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https://politicalwire.com/2020/10/31/fauci-offers-blunt-assessment-of-trump-on-pandemic/Fauci Offers Blunt Assessment of Trump
October 31, 2020 at 8:51 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
Said Dr. Anthony Fauci: Were in for a whole lot of hurt. Its not a good situation. All the stars are aligned in the wrong place as you go into the fall and winter season, with people congregating at home indoors. You could not possibly be positioned more poorly.
Fauci also noted that Joe Biden is taking it seriously from a public health perspective while Trump is looking at it from a different perspective.
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doc03
(35,148 posts)Trump one Trumper I know a Catholic said of the Pope f-- that SOB when he disagreed with Trump.
paleotn
(17,778 posts)Correct me if I'm wrong, but the more conservative a Catholic is, the more likely they lean towards Papal infallibility? That's got to make some heads explode.
doc03
(35,148 posts)vote for Trump because he claims to be pro-life.
shrike3
(3,268 posts)Their "pope" is Benedict. Conservative Catholicism in America is in a real weird place. You wouldn't know this, it was kind of inside baseball, but in 2019 conservative clerics tried to mount a "coup" against Francis -- convoluted, I won't try to explain -- and I ate popcorn because it obviously wouldn't work. American Catholics are only eight percent of the church, the focus is elsewhere in the world, churches in other hemispheres supported Francis, no one cared what those 20 or so American bishops had to say. It is a weird, weird time.
doc03
(35,148 posts)he would burn in hell. Now it's OK if he disagrees with Dear Leader.
shrike3
(3,268 posts)The American church is in a really weird place, thanks to the positioning of some very conservative bishops. Francis has even said that a schism between the world church and the American church wouldn't surprise him.
Francis has been pushing climate change as a top priority for a while. The American bishops met for their annual conference and decided climate change was "not a priority." What was? Abortion.
onetexan
(12,994 posts)Nuttery & hypocrisy abound. The men who run it are still stuck in the 1800s. They do not like vatican II's changes &they certainly are not fans of pope Francis.
shrike3
(3,268 posts)and so ignore the American shenanigans. Sixty-six percent of the church is in the Third World, so the future is there.
paleotn
(17,778 posts)Some of us lose sight of the fact that it is a truly global religion. And in the grand scheme, there just aren't all that many Amurkins.
shrike3
(3,268 posts)It was very accurate. The reporter made the good point that American Catholicism will be going the way of the Evangelicals if things don't change.
She also pointed out that America is no longer the church's favorite son. (As in the Kennedy era.) The focus is elsewhere.
btw, 66 percent of the church is in the third world, which is a challenge because of cultural differences as well as religious tenets. Why I found the pope's recent comments on same-sex unions so encouraging.
KPN
(15,587 posts)spending time with who has fallen prey to evangelism, Faux News and reveres tRump. I could no longer ignore his politics and our interaction has pretty much ended. According to him, we are guided by Satan and hell bent on "destroying America", but he isn't too overly concerned because ... well, the rapture.
appleannie1
(5,044 posts)AllyCat
(16,035 posts)was diving into politics and he should stay out. He has no problem with catholic priests and leaders AGREEING with 45.
Shermann
(7,355 posts)There's a bit of a dig at Trump here but this story seems to be getting puffed up a bit.
milestogo
(16,829 posts)People are dumb enough already.
Jarqui
(10,110 posts)panfluteman
(2,054 posts)The political perspective, of course! And more specifically, the perspective of his own re-election. And where facts and actual achievements are in short supply, or even non-existent, he will just lie.
Illumination
(2,458 posts)Fauci said awhile back he didn't want to see the infection #s go above 10,000. Here we are @ TEN TIMES that amount & we're not even in winter yet...