Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/04/27/white-house-rebrand-coronaviru.html
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Reminder: the only person on Trump’s Task Force to Reopen America who has anything even tangentially related to a background in science or medicine is the guy who was a dog breeder.
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In more recent weeks they have also become a platform for Trump, who is seeking re-election in November, to put forth his own theories on the coronavirus and potential cures, or to attack his political enemies.
I am waiting for him to start using these as clearly campaigning stints, violating various laws against such things, and then nothing is done as far as actual consequences go.
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Undoubtedly, it’ll be economic vitality restored via electrolytes!
It’s what plants crave!
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This has been happening from the start. Unfortunately for Trump, they are campaigning stints for Biden.
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He already has. He used the April 13 briefing to share a campaign video extolling what a great job he’s been doing.
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Yeah, I saw that, but it will get more overt.
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So, more of the same with no epidemiologists, doctors or scientists. Honestly, I’m surprised any credible sources lasted this long.
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Anytime Trump is in front of the camera is good for the opposition. Keep your little narcissistic clown show in prime time Donnie!
Maybe you can add a red nose and huge shoes to your clown makeup and bozo hair? It’s traditional.
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Totally agree. As long as the Orange Emperor wants to keep providing the daily evidence of his incompetence and stupidity, why should we interfere?
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What Trump wants is for everything to immediately and magically go back to pre-COVID times. He wants the booming economy he inherited from Obama to come back.
“Reopening the economy” won’t do that. It will get worse.
The closest we can get to “normal” again is for everyone to continue social distancing, for masks and gloves to be required in public (and supplied by the government), and for reopened businesses to restrict how many patrons are inside at once. At least until a vaccine is developed.
You wouldn’t inhale or inject disinfectants if you had the flu. You wouldn’t drink a quart of vodka to fight the flu. I can’t imagine anyone would seriously think a sun lamp can cure the flu. The same applies to COVID.
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Maybe he’s finally learned that it’s not the flu. And that means…the sky’s the limit! Maybe the laying on of hands by God’s annointed leader cures COVID! Oh fuck yes, let’s sell him and the fundies on that! Important: doesn’t work through gloves, or if you are wearing a mask.
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First question, “Is Trump still testing every person that might meet him for COVID-19 ?”
Follow up question, “Does Trump test every person that might meet him for the flu ?”
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Everyone knows that you use whiskey to fight the flu!
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So let me guess. These new “rebranded” economic reopening briefings will no longer have health experts and will instead have economic experts.
The whole “more and more people dying every day and the virus being out of control” will be ignored by the administration, and instead the focus will be on, “How to get the stadiums packed in time for the football pre-season?” and “How to give more money to the wealthy and ignore the plight of anyone else?”
Can’t fucking wait.
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Sometimes the best thing to say is nothing at all.
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you wanted death panels america, now you’ve got one.
sorry. the phrase you’re looking for is “lab specialist”
i for one can’t wait for the long lines of ceos swearing fealty to trump, and promising (more) things that will never come to pass.
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The fate of the free world may for reals come down to someone mistakenly thinking ‘Dallas Labs’ was short for ‘laboratories’ instead of ‘labradors.’
That’s some real life Robert Anton Wilson / Douglas Adams sh!t right there.
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I wanted healthcare for all and either sufficient raises along with taxes on the rich, or basic livable income. I haven’t gotten what I’ve wanted as a voter in this country essentially ever.
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