possibly be in line for an Academy Award as well. Or something.
The chloroquine ‘thing.’ Its Cheeto’s own Lysenko affair. The dictatorship has decreed that 2+2=5 until further notice.
And should it ever be demonstrated to his satisfaction that it is not effective and safe, and he comes to terms with that, we will be treated to some sort of Tweet-dissertation about how HE never said that, OBAMA promoted the use of the drug for COVID-19, and wasted billions on a failed treatment as Obama did all the wrong things to check the pandemic.
Always knew that 2 + 2 = 5. Now I have proof. Trump says it is. Thanks John.
And btw, I nearly forgot. The bastard has clearly lost his marbles.
Trump continues to do no actual work, but the pandemic has interfered with his recreation preferences. He’s apparently worried about being blamed, in addition to his usual concerns about ratings.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/us/politics/coronavirus-trump.html