{"id":956,"date":"2020-10-04T00:57:44","date_gmt":"2020-10-04T00:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=956"},"modified":"2020-10-04T01:02:59","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T01:02:59","slug":"poor-brave-trump-the-fearless-folly-of-the-donald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=956","title":{"rendered":"Poor, Brave Trump! – The fearless folly of the Donald"},"content":{"rendered":"

October 3rd<\/sup>, 2020<\/i><\/p>\n

Trump got squeezed into one of his poor-fitting suits and sat in front of a US and Presidential flag that utterly failed to conceal that he was in a hospital room and made a four minute video for the nation. This normally would be a very good thing, since a sick president leaves the entire country unnerved and in need of a calming voice. Such reassurances are usually…staged. Some never existed: the country may have felt reassured at the story that as he was being wheeled into the OR after being shot, Reagan gave the doctors a cheery thumbs-up, but much later we learned that was strictly PR bullshit.<\/p>\n

Trump looked better than some of the more dire stories had it but the makeup and his seated position couldn\u2019t quite hide the fact that he wasn\u2019t 100%.<\/p>\n

Characteristically, he took the opportunity to praise his heroism and courage:<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I had no choice because I just didn\u2019t want to stay in the White House. I was given that alternative. Stay in the White House, lock yourself in, don\u2019t ever leave, don\u2019t even go to the Oval Office, just stay upstairs and enjoy it, don\u2019t see people, don\u2019t talk to people and just be done with it and I can\u2019t do that. I had to be out front and \u2013 this is America, this is the United States, this is the greatest country in the world, this is the most powerful country in the world. I can\u2019t be locked up in a room upstairs and totally safe and just say: \u2018Hey, whatever happens happens.\u2019 I can\u2019t do that. We have to confront problems. As a leader you have to confront problems. There\u2019s never been a great leader that would have done that.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

Mind you, Mister \u201cWhatever happens happens, I can\u2019t do that\u201d said of the same disease just two weeks ago, \u201cIt is what it is.\u201d Stoicism is an easy way to cover up moral and mental bankruptcy. Trump is trying to pretend he was out, ignoring the danger, doing the people\u2019s business and fulfilling his duties as president.<\/p>\n

In reality, he\u2019s still the same indolent buffoon he\u2019s always been, going out only to play his indeterminable games of golf and hold his super-spreader rallies, putting hundreds of thousands of people at risk to fill his mindless need for adulation. Even then, at a recent rally in a display of what passes for humor with Trump, he told his audience that he wasn\u2019t taking any risk\u2014he was \u2018way up on his dais, well away from the people he privately calls \u2018disgusting.\u2019 All those braying morons, going home to infect friends, family, associates, because Trump felt personally safe. He must have been really tickled pink over that.<\/p>\n

He expressed gratitude for all non-American leaders who wished him well. Some, like Boris Johnson, were undoubtedly sincere. Kim Yong Un was probably fairly pro forma. His country isn\u2019t allowed to admit that COVID-19 exists. Trump didn\u2019t want to admit Joe Biden and the Democrats exist, either, and so ignored their well wishes.<\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s Putin, and Russia. They have a radio show called 60 Minutes <\/i>that resembles the American television show of that name much the way OAN resembles Walter Cronkite. The Russian version had its own unique take on it, per the Daily Beast:<\/p>\n

Discussing Trump\u2019s COVID-19 diagnosis, Evgeny Popov, the host of Russian state media news talk show <\/i>60 Minutes<\/i><\/em>, said<\/a>, \u2018Our candidate got sick.\u2019 His co-host Olga Skabeeva reminded<\/a> the viewers that Trump is in a high-risk group, due to being elderly and overweight. Referring to former Vice President Joe Biden, Popov added, \u2018The other one may get sick too<\/a>.’\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

Davis said commentary also included condolences to the president who was taken to Walter Reed Hospital late Friday, and that Popov and Skabeeva also commented that the Democrats were \u201ccelebrating\u201d Trump\u2019s health woes, only to have reporter Denis Davydov in the U.S. point out that \u201cTrump\u2019s Twitter mentions are filled with messages of support,\u201d to which Popov shot back, \u201cThose are just the Russian bots.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

Ha ha ha. Very droll, comrade. \u2018Russian bots.\u2019 Must mock foolish Americaner intelligence. After show, we get drunk, go in alley way and urinate on pussy cats, no? After all, there is full Moon!<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s opaque and dishonest reign has made Kremlin watchers out of all of us, where we all feverishly scan minutiae in hopes of determining what few morsels of truth may exist in the White House sewage. Now that he\u2019s ill and even possibly critically ill, the versions regarding what\u2019s going on are a deep and wide river. It\u2019s safe to assume 90% of it is utter nonsense, and 9\/10ths of the rest exaggerations of reality.<\/p>\n

Three Republican Senators have tested positive over the past few days, raising the interesting prospect that for the next month or so, the Senate may actually have Democrats in control. At least two of the Senators sit on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which will be having what the GOP jokingly refers to as \u201chearings\u201d on Amy Barrett next week. Maybe. At least one reputable source opines that some or all of the Republican Senators may fake claims of having the disease in order to avoid voting on her, since it\u2019s obvious to one and all that she is a poison pill that will destroy the GOP. At least five Republican Senators who had reasonable leads just two months ago in November\u2019s races have seen their leads dwindle to ties and even losses. They have to be feeling desperate right now. Their leader\u2019s bad habit of making them all swim in a Petri dish in order to pretend the pandemic isn\u2019t a problem may actually take them off the hot seat and even possibly save their careers.<\/p>\n

Republicans have suddenly rediscovered compassion and empathy in the past day, but I have my great big \u201cfuck you\u201d potato gun ready for any that try pulling that crap on me. It\u2019s manipulative bullshit, and I\u2019m not going to play that game.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, keep an eye on the news. We live in interesting times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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