Fauci Offers Blunt Assessment of Trump

[babylonsister]

https://politicalwire.com/2020/10/31/fauci-offers-blunt-assessment-of-trump-on-pandemic/

Fauci Offers Blunt Assessment of Trump
October 31, 2020 at 8:51 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard

“President Trump’s repeated assertions the United States is ’rounding the turn’ on the novel coronavirus have increasingly alarmed the government’s top health experts,” the Washington Post reports.

Said Dr. Anthony Fauci: “We’re in for a whole lot of hurt. It’s not a good situation. All the stars are aligned in the wrong place as you go into the fall and winter season, with people congregating at home indoors. You could not possibly be positioned more poorly.”

Fauci also noted that Joe Biden “is taking it seriously from a public health perspective” while Trump is “looking at it from a different perspective.”

[doc03]

2. Trumpers hate DR. Fauci about as much as AOC. They hate everybody that disagrees with

Trump one Trumper I know a Catholic said of the Pope f-- that SOB when he disagreed with Trump.

[paleotn]

3. I've wondered how some Catholic's are handling Pope Frances's recent rhetoric....

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the more conservative a Catholic is, the more likely they lean towards Papal infallibility? That's got to make some heads explode.

[doc03]

5. They will say f--that SOB if he disagrees with Trump but

vote for Trump because he claims to be pro-life.

[shrike3]

6. Many conservative Catholics do not consider Francis the "real" pope.

Their "pope" is Benedict. Conservative Catholicism in America is in a real weird place. You wouldn't know this, it was kind of inside baseball, but in 2019 conservative clerics tried to mount a "coup" against Francis -- convoluted, I won't try to explain -- and I ate popcorn because it obviously wouldn't work. American Catholics are only eight percent of the church, the focus is elsewhere in the world, churches in other hemispheres supported Francis, no one cared what those 20 or so American bishops had to say. It is a weird, weird time.

[doc03]

8. I am not Catholic but I remember the day when if a Catholic said f-- that SOB

he would burn in hell. Now it's OK if he disagrees with Dear Leader.

[shrike3]

9. Does not surprise me in the least, a Catholic saying that.

The American church is in a really weird place, thanks to the positioning of some very conservative bishops. Francis has even said that a schism between the world church and the American church wouldn't surprise him.

Francis has been pushing climate change as a top priority for a while. The American bishops met for their annual conference and decided climate change was "not a priority." What was? Abortion.

[onetexan]

16. The American catholic church has become a cult by &large

Nuttery & hypocrisy abound. The men who run it are still stuck in the 1800s. They do not like vatican II's changes &they certainly are not fans of pope Francis.

[shrike3]

17. Spot on. I always tell people I consider myself a member of the universal church

and so ignore the American shenanigans. Sixty-six percent of the church is in the Third World, so the future is there.

[paleotn]

11. Thanks for the inside story.

Some of us lose sight of the fact that it is a truly global religion. And in the grand scheme, there just aren't all that many Amurkins.

[shrike3]

13. Vanity Fair ran a blistering article on American Catholicism not long ago. I wasn't offended.

It was very accurate. The reporter made the good point that American Catholicism will be going the way of the Evangelicals if things don't change.

She also pointed out that America is no longer the church's favorite son. (As in the Kennedy era.) The focus is elsewhere.

btw, 66 percent of the church is in the third world, which is a challenge because of cultural differences as well as religious tenets. Why I found the pope's recent comments on same-sex unions so encouraging.

[KPN]

10. You are absolutely correct. Sadly, I have a brother who I otherwise really enjoy being around and

spending time with who has fallen prey to evangelism, Faux News and reveres tRump. I could no longer ignore his politics and our interaction has pretty much ended. According to him, we are guided by Satan and hell bent on "destroying America", but he isn't too overly concerned because ... well, the rapture.

[appleannie1]

15. He would get along well with my sister and B-I-L

[AllyCat]

19. Yup. One I know too. He said Pope saying anything against 45

was diving into politics and he should stay out. He has no problem with catholic priests and leaders AGREEING with 45.

[Shermann]

4. Fauci's statements were as measured as always

There's a bit of a dig at Trump here but this story seems to be getting puffed up a bit.

[milestogo]

7. He should not talk about the alignment of the stars.

People are dumb enough already.

[Jarqui]

12. Here's a recent interview where Fauci lays it out

[panfluteman]

14. And We All Know What Perspective Trump Is Looking At It From...

The political perspective, of course! And more specifically, the perspective of his own re-election. And where facts and actual achievements are in short supply, or even non-existent, he will just lie.

[Illumination]

18. Stupid Trump thinks he knows more than Fauci. 100,000 per day is where we're @ now.

Fauci said awhile back he didn't want to see the infection #s go above 10,000. Here we are @ TEN TIMES that amount & we're not even in winter yet...

[Blue Owl]

20. K&R