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"I really don't know who gave (Dr. Anthony Fauci) the commendation." (2023)
politifact.com

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Former President Donald Trump said he doesn't know who gave Dr. Anthony Fauci a presidential commendation.

Trump's White House website shows it was he who gave Fauci the recognition on his last day in office.
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An archived version of Trump's White House website shows that on Jan. 19, 2021, Trump's last full day in office, Trump awarded presidential commendations to 52 people, including Fauci. The former president recognized the team from Operation Warp Speed, the program to quickly develop a COVID-19 vaccine.

"Today, President Donald J. Trump awarded Presidential Commendations to the below individuals in recognition of their exceptional efforts on Operation Warp Speed," the statement read. ...


Why don't YOU post something and ask me to refute it. Because you're lying....you're not waiting on me to do anything of the sort.

Great "rant".

Now. Learn to read.

From my post.

Any president would be challenged. But studies like the Lancet Commission Report estimated that roughly 40% of U.S. COVID-19 deaths could have been averted if the country matched the lower per-capita death rates of other peer industrialized nations.

More from the study:

Trump exploited low and middle-income white people's anger over their deteriorating life prospects to mobilise racial animus and xenophobia and enlist their support for policies that benefit high-income people and corporations and threaten health. His signature legislative achievement, a trillion-dollar tax cut for corporations and high-income individuals, opened a budget hole that he used to justify cutting food subsidies and health care.

His appeals to racism, nativism, and religious bigotry have emboldened white nationalists and vigilantes, and encouraged police violence and, at the end of his term in office, insurrection. He chose judges for US courts who are dismissive of affirmative action and reproductive, labour, civil, and voting rights; ordered the mass detention of immigrants in hazardous conditions; and promulgated regulations that reduce access to abortion and contraception in the USA and globally. Although his effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act failed, he weakened its coverage and increased the number of uninsured people by 23 million, even before the mass dislocation of the COVID-19 pandemic, and has accelerated the privatisation of government health programmes.

Trump's hostility to environmental regulations has already worsened pollution"resulting in more than 22000 extra deaths in 2019 alone"hastened global warming, and despoiled national monuments and lands sacred to Native people. Disdain for science and cuts to global health programmes and public health agencies have impeded the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, causing tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths, and imperil advances against HIV and other diseases. And Trump's bellicose trade, defence, and foreign policies have led to economic disruption and threaten an upswing in armed conflict.

It goes on and on but you think me listing facts from a study is "ranting". So I'm done.

-Still waiting for you to refute the numerous findings found in this and many other studies.

Why don't YOU post something and ask me to refute it. Because you're lying....you're not waiting on me to do anything of the sort.

Red state morons are red state morons even when a democrat wins the White House, little fella. If anything....in order to own the libs(especially one living in the White House), red state morons work HARDER at being red state morons.

Here....let me help you out......Donald Trump is president....when he won the election and well...every day since....how angry are you? How pissed are you at everyone who voted for him or even sat at home that day when they could have voted against him?

Now...take that anger and give it to everyone who voted FOR Trump and imagine how fucking pissed they all would be if Hillary had won that election.

that is a lot of people who would have set themselves on fire if told to.

Only 4 short years later, a coup was staged at the US Capitol over the baseless allegation the election was stolen.....and then we go ahead and vote that guy back into office AFTER it's revealed it was all bullshit.

You can sell ANYTHING to these people because they want it to be true. How hard would it have been to convince folks COVID was fake, Hillary, Fauci, etc.....all full of shit.

Indivduals and States had to make changes to successfully combat COVID and reduce the impact.

Lockdowns, masks, ivermectin, etc.....all of that would have been the same challenges to implement everywhere it didn't happen with Trump in the WH.


Trump at GrahamGlam 2026 relieving himself
Trump rises from his potty pad
Trump on Fox sitting on a potty pad from a year ago.

It goes on and on, I don't particularly enjoy watching.

Apparently Donald Joffrey Dependsable Trump requires 24/7 protection from his vengeful anus.

Now we know who is really in charge.

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** www.latimes.com - Democratic socialists pose no real threat to America's free markets - LAT / Dispatch, 2026-07-28

|------- I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but it's almost like the GOP is secretly promoting the Democratic Socialists of America, which is now producing a lot of the energy and excitement within the Democratic and Republican parties. ...

Polls do show, particularly among young Democrats, increased support for socialism and a rising distaste for capitalism. But this isn't a new story. For the last couple of decades, dissatisfaction with the economic status quo has increased support for socialism. That's because people equate the status quo with "capitalism." As slaves to binary thinking, poll respondents think, "What's the opposite of capitalism?" Answer: socialism.

A 2014 survey by the Reason Foundation found that millennials favored capitalism to socialism by a meager 10 points (52%-42%). But when asked if they favored a "free-market economy" to a "government managed economy," the free market won 2-1 (64%-32%).

Fast forward to 2026. A recent Echelon Insights survey found that among Democrats under 50, the favorability of "capitalism" is minus 31 points (it's popular with every other group). When asked their view of a "free market economy," support jumps 41 points to +22 (it jumps up with every other cohort as well).

In other words, "capitalism" means something very different than "free markets," even to many socialists. And that's fair enough. I wish our economy was more free market than it is. But the point is that a ton of people think "capitalism" is an adjective describing things they don't like about the economy, not a synonym for "free markets" or "free enterprise."

Oh, yeah: Net favorability for Communism is -40.

The same applies for socialism, which means many different things to different people.

Once you get beyond the labels and the quirks of polling, reality suggests that socialism is a much heavier lift. For example, according to Echelon, 74% of Medicare for All fans think it can be paid for solely by raising taxes on billionaires. This is a lie. Medicare for All would cost an estimated $32 trillion over 10 years. The total combined net worth of America's billionaires is around $9 trillion. Forget taxes; you could confiscate everything the "billionaire class" owns and it wouldn't cover a third of the cost. ...
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echeloninsights.substack.com - How popular is Socialism in America? - Echelon Insights - 2026-07-17

news.gallup.com - The Meaning of "Socialism" to Americans Today | Pew Research
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62 percent of young people want to see significant changes' to government.

Only 62%? And can these "yoots" agree on what specific 'significant changes' to government they want to make? When they grow up, start working and start families, do they want to make the same changes to government as when they were "young people" or are they staying pretty much as economically and politically illiterate and static in their opinions as some people on this board seem to have remained?

How does this compare with the adults who "want to see significant changes to government" and do they differ in many ways re the parts they want to see changed? **

Most of "young people" have no idea of how the world really works, how and why the political and economical systems evolved in history, and what the consequences were, except what they already "know" from schools and parents, and then learn from influencers and their social media "clubs" which explains why the young are easily inculcated and radicalized.

It's usually made easier in times of difficult economic environment, political corruption and wars - that's how Fascism and Communism rise and die.

"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years." - old proverb


Let DSA win a few municipal and state seats with their "rousing" speeches/rallies and then, as is expected, fail at governing (like Trump and Mandani et al) - that just might bring Democrats back to sanity in 2028 primaries.

Trump has been more of a threat than DSA, but he is already breaking GOP similarly to DSA breaking Democratic Party - maybe we're having simultaneous "conservative crack-up" and "liberal crack-up" - they just keep coinsiding with [expected] electoral losses.
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How Jared Kushner's Secret Testing Plan "Went Poof Into Thin Air" (July 2020)
www.vanityfair.com

... Worried about the stock market and his reelection prospects, Trump also feared that more testing would only lead to higher case counts and more bad publicity. Meanwhile, Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House's coronavirus response coordinator, was reportedly sharing models with senior staff that optimistically -- and erroneously, it would turn out -- predicted the virus would soon fade away.

Against that background, the prospect of launching a large-scale national plan was losing favor, said one public health expert in frequent contact with the White House's official coronavirus task force.

Most troubling of all, perhaps, was a sentiment the expert said a member of Kushner's team expressed: that because the virus had hit blue states hardest, a national plan was unnecessary and would not make sense politically. "The political folks believed that because it was going to be relegated to Democratic states, that they could blame those governors, and that would be an effective political strategy," said the expert. ...

[emphasis mine]


That logic may have swayed Kushner. "It was very clear that Jared was ultimately the decision maker as to what [plan] was going to come out," the expert said. ...

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