The President is Making His Run at Dictator for Life

Trump aide Michael Caputo on the coming civil war: 

“If you carry guns, buy ammunition, ladies and gentlemen, 

because it’s going to be hard to get”

The president is ratcheting up the intensity of his divisive lies and irrational fear mongering on multiple fronts. The New York Times reports on crackpot conspiracies and continuing science denials from our lying president and his mendacious aides. One article focuses on crackpot COVID and armed insurrection conspiracies that are not supported by any evidence:

“The top communications official at the powerful cabinet department in charge of combating the coronavirus made outlandish and false accusations on Sunday that career government scientists were engaging in “sedition” in their handling of the pandemic and that left-wing hit squads were preparing for armed insurrection after the election.

Michael R. Caputo, the assistant secretary of public affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services, accused the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of harboring a “resistance unit” determined to undermine President Trump, even if that opposition bolsters the Covid-19 death toll.

Mr. Caputo, who has faced intense criticism for leading efforts to warp C.D.C. weekly bulletins to fit Mr. Trump’s pandemic narrative, suggested that he personally could be in danger from opponents of the administration. ‘If you carry guns, buy ammunition, ladies and gentlemen, because it’s going to be hard to get,’ he urged his followers.

To a certain extent, Mr. Caputo’s comments in a video he hosted live on his personal Facebook page were simply an amplified version of remarks that the president himself has made. Both men have singled out government scientists and health officials as disloyal, suggested that the election will not be fairly decided, and insinuated that left-wing groups are secretly plotting to incite violence across the United States.”

So, when the president defends his lethal COVID-19 lies to the public in the name of not wanting to panic anyone, just consider how hard he tries to instill fear of a non-existent left wing insurrection. The pandemic is very real and deadly but we should not be worried about it, while we should be terrified on a completely fake left wing insurrection.

In another article on climate change, the NYT reports the president calling Biden a climate arsonist, whatever that is. This is more of the president’s mendacity in service to his run at dictator-for-life position. He wants to terrify people about environmental regulations that Biden advocates, while denying settled climate science showing there are things to actually worry about, e.g., massive wildfires.

“With wildfires raging across the West, climate change took center stage in the race for the White House on Monday as former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. called President Trump a “climate arsonist” while the president said that “I don’t think science knows” what is actually happening.

A day of dueling appearances laid out the stark differences between the two candidates, an incumbent president who has long scorned climate change as a hoax and rolled back environmental regulations and a challenger who has called for an aggressive campaign to curb the greenhouse gases blamed for increasingly extreme weather.

Mr. Trump flew to California after weeks of public silence about the flames that have forced hundreds of thousands of people from their homes, wiped out communities and forests, burned millions of acres, shrouded the region in smoke and left at least 27 people dead. But even when confronted by California’s governor and other state officials, the president insisted on attributing the crisis solely to poor forest management, not climate change.

As soon as the president disembarked from the plane at Sacramento McClellan Airport, where the stench of smoke filled the air, he did not wait for his scheduled briefing to tell reporters that the cause of the conflagration was poor forest management, not climate change.”

At this point, it is worth noting that in the years when the president has been in office, 2017, 2018 and 2019, most of the area burned in wildfires was on federal land, as shown below (source here). That makes the president the single most culpable person for the alleged failure to manage forests and the massive fires. States, local authorities and private owners are not responsible for managing wild lands the federal government controls.

Regarding the situation in California, another source comments: “But the Democratic governor also pointed out that 57% of California's 33 million acres of forest is owned by the federal government. About 40% is privately owned, and just 3% is owned by the state.”

In view of the facts, the president has clearly failed to properly manage the forest lands he is responsible for properly maintaining. He doesn’t even want to help California with fire fighting costs and manpower because he blames the state for the fires that are burning on lands entrusted to him.