Dear Chuck…

 

Ouch. This was hinted at in the April 2, 2020, Coronavirus Taskforce briefing, but I still was not prepared for this level of smackdown. It serves as forewarning to the leftist hacks like Adam Schiff that their continued dishonest partisan assaults, including their planned grand inquisition just before the election, will be returned with politically lethal force:

Warning: set down your beverage, safely away from your keyboard and screen! Now enjoy a “Letter from President Donald J. Trump to Senator Charles E. Schumer.”

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  1. She Member
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    Hartmann von Aue (View Comment):

    Full Size Tabby (View Comment):

    James Lileks (View Comment):

    Skyler (View Comment):
    It will make Trump’s base delighted, as it does me, but there is a significant part of our population who will believe it is proof that he’s planning to become a dictator.

    The same people who are furious he does not assume dictatorial powers.

    There are a lot of people who will never be dissuaded that we are in this position because The Who came to Trump in November and said this was bad, and he decided it was a hoax, because Republicans hate science. They are the same people who think the stimulus money was always sitting in a big Scrooge McDuck vault, which can be replenished daily by billionaires if need be.

    But . . . The Sen. Schumer statement to which the president was responding was Schumer coming very close to demanding that Trump institute a military dictatorship. People who previously said they were concerned that Trump was going to become a dictator are now demanding that he become a dictator.

    Schumer’s statement (according to Fox News):

    “While companies that volunteer to produce ventilators and personal protective equipment are to be commended and are appreciated, America cannot rely on a patchwork of uncoordinated voluntary efforts to combat the awful magnitude of this pandemic,” Schumer said. “It is long past the time for your administration to designate a senior military officer to fix this urgent problem.”

    It concerns me that a sitting United States Senator would call for military control of United States citizens.

    As well it should. Absent a real shooting war, this thought should not occur to any American, much less a senator.

    Yes. I can’t help remembering how unglued the Left (and some nominally on the Right) became at the presence of the “Generals” on Trumps staff and in his cabinet to start with.  But”the Generals” are gone.

    And apparently now, the Left wants them back?

     

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  2. Western Chauvinist Member
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    Jon1979 (View Comment):
    They really think a large part of the public is so stupid they can’t remember what the Democrats were saying or doing two months ago, and therefore they can flip their positions 180 degrees and get away with it.

    Well, it works with about half the voters, so I guess it’s worth a shot.

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  3. JamesSalerno Inactive
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    –President Trump drops mic–

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  4. philo Member
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    philo (View Comment): The best part: Chuck gets an official White House letter, Nancy gets ignored.

    More

    Pelosi barks…The little dogs bark but the caravan moves on.

    May history record the first woman Speaker as the annoying* little ankle biter she really is.  (* I would say irrelevant but she has soiled lots of carpets and written too many large checks.  In this context, quite an expensive little bitch.) Here’s to four more years of her being ignored by President Trump.

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  5. Metalheaddoc Member
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    Brutal.

    I love it.

    I watched for years as W took the high road to look dignified and Presidential. He never responded to the lies and slander. Eventually, those lies stuck to him because he never refuted them. Trump not only refutes, the dishes it right back at them, good and hard. The Dems are so used to being able to slam Repubs and have them shrink away to their fainting couches. Trump comes at them with fangs bared and unafraid of bloody knuckles.

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  6. aardo vozz Member
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    Full Size Tabby (View Comment):

    James Lileks (View Comment):

    Skyler (View Comment):
    It will make Trump’s base delighted, as it does me, but there is a significant part of our population who will believe it is proof that he’s planning to become a dictator.

    The same people who are furious he does not assume dictatorial powers.

    There are a lot of people who will never be dissuaded that we are in this position because The Who came to Trump in November and said this was bad, and he decided it was a hoax, because Republicans hate science. They are the same people who think the stimulus money was always sitting in a big Scrooge McDuck vault, which can be replenished daily by billionaires if need be.

    But . . . The Sen. Schumer statement to which the president was responding was Schumer coming very close to demanding that Trump institute a military dictatorship. People who previously said they were concerned that Trump was going to become a dictator are now demanding that he become a dictator.

    Schumer’s statement (according to Fox News):

    “While companies that volunteer to produce ventilators and personal protective equipment are to be commended and are appreciated, America cannot rely on a patchwork of uncoordinated voluntary efforts to combat the awful magnitude of this pandemic,” Schumer said. “It is long past the time for your administration to designate a senior military officer to fix this urgent problem.”

    It concerns me that a sitting United States Senator would call for military control of United States citizens.

    It concerns me as well.  Senator Schumer may not realize it , but he is talking himself ( as well as all other senators, all congresspersons, and possibly all judges) out of a job. Once the military takes over, what do they need the politicians for?

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  7. Suspira Member
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    Content aside, I’m dismayed to see the White House uses two spaces after a period. In this time of crisis, can’t we work together to stop this insanity?

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  8. Arthur Beare Member
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    Jon1979 (View Comment):

    . . . They really think a large part of the public is so stupid they can’t remember what the Democrats were saying or doing two months ago, and therefore they can flip their positions 180 degrees and get away with it.

    And they are absolutely right—about the cam’t remember part, not the stupid part. 

    Our political discourse has been one continual air raid siren for the past three years, and normal people have simply tuned most of it out. 

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  9. Annefy Member
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    I’ve been fielding some pretty obnoxious emails from UK relatives. I’ve been measured in my responses; simply suggesting that they watch the full white house briefing every day if they’re so worried about DT’s competency.

    After reading this beautiful letter to Chuck I am positively inspired. My next response is going to start with “Jane, you ignorant slut” and end with a polite suggestion that they move to a real country.

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  10. Skyler Coolidge
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    Suspira (View Comment):

    Content aside, I’m dismayed to see the White House uses two spaces after a period. In this time of crisis, can’t we work together to stop this insanity?

    No.  We must insist on the traditional two spaces.  Our society should not change critical standards and mores on a whim. 

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  11. CB Toder aka Mama Toad Member
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    Suspira (View Comment):

    Content aside, I’m dismayed to see the White House uses two spaces after a period. In this time of crisis, can’t we work together to stop this insanity?

    That’s so funny. My critical editor eye noticed the same thing… 

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  12. Taras Coolidge
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    Skyler (View Comment):

    Suspira (View Comment):

    Content aside, I’m dismayed to see the White House uses two spaces after a period. In this time of crisis, can’t we work together to stop this insanity?

    No. We must insist on the traditional two spaces. Our society should not change critical standards and mores on a whim.

    It helps us oldsters find the end of a sentence.  

    To us, a period and a comma are almost indistinguishable, so sentences tend to run together.

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  13. Clifford A. Brown Member
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    TBA (View Comment):

    Hartmann von Aue (View Comment):

    James Lileks (View Comment):

    Skyler (View Comment):
    It will make Trump’s base delighted, as it does me, but there is a significant part of our population who will believe it is proof that he’s planning to become a dictator.

    The same people who are furious he does not assume dictatorial powers.

     

    Yup. Do any of them have the self awareness to realize what a thorough contradiction there is in saying “My God, he’s an evil and horrible dictator because he want to enforce existing immigration law/defund Planned Parenthood/ stop flights from China” on Tuesday and then saying “My God, he’s not imposing enough restrictions on our freedom of speech/freedom of assembly/ freedom of movement” on Thursday? I doubt it. They seem all to be suffering the aftereffects of ideologically motivated self-inflicted lobotomies.

    Their attitude can be summed up as, “I don’t like this somebody fix it!” They don’t care how it gets done, they just want the scary thing gone, and corona virus is currently scarier than Trump.

    Perhaps so. I keep going back to wondering what they think will happen if they lose and President Trump is reelected. Demanding that he act as a dictator while possibly helping him remain president for four more years is incredibly shortsighted.

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  14. Suspira Member
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    Taras (View Comment):

    Skyler (View Comment):

    Suspira (View Comment):

    Content aside, I’m dismayed to see the White House uses two spaces after a period. In this time of crisis, can’t we work together to stop this insanity?

    No. We must insist on the traditional two spaces. Our society should not change critical standards and mores on a whim.

    It helps us oldsters find the end of a sentence.

    To us, a period and a comma are almost indistinguishable, so sentences tend to run together.

    I know this is a divisive issue, rather like those paper towels perforated to give a choice of a less-than-full-size towel. Some people are really provoked by them. I love them, as I hardly ever need the bigger size. Can’t we all get along?

    • #44
  15. Clifford A. Brown Member
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    Jon1979 (View Comment):

    Full Size Tabby (View Comment):
    It concerns me that a sitting United States Senator would call for military control of United States citizens.

    With the future corollary to that being that if Trump did what Schumer is demanding, by the fall election cycle, Democrats would be using the action as proof that Trump wants to be a dictator, in the same way someone like Joe Scarborough is now trying to say that ‘everyone’ knew that COVID-19 was a huge threat to American society in January, yet Trump did nothing, when he and others like him were freaking out in January about the limited things Trump did do, such as the air travel ban to and from China. They really think a large part of the public is so stupid they can’t remember what the Democrats were saying or doing two months ago, and therefore they can flip their positions 180 degrees and get away with it.

    (As for Adam Schiff, coronavirus has left him out of the media spotlight for two whole months now, and that’s got to be driving him up a wall — there’s no way he hasn’t been thinking, at least since early March, of ways to get himself back on the Sunday talk shows by holding COVID-19 impeachment hearings, with himself at the center of the proceedings. He really isn’t even worth a formal letter like Schumer was — Trump should just mock him and his lack of seriousness during the current situation in a series of tweets and leave it at that.)

    The president dismissed, and even baited the House Democrats in his remarks Thursday. If they waste time on another “witch hunt” it will just help his polls, he claimed, calling on them to unify in support of defeating the virus.

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  16. Skyler Coolidge
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    Suspira (View Comment):

    I know this is a divisive issue, rather like those paper towels perforated to give a choice of a less-than-full-size towel. Some people are really provoked by them. I love them, as I hardly ever need the bigger size. Can’t we all get along?

    I find that a half a sheet is worthless, but I almost always prefer one and a half.  

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  17. aardo vozz Member
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    Annefy (View Comment):

    I’ve been fielding some pretty obnoxious emails from UK relatives. I’ve been measured in my responses; simply suggesting that they watch the full white house briefing every day if they’re so worried about DT’s competency.

    After reading this beautiful letter to Chuck I am positively inspired. My next response is going to start with “Jane, you ignorant slut” and end with a polite suggestion that they move to a real country.

    Glad to see that you’ll be toning it down 😛

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  18. Taras Coolidge
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    Suspira (View Comment):

    Taras (View Comment):

    Skyler (View Comment):

    Suspira (View Comment):

    Content aside, I’m dismayed to see the White House uses two spaces after a period. In this time of crisis, can’t we work together to stop this insanity?

    No. We must insist on the traditional two spaces. Our society should not change critical standards and mores on a whim.

    It helps us oldsters find the end of a sentence.

    To us, a period and a comma are almost indistinguishable, so sentences tend to run together.

    I know this is a divisive issue, rather like those paper towels perforated to give a choice of a less-than-full-size towel. Some people are really provoked by them. I love them, as I hardly ever need the bigger size. Can’t we all get along?

    We could; except that Max L., no friend to the doddering, squeezes out what he, with the thoughtless arrogance of youth, calls “extra spaces”.

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  19. Annefy Member
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    aardo vozz (View Comment):

    Annefy (View Comment):

    I’ve been fielding some pretty obnoxious emails from UK relatives. I’ve been measured in my responses; simply suggesting that they watch the full white house briefing every day if they’re so worried about DT’s competency.

    After reading this beautiful letter to Chuck I am positively inspired. My next response is going to start with “Jane, you ignorant slut” and end with a polite suggestion that they move to a real country.

    Glad to see that you’ll be toning it down 😛

    My moderate tone has gotten me nowhere, except to invite even more negative communication. Since I find moderation so exhausting, I’m going to save my energy and go DT on them. 

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  20. Arthur Beare Member
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    Suspira (View Comment):

    Taras (View Comment):

    Skyler (View Comment):

    Suspira (View Comment):

    Content aside, I’m dismayed to see the White House uses two spaces after a period. In this time of crisis, can’t we work together to stop this insanity?

    I know this is a divisive issue, . . .  Can’t we all get along?

    Listen, lady, you’re the one who started this fight

     

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  21. TBA Coolidge
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    Jon1979 (View Comment):

    They really think a large part of the public is so stupid they can’t remember what the Democrats were saying or doing two months ago, and therefore they can flip their positions 180 degrees and get away with it.

    They are not wrong about this. 

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  22. RushBabe49 Thatcher
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    Annefy (View Comment):

    aardo vozz (View Comment):

    Annefy (View Comment):

    I’ve been fielding some pretty obnoxious emails from UK relatives. I’ve been measured in my responses; simply suggesting that they watch the full white house briefing every day if they’re so worried about DT’s competency.

    After reading this beautiful letter to Chuck I am positively inspired. My next response is going to start with “Jane, you ignorant slut” and end with a polite suggestion that they move to a real country.

    Glad to see that you’ll be toning it down 😛

    My moderate tone has gotten me nowhere, except to invite even more negative communication. Since I find moderation so exhausting, I’m going to save my energy and go DT on them.

    Yay, @annefy!  Welcome to the ranks of the Incendiary!

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  23. TBA Coolidge
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    Suspira (View Comment):

    Content aside, I’m dismayed to see the White House uses two spaces after a period. In this time of crisis, can’t we work together to stop this insanity?

    Flame War! 

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  24. philo Member
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    RushBabe49 (View Comment):

    Annefy (View Comment):

    aardo vozz (View Comment):

    Annefy (View Comment):

    I’ve been fielding some pretty obnoxious emails from UK relatives. I’ve been measured in my responses; simply suggesting that they watch the full white house briefing every day if they’re so worried about DT’s competency.

    After reading this beautiful letter to Chuck I am positively inspired. My next response is going to start with “Jane, you ignorant slut” and end with a polite suggestion that they move to a real country.

    Glad to see that you’ll be toning it down 😛

    My moderate tone has gotten me nowhere, except to invite even more negative communication. Since I find moderation so exhausting, I’m going to save my energy and go DT on them.

    Yay, @annefy! Welcome to the ranks of the Incendiary!

    But do be careful. Two week suspensions aren’t any fun.

    • #54
  25. TBA Coolidge
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    Skyler (View Comment):

    Suspira (View Comment):

    Content aside, I’m dismayed to see the White House uses two spaces after a period. In this time of crisis, can’t we work together to stop this insanity?

    No. We must insist on the traditional two spaces. Our society should not change critical standards and mores on a whim.

    To the contrary (you ignorant slut). Printing presses existed long before typewriters, and the kerning in non-fixed width computer fonts is designed to create printed book-quality spaces after periods with the typing of a single space. Two spaces is an artifact of the kind of soulless one-size-fits-all industrial revolution rise-of-authoritarianism fascist control-freak mono-spaced world that all right-thinking Americans should eschew. 

    Also, Ben Franklin. 

    :p

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  26. TBA Coolidge
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    CB Toder aka Mama Toad (View Comment):

    Suspira (View Comment):

    Content aside, I’m dismayed to see the White House uses two spaces after a period. In this time of crisis, can’t we work together to stop this insanity?

    That’s so funny. My critical editor eye noticed the same thing…

    It mighta been typed by a Marine. Them guys are Courier junkies to a man. 

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  27. TBA Coolidge
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    Clifford A. Brown (View Comment):

    TBA (View Comment):

    Hartmann von Aue (View Comment):

    James Lileks (View Comment):

    Skyler (View Comment):
    It will make Trump’s base delighted, as it does me, but there is a significant part of our population who will believe it is proof that he’s planning to become a dictator.

    The same people who are furious he does not assume dictatorial powers.

     

    Yup. Do any of them have the self awareness to realize what a thorough contradiction there is in saying “My God, he’s an evil and horrible dictator because he want to enforce existing immigration law/defund Planned Parenthood/ stop flights from China” on Tuesday and then saying “My God, he’s not imposing enough restrictions on our freedom of speech/freedom of assembly/ freedom of movement” on Thursday? I doubt it. They seem all to be suffering the aftereffects of ideologically motivated self-inflicted lobotomies.

    Their attitude can be summed up as, “I don’t like this somebody fix it!” They don’t care how it gets done, they just want the scary thing gone, and corona virus is currently scarier than Trump.

    Perhaps so. I keep going back to wondering what they think will happen if they lose and President Trump is reelected. Demanding that he act as a dictator while possibly helping him remain president for four more years is incredibly shortsighted.

    You calling liberals shortsighted? I cannot believe you would cast such a shocking aspersion in these incendiary times. 

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  28. TBA Coolidge
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    Skyler (View Comment):

    Suspira (View Comment):

    I know this is a divisive issue, rather like those paper towels perforated to give a choice of a less-than-full-size towel. Some people are really provoked by them. I love them, as I hardly ever need the bigger size. Can’t we all get along?

    I find that a half a sheet is worthless, but I almost always prefer one and a half.

    This country has binary perforitical parties and your attempt to start a spoiler third party in favor of wider-than-standard sheets can only result in a win by those radical half-sheetists who are figuratively tearing our nation in half. 

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  29. TBA Coolidge
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    RushBabe49 (View Comment):

    Annefy (View Comment):

    aardo vozz (View Comment):

    Annefy (View Comment):

    I’ve been fielding some pretty obnoxious emails from UK relatives. I’ve been measured in my responses; simply suggesting that they watch the full white house briefing every day if they’re so worried about DT’s competency.

    After reading this beautiful letter to Chuck I am positively inspired. My next response is going to start with “Jane, you ignorant slut” and end with a polite suggestion that they move to a real country.

    Glad to see that you’ll be toning it down 😛

    My moderate tone has gotten me nowhere, except to invite even more negative communication. Since I find moderation so exhausting, I’m going to save my energy and go DT on them.

    Yay, @annefy! Welcome to the ranks of the Incendiary!

    Don’t just stand there, pounce! 

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  30. Bryan G. Stephens Thatcher
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    Suspira (View Comment):

    Taras (View Comment):

    Skyler (View Comment):

    Suspira (View Comment):

    Content aside, I’m dismayed to see the White House uses two spaces after a period. In this time of crisis, can’t we work together to stop this insanity?

    No. We must insist on the traditional two spaces. Our society should not change critical standards and mores on a whim.

    It helps us oldsters find the end of a sentence.

    To us, a period and a comma are almost indistinguishable, so sentences tend to run together.

    I know this is a divisive issue, rather like those paper towels perforated to give a choice of a less-than-full-size towel. Some people are really provoked by them. I love them, as I hardly ever need the bigger size. Can’t we all get along?

    The software today takes care of it. I adapted. So can the White House.

    How, they can take the Oxford comma from my cold, dead, hands.

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