Murderous Mendacity

The nearly insurmountable challenge faced by political commentators these days is finding words adequate to describe the obscene orange ghoul occupying the office of president. The Washington Post provides a helpful searchable database documenting all of his lies since taking office, which they now calculate to be 20,055, which comes to almost 16 per day. Of course many of these are duplicates since he commonly repeats the same lie many times even when it has been fully debunked.

Those of his utterances which are not definitely classifiable as intentional falsehoods consist of childish taunts and insults unworthy of a second grader, racism and misogyny, mind boggling ignorance, baseless predictions, empty boasts and bottomless self-adoration. Oh yeah, wining and crying like a two-year-old about the unfairness and injustice of every criticism and misfortune that comes his way. His unbounded narcissism makes everything that happens in the world all about him. The pandemic is a tragedy, an injustice, done to him personally, not a tragedy for the world or even the country.

Now he has returned to calling it a hoax perpetrated by not just his political opponents but the CDC, doctors, and the media in order to harm his electoral prospects. Why would the CDC and "the doctors" do this? And why would so many doctors pretend to have died from it? He has also decided to treat Anthony Fauci as an enemy, because Fauci has an unfortunate habit of telling the truth.

At this point its highly optimistic to say we'll end up with 250,000 officially reported deaths by election day, and of course the true number is far higher than that. But the moral responsibility for this rests with every Republican senator with the sole exception of Mitt Romney, and most Republican governors. They have turned the Grand Old Party into a mindless death cult, and for the sake of the most vile, repulsive, useless human imaginable. You figure it out, I can't.