Friday, August 7, 2020

It Is What It Is

From the recent AXIOS interview by Jonathan Swan with Donald Trump on the topic of the coronavirus pandemic.  

Trump: "Right now, I think it’s under control." 

Swan: "How? 1,000 Americans are dying a day."  

Trump: "They are dying — that’s true. And it is what it is. But that doesn’t mean we aren’t doing everything we can. It’s under control as much as you can control it."

It is what it is. 

Right now, what it is, you god damn unfeeling fat fuck, is  a total over 156,000 brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, mothers and fathers dead.  

It is what it is. 

To quote Jim Kirk from Star Trek IV: the Voyage Home, "Don't you have any god damn feelings about that?!?"

I know the answer to that question: No, Donald Trump does NOT have any god damn feelings about that. 

I was talking with my my brother who lives in the small town I grew up in and he told me Patty Thompkins was dead from COVID 19. I went to school with her. As I remember her from when we were young, it's hard to contemplate that she's now dead, taking from us too soon by this damned scourge. 

But why should I care? After all, it is what it is. 

For a fact check of all the things Trump lied about during the AXIOS interview, click here for PolitiFact does the heavy lifting for sifting through Trump's prodigious amounts of bull shit.

And because God knows we need a laugh, here is a clip from the Trump AXIOS interview overdubbed with the "Dead Parrot Sketch" from Monty Python. 


Everyone, be safe and try to be good to one another.  

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