5/21/20: There is so much bad news right now and so much that might be said, we hardly know where to begin or how to end. Let’s dive right in and try not to drown.
First: the coronavirus disaster figures.
“After Nov. 3 coronavirus will magically… go away and disappear.”
Another 2.4 million Americans filed unemployment claims in the last reporting period. That brings the total in nine weeks to 38.6 million. To get some sense of the scope of disaster, the U.S. workforce in February – all those employed, and all those searching for jobs – totaled 164.6 million people. The losses, equal to more than 23% of all employees, have been staggering.
Friday afternoon the Johns Hopkins University website has us at 1,590,349 confirmed cases of COVID-19. We have lost 95,553 dead. We have almost five times as many cases as Russia or Brazil, the second and third most-hard hit nations. We have more than two-and-a-half times as many deaths as the United Kingdom, second-worst in that category.
Those four countries, top four in confirmed cases, all happen
to be led by some of the biggest virus deniers in the world.
Of course, idiocy runs in families. So, Eric Trump has been saying Democrats wanted “millions” to die. Now he says Democrats are “milking” the crisis because they don’t want his dad to be able to hold his giant rallies. “They think they are taking away Donald Trump’s greatest tool, which is being able to go into an arena and fill it with 50,000 people every single time,” he told Judge Jeanine Pirro on her show. “You watch, they’ll milk it every single day between now and Nov. 3. And guess what, after Nov. 3 coronavirus will magically all of a sudden go away and disappear and everybody will be able to reopen.”
We could be mean here and mention that Eric’s dad said the virus would go away in April.
And then we could be meaner still and mention that the U.S.
has already piled up 500,000 fresh cases in
May.
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Eric Trump is the latest Trump to say COVID is soon going away. |
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Trump pines for a sexual predator.
WITH AMERICANS DYING by the tens of thousands, you might expect President Trump to show a bit of empathy. That would be akin to expecting a donkey to bray the multiplication tables. You may already know. But the president’s lawyers have been arguing before the Supreme Court. They have insisted that he cannot be sued while president – because he would have to devote some of his precious time to dealing with legal issues – and he’s too busy working 24 hours a day for the American people.
Yet, Disinfectant Donald always has time for Twitter! This week, to cite a handful of examples, Trump tweeted: “LOSER.” That one-word bit was paired with a video clip of Mitt Romney, showing election results from 2012. Because nothing says, “I’m working around the clock” like focusing on an election eight years ago. According to a retweet we learn that the president also agrees, Fox newscaster Neil Cavuto is “an asshole.” By comparison, Pete Hegseth, a Fox pundit who never misses an opportunity to praise the president, is called – by the pleased president – “A Great Patriot.” Even better, the man who never stops working for the American people makes it plain. He’s had it with Fox News! Fox, he tweet-grumbles, “is no longer the same. We miss the great Roger Ailes. You have more anti-Trump people, by far, than ever before. Looking for a new outlet!”
Yes, we miss “the great Roger Ailes.” Last seen exiting Fox
News in the wake of multiple claims (and several legal settlements) for
sexually harassing female employees. For example: Gretchen Carlson.
Also Laurie Luhn – Andrea Tantaros – Rudi Bakhtiar – Shelly Ross – Kellie Boyle – Marsha Callahan – Randi Harrison.
And at least nine other anonymous accusers.
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THIS pair of tweets, however, may be my all-time favorites from Disinfectant Don. Here he reveals, in naked form, what he views as the true job of the free press. Yes, he’s miffed with Fox News; but we now know exactly what has been – and Trump still thinks is – the role of Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham and Bill Hemmer and the rest of the toadying crew.
We know, also, that tens of thousands of Americans, who hit “love” after seeing this tweet, are too dense to see danger staring them in the face. The President of the United States wants, frankly, for the “free press” to serve him. He expects Fox News to help him win re-election.
And that’s not fake news.
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