The Trumpty Dumpty Report
In a time of deceit, telling the truth
is a revolutionary act- George Orwell
No legacy is so rich as honesty-William Shakespeare
Let us not become the evil we despise.
COVID Donnie keeps calling this virus the Chinese Virus,
when in fact, it is actually the Trump Virus. This virus is running rampant in
the United States without any real plan; therefore, this virus is in fact the
Trump Virus.
Covid Donnie basically said that he doesn’t have a plan. He
is flying blind. He continues to lie and use his smoke and mirror approach to
everything in order to sell his bullshit to the American people.
There is no plan to make sure the unemployed American
people and, small businesses, can stay afloat while in a shut down. He has no
plan to make sure that those without health insurance, or who have inadequate
health plans can get medical care. He has no plan.
He said,
“WE CANNOT LET THE CURE BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM
ITSELF. AT THE END OF THE 15 DAY PERIOD, WE WILL MAKE A DECISION AS TO WHICH
WAY WE WANT TO GO!” (He capped this Tweet.)
What the heck is talking about? “The cure be worse than the
problem”? What does that actually mean? Does he feel that helping people
survive and stay afloat may be worse that the disease itself? He only cares
about himself. He said he might bail out his Trump Organization with government
funds. Is he saying that he has no cash reserves to keep his business afloat?
No doubt, his golf clubs are shut down and his employees are laid off. He
doesn’t care.
Let’s end this ridiculous phrase “social distancing”. We
are actually physically distancing. We must continue our social interactions be
it at a distance. We are not socializing at Costco. We are keeping a physical
distancing. The Titanic Trump Task Force came up with this idiotic referencing
to distancing.
Even Dr. Fauci, the Titanic’s infectious disease
specialist, basically said that *RUMP is an idiot and he has to step out in
front of the Idiot-in-Chief’s lies and misinformation. And he does!! Watch him
on CNN.
This administration is telling us that they do not have a
long term plan. After 15 days, they will look at what they will do next. They
are leaving it up to the states, when governors are demanding the federal
government step up their game plan.
This is insane!!! Is this how Tesla or GM or 3M or Comcast,
for example, operates? They look at 15 day intervals to determine what they
will do next? Or, do they have long term, or medium term plan to lay out all
the possibilities they may encounter along the way? The Titanic Trump Task
Force is being steered by his assistant moron, Mike Putz. No wonder we are headed toward an
iceberg.
Moscow Mitch is having a problem making sure that people
who do not pay taxes because their incomes are so small the same amount of cash
that people who do pay taxes will receive from the government. Nancy Pelosi and
Chuck Schumer are fighting for the working class. Moscow Mitch is playing
politics and is not concerned for the financially weakest population in our
country.
*RUMP had his head up his RUMP when given the “Crimson
Contagion” report, which would have made the nation much more prepared for this
contagion. Now we are floundering.
Thomas Bossert, a former homeland security advisor, said,
“Sadly, the numbers now suggest the U.S.
is poised to take the lead in coronavirus cases. It’s reasonable to plan the
U.S. to top the list of countries with most cases in approximately 1 week. This
does NOT make social intervention futile. It makes it imperative!”
With COVID Donnie’s lack of a plan—a medium to long term
vision—why would small businesses want to reopen with such uncertainty? Why
would their employees want to go back to work if they are not sure what the
administration’s plan will be?
Idiot Lindsey Graham-cracker said,
“ President’s best decision was stopping travel from China
early on.”
HUH?
Graham-cracker is a total idiot, too. The best decision that should have been
taken early on would have been to have a detailed and fully understandable medium
and long term comprehensive plan to address the viral outbreak for our health
care community and for our citizens who need medical and financial support, as
well as shut down Wall Street until the country would stabilize and make sure
that vital manufacturing of medical equipment and supplies keeps running.
But, it didn’t happen. All COVID Donnie has is to name
call, and brag, play politics, and refer to the virus as the Chinese Virus.
That’s all he’s got.
[Dear
friends, These three outcries of the heart entered my in-box this week. They
are pleas for us to learn from the crisis we are in. God forbid that we rejoice
in this crisis; and God forbid that we learn nothing, turning our eyes, our
ears, our hearts, our heads away.
The
first of the three: Rabbi Tamara Cohen has written the following poetic midrash
in the light of the Torah portion that is read tomorrow morning. It includes a
passage about Moses' calling the people to assemble, and saying that their
gifts to build the portable House of the Holy Presence to be carried in the
Wilderness have been enough, and they should bring no more. Rabbi Cohen is the
Chief of Innovation for Moving Traditions, a national organization focused on teens,
gender, and Jewish identity where she spearheaded the creation of Tzelem, a
group for transgender and non-binary teens. As an intern for The Shalom Center
ten years ago, she wrote "Eicha for the Earth," a Book of
Lamentations for Temple Earth.-- AW, ed.]
And
they Assembled
And
Moses said dayam, enough.
Enough:
enough.
Stop,
withdraw,
bring/do/perform/gather
no more.
Let the
silver glare of a silent sanctuary,
the
gold blue of a plane-less sky
the
garnet sheen of an empty concert hall
be our
sacred offering,
meager
gifts of absence from wise and less wise-hearted people.
Please
God let our ceasing be enough.
Let our
hospital beds be enough.
Let our
slow awakening to the interconnectedness of every living being be enough
Let a
pillar of stillness rest at the entrance to every home and prison.
Let
this plague pass over us, enough of us.
Enough.
Shabbat
Shalom dear chaverim, far and wide,
------Tamara
[Kristin
Flyntz wrote the following poetic letter from the Virus to us all. She is the
Content Editorial Director for Ascensus. -- AW, ed]
STOP:
An Imagined Letter from Covid-19 to Humans
Stop.
Just stop.
It is
no longer a request. It is a mandate.
We will
help you.
We will
bring the supersonic, high speed merry-go-round to a halt
We will
stop
the
planes
the
trains
the
schools
the
malls
the
meetings
the
frenetic, furied rush of illusions and “obligations” that keep you from hearing
our
single
and shared beating heart,
the way
we breathe together, in unison.
Our
obligation is to each other,
As it
has always been, even if, even though, you have forgotten.
We will
interrupt this broadcast, the endless cacophonous broadcast of divisions and
distractions,
to
bring you this long-breaking news:
We are
not well.
None of
us; all of us are suffering.
Last
year, the firestorms that scorched the lungs of the earth
did not
give you pause.
Nor the
typhoons in Africa,China, Japan.
Nor the
fevered climates in Japan and India.
You
have not been listening.
It is
hard to listen when you are so busy all the time, hustling to uphold the
comforts and conveniences that scaffold your lives.
But the
foundation is giving way,
buckling
under the weight of your needs and desires.
We will
help you.
We will
bring the firestorms to your body
We will
bring the fever to your body
We will
bring the burning, searing, and flooding to your lungs
that
you might hear:
We are
not well.
Despite
what you might think or feel, we are not the enemy.
We are
Messenger. We are Ally. We are a balancing force.
We are
asking you:
To
stop, to be still, to listen;
To move
beyond your individual concerns and consider the concerns of all;
To be
with your ignorance, to find your humility, to relinquish your thinking minds
and travel deep into the mind of the heart;
To look
up into the sky, streaked with fewer planes, and see it, to notice its
condition: clear, smoky, smoggy, rainy? How much do you need it to be healthy
so that you may also be healthy?
To look
at a tree, and see it, to notice its condition: how does its health contribute
to the health of the sky, to the air you need to be healthy?
To
visit a river, and see it, to notice its condition: clear, clean, murky,
polluted? How much do you need it to be healthy so that you may also be
healthy?
How
does its health contribute to the health of the tree, who contributes to the
health of the sky, so that you may also be healthy?
Many
are afraid now.
Do not
demonize your fear, and also, do not let it rule you.
Instead,
let it speak to you—in your stillness,
listen
for its wisdom.
What
might it be telling you about what is at work, at issue, at risk,
beyond
the threats of personal inconvenience and illness?
As the
health of a tree, a river, the sky tells you about quality of your own health,
what
might the quality of your health tell you about the health of the rivers, the
trees, the sky,
and all
of us who share this planet with you?
Stop.
Notice
if you are resisting.
Notice
what you are resisting.
Ask
why.
Stop.
Just stop..
Be
still.
Listen.
Ask us
what we might teach you about illness and healing, about what might be required
so that all may be well.
We will
help you, if you listen.
------ Kristin Flyntz
[And this poem, "Lockdown," is by Richard
Hendrick, OFM -- a Franciscan friar.
“Better
to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.”
Abraham Lincoln
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