Dana Milbank of the Washington Post writes here about Trump’s “heroism.”
After Donald Trump got out of Vietnam with student deferments and a spurious claim of bone spurs, he proposed that those who did serve in Vietnam were “stupid” and “losers,” according to various accounts. He mocked their sacrifice by saying he was a “brave soldier” in his “personal Vietnam” — avoiding sexually transmitted diseases.
We’re seeing the same thinking now with covid-19. After getting treated for his infection by a team of top-notch doctors using antidotes that are rationed or entirely unavailable to other Americans, President Trump shared a description of himself as “an invincible hero” — in contrast to all those wusses who are taking precautions against the virus.
“Don’t be afraid of it. You’re going to beat it,” Trump proclaimed in a video message Monday night after returning from the hospital. “Don’t let it take over your lives. … I’m better and maybe I’m immune. I don’t know. But don’t let it dominate your lives.” Tuesday morning, he exulted anew on Twitter that “we are learning to live with Covid,” which he falsely claimed is “in most populations far less lethal” than the flu.
“FEELING GREAT!” he added.
It was an implicit rebuke of those 210,000 Americans who already let the beatable and less-lethal virus “dominate” them and “take over” — by dying. On the four days in which Trump spent time in the hospital, 2,264 Americans died of covid-19 without access to the care and treatments he got — the modern equivalent of those stupid losers who died in Vietnam while Trump bravely dodged the clap.
On Sunday, as Trump was joyriding around Walter Reed with his captive Secret Service detail, a group memorialized the pandemic dead by setting up 20,000 empty chairs, symbolizing 200,000 lives, on the Ellipse, facing the White House. As Trump staged photos at Walter Reed, the Twitter account @FacesOfCovid continued its grim work of collating obituaries of the deceased:
On Monday night, as Trump was filming his video (without a mask) telling Americans not to let the virus dominate their lives, the West Des Moines (Iowa) Community School District announced that Jennifer Crawford, a junior high school special-education assistant, had died of covid-19 complications.
On Sunday, Julie Davis, a beloved third-grade teacher at Norwood Elementary School in North Carolina, succumbed to the virus. Davis, 49, died two months after the district resumed some in-person classes. She decided to devote her life to helping children after the Columbine shooting.
On Friday, as Trump checked in to Walter Reed, John Stephen Forester, 72, of McKenzie, Tenn., died of the virus. He had helped adults with developmental disabilities and was a longtime volunteer driver for Meals on Wheels. The death notice said his family is “heartbroken at his sudden and preventable loss.”
Also Friday, Susanne Michael, a teacher at Harrisburg Elementary in Arkansas, died of covid-19. Her husband, whom she met at Williams Baptist College, was allowed to hold her hand for her final 10 minutes. She had recently adopted one of her students, who was bound for foster care, and the student’s two siblings. She leaves behind five children.
The same day, in Highland Village, Tex., Sgt. Dennis Oliver died of covid-19 after some 11 days in the hospital. The 17-year veteran of the Highland Village Police Department leaves behind a wife and two sons.
On Thursday, when Trump was keeping his positive coronavirus test secret, Olga Quiroga, a bilingual first-grade teacher in Chicago Public Schools, died of the virus, a day short of her 58th birthday. The symptoms started “after a series of trips” to her elementary school, including a back-to-school event.
Earlier last week, as the virus spread around the White House, WOOD-TV in Michigan reported the covid-19 death of Michelle McCrackin, 53, a Title I teacher in Carson City and mother of five. Meanwhile, in Oklahoma, Rebecca A. Cryer, a 73-year-old judge on the Choctaw Nation District Court, also died of covid-19. She had survived serious injuries in the Oklahoma City bombing 25 years ago.
And on. And on. Young and old, hearty and frail. So many people who, unlike our “invincible hero” president, inexplicably let the virus “dominate” their lives.
Now the White House Gift Shop is taking preorders for $100 commemorative coins announcing “PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP DEFEATS COVID.” The company, which calls itself the “original official” White House gift shop, was privatized long ago. But it has pro-Trump sentiments, saying the coin design conveys “a hint of superhero qualities.”
If we’re really going to commemorate this moment, other slogans come to mind. Perhaps: PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP DEFEATS EMPATHY.
Or, if we’re trying to lend a “hint of superhero qualities” to a president who tells us to live with the virus while he receives care unavailable to ordinary losers, I’d go with this:
PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP, SUPERSPREADER.
Pitch perfect
Thank you, John. I love The Lincoln Project.
Trump is a traitorous liar and really works for Putin, not America. He has no clue what he swore to uphold. That WHOLE “swearing in” event was a JOKE.
Trump is a big, fat fraudster who should be in jail.
Or: Trump succumbs to covidiocy, Scaramucci called him a covidiot, an apt observation.
aka, the Moronavirus trumpinski orangii
Extraordinarily moving, Mr. Millbank!
I was reading recently about the Trump veneration of Norman Vincent Peale and his Power of Positive Thinking. The Trump and Peale combo creates a perfect storm–a positive thinking, sociopathic narcissist. Think about it. I’m positive you will find it disturbing.
It reminds you of your adept in Brazil who was said to be “immune” to COVID-19.
He said in the press that he had an “athletic history” and that everything was just a “little grip”.
It ended up contaminated, as well as family members.
There are theories that it was a farce to disclose the effectiveness of chloroquine.
It reminds you of your adept in Brazil who was said to be “immune” to COVID-19.
He said in the press that he had an “athletic history” and that everything was just a “little grip”.
It ended up contaminated, as well as family members.
There are theories that it was a farce to disclose the effectiveness of chloroquine.
Karma has a lot of unfinished work
Trump and Bostanario–brothers in infamy
For other readers of the blog, the second name is an intentional misspelling–a little joke.
Meanwhile,
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/migrant-children-face-more-serious-health-risks-longer-detentions-groups-n1045031?fbclid=IwAR3F7Fvjwt2_LFP7uCddKAyVx4jHIw5rx9Y4Z6mWM63R-cJoQTQO0MJWmXg
Sharing this tweet from an ACLU lawyer:
Lee Gelernt
@leegelernt
NYT reporting tonight that DOJ officials overruled request to exempt babies from horrific fam sep practice. I’ve been litigating this case since 2018 and each revelation is still shocking, tho at this point I know I shouldn’t be shocked.
9:25 PM · Oct 6, 2020·Twitter Web App
From what I have been reading, surviving COVID-19 does not mean anyone is safe from another infection (like antibiotic-resistant bacteria that also causes pneumonia) that could kill him in the next few weeks. There have also been cases of people that thought they had recovered but the virus came back with a vengeance and got them days or weeks later.
The timeline I have read about will hit around early November.
What Poetic Justice if Trump not only loses the election by a landslide in the popular vote and also the Electoral College, but he dies soon after the election from another kind of pneumonia not caused by COVID-19 but caused by the treatment he had for it.
A doctor on MSNBC just said that patients taking the very powerful steroid that Trump is now taking may sometimes become delusional or depressed or have other strong reactions. They should not make decisions.
Trump has long been delusional. And no, he should not be making decisions.
He was delusional before COVID.
That explains his decision to cut off negotiations for a stimulus package yesterday and the reversal today.
David Dayen, in his daily “Unsanitized” column, says that McConnell decided to end the negotiations because he knows Trump will lose the election, and he wants Biden to inherit a crippled economy with no help in sight. He says McConnell is in charge and he told Trump to end negotiations.
Trump is delusional. He’s unfit to serve.
Dexamethasone has a long history and anyone who has had cancer or a loved one with cancer has many stories to tell. It acts as a turbochargers of sorts on the adrenal glands. It is often a part of drug combinations because it makes the drugs more effective by increasing their circulation in the body. The downside is that it causes irritability (the best comment I’ve ever heard from a patient is that dexamethasone is the drug that make everyone else stupid), sleep deprivation, and fatigue. I have learned not to take things personally when patients get snippy with me because I know they are on dex. I have been around many patients who do not remember their aggressive behavior once they are off the drug.
The analogy I use: people who like rollercoasters like the adrenaline rush it provides; it is addicting for them (not me, I stay away from them). But that rush comes in spurts and they are able to recover. With dex, that rush never stops. It keeps going on. Decades ago, doctors would prescribe a lot of it and patients suffered. More recently, research has shown that drugs work better with lower levels of dex. But it is still a balancing act, often unsuccessful. After chemo, the biggest complaint cancer patients have is about dex and how it impacts their daily lives.
It is very easy for me to speculate that the Idiot’s outburst to stop negotiations on the stimulus package was dex-induced based on my past experience.
There is something very strange about the Trump illness narrative. The President seemed to be exhibiting symptoms on Friday that generally occur more days after a positive test.
It seems likely that President Trump did not have a negative COVID-19 test right before the debate. The White House is being VERY disingenuous about when the President’s last negative COVID-19 test was. Given how sycophantic the entire White House is, if Trump “felt fine” after testing positive, no one would tell him to put on a mask or delay going out in public.
I believe that. Melania was the only one in the crowd wearing a mask. She was likely + with mild or no symptoms yet and trump was likely +. I believe the intent was to infect those in the Democratic party on and off stage. I know that sounds like a conspiracy theory, but something isn’t passing the smell test on the timeline.
LisaM, I think it doesn’t pass the smell test because it45 & his acolytes are so focused on downplaying the covid fiasco [they could already see it was beginning to depress their polls]—putting their all into a rosy picture to shore up their core voters. A conspiracy to infect Dems doesn’t compute because it requires absolute buy-in to dangers of covid & how it spreads. Despite it45’s Feb admission to Woodward, whole lotta cognitive dissonance & wishful thinking & just plain re-election politics repressing that realization. Also consider that it45 & co spend 90% of their time around supportive Reps: they couldn’t have had it together enough to grasp the dangers of their disregard for safety measures, or they would have foreseen the WH covid cluster & quarantine of all top military officials. My guess is they were just playing the odds, & listening to the wrong bookmakers.
Mary Trump knows her disgusting uncle.
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Mary Trump says, “But if he contracted COVID-19 and then emerges relatively unscathed, that’s the worst-case scenario, because, as we saw in his tweet the other day, he’s not going to take it seriously. He’ll think, “I beat it. So, too bad for the rest of you suckers. I got my care. I got better. You deal with it on your own.”…”One of the greatest scams in recent political history was getting people to believe that he cared about working people.”
Mary Trump: My Uncle Is Responsible for 210,000 Deaths and Is Now “Willfully Getting People Sick”
AMY GOODMAN: As President Trump continues to battle COVID-19 from the White House after leaving the hospital on Monday, at least 11 White House officials and their aides have tested positive for the virus. The people around him, it’s more like two dozen. On Tuesday, Trump’s anti-immigrant senior adviser Stephen Miller became the latest high-level official to announce a positive test. The disease has also reached the highest echelons of the U.S. military. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Mark Milley and several other senior members of the Pentagon’s leadership are quarantining, after the vice commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, Admiral Charles Ray, tested positive.
In a tweetstorm Tuesday night, Trump fired off more than 40 tweets and retweets over about a half an hour, posting about voting security and conspiracy theories, attacking his political rivals, demanding action on coronavirus relief package, just hours after he had cut off negotiations over the stimulus bill until after the election. Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden fired back, tweeting a GIF of him saying, “Get off Twitter,” with the caption “Please.” Trump also falsely claimed in his tweets that COVID-19 is no worse than the flu, even though the virus has killed more than 210,000 people in the United States…
You have said that illness was seen as unacceptable by both Donald Trump and his father, Fred Trump, your grandfather, that illness was seen as a, quote, “display of unforgivable weakness,” whether it was themselves or others.
Can you talk about what the president, your uncle, has done this weekend, after getting released from the hospital and during? Now he’s drugged up. He’s receiving steroids, dexamethasone, among other drugs, remdesivir and an unusual investigational drug cocktail. And we’re seeing massive numbers of tweets, big switcharounds, from saying he’s canceling stim to maybe he would support it. Can you talk as a clinical psychologist and a person with deep knowledge of your family?
MARY TRUMP: Sure. First of all, I think it’s very important to remember that this man, who is directly at this point responsible for the death of over 210,000 people and this illness of who knows how many millions, received — is receiving world-class healthcare in world-class medical facilities, provided to him by a system he does not pay into. So there’s that. Ninety-nine percent of Americans do not receive such care.
And unfortunately, I think this is sort of a worst-case scenario. Now, obviously, we don’t know yet what the course of Donald’s illness will take. You know, COVID-19 is something that’s very tricky and changes course without warning. So, as his doctor said, we do not know if he’s out of the woods yet. But if he contracted COVID-19 and then emerges relatively unscathed, that’s the worst-case scenario, because, as we saw in his tweet the other day, he’s not going to take it seriously. He’ll think, “I beat it. So, too bad for the rest of you suckers. I got my care. I got better. You deal with it on your own.”…
So, part of the problem is, my grandfather never got sick. He wasn’t sick until he was in his eighties. And his children were raised with this belief system. And Donald totally bought into it and also is somebody who’s very rarely been sick. So, it’s easy under those circumstances to maintain the position that if you get sick, you’re weak, or if you succumb to an illness, you’re weak. And I think that has been a large part of how his willful and criminal response to COVID-19 has unfolded…
MARY TRUMP: One of the greatest scams in recent political history was getting people to believe that he cared about working people. This is beyond disgraceful. The people who work in the White House, many have been there for decades. You know, they do their part to serve their country. These are dignified, dedicated working people. And he doesn’t care about them. People need to get this through their heads: Donald doesn’t care about you. He doesn’t care about the American worker. He doesn’t care about the people closest to him. So, there can’t be any pretense anymore…
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/10/7/mary_trump_president_trump_covid_infection
Donald cares about his weak ego. He will do anything to feed his ego. He’s dangerous and THE NATIONAL Security Threat.
I can attest to this. It’s a syndrome that seems to affect those with hearty constitutions who rarely catch a cold much less the flu or more serious illness. My dad was like that. [He also had such a high tolerance for pain that when his appendix was in trouble it just felt like a stomachache—got to hospital too late & it burst en route, causing peritonitis.] Such folk don’t really understand what illness feels like. For us ‘normal’ folk, it’s like the way you forget illness or severe pain—have a hard time picturing yourself ill or in pain in-between times. [If it weren’t for that, women would never try for a second kid!] People like this are holy hell to be around on the rare occasion they get ill, & tend to equate being ill with malingering. That this is part of it45’s constellation adds to and exacerbates his psychological lack of empathy.
Meanwhile, Johns Hopkins reported on Tuesday that Alaska, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming all set state records for Covid-19 diagnoses in the past week, and 39 states have reported more cases in the past week than in the week before.
All of which, of course, was utterly predictable. We’re facing a devastating winter.
And the district in which I teach in Utah is hell bent on going off hybrid and back to almost full time. It’s already happened for elementary and will happen November 2 for secondary. Utah has the largest class sizes in the nation. I have 36 students in some of my classes, jammed together, many less than a foot apart from each other.
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Trump is a paper tiger that is standing too close to the fire. His rise to power should be considered one of the great scams in history. Trump carefully crafts his “strongman image.” There are no pictures of Trump in his pajamas in the hospital. He is fully dressed a coiffed for his vanity jaunt to wave to his brain dead supporters outside the hospital. As per usual he has no concern for health and well being for those that drive and defend the contagious buffoon. When he leaves the hospital, he avoids holding the railing as a show of “strength.” At the White House he ascends to the balcony where he whips off his mask and appears to have labored breathing while waving to the press. One MSNBC commentator remarked, “They love balconies, don’t they.” We would do as well if we had an orange hologram in charge of the country.
Trump and Il Duce
Yay yay yay, I love the posting and have empathy for the victims, but none for the Superspreader. And covid19 is not all he superspreads…phew!
New Zealand has a leader. We don’t.
New Zealand just had its success in the battle with COVID-19 after a major outbreak in Auckland which had made mandatory a second round of lockdowns. People are no longer required to wear masks in public but must continue to keep records of locations they visit, maintain good hygiene and, if unwell, stay at home and get tested for the virus. The border remains closed to almost all foreign travelers.
There is a 95% probability that the country had eliminated local transmission of the virus.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern called it the “go hard and go early” approach, combining lockdown measures with a blitz of testing, contact tracing and quarantining.
Compare that with the U.S. ‘leader’:
January 22
“We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.”
February 27
“It’s going to disappear. One day, it’s like a miracle — it will disappear.”
May 19 “When we have a lot of cases, I don’t look at that as a bad thing, I look at that as, in a certain respect, as being a good thing […] Because it means our testing is much better.
During the first presidential debate on September 29 Trump mocked his opponent Joe Biden for frequently wearing masks. “I don’t wear masks like him. Every time you see him, he’s got a mask.”
I agree with this statement: “The quality of our leadership in general is always a serious business, but in a pandemic, it becomes a matter of life or death.”
I’m surprised he didn’t have the “Superman” theme piped into the background while he gave that stupid “uplifting” video. Its quite sobering when you cut to newscasters, journalists, and those who’ve lost someone to COVID and their reaction to his blase “it’s beatable, don’t worry” stance. Nowhere does he mention the others struggling. It’s all relative to him “I’m fine, and you can be too.” Dude, you were trying not to wheeze while you took your mask off a couple days ago. Schmuck. We know better.
Seriously, if he wants to posture and show his macho-ness, why don’t he do what other “macho guys” do and go weightlift in front of a mirror while grunting loudly, set off fireworks in dumb locations (oh wait, Rushmore happened in a dry spell. Never mind), shave his head and get tattoos or something? He can have “trump Rump” put right on his saggy cheeks. Taking off a mask and going around like normal–while contagious still–is far dumber than any of THAT stuff right now.
The New England Journal of Medicine has issued a scathing critique of President Trump’s handling of the pandemic, breaking with its apolitical tradition.
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Dying in a Leadership Vacuum
List of authors.
The Editors
Covid-19 has created a crisis throughout the world. This crisis has produced a test of leadership. With no good options to combat a novel pathogen, countries were forced to make hard choices about how to respond. Here in the United States, our leaders have failed that test. They have taken a crisis and turned it into a tragedy.
The magnitude of this failure is astonishing. According to the Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering,1 the United States leads the world in Covid-19 cases and in deaths due to the disease, far exceeding the numbers in much larger countries, such as China. The death rate in this country is more than double that of Canada, exceeds that of Japan, a country with a vulnerable and elderly population, by a factor of almost 50, and even dwarfs the rates in lower-middle-income countries, such as Vietnam, by a factor of almost 2000. Covid-19 is an overwhelming challenge, and many factors contribute to its severity. But the one we can control is how we behave. And in the United States we have consistently behaved poorly.
We know that we could have done better. China, faced with the first outbreak, chose strict quarantine and isolation after an initial delay. These measures were severe but effective, essentially eliminating transmission at the point where the outbreak began and reducing the death rate to a reported 3 per million, as compared with more than 500 per million in the United States. Countries that had far more exchange with China, such as Singapore and South Korea, began intensive testing early, along with aggressive contact tracing and appropriate isolation, and have had relatively small outbreaks. And New Zealand has used these same measures, together with its geographic advantages, to come close to eliminating the disease, something that has allowed that country to limit the time of closure and to largely reopen society to a prepandemic level. In general, not only have many democracies done better than the United States, but they have also outperformed us by orders of magnitude.
Why has the United States handled this pandemic so badly? We have failed at almost every step. We had ample warning, but when the disease first arrived, we were incapable of testing effectively and couldn’t provide even the most basic personal protective equipment to health care workers and the general public. And we continue to be way behind the curve in testing. While the absolute numbers of tests have increased substantially, the more useful metric is the number of tests performed per infected person, a rate that puts us far down the international list, below such places as Kazakhstan, Zimbabwe, and Ethiopia, countries that cannot boast the biomedical infrastructure or the manufacturing capacity that we have.2 Moreover, a lack of emphasis on developing capacity has meant that U.S. test results are often long delayed, rendering the results useless for disease control.
Although we tend to focus on technology, most of the interventions that have large effects are not complicated. The United States instituted quarantine and isolation measures late and inconsistently, often without any effort to enforce them, after the disease had spread substantially in many communities. Our rules on social distancing have in many places been lackadaisical at best, with loosening of restrictions long before adequate disease control had been achieved. And in much of the country, people simply don’t wear masks, largely because our leaders have stated outright that masks are political tools rather than effective infection control measures. The government has appropriately invested heavily in vaccine development, but its rhetoric has politicized the development process and led to growing public distrust.
The United States came into this crisis with enormous advantages. Along with tremendous manufacturing capacity, we have a biomedical research system that is the envy of the world. We have enormous expertise in public health, health policy, and basic biology and have consistently been able to turn that expertise into new therapies and preventive measures. And much of that national expertise resides in government institutions. Yet our leaders have largely chosen to ignore and even denigrate experts….
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2029812?query=featured_home
It is typical, historically, for the illness of a president to be hidden from public view. There are many instances of this.
Woodrow Wilson’s presidency is especially instructive. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/10/03/trump-covid-1918-flu-struck-woodrow-wilson-pandemic/3607579001/ “Initially [1918, during the last months of WWI], the Wilson administration tried to play down the disease Spanish Flu] even as it spread worldwide. Presidential historian Tevi Troy, citing the administration’s response to the pandemic, calls Wilson the worst U.S. president in terms of handling a disaster… ‘The federal response to the influenza outbreak in 1918 can best be described as neglectful. Hundreds of thousands of Americans died without President Wilson saying anything or mobilizing nonmilitary components of the U.S. government to help the civilian population.’”
Wilson himself caught the Spanish Flu in April 1919 while in Paris for the Big Four peace talks, along with a number of his entourage including his daughter. Media flatly denied that the president had contracted Spanish Flu, attributing his sudden silence to a cold due to the chilly rainy Paris weather. The article notes that during this 2-wk illness he began issuing nonsensical orders, & was subject to hallucinations.
Apparently Wilson recovered sufficiently to conclude the talks successfully, but 6 mos later suffered a stroke that left him partially paralyzed, blind, and “effectively incapacitated as president”—yet he served out the last 18 mos of his term!!
When The Lancet published an editorial opposing the idiocy of the Idiot, a commentator here tried to paint is as a “left wing” tool, a misguided view, in my opinion. But when the New England Journal of Medicine gets political, that’s a much harder argument to make. It never gets political…until now:
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2029812?query=featured_home
A Fly Landed In Mike Pence’s Hair During the VP Debate on Oct. 7, 2020
Fly: Carol, I AM that fly. I was circling his head and I knew full well that he was the Vice President of the United States. I circled and then finally decided to land on his head. I listened to him speak and knew that the media would notice me.
Now I am just an ordinary fly but now I am famous. I didn’t like the messages that Pence was sending out to the world. He is almost as big a liar as is Trump. Trump brags about having been cured from COVID-19 and thinks that catching it was a blessing sent from God. I am but a fly but that is pure nonsense. EVEN I KNOW THAT.
Trump is not well. He put on too much makeup and looked sort of freaky. His makeup artist must have done a terrible job because Twitter is alive with comments about how horrible he was made up. Deep dark orange makeup cannot hide Trump’s illness anymore than it can hide his tremendous amount of lies that spew forth with unending, non-stop regularity.
I flew away into fly obscurity. Now, I’d like to meet up with the fly that is on the wall in Obama’s magnificent home. Now, THAT would be a fly with some interesting comments that are spoken inside the Obama household in secrecy. Ohhhh. That would really be yummy stuff to contemplate.
I’m a fly but look at how fantastic I looked on Pence’s head. I am the dark black spot and I am intelligent, even if nobody who was viewing this debate would ever guess.
Thank you, Carol Ring, for letting me, a tiny black fly, tell what I wanted to say to the rolling cameras. I would have countered Pence’s talking but unless you have the abilities of Carol Ring, you wouldn’t have heard what I wanted to say.
Goodbye. I don’t think I’m in the fifth dimension but I certainly know that for a few brief moments, the world turned its attention to ME!! I am a fly and now I’m stopping my beautiful thoughts because I have other work to do…you know, fly work.
Goodbye, now I’m finished with the longest speech that I’ve ever given to humans. Actually, it is the ONLY speech I’ve been able to say and I’m very glad to give my opinions. Oh, and by the way, the Green New Deal is needed because humans are destroying the planet. Pence knows that but he is too intimidated by Trump to ever speak what he thinks. Yes, he knows his fame and glory depend upon supporting Trump and that is what he continues to do.
NOW, I’m finished speaking.
Those who read my story will appreciate the last line.
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Mike Pence’s Trumpian Makeover at the Vice-Presidential Debate
By Susan B. Glasser
October 8, 2020
…No matter how much of a Trumpian makeover Mike Pence has undergone, Vice-Presidential debates do not change the outcome of Presidential elections. This one won’t either. By the time a fly improbably showed up on Pence’s close-cropped white hair and stayed there, without the Vice-President even appearing to notice, for a good two minutes, it was clear who the evening’s real winner would be. It was the fly, who will surely be remembered in debate history after all of Pence’s whoppers are long forgotten.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/mike-pences-trumpian-makeover-at-the-vice-presidential-debate?utm_source=onsite-share&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=onsite-share&utm_brand=the-new-yorker
And now we likely know who started the Covid-19 infections at the White House. Crede Bailey has been admitted to the hospital and is “gravely ill”. He does the security clearances for the WH and works closely administration and with SS. The WH is keeping mum about this. Apparently he became ill late September but it is also noted that he may have been at the Super spreader event while ill? Who knows, but why was this posted and then taken down so quickly by the media?
“No, I’m not going to waste my time on a virtual debate,” Mr. Trump told the Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo in a television interview.
Mary Trump: “But what I do know is that my grandfather did not tolerate illness. He did not tolerate weakness of any kind, but he interpreted weakness or defined weakness in a very odd way. Weakness was kindness, generosity, sensitivity, physical illness, addiction. All of those things he considered weak, they weren’t accepted, and they were barely acknowledged… And Donald totally bought into it and also is somebody who’s very rarely been sick. So, it’s easy under those circumstances to maintain the position that if you get sick, you’re weak, or if you succumb to an illness, you’re weak.”
Trump wants to appear macho, NOT ever having been sick and have the debate in person. A virtual debate would protect Biden and the moderator, and maybe, limit his ability to bully and dominate.
If Trump doesn’t want to follow the Commission on Presidential Presidential Debate’s rules…dump him. But let the country know why.
This is from my Trump supporting Senator Mike Braun [R-IN]. Grrrr.
In November of 2016, the American people elected President Donald Trump with a mandate to appoint Supreme Court justices who will follow the constitution and not legislate from the bench.
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October 8, 2020
Dear Ms. Ring,
Sincerely,
Mike Braun
U.S. Senator
P.S. This message was sent by email to save taxpayer dollars.