"I know we've all grown numb to Trump's casual cruelty and his obvious inability to imagine that other people are fully real, but hot damn, it is incumbent on us who carry the dubious title of "journalist" not to let that numbness cloud our vision."- Amanda Marcotte, 'What Civil Debate? The One I Watched Revealed Donald Trump As A Cold-Blooded Psychopath'.
WSJ columnist Peggy Noonan, recall, wrote in her June 6-7 'Declarations' column (p. A13):
"This will not end well. With his timing he'd know it. He should give an Oval Office address announcing he's leaving: 'America, you don't deserve me'. Truer words have never been spoken in that old place."
But wow, how 5 months can cause a major brain regression- even damage- in the Covid era! Because Peggy now is apparently drooling over the possibility of Dotard Donnie- the top virus "donor" (Rachel Maddow's words) - rising from the electoral ashes (WSJ, Oct. 24-25, 'A Good Night For Trump If It's Not Over', p. A13), e.g.
"Trump supporters believe he will win because of his special magic. Trump foes fear he will win because of his dark magic."
Uh, no, Peggy. If he should win it would be because of his mammoth cheating "magic" - including vast voter suppression as well as sabotaging the Post Office (using a toady named Louis DeJoy) and otherwise trying to single out mail ballots as fraudulent. Eventually taking a fraudulent challenge to mail voting to his now packed (with right wing toadies) Supreme Court - betting on a 'W'.
But Noonan's most disgusting turn is slobbering over Trump's super spreader rallies:
"The second data point has to do with Trump's rallies - big, boisterous and frequent. He's been in Michigan and North Carolina and has rallies planned this weekend in Ohio, Wisconsin and New Hampshire... Mr. Biden doesn't seem to draw much of anybody and doesn't try. He doesn't have rallies and barely even appearances at this point."
Well, because Biden knows the virus is raging with new cases now up to 79,000 plus cases a day, 225,000 Americans dead and hospitals in dozens of states near capacity. Something your beloved, looneytune ape- who you once advised to resign - dismisses ("We're turning the corner!") . And who with his batshit nuts rallies is indeed spreading the virus all over, sending infections "into the stratosphere". e.g.
Noonan's being all in with Trump spreading the virus at his rally locations is evident when one then reads (ibid.,)
"You can, seeing the polls, hypothesize what you're seeing at Trump rallies is a political movement in its death throes. But I don't know, they look pretty lively to me."
Adding:
"You might say the Democrats aren't having rallies because they are more careful about the virus. Fair enough. But in a lifetime watching politics I have never seen crowds keep away from something they love....It's funny you don't see any of this from the Democrat this year. You can't gainsay a strategy that seems to be working."
Yeah, it's working all right - infecting and killing people! (See Rachel Maddow's takedown below). Noonan, clearly, doesn't: a) grasp the lethality of the virus, b) doesn't care about its lethality (since she demeans the Dems for not holding rallies), or Trump spreading it, and c) doesn't care about the virus overrunning hospitals. Hence, one must conclude she loves the fact of Trump holding his rallies and seeding the virus in all the battleground states. Exaggeration? I don't believe so, as we learned over the weekend 43 states now have cases exploding with many of these Trump recent rally states.
Which is why Rachel Maddow referred to him as an "epidemiological menace" on Friday. As she pointed out, using clips from both Bloomberg News and USA Today:
"When U.S. cases started climbing in mid-September, Trump did not alter his campaign schedule, but continued holding an average of four rallies a week. Trump's campaign made stops nationwide, and coronavirus cases surged in his wake in at least five places."
Maddow then noted how he appeared in Blue Earth County, MN after which the Covid cases shot up from 15% to 24%. Then on to Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania whose cases went from 3% to more than 7 percent afterward (with 5% the normative threshold for opening schools, businesses). Most galling and mind blowing:
"Even in states where cases were already rising, the spikes in at least four counties that hosted Trump rallies far surpassed their states' overall growth rates. In two counties it was more than double. In Beltrami County, Minnesota, cases swelled by 35 percent compared to the state's 14 percent In Marathon County, Wisconsin the cases surged by 67 percent after Trump's visit compared to Wisconsin's overall growth rate of 29 percent during the same time."
As Maddow added: "It is one thing to be mad at this president for the botched response to this pandemic with over 220, 000 of our fellow Americans dead. Including that we just learned how he disbanded the vaccine safety office last year. It's one thing to be mad at this president for the worst botched Covid response for any nation on Earth- one that keeps getting worse over time. It's getting larger and larger while the president is doing more than anything else to spread it.
But it's another thing to come to the realization that he really is Johnny Appleseed seeding this thing all over the country. I mean, he's like a universal donor for this thing. His campaign, his ego-feeding desire to do mass, in-person events - even in places with older people. This isn't just callous or tone deaf, that is one of the things driving this into the stratosphere just before an election. He's an epidemiological menace. I mean that not only in how he is governing, but in how he's actively spreading this thing."
Leave it to Maddow to totally splatter Noonan's brainless extolling of Trump's rallies as some kind of energetic, liberating events. Having shown the link of the rallies to major virus spread it follows that Peggy's love of the rallies means she must also love Trump spreading the virus. There is no other logical conclusion, and pleading ignorance of the stats is no excuse - especially as a journalist. Thereby Noonan's been exposed as a know-nothing Trumper bimbo - as opposed to the circumspect and skeptical observer she had originally portrayed herself. (When she recommended he resign back in June).
So the jig is up on Noonan and what she is really about. More than 41,000 people are currently hospitalized with the coronavirus in the United States, a 40 percent rise in the past month. Meanwhile, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services on Friday reported a seven-day average of 3,470 new COVID-19 cases — the highest ever — as well as 42 deaths due to the virus. All this as Dotard brought his Covid infection rally to Waukesha
It is beyond belief Noonan doesn't know any of this. But it is clear from reading her latest column she doesn't give a god-damn. She's more enthralled by the thrill of Trump's rallies and the excitement she craves as a latter day Reeptard political hack.
Of course, one might suggest she check out Leslie Stahl's interview with Trump on '60 Minutes' which will show the deranged asswipe for the con man, liar and psychopath he really is. But that may be asking too much, because clearly her mind is already made up. As if it ever changed in the first place.
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