ted lieu nails it

[orleans]

Link to tweet

THIS STATEMENT IS INSANE.

(from jim acosta) The White House Press Secretary on Trump's push to reopen schools: "The science should not stand in the way of this."

[lagomorph777]

1. And that's why 2/3 of the country doesn't trust them to protect us.

They are literally and purposely killing us.

[Cha]

2. WRONG, hogan.. trumphuck ups Should Not Stand in the Way

of SCIENCE.

[uponit7771]

3. THANK YOU !!! PUH-LEASE refer to Red Don as insane for now on. He's Joker from Dark Knight and

... just wants to see the world burn

[calimary]

15. Well, he will if he loses in November, I bet.

If that happy result ensues, then we ALL better keep him on a VERY short leash. I dread him embracing an “if I can’t have it, nobody can” type attitude. At that point, the military may have to get involved - to keep him contained so he doesn’t “wreck the joint” on his way out, just for spite.

Remember, the donald is extremely petty and vindictive. And he doesn’t forget a slight.

Sweet Lord I hope I’m just overdoing it, paranoia-wise...

[uponit7771]

16. +1

[BSdetect]

4. It's nucking futs

[Grokenstein]

5. The Trump Administration is the Enemy of the People.

The Republican Party is complicit in their treason.

[RussellCattle]

13. Truly complicit. Actually even worse than that. They don't just support Trump's idiocy....

....at the expense of science and common sense, but now they are attacking their own demanding purity from Repubs who are slightly less rabid in their support. Republican party executive committee members have attacked Governor Abbot in Texas because he isn't completely against anyone wearing a mask.

https://www.12newsnow.com/article/news/politics/hardin-county-republican-party-votes-to-censure-gov-abbott-over-mask-order/502-293ae17f-3715-4d8d-98eb-2343cbc71ae5

[Thunderbeast]

6. WE CAN NOT LET FACTS...

Get in the way his ego!

Your child's life is WAY less important than making the rich richer and convincing enough fools to vote for these criminals in November.

[RVN VET71]

21. And your child's teacher

and school bus driver, and cafeteria worker, and janitor, and crossing guard.

Not one of those people is in the 1% and therefore do not count, not in Trump's and the GOP's world, at any rate. We are all so damned expendable to those hollow, evil, vile people.

Never Forget. Never Again!

[dalton99a]

7. Trump's science is the real science

The only science this country needs

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

8. My mind's made up.

Don't confuse me with facts.

[Mr. Ected]

9. So this is the hill upon which the MAGATs will fight their last battle?

From Tea Parties to baby killers. That's their legacy.

Any parent that has the means to keep their kids home, should. School won't be in session long. One sick kid will shut down a school and that'll be that.

[IronLionZion]

10. If science gets in the way, they'll offer alternative science

[LastDemocratInSC]

14. Similar to the disastrous effects of Lysenko's agricultural "science" in the USSR.

[Roc2020]

11. Not sure about the whole GOP, but the White House

Administration and it's enablers are straight death cultists.

[Danascot]

12. Why bother to send them to school

where they might learn some fucking SCIENCE!?

[czarjak]

17. "Vaccine or no vaccine"

[Lokee11]

18. "Don't let something like facts get in the way of your conclusions"

I have sarcastically said this to people when arguing, and more often than not it kind of works to end the discussion. But it seems as though the WH really lives by this mantra though, because they seem to never let facts/science/ethics/morals/intelligent reasoning/mathematics/statistics/basically anything, get in the way of their conclusions.

How I hope Chuck Woolery-esque Karma is in all their futures!

FDT

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

19. It wasn't a mistake. She read it from her book. n/t

[Hortensis]

20. Yup. Nor was following it by also saying science was guiding them.

Lies for different preferences.

[Six117]

22. This is what happens

When Christian fundamentalist take over government.

[Evolve Dammit]

24. Yes indeed. Her cross of gold (Ingraham and many others) pits them against science for very bizarre

reasoning but more focused on dividing intent. Christo-fascism/ white supremacy appears to be their end game. I never used to begrudge anyone their religious beliefs. But when those "beliefs" are USED for political and divisive reasons in a country based on freedom of religion, but separation of church and state, you lost my tolerance. Of course Ingraham's nazi salute at the convention in Cleveland gave her end game away...

[HotTeaBag]

23. Science will in fact stand in the way of it.

And it isn't up to Trump or Disinformation Barbie or even Devos to decide if and how schools open. It's up to the locality and more importantly in most cases, the parents of the child attending the school.

My wife and I decided not to have our daughter attend school (kindergarten) in person this year and instead opted to take the route of what amounts to home-schooling. She will miss the social interaction, but under the school's reopening plans there wouldn't be much of it anyway - having the kids wear masks all day would prevent her from even knowing what her classmates even look like., let alone being able to be near enough to play with them.

[rickyhall]

25. In other words:

Reality should not stand in the way of this.

How do you plan something that hasn't happened yet? Betsy De Ville