It's entirely appropriate - on reading through the list of acts/attitudes to be cursed, I realised how guilty our so-called leaders really are.
(BTW, I think what is meant by the 'landmark' was that stone or post which indicated the boundary of a neighbour's strip of land - moving it surreptitiously in order to increase the size of one's own strip would make the neighbour's bit smaller, and thus reduce his crop of whatever...IOW, stealing from one's neighbour, and, by extension, his dependents.)
So Trump called in to Sean Hannity's show on Fox News (as he is wont to do). This ensued:
So if, you know, we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better [ from COVID-19 infection ], just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work, some of them go to work, but they get better and then, when you do have a death like you had in the state of Washington, like you had one in California, I believe you had one in New York, you know, all of a sudden it seems like 3 or 4 percent, which is a very high number, as opposed to a fraction of 1 percent.
Just the American president* saying it's okay if people with coronavirus go to work. You can watch the video in this tweet if you want to. Naturally Trump took to twitter later to say that he didn't really say what he was caught saying on tape.
Could the CofE's "Commination Against Sinners" fit the bill? Here it is.
I like "Cursed is he that moveth his neighbours landmark".
That's a good resource.
I like "Cursed are the unmerciful, fornicators, and adulterers, covetous persons, idolaters, slanderers, drunkards, and extortioners."
That's a lovely listing of all the things about el trumpo.
Well, not "drunkard"--unless you are expanding the meaning of the term to include those drunk with power. Amongst the disturbing points about Trump is that he does all of this crap while stone cold sober.
Stone cold sober concerning booze perhaps. I thought he was amped up on some sort of pharmacological concoction. His Doctor during the campaign struck me as a bloke who has spent many many years experimenting in the field.
Dr. Donald J. Trump, of course, is the pioneering scientist who first determined that climate change is a hoax and, more recently, discovered that windmills cause cancer. In between, he proved that forest fires could be contained by “raking”...
As a nominee for silver lining status, our probable white nationalist Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has been diagnosed with Covid-19. He recently met with William Barr and Ivanka Trump about the Five Eyes security arrangements. Knowing Dutton, he was probably trying to convince them to kneecap Johnson for not toeing the line on Huawei.
Here is an Age report, including a photo of Dutton standing next to the spoilt young brat on 5 March. He got the diagnosis today. Hope springs eternal. For her, it will surely only be a mild case.
Friend who is a Trump fan, just sent me a picture of student ID of Obama claiming he was a foreign student, and not therefore born in the USA. Why do these people still obsess about Obama? Oh that's right Trump does.
Mm, I was thinking if he tested positive he would spin it as him being ‘one of the people’ and unafraid, unlike ‘the wimps’ who are not shaking hands, etc, and if negative it’s because he’s the greatest, biggliest, healthiest president ever. 🤬.
I had the thought last night that if he did test positive, it would take only a day before he discharged himself against medical advice, said he felt fine, and that he was going back to work.
I had the thought last night that if he did test positive, it would take only a day before he discharged himself against medical advice, said he felt fine, and that he was going back to work.
"Work" meaning watching Fox TV.
But really, if you were a virus, would you want anything to do with Trump?
Seven days before Donald Trump took office, his aides faced a major test: the rapid, global spread of a dangerous virus in cities like London and Seoul, one serious enough that some countries were imposing travel bans.
In a sober briefing, Trump’s incoming team learned that the disease was an emerging pandemic — a strain of novel influenza known as H9N2 — and that health systems were crashing in Asia, overwhelmed by the demand.
“Health officials warn that this could become the worst influenza pandemic since 1918,” Trump’s aides were told. Soon, they heard cases were popping up in California and Texas.
The briefing was intended to hammer home a new, terrifying reality facing the Trump administration, and the incoming president’s responsibility to protect Americans amid a crisis. But unlike the coronavirus pandemic currently ravaging the globe, this 2017 crisis didn’t really happen — it was among a handful of scenarios presented to Trump’s top aides as part of a legally required transition exercise with members of the outgoing administration of Barack Obama.
And in the words of several attendees, the atmosphere was “weird” at best, chilly at worst.
POLITICO obtained documents from the meeting and spoke with more than a dozen attendees to help provide the most detailed reconstruction of the closed-door session yet. It was perhaps the most concrete and visible transition exercise that dealt with the possibility of pandemics, and top officials from both sides — whether they wanted to be there or not — were forced to confront a whole-of-government response to a crisis. The Trump team was told it could face specific challenges, such as shortages of ventilators, anti-viral drugs and other medical essentials, and that having a coordinated, unified national response was “paramount” — warnings that seem eerily prescient given the ongoing coronavirus crisis.
Of course, this preparation ran into one of the big hurdles of the Trump administration*:
But roughly two-thirds of the Trump representatives in that room are no longer serving in the administration. That extraordinary turnover in the months and years that followed is likely one reason his administration has struggled to handle the very real pandemic it faces now, former Obama administration officials said.
“The advantage we had under Obama was that during the first four years we had the same White House staff, the same Cabinet,” said former deputy labor secretary Chris Lu, who attended the gathering. “Just having the continuity makes all the difference in the world.”
And here's one of those Trump rejects completely missing the point:
Sean Spicer, Trump’s first White House press secretary, was among those who participated in the meeting. He said he understood the reasons such exercises could be useful, but described the encounter as a massive transfer of information that ultimately felt very theoretical. In real life, things are never as simple as what’s presented in a table-top exercise, he said.
“There’s no briefing that can prepare you for a worldwide pandemic,” added Spicer, who left the administration in mid-2017.
This is true as far as it goes, but it misses the bigger point. An emergency is, by definition, an unexpected event. It's never going to exactly match your simulation (though this one is pretty damn close). The point isn't to have a plan, it's to go through the planning so you know what resources are available, how they interact with other resources, and what outcomes of any general approach are likely to be.
He *might* spin it--at least to himself--as people thinking he was taking it seriously, because of the mask. Or that people who are advocating masks are making too much of the situation, and trying to keep him from seeing that.
Or he *could* alter the cover, and put it up. IIRC he and/or his people have done that before. And if he had the nerve to change a weather map...
He applied to build a sea wal round his Irish golf course to protect it against rising sea levels. The Republic government has refused permission. God save Ireland!
He applied to build a sea wal round his Irish golf course to protect it against rising sea levels. The Republic government has refused permission. God save Ireland!
A plane with 5 passengers on board -- Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, Angela Merkel, the Pope and a 10-year-old schoolgirl -- is about to crash and there are only 4 parachutes. Trump says "I need one. I’m the smartest man in the USA and I'm needed to solve the pandemic!" He takes one parachute and jumps. Johnson says ‘I’m needed to sort out the COVID-19 mess in Britain’. He takes one and jumps. The Pope says, "The world's Catholics depend on me for comfort in a time of fear." He takes one and jumps. "You can have the last parachute," Merkel says to the 10-year-old. "I've lived my life. Yours is only just starting." The little girl replies: "Don’t worry, there are 2 parachutes left, the smartest man in the USA just took my school bag."
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(BTW, I think what is meant by the 'landmark' was that stone or post which indicated the boundary of a neighbour's strip of land - moving it surreptitiously in order to increase the size of one's own strip would make the neighbour's bit smaller, and thus reduce his crop of whatever...IOW, stealing from one's neighbour, and, by extension, his dependents.)
Just the American president* saying it's okay if people with coronavirus go to work. You can watch the video in this tweet if you want to. Naturally Trump took to twitter later to say that he didn't really say what he was caught saying on tape.
His command of the English language appears to be very limited. Is he perhaps a Large Ape, in some sort of not-very-effective disguise?
No disrespect at all is intended to Large Apes, BTW.
That's a good resource.
I like "Cursed are the unmerciful, fornicators, and adulterers, covetous persons, idolaters, slanderers, drunkards, and extortioners."
That's a lovely listing of all the things about el trumpo.
YMMV.
Besides, writing the title in full gives His Puissant Majesty greater honour.
Or something.
Cue George Takei: "Ohhh, MYYY!"
Thx for the link, NP!
I hope you have a macro set up.
As a nominee for silver lining status, our probable white nationalist Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has been diagnosed with Covid-19. He recently met with William Barr and Ivanka Trump about the Five Eyes security arrangements. Knowing Dutton, he was probably trying to convince them to kneecap Johnson for not toeing the line on Huawei.
One small step away, perhaps...
A vast improvement over his previous diet, to be honest.
Which would involve an entirely different type of diet.
You can rearrange the letters of "donald trump" and get Plod Turd Man. Not quite sure what it means but I like it.
(Or is he lying about that too?)
OTOH, if he is infected after all, it will be with the Bigliest And Greatest All-American Virus Ever!
"Work" meaning watching Fox TV.
But really, if you were a virus, would you want anything to do with Trump?
Meanwhile a Norwegian university advises overseas students to return home particularly those studying in countries with bad infrastructure and poor health services with USA given as an example. https://twitter.com/powerfulfence/status/1239276431017992192?s=20
Anyone want to argue the point?
IOW, the man who puts his foot in it...
From Politico two days later:
Of course, this preparation ran into one of the big hurdles of the Trump administration*:
And here's one of those Trump rejects completely missing the point:
This is true as far as it goes, but it misses the bigger point. An emergency is, by definition, an unexpected event. It's never going to exactly match your simulation (though this one is pretty damn close). The point isn't to have a plan, it's to go through the planning so you know what resources are available, how they interact with other resources, and what outcomes of any general approach are likely to be.
[ also posted at the Purgatory Trump thread since this seems like it's worthy of serious discussion ]
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/09. It is one of their best.
Or he *could* alter the cover, and put it up. IIRC he and/or his people have done that before. And if he had the nerve to change a weather map...
beautiful!
Indeed 👏🏼👏🏼
A plane with 5 passengers on board -- Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, Angela Merkel, the Pope and a 10-year-old schoolgirl -- is about to crash and there are only 4 parachutes. Trump says "I need one. I’m the smartest man in the USA and I'm needed to solve the pandemic!" He takes one parachute and jumps. Johnson says ‘I’m needed to sort out the COVID-19 mess in Britain’. He takes one and jumps. The Pope says, "The world's Catholics depend on me for comfort in a time of fear." He takes one and jumps. "You can have the last parachute," Merkel says to the 10-year-old. "I've lived my life. Yours is only just starting." The little girl replies: "Don’t worry, there are 2 parachutes left, the smartest man in the USA just took my school bag."
with thanks to Christabel Blackman