Day 6: Steven Miller has covid.

[feuervogel]

Couldn't have happened to a nicer person.

With the entire Tr*mp administration coming down with covid, all I can do is cackle with malicious glee and eat a slice of schadenfreude pie. (Note: I do not actually have any of this, so I had a piece of apple-pear pie that my hosts baked.)

What I worry about, or who, rather, are the people at the edges of the administration, who didn't ask to be exposed to the virus or to work for these assholes: White House cleaning staff, journalists, the Secret Service (who, yes, did sign up for the job of throwing themselves in front of a bullet for the president, but not for him committing essentially manslaughter on them himself), congresspeople and their families. We all know the cleaning staff isn't going to get whisked off to Walter Reed in a helicopter and be given experimental drugs under "compassionate use."

This entire administration is exactly as bad and corrupt as we warned it would be in 2015 and 2016. The only thing we didn't predict was a global pandemic making everything even worse.

Comments

[firecat]

I didn't make any pleased noises when I heard Trump had covid* but I sure did when I read this.

*Not because I'm a paragon of empathy. I just didn't.

[feuervogel]

I cackled with glee! I saw a post about it on facebook and immediately went to twitter for the jokes. I was not disappointed.

[twistedchick]

A few years ago when I was on vacation I discovered that the owner of a coffeeshop I liked was retired Secret Service. The place wasn't busy, so we sat around and talked. (Bush2 era). And he had so much sympathy for agents who were assigned to guard obnoxious people who endangered them, and so much anger about the endangering. (Rumsfeld, for one.) I have been thinking of him and his friends for a while lately.

[feuervogel]

I can imagine :( And now all the joint chiefs are isolating, too. This is such a disaster.