The plan
The plan is to have no plan
Virus deaths are going up everywhere in the country except in New York, but Trump keeps insisting on opening up the economy, while still refusing to put in place (except for himself, of course) the robust testing that would mitigate the deaths.
This isn't because he's too incompetent to have figured out a plan. He has a plan and he's been implementing it ... let people die so that the economy will come back, while sowing confusion about who's responsible. All the vulnerable Americans - the old, the poor, the uninsured, minorities, those in nursing homes and prisons and in front line jobs - they are the sacrifice his re-election demands.
Trump could not get away with this on his own. Those who are enabling him, from Republican lawmakers to his big donors to his voting base, share the responsibility for the unnecessary but inevitable deaths that will follow his handling of the pandemic.
Virus deaths are going up everywhere in the country except in New York, but Trump keeps insisting on opening up the economy, while still refusing to put in place (except for himself, of course) the robust testing that would mitigate the deaths.
This isn't because he's too incompetent to have figured out a plan. He has a plan and he's been implementing it ... let people die so that the economy will come back, while sowing confusion about who's responsible. All the vulnerable Americans - the old, the poor, the uninsured, minorities, those in nursing homes and prisons and in front line jobs - they are the sacrifice his re-election demands.
Trump could not get away with this on his own. Those who are enabling him, from Republican lawmakers to his big donors to his voting base, share the responsibility for the unnecessary but inevitable deaths that will follow his handling of the pandemic.
posted by crystal | 1:11 PM
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I just read that Stephen Miller's wife has the virus. I don't wish that on anyone, including her. But maybe it'll get Trump's attention that it's not just the peons who get it. That's only one degree of separation from himself.
I saw in the news that he was furious with his staff for not doing a better job of protecting him. Now he and his staff are going to be tested every day, while meanwhile doctors and EMTs and meat packing employees sometimes can't get tested even once. Me me me is his mantra.
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