I was in the neighborhood park yesterday morning, waiting for Booger to poop, when one of my neighbors, “Tom”, came by with his little pooches for their constitutionals. While we stayed socially distant, we chatted about the goings on in the community.
Then, Tom went off into a soliloquy about the mass of bad information flooding the country produced by the “mainstream media” and that “no one knows what’s true anymore”.
It’s not hard to figure out who this guy has been getting his “facts” from.
President Trump has, for three years, been calling any news story that calls him out for lying “fake news”. Any reporter that asks him a legitimate questions gets derided as “nasty”. Since the Pandemic/Economic Collapse drama has unfolded, Trump has taken to deriding legitimate news outlets, who are reporting facts rather than his falsehoods, as the “Lamestream Media”.
Tom, along with my hiking partners Mac and Lloyd, by brother Terry, my sister Kellie, and a bunch of other acquaintances have been ignoring real news and have, instead, been slurping down the President’s proprietary Trump Bullshit Kool Aid, distributed by his Fox News propaganda arm.
It seems that no matter what the guy does or says or claims, these idiots swallow his pitch…hook, line and sinker. It just goes to show, P.T. Barnum was right when he said, “There’s a sucker born every minute!” Barnum was the greatest salesman of his day, and Trump is his modern counterpart.
Just in the past few days, our leader has become a Born-Again Pandemic Warrior (in his words a “wartime President”), expecting all Americans to forget his earlier “facts” and opinions about the “hoax” (Covid-19), and trust him to rescue us from our bleak situation.
Yeah, I’d like to believe that Donald Trump can be a trusted, responsible leader, but he would have to change quite a bit, from the narcissistic, lying, blowhard who wasted a couple of months diddling around while the coronavirus gathered steam here in America.
His tardiness in addressing this crisis will probably cost 50,000 additional lives in this country: we’re making Italy look good.
Today, I read an opinion piece from the WashPost by Dana Milbank that pretty much encapsulates the rocky road that the Trump has led us down in the past three months. Mr. Milbank has drafted a proposed 3/31/20 “Fireside Chat” to the American people by the President…using Trump’s actual words from the past 90 days of press conferences, Fox News interviews, Tweets, and such.
“My fellow Americans…
The coronavirus is very much under control in the USA. We have it totally under control. I’m not concerned at all. It’s one person coming in from China. We pretty much shut it down. It will all work out well. We’re in great shape. Doesn’t spread widely at all in the United States because of the early actions that myself and my administration took. There’s a chance it won’t spread. It’s something that we have tremendous control over.
Looks like by April, you know, in theory, when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away. One day it’s like a miracle, it will disappear. Just stay calm. It will go away. The Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus. This is their new hoax.
Whatever happens, we’re totally prepared. Totally ready. We’re rated number one for being prepared. We are so prepared like we never have been prepared. Taking early intense action, we have seen dramatically fewer cases of the virus in the United States. We’re very much ahead of everything.
This is a flu. I didn’t know people died from the flu. Here, we’re talking about a much smaller range. It is very mild. Some people will have this at a very light level. Some of them go to work.
The mortality rate is much, much better. In my opinion it’s way, way down. I think it’s substantially below 1 percent. A fraction of 1 percent. I think the numbers are going to get progressively better as we go along. This is just my hunch.
We have very little problem in this country. We only have five people. We only have 11 cases. Out of billions of people, 15 people. They’re getting better, and soon they’re all going to be better, hopefully. We’re going very substantially down, not up.
The United States, because of what I did and what the administration did with China, we have 32 deaths at this point.
To this point, and because we have had a very strong border policy, we have had 40 deaths.
As of this moment, we have 50 deaths. I have a feeling that a lot of the numbers that are being said in some areas are just bigger than they’re going to be.
Frankly, the testing has been going very smooth. The tests are all perfect. Anybody that wants a test can get a test. The tests are beautiful. We have a tremendous testing setup.
I don’t believe you need 40,000 or 30,000 ventilators. We are very close to a vaccine. A matter of months. You take a solid flu vaccine, you don’t think that could have an impact? Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin, taken together, have a real chance to be one of the biggest game changers in the history of medicine. Based on very strong evidence.
I would love to have the country opened up and just raring to go by Easter. No way I’m going to cancel the convention. Stock Market starting to look very good to me!
We’re the ones that gave the great response. I’d rate it a 10. We’ve done a fantastic job. I think they should be appreciative. Gallup just gave us the highest rating. The highest on record.
I like this stuff. I really get it. Maybe I have a natural ability. We think it’s going to have a very good ending. We’re going to win faster than people think. I hope.
This blindsided the world! Who could have ever predicted a thing like this? This was something that nobody has ever thought could happen to this country.
I’ve always known this is a real, this is a pandemic. I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic. I always treated the Chinese Virus very seriously.
If you’re talking about the virus, no, that’s not under control for anyplace in the world. I was talking about what we’re doing is under control, but I’m not talking about the virus. I didn’t say Easter. It was just an aspiration. I am giving consideration to a QUARANTINE.
So you’re talking about 2.2 million deaths. If we could hold that down…between 100,000 and 200,000, and we all together have done a very good job.
START MAKING VENTILATORS, NOW!!!!!! FORD, GET GOING ON VENTILATORS, FAST!!!!!! Invoke “P”. I want our life back again.
It was nobody’s fault. No, just things that happened. I don’t take responsibility at all.
Good night, and God Bless America!”
ANALYSIS:
Tom, Mac, Lloyd, Terry, Kellie: “Yeah, those Lamestream Media are always taking words out of his mouth and making up shit.”
Craig: “No, Trump makes up shit; that’s the problem!”
Trump: Look at my ratings on Facebook!
NEWS FLASH: Last week, the Trump re-election campaign sent a “cease and desist” letter to television broadcast stations across the United States , threatening to sue them if they run an ad produced by Priorities USA, a Democratic super PAC. The ad, “Exponential Threat”, juxtaposes dismissive Trump comments about the Covid-19 crisis with a chart tracking the number of infections throughout the country.
The Trump Re-Election Campaign message to televisions broadcasters was this: You can’t air that commercial because those things that the President said are embarrassing to him.
I’m not making this stuff up, Folks!