Mad Men Can't Feel a Thing

There seems to be a vacancy in the eyes of Donald Trump these days. I watched a clip of him as he coldly remarked on his use of hydroxychloroquine' for Covid 19. "A lot of good things have come out

Trump casually says he's been taking
hydroxychloroquine

about the Hydroxy-- a lot of good things have come out. And you'd be surprised at how many people are taking it especially front line workers before you catch it." He continues to give this steely look into the face of those who he calls the fake news until he drops the bomb. "I happen to be taking it.--" The room erupts into gasps and some reporters shouting for clarification that this president said what he said. And he remarks, "Im taking hydroxychloroquine. Yeah right now."

No matter how many facts the media would present Trump with about a drug that had been responsible for some deaths he would call them Trump enemies. Again to watch his gaze when he talked about taking this drug was like watching a walking zombie as he would say things with a hissing sound in his voice, "hydroxychloroquine-- try it you'll like it.  Go on and take it-- what do you have to lose?" He reminds me of the drug hustlers of the 1970s and 80's. We called them Pusher men. They would say anything to get you hooked and buy their stuff. I squinted with mouth open and a side eye at his talk about how it doesn't hurt to take this med. When the press continued to question him about the fatalities, his come back was, basically that these were old people who were going to die anyway. He has always considered himself to be the picture of health. (In spite of the fact he got two medical doctors to fake his medical reports)

Trump makes taking a drug like this such a casual thing as though you were taking aspirin for a headache. I'm convinced that no one can continue to lie and lie deeply and with regularity. It's as though his lies are changing him on a deeper level. His eyes (to me) seem vacant as though the inner spirit of humanity is fading away. And the death toll doesn't seem to affect him. We are at about 93 thousand deaths and rising. But when someone is full of pride and self and refuses to admit that as the leader of the free world you could have (at any time) done something to stop the rise of deaths, some people can't help but notice that there is something wrong with this president. As he has stepped into the fast lane of the medical professionals he does it with the agenda of holding up his own MAGA infrastructure. He is trying to con America through his compulsive interference and micro managing that he leads the pack when it comes to knowing what the facts are on this subject. He claims that he's always talking with professionals about the pandemic and his plans are the best. He keeps calling "game over" soon for the whole thing, but the reality of where we are isn't cooperating with his happy talk. And so his defense is to tell more lies, and claim anyone who doesn't agree with him is the enemy when looking at the world through the marred prism of his own fortunes.

Obama reflecting on the lost lives from Newtown

Most Presidents show the effects of remorse, empathy or even sadness when even a handful of lives are loss through gun violence, natural disasters or even epidemics. Some of you might recall how the previous president, shed tears for the lives of children who lost their lives in Blacksburg, Santa Barbara, Columbine, and of course Newtown. There was a moment there that you saw the man in office reveal the heaviness of the job. I'm not saying Obama was perfect. Some of his policies I might not have always agreed with just like any other president, but I could always see the humanity there. He knew that more lies and excuses would not fix it. Some would call Obama weak, and Fox News anchors would call his becoming choked up just and act. In contrast I wonder about the sanity of a President who can bend his mind around the idea the loss of life through a pandemic is a good thing. A badge of Honor.  He would remark to reporters:

"So if you're testing 14 million people, you're going to find more cases many of these people aren't very sick but they still go down as a case. So actually the number of cases-- and also we're a much bigger country than most -- so when we have a lot of cases, I don't look at that as a bad thing. I look at that in certain respects as a good thing. Because it means our testing is much better. So if we're testing a million people, we would have far few cases-- right?
So I view it as a badge of honor, -- really a badge of honor. It's a great tribute to the testing and all the work a lot of professionals have done."- May 19, 2020 MSNBC

In my mind it takes a lot of mental flexing to dismiss lost lives that were not just elderly, but of various ages and which include some children who have succumbed to this plague. These are the sort of cold and unfeeling speeches our country has to listen to from the leadership. Madmen don't weep for others. They just think happy thoughts for themselves and how they want the world to be. I'm not saying that we need to have a perfect person in the White House just someone who has feelings for more than himself. And that might be what the Obamagate scandal is really all about.

Special thanks goes to my friend @KeriRN on Twitter for her Tweets on the subject. If you follow her, do it with respect.