Trump Is Flunking His Final Test

Watching Trump's response to the Wuhan coronavirus has been like watching the beginning of a really bad pandemic thriller.



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2020 was always going to be a shit storm of epic proportions. Trump's desperation to steal the election guaranteed it. But now that the Wuhan coronavirus is on the brink of both becoming a pandemic and triggering the economic meltdown we were already on the edge of, the Trump regime will promptly implode at the worst possible moment. We already know that Trump and his mob of sycophants and thugs are not good at dealing with emergencies. Dealing with emergencies requires the ability, at a minimum, to govern the day to day activities of the nation.

Trump has left so many positions, from top level to minor paper pushing, unfilled that a significant part of the federal government is paralyzed. Of those who are left, many are further paralyzed by the fact the people Trump has put in charge are not there to do the People's work but rather undermine the mission of their agencies. Or at loot the place for themselves and their friends.

As with many (Most? All?) autocratic dictators, Trump has been shrinking the government in order to make it more reliant on himself. All power must flow from the Dear Leader or else. But at the end of the day, Trump is both lazy and stupid so he is not capable of running an organization as vast as the United States government. There's a reason he bankrupts every business he ever touches.

Covid 1984

Watching Trump's response to the Wuhan coronavirus has been like watching the beginning of a really bad pandemic thriller. There's a regular joke on various podcasts that if a writer had turned in a script 6 years ago with the kind of crap we see daily from the Trump regime, they would be laughed out of the room for being too unrealistic. And yet, the galaxy brains at the Trump White House came up with a half-baked plan to send potentially infected Americans to a military base in Alabama with fake hospital rooms:



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