Post #4 — On Pence, Trump and My Ass
Sometimes, in the occasional lighter moment, I think that one of the most torturous aspects of this crisis is having to watch and listen to Mike Pence every day. With that preternatural calm demeanor, that evinces no emotion whatsoever in the face of such widespread suffering. All I can think is that he must really be some kind of psychopath or he is on major drugs.
Worse, is his complete and total subservience to the president. I have been watching him for two weeks and he never utters two sentences before prefacing one with, "as the president said," or "as the president has instructed," or "under the president's leadership." I just don't understand why he doesn't deliver his comments from his knees.
This supposedly pious individual who will spout off about Jesus at any time, has no trouble backing Trump and his lies and adding a few of his own. He knows Trump's insistence that they had no warning about the virus, is a complete and utter falsehood. Yet, there he is, nodding every so sadly in agreement, as Trump repeats that spurious claim.
His own Pinocchios mostly have to do with the alleged supply chain, which every hospital administrator in America knows is non-existent. Every day, he stands before the microphone and states, "We are there for the real heroes, the healthcare professionals who are on the front lines of this battle every day." while those heroes are screaming and begging for equipment as many of their colleagues are dropping like flies due to their lack of protection. And while Trump again repeated the material isn't going to come from him, Mike proudly talks about his conversations with 3M, which is going to supply millions of masks over the next 18 months. Well, what about now?
Worse, are the ventilators. Trump claimed today the automobile manufacturers are making them right now. Right now, they're already in production. Another lie. Mike had even more great news, he said, very exciting news. Someone figured out a way to repurpose ventilators used by anethesiologists by simply swapping out one small part. If true, that *is* good news but we're not talking about anywhere near enough of them. They've got maybe 2,000 of those. New York alone is going to need 50,000.
It would be a lot more useful to repurpose an anesthesiologist to ply his trade on Trump.
As for masks, well, there's Mike again, droning on about 3M, the company which cares so much about the work force that they refused to produce supplies until the government would guarantee they wouldn't be sued for making faulty masks that in the end could cause the deaths of hundreds, if not thousands of people. Pence called that a terrific breakthrough.
And Mike is big on proudly listing the corporate leaders he has on speed dial. Notice that he never talks about speaking with the representatives of the people he says are such heroes: no union leaders, ER doctors, caregivers or really anyone actually standing with the sick. Mike loves working people; he just hates being around them.
Well, Fedex just arrived with it. Amazon has one of these butt washers that apparently can be installed fairly easily. I suspect that as of tomorrow, our TP usage will drop by 90 percent. I just hope the water can be heated. At the very least though, every time I sit there having my ass cleaned, I will give my thanks to Donald Trump.
Worse, is his complete and total subservience to the president. I have been watching him for two weeks and he never utters two sentences before prefacing one with, "as the president said," or "as the president has instructed," or "under the president's leadership." I just don't understand why he doesn't deliver his comments from his knees.
This supposedly pious individual who will spout off about Jesus at any time, has no trouble backing Trump and his lies and adding a few of his own. He knows Trump's insistence that they had no warning about the virus, is a complete and utter falsehood. Yet, there he is, nodding every so sadly in agreement, as Trump repeats that spurious claim.
His own Pinocchios mostly have to do with the alleged supply chain, which every hospital administrator in America knows is non-existent. Every day, he stands before the microphone and states, "We are there for the real heroes, the healthcare professionals who are on the front lines of this battle every day." while those heroes are screaming and begging for equipment as many of their colleagues are dropping like flies due to their lack of protection. And while Trump again repeated the material isn't going to come from him, Mike proudly talks about his conversations with 3M, which is going to supply millions of masks over the next 18 months. Well, what about now?
Worse, are the ventilators. Trump claimed today the automobile manufacturers are making them right now. Right now, they're already in production. Another lie. Mike had even more great news, he said, very exciting news. Someone figured out a way to repurpose ventilators used by anethesiologists by simply swapping out one small part. If true, that *is* good news but we're not talking about anywhere near enough of them. They've got maybe 2,000 of those. New York alone is going to need 50,000.
It would be a lot more useful to repurpose an anesthesiologist to ply his trade on Trump.
As for masks, well, there's Mike again, droning on about 3M, the company which cares so much about the work force that they refused to produce supplies until the government would guarantee they wouldn't be sued for making faulty masks that in the end could cause the deaths of hundreds, if not thousands of people. Pence called that a terrific breakthrough.
And Mike is big on proudly listing the corporate leaders he has on speed dial. Notice that he never talks about speaking with the representatives of the people he says are such heroes: no union leaders, ER doctors, caregivers or really anyone actually standing with the sick. Mike loves working people; he just hates being around them.
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Trump was asked today if he would impose nationally, the restrictions that were ordered in place by the governors of New York, California and Illinois. "No, he said, adding it wasn't fair to a state that "only had one or two people." No state has that few, and what he again fails to understand (or doesn't care about) is that that number is about to jump in every state, and every state without restrictions is simply acting as a petri dish for the neighboring states -- even those that claim to have little chance of widespread disease because they have fewer Chinese citizens.
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One item that seems to be perpetually out of stock is toilet paper. When my grandparents had to go a hundred years ago, they just ripped a page out of the phone book or the Sears catalogue that someone hung on the door. Well, we haven't seen a phone book or the Sears catalogue for years, and if we're in for the long haul we're going to have to find some way around the shortage.
Well, Fedex just arrived with it. Amazon has one of these butt washers that apparently can be installed fairly easily. I suspect that as of tomorrow, our TP usage will drop by 90 percent. I just hope the water can be heated. At the very least though, every time I sit there having my ass cleaned, I will give my thanks to Donald Trump.
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