Trump, during a February 2020 meeting in the Situation Room as administration officials were discussing whether to bring infected Americans home for care, reportedly asked the attendees “Don’t we have an island that we own?” and “What about Guantánamo?”
“We import goods,” Trump reportedly said to his staff, adding, “We are not going to import a virus.”
“Testing is killing me!” Trump reportedly told then-Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar during a phone call on March 18. Trump was yelling so loud that aides were said to have overheard every word of the conversation.
“I’m going to lose the election because of testing! What idiot had the federal government do testing?” Trump exclaimed.
“Uh, do you mean Jared?” Azar responded, according to the Post, referring to the president’s senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner, who five days earlier said he would spearhead the country’s testing strategy by enlisting the help of the private sector.
Trump said the U.S. government should not have taken a role in testing and argued with Azar about why the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) wanted to track cases.
Why did the CDC want to track cases? To make Trumpy look bad of course. My gawd. The horrendousness of the Trumpians never fail to disgust.
Also, having an innocent person die is violating their inalienable rights…so I guess Foreseer117 is in favour of giving up his own too? Like, this is not just cruel, it’s incoherent.
I’m still a bit gobsmacked that a company named after a group of bicycles in formation sells overpriced stationary bikes that are Internet connected. Like, you can’t even f’n draft.
By this logic, and seeing as the justice system acts in the name of the people, does this not mean we have all forfeited our “inalienable” (the very definition of which means they cannot be forfeited) human rights? “But it’s just the minorities and the poors who have that happen, no one who is a Real American!”
That’s a precise extrapolation of the logic of fascism.
“You and the rest, you forgot the first rule of the fanatic: when you become obsessed with the enemy, you become the enemy!” ~ Cmdr. Jeffrey Sinclair [ Babylon 5 , S1E5: Infection ]
