But this is nothing new. This is Trump. This has always been Trump. He said similarly insanely stupid things before he was elected. Anyone who didn’t see it before isn’t going to see it now. (Or worse, they see it but don’t care or even like it.) I think everyone, including those in opposition to him, can’t help but constantly normalize him to some degree, because recognizing how cognitively impaired he is is too horrifying. Our brains reject it, until he makes it blazingly clear again.
Yeah, it was clear even during the campaign that mentally Trump is quite literally like a child (albeit one with personality disorders and learning disabilities). He lacks the basic knowledge that normal adults have, and from his position of zero-knowledge, he likes to weigh in on subjects. On top of which, he doesn’t bother to think through what he’s talking about (or lacks the ability to do so), and with a child’s solipsism, he assumes that because he’s only thinking about it now, no one else thought about it before, either. And, thanks to his narcissism, he’s convinced he’s a genius for having thought of it. He knows more than the doctors! (generals, scientists, etc.)
I do, because the “overall shape” is that he’s only now thinking thoughts appropriate for a small child, and in a particular dumb way, no less. And he’s doing it live on television, months after the issue became urgent. It’s not just his startling ignorance and his arrogance - his whole cognitive process is clearly totally fucked.
Yeah, that he’s doing it as an adult is horrifying enough, but this just shows that he literally hasn’t given a moment’s thought to the current crisis.
They clearly don’t. The Republican party right now cares about one thing, and one thing only - maintaining power. Ironically they project that onto Democrats, and use that as a justification for their misdeeds. (William Barr said something along the lines, with any hint of self-awareness, that, “We have to do whatever necessarily to maintain power! Otherwise the Democrats will get into office and they’re evil because all they care about is gaining power!”)
That was the moment of her (no doubt reoccurring) realization, “Oh yeah, I work for a child.”
It would be a huge human tragedy. Some Trumpers would end up poisoning and even killing their children. But at the same time, on a larger level, it is also a self-solving problem.
Unfortunately it just burns everyone else.
To be “fair,” they originally said Trump’s statements were maybe dangerous, not the treatment. But that’s a bit of mealy-mouthed ambiguity that’s frankly… dangerous.
You know, we often complain that keeping up with this administration is exhausting, but it seems like his spin machine has the exact same problem. Can you imagine being a designated apologist and having this roll across your desk? Every day you are the bowl of petunias finding yourself high above an alien world.
I wish I were making it up. He clearly has no clue what “contact tracing” means or how it’s applied.
Holy shit that’s terrifying!
Guiliani apparently does not know that Covd-19 is contageous and cancer is not, and Ingraham is cynical enough to pretend she’s too stupid to understand.
Disenfectant
IT’S GOT WHAT PLANTS CRAVE!!
It’s hard to fathom that the nation once saw Giuliani as a hero for his response to 9/11 (which really boiled down to “people wanting a reassuring and marginally competent leader in times of crisis”).
This disease has already claimed four times as many New Yorkers’ lives as 9/11 and he’s continuing to treat efforts to contain the disease with open mockery. The Nosferatu memes don’t even scratch the surface of that man’s ghoulishness.
btw since trump has to “win” every single moment and always be right no matter what the price, who he has to fire or promote, expect today’s briefing to be PRICELESS
I am sure he will have someone drum up some kind of research saying there is merit to his brain-fart and he will put it on display or pass it around
“only 15 cases, soon 5” now 50000 and only one third done for this wave
Trump lied. People died.
The snake-oil peddler in chief has literally become the snake-oil peddler in chief. LOL wtf is going ooonnnnnnnnn?!?!
The first time I read that I thought it was an incomplete sentence. “…the cowards who kept quiet and let this goon WHAT?”
Oh, I see now. I though the same thing.
Though it’s always wise to just stay out of the toilet bowl, this is a great example of when you can put yourself into Turmp’s exact “thought” “process” and truly know his stupid. Because no one’s smart enough to play that dumb: the only way to perform this kind of nuanced, multi-layered cretinism is to really be that much of a drooling tomb-queef.
It’s not just a matter of thinking folk should drink bleach. That on its own is mere bush-league stupid. No, something like this demands a lifetime of ignorance training. Up at dawn six days a week from early childhood, taking in all the wonders of civilisation – from the pyramids to the atom bomb – from Mozart #40 to recombinant DNA – and forcing yourself to know that if you had thought about any of those achievements for even a second, you’d have not only equalled but far exceeded them on the first try.
If Turmp had ever let in a single atom of awareness, he wouldn’t be able to form these astonishing sentences today. In a disgusting sort of way, his existence is a remarkable achievement. It’s a black miracle, really. He is the place where Hell fears its soul will go when it dies.
tl;dr I don’t think Turmp should be a president and this is why
Amazingly The Onion prefigured this situation about a month ago
I don’t know. This is like chemotherapy but with whole people instead of single cells. You can tell them to come out of quarantine for FREEDOM, and eat bleach, and set fire to radio masts because Bill gates is trying to mind control them through G5. Maybe a few if them will do themselves in through stupidity, but not nearly enough. And they will probably take some of us with them when they go.
Face it. This will not cure the disease. Your country is on palliative care now.
They’re digging plague pits in New York City.
We’ve already gone way beyond bit too far.
Also a great insight into how he prepares for these press conferences (which is to say, he doesn’t).
The guy who spoke just before Trump was summarizing a report about how UV light and disinfectants can kill the virus on surfaces. Then Trump, who was only half-listening, just approaches the podium and free-associates on that idea in real time.
That begged me to fire up PS. 
This is what you all get for teaching those people to read. I blame teachers for this mess. </ kidding>
