Yet again, I'm going to revise my remarks on the matter of "taking out" Trump.
Consider the following:
- Trump has unambiguously declared himself a dictator with "total authority."
- Trump has sided with domestic terrorists who occupy various state buildings whilst armed with heavy artillery.
- He has encouraged states to reopen without achieving any of the criteria essential for safely reopening--namely, providing sufficient means for testing, tracing, and isolating.
- And, all the while, new cases of COVID-19 are actually increasing with every passing day--and if you exclude the previous hot zones from these tallies--New York, California, New Orleans, etc.--they are increasing quite dramatically.
- Likewise, daily death tolls are not declining; rather, they are increasing--again, rather dramatically--with the very models the White House uses anticipating upwards of 3000 deaths daily by 1 June, up from ~1750 daily deaths at present.
- Even conservative models are projecting upwards of 140 or 150 thousand total deaths by August--and that's only from the first wave. This shall return in the fall, possibly more virulent, possibly less so, but...
- And the icing on the cake: the whole point of the lockdown was to buy time for the federal government to ramp up testing, as well as testing for antibodies, means for contact tracing, and means for isolating the infected. All of this could easily have been accomplished via executive orders, instituting the Defense Production Act, and so forth. We--or rather, Trump--has done NONE of this.
- Rather, Trump has invoked the DPA to ensure that concentration camps (factory farms) continue to operate in full force. Potential risks inherent be damned.
In short, Trump is a dictator who is willingly and knowingly sentencing his own constituents to death. Unfortunately, and somewhat (morbidly) comically, the people most sensitive to these preposterous government overreaches and egregious Constitutional violations are overwhelmingly... wait for it... Trump's base supporters.
So, previously I stated that this is a Rubicon moment. By many a Constitutional reading, it is now, unambiguously, either one's right or one's duty to stop Trump in his tracks by whatever means possible. If you can do so
without having to put a bullet in his head, by all means,
do so. Just infect the guy with the coronavirus--he's grotesquely obese and in exceptionally poor health, infecting him will likely yield the desired result. Or be creative. Come up with some other ingenious means for killing the fat rapist fuck.
Either way, to quote the late, great Patrick McGoohan, "Just do it!" It may be the only way to preserve the Republic, and to keep the ultimate death toll at least
somewhat below several hundred thousand.
