Krugman has a tweet up talking about Trumpy Bear and the Plague Year:
"A couple of takeaways from this shocking-but-not-surprising description of Trump's refusal to deal with the pandemic. First, character does matter: he's a terrible president in part because he's a horrible person.
Second, his self-absorption was self-destructive: politicians who took the virus seriously were rewarded even when they weren't that successful."
He's right, of course. The nightmare we're living through - those of us who WILL live through it, and damn near half a million may not, when it's all done with us - is entirely the creation of fucking Tubby and the idiot fucking Republican cult. Those places where the people and the leadership did the things that simple public health suggested would limit the losses due to a pandemic disease are doing fine.
We're an utter shitshow.
So I just wanted to remind those here that I was on this waaaaay back in April:
"And here's the really infuriating part.
It SO didn't have to be this way.
What's most appalling is that in this horrific disease Donald Trump and his GOP pals were effectively gifted the chance to be fucking heroes.
I mean that sincerely. They could have gone down in American history with the pantheon of men...who have saved the Republic. Washington. Lincoln. FDR.
All Trump had to do was what any sane, decent person would have done. Shut his piehole. Listened to people who knew better. Taken their advice to act quickly and competently. Spoken the words of comfort and care. Acted as Lincoln did in 1861 and FDR did in 1941. Mobilized the nation. Produced the tests, provided the ventilators, coordinated the response.
I know I keep saying this, but this was a fucking no-brainer. We've done this before, only it was Japanese, not viruses; we kick the federal money machine into action, start paying people to stay home instead of build bombers, businesses to stay shut instead of make tanks and helmets.
Freeze the nation in place until treatment, and then vaccine, came on-line.
That's it.
That's ALL.
He does that, and he's flying up there with the Greats. Twenty years after his enormous orange ass gets kicked into the hole his meatface is up there on Rushmore right next to Teddy.
But this goddamn fuckstick and his worthless fucking GOP pals couldn't do that to save their (and our) lives.
HE couldn't do it because he's a fucking rodent, and all his pizza-rat brain can manage is his own cravings; his craving for money, for power, to sate his ginormous ego.
THEY couldn't do it because they're fucking slaves, slaves to their bloated ideology where it's a Hobbesean war of all against all, where cash is king, C.R.E.A.M., baby, and it's all about punishing the darks and the bitches and the libs. They could no more act heroically than a dog could resist licking its ass.
That's just...sad.
Here these sorry bastards like to fap to their image of themselves as the latter-day Three Percent, the heroic fighting rebels who would be the first to jump to pledge their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to the nation in time of trial.
And yet...when the trial arrived, all they could do was snivel, whine, try and grift the pandemic, punish the libs, and then celebrate by dipping their balls in the chocolate to enjoy the creamy texture.
And so here we are, ruled by the very worst among us, without any hope for reprieve."
I'm a fairly smart person, but it's not often that I'm that far ahead of the punditorial power curve, and I wanted to shake my moneymaker briefly to note that in this case I sure as hell was.
And don't mistake me; there's a shit-ton of others outside of Orange Foolius who bite off a piece of this clusterfuck.
The entire government of the PRC, that knew they had a deadly pathogen loose in Wuhan but tried to hide and dissemble about it.
Every knucklehead who had to have their wedding or barbeque or beach party regardless of the risk.
But for us here in the US, it was the goddamn brick-brained Chief Executive who:
1) Knew this was going to be bad way the hell back in the winter of 2020 because Xi himself told him so, but
2) Lied about it and either did nothing or actively worked to ensure the spread would get out of control, and
3) Could have done the exact opposite, but didn't, even though doing the exact opposite was so blatantly the obvious route to heroic re-election that it was blindingly obvious to an elderly blogger in Portland Fucking Oregon way the hell back in the early spring.
Not that it really helps you, me, or anyone else, that I was righter than Cassandra and Krugman and Trump altogether.
We all know what Cassandra got for her troubles.
So, yeah.
Welcome to 2021
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