Reflecctions on President Trump and Covid

Reflections on President Trump and Covid

For all his great achievements, just stupendous achievements, President Trump was played, totally. We now know how profound, and profoundly ruthless, the Deep State is. But four years ago? Therefore it is hard to fault the President for something few realized was so evil. As it was, sadly, even till the end of his Administration, he was given bad avice as he should not have let Zhou Biden be inaugurated.

But he is not “all-seeing” and he wasn’t given good advice before or after how to prevent, or deal with, election fraud. Rudy Giuliani was great in his day, for example, and could be soncisered an “Elder” with a lot of wise counsel, yet Rudy should not have been involved in stopping the steal, we now know. But in general, it is so shocking how President Trump was played by so many, and many of them he, himself, picked to serve in his Administration. In hindsight, we know now that he should have fired a huge swath of the bureaucracy (i.e. those that could be fired) and that includes all the public health bigshots. We think of the FBI/CIA types, but it probably wouldn’t have occurred to President Trump or his closest MAGA supporters that the public health people and the government “science” were foul, rotten, diseased in themselves, utterly corrupt and heinous, as Fauci clearly is. (Of course, the GOPe would have gone ballistic had he fired on the necessary scale, but they were and are an essential part of the problem.)

But I do fault him personally for two actions. First, listening to Fauci at Easter, 2020, when the President “cancelled” Easter, etc. First of all, never react in panic. Panic can be as deadly as whatever the problem is supposed to be. It is a very delicate balance. For example, his cancelling flights from China was brilliant; his cancelling the economy was not.

Trump should also have known enough to know that lockdowns are not the traditional way to deal with a contagion, but something new, in fact, CCP-inspired. He should have realized that for every percentage drop in employment, suicide increases, all that. He should have stood firm with the timeless truth that wrecking the economy would be as dangerous as anything else that could happen because it is a truism that a healthy economy can deal with most any problem whereas a crashed economy is unable to support a nation in need.

The second thing I fault him for is not clearly saying (and repeatedly saying, again and again) something like: “We’re on Trump time to get vaccines ready, but I must also carefully caution EVERYONE that these will be ‘Emergency Use Authorization’ only, and I personally cannot recommend anyone actually take them. It’s your choice, but beware. Rush jobs may work and they may not. And please carefully note that Congress has made these drug companies immune from lawsuits arising from their creations.”

Now he’s still lauding the vaccines, and the Left will not hesitate to use that against him should ever increasing numbers of people die of the vaccines (which is a strong possibility). Praising these vile potions is the worse thing Donald Trump has ever done, and I am afraid it will haunt him for the rest of his life.

Otherwise, I’ve no complainst except maybe he should have delved into Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin, by which I mean into the weird push-back against them. It was an odd thing then, and we know now why Fauci, etc., were so against these drugs.

Bottom line: the U.S. Federal Goverment is famously incompetent for a reason: it is run by the most ruthless yet worthless notwits and grifters. Admiral Yammamoto famously made it known he thought the Imperial Army was led by incompetents and crazies, but that Army's commanders are Solomonic in comparison to the "ejits" we have in commend of the United States of America. From the lowest to the highest, Zhou Biden, Moron in Chief. This can't last much longer.

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