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I lay thousands of death at the tiny, spur ridden feet of Trump yet it is rarely brought up which I don't understand.
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In a sworn deposition before the House January 6 select committee, ex-White House communications boss Alyssa Farah Griffin told investigators she frequently received “signal” from Mr Trump’s reelection campaign asking the White House to refrain from keeping “the doctors” — meaning longtime National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease director Dr Anthony Fauci and White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr Deborah Birx — off of television as a way to “talk about coronavirus less” despite the ongoing pandemic.
“Sometimes, the campaign would signal to talk about coronavirus less. That was ... a battle I was dealing with: ‘Don't put the doctors on TV, don't talk about- - just don't talk about coronavirus in general. It's not driving home a message for us,’” said Ms Griffin, who served as the White House Communications Director from April to December of 2020.

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whenever his name comes up around me (here in my very red midwest town) and someone invariably starts reminiscing about how they miss him - i'll say something roughly like "he sure made a lot of dead americans...i mean, like 20 times the entire Vietnam war or something, right? i forget...did he fight in that?" >

They’ll just say more people died under Biden, which is irrelevant because Trump’s rhetoric is what was responsible for killing a bunch of people. >

which is inherently irrelevant, as that's not how exponential graphs work.
if we had properly responded in the first place, more people would have always lived.
Biden was given a sick country by a man who didn't care. >

Also because after the election a lot of the right wing state governments started going even harder on trying to infect people >

They were still vying for his favor. It was like six months before the Republicans stopped talking like Trump was just down the street and his spies were ready to snitch to him at any moment.
And Trump was offended that the vaccines arrived after the election instead of before. 
If it'd been up to him, they'd still be sitting on the tarmac. He left it up to whoever to distribute them. 
Which gave GOP govenors the opportunity to make sure the vaccines got to the wealthy ahead of the healthcare workers and the nursing home residents. >

He missed his chance there, of throwing the vaccines out to the crowd. >

With his name on them. >

Every time I hear Conservatives complain about Biden's pushing for loan forgiveness as an attempt to "buy votes", I am reminded of Trump sending out an accompanying letter with the Covid stimulus checks taking credit for the relief. >

Yeah no shit.  Donald himself muzzled Nancy Messonier back in February 2020 after she publicly testified that Covid-19 would very soon disrupt every aspect of our lives.  So the man is not only the biggest traitor in American history, but hundreds of thousands of deaths are directly related to his stupidity, vanity, and unwillingness to tell the truth. >

And opportunist. The port cities in New York and California were taking the brunt and they were very unfair to him, so eff ‘em. “New York will suffer and that’s their problem” — Donald Trump’s whiz kid son in law >

Jared took it upon himself to decide that New York state did not need 30,000 ventilators while they were preparing the mass grave on Hart Island.
“I have all this data about ICU capacity. I’m doing my own projections, and I’ve gotten a lot smarter about this. New York doesn’t need all the ventilators,” Kushner said.
Fauci said the estimate of the number of ventilators that New York requested was probably correct. >

“I’m doing my own projections” reading statistics for dummies and playing foosball with his college frat bros, the guys he “hired” to run the Covid analytics in the first place. And they failed. Miserably >

I’m old enough to remember three years ago. >

Pepperidge Farm remembers. >

i'll never forget when the party of "all life is sacred" suggested sacrificing grandma and grandpa go back to work while covid was raging in order to save the economy >

The party that said there would be death panels once the ACA or universal health care became law. >

the party of "fast food jobs are for high school kids!!" and also "why is mcdonalds understaffed at lunchtime!!! no one wants to work!!" >

I remember Fauci joking with one of the late show personalities (Colbert, possibly) at the end of January, 2021 about how, the day of Biden's inauguration, Fauci's media schedule really opened up and he was again available to do press.
"Funny how that is." was Dr. Fauci's response, I believe. >

And they still blame Fauci. >

Yep, and they could never admit that people dying around them were dying from Covid. They just made up something like "natural causes" or "measles". Just like what Russia and Putin would do. >

Oh my favorite: “it’s just really bad flu and 10,000 people die from each year.” >

"Dozens of people spontaneously combust every year. It's just not widely reported" - Spinal Tap 😆 >

Alongside quicksand, spontaneous combustion was something I had a lot of disproportionate worry over as a kid, lol. >

I never thought about what real problems, like what will it be like when a relative asks to borrow money. >

The GOP is right, we do need an investigation into the handling of COVID, by Trump and the criminal GOP. How many people died because of Trump disinformation and lies over COVID. Like everything else, the anti-Fauci "whataboutism" is just projection. >

I find it hilarious how they wanna blame Fauci, but Trump waving his hand saying it would magically go away every two weeks gets no scrutiny whatsoever. They’re full of it. >

Someone explained it like this and it made a lot of sense. If it was 40,000 years ago and the tribal leader was accused of something by someone else, all the tribe would attack the dissenter. It's literally that primal with these cult people. >

It's technically called tribalism. >

Dump was made aware of Covid at least three months prior to the first known case in the US and he did NOTHING. Then once it hit the US, he told the American public that it's nothing and that it will go away very soon etc. The pos has so much blood on his tiny hands. >

Not true, he cut funding for CDC operations in China. >

Ok, he also did that. But none of what I said is not true.  🤷 >

You said he did NOTHING. He did things that made everything worse. If he had done nothing, things wouldn't have been as bad. Same with Elon and Twitter. >

Can't have science getting out to the public >

I believe Fauci did the best he could under difficult circumstances, but fuck Meredith Birx. She was complicit in Trump’s botched Covid response. >

The way everything went down and the many Americans that died because Trump ignored, and even made fun of the Covid threat makes me believe that he really was working for our adversaries. He is a genuine traitor to our country and very much needs to be held accountable. >

💯 Living in NYC in 2020 seriously felt like every day we were under attack from our own fcking country. It was fcking surreal. >

This was already known. It's why Fauci started showing up literally everywhere except major TV spots: podcasts, web features, radio shows, etc. >

There wasn't much cognitive dissonance as there was an attempt to politicize non political positions in our government. They were counting on the GOP knee jerk reaction to anything remotely progressive. Also Trump is a narcissistic high chair tyrant in a diaper who throws his food and can't tolerate being outshined by anyone. >

The killer part is that right wing nut jobs will conveniently sidestep this one and continue to rage that hunter bidens dick pics aren’t allowed on twitter. >

Every tyrant has to control the message. Can't have people go off speaking the truth about things. 
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. >

Academic and scientific institutions should operate like the Fed where the president/congress can't tell them how to meet their mandates, only change what their mandates are. Imagine the president telling Jay Powell he has to drop rates, or else. >

Let’s not forget Trump threw out Obama’s plan for a pandemic. Years of
Planning went into it, and Mango Mussolini destroyed it as soon as he took office just to spite Obama. >

Yeah, everyone already knew that and talked about it when it was happening. >

Now we have proof in a sworn deposition. >

We already had proof on video. >

All those scarves we missed.... >

Ah Dr Birx.  Packing all that sycophancy and pollyanna-ism into one oversized scarf at a time was quite the trick. >

Trump and Co. downplayed the risks of Covid because they wanted people to keep on working for the economy/stock market. Too bad if people died of Covid. >

Don’t talk about it and it won’t affect my poll results. Meanwhile inject bleach and ultraviolet light into the body   This from a world leader during a pandemic. And he wants to run again. >

Bless their hearts. >

Didn’t we know this, at least to an extent, before the insurrection? >

Kellyanne Conway will be dipised by millions for her active role in Trumps plan that killed over a million Americans on US soil.  What is miserable evil vial piece of shit. >

Russia pretty much weaponized stupidity in this fucking moron of mass destruction. >

Trump is responsible for all the Covid deaths in America. >

Pass the ketchup. Steaks are ready >

It’s funny, because if there was some conspiracy about COVID, Trump actively seems like he’s part of the conspiracy. He literally got rid of the government handbook on how to handle a pandemic a few years prior. He silenced scientists or made them alter their message. His administration actively prevented medical equipment/supplies from reaching certain states. Why don’t conspiracy theorists think about the Trump administration actively encouraging the spread of COVID? >

It must’ve been such a nightmare being around this clown on a daily basis. >

What a joke >

Ya screw those nerds amirite? >

Hard to believe that the United States was being run by dipshits, clowns, imbeciles, pedophiles, etc etc. >

Donald Trump is responsible for thousands and thousands of death because of his huge ego >

Fccking monsters >

I would be so happy if Kellyanne had some type of repercussions! >

Didn't everyone know this already? >

Everything Trump touches dies. >

Thought Drumpf was all about the truth and freedom of speech? >

Can we just lock that pig up and let him fade in irrelevancy already? >

He was and continues to be a joke >

Just awful people doing awful stuff >

KellyAnne Conway= The Crypt Keeper. >

He was campaigning on our dime >

Was Birx banned after she said:

“He’s been so attentive to the scientific literature and the details and the data,” Birx said. “I think his ability to analyze and integrate data that comes out of his long history in business has really been a real benefit during these discussions about medical issues.”

Banning someone who uttered that sycophantic drivel doesn't make things worse. >

As they should have, Fauci is a lying snake! >

What lie are you referring to? >

Fauci is one of the most respected scientists to have ever existed. Anyone with anything approaching a perspective about expertise ranks him highly. >

Wtf