SIMPLE & QUICK: The President is a weapon— when you see it

Chris Murphy, the senior senator from Connecticut, has put it best in his tweet today:

Americans have successfully turned the on-going pandemic into a Red state versus Blue state hellscape. In a string of machismo missteps, the President of the United States and his Administration have exacerbated the national health crisis. In the last week alone, Trump has had controversial and failed 2020 MAGA rallies in Arizona and Nebraska, Mike has given repeated mixed-messaging on masks and then had unmasked minstrels in Texas.

The Veep then said at the first Covid-19 briefing in a month that “it’s a good thing really,” that young people are getting Covid-19. And alas, in what appears to be another attempt to affirm an apparent appetite for abject atrocity, POTUS and company are making a midnight effort to get the Supreme Court to dismantle the ACA in the midst of all of it.

Establishment Republicans are breaking rank with the President for quite literally the first time and are now begging Americans to wear masks in public. Finding their voices, or whatever, is Leader McConnell, TN-Sen. Lamar Alexander, and former Vice President Dick Cheney. But that is where the good news on the GOP front ends.

The Governors of Florida and Texas have been discarded by the President, and Donald’s HHS Secretary Alexander Azar is simultaneously defending the President for not wearing a mask and imploring Americans wear masks and physical distance because “the window is closing” on the U.S. being able to control the pandemic.

The New York Times broke an increasingly alarming story yesterday. Americans are now learning that U.S. Intelligence agencies have information on clandestine Russian military agencies. In a program probably put into play by Russian President Vladimir Putin, a Kremlin military unit offered — and collected— bounties on dead U.S. soldiers and other Coalition fighters from Taliban-connected militias in Afghanistan. NBC has since confirmed the scoop, and now we know that the story has legs because it continues to expand.

At first, the official word from POTUS was that he was never briefed on the matter. Of course, this an impossible lie as the man is the Commander in Chief of the United States Armed Forces. And in being such, the President receives a Daily Briefing (PDB) of pertinent domestic and foreign matters. In regards to something akin to an act of war, the President is informed almost immediately of the development and is presented with a list of options for response and retaliation.

Americans who remember the Iran bombings debacle under Trump will remember that the 45th President was presented with options by military officials. This case would fall under the same scope scenario— and has since been confirmed in reports.

So, POTUS has known since at least March, if not as early as January, and instead of responding with condemnation, sanctions, a show of power, or overt military action— Donald Trump wants Putin’s Russia back in the G7. Many are now taking serious thought in what could possibly be at the root of such incendiary behavior?

If the bizarre outrage above is not enough, today, the President retweeted a video-clip in which one of the President’s “good people” loudly chants amidst a group of other vehement MAGA supporters,”White Power!” So to boot, the MAGA President has evolved from a racist dog whistler into a big bull horn for white supremacist hullabaloo. “And that’s just the last 48-hours.”