More about Birx and my demand that she resign

Update:

It's not just me and a few medicos on TV irate that she defends and covers for Bozo, any more.

Fauci is soft on Trump in the briefings but more (but not entirely) frank when interviewed elsewhere, and that's quite bad enough, thanks.

But Birx is on his team, committed to covering for him and making apologies for his idiocies.

Tapper was actually too easy on her and understated the damage she is doing, and note how she pushed back, attempting to discredit his pointing to the dangerous idiocy of the president and her dangerous covering for him by subtly blaming him for distracting from what, according to her, was clearly his real job and moral responsibility, passing on good medical information to the American people.

White House spokespeople or Fox apologists couldn't have done it better, and certainly would not have seemed to be so authoritative and deserving of deference as she did.

A little more of this and maybe everyone will see she's a White House collaborator hiding in the role of responsible adult in the room.

/Update.

Anyway, Piers Morgan, straw in the wind?

I posted these remarks at Steve M.'s.

Me to Steve.

Dr Birx needs to resign and this is why. 

She has joined the Trump team in the effort to hide his terrifying stupidity that, combined with his lunatic megalomania and delusions of omnicompetence, are killing Americans by the tens of thousands.

Steve to me.

She's more actively engaged in defending Trump than Fauci is. That's not admirable. But it's not as if her departure would suddenly make the scales fall from Trump voters' eyes -- "Dr. Birx said he was a thoughtful man who's very interested in science, but now I see he's nothing but a fraud!" That will never happen -- if it's not happening after Disinfectantgate, then it can't happen under any circumstances. But at least we have reason to believe that Birx, like Fauci, is giving Trump good information, which he absorbs to a limited extent. It got him to take the virus somewhat seriously, eventually, at least for a couple of weeks. It kept him from insisting on a reopening on Easter Sunday. It persuaded him to reject Brian Kemp's reopening of Georgia (although by then the damage was already done). If Birx goes, she'll be replaced by Dr. Oz, or by some other quack Trump saw on Fox, or by some college poker buddy of Jared's. Her replacement will know absolutely nothing relevant to the crisis. The little Birx is able to do is better than the alternative.

Me to Steve

Thank you for engaging. 

If Birx goes and Bozo replaces her with that corrupt airhead and fraud, Oz, or someone else of that ilk, the country will see things more transparently stupid and frightening than even the Duce's Lysol moment. 

And the adversarial press will become much more frank and harsh, and will give stories like the waste of resources and fatal mistreatment of patients that resulted from the Orange Moron's delusions concerning chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine more and harsher coverage. 

And they will hammer home that at least half the virus deaths in the US up to now are completely and only Trump's fault. 

Many of Bozo's GOP supporters in positions of power and influence on GOP public opinion will freak.

That will certainly include GOP federal office holders, White House staff, and cabinet members, none of whom can even now have the tiniest jot of respect for this insane and stupid brat.

Their loyalty to him is thin and entirely opportunist, anyway, based on the fact that vile person and idiot though he is he will sign their legislation, appoint their juges, and give the hard right what they want. 

And we need them to freak, especially if you and others are right that there is a real danger he will postpone or cancel the elections or ignore their results as "fake news". 

We have to ensure that public support, and support among the classe politique, for any of that would be as close to nil as possible, and public opposition would be as fierce as possible. 

So at least half his base has to freak, to go all weak in the knees, if not to desert him outright as soon as possible. 

They haven't and won't abandon him for any other reason. 

They need to see he puts everyone, and themselves and people like them in particular, in deadly danger. 

If Birx and others stay on, shielding him and his public image and pretending his utterly stupid suggestions and actual orders to the medical establishment are not wasting time and resources and causing extra deaths, that will not happen. 

And if his base stays true blue, given the way things are going, our goose is cooked and that terrifying fathead will be reelected in November. 

Anyway I fear this is true. 

And "fear" is exactly the right word. 

Sorry to go on so long.