A couple months ago republicans had the opportunity to remove individual 1 from office, and, of course, with the exception of Mitt Romney, they all cowered into their little – whatevers. Well, now we’re in the middle of a world wide pandemic and the United States may end up being the most irresponsible as far as our reaction to this crisis than any country in the world. The U.S., of course, is much larger than countries like Italy and Spain and if we end up having a more severe outbreak, per capita, than them, we could be looking at MILLIONS of deaths coming from this coronavirus. Now, our IMPEACHED so-called president is having anxiety over the stock market which is, seemingly, making it even more impossible for him to lead.
Last night he proposed something like (on “Twitter”), “We can’t allow the cure to be worse than the problem” as he’s suggesting to relax the social distancing requirements in order, in his mind, to “recharge” our economy. Of course, as with virtually every decision he makes (in situations which have any semblance of importance) he does the exact opposite of what he should. Let’s just consider what would happen if he said something like New York, Washington state, and California stay on “shelter in place” and the rest of us will be business as usual. If he does something like this and people actually listen, this disaster will multiply even more than it already has. Apparently, individual 1 doesn’t think he’ already done enough to make this worse!
Let’s just be clear! Individual 1 KNEW this was an oncoming pandemic because it’s been publicly reported he was warned back in January of what “we the people” were facing and he took NO action. His precious stock market clearly is more important to him than the well being of MILLIONS of Americans. Every day our IMPEACHED so-called president fails to act, for example, he’s refusing to enact the Defense Production Act to force the production of the PPE our medical professionals need to protect themselves as they are on the front lines of this battle. Honestly, every day I get more ANGRY with our IMPEACHED so-called president.
Based on reports individual 1 wants to get back to holding rallies with large groups of people, apparently not understanding he needs his voters in November and, as I’ve said repeatedly here, every time he opens his mouth he makes another commercial for democrats to run during the election in November. As I’ve said here, also, I’m predicting if this goes on for more than a couple more months individual 1 will be attempting to block the November election. You can see I’m not the only American thinking this because part of what the democrats are wanting in this bill presently being negotiated which Moscow Mitch likely doesn’t like are protections for the upcoming election – guarantees we have the election plus the primaries and, if necessary EVERY state have provisions for “vote by mail.” This likely makes individual 1’s stomach as queezy as mine when I hear him talking.
Trying to be real here I feel safe in saying had the federal government ramped up testing capability in January when INDIVIDUAL 1 knew what was coming, this virus could have been slowed down right from the get go. There is STILL an issue with testing, so in places where I live there could be as many as 10 times the number affected as those confirmed cases. Yes, that means there are people who have the disease with less than serious symptoms, but we don’t know who or where they are and if they listen to individual 1 they could be soon infecting others. There are more negative aspects to the FAILURE to provide sufficient testing, but, apparently, according to experts, that is now “water under the bridge.”
The only hope we have to minimize the number of people who are affected by this pandemic is through the social distancing we’re practicing around the country – which, obviously, has closed significant parts of this economy. I keep saying “I’m no economist” but, you can check the archives here I saw the downturn in the stock market coming at least a month before it happened. I’m just a retired sixth grade teacher so individual 1 SHOULD have had a more effective strategy right from the day he had his first briefing from the intelligence community.
Publicly, I’ve been hearing predictions from medical professionals since back in January when it became public knowledge there was a serious crisis in China – my wife and I have friends in China and they’ve been on “lock-down” for several months still. They’re actually contacting us now worrying about our safety because they know we live in Washington State which was the first state to be in a state of emergency. It ticks me off when individual 1 refers to this as the “China flu” but it doesn’t surprise me – just a bit more of his racist dog whistling. He had the opportunity at the beginning of this to actually act like a responsible president but he’s incapable of doing so. And, it’s affecting all of us – even those in his CULT.
I’m actually tired of writing so much, I wish I could stop. After I closed this out (I’ve got three rants going at once, that’s a record for me) I first went to Yahoo.com to see what’s going on with the stock market and read an article with lots of people making comments. Usually, I don’t pay too much attention to that but the first comment which came up was someone complaining about how democrats are opposed to the working people of this country and he “signed off” with a “F” bomb. That was too much for me, so I had to respond and, in a nutshell, suggested he stop watching Fox “news” (There have been studies showing Fox viewers are less informed to people who watch NO news) and asked “Do you really believe a $500 BILLION “slush fund” at the whim of Mnuchin and Individual 1 is acceptable at this point in time? Yikes!!
Then I turned on MSNBC and, sure enough out walks, first, William Barr – no idea how he got onto the “White House” pandemic “team” or whatever they call themselves and soon out came individual 1 – naturally, he has to take center stage of all of this, despite the reality he has NO idea what he’s doing – he’s literally causing more people to die with his decision making – but, he can’t stand anyone else in the limelight. I had to mute the computer because I can’t stomach him and it’s even worse when Pense starts every sentence with “Mr. President” or “Thanks to the decisions of our president” – seriously, makes me want to puke. And, there was something very notable about this press briefing: Anthony Fauci, the head of the CDC was not there. There have been reports individual 1 is getting tire of Dr. Fauci “contradicting him.” (Do you realize how absurd that whole notion is?)
I can guarantee you this. Individual 1’s mind is on somehow reviving his campaign as opposed to finding a more efficient solution to this problem – which is going to make the crisis last MUCH longer than it otherwise could have. There are still many places in America who still believe this is a democrat “hoax.” Likely, for some people, until they or someone else in their family is threatened by this virus it won’t be anything more than another flu bug. I actually believe that’s what individual 1 believes right now. I think he believes this is some kind of conspiracy to prevent him from re-election and, likely, it’s becoming just that as every day of his incompetence passes. His CULT will never believe otherwise, but I suspect there are a lot of Americans watching him bungle this who are, like me, more alarmed every day! We’ve been warning, if he ever has to deal with an actual crisis, LOOK OUT!
He’s threatening to “roll back” the “social distancing guidelines” next week and it wouldn’t surprise me if he was able to get large crowds to join him in rallies while all this is going on. Apparently, they would be believing they would just be infecting liberals if any of them contracted the virus at an individual 1 rally. I can guarantee you (or at least I think I can) that people like Michael Bloomberg and Tom Steyer are sitting on the sidelines prepared to “intervene” if individual 1 re-invigorates his campaign during this pandemic. You will start seeing the adds which, I’m sure, have already been created where our IMPEACHED so-called president has either contradicted himself or people like Dr. Fauci.
Today, over 100 Americans died, just today. The total number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 pushed well over 40,000 today from just over 30,000 yesterday. The CDC data is way behind “the curve” (and, honestly, I wonder why) and doctors I’ve listened to today suggest the real number of those affected is at least 10 times the confirmed cases – and, that the worst is yet to come and our hospitals very well could be overrun in the next week, maybe two weeks. Plus, and this one really bugs me as I have a daughter who is an RN, individual 1 can’t seem to take the emergency of the lack of PPE for the health care workers seriously
As I said above, republicans had their chance to remove this IMPEACHED so-called president in January and FAILED miserably – so, now they have to live with the consequences. I believe the “slush fund” I referred to above was intended to be a backhanded way for the Treasury Secretary (with “no” input from individual 1 “wink wink”) to bail out the Hotel industry without “we the people” knowing it. Of course, that would be a bailout for dear leader – and, I can tell you there are MILLIONS of Americans who would oppose him getting any bailout. He’s beginning to start talking about how he has not taken a salary and how this job has cost him “billions” – well, if that’s an issue, I’ve got a quick solution! RESIGN!!!
Final Thought: I don’t believe any human being has turned me off anywhere near individual 1. I thought I would NEVER say that after watching George W Bush and Dick Cheney not only LIE “we the people” into an incredibly ill conceived was, but to make matters worse, they both authorized TORTURE and then willingly went on national TV, admitted as much, and then BOTH said, “I’d do it again.” For me, that was really bad! There was Ronald Reagan who started the assault on our Treasury, the transferring of much of America’s wealth into the hands of a very select few who was ALSO a LIAR, but NOTHING on the level of individual 1. GW Bush had trouble finishing a complete sentence, but, again, nothing on the level of individual 1. And the lack of compassion, the moral ineptitude, the racism right from the podium of the press secretary, the xenophobe response to virtually any crisis major or minor, the connection to the white nationalist movement, and on and on. He’s unfit for the office and a disgrace to the good people of America! Again, November 2020 can’t come soon enough for me! (And, if he tries to postpone the election for ANY reason there needs to be a national revolt which would make the women’s march look like a Sunday picnic!