There are arguments that have been made contending Donald Trump is the anti-Christ. I must admit, that’s a little outside of my realm of expertise. But based upon this past week…indeed, this past year…I can certainly see the reasons for the contention.
He’s certainly opposed to life. That’s a given. His constant ignoring of the early warnings which, had he heeded them could have prevented thousands of deaths. His touting of unproven medicines which, as they are scientifically tested, are proving lethal. His recent suggestion that injecting people with bleach might help, which he is now desperately trying to walk back as being “sarcastic” which is his typical response when called on his idiocy, even as we concern ourselves that some Branch Covidians (as Wil Wheaton has termed them) will embrace the concept. His spending two hours every day taunting and baiting reporters (because he is a master baiter), insulting other politicians, or throwing them under the bus as he just did with Governor Brian Kemp. Kemp was stupid enough to take Trump at his word and reopen Georgia. When that resulted in a ton of negative backlash, Trump immediately turned around and said that Kemp should not do what Trump had been saying for two weeks he SHOULD do. Basically he threw Kemp under the bus, drove the bus over him, then backed up and ran over him again for good measure.
Honest to God, if Trump were Jesus, Judas would be the only one he would trust because he’d understand Judas’s motivation. How can any reasonable person turn down thirty pieces of silver, after all? Give Trump thirty pieces of silver, he’d betray all the disciples in a heartbeat and then kick back with some Kentucky Fried.
You think you’re bored sitting around in your studio apartment? Trump, according to the New York Times, is going stir crazy trapped in the White House. Even this numbskull knows that he can’t go golfing, short of playing eighteen holes in a mini golf course. (Great, now I’ve got a mental image of Trump slamming a little windmill with his golf club while shouting, “Stupid giant! Give me cancer, will you?!”)
The solution to his problem is obvious: Resign. If he wants to get out of the White House, turn the presidency over to Pence, get the hëll out of Washington and go wander Mar-a-largo and spare us two hours of tortured syntax, taunting, misinformation and lies every day.
Which he won’t do. Instead he is going to continue to try and take whatever underhanded step he can to skew the election in his favor, even as his decisions turn swing states against him and the Coronavirus accelerates its gains in Red States. He’s currently trying to dismantle the postal service to remove the threat of mail-in votes which would give greater access to people who the GOP is currently working on disenfranchising. Can’t blame him for being concerned. Remember when the right wing dismissed it as a Democratic problem because crowded Blue cities were the only ones suffering? Not anymore. More remote areas are getting hit now; all those rural folks who thought they were off the hook are suddenly having major problems breathing. And you just know that Georgia and surrounding states are going to experience major spikes as Kemp invites the virus to have another go and wipe out people who were lucky enough to avoid it the first time.
But don’t worry, America, because Mitch McConnell has your back. As the GOP continues to prove that even life and death situations are secondary to politicizing everything, McConnell suggested that if states are having financial problems, well heck, they should just declare bankruptcy. Why should anything be done to help New York says the Senator of a state that ranks forty-six out of fifty states on the range of financial metrics, according to the Mercatus Center of George Mason University.
Of course, there is a reason states can’t declare bankruptcy: it’s against the law. This was pointed out by Governor Cuomo who was so sick of McConnell’s BS that today he challenged McConnell to send a global message of financial distress by crafting a law that states can indeed declare bankruptcy. “I dare him,” said Cuomo several times, although he stopped short of double dog daring him. He dared McConnell to craft the law and Trump to sign it, asserting that they should if they had the courage of their convictions.
Which, naturally, they don’t. They’re bullies and thus intrinsically cowards. Of course, if they disagree, they can show Cuomo up and do exactly what he challenged them to do.
Betting they won’t.
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