Would You Buy A bridge From Him

People who have a “Make America Great Again” hat and/or a “Keep America Great” hat are already buying crap as chocolate from Trump, and they believe him when he blames the Democrats for the taste. So if you are one of those Trump chumps the answer is yes, you probably would buy a bridge form him.

People who have a worthless diploma from Trump U have already been Trumped, and it is unlikely that they would also buy a bridge from him. Although, I cannot be too sure of that -- some of the people can be fooled all of the time.

Whether people who have contributed to the Trump Foundation would also buy a bridge from him depends on whether they cared about where the money was going or whether they were simply trying to curry Trump's favor. People who try to curry Trump's favor by making contributions to Trump's organizations or paying Trump directly should know that they are on an installment plan and the price for what they want from Trump will keep going up because Trump does not even meet Simon Cameron's standards* for an honest politician. As the Washington Post says: “President Trump made 18,000 false or misleading claims in 1,170 days” Furthermore, Trump will throw anyone and everyone under the bus in a New York minute.

Trump touts the use of Hydroxychloroquine as a simplistic answer for the simple minded. That simplistic answer is, in fact, one of the planks in the bridge Trump is hawking. Most of the side effects of Hydroxychloroquine are known. How effective Hydroxychloroquine is in preventing or curing Covid-19 is not known. People, such as Trump, who think they can ignore social distancing and protective masks because Hydroxychloroquine will protect them are idiots. The reason I said, “such as Trump,” in the previous sentence is because Trump is implying if not expressly telling us that he is relying on Hydroxychloroquine to protect him. Quick remedies for the virus and the economic disruption are very important components of Trump's sales pitch, and he damns the pundits who say they doubt that he is even taking Hydroxychloroquine.

Trump knows his reelection is in peril if people do not think the country is doing well under this leadership. So, like Herbert Hoover during the great depression, Trump is trying to paint a rosy picture of our situation and our prospects. Prosperity and a cure for Covid-19 are just around the corner, don't you know? The precise corner is to be determined at a later date, but you can bet that Trump is prepared to blame his wrong turns on the governors of blue states in particular and on his political opponents in general; this apparently includes all of the former presidents who know what an incompetent charlatan he is.

I should add here that Trump is becoming more desperate and dangerous as the election nears and the polls show him losing. He does not care how many people will die because he is trying to open up the country too early. He does not care how many people have to be deprived of their right to vote in order for him to win. He does not care about how many fake investigations the worst attorney general in the history of the nation has to conduct to smear Trump's opponents or how many truly bad decisions have to rendered by the Supreme Court Moscow Mitch has delegitimized. All that matters to Trump is that he is reelected and remains in office long enough for the statute of limitations on the crimes he has already committed to run out while he is still immune from any criminal actions against him. Reelecting Trump should be a bridge too far for anyone who loves this country, its laws, its people, and its system of government.

*The greedy SOB won't stay bought.

Too Crazy

I am going stir crazy. I need a laugh! So I sat in front of my computer thinking I could write a parody or a satire to make me laugh at my present situation, or perhaps I should say our situation. For some reason my mind turned to the great humorist, Art Buchwald. During the Watergate scandal Mr. Buchwald's column was a much welcomed laugh in a very angry world. It was a world in which everything seemed to be so exaggerated that people wanting to write parodies or satires were hard pressed to come up with anything more ridiculous than the truth. Indeed, Mr. Buchwald said that writing his column was far too easy during those years. He assured us that he was not making it up, that he was merely telling the truth and people found it funny. Thank you, Martha Michell!

Today we do not have a Martha Mitchell ringing the bell or blowing the whistle, but we do not need her. We already have the idiot in chief and the chumps who are stupid enough to believe him and support him. In which orifice does Trump propose injecting sunlight to kill Covid-19? Whichever one he chooses you can safely bet it is not where you want a sun burn and/or skin cancer. While propounding his specious Covid-19 cures Trump frequently points out that he is not a doctor. Neither was my father. My father was a plumber, but he was still far too knowledgeable to suggest that anyone should drink Drano to cure constipation, and he knew where the “sun don't [and shouldn't] shine.” Now Trump claims he was just being sarcastic when he suggested ingesting disinfectants or injecting disinfectants and/or sunlight into the body. The funny part is that the Trump chumps (particularly Fox viewers) will actually believe him unless they are among to few who wound up in the hospital because they followed his advice about taking hydroxychloroquine.

Speaking of Trump chumps, let me just say that while I am sympathetic to people who are losing their incomes during this crises, a very large number of the people demonstrating against stay at home orders are making more of a political statement than an economic statement, and they are more than willing to trade lives to gain a political advantage. One of the reasons they are willing to do this is because they are not smart enough to think about whose lives they might be sacrificing. This issue takes on a whole different meaning when the life sacrificed is yours or that of a beloved family member. But, in the name of God, the Trump chumps banish all thoughts about such consequences. In the alternative world of the right wing there is only the earthly present and an eternity ruled by faith rather facts.

There is no need to award a Darwin to the people who gather in close proximity to other chumps demonstrating against social distancing. The award far too many of those people are likely to receive is the Covid-19 virus. While I do not wish that on them, I have an even stronger objection to them passing that virus on to others who did nothing to earn it!

Oh, and one quick note to Moscow Mitch. Be careful what you wish for, dumb ass! If New York and California go bankrupt who is going subsidize Kentucky?