Birx did use the words mentioned. Trump used the backstab words saying birx “hit us” to sic his dogssupporters on her while pretending he respects her since he knows birx and (even moreso) Fauci are much more respected and trusted than himself. Because all he does is lie. While Birx (to a greater extent) and Fauci just carefully won’t admit the facts they say are directly contradicting the President’s lies. Birx generally avoids answering the asked questions at all when facts are damaging while Fauci always answers and just says he’s not qualified to judge others’ actions or weigh health vs other factors.
“I want to be very clear: What we are seeing today is different from March and April. It is extraordinarily widespread. It’s into the rural as equal urban areas,” Birx told CNN. “To everybody who lives in a rural area, you are not immune or protected from this virus.”
When asked about a prediction there could be 300,000 deaths by the end of the year, Birx said, “Anything is possible.” She went on to emphasize social distancing and suggest that some Americans in multi-generational families should start wearing masks inside their homes and assume they already have the virus.
No, I’m confused because I initially called it his commentary, and he denied it claiming it was “the entirety of what Birx said”. It wasnt a joke, there was nothing clever about it - it was yet another pot shot taken for no reason but to antagonize.
As I said, I’d love to see how you’d spin a tweet containing only a period. Because it takes an awful lot of cartwheels to come up with that elaborate characterization of “she took the bait!”. You really should look into one of those jobs that comes up with the themes for new roller coasters and creates a whole backstory for it. You have the imagination for it.
Did Birx say “Don’t you dare tell people there’s widespread virus and to wear masks!!! It’s disappeared like a miracle and we’re just testing more so we have more cases!” ???
I think that’s what glitch was confused about, and that’s the quote I responded when I wrote “I understood that quote to be a joke written by Bend3r, because I just can’t see either Trump or Birx using those words (but they are in character).”
Birx said “[The virus is now] extraordinarily widespread.” And to wear masks, even in homes where there’s vulnerable people in the household.
Trump said the other two things.
I made the paraphrase/rephrasing of trump’s tweet attack. I did not attribute that statement directly to anyone else. There was no attribution to it… It seems like it would be pretty clear that it wasn’t a direct tweet from the tweeter-in-chief. There were not enough sentence fragments and capitalized single three-letter word “sentences”.
More technically, you said “that’s a very… generous characterization of it.” So, apparently you understood it was a characterization of it.
But then you also said it wasn’t just commentary, you said my commentary was “completely fabricated”. Which implies it was a mischaracterization. But it’s basically combining direct quotes from the two parties at different times and it directly fits the context… that’s not what a “complete fabrication” is.
You cut off the quote from the tweet. It was “took the bait & hit us”. Immediately after Birx said the virus is extraordinarily widespread, unlike in March in April. And that people need to be even more careful and wear masks in more situations.
What cartwheels are you referring to? What is your alternate explanation for what the tweet is supposed to mean?
You added the quote below a link to an article, which could make a reasonable person assume that the quote was from the linked article. That’s all I’m sayin.
Except Trump did not say the other two things. He’s said such things before, but not as part of this so-called “attack”.
Here’s the thing - this is like your teammate striking out in baseball. Everyone says “Aw, man, that didnt help us any, that sucks!”, but you’re making it seem like Trump started beating her with the baseball bat as retribution. That would be an attack.
As I’ve said, it was clearly his own commentary, not a quote from the article (until he denied this, and specifically claimed it was what was said).
Like so many other times, he was putting words in someone else’s mouth (sorry, “paraphrasing”) so that everyone will “know” what that person “actually means”. Instead of letting the actual words speak for themselves.
Yes, keep moving the goalposts so that you point can go through them.
This is about taking the bait. Taking the bait. When you take the bait, you end up shooting yourself in the foot. Which is what you were trying to ridicule them about in the first place, so dont pretend to not understand. She took the bait and gave “you” some extra fuel, and Trump said “Aw, that sucks.” That is not an attack, that is cringing because you were just shot in the foot.
Trump out there granting interviews indiscriminately to this, that, and the other big media outlets. Then they together jump all over whatever it is he says. But:
They never even bother to mention that brother Biden has not agreed to a SINGLE interview since God only know when. The guy only shows up in safe, tightly scripted situations wherein he does not have to think on his feet or provide answers extemporaneously.
Biden needs a VP now. Then he can send her out to answer all the questions he cannot handle in real time. And I’m betting that is exactly what he will do.
When President Wilson became very ill, Mrs. Wilson sort of took over as POTUS. If Biden by some miracle is victorious, let’s hope Jill Biden is up to the task.
Well I notice that Jill Biden is scheduled to appear on Fox News Dana Perino’s program today. In PT it is 11:00, which is about half an hour from now. I plan to tune in to see how it goes.
First, just to get the obvious out of the way, states having experience with vote by mail will be just fine. Hope I don’t need to write that twice. This post is regarding the many states NEW to mail in voting:
Ever heard of business reply mail? Sure you have. Several of the new mail voting states want to pay for postage, business reply mail is one way of doing that, and some are looking at that approach. But there is a fly in the ointment.
Business reply mail does not receive a postmark! So if the states new to vote by mail require your ballot to be postmarked by thus and so date, it is impossible if they also provide business reply mail style return envelopes to voters.
You might think state potentates would know all this. I’m betting some do not. Trump is right. It’s gonna be one whale of a mess in some of the states new to mail voting. An election for POTUS, the most important of all, should not be the first time such as that is attempted.
Of course in the normal course of business, that is in other situations, it makes no difference that there is no postmark. But in some states, where ballots must be "postmarked no later than . . . ", it could.
Business reply mail is generally slower than stamped mail by about (at least) one day. I learned this years ago when doing banking stuff which was time sensitive. I would set aside a business reply mail envelope I might have, and use instead a regular envelope with a stamp I had to pay for, just to save that one day.
I was told the extra time is used by the post office to weigh the business reply mail in bulk. This latter to facilitate billing the recipient for postal costs.
I’m confident the states already doing vote by mail are all quite well aware of the above. No problems in those states. But states doing it for the very first time might not be aware.
It was rhetorical. The (thinly, but apparently too veiled) sarcasm was that the lack of a postmark is precisely why they’re considering using business reply mail. It makes the tampering easier.
Understood. I was not really thinking a state new to mail voting would purposefully be trying anything underhanded. It’s just that the people hurriedly trying to set things up, for a presidential election for goodness sake, might overlook stuff relating to post office procedures.
The way to get something like this up and running is to start out with elections of subordinate importance and “learn the ropes” before jumping in for the most important election we have. Again, the states accustomed to vote by mail will be just fine. But for those for which it is quite a new thing, we could be looking at a recipe for real trouble.
Interesting, I was not aware. I see the reasoning behind this though – voting shouldn’t impose additional costs on the voters. But I agree, mail that isn’t postmarked is not the best way to do it.
States looking at mail-in voting for the first time must choose among three options:
Conventional stamps
Permitted “business reply” mail
Metered mail
Stamps are obviously fine, business reply mail is not postmarked . . . . but with metered mail I am a bit uncertain. I think metered mail receives a postmark. However, there is another consideration:
Once an envelope is metered the meter owner is charged by the post office. Makes no difference that that mailpiece might never reach the mail stream. Hence sending out pre-addressed metered envelopes could result in quite a lot of waste.
The USPS has in-house consultants ready, willing, and able to assist customers with all this sort of stuff. Problem is you have to ask . . you have to make inquiry . . and not everyone does.
Don’t conventional stamps have the same issue as metered mail? Including a stamped return envelope also requires purchasing stamps that may never be used.
