Note to Reader: I will not write the POTUS’ name or refer to him as President since he has done nothing but divide, distract, incite violence, and lie since taking over the White House. He has destroyed all Presidential norms and does not deserve the respect I gave to any other sitting POTUS in my life time. I had used the term ‘Fucktard’ in this piece as a way to show how little I respect him as POTUS. However, some have taken offense to that word and I have now removed them and replaced with some other descriptive words.
“The virus is with us, but we need to live with it,” is how one official said the administration plans to message on the pandemic. They say it is a recognition from the White House that Covid-19 isn’t going away any time soon. Ya frickin’ think so? What the hell took them so long to figure that one out? Oh wait I know - the Liar in Chief doesn’t believe in science so his administration led the American people down the shit hole while looking through rose colored glasses. The POTUS and his cronies are ostriches with their heads in a hole of denial.
“This all followed the White House’s initial message in January that the virus wasn’t a threat at all. Asked if he was worried about a pandemic, Trump said at the time, “It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It’s going to be just fine.” (emphasis mine)
Well no, you shithead, it isn’t all just fine. Right now, 132,000+ people have already died and we’re still counting as the death toll rises. Even today, that’s still fine with you? How callous and indifferent can you be? Many of those people died because all we have heard from you and your screwed up administration for six months were even more denialist predictions such as “the problem goes away in April” or there will be “packed churches all over our country on Easter Sunday” or Pence’s pronouncement that “by Memorial Day weekend we will have this coronavirus epidemic behind us.” Your utter failure to develop a national, coordinated response has led your administration to try to make us believe that 132,000+ deaths were just the cost of doing business and that “we need to live with it.”
Oh hell no, we shouldn’t have to live with it
In the sense that the pandemic is here all around us, stealthy and silent, we have been forced to live with it thanks to that ass hat in the White House and his incompetent administration. That is only because with all the lies, misinformation, and denials, he failed to galvanize our citizens in order to minimize and reduce the risks and deaths due to Covid-19. That is an absolute abdication and dereliction of duty and is incredibly heartless on the part of any so-called leader of the free world.
This did not have to happen this way.
Is it any wonder our standing in the world has fallen so far off the cliff when the Liar in Chief looked the other way and failed to do what needed to be done to flatten the curve leading to more than 132,000+ snuffed out lives? We have more cases than any other country in the world.
“The number of daily global cases also broke a record, with the United States as the biggest source of new infections. The U.S. death toll is also on the rise.”
Is it any wonder that other countries who have flattened their curve by making the sacrifices necessary to stop the spread are now blocking Americans from crossing their borders? While the EU is opening its borders to other countries, it is not letting Americans cross their borders thanks to the fucked up, feckless, asshole in the White House who cares nothing for anyone but himself.
“Americans will remain barred from entering the European Union for nonessential travel even as the bloc starts to open up to as many as 15 countries from Wednesday, the EU said.”
The EU and other countries like Italy, who has flattened it’s curve, did what needed to be done to protect its populations. Our POTUS? Fucking crickets. He’s such a narcissist that he knows as POTUS, he can get tested every god damn day while other ordinary people can’t. In fact, he is cutting federal aid to 13 states for testing sites. That includes Texas, who next to California and Florida have the highest number of Covid-19 cases. WTF?
This is happening while Phoenix AZ Mayor reports that FEMA refused to help with testing.
“The Federal Emergency Management Agency denied multiple requests for a mega-COVID-19 testing site in Phoenix, according to Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego.
Gallego said her office asked FEMA to implement a large-scale, drive-thru testing site — as they've done in other cities, including Houston — multiple times since the earliest days of the novel coronavirus pandemic.”
FEMA getting out of the testing business? Hospitals reaching their capacities in Mississippi, Nevada, and South Carolina? It’s another chapter in how not to handle a worldwide pandemic in the country you lead. It’s just unbelievable, unless it’s under the watchful eye of the Liar in Chief who would gladly send everyone at FEMA packing if they don’t march to his orders.
Most of us understand that if tests aren’t being done, the number of cases will stay artificially low. And that’s exactly what the POTUS wants because even if it’s in his own head, which it is, that means we don’t have that many cases! How screwed up is that? How callous and sick in the head do you have to be to be happy with artificially low numbers that hide the real truth about how many cases our country really has and how many more deaths will be caused because of it?
So why in the world would another country that cajoled and convinced its people to stand together to fight this pandemic and flatten their curve want any of us to come to their countries and potentially expose them to Covid-19 that they have mostly routed out? After all, they were successful in making the sacrifices to accomplish that goal while the Liar in Chief and his cronies didn’t lift a finger to mitigate the consequences of such a deadly pandemic.
Instead, our so-called leaders chose to stay in denial while we have lost 132,000+ human lives to this insidious pandemic. And now, Americans are paying the price not only in unnecessary lives being lost, but also being denied the ability to travel to Europe and other countries. Now we are being held prisoners in our own land because ass hat doesn’t give a shit that Covid-19 isn’t going away any time soon or that people keep dying. His administration is sweeping the entire problem under the carpet with no intention of doing anything more to stop the spread.
The EU and other countries sacrificed and did what needed to be done for the ‘common good.’ Their leaders understood that for the sake of everybody mitigation measures had to be put in place and they had to be honored. Sure, there were a bunch of ignorant, selfish idiots there just like there were here in our country protesting against those very necessary mitigation measures saying their personal liberties were being trampled on. But, by and large, these countries sucked it up, followed the science, and they flattened that curve.
Imagine that. Following the science and understanding that Covid-19 would not ‘just disappear’ or ‘go away.’ Imagine leaders who actually cared about their citizenry and convinced them that mitigation measures needed to be taken to save lives and stop the spread. Sound familiar to anyone here in America? It doesn’t, right? It sure isn’t familiar to me because we clearly have not had a leader who cares about the well-being of the American citizenry. He cares only about himself, his own well-being, and getting re-elected. To hell with anything that distracts from his divisive and violent rhetoric. And most certainly the pandemic is a distraction to the Liar in Chief.
Paul Krugman penned an article in the NYT on July 6th. He ends with this:
“…the point is that America’s defeat at the hands of the coronavirus didn’t happen because victory was impossible. Nor was it because we as a nation were incapable of responding. No, we lost because Trump and those around him decided that it was in their political interests to let the virus run wild.” (emphasis mine)
This administration’s epic failure to lead our country in fighting the Covid-19 pandemic, along with attempts to suppress the vote in November and the feds coming in and violently stopping #BLM peaceful protests, are some of the ingredients in a recipe for the death of our democracy. Anyone with their eyes open for the last 3 and a half years should have seen the fucking writing on the wall. The Liar in Chief wants to be dictator. He’s cunning and he wants to destroy our democracy and cozy up to Russia and China. He wants to play with the bad boys on the world stage. Anybody who can’t or refuses to see that also has their head in the hole of denial.
If we want to stop the Covid-19 pandemic, save our democracy, and get back to a place where divisive rhetoric and promoting violence are not the norms of the POTUS or its administration, then we have no choice but to send the Liar in Chief, now residing in the People’s White House, packing this November. That includes all of his cronies in the Senate. The health of our democracy and our population depends on people seeing through the lies, the distractions, and the absolute lack of leadership this POTUS has failed to deliver. He needs to GO or we can kiss our democracy, or what’s left of it, goodbye.
