I am still in shock!

[shockey80]

I cannot believe there has not been a sustained, coordinated, national movement to demand Trump resigns. He is extremely mentally ill and we are letting him kill us on a massive scale.

Trump is on TV right now talking about things that are completely delusional. There will be a vaccine by the end of year, maybe before, because of operation warped speed. It should be called, operation warped brain.

Trump and his puppets are on TV right now saying all of this will happen. They are guaranteeing it. I shit you not. It's pure madness. It's a fake show.

[Maraya1969]

1. Did you hear them all fawning over him in the beginning? UGH.

[shockey80]

3. I cannot believe what I am watching.

We are heading for the biggest disaster in our history. It is all a show, it's fake. Hundreds of thousands of Americans are going to die.

[yuiyoshida]

24. The USA is about to hit that same Iceberg

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That Sunk the Titanic, and Trump wants to hit it at full speed ahead cause we are UNSINKABLE!

[kyburbonkid]

63. Twice!

Perhaps more with old-orangie steering the ship. God help us.

[calimary]

35. I couldn't watch. Went to the kitchen and made another cup of tea.

[magicarpet]

58. trDumpie Reality TV,...

... where reality is totally fabricated and propagandized for your perception managed viewing pleasure.

[Doodley]

2. And Fauci is part of the problem, not the solution. He is a puppet who needs to have

a confrontational relationship with Trump to save lives, but doesn't.

[brewens]

5. I think Fauci will eventually tell us he realized that, but felt he could help more

by staying on the inside despite the limitations. He's not exactly trying to not get fired, or at least not real hard.

[LiberalLovinLug]

13. I think you are right but...

There has to be a limit. Trump could win the election in part because of the lack of proper confrontational criticism from both Fauci and the MSM news organizations who feel they have to handle the giant snowflake with such kid gloves all the time.

[not fooled]

20. Yeah, and how much good is Fauci actually doing now?

The wingnuts won't listen to him and those of us who are sane suspect he has zero impact on policy making now.

He would do more good by calling MFer 45 out, then resigning.

[BadgerMom]

21. This.

[secondwind]

33. That is what I believe also... Fauci is there to LISTEN and to help us.

And this monster had SOME NERVE to bring Fauci out of quarantine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[G_j]

41. he has to have extra security

because of death threats, and I imagine it will just get worse.

[lunatica]

31. And who will replace him?

Fauci may not be confrontational enough to please you, but he tells the truth. If Trump fires him we will be in even deeper shit. Ignorant shit, because we won’t have a clue.

[tosh]

46. Exactly.

Imagine how much worse it would be with the “Bill Barr of Immunology”!

[ehrnst]

38. Getting fired will help him save lives?

How? I would like at least one sane person in there that has Trump's ear.

[radius777]

56. Exactly, Fauci is another Mueller,

ie a 'sane' establishment white guy who is going to save America from Trump - yeah right.

Fauci, like Mueller, is better than the rest of these guys, of course.

But I wouldn't be surprised if Fauci endorses Trump in the end - then we would've set ourselves up by lauding this guy, like we did with Mueller/Rosenstein.

[Newest Reality]

4. Are you talking about America?

I am sorry, but America is currently having a severe, nervous breakdown and the medications are not working. We are considering placing it on suicide watch if it becomes more dangerous.

Some of the symptoms are delusional beliefs in alternative realities, extreme paranoia, magical thinking, susceptibility to suggestion, conspiratorial fascination, etc. America is increasingly unable to address a consensus reality in a reasonable way right now. The patient is being monitored.

Please try again another time. Check back for updates.

[Jamastiene]

8. We are blue screening.

A hard reboot *might* work, but most likely, it will take a resinstall of the OS and everything else that was originally there.

[milestogo]

6. The fucking Republicans will fight to keep him in power no matter what he does.

No matter what he does, including thousands of deaths.

[dalton99a]

7. Everything is beautiful and moving at tremendous speed - the greatest thing the world has ever seen

since World War II, maybe the Peloponnesian War

[Celerity]

69. Peloponnesian War

Great historical reference!

Rump, the Lysol Lysander.

[dalton99a]

70. He'd probably pronounce it Polynesian

A very beautiful island surrounded by water, big water, ocean water

[Botany]

9. The Lancet called for his removal

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213439920

[Kid Berwyn]

47. ++good

The sooner the better.

[USALiberal]

10. Seriously? After 3 years you are still shocked? Nt

[Roc2020]

11. after Charlottesville I saw clearly what his

presidency would be about in order to get re-elected. He had to stoke racism. even with his campaign stance on immigration charlottesville surprised me. nothing he has done or said since then surprises me one bit.

[Captain Zero]

64. In Central Indiana PRIMARY GOP primary candidates

Are all running the same basic ad. Pick me as the Republican candidate so that we can beat back socialism, side with Trump to fight the Chinese ((whatever this new xenophobia about China is?) And BUILD THE WALL.

So they are waving three bloody shirts,
SOCIALISM ! China ! And MEXICANS !!

THAT'S IT.
AND one of these Republicans is a woman who grew up in Russia and claims the corner on knowing how evil socialism was there growing up.

I'm betting she is a Putin asset.

[Auggie]

12. Ideally we need street protests ... millions in D.C. ... but it's an impossibility now

[McKim]

14. If It Weren't for COVID

If it weren’t for COVID, we would be in the streets of Wn.DC. I am prepared to fly across the country and stay with friends in WN. DC to stand up to this illegal regime. The streets are rather an old fashioned response but totally called for right now. This time honore low tech solution is honored the world over. Too bad we are too old to risk it so I just call republicans in congress every day as a substitute.

[jmg257]

27. If it wasn't for Covid we'd all be looking towards november

And the race would be very close.

There would be no marching.

[fwvinson]

53. Traditionally, the election season doesn't start till after labor day. I'm hoping the democratic

guns start blazing soon. Obama on the campaign trail would be excellent.

[uponit7771]

15. It's a true failure of the fourth estate that most people don't know Trump's insane

[vapor2]

16. I don't know why there isn't more outrage either

CALL every single republican after hours (or they will ask you if you live in their district) and leave a message. He needs family intervention at the very minimum.

[Trueblue Texan]

68. There isn't more outrage because just like the virus...

...Americans have gotten used to the illnesses. They've lived with the threat so long, it no longer feels like a threat.

[LudwigPastorius]

17. If Trump stays in, there will be 175,000 dead by the election in November...minimum.

...and, most of the media and national political figures seem just fine with that.

Unbelievable.

[shockey80]

19. It's fucking insane.

[Mr.Bill]

25. I'm thinking more like 300,000. n/t

[Blue_playwright]

44. I'm with you.

Schools will go back and college kids will drag it all over the nation - and as the flu circulates beginning in October, I think there is a good chance it will be more than a quarter million.

[fwvinson]

54. Yea...but 60+% of us don't.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

18. Get Fat Donnie, Pence, and all the RW bloviators to the COVID-19 ward of a hospital,

then lock them all in a small room with no medical people and one ventilator.

I heard Tucker Carlson bitching about how Dr. Fauci wasn't elected, so why should we listen to him. Well, dumbshit, the same could be said about you. I guess you're still bitter about having your application to the CIA denied.

[Mr.Bill]

49. Let's get rid of everybody in the administration who wasn't elected.

They can start with Kushner, Ivanka, Stephen Miller, this month's press secretary, etc...

[DownriverDem]

22. trump gives them what they want

Power and judges

[Mr.Bill]

23. If every single adult in the country signed a petition

for him to resign he would call it fake news.

[RAB910]

26. The power of FOX news

[BComplex]

65. That's the long and the short of it. And now they listen to One America News Network OANN

It's even worse with the conspiracy theories.

[jmg257]

28. Face it trump ain't going nowhere until voted out.

The only ones on the streets are his minions, and there are millions more still yelling fake news!!

[liberalmuse]

29. He needs to be dragged out of the WH.

And locked in a padded cell. I'm so fucking sick of his shit.

[Peregrine Took]

30. What is wrong with us? Stockholm Syndrome? Waiting for him to get even worse

before we take to the streets with our homemade signs and pots and metal spoons for banging?

Maybe we are in shock - shock fatigue??

[bucolic_frolic]

32. It's a fake show ... for the election, and MAGAzis will believe him

shockey80 you sure have packed punch into less than 4,000 posts on here. we should all achieve such productivity.

[kentuck]

34. He has made himself so distrustful...

...that even if they get a vaccine for this corona, many people will not trust his word enough to take it. He is like the little boy that cried Wolf!"...

[Brainfodder]

36. Democrats aren't baseline evil, unlike Republicans, these days?

[ehrnst]

37. Maybe because people think it will make him double down

like we've seen him do when he feels cornered.

[mwooldri]

39. Vaccine by end of the year? This I can actually believe...

.... But not due to this Operation Warped Brain or whatever it's called. More like due to the guys at Oxford University being funded in part by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation doing all the work - and having something they'd been working on for a while before Covid-19 struck and started working on the vaccine for Covid-19 in January. Yes - these guys were working on a vaccine way before Trumpistiltskin probably even knew of the "Chinese Pneumonia".

[mnmoderatedem]

40. I think your sentiment can be summed up in a meme I saw recently

"I don't know what's scarier, that we have a president who's a raving lunatic, or the fact that 40% of the population think he's a genius"

[NoRoadUntravelled]

42. There should be a warning label on tRump. Stay away or you will give up your free will.

Seems like everyone who gets into his circle and stays long enough is willing to do whatever it takes to remain there. They forfeit logic and turn themselves inside out to remain on his "accepted" list. Every day he becomes more toxic and they stay there and drink the poison rather than be removed from the group.

[totodeinhere]

43. I think the reason why there is no movement to demand that he resign

is because we know that he will not. So why waste efforts on something that will never happen. The only way to get rid of him will be to defeat him in November.

[Kablooie]

45. He still has 80-90% approval from Republicans. They love him.

He is the one of the most admired and popular Republican presidents ever in history.
Even his handling of the Coronavirus doesn't materially dent that support.

He's not going to be removed with that kind of popularity.
It's mind boggling perverse that such an obviously inept, incompetent can be revered as one of the greatest presidents in history but it's true.

Sarah Palin opened the door to incompetence being a desirable quality in a leader and Republicans decided that's how they want to play.

[Wednesdays]

62. Well, as some here have noted,

Repugs' admiration of simpletons has been evolving over the years. Starting with Reagan, who was the "Great Communicator" despite being empty-headed, to Dan "Potatoe" Quayle, to Dubya (the dumbest of the lot, IMO), to Palin and then Rump. But yeah, that is how they roll now.

[JI7]

48. This country is full of bigots

[crazyboy44]

50. If Trump gets reelected......

This will be the end of America.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

51. He probably saw a reported "cure" on Fox News...

... again, like the hydroxychloroquine BS from weeks ago.

We have an idiot President who watches Fox News to get information, folks.

[ladym55]

52. You are asking a good question

Eric Boehlert in his Press Run asked the same question: https://pressrun.media/p/west-wing-nervous-breakdown-media

Why are newspapers not all lined up and clamoring for Trump to resign? They had no problem demanding that of Bill Clinton over Monica and of Richard Nixon. tRump is killing us all while actively smashing the rule of law to hell on a daily basis.

Boehlert concludes:

The sad truth is, the Beltway press remains afraid of Trump — they're bullied and battered. And that's changed how they deal with the White House. Specifically, they refuse to fight back.

[lpbk2713]

55. And when it doesn't happen they will be full of excuses.

"Yeah but ... yeah but."

In fact they probably have their excuses prepared right now.
Blaming everyone but themselves.

[RVN VET71]

57. When the freaking hell did Dr. Fauci become a target of anger here?

Come on, folks, get bloody real, please! Fauci is speaking truth to power. A 40+ year veteran of Federal service, he's not going to leave because some orange faced butt wad wants him out of government. He is, for Pete's sake, talking himself into a position out of the public eye -- but while he still has your attention, he's going to tell you what is true and what is bullshit. His quitting in a freaking huff would serve no freaking purpose at all.

If you disagree with his choice to hang in there, at least do so freaking respectfully. The man is not a coward, he's a fucking hero.

[Hekate]

59. Good that you noticed...

Some posters are a continual fount of doom and gloom, and never fail to draw others in. Speak out when you see it.

[RVN VET71]

73. The problem is that in their loathing for all things Trump

- - -loathings, incidentally, which I share in spades -- some of us seem to want to paint Trump and anyone who comes within sniffing distance of that unwashed Orange faced baboon with the same brush. I understand their pique, but there are more appropriate places on which to focus it.

[Hekate]

74. Looking back over this thread...

...it is disgusting how many have been drawn in to this latest screed. Drs Fauci and Birx are scientists, for Gods' sake, not politicians. They aren't puppets. They are not politicians -- this is not their world.

Of the two, I think Birx is the one who has been broken by Trump -- never in her life as a scientist could she have imagined having to work for a deranged Third World dictator.

[RVN VET71]

75. "Boken" indeed

I don't think she's in it for the money, and she could certainly follow Fauci's lead and tell the truth even if the Orange faced porcine snorter is breathing it's hot fetid breath down her neck.

But I agree with your assessment: her love of reason, of the scientific method, of medicine, itself, has been severely compromised by something even more horrendous than covid-19.

It's called GOP-think and it shouts stupidity so loudly that it drowns out facts, reason, and detachment in the formerly scientific minds of the unwary.

[malaise]

60. +1,000

ReTHUGs are responsible for this

[Hekate]

61. It's almost like you don't read DU. Thousands upon thousands of professionals in various fields...

...have written articles with thousands of signatures, taken out full page ads with thousands of signatures, published petitions with thousands of signatures, and put their careers in government and medicine on the line to protest Trump. Major newspapers around the country have Pulitzer Prize winning journalists investigating the Trump administration. Many beoadcast journalists are on the beat. Actual scientists are staying in their actual governmental jobs not because they enjoy the humiliation but because they are actually trying to save your life and mine.

What more do you want to prove people are aware and care? Riots in the streets?

[James48]

66. I can hear Trump's campaign speech now-

“Only I can get the vaccine made”
“Only I can solve the pandemic, and you have to vote for me, or else the pandemic will go on for years! “

“Believe me! If you vote to re-elect me, my people will have this vaccine done by December 31, and I will have Jared set it up so that anybody who wants a vaccine, can get a vaccine. But they have to be wearing a RED HAT to get a vaccine. We aren’t going to waste any of it on people who don’t appreciate me.”

[Beartracks]

67. Americans constantly prove they will forget lies when the truth happens later. n/t

[MomInTheCrowd]

71. He's gonna get re-elected

When you watch the stomach-turning, how the fuck did we get here, how can they stand there and listen to him spew news conferences you can see that he is a lunatic. But, when you hear the hourly or nightly news clips — out of context —- he can sound almost sane. That is what most people hear.

[lsewpershad]

72. I refuse to listen to him