Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Total Incompetence


COVID is racing across the United States like wildfire. The country is an international pariah. Michelle Goldberg writes:

As our country plunges into a black hole of unchecked illness, death and pariahdom, the administration is waging a PR war on its own top disease expert, Anthony Fauci, trying to convince news outlets that he can’t be trusted. “The move to treat Dr. Fauci as if he were a warring political rival comes as he has grown increasingly vocal in his concerns about the national surge in coronavirus cases,” reported The Times.
Trump has also undercut the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, retweeting the conspiratorial ramblings of the former game show host Chuck Woolery: “The most outrageous lies are the ones about Covid-19. Everyone is lying. The C.D.C., media, Democrats, our doctors, not all but most, that we are told to trust.” There are now so many stories of Trump fans dying after blithely exposing themselves to the virus that they’ve become a macabre cliché.

Around the world, the United States is a laughing stock:

The country’s international humiliation is total; historians may argue about when the American century began, but I doubt they’ll disagree about when it ended.

Yet no one is calling for Donald Trump's resignation. Trump's incompetence is total. And the country stumbles into oblivion.

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6 comments:

Lorne said...

"Yet no one is calling for Donald Trump's resignation." That statement epitomizes the real problem, Owen, of which Trump is but the most obvious symptom: a failed political system, a failed democracy.

Owen Gray said...

Precisely, Lorne. This is much more than the failure of one man. This is the failure of a nation. And the results are catastrophic.

Trailblazer said...

The problem with failing empires is that they have to have at least one last kick of the can!
With Trump at the helm the last kick is likely to be dangerous to the rest of the world.
Add to this that Trump is likely to have a false flag situation to try and prop up his failing presidency and re election chances.

TB

Owen Gray said...

I agree, TB. Trump is most dangerous when he is about to fail.

Anonymous said...

Indeed, from afar watching Trump destroy the US is like a slow motion car-wreck, impossible to look away from. It's hard to imagine a world where someone this corrupt, incompetent, and lacking in any redeeming human quality let alone leadership, doesn't consume as much oxygen and precious time as Trump does. It will be disastrous regardless of the outcome of the November election, he wins- good luck to Congress of ever impeaching him again (he is a walking impeachment article on a daily basis- a deliberate malfeasance in response to CoVid alone would have sank anyone else), he loses, watch out for the November to January period, will make now look like a functional democracy. Scary to think this is all unfolding literally in our backyard. BC Waterboy

Owen Gray said...

Living next to the United States has always been dangerous, waterboy. But, these days, it's perilous.