Trump, Pence, and Republican leaders live in the covid-19 Green Zone and don't care about us.

[gulliver]

Last edited Sat May 2, 2020, 12:15 PM - Edit history (3)

Trump, Pence, and Republican leaders are basking in the freedom that comes from testing. They are tested constantly. They live inside the covid-19 Green Zone. Pence was even proudly using the luxury of the testing he gets regularly to defend his walking through a hospital without a mask.

(On edit: Here's a great WaPo article on the subject, Trump uses White House events to project return to normalcy while relying on testing that public lacks.)

Trump never wears a mask. He doesn't see it for himself. Why should he care? Why should Trump, Pence, and the Republicans bother getting a high level of testing–like they enjoy–for the American People? Just let the folks "outside" mix it up and get the disease! Let them fight each other. It's great to live in the Green Zone!

The Green Zone dwellers stand in the way of testing for the rest of us. It's ridiculous and terrible. It wasn't amusing to hear Trump's new mouthpiece, Kayleigh McEnany, waxing misty-eyed about Trump's (and her own) cherished principle of federalism at the press conference yesterday. Is that what they're calling deliberate inaction, sleeping on your watch, ineptitude, and political preening during an emergency now?

I haven't seen any of the other national leaders in the world doing nothing while their states, provinces, or constituent countries (as in the UK, for example) are left to shiver in the wind. They apparently don't "cherish federalism" like our illustrious Green Zone heroes do.

[Walleye]

1. But they don't have enough tests for the Senators?

[jimfields33]

2. Hopefully the former presidents are tested often

I find it hard to believe they are not taking care of senators. Heck they are testing our development by bringing tests here and were hardly important (in government). We just go up to the clubhouse and they have testing daily from 9-4. You’d think they’d do that everywhere.

[gulliver]

3. Trump's barber and chef probably get tests.

Wouldn't it be nice if Trump's Republican administration weren't standing in the way of that for everyone else?

[Walleye]

4. I bet everyone in the White House gets tested every day.