Can someone please tell me what the hell is going on here? Because if I weren’t so politically astute, I might think that the GOP is in a panic. For the first time in a long time (we probaby ‘best just admit), the GOP is sounding more like a circular firing squad than a unit with Marine-like, smug, non-answers, directed by his highness.

McConnell is talking about impeachment causing all this, but Trump has second thoughts about that, because that means he wasn’t perfect. There were going to be 2.2 million deaths but thank the lord above Donald Trump golfed and had rallies, so it might “only” be 100,000 to 240,000 if everything goes perfectly. Trump started the presser on message and somber, respectful, ends by going poo-flinging monkey insane, then acknowledges we need a “President’s Recommendations for 30 Days of Social Distancing.” But in the evening, Devin Nunes says it is “way overkill” for California to close its schools, and we need to send people back to work in 1-2 weeks!

Devin Nunes calls the closure of schools in California “way overkill” shortly before he argues we need to send people back to work within 1-2 weeks while citing optimism over Hydroxychloroquine pic.twitter.com/3pBHWdwlK0

— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) April 1, 2020

Oh, and he also cited real “optimism” about the drug Hydroxychloroquine, which – while it may prove to provide some benefit – if it was some sort of remarkable clinical therapeutic, I am pretty damned sure that the Chinese are smart enough to have figured that out by now, would have been giving it to every patient, and reporting the success. All our meds are made over there anyway.

In case no one else has noticed, this is not the way a mature people govern themselves, not even the GOP is supposed to work this way. They are all supposed to get together at a “club” (one owned by Trump) have 2 inch thick steaks while pouring some single malt Glenlivet, decide on a message and come out with a hive mind that descends upon Fox, the Wall Street Journal and CPAC, and repeat that message until we all want to die.

Imagine if they had run the Kavanaugh hearings this way! We only wish they had been this incompetent then, and the competence they showed then (in their sick ordeal), that they’d have that competence now.

Someone come up with one national plan.

I personally live in a state where all “non-essential businesses are closed” but the businesses get to decide if they’re essential (salons, bars, restaurants are non-essential, offices are … up to them), oh, wait, in my state, there is a stay at home order for one godforsaken poor county, and other than just having a lot of the virus “first,” I am not sure what makes that county any different than the others. I will give you three chances to guess our governor’s party, and you won’t need any of them because you already know.

Virginia is putting up a “Closed” sign for 70 days, while California’s Devin Nunes is saying it’s crazy for those California incubators called “public schools” to be closed. And yes, that does make some sense since the normal four dozen daily flights from Dulles in northern Virginia straight into LAX is maybe down to sixteen total now.

How is this happening to us? It is not “just” Trump. It is the Trumpification of the government, where there is a whole section of frat boys that now refuse to believe in government. Just like the frat that takes pride in breaking rules, this frat has to spit on the idea of being competent, preferring to laugh, look down on people who believe in doing good and brag that they’ve got bigger dicks. It has become government by frat, except this frat doesn’t even require the frat president to actually go to school.

Someone needs to come up with a plan. All Americans are willing to follow a plan, even if the plan must be stamped with a giant “Trump” on top in gold letters. I don’t care if Dr. Fauci comes up with the plan, Governor Cuomo, or even Devin Nunes, but someone has to come up with one single plan – one the doctors say is the “best course” – and we all do it and see what happens.

Because this is bullshit, and this frat is killing its pledges.

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Peace, y’all

Jason

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