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Thanks for the memories - some of which we'd rather forget.
DONALD TRUMP'S CHAMPIONING OF VACCINES LEAVES HIS FOLLOWERS ANGRY, CONFUSED
Darragh Roche - 4h ago
Former President Donald Trump's recent touting of COVID-19 vaccines has caused consternation among some of his supporters amid persistent vaccine skepticism in the U.S.
Trump has previously encouraged vaccinations, but he appears to have become an even stronger advocate for the shots in recent weeks, telling Candace Owens of The Daily Wire that unvaccinated people are the ones getting very sick.
His stance has caused some anger and confusion, with a crowd recently booing him after he revealed he had received a vaccine booster shot and typically friendly commentators criticizing him.
On Sunday night, Trump appeared in Dallas, Texas with former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly during the final part of "The History Tour" event.
O'Reilly told the crowd that both he and Trump were vaccinated, which led to booing.
"Did you get the booster?" O'Reilly asked. "Yes," Trump replied, and O'Reilly added: "I got it, too."
Those comments resulted in more booing and Trump told the audience: "Don't! Don't! Don't! Don't! Don't!" and waved away the criticism with his hand.
O'Reilly later suggested in an interview with Dan Abrams of NewsNation that Trump had been upset by the reaction and he had tried to reassure the former president.
'You’re playing right into their hands' when you doubt the vaccine, President Trump says. pic.twitter.com/xJc7JTL0cR
— No Spin News (@NoSpinNews) December 20, 2021
In an interview with Candace Owens released on Wednesday, Trump again promoted vaccination against COVID-19 and pushed back against a suggestion that the vaccines aren't effective.
"I came up with a vaccine, with three vaccines," Trump said. "All are very, very good. Came up with three of them in less than nine months. It was supposed to take five to 12 years."
Owens cut in during those remarks, saying: "And yet more people have died under COVID-19 this year, by the way, under Joe Biden than under you. And more people took the vaccine this year, so people are questioning how..."
"Oh no, the vaccine[s] work, but some people aren't taking them," Trump said. "The ones that get very sick and go to the hospital are the ones who don't take their vaccine."
"But it's still their choice, and if you take the vaccine you're protected. Look, the results of the vaccine are very good. And if you do get it, it's a very minor form. People aren't dying when they take the vaccine," he said.
Some figures on the right expressed criticism of Trump for his stance on vaccines.
"Remember when Trump said you would be playing right into the Democrat's hands by mocking the rushed, ineffective shot?" Stop the Steal organizer Ali Alexander wrote on messaging app Telegram.
"Yeah, Joe Biden praises him and his booster shot. Trump, stop. Just stop. Have your position (backed by Fauci) and allow us to have ours (which is backed by science). This losing is getting boomer level annoying," he said.
Stop the Steal was a campaign promoting the unfounded claim that 2020 presidential election had been stolen from Trump through voter fraud.
Conservative cartoonist Ben Garrison, who has been a strong supporter of Trump, caused some surprise by releasing a new cartoon criticizing the former president for his position on vaccines. It depicted Trump on a "vaccine bandwagon" while people wearing red MAGA hats booed him.
Conspiracy theorist and InfoWars host Alex Jones, who has also been supportive of Trump in the past, said on his show this week that "we're fighting Bill Gates and Fauci and Biden and the New World Order and Psaki and the Davos Group."
"And now we've got Trump on their team," Jones said.
Owens took to Twitter following the widespread coverage of Trump's remarks and while she did not criticize the former president, she made it clear she disagreed with him.
"I have no issue with any person who wants to get the vaccine," Owens wrote. "I just will never ever let that vaccine into my body. I believe firmly that Big Pharma is the greatest evil on the face of the planet. I am healthy, young, in shape and simply unafraid of Covid-19."
In a subsequent tweet, Owens said she doesn't trust the vaccine and questioned its scientific basis.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/donald-trump-s-championing-of-vaccines-leaves-his-followers-angry-confused/ar-AAS7tr9?ocid=msedgntp
Isn't it ironic the government this deranged man hates shows him mercy by providing medical care he apparently needs?
Now what do cult members do when the cult leader turns his back on them?
Excellent column - Prof Tribe nails it every time.
The rule of law is on life support. Unless those responsible for the 1/6 attempt to overthrow our government are fully investigated/prosecuted, nobody will trust this gov't, nor should they.
Will Trump get away with inciting an insurrection?
How many of the 1.8 million you cite can avoid paying their taxes?
The CEO of Novavax, a biotechnology company headquartered in MD, was on CNBC this morning talking about their vaccine that provides protection against omicron...An advantage the Novavax' vaccine has is it easy to store, making it easy to ship worldwide.
Very clever.
DR. FAUCI CALLS ANTI-VAXXER RFK JR. A "DEEPLY DISTURBED INDIVIDUAL" AFTER COMMENTS SPARK DEATH THREATS
Colby Hall - 22m ago
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/dr-fauci-calls-anti-vaxxer-rfk-jr-a-deeply-disturbed-individual-after-comments-spark-death-threats/ar-AAS3Zoi?ocid=msedgntp
I believe it WILL NOT happen...If FOX cleaned house there would be nobody to put on their broadcasts.
I was specifically talking about Congressman Kennedy appearance on CNN today - he rightly condemned FOX' JW publicly and he should publicly treat his relative the same way.
You have more confidence than me in FOX behaving responsibly - look no further than Tucker Carlson's nightly rhetoric.
Setting aside the accusatorial headline, the key sentence was buried in the middle of the article...
There's no evidence that the experiments in question had any direct bearing on the pandemic.
THE REAL REASON THE RIGHT HATES ANTHONY FAUCI
By Paul Waldman
Today at 12:46 p.m. EST
Two years into the coronavirus pandemic, the American right is still consumed with hatred for White House adviser Anthony S. Fauci. So much so that not only do they scheme to destroy Fauci, the longtime head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, but their obsession sometimes devolves into violent fantasies.
Speaking at a conference of the right-wing “youth” organization Turning Point USA, Fox News host Jesse Watters instructed the assembled activists on how they should track down and confront Fauci, to create a viral moment that Fox could then use to achieve the movement’s political ends.
The next time someone says Fox is a “news” organization, you might want to recall this moment, when one of the network’s stars tells activists to find and confront Fauci, “go in for the kill shot” of what he thinks is a clever question (“Boom! He is dead!”) and then “get that footage to us” so it can be used against him.
Fox is hardly alone. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis sends out fundraising emails warning that Fauci will turn “our communities” into “Faucian dystopias in which people’s freedoms are curtailed and their livelihoods destroyed.” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) introduced a bill to have him fired. You can barely tune in to a conservative media outlet before someone starts ranting about Fauci.
You might find the right’s venom for Fauci to be inexplicable. He’s not some kind of partisan going around telling people to vote for Democrats. What did he do to make them so angry? He did what any public health official would have done, which is to explain what we know and don’t know about the virus and encourage people to take precautions.
And while Donald Trump was still president, Fauci supported his administration’s efforts. Even if he declined to engage in the pathetic public performance of sycophancy that Trump demanded from nearly everyone, he avoided contradicting Trump wherever possible.
Andy Slavitt: It’s time to start requiring booster shots
Nevertheless, within just a few months of the emergence of covid-19, hatred of Fauci went from being a fringe-right belief to an almost universal marker of Republican identity.
Ask a liberal why this is, and they might say, “Because he’s a scientist and Republicans hate science!” It’s true that conservatives often harbor antipathy toward scientific authority, particularly the kind that comes with credentials and earned expertise. At the same time, they can be drawn to fake expertise and irrelevant credentials, like the engineer who declares that he knows more about climate change than any climatologist, or the economist who thinks he has caught what all the virologists have missed.
But I don’t think conservatives’ views on scientists and science explain their bottomless loathing for Fauci.
I would suggest that it has two primary roots. The first is that from the beginning of the pandemic, Fauci was embraced by many liberals looking for reassurance that this was a solvable problem. He was a renowned scientist, but also a personable, grandfatherly figure who excelled at explaining complicated questions to a lay audience. He quickly became a star, complete with bobblehead dolls.
And though he was anything but a Trump critic, when asked directly by reporters whether some idiotic utterance of Trump’s was true, he would say no. Which convinced liberals that he was quietly their ally, further reinforcing their affection for him.
If liberals loved him, that meant conservatives had to hate him. At this moment the Republican Party’s policy agenda is a desiccated husk to which no one in their party pays more than the most perfunctory attention. What animates them is hatred of the left and the ongoing, endlessly renewable need to Own the Libs. Bashing Fauci became one more way to accomplish that goal.
The second source of rage at Fauci is that conservative media needed a villain for the pandemic story. And not just a villain, but a domestic villain, a target for all the loathing they could muster in order to turn the pandemic into another weapon in the endless war against liberals and liberalism.
Had a Democrat been president at the time, that president would have sufficed, but Trump was president when the pandemic began. So Fauci became the focus of their anger. He was responsible for every public health measure they didn’t like. He was taking away their freedom. And in a particularly insane twist, people even convinced themselves that he created the pandemic in the first place. No conspiracy theory involving Fauci is too bizarre for some conservatives to embrace.
So today, Fauci is a vehicle for the conservative elite to achieve its goals. For Fox News — which runs on anger and fear — he’s a means of keeping viewers agitated and excited. For someone like DeSantis, he’s a fundraising tool. For other Republicans, raging at him is a way to show the voters you love freedom and hate government bureaucrats.
A Fox News host may tell a crowd that the right question thrown in Fauci’s face will be the “kill shot” that renders him “dead,” but that’s the last thing that elite really wants. If he retired tomorrow, they’d be crestfallen. As long as the pandemic lasts, they’ll need Fauci for their own ends.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/21/why-the-right-hates-fauci/
I noticed former Congressman Joseph Kennedy III on CNN today talking about FOX' JW comments about attacking Dr. Fauci - needless to say Kennedy condemned JW's comments...However, CNN never asked the congressman about his opportunist relative, hustler Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. who makes money promoting an anti-vaccine web site along with crackpot "doctors" who are against vaccines.
If the congressman wants to be taken seriously, he has to condemn ALL hustlers, including those within his family.
- Very good
FOX won't do anything - JW's incendiary rhetoric = high ratings.
According to Pew Research, only 57% of WV's eligible voters voted in 2020...
Jan 29, 2021 · The lowest-turnout states were Tennessee (59.6% of estimated eligible voters), Hawaii and West Virginia (57% each), Arkansas (55.9%) and Oklahoma (54.8%).
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/01/28
Yep - go figure!
MANCHIN'S PRIVATE OFFER TO BIDEN INCLUDED PRE-K, CLIMATE MONEY, OBAMACARE - BUT EXCLUDED CHILD BENEFIT
The West Virginia Democrat tried to pare back a tax and spending package, stripping out pieces the White House wanted to keep
https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/12/20/manchin-biden-child-tax-credit/
Nobody ever accused SP of being smart.
The cult turned on the cult leader...
Trump's supporters booed and jeered when he revealed he got a booster shot and is pro-vaccination
ssheth@businessinsider.com (Sonam Sheth)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-supporters-booed-and-jeered-when-he-revealed-he-got-a-booster-shot-and-is-pro-vaccination/ar-AARZD9T?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531
The cult turned on the cult leader when TFG announced he got a booster shot and is pro-vaccination - they booed and jeered TFG. Bill O'Reilly chimed in and said he did too.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-supporters-booed-and-jeered-when-he-revealed-he-got-a-booster-shot-and-is-pro-vaccination/ar-AARZD9T?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531
OHIO HOSPITALS TAKE OUT NEWSPAPER AD BEGGING PEOPLE TO GET VACCINATED: "WE NEED YOU TO CARE AS MUCH AS WE DO"
By Jessica Lipscomb
Today at 4:05 a.m. EST
Facing an increase in coronavirus cases as the omicron variant rapidly spreads through Ohio, leaders of six health-care facilities in the Cleveland area took out a full-page ad in the state’s largest newspaper pleading with residents to get vaccinated.
One word anchors the message: “Help.”
“We now have more COVID-19 patients in our hospitals than ever before,” the ad in Sunday’s issue of the Plain Dealer says. “And the overwhelming majority are unvaccinated. This is preventable.”
It ends with a desperate plea for the attention of a pandemic-fatigued public: “We need you to care as much as we do.”
In Ohio, less than 55 percent of residents are fully vaccinated, and about 36 percent are fully vaccinated with a booster shot. The state has seen a 30 percent increase in coronavirus cases in the past week, according to The Washington Post’s tracker. Deaths are up 16 percent.
Even as cases rise, Ohio is facing a shortage of health workers to provide care. Gov. Mike DeWine (R) announced Friday that he would mobilize over 1,000 members of the Ohio National Guard across the state to help provide relief. Those missions start Monday.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/12/20/cleveland-hospitals-newspaper-ad-covid-cases/
17.6% of West Virginia lives below the poverty line - I am sure they could care less what Manchin's "house boat"/yacht is called.
17.6%
Here are the 10 states with the highest poverty rates as of the latest Census data: Mississippi: 20.3% of population lives below the poverty line Louisiana: 19.2% of population lives below the poverty line New Mexico: 19.1% of population lives below the poverty line West Virginia: 17.6% of population lives below the poverty line
U.S. Poverty Rate By State In 2021
www.forbes.com/sites/andrewdepietro/2021/11/04/us-poverty-rate-by-state-in-2021/
OUTGOING NIH DIRECTOR SAYS TRUMP AND OTHER REPUBLICANS PRESSURED HIM TO ENDORSE UNPROVEN COVID-19 REMEDIES AND TO FIRE FAUCI
By Deidre McPhillips and Devan Cole
CNN - 1h ago
The outgoing director of the National Institutes of Health said Sunday that he faced political pressure from then-President Donald Trump and other Republicans to endorse unproven Covid-19 remedies such as hydroxychloroquine and to fire Dr. Anthony Fauci, the head of NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Dr. Francis Collins, whose last day as NIH director is Sunday, told CBS News that he got a "talking to" by Trump, but that he held his ground and would have resigned if Trump made him endorse remedies for Covid-19 that were not based in science.
"I have done everything I can to stay out of any kind of political, partisan debates because it is really not a place where medical research belongs," he said. "I was not going to compromise scientific principles to just hold onto the job."
Trump frequently touted hydroxychloroquine as a potential Covid-19 cure, and he claimed while in office to have used it himself even as medical experts and the US Food and Drug Administration questioned its efficacy and warned of potentially harmful side effects. In June 2020, the FDA revoked its emergency use authorization for both hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine for the treatment of Covid-19, saying it determined the drugs were unlikely to be effective in treating Covid-19 based on the latest scientific evidence.
CNN has reached out to the office of the former President for comment on Collins' interview.
Collins also said he fought back calls from Republicans for him to fire Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert who now serves as President Joe Biden's chief medical adviser.
"Can you imagine a circumstance where the director of the NIH, somebody who believes in science, would submit to political pressures and fire the greatest expert in infectious disease that the world has known, just to satisfy political concerns?" he said.
Fauci has faced harsh criticism from Republicans, including Trump, during the pandemic, with the longtime public servant being assailed for what they see as an overly cautious approach to the crisis and his occasional reversal on some key issues, including mask-wearing.
Collins said on Sunday that during his 12 years serving as NIH director, one thing he would have studied more carefully is hesitancy.
"I did not imagine there would be 60 million people who, faced with compelling evidence of the life-saving nature of Covid vaccines, would still say, 'No, not for me,'" he said.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/outgoing-nih-director-says-trump-and-other-republicans-pressured-him-to-endorse-unproven-covid-19-remedies-and-to-fire-fauci/ar-AARYd0F?ocid=msedgntp
Why doesn't the WH clear the air and release Sen Manchin's outline for BBB that he submitted to Pres Biden this past Tuesday?
And are there any hints about who got to Manchin and what he was promised to go back on his word?
OUTGOING NIH DIRECTOR SAYS TRUMP AND OTHER REPUBLICANS PRESSURED HIM TO ENDORSE UNPROVEN COVID-19 REMEDIES AND TO FIRE FAUCI
By Deidre McPhillips and Devan Cole
CNN - 1h ago
The outgoing director of the National Institutes of Health said Sunday that he faced political pressure from then-President Donald Trump and other Republicans to endorse unproven Covid-19 remedies such as hydroxychloroquine and to fire Dr. Anthony Fauci, the head of NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Dr. Francis Collins, whose last day as NIH director is Sunday, told CBS News that he got a "talking to" by Trump, but that he held his ground and would have resigned if Trump made him endorse remedies for Covid-19 that were not based in science.
"I have done everything I can to stay out of any kind of political, partisan debates because it is really not a place where medical research belongs," he said. "I was not going to compromise scientific principles to just hold onto the job."
Trump frequently touted hydroxychloroquine as a potential Covid-19 cure, and he claimed while in office to have used it himself even as medical experts and the US Food and Drug Administration questioned its efficacy and warned of potentially harmful side effects. In June 2020, the FDA revoked its emergency use authorization for both hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine for the treatment of Covid-19, saying it determined the drugs were unlikely to be effective in treating Covid-19 based on the latest scientific evidence.
CNN has reached out to the office of the former President for comment on Collins' interview.
Collins also said he fought back calls from Republicans for him to fire Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert who now serves as President Joe Biden's chief medical adviser.
"Can you imagine a circumstance where the director of the NIH, somebody who believes in science, would submit to political pressures and fire the greatest expert in infectious disease that the world has known, just to satisfy political concerns?" he said.
Fauci has faced harsh criticism from Republicans, including Trump, during the pandemic, with the longtime public servant being assailed for what they see as an overly cautious approach to the crisis and his occasional reversal on some key issues, including mask-wearing.
Collins said on Sunday that during his 12 years serving as NIH director, one thing he would have studied more carefully is hesitancy.
"I did not imagine there would be 60 million people who, faced with compelling evidence of the life-saving nature of Covid vaccines, would still say, 'No, not for me,'" he said.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/outgoing-nih-director-says-trump-and-other-republicans-pressured-him-to-endorse-unproven-covid-19-remedies-and-to-fire-fauci/ar-AARYd0F?ocid=msedgntp
Manchin will probably be sailing on his yacht over the Christmas break.
POLITICO's article indicated an aide to Joe Manchin contacted the WH less than 30 minutes before Manchin was scheduled to go on FOX - Manchin then refused a tele call from the WH.
West Virginia voters must like Manchin - he was elected WV's sec'ty of state, governor, and has been WV's U.S. senator since 2010.
My issue is not with Manchin - the Dems knew what they were dealing with in a senator who owes his office to the pharma/coal industries...My issue is how the Dems handled him - for six months Manchin was stringing the Dems along and they always came back for more!
FINALLY the admin is showing a fighting spirit!
Shame on the Dems for allowing Manchin to string them along!!!
I don't always agree with Sen Bernie Sanders, but I do agree the Dems should bring the BBB bill to the floor and have every senator's vote go on the record. If Pres Biden refuses to do this because he doesn't want to embarrass Manchin, perhaps he's not the right person for the job - being a nice grandpa doesn't get important bills passed.
This headline could have been written 6 months ago.
MANCHIN SAYS HE "CANNOT VOTE" FOR DEMOCRATS' $2 TRILLION SPENDING PACKAGE
The West Virginia Democrat says ‘This is a no,’ potentially spelling doom for major part of Biden agenda
By Tony Romm
Today at 9:25 a.m. EST
https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/12/19/manchin-build-back-better-biden/
Botox overdose.
And WHO decides what is the "accurate lessons on U.S. History"?
Helmer is from Fairfax County - he had to fight against Semitism in his last campaign.