“Persuading people to vote against their own best interests has been the awesome genius of the American political elite from the beginning.” Gore Vidal
Trump checked himself out of Walter Reed hospital. There’s no way his team of doctors would recommend it, but it comes down to what the patient wants, and Trump wanted images of a triumphant, choreographed return to the White House, like a Roman general returning from the wars. He wanted that moment on the Truman Balcony, all eyes on him as he wheezed and struggled to button his coat, as he defiantly removed his mask, as he puffed out his flabby chest and saluted his chariot corps. Trump was desperate to show what a brave and heroic and virile hunk of man he is, a superhero without weakness or vulnerability. “I’m too strong for Covid-19! My magnificent genes. I’m one tough hombre. I dominated Covid the same way I dominate Nancy Pelosi!”
Trump still has the nuclear codes, right?
A side effect of one of the drugs (Dexamethasone) being pumped into his bloated body messes with cognition and judgment in some people...How do we tell the difference between normal Trump and Trump on drugs?
Why isn’t Trump popping hydroxychloroquine, the miracle cure he hyped for months? Remember when he said, “What have you got to lose?”
The winter of our discontent looms. At the beginning of the pandemic, in a time that seems long ago, I wondered how bad it would get. That was almost 210,000 deaths ago. I heard an academic on a podcast say that the Trump gang’s response to the pandemic has been “spectacularly inept.” In the daily media blizzard of outrages, lies, disinformation, and nonsense it’s too easy to forget that Trump knew how Covid-19 was transmitted and how deadly it could be. It’s on tape, his own words, as are his lies to the American people. Months and months of denial. Months and months of blaming others. Months and months of phony and misleading information.“I take no responsibility,” Trump said. And he doesn’t. He still believes Covid will magically disappear.
The worst economic suffering is yet to come. The chairman of the Federal Reserve warned yesterday that more stimulus is needed to keep the economy from careening off the rails. Trump greeted this news by shutting down negotiations between the House and Senate over another round of relief until after the election. Petty, childish, stupid, a middle finger to all the commoners struggling to hold their lives together. Let the people scramble for crusts of bread. If he can’t win or steal the election Trump will burn the country down. MAGA.
Covid strikes the vampire...chief White House bigot Stephen Miller tests positive.
Don’t worry about Covid, Trump said. You can beat it, like I did. There are almost no words to describe this degree of callousness and ignorance. Maybe Trump doesn’t understand that the overwhelming majority of Americans do not have immediate access to a private hospital suite, a team of medical professionals, the best diagnostic equipment, experimental drugs, and round the clock monitoring. Maybe Trump imagines that all of us travel in armor-reinforced SUV’s and helicopters, with drivers, pilots, and Secret Service guards. The man is incapable of putting himself in another’s shoes.
I don’t know. Like millions of Americans I’m fucking exhausted -- by Trump, Covid, the perfidy of the GOP, and the awfulness of this chapter of the American tale. Government by stunt, politics as performance. Trump’s terrible reality show has divided the nation and contributed to the deaths of thousands of Americans. And the final episodes remain to be written and acted out.
We’re stuck in a protracted episode of Trumpcraft Country.
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