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You would think that the president contracting the virus, requiring oxygen, becoming physically weak, and being airlifted to a hospital as a result of his own recklessness would disabuse his fans of believing that true strength comes from ignoring the virus and mocking precautions.
You would be wrong. They are taking the opposite approach.
The president’s physical frailty is now requiring him and his team to concoct a new strongman fantasy. One where he has only become frail because of his keen desire to FIGHT.
His daughter praised his RELENTLESS willingness to sign fake papers for the cameras. His top staffer said his video message was a shot at SLEEPY JOE and goes on “the shows” to mock Biden for using his mask as a prop. Breitbart attacked Bernie Sanders for having a socially distant outdoor crowd at an event for Biden’s campaign.
Trump is honing the “carelessly risking death is strong” pitch himself in his hospital video. “We have to confront problems. As a leader you have to confront problems, there has never been a great leader who would have done that.”
But nobody did a more full-throated job of demonstrating what this phony strength spin looks like than Greg Gutfeld :
He didn’t hide from the virus. The reason he didn’t hide from the virus is he didn’t want America to hide from the virus. He was going to do the same thing, he was going to walk out there on that battlefield with you, and not sit somewhere in a basement and tell you how you have to get back to work, but not go out himself. . . . So he took the risk, he got the virus, but he was doing it for us.
“The battlefield,” Gutfeld says. That’s how Trump showed his strength—by taking it to this girly virus and having irresponsible superspreader events all over the country!
The problem with this, which you know if you are here at The Bulwark —and not a little nerd who lost his sense of ironic distance when the Bad Orange Man performed orchidectomies on the boys of Fox—is playing tough for the cameras doesn’t defeat a virus.
To defeat a virus, you stay off the damn field and deprive it of vectors. You do not defeat the fucking novel coronavirus in an arm-wrestling match. You beat it by being smart and responsible and restrained and considerate of your neighbors.
Donald Trump is laying in Walter Reed right now because he didn’t understand that. Some 209,000 people are dead because he didn’t understand that.
How many more people have to die before these sycophants give up on the lie that being reckless means that, ackshually , Trump is a super-duper tough fighter man? 200,000 more? 400,000?
If that doesn’t make your blood pressure as high as mine, here’s a little bonus content on Gutfeld , who was “one of the more forceful critics of Trump’s equivocating on neo-Nazi marchers in 2017, but three years later he’s all-in on defending the president, now calls it a hoax.”
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Trump sure beat up that virus didn't he?
It seems to me that defeating the virus would involve not getting it. Trump got it, and needed the highest level of drug treatment available to "defeat " it.
The question is; is he gasping for breathe because of COVID, or because he had to walk up some stairs? Could go either way.
He took a joy ride to impress his idiot base hanging around the hospital. Trump isn't even taken his own infection seriously, so his followers won't either. Some fucking leader he is.
I get the feeling he wouldn't care if he infected others.
He doesn't and never will.
I don't know why people consider being a loud mouth as strength.
His brand of idiocy seems to be contagious. The governor of my state has decided that masks are not mandatory. Now I can go out somewhere and no one is wearing a mask, when just days before almost everyone was.
And new cases are still happening. Idiots are just going to cause another spike.
I also know that once donald gets well, he will come out and say, see it can be beaten, it is nothing.
Causing people to be even more careless.
LOL
obviously, this is something the left has no clue about.
just curious, do you think blue state voters are going to blame trump because they are going broke as their governors are keeping them locked down? if so, think again.
"playing tough for the cameras doesn’t defeat a virus. To defeat a virus, you stay off the damn field and deprive it of vectors. You do not defeat the fucking novel coronavirus in an arm-wrestling match."
Bullshit!
In the USA you cannot defeat this virus by locking down people's everyday activities...like going to work to support your family....including in many cases, your elderly and frail parents
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So you think you can end the virus by being a tough guy? LOL.
there is no "end" - this virus is not going away...
should we all hide in our houses and go broke? ( rhetorical )
being weak like that does no one any good
that virus is very survivable. the whole country going broke is not survivable.
Why is Trump roaming all over the country (or was) having rallies of hundreds or thousands of people and doing so without masks or social distancing?
What does that have to do with "business" ? It has to do with his ego.
This could have been fairly straightforward. If we had "shut down" the country in the beginning and had very few exceptions we would be way farther along in recovery. Because Trump played it down and got his cult to play it down the effort to minimize the virus through precautionary measures has been haphazard at best. One step forward two steps back.
Now he says everyone should be "strong" like he was.
Strong? He got sick enough to be given three different drugs which have never been used on the same patient at the same time before. If he has a decent outcome (he may have lung damage) it was because of the drugs, not because he was "strong".
the same reason the left was protesting in huge numbers and setting fires in major cities across the country. ( he wanted to )
if the left can protest and burn innocent people's business?
we can protest by going to a peaceful political rally
Who suggested, "the whole country going broke?" Hyperbole much? Does that in any way suggest you know how much it takes to 'break' this country?
many people don't get paid if they don't work, so little things like rent, utilities. insurance, and food may very well break many.
Hi Texan! Let's get started! When did "the whole country (the United States) going broke" diminish down to 'many may be economically broke'? Please elaborate.
not playing your one-sided version of 20 questions.
Thought so. Well. Okay. I'm good!.
then why on earth did you attempt it???
Enough! Moving on.
Can you explain why some nations have contained the virus and America, a most advanced nation, can not?
Nobody wants to answer that question so I will. The obvious anwwer is Trump - even after catching the virus himself he is STILL playing it down and his disciples will NEVER criticize him for it, but will do as he says and does. What I really don't understand is that what he is doing is self-defeating, because if his "Pied-Piper" followers do as he does and says, and die because of the virus, then he loses their votes since most of them are waiting to vote in person. It sure beats me.
Even if they did you'd just get some Trump fluffer sycophant coming up with all sorts of excuses while calling it the "China Virus" trying to deflect any and all blame from their dear Leader because in Trumplandia nothing is his fault and he should be praised for all things good, which apparently requires being a white conservative Christian.
The 'president' is no tough guy. He's a cowardly bully piece of shit.
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I know you need to blame trump.... but fuggedaboutit.
sure can,
regardless of who is president, on this issue, each state can do what they want.
we have states still locked down, others in various stages of re-opening, and at least one state that never locked down at all. there is absolutely nothing any president can do about that.
and yes, our system of government comes with a bit of chaos... LOL
there are 50 state governors out there... all doing different things getting different results
so if ya need someone to blame? blame those governors.
Actually, I think you've made a good point with your explanation of a patchwork quilt of state governors who have rights independant of the White House and each other. However it is interesting to me to see that party politics plays such an influencial role when a universal threat happens. When Japan invaded the USA, could the different states do as they wished, some reacting to it, some not? Or was FDR able to determine that reaction for the whole country.
truth is, I'm, not all that studied up on that scenario
however, as defending the 50states is the primary job of our federal government... id guess the feds have some pretty expansive WAR powers.
for instance, I seriously doubt a state could stop the feds from defending a state from invasion and any governor who tried to stand in the way of that defense would probably wind up at gitmo or shot.
the only cure is term limits.
people there too long become corrupt.
the only good news is.. the political dinosaurs in politics my whole life are now facing extinction.
joe biden is next to go extinct
I was happy with our having an interesting bipartisan and civil discussion about the issue of a universal threat, one that is not limited to State borders, and wanted to continue with it, until I read your last sentence, which was entirely unnecessary to the discussion. I had hoped to learn something, but forget it.
that's cool.... one step at a time is best.
our biggest problem is career politicians. and that is the bottom line.
joe is no more than 47yrs of corruption in one package. that is why they tapped him to run
have a great nght
Donald Trump is a royal pain in the ass! He does not even know how to be sick and let others rest apart from his lying and schemes. We don't need a fake super-hero president; we need a compassionate human leader. Even red Russian Putin has better sense than to go out and 'challenge' the invisible virus to knock him to his knees and off his feet!
yeah, we know the left hates trump
and, we think it is funny
I don't hate Donald Trump and even if I did, hate can't make him anymore or less a royal pain than he chooses to be! As to what you find funny it has no bearing on this aspect in discussion. I am not a comedian or paid to be here.
trump is only a pain in the ass for people on the left.
the rest of us... not so much
Well, imagine what that means, because it speaks volumes!
BTW, the world's other leaders, including Putin, "get" the coronavirus and they don't have to get the virus!
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He was never fit to serve in the first place.
Yup, the rest of you are falling for his con.
trump is also the man who is going to get re-elected.
do you honestly think most people care about those things less than the drama and castle intrigue? not a chance. people mostly vote one issue: the economy: joe can not compete with trump on that issue. everyone with any sense knows this already.
biden is a political dinosaur with 47yrs of dead weight on his shoulders. and O-biden will be going extinct in 29days
Do you even know what color the sky is in your world?
Not even sure what that means. Do you back "the blues" that break the law???
By building 5 miles of border fence, or by caging children and breaking up families seeking asylum?
Our current trade deficits are far worse now than they were under Obama. China is eating our lunch.
Trump took a robust growing economy and put us back down into another recession.
Once again, we are back into a recession under Trump with terrible unemployment numbers.
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