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I will be leaving the great Walter Reed Medical Center today at 6:30 P.M. Feeling really good! Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t 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!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 5, 2020
There are two groups who don’t need to be afraid of Covid.
GROUP #1 doesn’t need to be afraid because it’s:
The President of the United States, who has a helicopter available to fly him to a hospital with a state-of-the-art medical suite staffed by an army of doctors with access to the latest advances in medical technology and newest, most experimental treatments. Because the only one he cares about is already getting the best care on the planet.
GROUP #2 doesn’t need to be afraid because it’s:
The over a million people who have died—210,000+ in USA—unnecessarily, for the most part alone, and all of them before their time. Because they’re dead.
In a stunning further demonstration of how little he cares about those around him who aren’t…well, him: the man who has just spent three days in the hospital with definite Covid diagnosis, has been central to at least one superspreader event, and is absolutely still contagious, removes his mask and stands gasping for breath. Nothing to be afraid of here…
Barb Taub 
Thank you, thank you et aussi, merci beaucoup! I’m sure you know that my anger-meter has gone into overdrive and I’m grateful I have no high blood pressure issues…
I tried to reblog the post but due to some WP gremlins who have taken over my blogs, I have been unable to reblog anything for quite some time. xx
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I hope the anger-meter is out of the red zone. YOU are far more important than he (thinks he) is.
And thanks for the reblog thought! I’m having a ton of trouble with the new editor (I was looking at a post from last election cycle and somehow it went live again. Sad part is that it all still applied…), so I’ve scurried back to the safety of the Classic.
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How thoughtful. There was never any danger, my felines of course have their own opinion. As for Trumpanze, he belongs in Bellevue and I’m so grateful I’m not a therapist on their staff if that ever happened…
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He never fails to amaze me with his lack of common decency, and his common sense come to that… I shall also be amazed when he gets voted back in again, but then, it would appear he can do anything he wants…
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We are talking about the man who said, “I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters.” (Which, when you think about it, is actually the insult-equivalent of a super-high scrabble score: Trump manages to equally insult the American people, his own voters, laws, the Constitution, and well…everyone except the dead guy.)
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Why do people still vote food him, or do they?
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They vote for him because he’s brilliant at figuring out what groups who feel disenfranchised want and need to hear. And once they hear the words they want about abortion/guns/vaccination/medical care/trade/facemasks/etc, Trump is wearing a halo that blinds them to anything else he might say.
I blame us–the so-called liberals who had a chance to reach out for decades, but we sat around Brooklyn and Seattle and Portland polling each other and feeling smug because we’re so sure we have all the answers. Instead, we have Donald Trump. He didn’t cause the virus, but he has to take a huge part of the responsibility for over 210,000 dead. And we have to take responsibility for Donald Trump.
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Perhaps it will take more than words this time?
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Reblogged this on Anita Dawes & Jaye Marie ~ Authors.
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Thanks SO much for the reblog!
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Barb, it’s scary, this is a man who probably/ostensibly is the most powerful in the world. A man who has no moral compass, no compassion, no empathy. A man ruled by greed and for power.A man of soundbites and little other vocabulary. A man who resorts to childish insults and name-calling. A bully. And yet there is a section of the American people for whom he can do no wrong. I know I am not alone amongst the British people who doesn’t understand what it is they see in him – except that his mantra seems to be that he can make the USA the most powerful and richest in the world. A sad indictment in these troubled times of a pandemic.
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Of course it’s more complicated than that. I’m not a fan of Trump (a shocker, I know!) but he’s had a kind of genius about being able to say things that appeal to groups who’ve felt marginalized and passed over. Conservatives, gun rights advocates, religious fundamentalists–they are just the beginning.
When we moved to the South (Virginia) in the 80s, I met lots of people who told me about pulling their children out of public schools when “separate but equal” segregation was declared unconstitutional. Those people—and their children—are still out there. When they’ve looked at the national and international stage over the past decades, they have not seen themselves. So Trump comes along and says the ONE thing they care about, and the resultant halo leaves them blind to anything else he might say. And put together, there are a LOT of those people. They might not appear in polls, but they appear on election day.
Ultimately, accountability for the perfect shit storm that brought Trump to office must be shared by those who don’t consider themselves conservatives, but who haven’t tried to reach across to the others. We really have only ourselves to blame.
(I’ve always liked this cartoon although I’m not sure of the source.)
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You’re so right, Barb – and so much more knowledgeable about society and politics in America. I know he has a following – and that they are followers for a myriad of reasons. But he, and the situations he can get the world into, scares me sometimes..
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I think it scares most of the world!
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omg, so spot on.
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Thanks! (Still pretty scary though.)
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terrifying
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I was stunned that he was elected once. The damage he has caused to the US (and the world) is daunting. The thought that he might get another 4 years is terrifying!!! I may be in Canada but his damage affects us all!
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People want to assure me that it couldn’t happen again. But the fact is it could and possibly will happen. As we all know, in the US it’s completely possible to win the popular vote but lose the election. Interesting times!
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Yes! Under the TRUMP leadership 200,000+ people have died resulting in medical protocols to help save the president. A definite loose loose situation.
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Interesting that none of those pathbreaking new treatments he received were the ones he’s been touting, right?
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My fear for my country grows by leaps and bounds every time that person speaks, moves, breathes. At risk of suffering attacks and being called cruel and malicious (which, in this case, I am), if ever any person deserves to die from this Covid, it would be the man in the White House who is putting every life in this country at risk. My anger has me shaking, and there is nothing I can do. I can vote, yes, and I will. But will that be enough to overrule his supporters, like the person who posted on Facebook yesterday praying for the “greatest, most loving president” ever? Loving? All of my 78 years I appear to have misunderstood what love is. I weep. I fear. Your words are right on point.
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Actually it’s both sad and telling that the one who acts presidential and calls for unity is former president Obama, who wrote: “Obviously, we’re in the midst of a big political battle right now, and while there’s a lot at stake, let’s remember that we’re all Americans. We’re all human beings. And we want everyone to be healthy, no matter our party.”
And (as usual) I have to agree with him. I want the president and First Lady to recover. I want all of us to embrace our humanity in these very difficult times. I want to remember that everyone, including Donald Trump, deserves to be safe and healthy.
And I want him to lose the election. Lots.
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You are kinder than I. His behavior since his release just pushed me over the edge.
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Well said. And I’m terrified for the future of America right now. My only hope is that he incacitates the Republican party enough to stop the vote on ACB, giving us a small chance at a return to normalcy. Vote? Yes. Absolutely. But will it be enough? Campaign. Register others. No one will change the minds of the Trump Base, so we need to make sure our base is larger, with a louder voice, and a greater commitment to democracy.
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I have to agree with you. It’s horrifying to realize that we could again win the popular vote, perhaps again by a large margin, and still lose the electoral count. Voting is the ONLY answer (in spite of the many, many roadblocks).
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incapacitates, not incacitates.
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Haha! I was all excited–thought I was learning some fancy new word.
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I think its EVEN more horrifying, win or lose, that 40% of the country EMBRACES his ideals…
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When I was in college I was told they would FLUNK 30% of us. The professor said to look to our left and to our right – one of us would NOT be there next quarter ! I feel that way now about hypocritical, bible thumping, racists. I don’t think we can pretend they are ‘fringe’. They are at least 30%. I look to my neighbors on one side (liberal – with an old OBAMA sticker on their bumper) and I look to the other side – weekly church going people who are ASHAMED of their gay daughter and their brown grand children.
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Well I think your weekly church-going neighbors’ gay daughter and multiracial grandchildren are doing our job for us, as I’m guessing it’s unlikely they will grow up to be bible-thumping racists. It’s the ones who are living in places where they can’t spot gays and never see non-whites who worry me. They are, I’m guessing, perfectly nice people who have never really had to step outside of their comfort zone, but are hurting financially and very very worried that resources going to other groups will cost them personally.
Trump is assuring them that he’ll keep their world from changing. His tweet about how, “The “suburban housewife” will be voting for me. They want safety & are thrilled that I ended the long running program where low income housing would invade their neighborhood”—plus his MAGA and law-and-order messages, his praise for ProudBoys—all are code for “white”.
And you know what? Shame on us! As I’ve said before, we Democrats and liberals have had DECADES to reach out to those people, but Trump is the one who did it.
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In the end, we can only wait… and hope we are all still personally kind – whatever the politics – whoever holds the power and control of their country. We are responsible only for our own actions. Take care.x
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Are we also responsible for our in-action ?
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I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
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I say laugh.
I don’t think we’ll laugh forever—but we might never stop crying!
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He’s drugged and delirious – I would be ashamed to be the doctors who let him loose on the world in that condition.
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I have a doctor friend who was horrified at the thought that he was out there after all the steroids taken. “You are simply not rational in that state,” she told me. Then she thought about it. “I wonder if we could even tell the difference with him.”
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