A cool head in an emergency
Let’s go through The Letter.
Dear Senator Schumer:
Thank you for your Democrat public relations letter and incorrect sound bites, which are wrong in every way.
He manages to dictate the first three words as an adult would, but then the enraged toddler breaks through. The adjective is “Democratic.” The letter was a request to expedite the provision of supplies IN A PANDEMIC – one that threatens the lives of millions or billions of people. It was not a public relations letter, it was a doing government work letter in a dire emergency. Imagine Franklin Roosevelt sending rude childish letters to Republican Senators a few hours after Pearl Harbor. It wasn’t “sound bites,” it wasn’t “incorrect,” it wasn’t “wrong in every way.” That’s a stupid spiteful child talking, not an adult head of state in a dire emergency.
As you are aware, Vice President Pence is in charge of the Task Force. By almost all accounts, he has done a spectacular job.
By most of the accounts Trump is aware of, possibly, but what Trump is aware of is an infinitesimal fraction of what there is to be aware of. In the real world hardly anyone gives an account in which Pence has done a spectacular job. If Pence had done a spectacular job, medical workers wouldn’t be wearing garbage bags and hospitals wouldn’t be desperate for ventilators.
The Defense Production Act (DPA) has been consistently used by my team and me for the purchase of billions of dollars’ worth of equipment, medical supplies, ventilators, and other related items. It has been powerful leverage, so powerful that companies generally do whatever we are asking, without even a formal notice. They know something is coming, and that’s all they need to know.
He sounds like his ridiculous son-in-law prattling about “the best things.”
We have given New York many things, including hospitals, medical centers, medical supplies, record numbers of ventilators, and more.
He talks as if he were the king and the states were his peasants. He’s not “giving” anyone anything; he doesn’t own the “many things” so they’re not his to “give.” He’s not our boss. We’re not his humble petitioners. We don’t have to kiss his ass for providing (let alone for not providing) emergency medical supplies.
You should have had New York much better prepared than you did, and as Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx said yesterday, New York was very late in its fight against the virus. As you are aware, the Federal Government is merely a back-up for state governments. Unfortunately, your state needed far more of a back-up than most others.
Says the petulant childish brat who spent weeks telling us COVID-19 was going to disappear quickly and doing nothing to prepare for it.
If you spent less time on your ridiculous impeachment hoax, which went haplessly on forever and ended up going nowhere (except increasing my poll numbers)
People are dying. He needs to shut up about his poll numbers.
and instead focused on helping the people of New York, then New York would not have been so completely unprepared for the “invisible enemy.” No wonder AOC and others are thinking about running against you in the primary. If they did, they would likely win.
Focus. The subject is a lethal pandemic and thousands of deaths.
Fortunately, we have been working with your state and city governments, Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill DeBlasio, to get the job done.
Is screaming insults for weeks on end “working with”?
You have been missing in action, except when it comes to the “press.” While you have stated that you don’t like Andrew Cuomo, you ought to start working alongside him for the good of all New Yorkers.
DARVO. Trump is the one who refuses to work with people he doesn’t like, and he certainly has not been working alongside anyone for the good of all New Yorkers.
I’ve known you for many years, but I never knew how bad a Senator you are for the state of New York, until I became President.
Most of us neither knew nor cared what a terrible human being Donald Trump is until he became president.
Could someone drop a piano on him now?
The federal government is not just a “back-up” for the states, they are the central organizing body of our system. Trump is just saying what he thinks, but doesn’t really have any actual knowledge to back it up. And the federal government is the only one that represents all of us, which makes it an important force in things like this.
Trump apparently sees COVID as suitable revenge for being impeached. He’s a monster.
And I’ve just read that the Feds are re-writing their own self-descriptions to match Kushner’s idiotic and evil claim about “our stockpile.”
It’s amazing that Trump doesn’t realize just how bad this letter makes him look. He is a master of self-defamation. How does he even have any reputation, outside of “bad,” left? There are, alas, too many who would think this letter’s content reflects poorly on Sen. Schumer, but they’ve already followed Orange Julius this far, so they’re not going to abandon ship at this point.
The sheer volume of stupid, wrong, untrue, hurtful, bullying, cruel, boorish things he’s said in the last 3.5 years is a wonder to behold and must easily surpass all such statements made by all the presidents in the history of the country. Given its context, this one in particular is right down there.
I thought I was incapable of being shocked anymore. After the blithe dismissal of 6-digit deaths in the US, I figured my shockometer was broken.
I honestly thought this letter was a parody. It’s real, and I still can’t quite bend my mind around it.
I have never seen an adult write such a childish letter. This is evidence that there is nobody at the wheel in the White House left to clean up Trump’s official communications. Nobody is saying no to him. He dictates, they type and send it out.
Whaddyamean? It was a PERFECT letter! With all the best words!! People are saying it’s the best letter ever, that it’s done a tremendous job!
I think my terminal shock came the other night when I was reading other people, not even Trump, dismissing the idea that we needed to prevent deaths. The deaths were less important to them then ramping the economy back up. These were people who accepted that a lot of people would die and said it would be better to restart the economy, and accept the deaths. This in the face of people telling them that all those deaths would probably actually be bad for the economy.
These were not people named Donald Trump. They were people who have made lucrative careers as political pundits and journalists, economic advisors, and the like. I knew that many corporations would accept deaths as a collateral cost of doing business, knowing these would not likely be the deaths of them or their loved ones. But in this case, who can be sure? And in fact, the pattern of this so far shows that it is striking hard at celebrities and people in high positions…probably because they are the most likely to travel, or to interact with those who have traveled recently.
Trump is not the cause of the problem; he is the inevitable outcome of people who think like the ones in that article, like the ones in the grocery store today who seemed determined to get as close to people as possible, like the ones who write into our local newspaper lambasting the institutions and businesses for closing over a conspiracy and inconveniencing them. A not insubstantial chunk of our society is, to use a word that got someone else in trouble, deplorable. And they are our neighbors.