Rob Rogers for April 15, 2020

Eye bleach needed…

A lot of quite reasonably intelligent people have a very hard time understanding what exponential growth means about how soon (and how long) to take stern measures. It’s just not “sensible” based on our experience. But many such people are able to listen to experts and at least behave in a way that’s conducive to keeping most of us alive. Unfortunately for us all, the kid in the underwear there is neither intelligent nor willing/able to accept that anybody else may be able to tell him something useful.

It’s really very sad that his unmatched ego is killing thousands of us and looks likely to kill 10s of thousands more. Or worse.

Pray for Trump to cough himself into an ET tube and a general motors ventilator under the care of “Admiral Randy”..

God save these United States.

Eye bleach for the comic, ear bleach to clean up his speach?

Keep the looney tunes president in a padded cell.

You could have three geniuses in a conversation, and when Trump joins in, the average IQ would be 30.

This maggot should never have been allowed to become the annoying, disease infected housefly that it is. It needs to be swatted or sprayed with Raid.

He picks fights with the media because his sheep eat that stuff up. And so it continues….

America WILL recover… IN SPITE of Hair Furor!

So ‘x@%#’ means trump??

Oy! if it could get worse, it does….the actual covid 45 virus

President Trump’s incorrect assertion Monday that he has “total” authority over when states lift or relax coronavirus mitigation rules “caught his aides off guard and prompted them to study whether Trump would have such authority in a time of emergency like the ongoing pandemic,” The Washington Post reports. Trump continued pushing the idea Tuesday, suggesting that disobeying his orders to reopen the economy would be akin to “mutiny.”

Governors from both parties noted pointedly on Tuesday that they have and will retain the authority to lift social distancing rules they put in place. By his press conference Tuesday night, Trump largely reversed course.

“I will be speaking to all 50 governors very shortly and I will then be authorizing each individual governor of each individual state to implement a reopening, and a very powerful reopening plan, of their state at a time and in a manner as most appropriate,” Trump said. “The day will be very close,” and in some states “maybe even before the date of May 1.” He added that “the governors will be very, very respectful of the presidency,” but they “are responsible, they have to take charge, they have to do a great job,” or he might “close ’em up and start all over again.”

You have to feel for those doctors sharing the stage with trump.. a fine line between keeping your job and telling it as it is.

Trump is the giant bigly blimp filled with hot air in the ZOOM room.

He’s the only president one can easily imagine throwing a toddlers temper tantrum when he hasn’t gotten his way, the only one. Period.

Conservative pundit Jonah Goldberg: To the surprise and perhaps disappointment of many a self-declared nationalist in the MAGA mold, the man who vowed “I alone can fix it,” has very much led from behind in his “war” on the pandemic, insisting that federalism required him to let state and local officials lead. […] The problem, as is so often the case, is that Trump’s motivations are virtually never rooted in any overarching theory or principle. Trump’s invocation of federalism was never grounded in constitutional fidelity but in a desire to avoid blame and have local officials he could second-guess or scapegoat. […] As transparently annoying as that strategy was, it was playing well with many conservatives — both those in the MAGA camp, who liked to watch Trump beat up the libs, and the genuine believers in the Constitution’s federalist principles. But then, Monday morning, starting with a tweet and ending with a stemwinder at a bombastic press conference, the president threw all that way. He now insists the president has “total” authority to restart the economy, open businesses, end quarantines, etc.He doesn’t have that power, not remotely. But he wants people to think he does. […] Trump’s reversal on federalism makes no sense if you think Trumpism is a coherent ideological framework. It makes complete sense if you work from the assumption that Trump is guided by a craving for importance and an insatiable need to be the center of attention. This is the true constant of the Trump administration. Trump stakes out a seemingly clear position, making it the party line for his followers on the right and the focus of derision across the left. [note from Godfreydaniel: derision from the center, and from the INTELLIGENT segment of the right, as well as from the left] But the moment a policy detracts from his gut-level needs, the policy is tossed. Because there is no Trumpism. There is only Trump.

Though the term photobombing usually has humorous overtones, it can crop up in more serious contexts.

This is one I’m NOT saving.

Geez Rob, how am I ever going to un-see that orange blob?

It is stunning and mind boggling on a daily basis how this moron can continue to amaze with his utter stupidity!

Someone PLEASE hang that STUPID SOB!