All purpose news and politics thread part VI: This Is Not The Time For Posing

[Tami]

Oh for heaven's sake

Hasbrouck Heights school trustee shares FB post referring to diversity as 'white genocide'

HASBROUCK HEIGHTS — A Board of Education trustee — and business partner of Mayor John "Jack" DeLorenzo — referred to diversity as “white genocide” in a social media post he shared on Wednesday.

The post, shared by Robert Faussette, includes a video with a compilation of several instances of violence. There is no context provided in any case and many are blurry. On the bottom of the video, the phrase “Diversity = White Genocide” can plainly be seen. The caption with the video says “WHITE LIVES MATTER” bracketed by heart emojis. It has since been removed from his public page.

Faussette has served on the school board since 2016 and is also on the Mayor’s Business Community Committee for the borough. DeLorenzo made headlines last year for using homophobic rhetoric in his own social media posts.

[AnakinFlair]

After Peddling Conspiracy, Chuck Woolery Announces Son Has COVID And Deletes Twitter

Well, I do hope his son recovers. It's just sad that it takes something like this to make some people believe in the science of this.

[Robotman]

Apparently So Trump fired Brad Parscale for dating Hope Hicks. The only question now is: What can we do to get Hope Hicks to date Bill Barr?

The talk on Twitter is that Trump is jealous of anyone who dates Hope Hicks because he has the hots for her, probably wants to dump Meliana and marry Hicks himself.

I heard this was just a joke/rumor. If Trump were to fire every guy who dates a women he has the hots for, Jared would have been gone a long time ago.

After Peddling Conspiracy, Chuck Woolery Announces Son Has COVID And Deletes Twitter

No surprise there. Conservatives only care about things that directly effects themselves. Empathy is a foreign concept. And you know how much they hate foreigners

[Mister Mets]

Well, folks, it’s official, this White House wants to kill kids:

McEnany on school reopenings: ‘The science should not stand in the way of this’

The full comment is that the science is very clear on this, that the science is on their side, and quotes a study from The Journal of the American Medical Associations.

[BeastieRunner]

The full comment is that the science is very clear on this, that the science is on their side, and quotes a study from The Journal of the American Medical Associations.

Except the science is NOT on their side.

I'm fairly sure they're referencing today's topic:
https://emergency.cdc.gov/coca/calls...C_1052_DM32472

Which says the heart injuries and Kawasaki-like disease is a new one, not COVID-19. That it's still to early too determine if children are severely affected by COVID-19. That having children NOT in school is saving them from COVID-19 and whatever the hell this new thing is.
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_relea...-ksl060820.php

Daily brief said as much, too.
https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-...erns-about-how

It was first published in 2009, but closing schools in 1918-19 SAVED lives. Fact. A lot of the issues we see now, were the same going on then. NY and Chicago stayed open but with heavy medical intervention yet still saw 50% or less kids in school. It was split between illness and safety of staying at home. LA did a letter corospodance course. SF did nothing and saw the most deaths of any US city. In 2009, "In the contemporary policy arena, agreement is lacking on whether school closure would do more harm than good to the overall population and whether the repercussions would outweigh possible benefits for children and surrounding adult communities. Legal scholars and others have emphasized the multiple secondary and tertiary social, economic, and cultural ramifications that could result from extended weeks of familial disruption, the interruption of welfare services such as school meal programs, and problems arising from single parents or hourly workers who cannot afford to miss work." Sounds tha same as now.
https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/fu...aff.28.6.w1066

Trump and his lemmings are just morons when it comes to science.

[InformationGeek]

Profiled him back on April 27th.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/202...thony-Sabatini

Looks like we've got some things to discuss in a 2021 update, though.

As always, it's hard to keep up with all of these jokers. They keep blurring together.


Speaking of jokers, here's some more stupidity with Colorado's GOP House Minority Leader, Patrick Neville.

NEW: GOP House Minority Leader @PatrickForCO tells me he’ll decide for himself whether to follow @GovofCO Polis’ statewide mask mandate and encourages other Coloradans to do the same. #copolitics #COVID19colorado

[InformationGeek]

Also, over at the White House, performance art is happening!

On South Lawn, WH seeks to make a political point by setting up a crane lifting the weights of regulation from the bed of a "red" truck, while showing the burden of regulations weighing down a "blue" truck.

[The Cool Thatguy]

Also, over at the White House, performance art is happening!

Dunno why they bother. Anyone smart enough to get what he's saying, isn't dumb enough to vote for him

[Mister Mets]

Except the science is NOT on their side.

I'm fairly sure they're referencing today's topic:
https://emergency.cdc.gov/coca/calls...C_1052_DM32472

Which says the heart injuries and Kawasaki-like disease is a new one, not COVID-19. That it's still to early too determine if children are severely affected by COVID-19. That having children NOT in school is saving them from COVID-19 and whatever the hell this new thing is.
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_relea...-ksl060820.php

Daily brief said as much, too.
https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-...erns-about-how

It was first published in 2009, but closing schools in 1918-19 SAVED lives. Fact. A lot of the issues we see now, were the same going on then. NY and Chicago stayed open but with heavy medical intervention yet still saw 50% or less kids in school. It was split between illness and safety of staying at home. LA did a letter corospodance course. SF did nothing and saw the most deaths of any US city. In 2009, "In the contemporary policy arena, agreement is lacking on whether school closure would do more harm than good to the overall population and whether the repercussions would outweigh possible benefits for children and surrounding adult communities. Legal scholars and others have emphasized the multiple secondary and tertiary social, economic, and cultural ramifications that could result from extended weeks of familial disruption, the interruption of welfare services such as school meal programs, and problems arising from single parents or hourly workers who cannot afford to miss work." Sounds tha same as now.
https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/fu...aff.28.6.w1066

Trump and his lemmings are just morons when it comes to science.

That the science is not on their side is a perfectly fine argument to make.

It's less credible to do what many in the media did, and take a comment out of context to claim they said one thing when they were saying something else, even if you think the other stuff they were saying is bullshit.

[worstblogever]

Polling since January... the GOP have lost a collective 13% of support compared to Democrats.

[Gray Lensman]

That the science is not on their side is a perfectly fine argument to make.

It's less credible to do what many in the media did, and take a comment out of context to claim they said one thing when they were saying something else, even if you think the other stuff they were saying is bullshit.

The Trump administration has ZERO credibility at this point. It isn't "Trust, but Verify" with them, but rather "Distrust to Clarify." If anyone connected with Trump's government tells me the sky is blue, I'll feel the need to look out the window to make sure.

[BeastieRunner]

That the science is not on their side is a perfectly fine argument to make.

It's less credible to do what many in the media did, and take a comment out of context to claim they said one thing when they were saying something else, even if you think the other stuff they were saying is bullshit.

Your counter-argument is that while what the WH said was incorrect, the headline is the problem? Yes/no? I need some help understanding your point.

WH took a statement out of context, lied (again) about the science, and somehow has the moral advantage on this. This recklessness is getting people killed.

[Steel Inquisitor]

That the science is not on their side is a perfectly fine argument to make.

It's less credible to do what many in the media did, and take a comment out of context to claim they said one thing when they were saying something else, even if you think the other stuff they were saying is bullshit.

Trump's government is going after Dr. Fauci because he's embarrassing Trump, and that's not getting into irresponsible actions Trump's done about the pandemic.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/10/polit...rus/index.html

With coronavirus raging, Trump and Fauci are no longer speaking. The President has taken to openly criticizing him on television. Fauci is expressing puzzlement at some of Trump's claims.

Trump has long chafed at Fauci's tacit rebukes and overt corrections of his misstatements. But at the start of the outbreak he generally remained quiet, understanding he gained little from undermining someone with widespread credibility among the American people.
Instead he declared the longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases a "major television star for all the right reasons" -- an outward compliment that nonetheless signaled to some allies of Trump, who does not like being upstaged or undermined, of trouble brewing.

[worstblogever]

Mary Trump's book sold 950,000 copies on its first day.

Seems like there's a market for tales of Donald being a f***wit, provided you're not John Bolton.

[Tami]

Mary Trump's book sold 950,000 copies on its first day.

Seems like there's a market for tales of Donald being a f***wit, provided you're not John Bolton.

It's on my reading list now