I just published this in the local online newspaper (The Daily Bulldog.) I am sure that the Trump supporters that
troll Letters to the Editor, will be outraged and slobber their vehemence with personal
attacks and even veiled threats. They
try to scare away people who would publish liberal arguments, with their
outrage. Fuck-um.
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My wife
wishes I wouldn’t do this; but I kinda enjoy poking the pig.
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THE CORONAVIRUS WILL JUST GO AWAY
Alternative
facts, or the alternative to facts, is the world that the MAGA hat people live
in.
We are in a
serious national emergency that could crash the economy and totally change
America as we know it. We can have no
confidence in the government to mitigate this emergency because it is led by a
petulant child who is a self-serving narcissist and a habitual liar.
Practically
everything that comes out of Trump’s mouth, you can look to the exact opposite and
find the truth.
My
grandmother would say, ‘Some people lie when the truth sounds better.’ That totally fits Trump.
The New York
Times has listed over 15,000 statements Trump has uttered or tweeted during his
three years as President that are blatantly false:
“The largest
inauguration crowd ever.
Three to
five million illegals voted causing me to lose the popular vote.
Caravans are
a National Emergency.
Mexico will
pay for the wall.
Obama tapped
my phone.
I will
protect pre-existing conditions. (Trump administration is presently suing to
make The Affordable Care Act unconstitutional; which will end the protection
for pre-existing conditions.)
I will
protect your Social Security and Medicare.
(Trump’s 2021 budget has massive cuts to both programs.)
The coronavirus
will go down to almost nothing…
Of course, MAGA
people who believe that the Portland Press Herald, Chicago Tribune, New York
Times, Boston Glove, Washington Post, Atlanta Journal, Miami Herald, New
Orleans Picayune, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Times and NBC, CBS, CNN,
MSNBC, ABC, PBS and BBC are all fake news; but FOX speaks the truth - will always chose to remain in the
Alternative Facts Bubble. At the next Trump rally, we will probably hear
the MAGA crowd saying that the virus came from the Hillary Clinton computer
server that is hiding somewhere in Ukraine… Lock her up!
South Korea
is testing 10,000 people a day for coronavirus.
The U.S. had tested only 1,700 as of last week . Yet, Trump reminds us that he is doing a
great job, but stated, “I don’t take responsibility at all,” for the botched
rollout of the coronavirus testing, insinuating that the slow test-kit rollout
was the fault of the Obama administration.
The fact is
that Donald Trump was never qualified, or intelligent enough to fill the Office
of the President. Our best bet to
mediate the future damage from the coronavirus pandemic, is to dump Trump as
quickly as possible.
I expect
that the same people that always troll this forum will attack me personally
with their comments. It doesn’t bother
me. I never read them.
This was a copy of a letter-to-the-editor of a local on line newspaper.
the Ol’Buzzard
Here, here. Well said.
ReplyDeleteWell stated, Buzz. A very concise summary of the current state of affairs.
ReplyDeleteIn regards to Covid-19:
The major reason for all the shutdowns is to try to SLOW the spread of the infection. It is going to be most everywhere. But..... if we slow it enough, we will maintain adequate hospital facility space to treat the unfortunate percentage of folks who are at strong risk for NEEDING hospitalized care to survive. Fortunately, most people will not need hospitalization.... but for those that do, we want the spread to be slow enough that everyone who needs the hospital’s facilities will be able to be there. IF we can do this, the mortality rate from this infectious agent will be a small percentage of people. If it happens all at once, that is the most dangerous situation where there will not be enough hospital spaces for all the people who need them to get that level of treatment.
So, hopefully people will heed the closures we’ll and we CAN slow the rate of spread.
I would really like/wish our government would try to more calmly and without political nonsense try to keep reiterating the above from what scientists and clinicians know is why we should do this at this time. All the hysteria talk and tRump hyperbole does not help. But, to expect something appropriate from tRump is only a pipe dream.
PipeTobacco
Reasonable,intelligent people agree with you. It's no great feat to see what an incompetent, unstable person he is. If he were not the leader of the free world, it would make a great movie plot (Dr. Strangelove??) I will never understand why weak-minded, TP-buying people are being given so much attention.
ReplyDeleteWell spoken, Sir. According to polls Dems will likely social distance. Repubs will not.
ReplyDeleteAn actual leader would be helpful about now, but that won't happen for a while. If only tRump would just shut up there would be less damage and less misinformation. If we didn't have such an "I've got mine, screw you" mentality in this culture we would be a lot better off. We are in this together whether we like it or not.
ReplyDeleteI'm not a troll. I agree with you 100 percent. And since he took credit for the stock market's rise, he can now take credit for its crash.
ReplyDeleteWhen I talked about trolls, I was referring to the red hat people that haunt The Daily Bulldog. Not this blog. I appreciate any comments I receive on the Ol'Buzzard.
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