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Trump Retweets Call to Fire Dr. Anthony Fauci

Conservatives have been calling for his firing for a long time now, simple because Dr. Fauci bases his opinion about the Covid-19 pandemic on facts rather than Trump’s fiction. And now, Trump seems to be heeding their call.

On Sunday, Trump, who is in damage control mode over the US’s slow response to dealing with the COVID-19, reshared a tweet about firing Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984 and one of the top experts on Trump’s coronavirus task force, who helped tackle the AIDS, Zika, and Ebola epidemics.

The tweet, which was written by Republican DeAnna Lorraine who is running for Congress, said: “Fauci is now saying that had Trump listened to the medical experts earlier he could’ve saved more lives. Fauci was telling people on February 29th that there was nothing to worry about and it posed no threat to the US public at large.” Lorraine’s tweet included a hashtag that said: “Time to #FireFauci.”

It’s been about two months since the US’s first cases, and 22,023 have died from the virus and 555,398 have been infected, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

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Two Black Men Kicked Out of Walmart for Wearing Surgical Mask

The racism is real folks.

Coronavirus protection or not, this officer at a Walmart in Illinois was not going to sit by and allow these two black men to follow the CDC’s recommendation of wearing masks to protect against contracting Covid-19.

Watch as these men are escorted out of the store for the crime of…. protecting yourself while being black.

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This “Stable Genius” is Stooopid – Video

Listen to the guy… the president of the United States, as he puts his “stable genius” hat on and engaged in some foolery that can only be credited to the likes of a Donald Trump.

In the clip below, the “stable genius” is talking about how smart the Coronavirus is.

“The germ has gotten so brilliant,” the man in the clip said, “that the antibiotic can’t keep up with it.” Still speaking of the virus the man says, “not only is it hidden but it’s very smart.”

WTF? SMH… again!

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Poll: Democrats Want Andrew Cuomo Over Joe Biden

The New York Post is reporting that a majority of Democrats want to nominate New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo for president instead of Joe Biden, according to poll results shared exclusively with The Post.

The national poll found 56 percent of Democrats prefer Cuomo, with 44 percent wanting to stick with presumptive nominee Biden — a 12-point margin well outside the 4.8 percent margin of error for the Democratic sample.

Hispanic voters, young people, women and self-identified liberals are most likely to favor dumping the former vice president for Cuomo.

The poll, conducted April 3-6, was commissioned by the conservative pro-market Club for Growth, which generally supports Republican candidates.

Cuomo denied last month that he wanted to run for president, but some Democrats still are clamoring for an alternative to Biden, who faded from public view during the coronavirus outbreak, which elevated Cuomo in daily press conferences.

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Doctors Ask States to Donate Lethal Injection Drugs to Save Covid 19 Patients

What a concept – use drugs to save lives instead of taking lives.

“We’re running out of all the drugs,” one doctor told the paper. 

Over 2,600 people are currently awaiting execution, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. Thirty states, plus the federal government, “use lethal injection as their primary method,” while others use it as a backup.

Since the pandemic, states have not even been using these drugs for that. On April 1, a Texas court issued a stay of execution, its third since the outbreak, citing the disruption to the court system.

In their letter, the experts, such as Harvard Medical School’s Prashant Yadav and David Waisel, argued that the drugs death-penalty states typically use to take lives could, instead, be used to help front-line doctors extend them.

“Your stockpile could save the lives of hundreds of people,” they wrote. “At this crucial moment for our country, we must prioritize the needs and lives of patients above ending the lives of prisoners.”

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Words of Wisdom: Obama Warned Americans About the Prospects of a Pandemic

Six years ago, the former President of the United States Barack Obama, spoke some sobering words about the importance of doing everything necessary to stop exactly what we’re dealing with now. Too bad the current president chose to downplay the pandemic instead of actually doing something about it.

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Coronavirus Response Helps Sink Trump’s Approval Ratings

Maybe it’s the lies he tell, misleading Americans into thinking the we were immune to coronavirus, that the virus will never come to our borders. Or maybe it just the fact that Donald Trump is a terrible president. Whatever the reason, Americans are not liking Trump right now.

Donald Trump isn’t benefiting from what political scientists refer to as a “rally ‘round the flag” effect — a traditional surge in popularity as the nation unites behind its leader during an emergency situation.

Even as the country confronts the greatest disruption to daily life since World War II, a series of new polls released this week show Trump’s approval ratings plateauing in the mid-40s, roughly where his approval rating stood a month ago, before the coronavirus shuttered much of the nation’s economic and social activity.

In other words, public views of Trump’s leadership in the coronavirus crisis are now breaking down along familiar lines of polarization: Americans view his performance during the pandemic about the same way they view his performance generally.

Throughout the first three years of his presidency, Trump’s approval rating has traded in a narrow band. But his failure to unite the country behind his leadership also reflects Americans’ judgment of his handling of the outbreak thus far: In poll after poll this week, increasing percentages say they think Trump is doing a bad job, and his administration hasn’t done enough to protect citizens from the effects of Covid-19.

 

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President Obama is “Eager to go” against Trump

Now that Bernie Sanders has ended his campaign for Presidency, sources close to former President Barack Obama says the former President is anxious to get into the campaign against Donald Trump.

The former president has stayed out of the Democratic primary, but sources say he is anxious to endorse his former vice president, Joe Biden, and become an active player in the general election campaign against President Trump.

Democrats across the country are also ready for his entry.

“IT IS TIME,” Doug Landry, a former Hillary Clinton aide, wrote Wednesday, tweeting a cartoon image of Obama as superman. “RELEASE THE SUPER SURROGATE.”

Sources close to the former president is ready, but that he and Biden are also conscious of the coronavirus pandemic dominating the country and changing the nature of politics.

Biden actually spoke by phone with Trump on Monday to discuss the pandemic, and Sanders made it clear that the spreading virus was one reason he ended his campaign on Wednesday despite the urgings of some supporters to continue.

“He’s eager to go,” said one source close to Obama. “He’s been waiting for this election for almost four years.”

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Deborah Birx Couldn’t Treat Her Sick Granddaughter Because of Concern for Trump’s Wellbeing

Deborah Birx, a member of Trump’s Coronavirus Task Force and one of two leading medical experts on the team, revealed on Monday that over the weekend she chose not to treat her sick 10 month old granddaughter who had a temperature of 105, because she didn’t want Trump or Pence to get sick.

“We need to take care of each other now as Americans. And I know they’re tough,” Birx said. “My grandchild of 10 months had a fever of 105 this weekend. I’m a doctor, and I couldn’t get there. So I’m trying to explain to my daughter how to listen to her lungs.”

“You could not get there?” Trump, 73, asked Birx as she was speaking.

“I could not go there!” Birx quipped back, prompting Trump to say, “Good, I’m glad to hear it.”

“I did not go there, because of you two,” Birx said in reference to Trump and Pence, 60. “I mean, you can’t take that kind of risk with leaders of the country.”

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Until It’s Safe

Really easy to remember those three words, no? A few syllables and you’ve spoken volumes. And that’s all the president has to say. Until it’s safe.

How long do we stay in our homes? Until it’s safe.
How long do we have to practice distancing? Until it’s safe.
How long do we have to wait until we can see professional sports, cultural events, friends, go to the movies or museums? Until it’s safe.

Until it’s safe.

Not Easter. Not May 1, Not September when the NFL season is supposed to begin.

Until it’s safe. That’s the only answer.

The president proved to me long ago that he is a unique study in ignorance, selfishness and egomania basting in a gumbo of misinformation, unverifiable opinion, and dangerous myopia. When he says that something is fake, I know that it’s real. When he says it’s a hoax, I know it’s true. When he says he’s doing a great job, I know that he’s doing a terrible job. When he says it’s a witch hunt, then I am reasonably certain that there are, in fact, witches, and that they are a cornerstone of our economy. When he says that the press is an enemy, then I must be a traitor.

When he does all of this for political reasons, I understand his motives and chalk it up to the system we have. But the Covid-19 pandemic is different. Now his ignorance and instincts for political survival are getting more people sick and dead. And he’s sending a message to states that they are on their own for supplies and should stop whining if they don’t have enough. After all, he’s a wartime president, but true to form, this is not a national war coordinated at the national level to stop a national threat. This is a bathtub naval operation being fought by a president without a clue as to how to use the federal government for the benefit of all, and with his greatest weapon being a soap-on-a-rope.

It’s also no wonder that the Impeached One is so threatened by Dr. Anthony Fauci. Here’s someone who knows what he’s talking about and is not afraid to say what the president won’t; that we should be in our homes until it’s safe to come out.

And if we’re really afraid of what the pandemic is doing to the economy, then let’s have some real relief. A check for $1,200 isn’t going to cut it for a majority of Americans, and the funds for small business help are actually being given out on a first-come-first-served basis. This is relief? Everybody should get relief that will help them and every business that needs help should get it. You shouldn’t have to rely on a faster Internet connection or being able to get/stay up at 4:00 am simply to survive in the marketplace. Other countries have figured this out. Germany got citizens a payment in three days. Some of us won’t get a payment until September.

As for the election, the president is still underwater in most polls, and Joe Biden and the Democrats haven’t even begun to remind voters that they want to provide everyone with affordable health care, while the president wants to take it away. Or that Democrats want a national program of child care and paid sick days. Or that Democrats want to make sure that corporations can’t use any relief money to buy back stock or pay their CEOs more money. Or that Democrats understand that Covid-19 has uncovered the massive gap in realities in education, earnings, job security and wage equity that exists. This pandemic will change this country in more ways than many people think. We’re not going back to the way things were in 2019.

Have you registered to vote? And have you made sure that you can get a mail-in ballot if polls are closed or compromised by a repeat pandemic in the fall? Do it now.

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