Getting Called Out on His Bulltwit
This Weak in Politics, Vol. 235
May 28, 2020
Well, aside from the U.S. reaching over 100,000 coronavirus deaths, the President of The United States accusing a morning show host of murder, and cops casually killing a man on camera leading to the burning down of a major mid-western city, it’s been a quiet week in Lake WishHeWereGone.
Truth is, even in an era of shitty weeks, this was a particularly shitty week. As such, this will be a very abbreviated and partly to mostly angry issue.
Note: Click here for our less angry take on at least the coronavirus portion of our long national nightmare: “As Nation Passes Grim Milestone, Trump Pens Letter to Families of Deceased”
We hit the horrific 100,000 deaths mark on Wednesday, and to show how mind-numbingly fast this disease is still killing us, as of this moment (7:24 pm on Thursday), that number is 101,562. One-thousand-five-hundred and sixty-two additional people who somehow, in the shit-storm of 2020, have become a rounding error.
But by all means don’t wear a mask, because Donald Trump and Brit Hume will think you look weak.
The Trump administration, when not trying to distract from the fact that over 100,000 Americans have died from coronavirus, spent the week trying to sugarcoat the fact that over 100,000 Americans have died from coronavirus.
Sorry, Mr. President, no amount of sugarcoating will make us forget.
So, instead of focusing on the casualties of the coronavirus, President Trump focused on the important things — conspiracy theories, making shit up about elections, and punishing social media platforms for calling him out on his bullshit. Though, let’s put the Twitter action (they fact-checked one of his tweets) in perspective. They didn’t fact-check him for threatening North Korea with nuclear annihilation (he did this before admitting he fell in love with Kim Jong Un), or encouraging “patriots” to use 2nd Amendment remedies in dealing with judges, governors, political opponents, and others, or when the grieving widower of a woman who died from a heart condition begged them to take down Trump’s tweets suggesting that a morning TV host actually murdered her. Flagging one or two of Trump’s tweets for dishonesty was the least they could do. Literally the least.
Finally, as the nation continues to sow the seeds of our endemic, codified, institutionalized, and deputized racism, the president continues to do his best impression of George Wallace. Sure, it is a fat, lazy, dumber, and more dangerous George Wallace, but the president is a very limited “man.”
And that’s the way the weak spent the week in a nation where there are multiple videos from multiple angles of a police officer kneeling on the windpipe of a handcuffed prone man who is pleading for his life, saying he can’t breathe with at least a half a dozen witnesses present, and law enforcement officials have set up a tip line, literally saying to people “if anyone has any information please call the tip line.”
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