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| Misanthropic Boomer |
Trumplethinskin’s Chickens are Coming Home to Roost...
2014 when there was fear of an Ebola pandemic, then President Barack Obama, created a National Security response team to insure the most efficacious actions be taken to protect the American people. He appointed Ron Klain to head the interdisciplinary group: a man uniquely qualified, having worked with all of the agencies being pulled together as he had been ChIef of Staff for both Vice Presidents Gore and Biden. In 2018 President Trump eliminated this group citing the need for budget cuts: another of his narrow minded, short sighted decisions to destroy the Obama legacy.
Since ascending to the Presidency Trump has taken credit for everything Barack Obama accomplished, while at the same time blaming the former President for his own short sightedness and failures. Trump has especially gloried in claiming credit for the economic successes Obama initiated.
We are now in the potential grip of a new pandemic...the Corona Virus, the first victim of which is the Stock Market. It is tumbling down as it did in 2008, before the Obama administration salvaged the damage done by overzealous bankers and Wall Street brokerages. The market hates uncertainty and is reacting as one would expect.
Since ascending to the Presidency Trump has taken credit for everything Barack Obama accomplished, while at the same time blaming the former President for his own short sightedness and failures. Trump has especially gloried in claiming credit for the economic successes Obama initiated.
We are now in the potential grip of a new pandemic...the Corona Virus, the first victim of which is the Stock Market. It is tumbling down as it did in 2008, before the Obama administration salvaged the damage done by overzealous bankers and Wall Street brokerages. The market hates uncertainty and is reacting as one would expect.
Much of the uncertainty impacting the market would most likely have been greatly lessened had Trumplethinskin not eliminated the previously mentioned response team. His answer to the lack of such an interdisciplinary group was to make Vice President Pence the new Corona Virus czar. This is the same Mike Pence who believes being gay is a lifestyle choice, and who dealt with the AIDS epidemic is so poorly when he was Governor of Indiana that while the rest of the nation was seeing a drop in AIDS cases his state saw an increase. He apparently also doesn’t believe that tobacco is linked to cancer. Not a man who instills a great deal of confidence.
The only question to be answered now is, who is the President going to scapegoat both for the administration’s poor response to the potential pandemic and the severe economic downturn of the stock market? Methinks he had best take a good look in the mirror. His chickens are indeed on the way home.
The only question to be answered now is, who is the President going to scapegoat both for the administration’s poor response to the potential pandemic and the severe economic downturn of the stock market? Methinks he had best take a good look in the mirror. His chickens are indeed on the way home.
