Speaking of Trump’s efforts to make sure that everyone Catches This Thing as fast as possible, yesterday –
Football! All of football! High school included! Down to the smallest Montana town, it all has come back, NOW.
That’ll get those daily numbers up!
As revelers at Trump rally on Friday booed suggestions to wear masks, the Washington Post has published a story about the health toll Trump’s campaign events are taking on Secret Service members. From the story:
In the past two months, dozens of Secret Service agents who worked to ensure the security of the president and Vice President Pence at public events have been sickened or sidelined because they were in direct contact with infected people, according to multiple people familiar with the episodes, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the incidents.
You know, eventually they’ll run out of agents. There’s not an infinite supply of them.
In one instance, five secret service agents had to be swapped out after one agent they were working closely with tested positive for coronavirus. The ongoing infections amongst people closest to Trump represent the latest fallout from the current president’s decision to hold campaign rallies amidst an intensifying global pandemic.
Despite that, Trump has continued to hold large, in-person rallies. His acceptance speech for the RNC on Thursday night drew 1,500, mostly un-masked supporters on the South Lawn on the White House.
Coz evbody gon catch this thing.
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8 responses to “And all other football”
Our governor has announced that he is lifting all restriction as of the 14th. We will be free to get sick and die. At last!
Wouldn’t it be nice to have had an adult (preferably a non-narcissistic adult) in charge when the pandemic hit? Or at least a Congress that could pull together to override presidential vetoes and sideline the president?
And after Trump gives the populace football, he will give them circuses.
And when they get sick, he will give them bread.
‘I want the football NOW.’ Jesus christ. Why am I continually disgusted all over again every time I see something about/by him.
Because he never fails to be disgusting.
The background of all this is that Trump is laying some serious groundwork here for dispute of the result should he lose.
Imagine! His opponents are a bunch of liars. Worse, they are ANTI-FOOTBALL ..! They are ANTI-FOOTBALL LIARS..! And they have SHUT AMERICA DOWN because of this phoney virus you can probably cure with a swig of Coke. Look what America’s honest-to-God football-loving President is up against..! His opponents will not play fair and square.
That might just possibly be a dog-whistle to get his supporters out in force, all tooled up and exercising their rights under the Second Amendment to use whatever measures they deem necessary to ensure a Trump victory in the election.
Omar, that might be the case, but that seems to take a lot of thinking things through I’m not sure Trump is capable of. I think it’s just that the combination of Trump’s bullying narcissism and the existence of some truly deplorable people in this country have hit a moment when they coalesced. And it happened to be a particularly awful moment, a pandemic moment.
I think it’s just that he thinks like his base. So what he shouts is what they’re thinking, and yeah, they’d be more than happy to set the country on fire to get what they want. They are ready for war.
iknklast:
Interesting times these, that we all have to live in.
One of the things about sports seasons: the baseball season has used tons of coronovirus tests; those colleges (or pro, if there are any) that maintain their season will be using tons of tests, because the teams test every week, and there are so many players. What happens if you add in basketball? Volleyball? Soccer? Hockey? Wrestling? And more?
Obviously, sports are more important than doctors, nurses, teachers, waiters, retail clerks, bus drivers, sanitary workers, and the list goes on…in fact, the list of those less important than sports encompasses everyone in the country that is not obscenely rich (because they can buy importance) or who is named Trump (excluding sisters and nieces, of course).
We really have our priorities screwed up.