Day 1170 A Tale of Two Idiots

Day 1170 A Tale of Two Idiots

Thursday April 2, 2020 – Part I

213 Days until the election on November 3rd

293 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

OMG! It’s Wednesday evening and I’m watching the president’s new remote rally called the Daily Corona Virus Update.

Mike Pence was asked why the administration didn’t open up the Obamacare exchanges so folks could get covered. This was after Donnie did what I’m now calling The Trump Turn. (“I don’t know, maybe someone else in my administration did it? Lemme see who’s here? [turns to one side to seee who is there.] Oh Mike do you want to answer that?”)

So Mike took the podium and he did his standard routine: thanking the president for his great leadership, and telling everyone why we are so far out in front of this thing. This went on for five minutes. He said nothing and didn’t answer the question.

So he stumbled on two questions: “What happened to the testing?”

And

“Why not open up the exchanges so people can get covered?”

“The testing? Oh we delivered all the test kits. We just can’t get them analyzed quick enough.” (What’s that clanging sound I hear? Oh it’s the BS detector going off.)

“People getting covered? You mean like the ones losing their jobs and therefore their health insurance? Hey, no problem, The American People have nothing to worry about.” ( CLANG CLANG CLANG ) (Now with a Grecian chorus of slightly stained virgins crying, “Bull Shit, Bull Shit, Bull Shit.”  

– Insert five minutes of wandering around talk and saying words like “Medicare” and “Medicaid.” –

(I wonder how the reporters sit there with a straight face, having to accept this silliness?)

“What? You ask about the people who don’t qualify for those programs. You mean like the people who were working and lost their jobs and therefore their health insurance? You mean the question you asked in the first place? Let me assure the American People that everyone will be covered. I will personally wander around verbally some more and by the way the president has been absolutely clear in his BS. No one can throw it more than he? But I’m right in there too!”

We went to the experts who said we have to shut down everywhere.

Afterwards, there was a Defense Department scientist who said we have the capacity in the Defense Department with ten labs that could process the tests. They haven’t been asked!

The Defense Department labs that could do hundreds of thousands of tests a day are not doing squat, because no one has told them what to do. That’s our federal leadership.

And then there’s Ron DeSantis, the Governor of Florida. He won the election by stealing the election via shutting down polling places in Democratic strongholds and eliminating people on voter rolls. Oh well. He said the other day he was waiting for an order from the Federal government. The Surgeon General stood up holding a piece of paper and read their guidelines and said, “Consider this an order.” Did he shut it down? Nah. Finally, a few hours ago he shut down the state. Yipee. What’s that you say? Oh, it’s okay to have mega-church meetings. WTF? The guy is an idiot. 

The lack of leadership is staggering.

Hey, quiz time. What was the first city to lockdown?

San Francisco. Yup. Hum, who is their rep in Congress? Oh. Nancy Pelosi. 

Interesting.

There was a person complaining on Facebook about all the people complaining about Trump. This person said he was sick and tired of it and why didn’t they just let Trump do his job?

But that’s the point isn’t it? If he was doing his job, or had done his job, people wouldn’t be complaining. The fact is he hasn’t been doing the job, and therein lies the problem. 

Not only that but Trump has surrounded himself with people who fail to do their jobs or any job at all. The only job that seems to be going well is the raking in of cash for his re-election and the micro-targeting of people to vote for him (or not for the other person.)

213 Days until the election on November 3rd

293 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

PS The Observatory at Yaxha (“Yash – Ha”). It is identified by the sign in front of it. Fortunately, I speak some Spanish and can translate what it says.