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Donald Trump, American Idiot
How Ignorance, Rage, and Fear Became the Ruling Principles of American Life
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Hey, Umair. Did you inject yourself with Lysol yet?
Ben, the London copper, shouted from across the dog park.
I looked up, confused.
Massimo, the Italian doctor, grinned, and cried: Maybe he drank it already!
Wait, what? It was too early for this. Id just woken up. Snowy looked up at me, smiling, too. I grumbled, irritated.
And then they told me, shaking with laughter, unable to contain themselves. My jaw dropped, and I laughed, too.
Youve heard, by now, Im sure, the statement that most of the world greeted with shock and hilarity. Donald Trump suggested
to fight a deadly pandemic
people should
drink disinfectant
or maybe inject it. LOL, what?
That of course led to numerous manufacturers of disinfectant urgently telling people, no, please, please, dont drink it, and certainly dont inject it.
Theres a comedy of errors, and then theres what you might call the slapstick comedy of idiots. Donald Trump, my friends, exemplifies a certain kind of person, renowned the world over: the American idiot.
Immortalized in a song by a SoCal punk band, the American idiot is a figure everyone knows and Americans, too often, dont want to admit exists. When I say everyone, I mean everyone. Everyone in my dog park, everyone in the world.
Consider, for a moment, the actions of the American President since the beginning of the pandemic.
Denying there was one
Passing an inadequate stimulus bill
Obstructing any kind of national strategy
Encouraging lockdown liberation protesters
Cutting funding for the WHO
And finally, telling people to
drink Lysol
That, my friends, will be remembered as one of the textbook examples of what it means to be an American idiot.
So what does it mean, really? This morning at the dog park, I got ribbed by Massimo and Ben for the above. Yesterday, when I was at the dog park, I got asked, puzzled, by Wolfgang, the funny and gentle German, if it was really true: did Americans carry guns to Starbucks? I looked at him like a deer caught in the headlights of an approaching freight train. Then I nodded and shrugged. But why?! he asked, astonished.
He had a point. The point is made to me every single day now, in baffled conservations, in bewildered questions, in shocked and stunned observations: what the hell is wrong with Americans? Are they really this crazy? They cant be. But they keep on
so are they? What the?
The world, you see, looks at America, and sees something very different than Americans do. It doesnt just see a lunatic demagogue telling people to drink Lysol after cutting funding for the WHO. It sees a nation of people quicker to carry a gun than read a book, wholl happily deny their neighbors kids healthcare but go to church every Sunday, who predictably, consistently vote against any improvement to their standards of living
which by now have reached standards that people in most of the rest of the world literally dont believe, and neither do Americans.
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catbyte
(34,454 posts)greymattermom
(5,754 posts)are working the virus to make more money, stealing masks and protective equipment, suggesting treatments that are dangerous, to load up their accounts before they whole thing collapses. I don't think that anyone is really that stupid. It's a reality tv show.
Kitchari
(2,168 posts)Also denial. From the article:
tulipsandroses
(5,127 posts)and right wing and racist ideologies.
I was listening to a discussion on MSNBC recently, it had more to do with Trump's immigration ban. But they spoke to the point that while people in the USA are afraid of 5G, vaccines, rejecting science and being racist towards immigrants. The rest of the world is moving on - and the USA is falling behind in innovation and technology. -Brilliant immigrants who used to come to the USA - whom in the past studied at our universities and then stayed and made significant contributions - no longer want to do that and have taken their talents elsewhere.
While we cling to guns and the Bible and a president railing against renewable energy like wind power and telling people windmills cause cancer and you won't be able to watch tv. I mean people applaud that kind of nonsense.
musclecar6
(1,690 posts)Hes so far off the rails, even Trump TV for morons ( we all know who that is) sometimes blasts him cause even they cant defend his crazy dangerous nonsense. Was, is and always will be a complete jerkoff ( along with his ardent knuckle dragging 5th ave groupies)
mnmoderatedem
(3,729 posts)I hear there is a movement underway to produce Lysol in bite size chewables.
dajoki
(10,678 posts)3Hotdogs
(12,409 posts)with some kind of disinfectant. That had to burn, going down.
He ended in hospital.
Happy Hoosier
(7,392 posts)Different Drummer
(7,646 posts)DD