The Rude Pundit: Trump Doesn't Care About What You Have to Lose

[bluescribbler]

https://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2020/03/trump-doesnt-care-about-what-you-have.html

It would have been so easy, so unbelievably easy, for Donald Trump to have been the hero when it came to coronavirus. He had his chance, his bullhorn on the wreckage, his "tear down this wall." And it would have been with absolutely minimal effort. With a wave of his hand, the signing of a couple of documents, and a speech to the nation, Trump could have so easily done what was needed to mitigate the effects of COVID-19 before it started its snowballing rampage. He could have quickly hired a pandemic team, as he said he could, then ramped up testing early, used the Defense Production Act to produce what's necessary if the pandemic got out of hand in the U.S., and instituted a national lockdown policy. If he had told his MAGA hordes to stay at home, they would have done it in a heartbeat and thanked him for his wisdom. Fox "news" would have extolled him for his powerful foresight. Much of the country would have looked at Italy and Spain and breathed an enormous sigh of relief that Trump had listened to the scientists and acted.

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It won't matter that, come Easter, we won't be crowding into the streets to watch bonnet parades or into churches to celebrate when Jesus fucked a bunny into laying eggs or whatever happened then. And, like he did today in goddamn tweet, Trump will blame the media and the Democrats, and those same people who believe him now will believe him then. We better get used to the idea that hundreds of thousands of MAGA idiots could die from coronavirus, and the rest will still fucking love Trump.

Fuck, I hate this motherfucker.

Honestly, if I saw a grizzly bear raping Donald Trump, I'd give the bear Viagra.

[OnDoutside]

1. His "What do you have to lose ?" will make a killer and set against

a backdrop of body bags.

[central scrutinizer]

2. That's the irony

If Drumpf didn’t have the attention span of a mayfly and had acted back in January and the USA was on the other side of the curve like South Korea, he would be coasting towards a second term with a 70% margin.

[bluescribbler]

5. True

Is that a silver lining? If so, I'll bet many families, not to mention first responders and health care workers would happily accept that trade off if it meant saving countless lives.

[smirkymonkey]

3. K&R

[2naSalit]

4. I'd give the bear viagra.