I, too, hope he survives. I would not wish pain and suffering on anyone, even Trump and his family/enablers (Although I’m tempted. Like, really really tempted. Like ... I really can’t help but think they had it coming.)
I’d prefer that Trump live so that he can meet his fate at the polls and in the courts. He should eke it out and remain aware and fearful of the consequences of his evil deeds — his hubris, his pathological disregard for anyone but himself — and not go down as a martyr who somehow died because he “loved his people so much,” which is undoubtedly the turn that the narrative being constructed by his cult.
If, on the other hand, COVID-19 takes him down first? Well, what are you gonna do. It is what it is.
Arrogant Trump, oblivious to the suffering of more than 7 million Americans with coronavirus, and of those families grieving for their loved ones who died as a result of Trump’s arrogance...now he will experience it first hand, the insidious nature of this virus having infected him and Republican senators of the judiciary committee...irony you say? Yes, ironic that the very person they wished to confirm as the next Supreme Court Justice might have been the
asymptomatic person who brought them all down.
Trump fans who have likened his rise to the “second coming“ may also believe that by suffering with coronavirus that he is indeed the son of god...they will call him a martyr, write his history as if he were their saviour..while the rest of us see him for what he is, a crook who stole the election and turned America against itself for foreign cash; and in his greed became a traitor to all that was good and decent in America...yes I want him to suffer, but I also want him to pay for all of the lives lost since he rode down the escalator in his tower built by greed...just so he could finally show his hatred of America, for abandoning him in his desperate need for a cash bailout...
Brilliant piece, Greg. My take is that Trump and and his Rethuglican enablers have been revealed to be an actual Plague in physical form. Isn't it ironic?
I hope he survives this as well. I’d hate for his death to upset the electoral process, and death would end his suffering prior to experiencing the greatest landslide defeat in history (though it would be deliciously painful for his cult). Being a prayerful person, I do regret the hateful effects his reign has had upon me, but I believe prayer changes the person praying, not the sick we might pray for anyway. I’ve always tried to resist being hateful and have been fairly successful until this evil overtook our nation. There’s always been that ‘what if’ question: if possible to travel back in time, would you asphyxiate Hitler in his crib to avoid all his killing and torments? Yes, I believed I would. Trump is just as bad and is a traitor to America as well as all of humanity. So why should I care if he suffers and/or dies? I’m mostly relieved that his illness (and all those in his circle) will serve to inform and prevent as many as would otherwise occur. Whatever the outcome, at least there’s hope now that the SCOTUS appointment may be derailed and his stealing of the election averted.
P.S. Excellent note about Herod Agrippa. Did you ever see his depiction in ‘I, Claudius’ by the BBC?
The negative emotions brought up by him are indeed horrible and difficult to process. Agrippa is a main character in "Claudius the God," the second book, if memory serves...
My sisters & I spent much of Friday texting about this first & most deliciously ironic of October Surprises. But I noticed how both of them expressed latent Catholic guilt at being so gleeful that Fake45, FLOTITS, plus Satan's Trophy Wife, Kellyanne, have all caught the virus. But I don't feel evil AT ALL being glad about it. After what those mega-tools have put us & the world through? After letting PUTIN, of all super-villains, hack at the underpinnings of our Constitutional Republic & shake our NATO alliance to its core? After undoing YEARS of global warming countermeasures & putting their venal, self-dealing brakes on alternate energy industry gains? After giving themselves & the rest of the non-tax-paying uber-wealthy TRILLIONS in kickbacks & taxbreaks while hundreds of millions of people (many of them struggling parents) try to keep it together in a world of 2020 prices while making 1979 WAGES? After BLOATUS's incitement of a dangerous, heavily-armed right-wing-nut-job veritable army who could easily cause a de facto civil war, with real blood & death? So, I told my sisters that I think of it this way: If we were in Germany in the summer of 1940, seeing what Hitler & his minions were pulling, should we have felt guilty hoping he, Himmler, Goebbels, et al, would die or be killed? Likewise, that phoney, lazy, mendacious russkie mob frontman & his GOP enabling cabal have made it clear: It's US or THEM.
We don't have to become like them, but for me, no more Ms. Nice Guy...and certainly no guilt!
the worms indeed. may they solider on and disregard the putrid taste of the traitor . . . he is sick. nobody goes to the hospital unless the need to. nobody (unless you are having a baby) heads for the hospital--they are filled with sick people, germs, and sadness. you go to the hospital when you are sick. super sick. the fact that they didn't tell us about Hope--although I wonder about that story line. Trump was at the party for Amy on the weekend and probably picked up his dose there. The timing makes sense and if he picked it up at the Amy party he could have been infective in Ohio. The Bidens and everyone else will need to keep testing for a couple of weeks or so to be clear. The meanness of not wearing a mask makes me shake my old head. Thanks for giving Sunday a hit o Greg!
It's stuck in traffic on the GWB...
Another brilliant piece, Greg.
I, too, hope he survives. I would not wish pain and suffering on anyone, even Trump and his family/enablers (Although I’m tempted. Like, really really tempted. Like ... I really can’t help but think they had it coming.)
I’d prefer that Trump live so that he can meet his fate at the polls and in the courts. He should eke it out and remain aware and fearful of the consequences of his evil deeds — his hubris, his pathological disregard for anyone but himself — and not go down as a martyr who somehow died because he “loved his people so much,” which is undoubtedly the turn that the narrative being constructed by his cult.
If, on the other hand, COVID-19 takes him down first? Well, what are you gonna do. It is what it is.
It is what it is, indeed.
Arrogant Trump, oblivious to the suffering of more than 7 million Americans with coronavirus, and of those families grieving for their loved ones who died as a result of Trump’s arrogance...now he will experience it first hand, the insidious nature of this virus having infected him and Republican senators of the judiciary committee...irony you say? Yes, ironic that the very person they wished to confirm as the next Supreme Court Justice might have been the
asymptomatic person who brought them all down.
Trump fans who have likened his rise to the “second coming“ may also believe that by suffering with coronavirus that he is indeed the son of god...they will call him a martyr, write his history as if he were their saviour..while the rest of us see him for what he is, a crook who stole the election and turned America against itself for foreign cash; and in his greed became a traitor to all that was good and decent in America...yes I want him to suffer, but I also want him to pay for all of the lives lost since he rode down the escalator in his tower built by greed...just so he could finally show his hatred of America, for abandoning him in his desperate need for a cash bailout...
The "Trump as Christ" narrative is a real thing, crazy as it sounds. So many cults, so much brainwashing...
Ain’t it the truth...their truth, while the rest of us see that take on
Trump as “fake news“
As you say, no more analogies for IRONY going forward...and, as I also told my students, karma is real. Brilliant and thank you.
Irony has been mostly deficient these last four years. It's nice to have it back.
Biting sarcasm missing too...
Brilliant piece, Greg. My take is that Trump and and his Rethuglican enablers have been revealed to be an actual Plague in physical form. Isn't it ironic?
I hope he survives this as well. I’d hate for his death to upset the electoral process, and death would end his suffering prior to experiencing the greatest landslide defeat in history (though it would be deliciously painful for his cult). Being a prayerful person, I do regret the hateful effects his reign has had upon me, but I believe prayer changes the person praying, not the sick we might pray for anyway. I’ve always tried to resist being hateful and have been fairly successful until this evil overtook our nation. There’s always been that ‘what if’ question: if possible to travel back in time, would you asphyxiate Hitler in his crib to avoid all his killing and torments? Yes, I believed I would. Trump is just as bad and is a traitor to America as well as all of humanity. So why should I care if he suffers and/or dies? I’m mostly relieved that his illness (and all those in his circle) will serve to inform and prevent as many as would otherwise occur. Whatever the outcome, at least there’s hope now that the SCOTUS appointment may be derailed and his stealing of the election averted.
P.S. Excellent note about Herod Agrippa. Did you ever see his depiction in ‘I, Claudius’ by the BBC?
The negative emotions brought up by him are indeed horrible and difficult to process. Agrippa is a main character in "Claudius the God," the second book, if memory serves...
Yes, I believe so. The BBC production was among the best series ever. John Hurt as Caligula...terrifying! A young Patrick Stewart as Sejanus, amazing.
My sisters & I spent much of Friday texting about this first & most deliciously ironic of October Surprises. But I noticed how both of them expressed latent Catholic guilt at being so gleeful that Fake45, FLOTITS, plus Satan's Trophy Wife, Kellyanne, have all caught the virus. But I don't feel evil AT ALL being glad about it. After what those mega-tools have put us & the world through? After letting PUTIN, of all super-villains, hack at the underpinnings of our Constitutional Republic & shake our NATO alliance to its core? After undoing YEARS of global warming countermeasures & putting their venal, self-dealing brakes on alternate energy industry gains? After giving themselves & the rest of the non-tax-paying uber-wealthy TRILLIONS in kickbacks & taxbreaks while hundreds of millions of people (many of them struggling parents) try to keep it together in a world of 2020 prices while making 1979 WAGES? After BLOATUS's incitement of a dangerous, heavily-armed right-wing-nut-job veritable army who could easily cause a de facto civil war, with real blood & death? So, I told my sisters that I think of it this way: If we were in Germany in the summer of 1940, seeing what Hitler & his minions were pulling, should we have felt guilty hoping he, Himmler, Goebbels, et al, would die or be killed? Likewise, that phoney, lazy, mendacious russkie mob frontman & his GOP enabling cabal have made it clear: It's US or THEM.
We don't have to become like them, but for me, no more Ms. Nice Guy...and certainly no guilt!
the worms indeed. may they solider on and disregard the putrid taste of the traitor . . . he is sick. nobody goes to the hospital unless the need to. nobody (unless you are having a baby) heads for the hospital--they are filled with sick people, germs, and sadness. you go to the hospital when you are sick. super sick. the fact that they didn't tell us about Hope--although I wonder about that story line. Trump was at the party for Amy on the weekend and probably picked up his dose there. The timing makes sense and if he picked it up at the Amy party he could have been infective in Ohio. The Bidens and everyone else will need to keep testing for a couple of weeks or so to be clear. The meanness of not wearing a mask makes me shake my old head. Thanks for giving Sunday a hit o Greg!
The biblical equivocation is so very apropos! Bravo Greg, Bravo!