“He's devastated the
economy, destroyed our alliances, plundered the public purse,
colluded with enemies, insulted our friends, rustled our people,
raped our cattle” *
Yes, our intrepid Caesar
Disgustus has made a pig's breakfast of things. Whatever he touches
turns to shit.
He would have you believe
that he inherited a mess; that Obama is responsible for his serial
failure. Always the victim in search of a scapegoat. Now it is Dr.
Fauci, he of the National Institute of Health (NIH) and the Center
for Disease Control (CDC). Fauci has been with us since the Reagan
administration, guiding the national response to the AIDS outbreak as
well as EBOLA and other crises. He, along with the Atlanta-based CDC
are, or rather were, the gold standards in epidemiology with not only
national but global reputations.
But for Emperor Disgustus,
the are the bearers of inconvenient truth in an administration where
all truth is inconvenient. Answer: away with Truth. And so it is
that in order to save face, in order to shore up a very fragile ego,
Disgustus and his minions must now go about the business of
destroying the reputation of yet another storied public servant.
Here we have an
administration that dismantled the response team put in place by the
Obama Administration. Funding and positions were eliminated in the
National Security Council (NSC) and the Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS) that were to coordinate the national response
with the NIH and the CDC. When the virus was first reported tRUMP
was warned about its severity yet took to the airwaves to tell the
nation that there were only a handful of cases that would “soon be
down to zero.” That was well over four months and 3 million cases
ago. Later, in March, he assured the nation that with the coming of
sunshine that it would soon 'miraculously disappear' in the coming
weeks or months, incredibly a position he reiterated yesterday.
This is a message that
resounds among the faithful, for they have long been taught to
believe in miracles. And, as the nation struggles with pandemic and
the economic fallout, the question remains: “Do you believe in
magic?” For the adults in the room the answer is a resounding
NO!
But mature judgment is
beyond the reach of our self-described stable genius, for,
like his hero Adolf Hitler, he believes in his own invincibility and
that he can, through iron will erase objective reality and create a
universe entirely of his own design. Accordingly, tRUMP early on
began taking control of information and it's dissemination,
downgrading the role of both the NIH and the CDC, by first putting
Mike Pence and his idiot son-in-law in charge of the federal
response, and then daily taking to the microphone and dominating the
daily press conferences as Fauci, Deborah Birx and company sat relatively
silent on the sidelines as tRUMP used these events as forums not to
give the nation important information or guidelines, but increasingly
to mislead and vent his spleen. This madness came to an apex in late
June when our Mature Genius proclaimed with a straight face
that perhaps this most serious threat to the public health of the
nation and the economy would best be dealt with by the ingestion of
bleach and household cleaning agents or, perhaps, the insertion of
light into the body. He did not mention which orifice would be most
appropriate but, given that he had just pulled that one out of his
ass, one can readily imagine.
Disgustus refused to
release the CDC guidelines for reopening the country. What did leak
out were a few of the provisions, like a declining number of
hospitalizations and deaths for a two week period before moving on to
the next phase, but what that would entail was never made public.
Instead the birdbrain went tweeting that his followers needed to
“liberate” Michigan and other states then in lockdown producing
scenes where groups of men armed with machine guns appeared at the
state capitol building. The brown shirts had arrived.
The backlash was
immediate. Withering ridicule followed and justly so. Disgustus
responded not by letting the experts speak but by canceling the daily
briefings.
It has only got worse.
Disgustus refused to release the CDC guidelines for reopening the
country. What did leak out were a few of the provisions, like a
declining number of hospitalizations and deaths for a two week period
before moving on to the next phase, but what that would entail was
never made public. Instead the birdbrain went tweeting that his
followers needed to “liberate” Michigan and other states then in
lock down producing scenes where groups of men armed with machine
guns appeared at the state capitol building. The brown shirts had
arrived. Government by intimidation.
Reports have surfaced in
recent weeks that Disgustus has not met with the Corona Virus
response team since mid May; that he has not had a meeting with Dr.
Fauci for over three weeks. Fauci, for his part, has taken to the
airwaves on PBS, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, and others in attempts to
get the word out that this virus is quickly spiraling out of control.
The inconvenient truth has been met with derision and disdain by
Rusty Limbaugh and Fixed Noise.
Now comes word that the
administration has sent word to hospitals to bypass the CDC
altogether and send information on hospitalizations, number of
ventilators and test results directly to Pence and Kushner.
Caesar Disgustus owns this
virus. It happened on his watch and his response has revealed the
monumental incompetence of the man.
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*Reference here is made to
sermon delivered at the church at Rock Ridge in the film Blazing
Saddles.
