April 30, 2020 You Were Warned, Full-Throated Brown-shirt, Worst Is Yet To Come

You were warned. Adam Schiff stood in the well of the Senate and warned you. He told you that tRUMP knows nothing of the national interest; would learn no lessons from the experience of being impeached other than that once again the rules do not apply to the likes of him. You were warned that with tRUMP it is always about him, only him and no one else.

As he tweets about 'liberating' Michigan, Wisconsin and New Jersey from governors who are proceeding with due caution, tweets that have called armed militia to the state capitals in full-throated brown-shirt tactics in order to re-open an economy closed down by his gross ineptitude. You were warned.

You were warned that he will do anything, sacrifice anyone, to satisfy his own personal ends for, like his hero Adolph, he has confused being the head of state with being the state itself. He thinks he is the nation, and that whatever he sees as good for him, must also be in the national interest. The pandemic and the public be damned.

So the country is being pressured to re-open before any of the states have met the most rudimentary guidelines. All this sacrifice, will be for naught.

In a conversation with our daughter she was lamenting how long it will be before she will be able to leave home and return to work. I told her that with tRUMP one must always prepare for the worst, as he makes a pig's breakfast of everything he touches. The worst is yet to come.

An' Br'er Putin, he jus' laugh and laugh

Flush this turd, November 3^rd.

April 29, 2020: We Were Warned, Grotesque Facade, Common Carnival Barker

You were warned, yes, you were warned, Lawrence O'Donnell reminded us the other night on his MSNBC program. O'Donnell then produced the video of Congressman Adam Schiff as he addressed the Senate during the impeachment proceedings against our Caesar Disgustus. Schiff then warned the body that should, god forbid, a crisis emerge threatening the welfare of the nation, tRUMP could be counted upon only to think of himself. He's done it in the past, is doing it now, and can be relied upon to do so in the future. Schiff, reminded the Senate that for tRUMP the national interest has no meaning; there is only his personal interest. He isn't interested in serving the nation; only serving himself. Importantly, Schiff was making this argument at precisely the moment that the pandemic now upon us was breaking unto our shores.

Of course, the Senate ignored the Congressman, as well as a majority of the people who were then urging the Congress to purge us of this swine.

But as prescient as were the words of the Congressman from California, the fact is that alarm bells were ringing long before he sounded his warning in the well of the Senate. Before his election, biographer David Kay Johnston told his audience and the nation that tRUMP was and is a fraud. Tony Swartz, who actually wrote the book The Making of the Deal launching tRUMP upon the national stage, told audiences well before the election that tRUMP is an ignoramus, and intellectual void and an ethical black hole. Addressing audiences at Oxford University weeks before the election in a speech broadcast on YouTube and elsewhere, Swartz profusely apologized for his role in creating the tRUMPian mythology. In fact, Swartz told anyone caring to hear, tRUMP represents a clear and present danger to the republic and that his election would spell a national, indeed international, disaster.

In case of any doubt, tRUMP's response to hurricane damage in Puerto Rico, as noted in the previous post, should have been a wake up call. Indeed, tRUMP's manifold and manifest inadequacies were readily apparent and duly noted by a certain property maintenance contractor in Athens, Georgia. (1)

In this essay, written a mere six months into this long national nightmare, I pointed out that tRUMP is nearly all facade, and that projecting an outlandish, indeed grotesque, facade creates certain problems when it comes to managing human beings. It explains his thin skin, his knee-jerk need to shoot the messenger rather than listen to the message, his grotesque need to always appear to be in charge, and to override any possible criticisms; his need to blame and his refusal to accept criticism—however constructive-or responsibility for his manifest failures. I pointed out that he will look to others to take the lead, in this case the sycophantic 'boy blunder' son-in-law, and the president of vice Mike Pence as he deals with the pandemic and, as the crisis worsens and he needs to achieve ever greater distance , the governors of the several states. You see, in the end, tRUMP stands Star Trek's Mr. Spock upon his head: The emotional needs of the man outweigh the national interest; the needs of the one outweigh the needs of the many. Disgustus said it all when asked what responsibility he had for the national response to the pandemic when he told the press and the nation “I don't accept any responsibility”. These are the words of a common carnival barker having stolen the emperor's clothes and scepter.

“An' Br'er Putin, he jus' laugh and laugh”

Impeach, convict, remove, imprison.

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1. See: http: wandererandshadow.blogspot.com/ August 2, 2017: Hollow to the Core, Ode to Ralph, Only Confusion Now

April 28, 2020: The Wages of Ignorance, Neanderthal on the Throne, Breathtaking Incompetence

“The wages of ignorance are death”

             ----from “The Quotations of Chairman Joe”

He told us as the infection total reached 15 that it would soon be down to one and then zero. As the pandemic quickly spread and it became obvious that it was quickly about to spiral out of control he, nevertheless, took to the podium at raucous rallies telling the unwashed that it was all a hoax, a Democratic plot to further unseat him; all the while assuring his gullible audiences that all was in hand and the country could continue on its merry way.

It was worse than that. The Washington Post, New York Times and other reliable sources tell us that he was warned several times beginning in early January that a virulent strain of influenza was upon us and that draconian actions would be needed to deal with it. The Secretary of Health and Human Services tried several times to contact him and, after at least two weeks of attempts to get the attention of the ignoramus-in-chief finally, in mid-January, got him on the phone only to be regaled by our Caesar Disgustus about his department's regulation on vaping—a form of nicotine relief for the compulsive smoker, issues having to do with the regulations HHS was apparently applying on flavors of electronic cigarettes. Nothing, it seems, could penetrate the skull of the neanderthal on the throne.

Furthermore, it transpires that tRUMP, ever in the grip of his rage against anything Obama, dismantled the pandemic response structure in the White House, eliminating the staff on the Security Council and DHHS, assigned to monitor and respond to any such crisis. This, of course, was one of the creations of Obama as he dealt with the Ebola and the H1V1 pandemics during his administration. The NSC team was charged with coordinating a national response to any such crisis with the Department of Health and Human Services as well as the Atlanta-based Center for Disease Control, a system that had previously worked well to contain such outbreaks. Disgustus, driven by blind, raging penis envy of course axed the program at first opportunity.

Now, the press informs us, tRUMP is confronted with the first crisis of his 'presidency' not of his own making. Actually it isn't. One may recall that in the first year of this long national nightmare, tRUMP was confronted with massive hurricane damage in Texas and Puerto Rico. The administration responded well enough in Republican Texas, but the lessons learned on the island should have been instructive. Distancing himself from the response, blaming others—particularly local leaders who happen to be Democratic representatives—and then cutting aid altogether when the national spotlight moved on to other scandal, should have served as fair warning of what will come. Now, after nearly four years of damage done to the administrative state, tRUMP no longer has the apparatus at hand to respond to any crisis in any meaningful way. The damage done is taking it's toll.

Now, as the country gets it's first real look at the breathtaking incompetence of a man who clearly cannot manage a respectable lemonade stand the death toll mounts, and with it confidence and respect for our national leadership and institutions.

“An Br'er Putin, he jus' laugh and laugh”

Impeach, convict, remove, imprison.