'Toontime: 24/7 ME

credit: Dave Whamond

For a sociopathic narcissist such as the one occupying the Very White House, nothing is better than a pandemic crisis for increased media exposure--a built in nationwide platform to repeat your latest grievances, quack remedies*, conspiracy theories, psycho-drama, and nauseous self-aggrandizement.  At least MSNBC had the sense to cut away from his non-stop maunder to debunk the wonders of zinc against COVID-19! At this point in the regime the CMM is simply enabling the dysfunctional governance of a disordered chief executive.  Current US death rate from SARS-CoV-2: 3.6% (John Hopkins)

I alone can fix this....

* From the shur'nuff department comes this NYT report: "Mr. Trump himself has a small personal financial interest in Sanofi, the French drug maker that makes Plaquenil, the brand-name version of hydroxychloroquine....The professional organization that published a positive French study cited by Mr. Trump’s allies changed its mind in recent days. The International Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy said, “The article does not meet the society’s expected standard.” Some hospitals in Sweden stopped providing hydroxychloroquine to treat the coronavirus after reports of adverse side effects, according to Swedish news media Dr. Voodoo's latest pitch: Zinc. The mineral was last touted as a cure for the common cold.  NOT!

What is, comes to US from Salon: the top corporate manufacturer of hydroxychloroquine, Novartis, spent about a year funneling $100,000 per month into “a reputed slush fund for Trump” managed by his personal lawyer Michael Cohen. That arrangement delivered $1 million worth of slush.  Another fan-boy of Trumpillini and co-f0under of Amneal Pharmaceuticals plays golf with the current occupant.  Bottom line: It's all about graft, all the time!  The supposed business empire he built that so impressed dollar addled 'Merican voters trained like Pavlovian dogs to salivate at the appearance of money was mostly over-hyped shlock that crumbled into bankruptcy in 1992. Almost everything he touched from the Plaza Hotel to Trump University lost money. Only the fact that the banks (Citibank at the front of the line) were into him for so much money--$3 billion of which $900 million was personally guaranteed--did he survive to prey on the public coffers. The banks could have easily called Trump’s loans and left him penniless, and therefore not a legit presidential contender, “but we all agreed that he’d be better alive than dead,” explained Alan Pomerantz, then head of the real estate department at Weil, Gotshal & Manges, the law firm that represented Citibank. The only 'fake news' nowadays is Donald Trump.