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(46,154 posts) Sat May 9, 2020, 05:02 PM May 2020

Donald Trump Wants You...To Be Cannon Fodder In His War

Trump has given up on trying to stop people dying from Coronavirus. He now wants you to die so he can get reelected.

https://thebanter.substack.com/p/donald-trump-wants-youto-be-cannon

WASHINGTON, DC -- Donald Trump might as well be wearing sweatpants and no makeup because he’s completely given up. Specifically, he’s given up on responding to the COVID-19 outbreak. I think I speak for all of us when I say, it’d be nice if he gave up the presidency, too, but we just aren’t that lucky. No matter what he did or didn’t do, the president continuously failed to rise to the occasion, and it wasn’t a shock to anyone who’s been following his career. He tried being his own bastardized version of “presidential” there for two minutes; he tried his usual loudmouthed a-hole routine and that failed, too.

He was desperate to turbo-charge his poll numbers to the same level as George W. Bush’s after 9/11, but his obnoxiousness and villainy was always a massive roadblock -- a wall, if you will -- between him and broader support outside of his Red Hat cult. The best he did was a temporary approval bump into the middle 50s, but that, again, was short lived. Likewise, I get the sense Trump is crawling out of his disgusting canned-ham colored skin. He personally and politically needs the crisis to be over and the nation to return to the way it was before the pandemic. The problem is: his own actions, especially now, are making that impossible.

Not only did he worsen the death toll and reach of the virus through his criminal inaction, but now, because he appears to be giving up, the pandemic and the stay-at-home orders will inevitably remain in place until either there’s a widely accessible vaccine or a new president or both. In a personal sense, he wants to get back to goofing off: the big beautiful cake and hamberders, ranking on his enemies, yelling at his television, manipulating the stock market, greeting guests at Mar-a-lago -- the usual nincompoopery. Politically, the only way he’ll ever come close to winning re-election is either by stealing it again or by erasing the pandemic from existence and returning America to its 2019 political climate, and I don’t think DARPA has invented a history eraser button yet.

He just doesn’t have the attention span to fight an “invisible enemy” for this long. So, he quit. And in lieu of doing anything constructive himself, which he couldn’t do if he wanted to anyway, the president has instead decided to float the idea of shutting down the White House Coronavirus Task Force while urging Americans to become “warriors,” presumably by violating stay-at-home orders and subsequently being infected with the virus. The president’s bored and useless, so it’s time for Americans to be deployed into malls, offices, bowling alleys, and beaches where the unlucky ones will be added to the daily 9/11-level death toll. They’ll become statistics in Trump’s war effort and ultimately ignored by the rest of the nation the same way too many of us ignored the casualties from two actual wars in recent memory.

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