{"id":961,"date":"2020-10-06T04:12:03","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T04:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=961"},"modified":"2020-10-06T04:13:06","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T04:13:06","slug":"dont-be-stupid-dont-be-donald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=961","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Be Stupid \u2013 Don\u2019t Be Donald"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don\u2019t Be Stupid \u2013 Don\u2019t Be Donald.<\/b><\/p>\n

October 5th<\/sup> 2020<\/i><\/p>\n

I will be leaving the great Walter Reed Medical Center today at 6:30 P.M. Feeling really good! Don\u2019t be afraid of Covid. Don\u2019t let it dominate your life. We have developed, under the Trump Administration, some really great drugs & knowledge. I feel better than I did 20 years ago!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 5, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If anyone doesn\u2019t understand the difference between courage and foolhardiness, this tweet will stand as a terrific example. It leaves me hoping that his health will take a turn for the worse (and normally I would want him to live to lose the election and stand trial for his many crimes) because telling his idiot followers that COVID is nothing to fear will get hundreds of thousands killed, on top of the 170,000 or so who have died as a result of his attitude.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump stands to kill more Americans than Hitler did, and for similar reasons. Contempt for Americans, and utter hatred of a free and open society.<\/p>\n

The sad thing is that it won\u2019t be just the fools who worship him. In Biblical times it was a golden calf. Now it\u2019s an orange jackass. Oh, they\u2019ll die by the thousands, but mostly the victims will be people around them\u2014their family, their friends, their co-workers, people in stores and restaurants that they casually infect.<\/p>\n

A leader will often exhort this countrymen in times of great peril. FDR, upon his inauguration in a time of economic collapse, and again in the wake of Pearl Harbor. Abraham Lincoln when a third of the country chose treason for the sake of slavery. Churchill facing down Hitler. There are times when it is a leader\u2019s right and duty to call on his people to make sacrifices and risk their lives for the greater good.<\/p>\n

But a leader doesn\u2019t have any right to tell his nation\u2019s children to go play on the freeway, or smoke cigarettes for national profit. Don\u2019t step out in front of buses.<\/p>\n

Trump just wants people to piss away their lives because he\u2019s trying to protect Wall Street and because he believes, for some demented reason, that only a weak leader tackles a national crisis and it\u2019s the role of a strong leader to pretend it isn\u2019t happening.<\/p>\n

Trump went back to the White House today, sweaty and gasping for breath, and it\u2019s the nature of this disease that he isn\u2019t out of crisis yet, and that he has a pretty good chance of taking long-term damage above and beyond what he\u2019s already at risk for. Just for mindless showmanship. And he\u2019s putting hundreds of lives at immediate risk just by wandering the White House unmasked.<\/p>\n

How crazy is it going to get? Trump campaign aide Erin Perrine went on Fox News today to suggest that President Donald Trump is a better leader than Democratic candidate Joe Biden because he has the \u201cfirsthand experience\u201d of being infected with COVID-19.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a bit like saying you should be appointed city commissioner of public transportation because you got drunk and walked in front of a bus and got run down. Trump got stupid(er) and caught a disease he could have readily avoided. You might survive sticking your tongue in a wall socket, but boasting about it to others isn\u2019t going to make them think you\u2019re intelligent, or even sane.<\/p>\n

Trump is neither intelligent nor sane. Foolhardiness isn\u2019t a legitimate form of \u201cfirst hand experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/a> Should you be afraid of COVID-19? Well, as of this evening, we have 7,679,644 cases. 215,032 of those cases resulted in death. 4,895,078 people have recovered. Now for the really alarming news: 2,569,534 have not recovered, and have spent weeks and even months fighting this disease and still are. Many of them will have compromised health going forward for the rest of their lives. Over 14,000 of them are presently in critical condition, their lives in the balance. They will never recover.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump, in his psychotic need to pretend everything is OK and he is a great leader, is rolling the dice. He\u2019s far sicker than he\u2019s letting on, probably sicker than he\u2019s admitting to himself. He may end up as the poster boy for the non-lethal damage this disease causes. And of course, he might drop dead at any point over the next few weeks.<\/p>\n

Should we be afraid of COVID-19? No.<\/p>\n

But we should treat it with respect, and not follow a fool who says for his own self-aggrandizement that there is nothing to be afraid of, masks are for weaklings, and he is the example of that. He\u2019s lying to you right now, and he\u2019ll keep right on lying no matter how bad it gets for him because he can\u2019t stand to look weak or wrong.<\/p>\n

But he is weak. He is wrong. He is the drunk who wandered out in front of a bus, and somehow survived, and wants that to be a gleaming example so you might step blindly off the curb, refusing to be cowed by buses.<\/p>\n

That isn\u2019t courage. That is stupidity.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t be stupid. Don\u2019t be Donald. Wear a mask. Maintain social distancing. And don\u2019t walk out in front of buses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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