"Dr" Birx: "[Trump is] so attentive to the scientific literature & the details & the data."

[Dennis Donovan]

Link to tweet

Aaron Rupar ✔@atrupar

"[Trump is] so attentive to the scientific literature & the details & the data. I think his ability to analyze & integrate data that comes out of his long history in business has really been a real benefit” -- this is shocking, hackish stuff from Dr. Birx.

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11:14 AM - Mar 27, 2020 · Washington, DC

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Gotta do some heavy-duty sucking up to keep your job.

[DeminPennswoods]

37. This

nt

[Hotler]

52. The difference between ring around the collar and a brown nose is

the level of commitment.

[GusBob]

2. keep talking lady

you are going to prison for manslaughter

[Hortensis]

24. She's tough and smart enough to have gotten tapped for that league.

Before Trump's press conferences, the epidemiological team she and Fauci are part of meet to discuss events and agree on their expert message to Trump. Then they meet with Trump. Then they leave and his speechwriters write something at his direction while they wait and wonder. Then they arrive on stage hoping that SOMETHING of their advice to him will have stuck.

Just what do you think is in it for us for her to be kicked out with Fauci?

[Hermit-The-Prog]

31. She's lending credibility to the moron. That does not help anyone, in or out of the cult.

[John Fante]

55. Exactly.

Their are plenty of organizations around the world where their expertise would be greatly appreciated.

[Hortensis]

56. Hermit, only IDIOTS believe him. I literally know no one here

in the deep south who does. That includes lots of people who've planned to vote for him again and already had disbelieved much of what he was saying -- before it became a matter of life and death for them and their loved ones.

Second, who would talk truth to him if all principled people abandoned the battlefield? No one, by definition. He'd replace them with the type of corrupt, morally void scoundrels he wants anyway.

Third, shouldn't we armchair warriors just have a bit of humility in second-guessing the decisions of top experts desperately trying to do what must be an enormously stressful and frustrating job? For us? Just maybe they know a lot of things we don't? Reading a few lay articles does not put us even within distant sight of their league or the realities they are working in.

Btw, Dr. Fauci was down to 3 hours of sleep for days before he disappeared for a couple, and god only knows what the stress is doing to him, tough as he is. He's almost 80 years old.

[hatrack]

3. Done with her . . . .

Buh-bye.

[ProfessorGAC]

4. Please Shut Up, Doc

And I use "doc" generously.

[gademocrat7]

5. She must have abandoned

The Hippocratic Oath, First Do No Harm.

[BusyBeingBest]

6. Afraid of being unceremoniously trashed and dumped by Dear Leader.

Sad how they have to bootlick and grovel. Everyone knows Donnie Dump couldn't analyze and integrate a way to find his own ass with both hands and a flashlight.

[Botany]

7. Dr. Brix is lying and she knows it but she looking @ the big picture and that is trying to get ...

... all of through this C-19 hell scape and so if she has to blow smoke up Trump's ass so
be it.

[atreides1]

20. But all her ass smoking

...isn't accomplishing anything at all...is it???

The only picture that concerns Dr. Mengele, is keeping her job and her "important" position! She's serving the only person, that's important in her life...herself!!!

The moment she began to lie, to kiss his ass, there was no big picture, there was only Dr. Deborah Birx!!!!

[Botany]

25. Dr. Brix doesn't need that job.

You can't keep the perfect from being the enemy of the good. Dr. Brix is working for the
greater good.

[MerryBlooms]

35. Tremendous help in getting trump 4 more years to finish us off.

[lapfog_1]

8. I was done with her weeks ago

she is a Trumpublican... and useless as a doctor or scientist. Everything Trump touches dies.

[dixiegrrrrl]

27. I stuck up for her here on DU just a week ao

based on her lengthy history of good work, praise from peers, etc.

I was right to do so because she was being the target of misogyny at the time, a lot of people were unaware of her background.

But THIS.......it is scaring me. We have what appears to be a normal person suddenly saying incredulous things about trump, things which are ludicrous to almost everyone.

It is as stunning as Lyndsey's golf game turn around.

edited to add...Manchurian Candidate....remember that movie/book?

[customerserviceguy]

36. I only watch the briefing

to see what tablecloth she has strung around her neck today.

[uponit7771]

47. +1

[Moostache]

9. Christ almighty...and I thought Pence's servicing of Trump's balls was nauseating...

She is exposed as a non-serious person and should no longer be given ANY deference or respect...NONE. Congrats Ms. Birx, you burned a lifetime's worth of work to appease the tantrums of a complete asshole fool. Well done.

[ResistantAmerican17]

10. Supreme Leader Requires vomit inducing

fealty and praise. Keeping or getting a job in this maladministration requires abandoning your ethics, dignity, and apparently humanity on a daily basis. edited for amplification.

[Newest Reality]

11. Wow!

Did she write that WHILE her lips were firmly affixed to the Orange Anus, or after?

Is her nose still brown?

That's just beyond words. Yeah, the Emperor is wearing clothes...right.

[tanyev]

12. Right, that's why he ordered "a lot of different elements of medical."

[exboyfil]

13. Someone check where her grandkids are

That must be held hostage.

Real reporters (not CBN for God sake) needs to follow up with this response with a clear question about what examples of these traits has been demonstrated by the President. We sure aren't seeing them.

[Amishman]

14. That little poof sound was the last shred of credibility vanishing

Nice when people put up a giant sign that it is safe to ignore them

[Arkansas Granny]

23. I wondered what that sound was. Now I know.

[Ilsa]

15. It's CBN she's playing to.

She has to keep the RWers believing that MF45 is God's right hand angel.

[rockfordfile]

42. I think she's a idiot and a coward

[SammyWinstonJack]

16. Shameful ass kissing

[Hoyt]

17. I'm hoping she figured trump out long ago, and is still committed to getting us through this, even

if she has to say nice things about the MFer to get it done.

If I had to bet, that's the case.


President Obama Nominates CDC’s Global HIV/AIDS Director Deborah Birx As Global AIDS Coordinator
Jan 10, 2014

“The White House has nominated a physician scientist whose career began three decades ago with a focus on immunology, vaccine research, and global health, to succeed Global AIDS Coordinator Ambassador Dr. Eric Goosby and lead the President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief. Dr. Deborah Birx, who as director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Prevention and Control’s Global AIDS Program serves as point person for PEPFAR implementation at the CDC, was named today to fill the post that has stood vacant since November 1, when Ambassador Goosby left the position to return to clinical research and practice. … Birx will still need to be confirmed by the Senate, following a hearing in front of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,” according to the Center for Global Health Policy’s “Science Speaks” blog (Barton, 1/9).

https://www.kff.org/news-summary/president-obama-nominates-cdcs-global-hivaids-director-deborah-birx-as-global-aids-coordinator/

[redstatebluegirl]

18. I hope she doesn't want a job in her field after he is out of office.

She will be blacklisted no doubt.

[Brother Buzz]

19. Stockholm Syndrome?

[Freethinker65]

21. Hope Dr. Brix washed more than her hands after that one.

[DemoTex]

22. Damn! Birx reminds me of Phyllis Schlafly!

[3catwoman3]

43. I just saw, tho can't remember where, that a movie...

...is being made about Schlafly.

I will NOT be watching. Talk about a nasty woman.

[Thomas Hurt]

26. Stupid woman just said, essentially, you don't need a science degree

to understand medical, epidemiology etc. You just need an MBA.

Sad thing is the fascists will buy this shit.

[PA Democrat]

28. Pyongyang-on-the-Potomac style

as described in this great BBC read:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52012049

[Ohioboy]

29. I had a boss once that needed to think he was smart

You had to guide him carefully into making good decisions by letting him think he was on top of things, even during times when he didn't have a clue. I'm hoping that's what is going on here.

[orleans]

30. this

Dr Birx is now a card carrying member of the Trumpism cult, and as such, we must stop listening to EVERYTHING she has to say if we want to increase our chances of surviving this existential threat.

Link to tweet

[dalton99a]

45. NEXT: "President Trump knows more about medicine than any doctor in the world"

"I trust his clinical judgment 1,000%"

[LAS14]

32. Sounds to me like she's trusting that her intelligent listeners won't believe this...

... any more than she does. Tough job she and Fauci have.

[The Magistrate]

33. Disgusting, Sir

Disgusting and pathetic.

[BamaRefugee]

34. Baghdad Birx

It's probably the only way she can get on trump's list of those allowed to be tested and obtain a ventilator reservation.

[GeorgeGist]

38. So he can calculate his profit on the fly?

[smirkymonkey]

39. What is this strange power he has over people?

How does a stupid, vulgar, incompetent man like Trump turn formerly respected, intelligent people into drooling lackeys?

I mean, it just baffles me. I can't understand why people become so loyal to such a horrible, ignorant, corrupt person who is clearly going to crash and burn before this is all over, taking them all down with him.

All I had to do was take one look at him and listen to him for five minutes and I could tell he was a complete loser and phony. And this was way before he even became president. How can people not see through his bullshit? I don't understand how people can be so blind and stupid.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

49. +1 Trillion

I don't get it either. Does he make them all drink the blood of Kali or something?

[3catwoman3]

40. I would shovel French fries at McDonald's before I...

...would get within 50 yards of Trump.

[MoonRiver]

41. He picked a great sycophant there.

[dalton99a]

44. Birx is a true believer.

[panader0]

46. Scientific literature my ass.

trump would have a hard time with 'Pet Goat'.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

48. I listened to the presser yesterday (my wife insists on watching them for Dr. Fauci)

and was astounded at what she was saying. It sounds like they are they are starting to fall in line with Trump's "plan" to shut down the shutdown soon and downplay some of the potential worst case scenarios, but more importantly she seemed to be minimizing what is actually going on in NY

Oh, and Trump is now just calling her "Deborah" so that was probably a bad sign as well.

[lunatica]

50. What is it about Trump that makes people commit credibility suicide?

Has she fallen in thrall with him?

Is it the belief that Trumpism is now a permanent American government structure? That Dear Leader is here to stay and the only alternative is to embrace that?

Did he flirt with her so she now imagines a lucrative future for herself because in her deluded mind he promises her wealth?

She obviously thinks catering and pleasing him must be preferable in some personal way. Has he somehow, in his unique coded language that Cohen told us about, promise her a special privilege only his closest sycophants are allowed?

Her capitulation smacks of falling in love. The way he flirted with her in front of the cameras when she said she had felt a bit of a fever and he joked about moving away from her got a definite giggly response from her. I caught it immediately and I’m pretty sure most women did too. And like me, most women just cringed a little but let it pass. Why? Because we’re hoping she has influence on him.

[jayfish]

51. Everyone Thinks They Are The Special One.

...the one who can make it through the grinder.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

54. And nobody does. Everything Trump touches dies.

[malaise]

53. STFU Scarf-face

please

[Doremus]

57. Disgusting sycophant for whom I lost all respect

Her fawning behavior towards the idiot in chief is nauseating.

[peggysue2]

58. Well, her credibility just went in the toilet

He has the ability to analyze and integrate data?

O.M.G. The Kool-Aid must be strong today.

[NBachers]

59. Lies that kill people

[cachukis]

60. She has diplomatic experience.

Sadly, that won't be enough. I suspect she is willing to be a sacrificial lamb to keep some science on the page.

[pat_k]

61. He's never been "attentive" to anything except stroking his own fantasy image of himself (nt)