10/20/20: It’s Day #3 of
Character Counts Week. Sadly, the oaf in the Oval Office is having trouble handling
the pressure of a reelection campaign. In a call with top staff, Trump refuses
to take responsibility (one of the Six Pillars of Character) for the hash he
has made of handling the coronavirus.
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“If more Americans paid attention
to his advice, we’d have fewer cases of COVID-19, & it would be safer to go
back to school & back to work & out to eat.”
Sen. Lamar Alexander, defending Dr. Anthony Fauci
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Dr. Deborah Birx, left, and Dr. Anthony Fauci, right, flank the president. They've been telling us for months to wash our hands, mask up, and socially distance. Only the man in the middle has contracted COVID. |
Denying even the math, the president continues
to insist that the nation is turning the corner in the fight against the virus,
and he should get at least one more term in office, if not two or ten.
Since last we checked, the CDC has recorded the following new case numbers:
10/16:
70,078
10/17: 53,157
10/18:
47,035
10/19: 60,061
Total cases: 8,188,585.
Death toll: 219,499.
Tens of thousands more Americans have been,
or are, currently hospitalized after being infected. Hospital bills, if
nothing else, have been wrecking strained family finances across the land.
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THE OVERALL PICTURE looks like hell. That means Trump
has to find someone else to blame.
(“Leadership” is another one of the Six Pillars
of Character, which Trump is also going to knock over today.)
Trump’s latest fall guy turns out to be Dr.
Fauci. According to the president it’s Dr. Fauci’s fault that idiotic claims
have been spilling from presidential lips for months. Such as: the virus is no worse than flu. The virus is going away soon. It will disappear like magic, or could be cured if we inject disinfectant.
If that doesn’t work, crushed flower petals will.
Now, in a rambling phone conversation with top
campaign people, he criticizes the doctor for providing bad advice. “People are
tired of hearing Fauci and these idiots,” the president grumbles, “these, these
people that have gotten it wrong.”
(“Respect” is one of the Six Pillars – and down it goes.)
Trump tells supporters that Fauci’s a Democrat, which in Trumpistan means he can’t be trusted at all.
(He’s not a Democrat, by the way.)
“Every time he goes on television, there’s always a bomb,” the president whines. “But there’s a bigger bomb if you fire him. But Fauci’s a disaster.”
As for Trump – hey, hundreds of dead
every day, no big deal – he’s ready to move
on. “People are tired of COVID,” he insists. His campaign should ignore the
virus and focus on the imaginary danger presented by Antifa. “I have the
biggest rallies I’ve ever had,” Trump brags. “And we have COVID. People are
saying: whatever. Just leave us alone. They are tired of it.”
As for the nation being tired, Biden’s campaign quickly
responds: “Mr. President, you’re right
about one thing: The American people are tired. They’re tired of your lies
about this virus.”
The pettiness (“pettiness” is not one of the Six Pillars of Character) of
the president was also on display in a batch of knucklehead tweets. In one he
faulted Dr. Fauci for appearing more often on TV than “the late, great Bob
Hope.” Then he mocked him for wearing a mask to throw out the first pitch at
the Washington Nationals’ Opening Day game. That game took place in July!
Now – on the eve of the World Series – the
fool in the White House seemed to believe it was relevant that Dr. Fauci, 79, delivered what was “perhaps the worst first
pitch in the history of Baseball!”
Yeah. That was Trump’s focus.
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FEW REPUBLICANS spoke up, because
in Trumpistan they’ve been neutered and know how to grovel. Sen. Lamar
Alexander of Tennessee, chair of the Senate Health Committee, did at least come
to Dr. Fauci’s defense. Alexander, who retires at the end of his current term, offered
an implicit denunciation of the president. Fauci, he said, is “one of our
country’s most distinguished public servants. If more Americans paid attention
to his advice,” he continued, “we’d have fewer cases of COVID-19, & it
would be safer to go back to school & back to work & out to eat.”
(The Trump quotes, above, come from several
sources: the Associated Press, Axios, The New York Times, Sen. Alexander’s Twitter feed and the blogger’s transcription of Trump’s
words from tape.)
POSTSCRIPT: Trump often cites
Antifa as his latest Boogie Man, used to scare the totally uninformed.
According to detailed analysis, members of
Antifa have been linked to one death in the U.S. in the last quarter
century. In that incident the deceased was deemed the assailant.
Unless that case is adjudicated further, we can report
that far-right extremists have a 329-0 lead in murders committed during that period.
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