Why Ebola triggers massive right-wing hysteria

[NeverEndingMe]

I worked an entire 8 hour shift, doing things you wouldn't have a fuckin clue how to do. I stayed busy, worked hard and made my employer money.


What did you do?

you are in the union, therefore, you don't do much

 

[BettyPoop]

It's the same Rudy Giuliani/John Ashcroft bullshit. The fear keeps the morons' mind off how hard they're getting fucked by the Republicans. I'm waiting for the colored threat levels scrolling across my TV screen.

 

[BettyPoop]

It's the same Rudy Giuliani/John Ashcroft bullshit. The fear keeps the morons' mind off how hard they're getting fucked by the Republicans. I'm waiting for the colored threat levels scrolling across my TV screen.

Most Americans know about the US ebola cases. Only 50% know there's an election in about three weeks.

 

[RobDownSouth]

But Rob has a job and neither of you worthless cunts work....not to mention, fatass jerry gets subsidized flood insurance.

Talk about a couple of leeches.

It's astonishing how many of my detractors are long-term unemployed (Amicus, Jen, Ishmael, JamesBJohnson, Vettebigot, the late koalabear) or not the primary breadwinner in their family (AJ, Miles).

And yet I'm the one who gets the constant "jobless, unemployed, on welfare" snark.

Such envy. Such bitterness.

 

[NeverEndingMe]

It's astonishing how many of my detractors are long-term unemployed (Amicus, Jen, Ishmael, JamesBJohnson, Vettebigot, the late koalabear) or not the primary breadwinner in their family (AJ, Miles).

And yet I'm the one who gets the constant "jobless, unemployed, on welfare" snark.

Such envy. Such bitterness.

said the fat unemployed jackass. good job welfare Rob

 

[cowslinger64]

you are in the union, therefore, you don't do much

Way to showcase your utter lack of reading / comprehension abilities.

I'll assume you did nothing yesterday, since you totally skipped my question.

What a sad, pathetic person you are. I'm at WORK now, ready to make my employer money again today. I reckon you're up early to start your day doing nothing but being a miserable, worthless POS.. Well, at least you're good as something.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

It's astonishing how many of my detractors are long-term unemployed (Amicus, Jen, Ishmael, JamesBJohnson, Vettebigot, the late koalabear) or not the primary breadwinner in their family (AJ, Miles).

And yet I'm the one who gets the constant "jobless, unemployed, on welfare" snark.

Such envy. Such bitterness.

Gentlemen don't toil, peasant, niggers toil.

 

[NeverEndingMe]

Way to showcase your utter lack of reading / comprehension abilities.

I'll assume you did nothing yesterday, since you totally skipped my question.

What a sad, pathetic person you are. I'm at WORK now, ready to make my employer money again today. I reckon you're up early to start your day doing nothing but being a miserable, worthless POS.. Well, at least you're good as something.

being in a union is not 'work' as you do the bare min which makes you a consumer of the welfare

 

[cowslinger64]

being in a union is not 'work' as you do the bare min which makes you a consumer of the welfare

You really do stick to that total fucking moron shtick... I assume it's cause that's all you've got written on your cue cards.

 

[NeverEndingMe]

You really do stick to that total fucking moron shtick... I assume it's cause that's all you've got written on your cue cards.

oh little cuckold, no reason to get all prissy. just own up that you are a lazy union shit head. the quicker you wake up to reality the quicker you can be fixed

everyone knows that when you join a union you lose your balls...so that much mean that you never had any

so sorry that you are upset

 

[richard_daily]

This is something we could have foreseen however him having an opinion is not him playing politics. Is there a reason why he should be neutral?

And yes there is just one side to blame here as is true of most conflicts. Yes, it was avoidable, the LEft coudl continue their cowardly habit of bowing to the right for any and every reason.

I've yet to see more than one or two democrats act like leftists in federal politics... they're almost all center-right statists.

 

[KingOrfeo]

From Salon:

Friday, Oct 17, 2014 10:03 AM EDT

Wingnuts’ “incompetent” irony: Why they’re hollering nonsense at another bureaucrat

House members like Marsha Blackburn gathered on the Hill to fling dumb questions at the CDC director. Here's why

Jim Newell

Select members of the House of Representatives took a break from their reelection races yesterday and returned to Washington to solve “The Ebola,” a virus that has infected a few people in the United States and is therefore the top late-campaign issue of 2014. Members of Congress don’t like returning to the Hill during campaign recess, but they will do it when the president’s safety or national health or the opportunity to score some easy points hollering at a polite bureaucrat is at stake.

Much to Republicans’ liking, it is now common understanding in the world of punditry and political analysis that the CDC’s handling of Ebola cases in the United States has been “disastrous” or “incompetent.” This is one of those things that I don’t get, beyond that it makes for an attractive story to argue that yet another government institution is “incompetent.”

What we know is that one guy with Ebola flew here and since then two more nurses have contracted the virus. Some mistakes were made at the Texas hospital where all this went down. A couple instances of human error in the United States health care system do not make a public health agency “incompetent.” The virus has been transmitted twice in the United States, and sure, there will be some more cases. That sounds like the CDC has been doing an okay job. If/when the Ebola situation has become “disastrous” — as in when it’s really a national epidemic with hundreds or thousands of new cases — then it will be appropriate to describe the CDC’s handling of it as “disastrous.” Until then, giving into the easy narrative about the Incompetence of a Big Government Institution only serves the interests of those who wished to do away government institutions from the start, and that’s tiresome.

The House hearing served one purpose, which was for Republicans to go on the record, in their official capacities, calling for a travel ban from certain West African countries. This works for them politically because it allows them to lay the Ebola blame at President Obama’s feet. They know the administration can institute a travel ban, which is politically popular, but won’t, because it would be poor public policy, for the purposes of both tracking the spread of Ebola and for international commerce. The playbook is (1) to fan fears about how we’re all going to die of Ebola as rapidly as possible and (2) claim that the President won’t do anything about it, because he is incompetent, he is lazy, the world is going to hell, we’ve got ISIS and Ebola on the borders, he just wants to play golf and raise money, etc.

Rep. Tim Murphy convened the hearing, hollered at the CDC director Dr. Thomas Frieden, and then called for a travel ban. Rep. Fred Upton, chairman of the powerful Energy and Commerce Committee, said we should have a travel ban, because golly, it just doesn’t make sense not to. Rep. Cory Gardner, running for Senate in Colorado — you know what he called for? Travel ban.

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3:15 PM - 16 Oct 2014

Dr. Frieden had to explain the myriad of reasons why he does not recommend a travel ban, making him a good public servant in some eyes and an Obama mouthpiece in others. (There’s a strange belief that the Obama administration ignores politically popular positions, such as instituting a travel ban, for political reasons — trying to tamp down fear, etc. This doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. If the Obama administration were doing things for purely political reasons, it would institute the politically popular policy. The politically popular policy just happens to be the wrong one right now.) Here’s one of the reasons, according to Dr. Frieden, that a travel ban would be ineffective:

“Porous” borders in Africa would make it easy for infected people to evade any ban by migrating to neighboring countries before flying to the U.S., Frieden told House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich). It then would be difficult to know where exactly travelers are coming from, which would make it harder to take steps like screening at-risk passengers’ temperatures and travel histories, he testified during a hearing on the U.S. response to the outbreak.

“Right now we know who’s coming in,” Frieden said. “If we try to eliminate travel, the possibility that some will travel over land, will come from other places and we don’t know that they’re coming in, will mean that we won’t be able to do multiple things.”

“Borders can be porous, especially in this part of the world,” Frieden added.

Oh, reader, you don’t need to be told what the invocation of the words “porous” and “borders” directed the Republican members’ attention to. He was talking about porous borders between West African countries, but Rep. Marsha Blackburn heard the words “borders can be porous” and got all she needed out of it:

Rep. Marsha Blackburn, a Republican from Tennessee, picked up on Frieden’s “porous borders” comment thinking the CDC director was referring to the U.S.’s borders and asked if the U.S. should “worry about having an unsecured southern and northern border.”

“Oh you’re referring to that border and not our porous border,” Blackburn said after Frieden corrected her.

Good hearing! Now it’s back to the campaign trail, assuming they ever really left it.

 

[NeverEndingMe]

here is what we do know....


if it wasn't for you ass smoking obama kind, we could have stopped aids from entering America.

Now, you obama fucktards want to let Ebola in too?

 

[JoyDyan]

being in a union is not 'work' as you do the bare min which makes you a consumer of the welfare

I'm union. ..and I work my ass off. 12-hour shifts. On my feet. Elbow-deep in bodily fluids and saving people's lives.

The fact that you think union workers don't work hard only reveals the depths of your ignorance. This country runs in the backs of union workers. I assume you're jealous of the pay grade, in which case I invite you to come to my hospital and do my job anytime. ..you wouldn't last ten minutes.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

I'm union. ..and I work my ass off. 12-hour shifts. On my feet. Elbow-deep in bodily fluids and saving people's lives.

The fact that you think union workers don't work hard only reveals the depths of your ignorance. This country runs in the backs of union workers. I assume you're jealous of the pay grade, in which case I invite you to come to my hospital and do my job anytime. ..you wouldn't last ten minutes.

You can trust this, Joy...when the JenBot comes to your hospital to visit you, it'll be face down on a gurney with a large cylindrical object lodged deeply into the bleeding business end of its higher intelligence by one of its johns that it couldn't remove manually.

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[Sean Renaud]

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I've yet to see more than one or two democrats act like leftists in federal politics... they're almost all center-right statists.

Well that's because Democrats ARE Center Right Statists. We do not have an American Left, even by comparison to the American right we barely have a left and that's just because even the masterbation champion of the world has a center of balance somewhere.

 

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[Sean Renaud]

What is mysterious about them?

 

[RobDownSouth]

Maybe we ought to know more about the mysterious Phoenix Air Group that is being used to transport some Ebola patients, looks like they might come right out of our black ops sector:

http://phoenixair.com/home.html

Very very mysterious....but they have a website advertising their goods?

#DerpDerpDerp

 

[about_average]

What is mysterious about them?

Looks pretty mysterious to me

http://phoenixair.com/images/executive_charter.jpg

http://phoenixair.com/images/ambulance.jpg

 

[unregistered]

 

[about_average]

The pentagon is refusing to talk publicly about their relationship with this air group.

Of all the many contractors that the pentagon works with, how many do they discuss publicly?

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Maybe we ought to know more about the mysterious Phoenix Air Group that is being used to transport some Ebola patients, looks like they might come right out of our black ops sector:

http://phoenixair.com/home.html

http://phoenixair.com/images/executive_charter.jpg

Bish please.

The only thing "black" about these people is the car they're driving.

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[about_average]

Bish please.

The only thing "black" about these people is the car they're driving.

There's no sarcasm smilie.

 

[Sean Renaud]

The pentagon is refusing to talk publicly about their relationship with this air group. Judicial Watch is getting opposition to a FOIA on it's plans for evacuating U.S. personnel that might become infected in Africa, and Phoenix Air figures in affair. If you look at their web site, they do have a military capability. probably a CIA front.

If they even have a relationship that goes any farther than the basics. So lets say your 100% correct. They are a CIA front. The CIA does and should have dozens of those an we should NEVER find out.