Wednesday, September 09, 2020

The Plague of Trump, Sept 9 Finis

The reporting lags over the weekends are beguiling and this one was a three-dayer so instead of a Sunday-Monday tease we had a Sun., Mon., Tuesday artifact and man it was a doozy, 403, 267, 445; combined that's one normal (when the backlog clears) day, 1115. Wednesday is the new Tuesday this week however and the low-ball artifact is kaput. 1143 Deaths today, Sept. 9, alone, more than Sunday through Tuesday combined. 190,796 total dead of Trump Virus since Feb. 6, 883 every day since his only strategy was to "play it down" when he couldn't ignore it completely.

Michael Cohen's book confirmed that the media made candidate Trump in 2016. Hundreds of millions of dollars in free advertising in coverage of his every outrageous word. He and his Low Lifes played the Fourth Estate like a fiddle. And they are doing it again. Chris Wallace said months ago that the key to the election outcome was whether the American people blamed Trump for the virus or not. If so, there was nothing Trump could do to win. If not, there was nothing Joe Biden could do to win. But the media echoes every Trump naming it the "China Virus." They are too squeamish to call it what they know it is, the Trump Virus and the Trump Epidemic. My homies at Lincoln Project say its name and Paul Krugman called it once the "Trump Pandemic," which it's not. Trump isn't responsible for the worldwide spread of the virus but he damn well is of its spread in the country-formerly-known-as-the-U.S.A. That makes it the Trump Epidemic from the Trump virus, economically tying its tin can to Trump's tail in America. As with the universal tin can tied to a running dog's tail, the faster the hound runs, the more terrified he becomes, and the louder behind the mutt the can rattles and bangs, increasing the running dog's  terror until he literally runs himself to death. That should have been Running Dog Trump since late March. Peasants with pitchforks and torches should have been surrounding the White House every day and night. One. Hundred. Ninety One. Thousand. people DEAD. 883 every day since Feb.6 at the hands of the State and its chief executive, albeit illegitimate, who does his best to slow-walk past the graveyard and keep that can from sounding the alarm of his responsibility.

Enough folk of all colors have made their judgment and it's adverse to Trump. But do they realize that we may not have an election free of foreign interference? Free of polling places in Black precincts "protected" by armed White police who pledge their loyalty to QAnon and Trump? Who will stall to prevent Black folk from voting and push to get the push back that justifies the shooting of Black folk at polling stations, the closure of same for "public safety" and their votes not counted, their future votes never to be counted since they are now dead? No, right? The youthful men and women of color and of no color would rather continue to besiege Portland and Seattle over the latest--INEXCUSABLE--death of the sole person of color du jour when EQUALLY INEXCUSABLY hundreds of thousands of  people in all the colors people come--but disproportionately those colored Brown and Black-- die long, agonizing deaths in hospital every single day while Nero fiddles, Trump dances with Epstein and the band plays on. Damnedest thing that. Never will understand this generation, I guess.

Yes, some blame Trump, and enough, quite enough, for his decisive defeat if the election were free of fraud, intimidation, violence and murder. But that's not the situation we have. Trump should be in a political grave so deep all the president's Russian men cannot dig him out. But the polls are too close and he can be dug up again, and easily.