Posted by
Rude One
Sometimes, oh, my sweet, weary people of Donald Trump's America, it
feels like we're sailing in skiffs on a sea of shit and some of us
believe we can get across the shit sea to shore and some of us believe
that we're gonna sink but we all know we're damned to keep sailing as
wave after wave of shit keeps hitting us, and every time we dare to hope
that we've seen the worst shit wave, that perhaps we'll get a break and
just sail as smoothly as possible through a shit sea, a fucking massive
turd wave in a shit storm appears on the horizon and we've gotta batten
down the hatches and ride this one out, even though we know that in the
best possible circumstances, we'll get over or through but still coated
in shit.
What does it change that we now have Trump on audio
telling
reporter Bob Woodward that he knew back in early February that COVID-19
was airborne and dangerous, far worse, in his own words, than a
"strenuous flu"? What does it change that we now can hear Trump say that
he downplayed the virus to the public on purpose? In some ways,
obviously, it changes nothing. It doesn't bring back the dead. It
doesn't rebuild the lives shattered by the shutdown economy. It doesn't
really make us understand Trump any more than we already did. We know
that he is the motherfuckingest motherfucker anyone has ever met. We
know that he was deliberately avoiding action on coronavirus until the
mounting death toll and hospitalizations forced him to do something.
But
what has changed today is that we know without a doubt that Trump
wasn't just spitballing and gambling that the virus wouldn't be bad,
despite experts outside of the federal government telling us it would
be. He knew. He fucking knew. He knew it and could articulate how
dangerous the situation was going to get. And he chose to pretend
otherwise and lie to the nation, forcing others to lie, too. After
telling Woodward it was worse than the flu, he tweeted the exact
opposite, mocking the idea that it's worse than the flu. After telling
Woodward that "young people" are susceptible to it, he said that
children
are "almost immune" to the virus. And no matter how many ways Trump and
his ass remoras attempt to spin this as nobly trying not to panic
people, there's a fucking world of difference between yelling, "Fire" in
a crowded theater and telling everyone to just sit still while the fire
burns out. This is not fine.
Every single person who knew
should have spoken. They should have given Trump the finger and told us,
including Bob fucking Woodward. Because how the fuck do we trust
anything now? Most of us didn't trust Trump, but we thought we could
look at others, look at the CDC or Anthony Fauci and find the truth. But
they all decided to stay silent, out of either blind or craven loyalty
to Trump or the misguided hope they could mitigate the damage by staying
quiet, the pathetic error that so many tainted public servants have
made.
And now we're supposed to listen when this lying son of a
bitch whose face looks like a one-nut pig scrotum and who speaks in
barks like a brain-damaged beagle bitch tells us to get an untested
vaccine? Fuck off all the way to Moscow.
This is personal, too. I
remember wondering all through February and into March whether or not I
should wear a mask. I was reading
articles
about whether or not masks are effective, with many telling us not to
worry about it, that the slim supply of masks had to go to health care
workers. It gnawed at me until I finally decided, "Fuck it, I'm wearing
one" about a week before the CDC changed course and said we should. The
thing is that by that point I already had gotten COVID. I didn't get
sick until a few days after I started mask-wearing, which means I was
doing my part then.
As I've said before, I had very mild symptoms, just a
low-grade fever, some fatigue, and a bit of a cough. Sure, it could
have been far worse, and I'm pissed at Trump about getting sick. But
most of the time, you have the goddamn virus before your symptoms show
up. I should have been wearing a mask all along. I don't fucking know
who I might have spread it to. And that bullshit weighs on me, and
that's on Trump and everyone who stayed quiet.
We knew Trump was
busily corrupting every part of the government he could get his
shit-stained fingers on. We knew that he was too fucking lazy to really
take the action that he needed to take, as simple as that may have been.
We knew that we needed to amp up production of masks and gloves and
fucking tests. We knew that it was goddamn weird that it didn't happen.
We knew that the only thing that matters to Trump is re-election,
something that Fauci is quoted as saying in Woodward's book. Fuck, we
knew that Trump was actually, actively evil and not just stupidly so.
The cockscab wants violence in the streets (which is something that
makes his claim of trying to prevent panic utterly laughable).
I'm
not really shocked by what we've learned. I'm frankly only shocked that
Trump went on the record with it. Which means that he thinks he was
right to lie to Americans. He said that today, like he's some fuckin'
hero for shutting down the information we needed to save our fucking
lives. And by so willingly talking to Woodward, it also means that, even
though he should be forced out of office and arrested, Trump believes
he will suffer no consequences for his evil. And every single time, that
has been proven correct. Even now, when he's killed people in the
middle of every avenue, the
resident as our mass murderer. And that,
dear Americans, is something we haven't seen in a long damn time.
Sometimes
it feels like the sails on our skiffs are broken, and so we are just
drifting on the shit sea, buffeted by the waves, wondering if we'll
float to land before we die of exposure.
