Coronavirus: Trump to defy 'voluntary' advice for Americans to wear masks

[conuly]

JFC.

Listen. Trump has two jobs. Head of government, and head of state. I'm not going to even comment on how he's doing as head of government, but as head of state he has one responsibility in this crisis, and that's to wear the damn mask. Head of state means being a good sport, setting a good example, and occasionally wearing silly clothes. In a monarchy, you wear a funny hat on state occasions. During a pandemic, you wear a surgical mask and pretend you like it.

Just suck it up and do it.

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[archangelbeth]

*nodnodnods* re Pelosi. (I wasn't sure if there'd been some rearrangement that would go through McConnell or something (ugh!), and didn't have the spoons to double-check.)

amen, so much amen.

[dewline]

The Republicans haven't been able to twist the US Constitution in that way. They'd theoretically still need a Convention to rewrite it to do that, and they don't have the numbers in Congress or among the states' governors right now. Some of my friends are scared of how close the US is right now to the Republicans getting either of those numbers. 2018 was progress in a better direction, but more remains to be done.

[archangelbeth]

*shudder* Yeah.