Tremendous control not
Trump insists on continuing to tell us he’s got this whole thing under control. He has nothing under control.
America’s top infectious diseases expert is warning that hundreds of thousands of Americans could die unless every citizen joins an effort to blunt the coronavirus pandemic — only to be contradicted by President Donald Trump, who insists the virus is under “tremendous” control.
Fauci knows what he’s talking about, and Trump knows how to flap his lips.
Amid calls for a stronger federal response, Trump urged the nation’s governors late Monday morning to try to secure additional medical equipment on their own without waiting for the federal government to intervene, though he did say they would try to help.
“We will be backing you, but try getting it yourselves,” Trump said on the call…
So they’ve got it totally under control, but try to get the necessary medical equipment yourselves. Not because they haven’t got it totally under control, you understand, but because…because…as a lesson in self-reliance, yes, that’s it. Stand on your own two feet like a good Amurrikan.
Trump flagrantly contradicted Fauci’s warnings at a White House briefing Sunday at which he celebrated the Federal Reserve’s decision to cut interest rates to 0% to help the shocked economy.
“It’s a very contagious virus, it’s incredible, but it’s something we have tremendous control of,” the President said.
Well. You know. If you asked him what he actually meant by “tremendous control,” he would babble helplessly. He doesn’t mean anything he says, he just cranks out words. Dangerous words.
In a possible indication of how Trump’s repeated misinformation is having an impact, a new poll by NBC and the Wall Street Journal Sunday showed that while seven in 10 Democrats are worried that they or someone in their family may catch the coronavirus, only 40% of Republicans, who are more likely to believe what they hear from the President and in conservative media, feel the same.
If they keep that up the Democrats will swiftly outnumber them, in the most literal sense. Maybe think again.
They’re already trolling about giving Trump an extra term to “make up” for the impeachment. I’ve no doubt that, should the death toll skew red, they’ll start clamouring for the states throwing their EC votes based on the previous election (or polls or w/e), regardless of what the vote tallies come to in November.
From a CNN “Fact Check” https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/15/politics/fact-check-trump-control-coronavirus/index.html
Jesus fuck. I wish someone who knows better would interrupt Trump while he’s spewing his bullshit. I wish he would be held to account by someone who wouldn’t back down and that he would be made to eat his words. I want Trump to have a public meltdown in response to an actual expert taking him to task for spreading lies that will kill people. I would want the footage of any such occurance run hourly from now until the election. Defering to Trump out of politeness and decorum is killing people. Causing a scene would get attention, and that would help get correct information out there.
My wants are small…
So what happens come November? Poll closings and Democratic avoidance of polls will definitely be a thing and due to clustering Democrats are more likely to be close to centers of contagion.
That said, the reds are going to be sicker and deader on average despite continuing to the polls anyways. Does he win because only his cultists show up? Or does the advance of this public crisis in six plus months change that calculus?
Minor point:
DJT *doesn’t* know how to “flap his lips” like a normal person. His flapping is a grotesque contortion of normal lip-flapping.
Yehbut normal people don’t flap their lips when talking. There’s a reason there’s no such thing as a good photo of him: his face is literally always contorted in one way or another.
How can control be tremendous?
How can a conversation be perfect?
His brain is mealy.
He doesn’t even have his own babble under control.
Slight aside: it irks me that so many shades of meaning are lost when perfect, tremendous, fantastic, stupendous, awesome, amazing, excellent, and great are all used to mean “very good”. Trump is far from the only person who talks this way, but he is quite the exemplar.
Seconded. Compare Trump’s babbling with Obama’s eloquence, and we can see just what we have lost.