So, um, if you are not registered to vote, please do it, sooner rather than later. The president of the United States retweeted it. This press conference might literally kill people. How nutty was this? How easy was it to identify as misinformed, wildly biased, and literally insane? One of the principal doctors who spoke was this lady. Their comments on it were insane many saw it as proof of a national conspiracy They are out there, in stunning numbers, and nothing will persuade them of the truth about this man. But that's not the point: Trump's idiot followers consumed it voraciously. The video of the event was viewed tens of thousands of times across many platforms and it was amplified a millionfold because it was re-tweeted by, yeah, President Trump, even though it was not only obviously false but also wildly irresponsible.īy now it's been scrubbed from Facebook, youtube and other public forums. The doctors identified themselves as "America's Frontline Doctors," though they are clearly nut jobs, or worse. (Yes, there is a blatant internal inconsistency - if the virus ain't dangerous, how can spreading it hurt Trump?) The press conference was sponsored by. A group of "doctors" (some of whom ARE doctors) gave a news conference in front of the Supreme Court, for some reason, in which they assured America that you don't need to wear masks, that hodroxycloroquine is a cure for the virus, and that that fact is being withheld from the American public, presumably to intensify the pandemic in order to hurt Donald Trump's reelection chances. The thing that happened yesterday was terrifying. For those of who feel some sense of security that the disaster in the White House is going to be mightily expunged in three months' time, recalibrate your fear. A situation presents itself, and PETA solves it as best they can.Very short intro today. It is a shaky deal and depends on voluntary compliance, which is never assured, but it is something. On-site triage. The dachshunds will at least get their porch space back. Then, PETA workers - they are jacks-of-all-trades, by necessity - will return with hinges and power tools and rehang the door. “PETA will take Dora and spay her for free, and then return her if she is healthy enough and emotionally sound. Weingarten then goes on to document how PETA’s Community Animal Project helps these dogs. ![]() The practice is not the province of any race or any age or any nationality or any region of the country, though it is most prevalent, by far, in areas of rural America where resources are limited and opportunities are slender.” “It occurs all over the country,” he writes, “the pitiless 24-hour-a-day chaining of dogs to lifelong sentences of misery and madness. He describes dogs who die of starvation after people sell their home, move out, and deliberately leave them behind. Weingarten’s piece describes dogs tethered their entire lives in “the backyard of the backyard” - as far from their humans’ house as possible, as though their existence is a disagreeable inconvenience. Reiter Memorial Fund’s top grantee since its founding in April 2016. The second implied question is: Who is working to end this cruelty? And the answer is: PETA’s Community Animal Project, the Gregory J. A Dog’ Life: Why are so many people so cruel to their dogs? This is the first question Gene Weingarten tackles in this week’s issue of The Washington Post Magazine.
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