Freak Out Friday – March 5, 2020

FREAK OUT FRIDAY – March 5, 2020

So now it’s Obama’s fault.

That is the latest claim from Trump and his team of sycophants, toadies and bootlickers.  The reason that the United States has fallen behind in the race to be able to test for the Coronavirus (or, as Trump refers to it, the Caronavirus) is because of a rule implemented during the Obama administration.  This reputed rule declares that any tests developed had to be approved by the FDA, and that process slowed the entire thing to a crawl.

What rule would that be?

No clue.

Subsequent authorities on the subject have said they have no idea what Trump was talking about or where he had gotten his information.  The obvious response is that he pulled it out of the same place whence he derived his information that windmills cause cancer or that the Coronavirus will vanish in spring, even though it’s doing just fine in Australia where the weather is already much warmer.  He would claim that it was from his gut.  That he has a hunch, just as he has a hunch that the death statistics of 3.2 percent from the World Health Organization are wrong and that it’s more around one percent.  But I’m reasonably sure that he in fact pulled it from his ass.

It makes sense, because one of his lead ass-kissers, Pence, indeed claimed several days later that he has rescinded the non-existent order.  How do you makes something that never existed in the first place go away?  

Meanwhile he continues to lampoon Elizabeth Warren, a woman who as a politician is worth a hundred Trumps.  He keeps referring to her as “Pocahantas,” accusing her of lying about having native American blood in her history.  You know what?  Someone who has lied over sixteen thousand times in three years doesn’t get to accuse someone else of being untruthful.

Indeed, his talent for falsehoods were on full display Thursday when he did a townhall meeting on Fox.  He claimed Hunter Biden had no job before winding up on the Ukraine board (he was a working lawyer), that Obama repeatedly tried to call Kim Jong un and was rebuffed (he never called him), that incoming presidents were typically not left any court vacancies upon taking office (Obama came in to 53, Bush had 80, Clinton had 103), and asserted that he was protecting coverage of pre-existing conditions (he has backed a number of bills that would weaken it and supports a government lawsuit determined to obliterate the entirety of Obamacare without offering any means of replacing it.). He also asserted that funding for social security, Medicare and other entitlement programs were not remotely protected, but were instead up for review and potential slicing. 

Because that’s what he does.  If you’re poor or elderly or sick or helpless, do not look for any support from Trump, because he backs winners and rich people.  His whole family is like that, which is why it’s amusing that the father of corrupt, greedy and pernicious offspring has the nerve to keep assailing Hunter Biden as if Biden is anywhere in the range of his own childrens’ activities.  

Meanwhile, in other parts of the world, the U.S. signed an ostensible peace accord with the Taliban that guarantees we will withdrew our troops within a year and a half.  The result is exactly what any reasoning person could have expected:  the Taliban has resumed attacks on the Afghani army.  The Taliban is doubtlessly anticipating that Trump will throw our Afghan allies under the bus, just as we did with the Kurds.  Indeed, just as Trump does with anyone when they have worn out their immediate use.

Indeed, just the other day he was asked if he would consider throwing Mike Pence off the ticket and replace him with Nikki Haley.  His response was that doing such a thing would be an act of great “disloyalty.”  Okay, yeah.  And?  I mean, Trump’s entire definition goes exactly one way:  he expect loyalty from others.  That is his first and oftentimes only requirement when filling positions.  If you’re loyal to him, you’re in; if you’re not, you’re disposable.  Many suspect that that was the main reason he put Pence in charge of the Coronavirus.  It’s a win/win for him.  Either the virus will be abated and Trump can then claim credit for having put Pence in the position to do it.  Or if it continues unconstrained and the body count piles up, Trump can state that obviously Pence didn’t get the job done and he should never have trusted him, and it would probably be wise to bring in someone else.  

God, let’s hope Biden or Bernie can get rid of him in September.

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