Sing it.
FEVER
Never know how much I love you
Never know how much I care
When we do debate preparation
I get a fever that’s so hard to bear
You give me fever at the rallies
Fever when you hold me tight
Fever in the mornin’
Fever all through the night
Sun lights up the day time
Moon lights up the night
I light up when you call my name
And you know I’m gonna treat you right
You give me fever at your golf club
Fever when you’re raising cash
Fever in the mornin’
My toes have got a nasty rash
Everybody’s got the fever
That is somethin’ you all know
Fever isn’t such a new thing
You knew about it long ago
Donald he loved Melania
Melania she felt the same
When he put his arms around her
He said Melania baby you’re my fame
He gave her fever
When they cuddled
Fever with his flaming kiss
Fever I’m on fire
Fever yeah I burn and hiss
Captain Smith and Pocohantas
Had a very mad affair
When her daddy tried to kill him
She said daddy oh don’t you dare
He gives me fever with his kisses
Fever when he holds me tight
Fever I’m his missus
Daddy won’t you treat him right
Now you’ve listened to my story
Here is the point that I have made
Trump was born to give you fever
Be it fahrenheit or centigrade
He gives you fever
When you meet him
Fever if you live you learn
Fever till you sizzle
What a lovely way to burn
What a lovely way to burn
Entire Top of the Republican Party has been Exposed to Covid
‘President Trump’s campaign schedule has insured that that the top tier of the Republican party either has contracted or has been exposed to covid-19.‘
‘The president knowingly exposed his wife, his adult children, his staff, his donors, and his supporters in the Cleveland debate hall. He refused and forbade the most basic safety precautions in the close quarters of the West Wing and on Air Force One, except for testing, which was intended to protect him personally. On Tuesday, Trump was on the debate stage mocking former Vice President Joe Biden for wearing face masks; as the positive tests came in, he did not bother to inform Biden or his team that Trump had exposed him to the coronavirus. Until we know the date of Trump’s last negative COVID-19 test, we can only guess at the number of people he exposed. By sticking to an aggressive travel schedule with in-person gatherings while eschewing even minimal safeguards, Trump has carried the risk of disease across the country.’
What is due in the way of kindness and sympathy to people who have no kindness and sympathy for anyone else? Should we repay horrifying cruelty in equal measure? Then we reduce ourselves to their level. But if we return indecency with the decency due any other person in need, don’t we encourage appalling behavior? …
The pandemic was not Trump’s fault, but at every turn, he made things worse than they had to be—because at every turn, he cared only for himself, never for the country. And now he will care only for himself again.
Trump should never have been allowed anywhere near any public office. Wish him well, but recognize that his deformed spirit will never be well—and that nothing can be well for the country under his leadership.
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The shriveling of Trump makes UD think of that Philip Roth title — The Dying Animal. Or the Yeats poem from which the title comes – for Yeats too knew how nightmarish it was to be merely an animal.
What is due to this self-sickened man? The pity we feel for a dying animal.
Once inside the venue, [having arrived too late to be tested,] the Trump party were approached by a white-coated doctor, who asked them to put on face masks, but they refused, NBC reported.
… down the street from UD: Bethesda’s Walter Reed Hospital. (Around here, we all grew up calling it the Naval Medical Hospital.) The place is directly across from NIH, where UD’s father spent his career studying (among other things) BCG’s effect on cancer. BCG is now considered one of the more promising covid therapies.
On Trump: Absolutely no surprise here. You spend your days and nights surrounded by crowds of strangers during a pandemic. You’re elderly. You’re under a lot of stress. You lead a relentlessly active life. You refuse to wear a mask.
I mean, you have go to characters like Adrian Leverkühn, who “goes out of his way to catch syphilis,” to approach the intensity of self-destruction.
Sources cited by The New York Times say the President was already lethargic on the way back from Thursday’s New Jersey event, and that he fell asleep on Air Force One on Wednesday night when returning from a rally in Minnesota.
They’re both currently reaping the personal rewards of cruelty, shamelessness, arrogance, and ignorance. And since the disease they recklessly invited to overtake them is insanely contagious, they are sharing those rewards with the rest of us.
“Most of the [ultraorthodox] community had it already, so we’re not so worried.“
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“Most people had it way back,” [Tzvi] Rosenberg told The Daily Beast, enjoying a cigarette unmasked a few feet from a similarly unprotected friend. “… We’re not wearing right now, because we’re smoking.”
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[M]any in the community believed in the Trump-touted … treatment of hydroxychloroquine…
[One man] approached his wife in synagogue and warned her … that masks cause COVID-19 infection.
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One man walking through Williamsburg provided the simple explanation.
“We all had it already,” he said of COVID, not stopping long enough to give his name.
An 18-year-old walking nearby said the same.
“I had it already and my community had it already,” he said…
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No major Hasidic rabbis in New York City have been seen wearing masks. In fact, photographs of large indoor gatherings — weddings, large prayer services and tisches, gatherings in which the rebbe sits at the head of a table surrounded by followers — have circulated on local news sites and social media.
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[M]ost of the rabbis themselves had the virus earlier this year and believe they have immunity.
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To some, the disregard for masks is evidence of an outlook in which everything in life is up to God.
“I don’t sense a lot of fear,” an administrator at a network of clinics in Williamsburg said. “I think there is a fatalistic attitude, like if it’s meant to be, I’ll get sick.”
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And Trump’s epitaph? UD takes it, with a small alteration, from Larry Kramer’s great play about AIDS, The Normal Heart:
Being defined by [the president’s cock] is literally killing us.
In his swagger lies our doom.
A Yale psychiatrist who has repeatedly raised questions about President Trump’s mental health argued that Tuesday’s debate against Joe Biden should never have been allowed to go forward.
Dr. Bandy X. Lee, a forensic psychiatrist at Yale School of Medicine and the president of the World Mental Health Coalition, said in an interview with Salon that Trump lacked the basic “mental health” to participate in a presidential debate…
She told Salon that the media’s shock at Trump’s disastrous performance was the result of a years-long problem that has gone ignored far too long...
‘[P]eople can see how [my colleagues and I] predicted, almost with uncanny timing, what would happen if we failed to contain the psychological dangers of the president. It has now spread into social, cultural, civic and geopolitical dangers, just as we said.‘
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If there are two more debates, UD thinks we should be prepared for Trump to disintegrate so desperately during one of them that he pulls out a Glock and shoots himself in the head.
Get used to it. Just one more gift to you from the man of the hour.
The briefing descended into chaos from there with [Kayleigh] McEnany trying to answer questions reporters fired at her, both sides talking over the other repeatedly.
Sing along with the president.
He went away and you hung around
And bothered me every night
And when I told you to take a drug test
You said things that weren’t very nice
My boyfriend’s back and he’s Rudy Giuliani
(Hey-la-day-la my boyfriend’s back)
You better watch your back cuz he loves his little Donny
(Hey-la-day-la my boyfriend’s back)
He’s telling everyone because he knows you have dementia
(Hey-la-day-la my boyfriend’s back)
Go on back to the demo-rats that sent ya
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You bombed the Twin Towers and your wife is really ugly
(Hey-la-day-la my boyfriend’s back)
Dementia Care wants to make you safe and snuggly
(Hey-la-day-la my boyfriend’s back)
George Soros told me that you’re actually a Jew
(Hey-la-day-la my boyfriend’s back)
The covid virus was brought here by him and you
(Hey-la-day-la my boyfriend’s back)
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You’re a big man now but he’ll cut you down to size
(Wait and see) My boyfriend’s back he’s gonna save my reputation
(Hey-la-day-la my boyfriend’s back)
If I were you I’d take a permanent vacation
(Hey-la, hey-la, my boyfriend’s back) Yeah, my boyfriend’s back (La-day-la, my boyfriend’s back)
Look out now, yeah, my boyfriend’s back (La-day-la, my boyfriend’s back)
I could see him comin’ so you better get a runnin’ alright now (La-day-la, my boyfriend’s back)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah (La-day-la, my boyfriends’s back)
My boyfriend’s back now (La-day-la, my boyfriend’s back)
Know he’s comin’ after you because he knows you’re a Jew now (La-day-la, my boyfriend’s back)
But we have seen his like before.
The original Genius of the Carpathians came to know that crowds can turn against you.
Now it’s the turn of America’s Genius of the Carpathians.
Stick to NASCAR rallies in Alabam’, lad. Washington DC + the halls of justice is not a good look for you. Though you might have some work to do in Alabam’ too — what’s with that unmanly mask?
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“[F]ar more people hate him than love him.”