I based my comment on: "Prominent American academic and intellectual Noam Chomsky has described US President Donald Trump as "the worst criminal in human history." He made his claim in an article in the New Yorker this week." I didn't agree then, and I don't now. Dubya invaded Iraq, costing maybe a million Iraqi lives. That itself makes him a worse criminal than Trump. I have a feeling that Leftists and liberals really detest Trump because (a) he's crude and of low cultural tastes and (b) his Coronavirus victims, while far fewer than those who died in, say, Iraq, Hiroshima or Vietnam, are American citizens and thus of much higher value.
Obama's record on climate change is pretty dismal, too. He pushed fossil fuels, fracking, Arctic drilling and so forth, and the Paris agreement is close to worthless - it has no teeth and its mild goals would make little difference even if they were enforced. And he began modernising the USA's nuclear arsenal, itself an act of gigantic, historic criminality.
"Coronavirus victims?" He didn't create SARS-CoV-2, nor did he order nursing homes to accept actively infected Covid-19 patients prematurely discharged from hospitals who were better equipped to isolate them. It was Fauci, Gates and the WHO who spearheaded fraudulent efforts to discredit the HCQ+zinc+zPak cocktail that has been proven effective in several clinical trials testing it on outpatients, before the cytokine storm takes hold, and it was the medical establishment, not Trump that discouraged the use of corticosteroids, encouraged the use of deadly ventilators and ignores the potential of Ivermectin. But yes, Trump's Warp Speed vaccines will likely create many deaths and injuries.
Sorry - did I read you correctly? You're defending Donald Trump's response to the pandemic? The evidence is overwhelmingly against you.
"Trump went days without mentioning the pandemic other than to celebrate progress on vaccines. The president by then had abdicated his responsibility to manage the public health crisis and instead used his megaphone almost exclusively to spread misinformation in a failed attempt to overturn the results of the election he lost to President-elect Joe Biden.
“I think he’s just done with covid,” said one of Trump’s closest advisers who, like many others interviewed for this story, spoke on the condition of anonymity to candidly discuss internal deliberations and operations. “I think he put it on a timetable and he’s done with covid. . . . It just exceeded the amount of time he gave it.”"
"Trump may have tweeted that wearing a mask was now “patriotic.” But meanwhile he counselled that coronavirus is “totally harmless” in ninety-nine percent of cases, predicted that the virus will “sort of just disappear,” and – in a reality-bending assertion – claimed “large portions of our country” are now “corona-free.”
“Masks cause problems, too,” Trump said soon after his heralded first mask use, in explaining why he opposed a national mask mandate. And on July 27 Trump shared a video (a “must watch,” he said) which simply advises: “You don’t need masks.”"
Thanks for providing additional evidence that Trump tried to keep Americans calm rather than panicking and creating hundreds of thousands of excess deaths due to suicide, OD and untreated medical conditions such as heart attack, stroke and cancer. He hasn't been 100% consistent, and his sponsorship of Warp Speed was a huge mistake, but he tried to resist the overwhelming pressure of the establishment. India has finally got it right. They used Hydroxychloroquine to save lives until something better was discovered, Ivermectin. They are now distributing it free to anybody suspected of being exposed to SARS-CoV-2. Their IFR is one of the lowest in the world.
Thank you for clarifying and including your source. I definitely agree with everything you said. Just hard for me to do a hard turn on chomsky even if he has had his share of cringe moments with this election cycle.
I based my comment on: "Prominent American academic and intellectual Noam Chomsky has described US President Donald Trump as "the worst criminal in human history." He made his claim in an article in the New Yorker this week." I didn't agree then, and I don't now. Dubya invaded Iraq, costing maybe a million Iraqi lives. That itself makes him a worse criminal than Trump. I have a feeling that Leftists and liberals really detest Trump because (a) he's crude and of low cultural tastes and (b) his Coronavirus victims, while far fewer than those who died in, say, Iraq, Hiroshima or Vietnam, are American citizens and thus of much higher value.
Obama's record on climate change is pretty dismal, too. He pushed fossil fuels, fracking, Arctic drilling and so forth, and the Paris agreement is close to worthless - it has no teeth and its mild goals would make little difference even if they were enforced. And he began modernising the USA's nuclear arsenal, itself an act of gigantic, historic criminality.
"Coronavirus victims?" He didn't create SARS-CoV-2, nor did he order nursing homes to accept actively infected Covid-19 patients prematurely discharged from hospitals who were better equipped to isolate them. It was Fauci, Gates and the WHO who spearheaded fraudulent efforts to discredit the HCQ+zinc+zPak cocktail that has been proven effective in several clinical trials testing it on outpatients, before the cytokine storm takes hold, and it was the medical establishment, not Trump that discouraged the use of corticosteroids, encouraged the use of deadly ventilators and ignores the potential of Ivermectin. But yes, Trump's Warp Speed vaccines will likely create many deaths and injuries.
Sorry - did I read you correctly? You're defending Donald Trump's response to the pandemic? The evidence is overwhelmingly against you.
"Trump went days without mentioning the pandemic other than to celebrate progress on vaccines. The president by then had abdicated his responsibility to manage the public health crisis and instead used his megaphone almost exclusively to spread misinformation in a failed attempt to overturn the results of the election he lost to President-elect Joe Biden.
“I think he’s just done with covid,” said one of Trump’s closest advisers who, like many others interviewed for this story, spoke on the condition of anonymity to candidly discuss internal deliberations and operations. “I think he put it on a timetable and he’s done with covid. . . . It just exceeded the amount of time he gave it.”"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/politics/trump-covid-pandemic-dark-winter/
"Trump may have tweeted that wearing a mask was now “patriotic.” But meanwhile he counselled that coronavirus is “totally harmless” in ninety-nine percent of cases, predicted that the virus will “sort of just disappear,” and – in a reality-bending assertion – claimed “large portions of our country” are now “corona-free.”
“Masks cause problems, too,” Trump said soon after his heralded first mask use, in explaining why he opposed a national mask mandate. And on July 27 Trump shared a video (a “must watch,” he said) which simply advises: “You don’t need masks.”"
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/08/28/five-trump-failures-that-unleashed-a-pandemic/
Thanks for providing additional evidence that Trump tried to keep Americans calm rather than panicking and creating hundreds of thousands of excess deaths due to suicide, OD and untreated medical conditions such as heart attack, stroke and cancer. He hasn't been 100% consistent, and his sponsorship of Warp Speed was a huge mistake, but he tried to resist the overwhelming pressure of the establishment. India has finally got it right. They used Hydroxychloroquine to save lives until something better was discovered, Ivermectin. They are now distributing it free to anybody suspected of being exposed to SARS-CoV-2. Their IFR is one of the lowest in the world.
Thank you for clarifying and including your source. I definitely agree with everything you said. Just hard for me to do a hard turn on chomsky even if he has had his share of cringe moments with this election cycle.
(and to be fair his take on Russiagate and Syria were pretty good so he hasn't gone full D on us)