A Ranty Rant and a Rebuttal

A Ranty Rant and a Rebuttal

I know lots of people on social media. Some of them don't share my political beliefs. One of them posted this rant this afternoon.

I thought I'd post it here in its entirety. I believe that this is something that someone on the Interwebs wrote and is being passed around.

Read it, then look for my retooled anti-rant that follows the bones of the original.

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Copy paste but still:

I'm not posting this for debate. I don’t need any comments. Unfriend me if you must. Just please consider this...when you think the President is a jerk...

The bottom line has been that Trump IS a jerk. He’s crude, he bloviates, he gets his feelings hurt and he’s a hot head. And he should stay off Twitter.

Let me tell you what else he is. He is a guy that demands performance. He is a guy that asks lots of questions. The questions he asks aren’t cloaked in fancy phrases, they are “why the hell....” questions.

For decades the health industry has thrown away billions of face masks after one use. Trump asks, “Why the hell are we throwing them away? Why not sterilize them and use them numerous times?” He’s the guy that gets hospital ships readied in one week, when it would have taken a bureaucrat weeks or months to get it done. He’s the guy that gets temporary hospitals built in three days. He’s the guy that gets industries to build ventilators and face masks in a business that’s highly regulated by agencies that move like sloths.

He’s the guy that asks why we aren’t using drugs that might work on people that are dying; what the hell do we have to lose? In spite of all the naysayers. He’s the guy that shut down travel from China, when the liberals and the media were screaming xenophobia and racist. Now they are asking why didn't he react sooner? He’s the guy that ran on securing the border in the face of a screaming press and media. When he shut down borders in the midst of the coronavirus virus they were up in arms over such a draconian move. Then the rest of the world followed suit all over, including the European Union between member countries.

Has he made mistakes, yep. Everyone I know would have. All of these experts wouldn’t have done any better. Trump is working harder than I’ve ever seen a President work. He isn’t hiding in his office, he’s out front every day.

Take for instance, all the shortages of PPE’s and ventilators. I’m unaware of anything that prevented all of these governors from ordering all the PPE and ventilators for emergency purposes over the last two years. And yet, it is Trump’s fault that they didn’t.

He’s balanced his approach and listened to the experts, when his distractors said he wouldn’t and couldn’t. When he offers hope, he’s lying and when he’s straight forward, he should be hopeful. It’s a no win, but he is not deterred by all of that BS coming from the press and the liberals.

I’ll take this kind of leadership over a nice guy that can make eloquent speeches.

He is my President!

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My Anti-Pro-Trump Rant

I'm not posting this for debate. I don’t need any comments (well, actually I do). Unfriend me if you must. Just please consider this...when you think the President is a jerk...

The bottom line is that Trump IS a jerk. He’s crude; he bloviates. He gets his feelings hurt, and he’s a hot-head. And he should stay off Twitter.

Let me tell you what else he is. He is a guy that makes ridiculous, nonsensical demands and expects unrealistic performance. He is a guy that asks lots of whacked-out questions. The questions he asks aren’t cloaked in fancy phrases; they are “why the hell...” questions that devolve into complete unrelated, incomprehensible babble.

For decades the health industry has thrown away billions of face masks after one use. Trump asks, “Why the hell are we throwing them away? Why not sterilize them and use them numerous times?” It’s a great question, and he received a scientific answer that either confused him or simply didn’t satisfy him. He’s the guy that ordered hospital ships readied in one week, despite the ships lacking full crews, having Covid-19 members, and undergoing scheduled, vital maintenance when it would have taken a bureaucrat a similar amount of time to get them launched properly if they had received the order a month earlier. He’s the guy that gets temporary hospitals built in three days, but a month late. He’s the guy that gets industries to build ventilators and face masks two months late using private business that need more time to retool before beginning to pump out these vital supplies.

He’s the guy that asks why we aren’t using drugs that might work on people that are dying; what the hell do we have to lose? - In spite of all the nay-sayers. Nay-Sayers who appropriately noted that there is NO scientific basis for his claims.

He’s the guy that “shut down travel from China”, when people who follow actual factual reporting from the non-state media were pointing out that while Chinese people were barred from returning to the US, over 40,000 US citizens and those with special “passes” were allowed back without receiving any directives to self-quarantine.

Now these same educated information consumers are asking why didn't the president react sooner? He dismissed the impending crisis all though February, despite warnings from WHO and many countries. In fact, he continued his mass political rallies all the way through early March, HUGE rallies with “the biggest crowds ever.” As late as mid-March he was dismissing the impact of the pandemic telling us that it was completely under control.

He’s the guy that ran on securing the border (Mexico will pay for it one day) in the face of a screaming press and media upset at the inhuman treatment of legal asylum seekers. When he shut down borders in the midst of the corona-virus pandemic, they were up in arms that he was directing his ICE agents to stalk the border seeking out more asylum seekers to deport. Their protestations forced him to have his private police back off. He sealed the borders with Canada and Mexico after most other countries had taken similar action.

Has he made mistakes? Yep. Has he lied? Absolutely, with almost every breath. Most of the people in government who are critical of his lack of leadership would have handled the crisis better; providing factual, science-based information confidently in an unambiguous fashion without lying and distorting the truth. Trump is working hard to politicize the pandemic. Instead of unifying us, he seeks to tear us apart. I’ve never seen a President so completely unfit and humanely dysfunctional. He isn’t hiding in his office, he’s out front every day spewing his lies and attacking his “enemies”, fellow U.S. citizens who dare point out his incompetence, lies, or malfeasance.

Take for instance, all the shortages of PPE’s and ventilators. He’s done NOTHING to help build some sort of emergency storehouse. In fact he suggested that he wouldn’t directly aid states until they bowed or “showed their appreciation to [him].” He forced states to compete in the open market for PPE, cotton swabs, and respirators, driving the prices up to astronomical levels. Despite being President since 2017, he’s sought to defund the CDC and reassigned the members of the pandemic response team. Our lack of preparation as a nation is 100% Trump’s fault.

His approach is unbalanced and incomprehensible. Many of his “experts” are completely unqualified; like the “My Pillow Guy”, Jared, and the sycophantic vice president. When he offers hope, he’s lying and when he’s straight-forward, he’s lying. His only motivation appears to be how the pandemic will affect him and his business interests. He is not deterred by all of the just criticism coming from the press and the people who are actually paying attention to what he says and DOES. He continues his unhinged “leadership” while proudly proclaiming, “Only I can fix it.” While also saying, “I am NOT responsible.”

This kind of leadership from the impeached president is destroying and will completely destroy our country if allowed to continue. We need a leader who can unite us behind a shared purpose, a common enemy. We need a generational leader, not a charlatan and crook.

He is NOT my President. He needs to be relieved of duty.

Write your own version if you agree. It’s therapeutic.