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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump believes anyone who dies from Covid-19 is a 'loser' Let the losers perish.
So I re-read it this week, in the wake of Trumps self-immolation in Tulsa, because something in the noxious spew hed spouted there reminded me of a brief segment of OTooles piece, specifically Trumps remark that hed asked that Covid-19 testing be slowed down so as to give the appearance of fewer cases. Like most people I thought this statement was so beyond the pale that it had to be a joke, and in fact that was how his staff tried to spin it the day afterwards. But much in line with Masha Gessens admonition to Believe the AutocratHe means what he says, it now appears that Trump was deadly serious on this point, as he has in fact confirmed multiple times since.
I dont kid, he stated. And thats absolutely true. Sociopaths like Trump dont kid because they dont possess or understand any sense of humor. Humor, particularly of the self-effacing variety requires a certain degree of humilitya willingness to relinquish control, however temporarily. Trump, who rarely smiles except in certain, learned circumstances and then only as if on cue, has never exhibited any signs that he comprehends humor, its purpose or uses.
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In How to Get Rich, Trump links his own germaphobia to the idea that some people are born losers. Winners are people who think positivelyand positivity repels germs. To me, germs are just another kind of negativity. He then goes on to tell the story of an unnamed acquaintance who is driven home from the hospital in an ambulance after being treated for injuries sustained in a crash. The ambulance crashes and he has to be taken back to the hospital: Maybe hes just a really unlucky guy. Or maybe hes a loser. I know that sounds harsh, but lets face itsome people are losers. The train of thought here is typically meandering, but the logic is clear enough. Losers are inevitably doomed by their own negativity, of which germs are a physical form. Infection happens to some people because they are natural losers.
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As OToole points out, this goes a long way towards his continual, pathological playing down of the threat, his infamous press conferences in which he surrounded himself with scientists but demanded center stage, all to demonstrate to his voting base that he, one of life's "winners," was firmly in control and that the worst pandemic to strike this country in over a century was nothing to take particularly seriously, unless you happened to be one of the losers who die from it.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/25/1955974/-Trump-believes-anyone-who-dies-from-Covid-19-is-a-loser?detail=emaildkre
rampartc
(5,407 posts)jaxexpat
(6,821 posts)We'll have a clean match, now each to your corners and, at the sound of the bell, come out fighting.
Cha
(297,196 posts)Karma do its thing ASAP
malaise
(268,980 posts)You've got Covid-19 or You're Fired.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)malaise
(268,980 posts)True Blue American
(17,984 posts)Has a limited amount of energy. It seems his amount is running low.
True Blue American
(17,984 posts)Is that winner thing running out?
niyad
(113,293 posts)I_UndergroundPanther
(12,463 posts)As a coincidental weapon for eliminating people that republicans hate.
Since they undermine effective methods to mitigate the damage due to covid republicans can be aiding and abetting the virus for proxy genocide.
They are commiting genocide of Americans on American soil. That in my mind should be a good justification for eliminating the republican party. Add in the treason,robberies,and corruption, incompetant, etc. It is obvious who the traitors,abusive, losers are.
chriscan64
(1,789 posts)I say why not? It's easy. He thinks he is better than everyone else. The rest is details.
lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)But if they have money or power he'll keep it to himself.