OpEd : Trump the vampire enabler lives and lets die
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Trump the vampire enabler lives and lets die
his is not a good time for vampires. Or bats. That’s disorienting for me because, as a lifelong aficionado of vampires, I have a big collection of bat T-shirts, Victorian bat pins and vampire books and movies.
Once, the imagery was hot: Batman with his bat signal; Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise slinking around New Orleans in Interview With the Vampire; Sookie Stackhouse from True Blood naked and drenched in blood on the cover of Rolling Stone; the Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson sensation in Twilight (Their broken romance was a favourite subject of Donald Trump’s early tweets.)
But now the bat is a global villain, sparking memes like, “Whoever said one person can’t change the world never ate an undercooked bat” and rants like Bill Maher’s denunciation of Chinese wet markets because eating bats is batty.
Vampires were conjured centuries ago in part as a response to plagues passed from animals to humans, when the afflicted turned to the supernatural to explain the many terrors. According to Trump biographer Michael D’Antonio, the president’s own grandfather, Friedrich Trump , a German immigrant, might have died of the Spanish flu, contracted as he walked around Queens looking for real estate properties in 1918.
Many struck by coronavirus describe the awful sensation of the virus receding during the day only to viciously strike once the sun sets. As Chris Cuomo put it: “The beast comes at night”.
The metaphor is also cropping up as members of the Trump dynasty are exposed as leeches. A podcast by the Daily Beast this past week was titled Jared Kushner , Our First Android Vampire President. David Axelrod wrote a New York Times op-ed with David Plouffe advising Joe Biden , whom they dubbed “the Man in the Basement”, to juice up his campaign.
“Trump is like a vampire!” Axelrod told me, adding a salty expletive. “You’ve got to drive a stake right through his heart. He’s going to keep coming. There’s nothing he won’t do. Even in this environment, you can’t count on him losing.”
Now the monstrous virus has invaded the Oval Office. Both the president’s valet and a Mike Pence staffer, Katie Miller – wife of Trump advisor Stephen Miller , who looks like he hasn’t seen daylight in decades – have succumbed. Yet just a few days ago Axios reported that the president and some top aides were questioning the high death toll.
Trump has always been fixated on numbers and perfectly willing to fake them – his billions, his inaugural crowd, even the number of storeys in Trump Tower – and he knows the number of dead, now surpassing 77,500, could be the death knell of his campaign.
So he is despicably turning the dead into the undead, trying to figure out how to claim they weren’t lost. His talent as an escape artist has run out because he’s up against an even more amoral, vicious enemy. Microbes don’t give a damn about Trump’s fake narrative and suppression of the facts.
Suicidal idea
When the new Trump press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, was asked on Friday what the plan was for reopening, she replied that we must trust the president to open safely because he is relying on the data. Risible.
Trump is too much of a fake tough guy to wear a mask, and Pence is too much of a sycophant to the fake tough guy to wear a mask. It was apt that, as the maskless Trump toured a Honeywell factory making masks in Arizona , Guns N’ Roses’ cover of Live and Let Die was playing.
Trump’s unmoored assertions add up to a horror story, from his failure on testing to his advice to inject bleach to encouraging rowdy protesters and impatient states to “LIBERATE” from the government’s own guidelines to perpetrating the suicidal idea that we have to choose between public health and the economy when they are the same thing.
When Mike Pompeo tried to push the 2020 re-election line demonising China , saying there is “enormous evidence” that the virus escaped from a lab in Wuhan , even intelligence and senior officials pushed back.
The man who is trusted to lead America beyond the plague, Anthony Fauci , dismissed it, reiterating with near certainty that the virus originated with a bat and jumped species.
Trump has sidelined the nonpareil Fauci and, no doubt consumed with jealousy and irritated by his honesty, would like to get rid of him. He barred the National Institutes of Health scientist from testifying before the House this month because the committee has “every Trump hater” who “want our situation to be unsuccessful, which means death”.
Wallowing in petty insults, vindictiveness and public relations piffle even in such a tragic season, the president tried to shut down the pandemic task force as the pandemic is still ravaging the country until alarmed associates intervened. The White House scuppered the safety guidelines the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wanted to put out, for fear they would hamper the reopening.
Trump has been leaning into his son-in-law, the pallid non-entity. Kushner is like Renfield, the “zoophagous maniac” in Bram Stoker’s Dracula who eats flies and death’s head moths and does the vampire king’s bidding.
For two of the most urgent missions in American history – hunting for supplies and a vaccine – the president, who is always accusing Joe Biden of nepotism, relied on nepotism and favouritism.
As the New York Times reported the other day, Kushner messed up the desperate search for masks, gloves and ventilators this spring, heading a group of volunteers that prioritised tips from those with Trump connections, putting them on a VIP list, like a lead on N95 masks from a former Apprentice contestant who runs Women for Trump.
Early death
D’Antonio said that Trump was always preoccupied with death. When he was young, he was convinced he would die before 40. The early death of his alcoholic older brother, Fred Trump , was his formative experience. He regards every loss or humiliation as a small death.
Trump’s campaign manager, Brad Parscale , compared their 2020 bid to the Death Star. (Parscale also modelled a “Trump-Pence, Keep America Great!” mask on Twitter. A pandemic is, most important, a branding opportunity.)
One of Trump’s favourite songs is the morbid Peggy Lee ballad Is That All There Is? Yet now that it is his duty to lead us out of the valley of death, Trump appears removed, shirking responsibility and deflecting blame. He’s the world’s worst empath.
As the president tries to prematurely yank the country back to work, he seems less focused on the real suffering than reviving his precious stock market. Maybe Trump doesn’t seem real to Trump, either.
So I must ask, Mr president, is that all there is, to live and let die? – New York Times
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So he is despicably turning the dead into the undead, trying to figure out how to claim they weren’t lost. His talent as an escape artist has run out because he’s up against an even more amoral, vicious enemy. Microbes don’t give a damn about Trump’s fake narrative and suppression of the facts."
i stated something similar a few months back.
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PUTIN RUSSIAN ON METH as we hear it calling , a Death Kiss
it is KISS singing BETH
Death, i hear you calling,
but reality just set in
Trump and the boys' have been playin
the 'Right' for just so long-----------------------------------Judas
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goes the weasal
What kind of an idiot campaign manager compares their campaign to the Death Star ?
Somebody who doesn't know Star Wars
Come to think of it Trump does remind me of a Bond villain. He possesses all of the attributes.
Narcissistic Personality Disorder best describes Trump and every Bond villain.
That reads like a turd being fed into a fan - hoping some of it sticks to some target.
Meh..I just found it to be stupid.....and useless TDS propaganda.
It's a lot better than the defenses of Trump put up on this forum.
Nah...it was stupid and TDS propaganda.
It's a newspaper column. If you sat Trump down in front of a keyboard and kept him there for 100 years he would not come up with something half as comprehensible as this Maureen Dowd column.
So what?
sew buttons on your velcro zipper so you can wipp out your little feeble man
arguments
and show a Maureen a thing and two, if you have a pear, cause Maureen is Commando, under where she'll smush your junk
when filled is a Trump trunk closed mind Trump argumeant
fore!!! No Won!!!!
Poor little Trumpers and their Trump Delusional Syndrome. A vaccine is in the works though. We need to protect the rest of humanity...
Good God, I'm not even going to try.
Here's something that might help you...
Awwwww..look. A TDS afflicted individual that is trying to take what is 100 percent liberal diagnosed and make it something he made up himself.
Big fail.
...pushed hard by the left's most despised villain.
Awwwww... look. An ODS afflicted individual that is 100 percent reactionary diagnosed and is incapable of making an original argument.
Enormous fail.
You think your post was an original argument?
Delusional....yes
Original...not even close.
Bur we love Dr. Fauci, the reactionaries' subject of derision.
You want to try that again:
Agreed. Pathetic little Trumpers are delusional. At least you admit it.
Are you volunteering?
You are just mad we have a president that is highly motivated to successfully come back from this pandemic, and do it long before the next election, which libs think the pandemic and blaming Trump for it is their next great chance to unseat Trump.
Most liberals would rather we stay holed up without jobs so they can gain control over our financial lives, and, oh yea......bring in cheat by mail elections.
I don't think you get it, which would not be a surprise. We need a vaccine against Trumpism.
OMB
Look at the little liberal already becoming desperate.
I know you are but what am I.
Time for you to go away now.
Talk about delusional. You win that category. You don't even realize how unhinged you sound.
That's all they know. Their frontal lobes do not allow for coherent argument or any executive decision making. Everything is done by feeeeeeeelings.
He's a big, stinky poopiehead - eh?
I actually feel sorry for you. It must be sad to live in reactionary Lalaland.
Might just be a G-strap wedgie.
Really?
Go back and re-read your 3.1.5 and try and attempt to say I am the delusional one again.
I think your mirror says something different.
Sounds like I'm dealing with an 8 year old.
No lie. I think I confused him with "frontal lobe" and it's gone even farther downhill for him from there.
You poor delusional little reactionary snowflakes. I really do feel sorry for you. It must be horrible to be so terrified of the real world. Ok, have a nice meltdown.
Nuh uh...you're a big stinky poopiehead.
Geez this one's a hoot.
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There's one guy here who definitely owns a few hats and others are strongly suspect. Alas, another lost opportunity for a lifelong friendship.
Breaks my heart s/
BTW....wonder where he went.
Probably threw the library computer against the wall.
I love James Woods.
Sounds like one who can't see a tree,
cause he's in the Woulds if he coulds, but, he can't see the Forrest when there is such a Lump in the house of power no Black and all White, but Bubba's, wallow in the swallow what he spits out, cause they're all 'Right' while not too bright, with Bubba Gump Shrimpy brains, as reduced are their special needs, when truth is sheltered by the overgrown weeds, that used to be Bush's, now, whatever Trumpy pushes, out his asz they hear what they wish were TRUE, but Hell, even Forrest Gump new
Stupid is as Stupid Does not seem to see the Treeson, the un-ending season, where they lie in a Field of Dreams buying all the Dirt, blowin up a Ukranian skirt ing every rule of law not already bought or brought to a new interpretation, as the
AG now decides what R THE LAWS OF THIS NATION, and which Laws need now be reinterpreted or Barred, as he Rushes to Limbaugh under the subterrainian Barr lowered blow any ever seen blowin Trumpp into the Treason as tit is the season to grab a pussy ,
as never out of season or pussy's
n they just continue to let em'
I don't know what to say.
Very few people do.
The actor nobody will work with anymore because he's such an asshole? Even his agent dumped him for his over-the-top hate speech.
Since it has named itself "bugsy" it seems that it does realize.
we have no obligation to defend trump, or anything else for that matter,
we just love toying with liberals... LOL
So you admit to being a troll?
looks like it doesnt it?
a troll? no I am willing to discuss anything.
but having fun watching the left squirm ?
priceless
Most of us figured that out a mile back down the road.
Imagine your own reaction and those of like mind on NT were to say "I'm only here to toy with conservatives"
I do believe there would be demands for my head to be served up on a silver platter or adorning a pike.
This is so obviously untrue. Why post something full of such obvious lies? Fauci is scheduled to testify to the House this week.
can you give us the link to the story that says fauci will testify before the House? I havent seen that yet.
Yeah, the Senate is not the House. Thats kind of the issue. The two branches are controlled by different parties. I believe Trump has said he did not want Fauci testifying before the House because they are Trump haters.
Iggy's comment below refers to that.
I confess I hadn't paid attention to Senate vs House. It seems a minor point. He's still testifying to Congress, so who cares? The claim in the story seems to be that Trump is preventing Fauci from speaking publicly. That's ridiculous.
Who cares. It's Congress. You guys keep claiming Trump will not let him testify to Congress, and I supplied proof you are wrong.
BTW...what happened to you on our debate over murders in the US?
Dont play dumb. The House and the Senate are two different things when it comes to committee hearings.
I havent looked at the murder thing again and didnt know we were having a debate. No white person is 4 times more likely to be killed by a black than a white person. Whatever it is you are trying to say you are not wording it right.
Thats not the claim in the story.
This is the claim in the story.
So then, it's an empty, pointless claim?
How so? Won't Democrats be allowed to ask questions in the Senate?
Uh, you were wrong.
Sorry.
Very few people see House committees and Senate committees to be the same thing.
But whatever, its not worth 10 more questions.
Yeah, because we'd still circle around back to the central problem with this article, which is that the complaint is an empty and pointless one meant to imply something that isn't happening.
Maybe liberals are worried the senate will run this like the house ran impeachment hearings?
Probably.
are you DENYING Trump would not allow Fauci to testify due to the committee being full of "every Trump hater" ????
As that right therte is another LIE
THere hundreds of millions of Trump haters .
I'm guessing they're not all Americans.
bs
do the math..... there are only 300 million people, so 200 milliion or 300 million trump haters?
too funny
No , Trump is hated by Tens of Millions of non US citizens.
So people seem to be a little blinded by the sheen of their own little bubble.
bs how about forget the frckn math and attempt reading comprehension.
If U
think Americans have exclusive Trump hating rights, You would be Wrong
as usual, it's only what affects them
I read it, and found nothing written in this article was worth the electrons required for me to view it.
so, I will be sticking with the math.
i'm talking about citizens in other countries, who do not wish to come here, but just don't li8ke Trump
D’Antonio said that Trump was always preoccupied with death. When he was young, he was convinced he would die before 40
He may have developed Thanatophobia. Elvis may have also suffered from it as he was convinced that he would die at the same age his mother did.