Öcsisajt, nem akarom az illúzióidat lerombolni, de minden országban, minden rendszerben, és minden korban kirúgták/kirúgják kirúgják azt, aki a nagyfönökét nyilvánosan ekézi és kiröhögi. Ill. örülhet, ha csak kirúgják, mert pl. Rómáben simán leszúrta volna a testörség tagja azt, aki a konzult ekézte, a japánoknál meg eccerüen lenyakazták volna (privilégiumként a szamurájok harakirit követhettek el), a törököknél meg a szultántól kapott volna ajándékba egy selyemzsinórt, stb.
Az USA-ban egyes csatornák csak a negatívumot tálalják. Ezeket aztán a papagály nemzetközi média hatványozza. A proli meg szívja magába mint a ló a vizet.
Tegnap kaptam egy üzenetet, hogy 11 után csukjam be az ablakokat, mert 5 helicopter C-19 ellen fogja spriccelni az utcákat. Kiderült, hogy végzik az éves szunyogirtást.
A Buddhist monk I know has on his screen saver the names and photographs of people to whom he is grateful: Gandhi, Malala, Greta Thunberg, Vaclav Havel, Martin Luther King, Jr.
In the lower right hand corner is a picture of Senator Mitch McConnell. When I registered shock and unmasked disgust the monk said, “Each day he teaches me to have compassion for everyone.”
Trolling a flea market somewhere in the States, I saw a little sticker which read “Be careful who you hate. It might be someone you love.”
In a church in Birmingham, Alabama during the civil rights movement, preparing for the arrests of hundreds of schoolchildren, outside members of the Ku Klux Klan began picketing, carrying menacing signs, shouting their slogans. Dr. King took the podium and said, “If we can’t love the Ku Klux Klan, we don’t have a movement.”
Gandhi said, about the movement to nonviolently take India back from the British, we want to free the Indians from being in front of the guns and free the British from being behind them.
Yesterday, friend of mine was standing in a line at Safeway, only half registering that the woman in front of him was putting food back into the cart because she had run out of money. The man behind him jumped forward and paid the extra amount, so the woman would not go hungry. My friend was astonished at his own slow reaction to have done the same. He turned to the other man and said, “Thank you. You just changed my life.”
I saw the Italian people singing from their flowered balconies as the victims of Covid-19 piled up in heaps, and quarantined relatives mourned from a distance.
And while the health care workers were sacrificing themselves to do God’s work, I felt there was hope for the human race.
Keeping these images in the forefront of my mind helps dissipate the tiresome rage and frustration which consume me each time I witness another lie, another patronizing wisecrack about women, another degrading accusation of journalists, another racist slogan, coming out of the President and all the President’s men. And women.
Today their lying has leapt ever more rapidly from misinformation to irresponsibility to flagrant disregard for human life to what must be called for what it is: murder.
Will I put a picture of Mitch McConnell on my screen saver? I may not have evolved as far as my monk friend. I’ll probably just keep the photograph of my granddaughter standing on her head in the field. But it’s clear to me that I too need to keep my eyes on the path to kindness and mercy, empathy and compassion, courage and humor, and all the related things that we will need to reveal, confront, combat, and overcome tyranny.
Surgeon General insists 'no disconnect' between Trump, Dr. Fauci after contentious news conference
Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams joined "The Story with Martha MacCallum" Friday and gave his thoughts on a tempestuous exchange between President Trump and an NBC News reporter over the administration's messaging during the coronavirus pandemic..
"The messaging has always been challenging because we're trying to to give people optimism, but also encourage them to be cautious," Adams said. "And that's why from the beginning, I've always said we need to prepare, but not panic when you see panic in some places.
"And that results in people hoarding, that results in people pulling knives on each other over hand sanitizer," Adams said. "We do need to calm people down. And from my experience, that's what the president has always tried to do, is calm people down while also really helping people understand this is serious and we all need to lean into it."
Trump sparred with NBC's Peter Alexander Friday during the administration's daily coronavirus briefing, with the president calling Alexander a “terrible reporter.”
Alexander asked Trump if his “impulse to put a positive spin on things” could be giving Americans a “false sense of hope” amid the pandemic. The president explained he had a “good feeling” about possible solutions the FDA is working on.
Alexander then asked, “What do you say to Americans who are scared?”
“I say that you’re a terrible reporter. That’s what I say,” Trump fired back, adding: “I think that’s a very nasty question and I think it’s a very bad signalthat you’re putting out to the American people."
Adams also told MacCallum that he disagreed with claims that task force member Dr. Anthony Fauci and Trump were giving conflicting takes on experimental drugs that may combat the coronavirus.
"I was quite frankly, fascinated at these stories that came out of that because there was no, there was no disconnect between what Tony Fauci was saying and what the president was saying," Adams said.
"The president was saying, number one, we have two drugs out there, and he is optimistic and hopeful -- based on some of the studies and what they've heard -- that these drugs will be helpful to people. And that's why we're providing them for four people on a compassionate use basis, "Adams said.
"But Tony Fauci appropriately said we need to make sure we're following up the data, that we see the studies so that we can actually tell people for certain down the road whether this is effective or not. So those two aren't incongruous, that's science. We're hopeful, but we're also cautious."
Social media posts are spreading a quote falsely attributed to President Donald Trump about the coronavirus. He didn’t say, “People are dying who have never died before.” But Ernest Hemingway did.
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A quote falsely attributed to President Donald Trump has spread widely online, ratcheting up animosity over his leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic.
One popular version of the claim on Facebook features a picture of Trump and says: “‘People are dying who have never died before.’ – Donald J. Trump, March 18, 2020.”
Other versions claim the date was March 17.
But we could find no record of Trump having ever said that.
A review of his appearances on March 17 and 18 shows that he made no such remark. On March 17 he gave a press briefing with his Coronavirus Task Force and met with executives from the tourism industry. On March 18 he gave another press briefing with his task force and met with representatives of major nurses’ organizations. In none of those appearances did he make such a statement.
The quote itself is real, though.
Author Ernest Hemingway was fond of using that phrase, according to a biography of American writer Glenway Wescott. The writer of that biography, Jerry Rosco, told us that detail came from Mary Hemingway’s autobiography, “How It Was.”
While the coronavirus has given Trump ample opportunity to take up the mantle of national leader and appear presidential at the White House, there's plenty to criticize in his handling of the crisis -- he's overly optimistic about treatments, brags about his early response for accomplishing more than it did.And the pandemic will likely rob Trump of what has, heretofore, been his main argument for reelection -- a booming stock market, low unemployment and a strong economy.
He was getting maybe more credit than he deserved for those things, which were helped by his tax cuts, but also in the works long before he took office. But he may also get more blame than he deserves if the economy does not bounce back quickly from the Covid-19 shutdown.
President Donald Trump declared that a major disaster exists in the State of New York and ordered federal assistance to be given to the state to aid local recovery efforts in areas impacted by the coronavirus outbreak.
The move will unlock federal funding for New York state, the White House office of the press secretary said in a statement.
Donald Trump has thrown an extraordinary temper tantrum on live television, lambasting a reporter who challenged him for raising hopes about a coronavirus treatment.
Peter Alexander, White House correspondent at NBC News, asked the US president: “What do you say to Americans, who are watching you right now, who are scared?”
Erupting in anger, Trump unleashed a tirade: “I say that you’re a terrible reporter. That’s what I say. I think it’s a very nasty question and I think it’s a very bad signal that you’re putting out to the American people.” 👍
