He has a remarkable ability to infest, corrupt, and destroy even the most reputable institutions. Will you ever believe a doctor’s report on the health of a president ever again? Do you still wishfully hope that Mr Smith Goes to Washington accurately portrays how an honest man can shape the Senate? Do you believe any more that “CDC” stands for “Center for Disease Control”?
Of course, he had help. It would be nice if the poison in the body politic had a single name and we could just boot the creep and get back to having trust, but I just can’t get out of my head the fact that 43% of the electorate think he’s doing a good job coping with a medical crisis.
What’s missing, of course, is to lay the blame for this clusterfuck on your predecessor. Which is exactly what he did yesterday.
And 43% of the electorate wouldn’t be allowed to vote if passing an IQ test were mandatory. One has to have a license to drive in this fucked up country, and how many are competent to do even that much?
(Cross-posted from poopyhead’s current Political Madness All the Time thread.)
Oh good grief, Trump administration reportedly won’t let states use Medicaid to respond to crisis (current Grauniad live States blog):
My mom has gone straight to libertarian looneyville over this. She thinks we’re all going to be fine because the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is busy making test kits, which proves that Private Enterprise can solve any problem and the CDC’s lack of preparedness for this is because government workers are lazy and not because their entire pandemic response department was cut by the Private Enterprise President.
She also doesn’t get that producing test kits is not the same as having an organized response to the number of people who are going to be flooding hospital ERs or being able to organize quarantines to prevent the virus from spreading.
microraptor@4, “Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is busy making test kits, which proves that Private Enterprise can solve any problem”. That’s probably the first time I’ve encountered their foundation as being “private enterprise” (read: for-profit). I assume then she’ll also approve of this:
Same-ish thing, right? (Yes, it it is. Thanks, Mr Ma!) Stand-by for xenophobes in 3… 2… 1…
(Cross-posted from poopyhead’s current Political Madness All the Time thread.)
The sick joke of Donald’s Trump’s presidency [sic] isn’t funny any more:
As to the 43%:
• this is why the fight against Creationism (and other pseudoscience) has always been, and always will be important important.
• they are already saying the Democrats and Liberals and Commies are going to sabotage their great leader’s efforts to save ‘Merica, so no matter how many die, they won’t blame him
• does anyone really think Fox news, Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruz and others will change into an actual reality based worldview? When so many of the elected leaders are so venal, even up to the highest courts, the system is in deep kimchee
If you asked most liberals: would you be happy with minimal deaths and no real damage to the economy, even if Trump got all the credit?, almost all would grumble but be joyous that so many who could have died, didn’t.
If this same crisis had occurred during the Obama administration, the rightwing would have been profoundly disappointed. They actually would have been happier with more deaths, especially if it had occurred during Obama’s first term, so they could have made him a one-termer.
How these people see themselves as the moral bastions and “real” patriots is beyond reason.
Aaaaaand meanwhile, the Democrats are preparing to run the candidate who explicitly does not want universal healthcare, and says he will veto it even if it gets through Congress. We’re screwed either way.
Sparks @2:
Passing an IQ test was tried before. It was called a Literacy Test, and the results made the remaining voting populace a lot more monotone.
Forrest, #7
Ted Cruz certainly won’t. He’s busy enjoying his paid sick leave.
I consider my choices for Dear Leader, the god-king and Emperor. Biden, who will vote for something I feel most strongly about, yet again, ignoring a vast sector of voter’s views and desires.
Trump and the preferential extinction of his very base, via his incompetent addressing of any and every emergency that comes down the pike.
As I said before, there are times when it’s best to let idiot drink and breathe their own swill. They wanted the swamp drained by pumping in sewage, what they breathe now is entirely on them and those who enabled the antithesis of what a sizable voting block, which hasn’t been shy about explaining their previous vote.
Immerse your bed in a cesspool, enjoy breathing shit.
Well, somebody doing polls keeps saying that something like 43% approve. Drowning in a tossing ocean of bullshit news and alternative facts, but that bit must be completely reliable. Doesn’t even seem to fluctuate like any sensible statistic would. Must be an absolute Constant of Nature.
blf@5 My mother approves of everything billionaires do with their money. The fact that they’re so rich proves that they deserve to be so rich and we should be thankful that they’re around to spend tiny amounts of their fortunes on the rest of us.
And by her logic, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is private enterprise because a billionaire founded it so private enterprise.
Also, she believes that the CDC’s lack of response is because government agencies are inherently incompetent and has nothing to do with the president being a braindead shitgibbon who slashed the agency’s budget, eliminated its pandemic department, actively stopped it from mustering a response months ago, and appointed an incompetent crony to lead it.
Comrade Trumpski probably got a memo from Putin telling him that by letting thousands of elderly Americans die he could achieve tremendous savings in Social Sec. and Medicare expenses, and then take credit for being such brilliant economist by having decreased the surplus population.