Have You Had Enough?

Day 1154 Have You Had Enough?

Tuesday March 17, 2020 

229 Days until the election on November 3rd
309 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

I thought this would make a good campaign slogan for the Democratic Party for the upcoming election, but now I think it should be a rallying cry for all America. I thought it should be the James Carville slogan, but now I’m seeing it more as a War Bonds slogan. Something we can all get behind.

Have you had enough of the lies? The incompetence? The stealing? The hostility? The graft? The narcissism?

I keep thinking of the recent press conference where Trump made some outrageous claim about how it was Obama’s fault that he, Trump, wasn’t prepared and a reporter asked him how so given that he, Trump, had disbanded the Pandemic Response Team that Obama had created and Trump said that was a nasty question? 

Nasty question?

I was thinking the response to Trump should have been in the Mr. T mold, “Answer the question fool!”

Nasty? You haven’t seen nasty, yet. You’re the one spouting lies and being nasty.

Think about this, where would we be if Hillary had been president? I remember in the second debate she said, “I’ve been called a lot of things, Unprepared is not one of them.” If Hillary had been President we’d be half to having a vaccine because she’d have had a team working on it for months. As opposed to this yahoo who just yesterday announced that he thought this a health crisis (as opposed to a thing to tweet away? A political conspiracy? God knows.)

Have you had enough?

How’s your 401K? For those of you who voted for Trump because you thought he’d help your 401K, how do you feel about that now?

Have you had enough? For those of you who thought universal health care was too expensive or too socialist how do you like the idea that 30% of the people you meet can’t get taken care of by our current system? (Pro-Tip: The Corona Virus doesn’t know if you have a good health care provider or not. Just sayin’.)

It turns out that Trump not only turned down using test kits from WHO and that he and his team dithered for months on doing anything. As far as getting prepared it turns out it has been years in the making. Yeah, not only did he get rid of the Pandemic Response Team but his incoming staff met with the outgoing Obama staff who listed a pandemic as one of three things the country needed to be prepared for, The other two being hurricane (or natural disaster) and cyber-attack. They, the outgoing Obama team, reviewed the things that would be needed. Thirty people were there from the Trump team. Of course, two thirds of them are now gone.

Well, let’s check in and see how Mr. Trump and his current team are handling things. He just told all the governors that they are on their own when it comes to getting the necessary equipment to fight this pandemic. Hey great idea, let the states have a bidding war over ventilators – so capitalistic, so Republican. Let the best state win. Let’s see, that means California, New York, and Connecticut get the equipment and Wyoming, North Dakota, and Montana are screwed. Too bad, so sad. Hey, if you don’t got the bucks … Why, lookey here, the states that lose are the ones without the money. Why they all voted for Trump. I bet that will play out well in the next election.

Governor Cuomo made the plea and the argument that we needed a national response. We need the Army Corps of Engineers to build extra hospital capacity. He argued that the corps does that kind of thing. They build stuff. Naturally, the president attacked him. Nasty nasty nasty, imagine asking Trump to do something?

Have you had enough?

I say no. He hasn’t destroyed everything. Let’s wait and see. Let’s give him a chance. 

Meanwhile, the great turtle, Mitch McConnell sent the Senate home. What crisis? He had a fund raiser to go to.

Steve Bannon was at a fund raiser too. Apparently, he’s been going around spouting conspiracy theories about how everyone is out to get the president. At the fund raiser was a woman supposedly passing around Covid 19 cocktails with the idea that we should all get infected and be done with it.

Have you had enough?

229 Days until the election 

309 Days until the Inauguration 

PS Let’s All Fight