Of Course; Trump and Cronies Now Jumping the Line
When Trump was infected, he received an anti-viral treatment only ten other Americans had received. He then bragged about how easy it was to overcome the virus. When Giuliani was infected, he was given similar treatment. Now Trump and his circle are jumping the line to get these treatments and the vaccine. Let’s be clear here. Between Trump, Giuliani, Pompeo, and many other in his inner circle, their carelessness has exposed thousands of people to the Coronavirus infecting an unknown amount of people because of his resistance to any viable contact tracing protocol.
Even as this line-jumping is occurring, his sycophants now want Biden to “unify the country” by giving Trump credit for the vaccine. In the Washington Post this morning, former GWB speech writer Marc Thiessen demanded just that, saying that Trump deserves credit for Operation Warp Speed, which never participated or supported the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine developed in Germany. While providing funding for some manufacturing, this vaccine was developed with no US participation. In fact, Trump’s incompetence put the US at the back of the global line for the vaccine since they refused to buy vaccine for more than 50 million people (yes it takes TWO doses to vaccinate, so the 100 million doses Trump touts only vaccinates half that number). There are about 275 million people in the US over the age of 16. The Pfizer vaccine will only cover less than 20%.
Trump has spent the better part of a year downplaying the virus, holding super spreader events, firing staff and insulting science ands scientists and now to “unify” the country we should now give him credit for the vaccine? Fuck that. We’re finally going to see him flee to Mar a Lago sometime between now and January 20 to continue inflicting damage on our society by tweeting his grievances. It will take the Biden administration an untold number of months to begin repairing the vast damage Trump has inflicted on us. The LAST thing he deserves is praise for anything. It’s time to give Trump what he deserves – anonymity and criminal charges. We can start by disabling his Twitter account.
You are so painfully, agonizingly SPOT ON.
1We must keep saying, repeating, and super-spreading the FACT that Trump did NOTHING to slow down or end the pandemic, that his “Warp Speed” did NOTHING to develop the vaccines now being deployed (inadequately, because of his unwillingness to work with other nations). That his failure to do the useful, good things, and his insistence on doing the useless and harmful things, have cost hundreds of thousands (we’ll reach 300K easily by the end of the year) of American lives, and cost Americans additional millions of dollars on health care, billions if you count in the lost jobs, the lost housing, the lost opportunities.
2Trump lost his legal right to live at Mar-a-Lago because of an agreement he signed in the early 1990s when he converted the storied estate from his private residence to a private club.
Mar-a-Lago neighbors to Trump: Spend your post-presidency elsewhere
3https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/trump-mar-a-lago-neighbors-dispute/2020/12/15/bc2ce1d0-3ed4-11eb-9453-fc36ba051781_story.html
The country could be easily unified if the the anti-masker, anti-quarentiners amongst us did the Darwinian thing.
Hey, it’s Nature’s way, dontcha know?
4@bananas – I just read that story this morning. Thanks for the link.
5I’m all 8n favor of him being arrested by Interpol, taken to the Hague, and tried there for crimes against humanity. When they are finished with him, N.Y. AG can get him for theft and lying and fraud.
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6@Elizabeth Moon #2 We hit 300K yesterday The bell of the Washington National Cathedral tolls bell 300 times for 300,000 Covid victims https://www.nbcnews.com/video/washington-national-cathedral-tolls-bell-300-times-for-300-000-covid-victims-97799749803
As of today Worldometers shows the USA with 311,111 deaths
7The Covid Tracking Project (really useful site – https://covidtracking.com/data/charts/us-daily-deaths) shows US deaths are currently 2500+ a day At that rate with no increase we will be close to 350,000 deaths by New Years Eve
They should administer Trump’s vaccination with a dart gun. Rights to fire it could be sold to the highest bidder.
8@ Bananas & El Jefe
It’s worse than just having him at Mar A Fatso.
Barron may go to Pinecrest School in Ft Lauderdale.
And Jarvanka are coming to Indian Creek Village- the billionaire bunker
island near Miami, so she can run for Rubio’s Senate seat.
They are spreading their clown show across three counties !!
9Funny how it’s always the rest of us who have to appease the Proud Boy contingent. How about the Republicans start reaching out to us by, say, congratulations to Biden?
10@Rich in Fla #9 Barron spends a lot of time with Mels Commies for real parents. so I am sure they will be looking for a little place in Florida too.
11Carl Hiasson calls Trump’s digs in Florida ‘Casa Bellicosa.’ https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/books/review-carl-hiaasen-squeeze-me.html
12bluzdude @ 8:
13Now that’s an idea that deserves some thought.
But let me add a wrinkle. His worshippers believe he’s sacrificed so much and done so much for them, why not let them return the favor? He’s always been about personal excess as long as it benefits him. More doses mean more protection, right? Makes sense to me. We could charge the MAGAts each just the cost of a single dose. That way it doesn’t add to the national debt, which is all we’re gonna hear about starting 36 days from now. When there’s no more available body space on f**king trump, they can start in on don jr. And work their way down the the list of everybody who “served” in this administration.
Out of appreciation commiserate with their service.
At least until we run out of placebos.
Let’s give Trumpf credit where credit is due- making the pandemic the worst catastrophe in our history. With his “leadership”, the need for the Pfizer vaccine also became historic. Of course he’s trying to take credit because his legacy is currently as the worst president in history.
14Counting down- 35 days till the mad man is out of the WH.
@ P.P.
Clear this up for me. please – Are we hunting MAGA’ts in the wild?
Like the streets of south Florida (or the first floor of my building)?
Or will Mar A Fatso become a gated “canned hunt” type of place
where the prey are bred to be hunted and don’t know how to flee?
Or just Trump after he becomes a hermit so we have to wait for
him to show his face?
So many options, I need to. focus.
15RepubAnon, McConnell did acknowledge that Biden and Harris won. For this simple recognition of reality, he is catching all kinds of poo flung by everyone from Michael Flynn to Lin Wood. Don’t expect any other Republicans to sing “Kumbaya” soon.
https://www.wonkette.com/thats-right-maga-idiots-time-to-eat-mitch-mcconnells-face
16they just can’t get anything right, can they!
17bananas: You’re quite right that it will take an increase in rate to get us to 400K by Jan1. I’m watching the slope of the curve. We’ve hit 3000 in one day already, and the slope of the bottom of the curve (the days with the fewest deaths) is now steeper. We’ve had two weeks where the bottom of the graph is above 1000 on the day with the least deaths and the top is above 2500 (including 2 above 2900 and one over 3000). I think the release of a vaccine will (foolishly) encourage some people to think the danger’s over, even though the number of doses available to Texas, for instance, doesn’t begin to cover all the people who would need it.
I expect the daily counts to rise, on average, between now and January 15, because of refusals to give up traditional gatherings, and church and other religious openings (not mine, BTW) and the heavy load on hospitals and staffs which will mean less capacity to treat cases intensively when they start to need more care. Our overall case fatality rate is 1.8%, not the highest in the world but up in the top tier.
18So, I have this friend who works with another friend who also works in the North Carolina xmas tree farm business. Second friend had to go to DC last week to attend some sort of “deal” comemerating xmas trees, blah blah blah.
19Point is I axed first friend, when they returned, if she had to go to the whitehouse and rub shoulders with SCROTUS, thinking if so I give her wide berth hence forth. She replied, “I don’t think he’s there anymore!”
jus’say’n
As a little clarification, if anyone cares. Both friends, #1 and #2, work together in the same job. F2 took F1 with her to visit the DC thing. It’s complicated. If y’all need the details just drop me a note, subject line, #1or#2?
20now i feel better…
Re Trump’s having to find a new place to live (ie not allowed at Mar-a-gag-me), HGTV would hit ratings gold if “House Hunters” featured them as the buyers. Even better if it’s “House Hunters International” in an episode set in Russia or Saudi Arabia.
21Shucks. the way I see it is historians are gonna look at the Golden Gibbon and write him off simply by saying “he has blood on his hands.”
22Javanka are buying the BillionaireBunker for CheetoSatan.
Another bad real estate deaL It’s on a barrier island in Florida, max elevation 13 feet. Sea level rise? Hurricane flooding?
23Now Pfizer says it can’t deliver all of the first allotment of vaccine – BECAUSE NOBODY HAS TOLD THEM WHERE THEY GO.
I knew Trump’s “best people” would find some way to screw this up.
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