Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/03/10/trumps-instructions-for-your.html
Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH Donald J. Trump gives you instructions for how you can beat the coronavirus, the Trump way.
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Hahahasobsob
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âWhat you attack and deny canât hurt youâ omg itâs so funny Iâm having an existential crisis.
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âClaim the the crisis is actually a good thingâ
âShift the blame to opposing political party or a political opponentâ
âCreate diversionâ
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I feel sick.
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say that the virus is biased against you
Well⌠considering Trumpâs age and not-above-average physique, it actually is biased against him.
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And his base.
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Itâs funny disgusting because itâs true heâs going to kill people with his ineptitude.
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This is amazing. This is why the truth matters, and obviously canât just be forgotten. Holy sh**. Thank you for this Ruben.
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Itâs very simple:
Trump and his supporters want the economy to do well, because that helps him in the election.
COVID-19 threatens the economy, so they tell us not to worry, itâs contained, itâs just the common cold, etc.
The virus doesnât care what we say, it doesnât care about the economy, it doesnât care what political party is in power. If it can care about anything it cares about making more virus.
Telling people not to worry, itâs contained, etc. guarantees the virus will spread and do more damage than itâs already doing.
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I think it might be scarier than that. He might want the virus to get serious, so he can declare a state of emergency and delay or cancel elections to stay in power. He doesnât care if heâs in charge of a dying country, just that the cash keeps rolling in. I wonder what heâll charge to get treated in a Trump-branded âfreedom care centerâ?
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Just reposting âcause it needs to be said as often as possible for the next 9 months.
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Too bad it never occurred to them to aggressively use scientific best practices to contain and control the disease if they wanted to keep the economy strong. :-/
Iâm still flabergasted that we now have Stalinist levels of disdain for real science at the top levels of government.
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âI think 3.4% is really a false number,â Trump told Sean Hannity on his Fox News show. âThis is just my hunch, but based on a lot of conversations with a lot of people that do this, because a lot of people will have this and itâs very mild."
(Well, I feel better already.)
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Trumpy might want to check in with a constitutional scholar before he goes down this route. He may not realise this but both is and Penceâs terms have an expiration date: 12 noon January 20, 2021. And, according to the constitution, if there is no president then the Speaker of the House is sworn in as the president. Also, the president has no say in the elections. Those are completely handled by the individual states. Be quite a sh!tstorm to see all the red state governors say âelections are canceledâ and the blue state governors say âscrew you, weâre having an election.â
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The constitution is meaningless and doesnât matter even remotely anymore because trump has packed the judiciary with judges who owe him, and the senate has loudly broadcasted that they will never hold him accountable.
Thereâs no point in bringing up the law. For all intents and purposes trump is above the law because nobody who possibly can hold him to it will.
Considering the constitutional implications is just shadowboxing. Come inauguration day, trump will likely refuse to step down. Nobody will force him out. His secret service will close ranks and shoot anyone who would try to since heâs forced anyone with ethics or morals out of the SS.
There will be no way to remove trump from office that doesnât involve violence or his death prior to the deadline.
Law only has power if there are people willing to abide by and enforce it. We have neither.
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Accuse the opposition of politicizing the outbreak. Just like they politicize things like emoluments, Foreglen intervention in the electoral system, and sex scandals.
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While I think much of what you say is true, there is a reason why many of the people in the government swear an oath to uphold the Constitution. In particular, the military and FBI hold that oath to be very important. You can expect leadership in both of those organizations to hold to the Constitution, and most of the rank-and-file to follow.
On top of that, Trump has made enemies of the leadership of the institutions that enforce the law and have the guns, tanks, fighter planes, etc., with the exception of ICE/CBP, as @smulder has pointed out multiple times. That includes the Secret Service, who are more likely to physically pick him up and toss him on his ass on Pennsylvania Avenue on Jan 20, 2021 than to protect him.
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It just seems like worrying about the wrong problem
Dems are always like, What if the Republicans refuse to admit that they lost the election?
and then the Democrats lose the election
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