This is not incompetence. It's malice.

[CousinIT]

Link to tweet

https://www.vogue.com/article/sarah-kendzior-interview-hiding-in-plain-sight-donald-trump/

[dawg day]

1. Yes-- even an incompetent could get SOMETHING right just by accident

Trump is benefitting from this destruction somehow.
We've seen it before. Cheney benefitted from the Iraq war because his company ended up with billion-dollar contracts. Something like that is happening now.

[2naSalit]

6. On steroids! ...nt

[dalton99a]

2. Trump's sadism is innate.

[uponit7771]

3. K&R, This is on purpose !! If it was random stupidity he'd do somethings in our favor

[Mc Mike]

11. Yeah. Like, just once. Accidentally. The odds are that it would definitely happen once,

accidentally.

[uponit7771]

33. +1

[DENVERPOPS]

30. Agreed,

every single thing is masterminded by Putin and the Republicans in power, not Trump, and is extremely intentional.......
I don't think there is any question who is running the Republican Party at this point..............

[shockey80]

4. I like the term, Gross negligence.

[Hortensis]

5. Incompetence is refusing to shine a spotlight on congressional Republicans'

role in all this. Not some slippery, unidentified "Trump inner circle" but U.S. senators.

The evidence is incontrovertible that Republicans controlling the senate refused to take the actions they knew full well they needed to stop this from developing into a pandemic, including passing laws to put a leash on Trump.

And they actively suppressed efforts by the Democrats to take action. All a matter of congressional record.

And all the while, many of them and their agents publicly reassured the nation that it was just a cold the Democrats were lying about. Until rising death counts 3 months in made that tactic no longer effective.

Genocide by disease. And make no mistake, a large majority of those who will die were or were close to receiving government benefits, including the national retirement fund they paid into all their working lives.

[erronis]

16. The rot extends far: trump/family, (r)epuglicons in congress, deplorables, oligarchs and

russians and others what wish us no good.

[2naSalit]

7. Been saying this for years.

I'm glad it is becoming a widespread recognition of what's been going on all this time. One true silver lining to this whole pandemic.

[gab13by13]

13. Me too, I cringe when people say that Trump is stupid,

he is not and it just fires up his base. He is, however, mentally ill. He would be the #1 snake oil salesman in the wild wild West.

[2naSalit]

14. He'd also be

hunted down and hung or shot too.

[rampartc]

28. tar and feathers

[world wide wally]

8. Part 1: Tear down the country

Part 2: Rebuild it in Putin's image
Part 3: Get fatter

[erronis]

17. Simple formula: 1, 2, 3. End is destruction of democracy in the US.

[subana]

9. good point!

for a long time we've been hearing that republicans in the WH & congress have been alarmed by the things they see happening in the administration & yet none of them seem to be so alarmed that they try to do anything about it! At least I haven't seen them try to do anything about it. In fact, Senate republicans seemed to do whatever they could during the impeachment trial to cover his ass!

This tweet seems to explain why.

[Mc Mike]

10. Malignant criminal malfeasance.

[Peacetrain]

12. Malice of the first degree!!!

[Hekate]

15. I believe that as well. There is intentional malice involved.

[erronis]

18. Oh, I read "There is international malice involved." Guess we are both right 😉

[KY_EnviroGuy]

19. One might think it's a vast right-wing conspiracy!

Seems I recall hearing that line before......... ....... .......

[Blue Owl]

20. K&R

[Auggie]

21. Most of us have believed this since the beginning

[Auggie]

22. Further insight: Read THE SHOCK DOCTRINE by Naomi Klein

[ProfessorPlum]

34. I second this

[Haggis for Breakfast]

42. An EXCELLENT read.

[summer_in_TX]

43. Naomi Klein called what's happening now Coronavirus Capitalism.

She was being interviewed by Amy Goodman last month.

Now that Rep. Katie Porter says she has receipts showing that Trump's administration is putting profits above American lives that seems like a real if mind-boggling possibility.

https://buzzflash.com/articles/america-last-rep-porter-has-receipts-showing-trump-chose-a-quick-buck-over-american-lives


Then there's bidding up prices against the states and also confiscating states' orders for masks and ventilators.

https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-federal-govt-fema-accused-taking-states-masks-ventilator-orders-2020-4

The delays allowed several U.S. Senators including Richard Burr and Kelly Loeffler to dump stocks (and in the case of Loeffler to invest in stocks sure to go up due to the coronavirus). What else did the delay allow to be put in place? Profiteers?

[McKim]

45. This Idea Needs to Be Out in the General Public

This idea needs to be out in the general public. It is a powerful and true idea. This is robbery of the worst kind!

[Auggie]

46. +1,000,000

[Ad Infinitum]

23. Frank Zappa

Nailed it in the hearings nearly 40 years ago.

Frank was a visionary and a person who could see
what was the likely outcome by extrapolation
of the observable facts.





Facts don't change. Angles of approach vary.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

24. Interesting! Btw off topic... Did Bolton book ever come out?

[mgardener]

25. Republicans will have a lot to answer for.

“Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.”
― Margaret Atwood,

There is not a peep about the incompetence and destructiveness of this POTUS from Republicans.

[NBachers]

26. Eventually . . .

[wnylib]

39. Voldemort and Nagini

[Newest Reality]

27. Exactly!

And it is like a reality TV show where the characters are playing their parts on the national stage for The Spectacle and they know that. The optics are what matter most.

Trump is very good at being a con artist, that's the biggest problem: decades of practice. His character works to condition both sides in different ways.

Malice? For sure. There's more to the game than meets the eye. Look carefully and put the pieces together. What is at stake here is democracy, plain and simple.

[mercuryblues]

29. exactly

trump tells states to find their own PPE and respirators. They do. Then trump has to orders cancelled and/or seizes them. then donates the equipment to Israel, and oversupplies the red states.

This is malice and spite. His death porn.

[smirkymonkey]

31. K&R

[dchill]

32. And Vladimir Putin.

[live love laugh]

35. Fascists

Fascists

Fascism is authoritarian, right wing government by a dictator (ie. a president who thinks they’re above the law). It’s complete control by whim rather than rule of law (ie. promoting divisiveness for personal gain.)

Characteristics:

* contempt for democracy (voter suppression)
* contempt for free speech, facts, science, truth
* belief in natural rule of rich (giving citizens’ billions to billionaires)
* takeover (privatization) of schools and media to promote propaganda
* separate ethnic, racial, religious groups

Historical fascists: Mussolini-Italy; Dollfuss-Austria and Hitler-Germany

#MAGAts and WORMs 🐛
#RepubLIEclowns 🤡🎈

[Tweedy]

36. There is no doubt

our unindicted co-conspirator of a president is profiting from our global tragedy.

There is no doubt others in the GOP are also pandemic profiteers and price gougers.

There is also no doubt this president is a dithering, quivering, incompetent fool.

[sarge43]

37. In other words, Trump is merely their useful idiot. n/t

[Starfury]

38. Absolutely true.

Calling this administration incompetent assumes that they're trying to do the right thing.

In this case, they're deliberately doing the opposite of the right thing every step of the way: no preparation, reducing funding for CDC and WHO, refusing to use virus test kits available from WHO, still no wide-spread testing, no national medical response, shipping faulty medical supplies to blue states, hampering domestic test kit development, telling the states they're on their own to obtain medical supplies, bidding on those same medical supplies in competition of the states, seizing medical supplies in blue states, reselling them on the "open" market at inflated prices, etc.

This isn't incompetence.

This is deliberate. This is malice. This is evil.

[Cha]

40. Well YEAH!

[ecstatic]

41. Who told him to pull PREDICT out of China?

That needs to be investigated as well.

[Alwaysna]

44. I'm waiting for when he screws up with a "hot mic".