[OutsiderFan]

This story is just stomach-turning.  The HHS apparently stole $300 million from the CDC's budget to run a PR campaign designed to gaslight the American people about how awesome a job the Federal Government has done managing the Covid-19 pandemic. And the CDC has no say, even though Congress appropriated the money to CDC.  How the hell is this even legally possible?

""CDC hasn’t yet done an awareness campaign about Covid guidelines — but they are going to pay for a campaign about how to get rid of our despair? Run by political appointees in the press shop?"

[tweet]https://twitter.com/ddiamond/status/1309628363431120896[/tweet]

[OutsiderFan]

This story is just stomach-turning.  The HHS apparently stole $300 million from the CDC's budget to run a PR campaign designed to gaslight the American people about how awesome a job the Federal Government has done managing the Covid-19 pandemic. And the CDC has no say, even though Congress appropriated the money to CDC.  How the hell is this even legally possible?

""CDC hasn’t yet done an awareness campaign about Covid guidelines — but they are going to pay for a campaign about how to get rid of our despair? Run by political appointees in the press shop?"

[tweet]https://twitter.com/ddiamond/status/1309628363431120896[/tweet]

[dabigv13]

It was a grift from the beginning, and even in the midst of a deadly pandemic that has killed 200k+, it is still a grift. Pretty sad that the fascist tilt our government is taking isn't even in service to some twisted ideology, it's just the sideshow to distract from the looting. USA in 2020 sucks ass!

[dabigv13]

It was a grift from the beginning, and even in the midst of a deadly pandemic that has killed 200k+, it is still a grift. Pretty sad that the fascist tilt our government is taking isn't even in service to some twisted ideology, it's just the sideshow to distract from the looting. USA in 2020 sucks ass!

[oregontim]

It was a grift from the beginning, and even in the midst of a deadly pandemic that has killed 200k+, it is still a grift. Pretty sad that the fascist tilt our government is taking isn't even in service to some twisted ideology, it's just the sideshow to distract from the looting. USA in 2020 sucks ass!

+ 1 for that. Well said.

[oregontim]

It was a grift from the beginning, and even in the midst of a deadly pandemic that has killed 200k+, it is still a grift. Pretty sad that the fascist tilt our government is taking isn't even in service to some twisted ideology, it's just the sideshow to distract from the looting. USA in 2020 sucks ass!

+ 1 for that. Well said.

[chrisk]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/26/politics/...index.html

Azar and his colleagues flout his own advice about wearing masks.

[chrisk]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/26/politics/...index.html

Azar and his colleagues flout his own advice about wearing masks.

[Mick]

It was a grift from the beginning, and even in the midst of a deadly pandemic that has killed 200k+, it is still a grift. Pretty sad that the fascist tilt our government is taking isn't even in service to some twisted ideology, it's just the sideshow to distract from the looting. USA in 2020 sucks ass!

Particularly if you're one of the 53 million people who've been thrown out of work.

[Mick]

It was a grift from the beginning, and even in the midst of a deadly pandemic that has killed 200k+, it is still a grift. Pretty sad that the fascist tilt our government is taking isn't even in service to some twisted ideology, it's just the sideshow to distract from the looting. USA in 2020 sucks ass!

Particularly if you're one of the 53 million people who've been thrown out of work.

[dabigv13]

Our government should have done a lot more to help people who lost their jobs. Trump and McConnell have sat on their asses while the D's passed a bill months ago.

[dabigv13]

Our government should have done a lot more to help people who lost their jobs. Trump and McConnell have sat on their asses while the D's passed a bill months ago.

[oldalum]

Particularly if you're one of the 53 million people who've been thrown out of work.

or the others who still have some work but have had a significant decrease in income.

[oldalum]

Particularly if you're one of the 53 million people who've been thrown out of work.

or the others who still have some work but have had a significant decrease in income.

[dabigv13]

That 300 million would be much better in the pockets of out of work Americans, than Trump's cronies and Dennis Quaid. Though I suppose he's been out of work for a while himself.

[dabigv13]

That 300 million would be much better in the pockets of out of work Americans, than Trump's cronies and Dennis Quaid. Though I suppose he's been out of work for a while himself.

[oregontim]

I say this is naked propaganda in the worst sense of the word. A chief executive spending tax money to push self-serving lies to the public. Isn't this another in the hundreds of obvious crimes this loathsome man and his henchmen have committed?

[oregontim]

I say this is naked propaganda in the worst sense of the word. A chief executive spending tax money to push self-serving lies to the public. Isn't this another in the hundreds of obvious crimes this loathsome man and his henchmen have committed?

[82 Card]

I say this is naked propaganda in the worst sense of the word. A chief executive spending tax money to push self-serving lies to the public. Isn't this another in the hundreds of obvious crimes this loathsome man and his henchmen have committed?

Domestic propaganda used to be a crime but has not been for 7 years: U.S. Repeals Propaganda Ban, Spreads Government-Made News to Americans  (but see: New Government “Propaganda” Bill a Positive Step for First Amendment )

[82 Card]

I say this is naked propaganda in the worst sense of the word. A chief executive spending tax money to push self-serving lies to the public. Isn't this another in the hundreds of obvious crimes this loathsome man and his henchmen have committed?

Domestic propaganda used to be a crime but has not been for 7 years: U.S. Repeals Propaganda Ban, Spreads Government-Made News to Americans  (but see: New Government “Propaganda” Bill a Positive Step for First Amendment )

[BostonCard]

I don't think the Trump administration was planning to only use Voice of America.

BC

[BostonCard]

I don't think the Trump administration was planning to only use Voice of America.

BC

[82 Card]

I don't think the Trump administration was planning to only use Voice of America.

BC

True. But the old prohibition set a tone that influenced interpretation in other areas. There really isn't an outright prohibition against propaganda in other areas that I am aware of. You can sometimes get there through analysis of the purpose of an appropriation. However, any propagandist can easily stretch beyond recognition anything related to public education.

[82 Card]

I don't think the Trump administration was planning to only use Voice of America.

BC

True. But the old prohibition set a tone that influenced interpretation in other areas. There really isn't an outright prohibition against propaganda in other areas that I am aware of. You can sometimes get there through analysis of the purpose of an appropriation. However, any propagandist can easily stretch beyond recognition anything related to public education.

[OutsiderFan]

On a related note:

[tweet]https://twitter.com/PeterAlexander/status/1310535178008383488[/tweet]

Stanford should end its association with this Atlas clown.

[OutsiderFan]

On a related note:

[tweet]https://twitter.com/PeterAlexander/status/1310535178008383488[/tweet]

Stanford should end its association with this Atlas clown.

[OutsiderFan]

So we now can prosecute a very strong case that the POTUS is killing people to make money because he's compromised by his own debt. There are no coincidences. Hopefully there is a criminal prosecution to hold all these traitors accountable.

[tweet]https://twitter.com/AlexJamesFitz/status/1310398696635461632[/tweet]

[OutsiderFan]

So we now can prosecute a very strong case that the POTUS is killing people to make money because he's compromised by his own debt. There are no coincidences. Hopefully there is a criminal prosecution to hold all these traitors accountable.

[tweet]https://twitter.com/AlexJamesFitz/status/1310398696635461632[/tweet]

[fullmetal]

Don't forget all the lucrative, botched no-bid contracts to secure PPE handed out to friends-of-Jared or ex-GOP lobbyist brokers with no medical supply chain experience.

[fullmetal]

Don't forget all the lucrative, botched no-bid contracts to secure PPE handed out to friends-of-Jared or ex-GOP lobbyist brokers with no medical supply chain experience.

[BostonCard]

Let's keep Trump's taxes (or lack thereof) out of the COVID-19 board.
BC

[BostonCard]

Let's keep Trump's taxes (or lack thereof) out of the COVID-19 board.
BC

[chrisk]

On a related note:

[tweet]https://twitter.com/PeterAlexander/status/1310535178008383488[/tweet]

Stanford should end its association with this Atlas clown.

Atlas was front and center today and got in the last word at Trump’s TVshow today promoting shipping hundreds of millions of Abbott self-Tests to states for use in daily testing in schools and care facilities. The line-up today included Giroir demonstrating a self-test, the Gov of Mississippi, Pence, and Atlas. Tells you who is currently in favor.

At Trump’s TV show, Pence and Atlas are stroking Tripp’s ego about the success he is having, while Fauci is on other shows today telling the country how it is not in a good place.

[chrisk]

On a related note:

[tweet]https://twitter.com/PeterAlexander/status/1310535178008383488[/tweet]

Stanford should end its association with this Atlas clown.

Atlas was front and center today and got in the last word at Trump’s TVshow today promoting shipping hundreds of millions of Abbott self-Tests to states for use in daily testing in schools and care facilities. The line-up today included Giroir demonstrating a self-test, the Gov of Mississippi, Pence, and Atlas. Tells you who is currently in favor.

At Trump’s TV show, Pence and Atlas are stroking Tripp’s ego about the success he is having, while Fauci is on other shows today telling the country how it is not in a good place.