He Won’t be Happy Until We’re all Dead.

Smug, smug, smug.

He won’t be happy until we’re all dead.

In the last two days, reports have come out that the Trump administration had interfered extensively at the Center for Disease Control, changing guidelines for political purposes, bending and breaking the scientific facts that didn’t fit the Trump reelection campaign, muzzling and contradicting career scientists and doctors, and continuing to deny the seriousness of the pandemic affecting every country, even continent on earth.

For reelection. That’s the only, incredibly selfish reason. Petty. But that’s Trump brand, and if people have to die to achieve that reelection?

So be it.

Then we have the Director of the CDC, Dr. Robert R. Redfield, testify that a vaccine will not be widely available until sometime in the third quarter of next year. Most experts agree with this, but one self-appointed ‘expert’ does not. The President does not, can not agree with this because he wants to hold the hope of a vaccine over the heads of Americans until the election is over, even if one doesn’t how up, he wants that out there as an excuse to ‘reopen’, to get kids back in school, to shove people back into their jobs, to give some voters an excuse to overlook his disastrous handling of the virus that got us here in the first place.

Open now, because next month the vaccine will be here!

Dr. Redfield then veered off the topic of vaccines, held up the facemask he’d worn into the hearing and said that ‘this, this mask is even more important than a vaccine’, that it offered more protection than a vaccine will the first few months one will be available. He’s stated in the past that if everyone in the US just wore a mask in public for 6-8 weeks we could be out of this. We could, maybe, if we had leaders that supported public health, that cared about safely ending this pandemic nightmare or at least tamping it down, if…

… But we don’t. After Dr. Redfield’s testimony, Trump immediately announced a press conference with the sole aim of contradicting own director of the CDC. And he did; the vaccine was coming, soon, maybe end of October, maybe sooner, and masks aren’t that great (he continually doesn’t wear one himself and mocks those who do), and went back to his unproven talking point ‘lots of people say masks aren’t all that great…’

You would think he has a funeral parlor franchise.

Today, we have the news that a $150 million in prescription drug cost relief program that would have helped thousands was killed. Why? Because Donald Trump’s demanded that $100 “Trump Cards” be mailed to seniors before the election. 

From the New York Times:

“Then the agreement collapsed. The breaking point, according to four people familiar with the discussions: Mark Meadows, Mr. Trump’s chief of staff, insisted the drug makers pay for $100 cash cards that would be mailed to seniors before November — ‘Trump Cards,’ some in the industry called them,” the newspaper reported. “Some of the drugmakers bridled at being party to what they feared would be seen as an 11th-hour political boost for Mr. Trump, the people familiar with the matter said.”

So, the needed program was killed. Because Trump wanted ‘gift cards’ to go to seniors with his name on them. Now no one will get that benefit, as Trump has crossed his arms, stamped his foot, and walked off.

For his reelection.

He won’t be happy until we’re all dead…

…and he can sign the death certificate.

In sharpie.

Dancing at the Grifter’s Ball

Pam Bondi’s anti-Biden nepotism speech is nestled into a night of Trump grifters living off their father’s/husband’s name. And The Trump Party sees no irony, can see no irony, in this.

He dirties everything he touches.

Everything. Trump spares no reputation, no tradition left clean, no ‘norm’ left unsoiled, any laws in his way are trampled into the dirt. His every touch is like a child with mud on their hands; filth is strewn over all. And like a child, he grins at the destruction in his wake. Last night Trump smeared his hands over the White House, the naturalization ceremony, the pardon, and used them all as petty, political tools to boost an election campaign that is already dirty with corruption and brimming with lies. He sullies them all not for any noble purpose or sense of justice, but to squeeze out just one more vote from those white, ‘suburban housewives’ that he keeps throwing hypothetical Black people at. 

Our government is reduced from a constitutional republic/democracy to no more than a political prop, the People’s White House as a stage for reelection, the employees using their office and power as campaign tools, and the taxpayer’s money blatantly being used to elect the most undemocratic leader the United States of America has ever seen. Nothing is sacred, nothing cannot be used to wrench what is supposed to be a government of the people, for all the people, to a thing to serve the power not of a small political base, but just one man, Donald J. Trump.

Last night RNC was a self-servering parade of corruption and lies, a weaponizing the American government for the benefit an amoral man at the head of a party ready and eager to serve that amorality. And, as usual with the entire Trump administration, the law breaking is right out in the open, proudly displayed, (“Russia, if you’re listening”) bragged about, passed around like a good joint at a frat party. This isn’t bending rules, this is snapping and breaking laws, flagrantly.

I said in a previous post that this convention was going to be a sort of ‘Woodstock’ for the Trump Party, ‘Four Days of Fear & Hate”. I feel I underplayed it. Speaker after speaker got up, lied and smiled about it. Pam Bondi of Florida spewed forth a much-debunked conspiracy theory of Joe and Hunter Biden and Ukraine, railing against ‘nepotism’ on a night where an array of Trumps (all benefiting off their father/husband’s office) overwhelmed the so-called ‘real’ people. And all the grifters danced in joy.

Through the looking glass, while denying you are actually in wonderland.

It was an evening of breaking laws, nepotism, lying, making bizarre claims (My father will put people on Mars!) and celebrating it all. All in an America, damaged, grieving, wondering how they will make rent and feed themselves, or as Trump calls 'it, '“Biden’s America.”

And an estimated 200,000 Americans are dead, with another 1,200 Americans died of the coronavirus on the Tuesday of this shitshow. One mention of the dead, in passing, from the First Lady, while everyone else acted like the virus was over, past tense, like it isn’t still burning, threatening, killing. A complete unreality show, with Trump and the Trump family the most unreal part of it.

Good lord, these fucking people. I can’t do anything more but shake my head at Trump’s American Carnage and wonder where it will end. Or if it ever will.

Trump says he alone can fix it; turns out only he alone could have brought it on.