To: Mr. Donald J. Trump:
I know you’re eager to get back to rallies as the next step in your campaign to prove you won reelection and that the Democrats and the dumb bastards in the media and the traitors in the Deep State and the turncoat Republicans and the corrupt ballot counters and the biased courts are trying to steal your victory. Which means you’ll be really busy and can’t waste a minute on stuff you don’t like mentioning anyway. Stuff like the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s really frustrating, I know, to see that pundits and doctors and public health officials and governors are, after all these months, still obsessing on this after you’ve informed everyone repeatedly that we’ve turned the corner on the pandemic and all is going swell. The Proud Boys could sure teach those ungrateful whiners a patriotic lesson, right?
Since you’re going to be all tied up with other matters for the next 70 days, and you can’t be distracted for the half-minute you now spend each day thinking about the coronavirus, I have a suggestion. Yes, I admit that I am a partisan Democrat. But the head of my party has just told us we should not treat our political opponents as enemies and should cooperate with each other to heal the nation.
Therefore, in making my suggestion, I won’t be repeating what I have said in the past about your being a malicious, reckless, feckless, fascist baboon, or referring to your Twitter account as pyroclastic excrement, or pointing to your stack of 22,000 lies, half-truths and fabrications, or making any reference to your statements about the coronavirus such as don’t wear a mask, drink bleach, kids can’t get it, it affects virtually nobody, vulnerable old people are going to die anyway, we’d have fewer cases if we didn’t test so much, the hospitals have all the protective gear they need.
Talk like that just doesn’t seem very cooperative or healing, so without mentioning it, my suggestion is that you turn over the fight against the coronavirus to the team President-elect Joe Biden has established to provide scientific medical and logistical advice on how best to bring it under control. Not in January. Right now. Today.
The team is already picked. There’s already a Biden Plan to Combat Coronavirus (COVID-19) and Prepare for Future Global Health Threats that those advisers will hone. There are already plans to have regular virtual COVID-19 conferences with governors and their staffs weeks before Inauguration Day. Biden, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, and aides close to to them actually want to fight the virus, which I know is hard for you to imagine. But getting somebody else to do the heavy lifting has always been a strong point with you, so this meshes perfectly with your skill-set and your current desire to bring out the crowds.
Just so I’m clear, by “turn over” I mean give the Biden team total authority over the national effort to get the pandemic under control. Unhesitatingly facilitate whatever they propose. Anything they think should be done that has to have your signature on it, you sign. You agree not to have press conferences contradicting their work. Any funding they need you can divert from building the border wall.
Now I know your grasp on history is…uh...rusty, but you may be thinking that delegating authority like this is unorthodox, unprecedented. So it is. But you’ve already given us full four years of the unorthodox and unprecedented. And Bill Barr, well, he’ll go along with anything you want, just say “unitary executive” and you’re golden.
You also shouldn’t worry that putting the Biden team in charge like this would make you look weak and incompetent. 240,000 dead Americans have already done that, with another 130,000 now projected to die by Jan. 21 without a change in policy. Ooops, sorry, I guess that wasn’t a very cooperative or healing thing to say.
Source: Daily Kos
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