I just don't get it when it comes to President Trump and COVID-19.
The self-declared "stable genius", accepting the judgments of Dr. Anthony Fauci and the Centers For Disease Control, signed into law the current social distancing guidelines we're all living under.
In recent days, however, as Trump has been waffling on a number of topics, including the misguided assumption that he would have full authority (which he doesn't have) over the state governments, then turning around and acknowledging that the governors have the authority. How he conducts business with, say for example, NY Governor Andrew Cuomo, on a day-to-day basis seems to be based on which side of the bed he comes out of in the morning, going so far as to throw a Twantrum in the middle of Cuomo's daily briefing in Albany on Friday. Cuomo laid the smack down on Trump as the briefing progressed.
However, Trump is also fanning the flames of protest and dissent in three other states with Democratic governors---Michigan, Virginia, & Minnesota----in an effort to influence voting come re-election time in November. You have protesters in those three states and California risking their own health by disobeying the same guidelines that Trump approved just a month ago.
Is there frustration over social distancing? Yes. The people in those four states and elsewhere, some of whom are masked while others are not, are still stricken with fear over COVID-19.
There is still panic buying, but not just toiletries anymore. I went shopping yesterday after work, for example, at a local supermarket. They were nearly out of orange juice. The panic buying now deals in food because people are afraid there will be shortages of fruits, vegetables, etc. this summer.
Digression over. Trump is stirring up his base of brainwashed dittoheads in order to influence the election. What he is doing in this case is contradicting his own executive orders, just because he thinks he can get away with it.
On MSNBC's The Last Word, host Lawrence O'Donnell interviewed Democratic Congresswoman Debbie Dingle of Michigan and former New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman, who served in George W. Bush's cabinet nearly 20 years ago.
What the unstable genius fails to see is that the protests are counter-productive to his own orders. All he sees are people just as unstable as he is, due to fear and anger in their cases, who support him. And you know how his ego swells with people who support him. Donald Trump is an embarrassment to our government. Vice President Mike Pence is supposed to be reining in the ego, and has lost the leash.
It's going to be a long, difficult summer.
More imbecilic idiocy from the cartoon boy. Grow up cartoon boy.
ReplyDeleteHobbyfan makes a lot sense than Fat Bastard, honestly. We need leadership right now, and Trumplethin-skin ain't it. He's a far worse threat to the country than COVID-19. Fat Bastard needs to go, ASAP.
ReplyDeleteIf you can't say something nice, say nothing at all. And Mr. Unknown just said absolutely nothing at all. If all you've got are 3rd grade insults, then you've just outed yourself as not having a leg to stand on intellectually, just like our Squatter-in-Chief, Fat Q*Bert.
ReplyDeleteWould that Trump would heed your advice, Silverstar, but he can't. There is a certain psychological compulsion he has that has him at the center of attention, even when it's something where he's in way over his head.
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