In the 1940’s the professional pond scum of the day were the war profiteers. Today, we have pandemic profiteers. Richard Burr (GreedyAss-NC) and Kelly Loeffler (GreedierAss-GA) aren’t your typical residents of the deplorable basket. They reside in the offal bucket.
It’s bad enough that the republican party have a fully furnished nest in the pockets of the death merchants of the arms industry and the death panels of the insurance industry. Now we get to watch them gaslight the country so they could make sure to have enough time to ensure their finances stay mostly intact. Prison is too good for them. The worst part is, I’m not even a little bit surprised — just disgusted.
Burr and Loeffler made stock trades that clearly took advantage of their “inside” knowledge long before that knowledge became public. In addition, Burr advised some of his big donors of what was to come. It’s not clear yet what Loeffler told her husband, the CEO of the parent of the New York Stock Exchange. They need to be gone from the Senate. So do the eight republican stalwarts who voted against the emergency COVID-19 funding package (actually all 52 assclowns who voted to acquit tRump need to go).
I don’t mind if tRump want to call himself a wartime president — as long as he admits he is the wartime president of our modern day Vichy government and is actively collaborating with a pandemic virus. He can’t do a worse job protecting the public That’s not because he isn’t trying; it’s because our nation’s governors, mayors and citizens are standing in his way.
My new mantra is: We will get through this in spite of tRump and the republicants.
As long as we’re looking at betrayals of the public trust, there are some other questions that deserve answers:
Was the roll out of adequate testing for COVID-19 delayed so that Jared could insert his grubby fingers into the money stream?
How many people are making piles of money short selling, because they have foreknowledge of the lies tRump is going to push during his, now daily, “All kiss the charlatans fundament” briefings?
Does anyone think tRump’s transactional fantasy bullshit, clearly intended to pump up his short term polling numbers, serves any useful purpose beyond making tRump feel better?
How much toilet paper, hand sanitizer, face masks and test kits is tRump stockpiling at Merde-a-Gopoo?
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