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thewayneInitially I'd heard last night from my wife that Hope Hicks had tested positive and that Our Beloved Leader was going in to isolation.
I wish a rapid and full recovery.
Oh, wait.
I said that wrong.
I wish him a slow and very painful recovery.
I don't want him to die. I want him to suffer. He's responsible for an insane number of preventable American deaths. We've had a minimum of four times as many deaths due to COVID as we should have because he didn't follow the advice of the CDC, NIH, and other groups of scientists. He didn't distribute PPE. He's consistently downplayed the threat of this virus and set a bad example by never wearing a mask until the last month or so and has now only worn it sporadically. His kids ignored the suggestions of the doctors at the debate and removed their masks when seated in the audience. Granted, they were seated at socially-distanced intervals. Still, examples matter.
I want the ass to suffer. He and his party, which he is the head of, want to destroy affordable health care in this country. He wants to destroy the right of people with pre-existing conditions to affordable health care.
I am among those people. A lot of you people reading this post are among those people. Do you have high blood pressure? Pre-existing condition. Diabetic? Pre-existing condition. Migraines? Could be classed as such. Asthma? Welcome to the club! Cancer survivor? Pick up your t-shirt at the table on the right, the web site is printed on the back.
Tons of stuff can get you labeled as pre-existing condition.
My antibody meds? My previous specialty pharmacy billed my medical insurance over A MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR FOR THEM. Now, the negotiated payment was far lower, but that's what they billed. If I had to pay cash, it would be over $10k a month. And I would be a proverbial boy in a bubble, unable to lead a fairly normal life.
No, I want President Donald J. Trump to know suffering. I want him to be a COVID Long-Hauler. Wouldn't bother me in the least if some of his adult idiot children also got it and became long-haulers.
I want him to know some of the pain that he has caused the family and friends of the 200,000+ people who have died of this virus, and of the people with pre-existing medical conditions who live in fear of losing their health insurance. We don't want to Die for the DOW, which seems to be the game plan for the RNC. As long as they continue to make money, they don't give a damn who lives and who dies.
I wish a rapid and full recovery.
Oh, wait.
I said that wrong.
I wish him a slow and very painful recovery.
I don't want him to die. I want him to suffer. He's responsible for an insane number of preventable American deaths. We've had a minimum of four times as many deaths due to COVID as we should have because he didn't follow the advice of the CDC, NIH, and other groups of scientists. He didn't distribute PPE. He's consistently downplayed the threat of this virus and set a bad example by never wearing a mask until the last month or so and has now only worn it sporadically. His kids ignored the suggestions of the doctors at the debate and removed their masks when seated in the audience. Granted, they were seated at socially-distanced intervals. Still, examples matter.
I want the ass to suffer. He and his party, which he is the head of, want to destroy affordable health care in this country. He wants to destroy the right of people with pre-existing conditions to affordable health care.
I am among those people. A lot of you people reading this post are among those people. Do you have high blood pressure? Pre-existing condition. Diabetic? Pre-existing condition. Migraines? Could be classed as such. Asthma? Welcome to the club! Cancer survivor? Pick up your t-shirt at the table on the right, the web site is printed on the back.
Tons of stuff can get you labeled as pre-existing condition.
My antibody meds? My previous specialty pharmacy billed my medical insurance over A MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR FOR THEM. Now, the negotiated payment was far lower, but that's what they billed. If I had to pay cash, it would be over $10k a month. And I would be a proverbial boy in a bubble, unable to lead a fairly normal life.
No, I want President Donald J. Trump to know suffering. I want him to be a COVID Long-Hauler. Wouldn't bother me in the least if some of his adult idiot children also got it and became long-haulers.
I want him to know some of the pain that he has caused the family and friends of the 200,000+ people who have died of this virus, and of the people with pre-existing medical conditions who live in fear of losing their health insurance. We don't want to Die for the DOW, which seems to be the game plan for the RNC. As long as they continue to make money, they don't give a damn who lives and who dies.
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Date: 2020-10-03 07:04 am (UTC)I read Mary Trump's book. Before I read it, I knew a lot about him, I knew he was a hollow man and not a very successful businessman. This was long before '15. Then his escalator ride taking the country down to hell, the Access Hollywood tape, etc. And Mary's book. And I actually have a tiny sliver of pity for him. Very, VERY tiny, mind you. His dad, Fred, was a sociopath who killed one child - he flat-out broke one child, his eldest, Freddie, resulting in his death when he easily could have been saved. Fred gave millions of dollars to hospitals, had a wing named after him, because his wife had very bad osteoporosis and was frequently hospitalized. Fred decided that the eldest, his namesake, would take over the family real estate empire and literally become him. Sadly, Freddie was a nice guy. Fred wasn't psychotic, he wasn't necessarily evil, but he had standards. And if you didn't measure up, you were out. Freddie wanted to be an airline pilot. And he became one. He not only earned his own private pilots license, he earned a multi-engine rating, got hired by an airline, and was one of the very few to get jet qualified who was not ex-military. And Fred called him a glorified bus driver. And it broke Freddie, and he became an alcoholic. Possible genetic predisposition. Combined with a heart problem, he died at 44, or perhaps 42. Needlessly young, regardless. And Fred let it happen. Donald and his sister went to the movies. Freddie died alone, none of the family visited him in the hospital. He was living in the attic of the family house. Unmodified attic. They just shifted a foldabed up there until he was too sick to stay, then they called an ambulance. No one went with him in the ambulance. No one called the hospital that a Trump was coming, the hospital that had a wing named after Fred Trump. And no one called Mary Trump, who was off at a boarding school, until her father was dead. The family was monumentally fucked up. Her book was an excellent read. It filled in so much information as to how Donald Trump became what he is.