Getting all of America to ignore the COVID-19 pandemic and stop self-quarantining by Easter? Keep dreaming, says Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker (R).
Why hasn’t tramp’s cabinet removed him? He is too unbalanced and ill equipped to be our leader now. Isn’t that apparent?
The Governors are in charge. Trump can influence a few but not the majority. If there are large gatherings on Easter Sunday, blame the rise in the number of cases and deaths on Trump.
And Jared Kushner. I know, Trump is ultimately responsible, but Kushner is the evil elf whispering in his ear.
Cultists do not turn on the leader of the cult. That’s why it’s called a “cult.”
Funny how having to confront the reality of a deadly virus can focus the mind.
Yeah, no. Good try Charlie but you REALLY need to talk to some of your fellow Southern Governors who seem to ‘think’ it’s OK to do nothing because they don’t have any of them California libruls or NY whatevers in their states. We will flatten the curve only to have it reemerge due to stupidity.
I hope these GOP Governors don’t stand on the same stage with Fat Donnie when his Nuremberg rallies start up, again. It’d be nice if they banned them but that won’t happen.
Massachusetts has an R Governor but went for Hillary 2-to-1 over Trump in 2016. Charlie Baker knows not to waste time waiting by the phone for Federal help.
They intend to flatten the curve by killing 40% of their constituency and utterly destroying whatever little healthcare they have in their godforsaken states.
Even some Republicans can understand the basics of this pandemic. Our great president knows better. So proud! KAG!
By tomorrow morning, trumpy will be calling Baker names, like Cheap Charlie, Little Chuckie, RINO Charlie . . . Something.
Trumpet mouth is unable to restrain himself, unable to tell the truth.
Or one of the Four Horsemen? The pale green one, maybe?
10-1 Stephen Miller is whispering in the other ear.
“your fellow Southern Governors”
Since when has Massachusetts been a “Southern” state? … To anyone not in Alaska, that is.
Reading this reminded me of the Dan Patrick thing, the same argument being made by other prominent GOPers, too; and while preparing for my (now-online) classes for next week, this bit from Wendell Berry’s essay “What Are People For?” pulled me up short:
When the “too many” of the country arrive in the city, they are not called “too many”[. . . .] But what will happen when economists ever perceive that there are too many people in the cities? There appear to be only two possibilities: either they will have to recognize that their earlier diagnosis [that there are too many people engaged in farming] was a tragic error, or they will conclude that there are too many people in the country and city both–and what further inhumanities will be justified by that diagnosis?
The great question that hovers over this issue, one that we have dealt with mainly by indifference, is the question of what people are for. Is their greatest dignity in unemployment? Is the obsolescence of human beings now our social goal?
ETA: For “economists” substitute “politicians and pundits” to get a fuller COVID-19 vibe from this.
What continues to blow my mind is how Trump’s ratings keep going up, and his disapproval down. Then again, I felt the same way when George W muffed the warnings about “9-11” - and Americans apparently loved him for it.
Note that this only seems to apply when the prez is a Republican. Go figure.
I got Trump’s response right here:
The republican party needs to remove Trump from office before he kills off all their base. Yeah they should want to save them just because they are human, but I know that won’t motivate them, as we’re seeing.
Personally I’m relieved that Governor Baker in spite of being a good guy didn’t get to the point where he’d have to appoint a temporary replacement for Elizabeth Warren even if it would have been for just five months. There’s lots of mischief that could be done in that space of time.