The reason they love that orange phenomenon is because he represents their idea of perfection. Plus, they really don’t like people, and he doesn’t either.
Now he admits that he knew all along that COVID-19 (novel coronavirus, or “Trump virus”) was going to be a pandemic. But in January, AFTER he knew, he said it would absolutely not be a pandemic. He was more concerned about his standing in the polls and the stock markets than the lives of Americans.
Others who were briefed did take immediate, aggressive action — TO PROTECT THEMSELVES. Using insider information, they sold their stocks in companies that could be adversely affected and echoed the Trump line of BS that he and they knew to be false.
They failed to ramp up production of supplies as soon as they knew.
They failed to order testing, and rejected the World Health Organization tests that South Korea was using with great success.
They dithered, dallied and denied and people died.
The first known cases of COVID-19 positive patients in South Korea and the United States were THE SAME DAY. South Korea acted immediately and aggressively and within one week were testing 10,000 people a day. As a result, they flattened the curve and are already coming out of the pandemic.
South Korea is what the U.S. should have been but, here we are.
Recent comments on these boards by Trump Disciples prove that there is NOTHING that Trump would do that would cause them to doubt Their Messiah.
Some of them have stated that “Trump is doing a great job”, followed by rationalizations that individual states should be conducting testing, procuring protective equipment for medical personnel, manufacturing ventilators, etc., believing, I guess, that the Federal government is not a bunch of shipping clerks.
Donald Trump Goes to Confession: A Scene in Three. Parts.
Part One:
As the lead “bull elephant” of his group of males, Donald Trump is considered the representative of his herd party. These are potentially bad times for the herd, and at the urging of the others, he decides to go to Confession in their stead. It is the first time since 1974 they have tried this, with Richard Nixon in charge and ignominiously replaced. Since by Church law personal Confessions can never be made public, the following is an imagined recreation of what went on in the confession booth:
Trump: Bless me, father, for I have sinned. It has been about 46 years since our last confession.
Priest: That is much too long. The neglect of your Easter Duty alone has technically generated a mortal sin! For shame … but continue, my son. Please confess your separate categories of sins, and the totals within them, or we’ll be here past Pentecost. Let’s start with lies. Have you lied since your last confession?
Trump: I lied at least 16,000 times.
Priest: Wow, that’s a lot, even for 46 years!
Trump: For me personally, it’s actually only a little past 2-1/2 years. And the number increases daily, hourly, by the minute.
Priest: Holy saints in heaven! Were these just small lies, or big lies?
Trump: Well, most were just teeny weenie small lies, normal for a New York real estate magnate gone international. But toward the end, many were tremendous, huge, fantastic whoppers of which I, and including the herd, am quite proud, actually.
Priest: Let’s leave out the small lies for now. And please save the sin of pride for later. What were the biggest lies?
Trump: Oh, just lies about the danger of global climate change; about rampant Russian election interference in American elections; and about a world-wide killer viral pandemic. Stuff like that, mainly. Some people suggest those are big deals, but I really don’t see how.
Priest: You have a disgusting lack of conscience, my son.
Trump: Oh, thank you. In my line of business, it’s a definite requirement. Is it such a bad thing?
Priest: A very, very bad thing. Look, let’s get this straight right away — are there any of The Seven Deadly Sins and Ten Commandments that you haven’t committed or violated?
Trump: Of course not. I’ve worked through them quite steadily through the years. I took them as challenges, actually. Sorry if I misunderstood. See, see … I’m being honest here! Shouldn’t that knock off some punishment time in the Hereafter?
Priest: A few millennia, maybe. But you’re in for a long time, regardless. Look, we will do this in stages. Are you sorry for all your lies?
Trump: Sure, sure, yeah.
Priest: All right. For your Penance, say 10 million Our Fathers, 15 million Hail Marys, and 25 million Glory Be’s. And say 1 million rosaries in all the various Mysteries. Now go and sin no more, for at least a week. See you then.
Trump: Right. But that would be very hard for an important politician such as I am. Oh well, I’ll get my staff going on this Penance thing right away.
Priest: Oh, no you don’t! You have to do it all yourself!
Trump: But that will cut into my Twitter time, my re-election rallies — my golfing time, too!
Priest: Listen, take this seriously. If you don’t, you will burn in flames, in your case for nearly all eternity. So, what’s it going to be?
Trump: I’m thinking, I’m thinking! Oh, this is so unreasonable! I think we should just forget this whole Confession thing. Maybe I’ll see Franklin Graham and Jerry Falwell Jr. for a second opinion. They seem to be okay with just about anything I do.
Priest: Get out of here!
Trump: Okay, okay. Keep your cassock on, Padre. Jeez, you really have a bad attitude. I’m reporting you to your boss, the Pope. He’s a good friend of mine, you know.
Priest: God help us, there’s another lie already!
(Trump exits in a huff. The Priest dunks his head into the nearest holy water fount, from which steam rises.)
The trump NEVER wants us to remember what he said yesterday.. He will remind (on a as needed basis) us what he really said and that our memory is faulty.
A few translations. “Bygones be bygones” = “Don’t remind me.”“Pull together” = “Do what I say, not what I do.”“We misrepresented the coronavirus risk” = “We had other things to take care of, like dumping our holdings before the bottom fell out.”“Forget what I said” = “Even I’m out of enough staff members to keep track of what I said.”“It’s a crisis now” = “A lot of you are going to die.”
Trump complained that all he sees on TV is “hatred of me at any cost”. Well, look what has happened because of your selfishness. If you had been a leader taking care of your country instead of only worrying about taking care of yourself, a lot of lives might have been saved.
The way i see it the Governors of California, Illinois, and New York are trying their all to minimize this virus on their populations. It is past time to tell Trump to get out of the way and let the real professionals take over.
Now the R’s in the Senate want the president to have a half-Trillion slush fund without oversite to help Trump’s cronies and himself come out of the pending disaster with taxpayer money in their pockets. Same R strategy all over again — wealth to the wealthy, trickle down to everyone else.
As recently as February 28th (February 28th for God’s sake!), Trump was publicly calling COVID-19 a “hoax.” What changed? My personal theory is that Ivanka climbed into daddy’s lap, and whispered the facts of life into his shell-like ears……..
Trump is still talking about and extolling sure cures that are completely false. Literally the lack of medical gear he says there are plenty of them and a cure is around the corner only it is NOT.
Concretionist about 4 years ago
The reason they love that orange phenomenon is because he represents their idea of perfection. Plus, they really don’t like people, and he doesn’t either.
DD Wiz Premium Member about 4 years ago
Donald Trump was briefed last December.
Now he admits that he knew all along that COVID-19 (novel coronavirus, or “Trump virus”) was going to be a pandemic. But in January, AFTER he knew, he said it would absolutely not be a pandemic. He was more concerned about his standing in the polls and the stock markets than the lives of Americans.
Others who were briefed did take immediate, aggressive action — TO PROTECT THEMSELVES. Using insider information, they sold their stocks in companies that could be adversely affected and echoed the Trump line of BS that he and they knew to be false.
They failed to ramp up production of supplies as soon as they knew.
They failed to order testing, and rejected the World Health Organization tests that South Korea was using with great success.
They dithered, dallied and denied and people died.
The first known cases of COVID-19 positive patients in South Korea and the United States were THE SAME DAY. South Korea acted immediately and aggressively and within one week were testing 10,000 people a day. As a result, they flattened the curve and are already coming out of the pandemic.
South Korea is what the U.S. should have been but, here we are.
Darsan54 Premium Member about 4 years ago
When your party’s platform is fear, mixed with insanity, then you get a bad response. Remember people are dying because of DT and the GOP.
braindead Premium Member about 4 years ago
Recent comments on these boards by Trump Disciples prove that there is NOTHING that Trump would do that would cause them to doubt Their Messiah.
Some of them have stated that “Trump is doing a great job”, followed by rationalizations that individual states should be conducting testing, procuring protective equipment for medical personnel, manufacturing ventilators, etc., believing, I guess, that the Federal government is not a bunch of shipping clerks.
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They believe his response is perfect.
Ontman about 4 years ago
As if he or his Republican cronies would ever admit they were wrong about ANYTHING!
Masterskrain Premium Member about 4 years ago
So, what HAVEN’T the Elephants LIED ABOUT recently? Anyone? Hello? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?
PraiseofFolly about 4 years ago
Donald Trump Goes to Confession: A Scene in Three. Parts.
Part One:
As the lead “bull elephant” of his group of males, Donald Trump is considered the representative of his herd party. These are potentially bad times for the herd, and at the urging of the others, he decides to go to Confession in their stead. It is the first time since 1974 they have tried this, with Richard Nixon in charge and ignominiously replaced. Since by Church law personal Confessions can never be made public, the following is an imagined recreation of what went on in the confession booth:
Trump: Bless me, father, for I have sinned. It has been about 46 years since our last confession.
Priest: That is much too long. The neglect of your Easter Duty alone has technically generated a mortal sin! For shame … but continue, my son. Please confess your separate categories of sins, and the totals within them, or we’ll be here past Pentecost. Let’s start with lies. Have you lied since your last confession?
Trump: I lied at least 16,000 times.
Priest: Wow, that’s a lot, even for 46 years!
Trump: For me personally, it’s actually only a little past 2-1/2 years. And the number increases daily, hourly, by the minute.
Priest: Holy saints in heaven! Were these just small lies, or big lies?
Trump: Well, most were just teeny weenie small lies, normal for a New York real estate magnate gone international. But toward the end, many were tremendous, huge, fantastic whoppers of which I, and including the herd, am quite proud, actually.
(Continued in the next comment)
PraiseofFolly about 4 years ago
Donald Trump Goes to Confession.
A scene in three parts
Part Two:
.
Priest: Let’s leave out the small lies for now. And please save the sin of pride for later. What were the biggest lies?
Trump: Oh, just lies about the danger of global climate change; about rampant Russian election interference in American elections; and about a world-wide killer viral pandemic. Stuff like that, mainly. Some people suggest those are big deals, but I really don’t see how.
Priest: You have a disgusting lack of conscience, my son.
Trump: Oh, thank you. In my line of business, it’s a definite requirement. Is it such a bad thing?
Priest: A very, very bad thing. Look, let’s get this straight right away — are there any of The Seven Deadly Sins and Ten Commandments that you haven’t committed or violated?
Trump: Of course not. I’ve worked through them quite steadily through the years. I took them as challenges, actually. Sorry if I misunderstood. See, see … I’m being honest here! Shouldn’t that knock off some punishment time in the Hereafter?
Priest: A few millennia, maybe. But you’re in for a long time, regardless. Look, we will do this in stages. Are you sorry for all your lies?
Trump: Sure, sure, yeah.
Priest: All right. For your Penance, say 10 million Our Fathers, 15 million Hail Marys, and 25 million Glory Be’s. And say 1 million rosaries in all the various Mysteries. Now go and sin no more, for at least a week. See you then.
(Continued in the next comment.)
PraiseofFolly about 4 years ago
Donald Trump Goes to Confession.
Part Three.
.
Trump: Right. But that would be very hard for an important politician such as I am. Oh well, I’ll get my staff going on this Penance thing right away.
Priest: Oh, no you don’t! You have to do it all yourself!
Trump: But that will cut into my Twitter time, my re-election rallies — my golfing time, too!
Priest: Listen, take this seriously. If you don’t, you will burn in flames, in your case for nearly all eternity. So, what’s it going to be?
Trump: I’m thinking, I’m thinking! Oh, this is so unreasonable! I think we should just forget this whole Confession thing. Maybe I’ll see Franklin Graham and Jerry Falwell Jr. for a second opinion. They seem to be okay with just about anything I do.
Priest: Get out of here!
Trump: Okay, okay. Keep your cassock on, Padre. Jeez, you really have a bad attitude. I’m reporting you to your boss, the Pope. He’s a good friend of mine, you know.
Priest: God help us, there’s another lie already!
(Trump exits in a huff. The Priest dunks his head into the nearest holy water fount, from which steam rises.)
(The Scene ends.)
Zebrastripes about 4 years ago
I’m thinking of making a VOODOO doll…….what?
superposition about 4 years ago
Yet a few weeks ago, as Gallup pointed out, for the first time ever, the Republicans outpolled the Democrats in party affiliation.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/15370/party-affiliation.aspx
lorry795@ about 4 years ago
Thank you for the obvious!!
Alberta Oil Premium Member about 4 years ago
The trump NEVER wants us to remember what he said yesterday.. He will remind (on a as needed basis) us what he really said and that our memory is faulty.
Bookworm about 4 years ago
A few translations. “Bygones be bygones” = “Don’t remind me.”“Pull together” = “Do what I say, not what I do.”“We misrepresented the coronavirus risk” = “We had other things to take care of, like dumping our holdings before the bottom fell out.”“Forget what I said” = “Even I’m out of enough staff members to keep track of what I said.”“It’s a crisis now” = “A lot of you are going to die.”
“Oh, and have a nice day.” /s
Perkycat about 4 years ago
Trump complained that all he sees on TV is “hatred of me at any cost”. Well, look what has happened because of your selfishness. If you had been a leader taking care of your country instead of only worrying about taking care of yourself, a lot of lives might have been saved.
Union Man about 4 years ago
The way i see it the Governors of California, Illinois, and New York are trying their all to minimize this virus on their populations. It is past time to tell Trump to get out of the way and let the real professionals take over.
Richard S Russell Premium Member about 4 years ago
2016: “I alone can fix it!”
2020: “I don’t take any responsibility at all.”
dickanders Premium Member about 4 years ago
Now the R’s in the Senate want the president to have a half-Trillion slush fund without oversite to help Trump’s cronies and himself come out of the pending disaster with taxpayer money in their pockets. Same R strategy all over again — wealth to the wealthy, trickle down to everyone else.
Radish the wordsmith about 4 years ago
Vicious, greedy Republicans lie about everything all of the time, don’t vote for them.
yimhere about 4 years ago
I’m not sure what is worse: the COVID-19 outbreak itself or the trumpublican response to it?
Godfreydaniel about 4 years ago
As recently as February 28th (February 28th for God’s sake!), Trump was publicly calling COVID-19 a “hoax.” What changed? My personal theory is that Ivanka climbed into daddy’s lap, and whispered the facts of life into his shell-like ears……..
ferddo about 4 years ago
Don’t analyze what we say, even when it conflicts with what else we say! Just remember that we are always “right”…
Call me Ishmael about 4 years ago
Never, NEVER vote GOP ! It really IS that simple !
Tonto & Redd Panda about 4 years ago
“Sooner or later, all your lies come back to bite you in the arse.”
Confucius.
Radish the wordsmith about 4 years ago
You can’t run a country on lies. Trump is telling people to go back to work, the medical people say everything Trump says is wrong.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] about 4 years ago
Trump is still talking about and extolling sure cures that are completely false. Literally the lack of medical gear he says there are plenty of them and a cure is around the corner only it is NOT.