Trump's New War

Apparently claiming to end (fictional) wars wasn't getting him enough attention.

I guess he thinks the American people will support him if he kills enough brown people. That's the plan. That's the only item on his agenda.

What a disgrace.

The Dangers of Normalizing Ignorance

Not gonna lie, when I saw Trump say this during his press conference, I wasn't even going to talk about it. "Trump says something ignorant" is hardly news. It's our normal state, at this point.



And of course everyone on Twitter and FB was already screaming and building memes, so it's not like Trump's ignorant ranting needed more commentary.

But then I saw that people on the Right were defending the statement.

"Inject disinfectant," Trump says, and the Far-Right finds a way to defend it.

At no time did Trump actually propose injecting patients with disinfectant; he deferred to “medical doctors” to figure out how to apply Dr. Bryant’s research.

I mean, who are you going to believe, these boot-lickers or your lying eyes?

This is what happens, obviously, when you accept authority blindly -- when you are trained to do that from childhood, and punished for asking questions and raising objections.

It's also what happens when you lack the ability to discern a credible source from a piece of propaganda.

And that's how we end up with fifty thousand Americans dead -- at least, and so far.


UPDATE: Oh my God

Trump says his comments on disinfectant inside people’s bodies was sarcastic pic.twitter.com/t7bPUAUU0u

— Jeff Mason (@jeffmason1) April 24, 2020

Incompetence at the Top

What Do You Have to Lose?

Trump's going to start touting forsythia next.



More here.

Key section is several paragraphs in, where the high "success" rate of Trump's snake oil drug is explained -- those doing the study only included people who were cured in the study. Not cured by the drug, necessarily -- just people who got better, as most people who contract Covid-19 do get better.

It's like the person who stepped outside their house every morning and shook their anti-tiger charm in every direction. Hey, they never got tigers, right? So the charm must be 100% effective!

What have you got to lose?

Covid-19 Numbers

There are 197 cases of Covid-19 in Arkansas, as of noon today.

There were 118 three days ago.

Some of the increase is an artifact of testing -- by which I mean we probably had more than 118 cases on March 21st -- but still.

44,183 cases nationwide. There were just over 500 cases in the USA on March 9, which is just about two weeks ago. Again, remember we weren't testing on a wide-scale yet then -- and still aren't now -- so neither number is a true reflection of how many people actually have the virus.

544 people have died. On March 9, 22 people had died.

Trump said we should all go back to our regular life on April 12. That's just about two and a half weeks from now. Remember that two weeks ago we were at 500 cases. Where do you think we will be two weeks from now?

 I don't know if Trump is serious -- everything he says is a lie, after all -- but that's clearly an unrealistic estimate.



(Source for graph)