Trump called Mark Meadows revelation about Trump testing positive for COVID so Meadows is now calling his own revelation fake news.
Newsmax anchor Rob Schmitt: "I believe the president said it's fake news. What's the story here?"
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) December 2, 2021
Mark Meadows: "Well, the president's right, it's fake news." pic.twitter.com/p2zkaT5Vw0
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October 8, 2020, Wall Street Journal:
WASHINGTON—President Trump on Thursday speculated that he contracted the coronavirus from one or more of the Gold Star families with whom he met recently, suggesting that his infection could have come from families of survivors of the combat dead who got too close.
“They come within an inch of my face sometimes and they want to hug me, they want to kiss me, and they do, and frankly, I’m not telling them to back up, I’m not doing it,” Mr. Trump said on an appearance on Fox Business. “But it’s obviously dangerous.”
So the meeting with Gold Star families was "obviously dangerous," but for whom?
Now we learn that Trump knew he had COVID when he was "an inch" from their faces. Trump tested positive for COVID on September 26 and met the Gold Star families on September 27:
Former President Trump tested positive for Covid-19 on Sept. 26, three days before he debated President Biden and six days before the White House publicly announced he had the virus, former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows wrote in his new book. The White House announced Trump tested positive for Covid on Oct. 2 and he was hospitalized at Walter Reed Medical Center.
“Nothing was going to stop [Trump] from going out there,” Meadows wrote.
So Trump knew close contact with an infected person is dangerous, and he knew he had COVID. Nonetheless, he suggested that the people he endangered made him sick, but he allowed it out of a sense of selfless courage.
What a selfish louse.
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This is why one of the nation’s top doctors has to have armed security. Because of kooks like this. https://t.co/JvHPyfsrX7
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) November 30, 2021
Logan works for Sinclair Broadcasting. These days, it's nearly impossible to distinguish between right-wing media figures who make outrageous statements to boost their career versus those who are manifesting serious psychological disturbance.
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Are there any branches of academic theory that would explore this question? https://t.co/twFWaU7x0G
— Eric Kleefeld (@EricKleefeld) November 23, 2021
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Michael Flynn tonight: “If we are going to have one nation under God, which we must, we have to have one religion. One nation under God, and one religion under God.” pic.twitter.com/ShGVrsQ9hW
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) November 13, 2021
Flynn is appealing to white Christian nationalists.
Flynn's descent into political madness checks every box indicating extremism driven by death anxiety. (1, 2, 3, 4). He was already wobbly when he was forced out as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, but that humiliation may have thrown him over the edge.
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Or maybe not.
Talked to a guy who believes the vaccine is killing people and Donald Trump saved lives with Operation Warp Speed. pic.twitter.com/R1mRDB2J45
— The Good Liars (@TheGoodLiars) October 25, 2021
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Eamon Javers is a senior D.C. correspondent for CNBC.
There’s an absolutely bonkers flame war going on in the dark web right now. It’s nuts, but American companies and government agencies might want to pay attention. Because (likely) Russian hackers are venting rage against the US and vowing revenge.
— Eamon Javers (@EamonJavers) October 22, 2021 It all started earlier this week when the US government reportedly launched a coordinated attempt to bring down the servers of the ransomware group REvil.
Eamon Javers @EamonJavers · Oct 22 But today the Conti hacking group has issued an epic screed against the US government - complaining that it is unfair and illegal to hack them.
Eamon Javers @EamonJavers · Oct 22 That’s right - the hackers are complaining about hacking.
Eamon Javers @EamonJavers · Oct 22 In their post, the group says “First, an attack against some servers, which the US security attributes to REvil, is another reminder of what we all know: the unilateral, extraterritorial, and bandit-mugging behavior of the United States in world affairs.”
Eamon Javers @EamonJavers · Oct 22 They say journalists operate in the “Twitter brothel” - which, you know, is fair. But they also say the Americans who attacked REvil are “vampires drunken and intoxicated by impunity and blood.”
Eamon Javers @EamonJavers · Oct 22 Remember, this is a group that brought down the Irish health care system and closed hospitals during a pandemic. So.
Eamon Javers @EamonJavers · Oct 22 At about the same time, a group called Groove put up a post in Russian urging fellow hackers to strip competing and unite to destroy the state sector of the US to show “who is the boss” of the internet.
Eamon Javers @EamonJavers · Oct 22 They also make an oddly specific and quite vulgar threat against president Biden.
Eamon Javers @EamonJavers · Oct 22 So all that is to say, watch your servers this weekend, folks. The hackers are angry.
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I've been working so much lately, I've had little time to read. Since I commute by car most days, I decided to give audiobooks a try. I subscribed to Audible, which doesn't have everything I'd like to "read," but so far, I've gotten through Understanding and Treating Chronic Shame (Patricia DeYoung), How Emotions Are Made (Lisa Feldman Barrett), and The Genetic Lottery (Kathryn Paige Harden). All three are excellent, though if I were making recommendations, I'd say everyone should read Harden's book, Feldman Barrett is optional, and DeYoung's book should be on every psychodynamic, self-psychologist, and relational psychologist's reading list.
Audible was fine for the first two books, but The Genetic Lottery is thick with studies that Harden unpacks, so it requires hard copy reading, which I'll get to. Harden is a clinical (research) psychologist at the University of Texas Austin, where she leads the behavioral genetics lab and runs a twins study. In this book, she draws upon research across multiple disciplines.
Otherwise, I've got the late psychoanalyst Steven Mitchell's book, Can Love Last? in the hopper. Also in the cue are Hanya Yanagihara's a Little Life, Jonathan Franzen's Crossroads, and Trauma and Dissociation by Elizabeth Howell.
I prefer to read books or books on Kindle, but audiobooks are doing the job for now.
I might write about Harden's controversial book if I get a bit more free time. Behavioral genetics has gotten much more sophisticated in recent years, and I can see both liberals and conservatives hating on the book. But every thoughtful person should read it because it will inform and challenge your thinking on the subject.
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4.3 million workers quit their jobs. We need to quit paying folks not to work.
— Tim Burchett (@timburchett) October 14, 2021
Tim Burchett is the US congressman from Tennessee's 2nd District. He made it to age 57 without knowing that you can't collect unemployment when you quit your job, yet he can vote on policy pertaining to unemployment benefits.
We don't know for sure why 4.3 million workers quit their jobs, but speculation is that they're feeling unsafe at work, or COVID pay boosts have been scaled back, or they're rethinking work-non-work life balance. Anyone who quit believing they would receive unemployment benefits will be sorely disappointed. Moreover, the extended federal unemployment benefits for those who were involuntarily unemployed during the pandemic ended six weeks ago.
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Defund the police is a stupid position to take, but this is right up there. Defunding the police is theoretically possible, even if foolish, but how is defunding the media even possible unless everyone stops consuming media? The person posting this approvingly (based on her other posts) is literally posting it on social media, which is making money off her/our eyeballs and tweets.
🇺🇲🚨 PROTESTERS IN NYC HAVE SURROUNDED NEW YORK TIMES HQ AND ARE CHANTING "DEFUND THE MEDIA" 💥⚡ pic.twitter.com/U20DCMSUbz
— bristolblues (@BristolBlues32) October 16, 2021
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“Ali would be proud of you”
— NBA Central (@TheNBACentral) October 14, 2021
- Stephon Marbury’s message to Kyrie Irving pic.twitter.com/lCLrkotP7t
Yeah... um... maybe not.
Muhammad Ali's vaccine mandate commercial. He urged compliance with the law.
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.@MTG and @RepDebDingell just got into screaming match on steps of Capitol after MTG heckled Democrats holding a press conf after passing legislation responding to Texas abortion law pic.twitter.com/Kq11xko04r
— Scott Wong (@scottwongDC) September 24, 2021
Marjorie Taylor Greene just started yelling at Debbie Dingel, who was holding a press conference outside the Capitol. Greene is known for launching verbal tirades at people who've had no interaction with her. Maybe MTG's ranting impresses her supporters, but I think the greater effect is to make the GOP look more unhinged in the eyes of the suburban swing voters.
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The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare has implemented crisis standards of care, which means care is now being rationed using a complicated system of choices intended to save the greatest number of lives instead of providing the highest level of care to all patients. The rationing is necessary because of the high numbers of unvaccinated hospitalized COVID patients, but all patients are part of the rationing plan regardless of diagnosis. This is one way your personal decision to pass on vaccination is no longer personal.
Idaho has the lowest state rate of fully vaccinated (41%) residents in the entire nation, which is even lower than the global rate of 43.9%.
Jim Souza, chief physician executive of the St. Luke's hospital system in Idaho, described the crisis standards as "an unprecedented even in modern medicine." Buzzfeed:
As the Delta variant of the coronavirus tears through Idaho and the rest of the US, Souza said he and his St. Luke’s colleagues have noticed several important differences from the December 2020 surge. Patients are younger (averaging 58 years old, down from 72), they are sicker and require more mechanical ventilation, they are staying in the ICU longer, and they are dying more frequently (the ICU mortality rate has jumped from 28% to 43%). Some 80 people have died from COVID in St. Luke’s hospitals in just the past three weeks.
“In a really morbid exercise, just in the month of September, if you look at the ages of the people we have lost and you apply to them average lifespans, we have lost more than 1,100 life years,” Souza said. “Can you imagine that? And for the people who say, ‘We all die sometime.’ Yes, we do. But these people didn’t need to die now. They didn’t need to die like this.
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"Days before lawyers allied with Donald Trump gave a news conference promoting election conspiracy theories, his campaign had determined that many of those claims were false." Court filings in a Dominion defamation suit reveal an internal Trump campaign memo had already debunked the claims.
Not that this will matter to anyone who believes the conspiracy theories. Once conspiracy theories take hold, evidence to the contrary does not dislodge them. That's what's so insidiously destructive about Donald Trump's compulsive lying to his supporters. Among those who've embraced him as a cult leader, the accumulation of lies is impervious to scrutiny and evidence.
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