Fauci Tells Trump Again: No Quick Vaccine
Dr. Fauci. director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), is once again speaking truth to power. CNN reports that Trump held a meeting today in the … Read More
Category: Covid-19
Once again, Trump insists nobody knew a thing that everybody knows
For the umpteenth time, Donald Trump urges you to join him in his jaw-dropping ignorance: x Trump learns that tens of thousands of Americans die of the flu every year, … Read More
VP Pence in presser continues to disinform on COVID-19, complimenting Dear Leader
Referring to a Trumpian “(w)hole of government approach” Pence is using the WH briefing room to dispense some disinformation where there are now 100 cases (Pence claimed 43 cases) touting a … Read More
Science—Smience
Well, over the weekend, the President of the United States did what he does best, confused us, lied to us and denied the science. On Friday night in South Carolina, … Read More
New MAGA corona-spiracy! Only blue staters are getting sick, because they want to hurt Trump
I said this when Donald Trump was first elected: Our country is too stupid to live. I never meant it literally, though. I may have been wrong about that. As … Read More
Second US death. Inoculating against pathological viroTrumpism requires testimony under oath
As a second US citizen (also in Washington State) dies from COVID-19, the Trump lies continue. A reminder that actual Trumpian truth happens only under oath. Trump had brought it … Read More
Stop. Buying. Masks.
This is a Public Service Announcement courtesy of one of the few officials in this administration that knows what he’s talking about: The surgeon general wants Americans to stop buying … Read More
Trump and COVID-19: How the Hell Do You Know the Risk is Low with No Data?
God the Media is terrible when it comes to science and medical issues. Trump has everyone at his latest press conference saying that the risk of COVID-19 to Americans is … Read More
Mulvaney: Media should focus less on coronavirus and more on Trump's relationship with Barron
Wait, you mean HE WHO CANNOT BE NAMED?!?!?!?!? We’ve now reached Beyond Parody 2.0, folks. Or maybe Irony Is Dead Cubed. x Mulvaney says the press ought to be covering … Read More
Ted Cruz tried to explain science to AOC, but he inconveniently forgot he's dumb
Oh, it’s like shooting transitional fish fossils in a barrel. First, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rightly pointed out that Mike Pence is to science as Donald Trump is to leafy green … Read More
The “Everything Terrible Trump Has Done So Far” Omnibus (Week 162)
As part of the ongoing project to catalog every awful thing the Trump Administration has done as a reference for future political arguments and whatever few posterity survives to see … Read More
Rolling Stone: Elizabeth Warren Calls for Border Wall Money to Be Redirected to Fight Coronavirus
Couldn’t agree more: Sen. Elizabeth Warren said that funds being used to construct the president’s border wall with Mexico should be redirected to help contain coronavirus, a quickly spreading epidemic with origins in … Read More
Rod Rosenstein's sister is a top CDC official, so naturally coronavirus is another deep-state plot
As we all know, conservative conspiracy theories can be deadly. Just ask the basement gimp at Comet Ping Pong. But if conservatives succeed in spreading their latest conspiracy theory like, … Read More
Coronavirus: First repeat patient recorded
Japan is now reporting that a female tour-bus guide has been diagnosed with COVID-19. Normally, individual infections aren’t news at this stage of the virus’s spread. Except that this patient was … Read More
Trump says COVID-19 is like “the flu” and Mike Pence believes “smoking doesn't kill”
Doublespeak is language that deliberately obscures, disguises, distorts, or reverses the meaning of words. Doublespeak may take the form of euphemisms, in which case it is primarily meant to make … Read More
Trump COVID19 Presser needs fact-checks as he dismantles the national pandemic preparation system
Trump’s Katrina is coming. The global economy will be making a downturn with the coronavirus COVID-19. Trump just had another lie-filled presser claiming it will all get better and that … Read More
Round up your prayer circles, folks: Pence put in charge of coronavirus response
You might also want to put on your fanciest snake-handlin’ pants, because the guy who doesn’t believe in natural selection (i.e., the mechanism behind the mutation of viruses and bacteria) is now … Read More
Trump's doctor hid cauliflower in POTUS' mashed potatoes to improve his diet. No, seriously
When Sour Patch Kids, Hot Pockets, and chicken fingers don’t quite seem like a balanced diet … The Hill: President Trump’s former doctor reportedly hid cauliflower in his mashed potatoes in … Read More
Top DHS official can't find key coronavirus resource, asks Twitter for help
So glad to see our government is on top of the coronavirus outbreak! Well, Rush Limbaugh thinks COVID-19 is just the common cold, and he has a Presidential Medal of Freedom, … Read More
is there a bubble for responding to a pandemic
Like financial bubbles, health epidemics also appear to be based on implausible or inconsistent views about the future. Trump could double-down on his inaction and use the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic to implement … Read More
Ted Lieu: Dow is plummeting due to coronavirus, so why is Trump proposing deep cuts to the CDC?
It’s pretty much a given that Donald Trump cares more about his reelection and his wealthy cronies’ stock portfolios than he does dying Chinese, Italian, and Iranian people, so maybe … Read More
