DYING FOR DOLLARS
Some of you may remember a long-running (1950s to early 1990s) TV program called DIALING FOR DOLLARS in which the host (after announcing the password(s) at the start of the show) randomly picked a phone number to call. If the person being called gave the password, he or she would win prize money; an incorrect answer would increase the prize money for the next call, and so on. Here’s SCTV’s take on the program:
Nowadays, it seems there’s a new game on TV: a daily game in which the host is President/Scientific Genius Donald Trump, the password is nominally COVID-19, and the payoff is whatever he says it is in order to re-start the economy at any price — ranging from billions of dollars for big business and big banks, to ingesting disease-killing disinfectants. Regarding the latter, you may be tempted to say, “You first, Mr. President.” Too late! The next day, he said he was just kidding and didn’t mean it. Hahahahahahaha.
It’s Not Fake News: Trump Did Actually Suggest That Injecting Bleach Could Be a Cure for COVID-19
Sorry, Mr. Desperate President, the joke is on you, because you’re sicker than the sickest Covid-19 patient, and there’s no cure for your virulent virus except the resounding defeat you must suffer on Nov. 3.
The Observation Post 
linnetmoss 3:38 pm on April 26, 2020 Permalink |
Yes, he can’t leave soon enough. Every time I think he can’t get any more idiotic, he proves me wrong.
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mistermuse 5:14 pm on April 26, 2020 Permalink |
These next six months until the election are going to seem like six years. I shudder to think of the additional harm he could do to this country in six weeks, much less six months. .
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linnetmoss 7:27 am on April 27, 2020 Permalink
Yes, I would rather have the dumbest of my four cats in the White House. At least she would stay off Twitter and take lots of naps.
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mistermuse 8:22 am on April 27, 2020 Permalink
Trump probably thinks catnaps are what cats take when they’re so full of themselves, they can’t think of anything else — like him.
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pendantry 3:54 pm on April 26, 2020 Permalink |
Oh, I wish. That guy needs to leave the White House to someone who isn’t a total idiot….
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mistermuse 5:18 pm on April 26, 2020 Permalink |
I only wish being an “idiot” were the worst of his vices.
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Roadtirement 4:23 pm on April 26, 2020 Permalink |
Too bad narcissism and idiocy is not grounds for removal from office.
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mistermuse 5:27 pm on April 26, 2020 Permalink |
They would be, if the GOP didn’t control the Senate. Unfortunately, it looks like it’s going to be harder (but not beyond the realm of possibility) for the Dems to win the Senate than to win the Presidency.
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annieasksyou 4:38 pm on April 26, 2020 Permalink |
Yep. “Dying for Dollars” sums things up quite well. So scary and sick it completely shut down my pun and rhyme neural pathways.
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mistermuse 5:38 pm on April 26, 2020 Permalink |
Likewise, Annie. Trump and his sycophants have no shame, so puns about him/them seem a waste of time (and rhyme).
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annieasksyou 5:51 pm on April 26, 2020 Permalink
I’m tempted, but I’ll restrain myself.
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obbverse 6:01 pm on April 26, 2020 Permalink |
He would look so professional in a Haz/mat suit, full gas mask and communication device shorted out. That’s your president right there, ladies and germs! The personification of a dumbed-down bad joke.
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mistermuse 6:14 pm on April 26, 2020 Permalink |
He is indeed, but now many of us are crying instead of laughing.
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arekhill1 6:03 pm on April 26, 2020 Permalink |
What’s it like never to have cleaned anything in your life? Because that’s what Agent Orange just revealed about himself.
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mistermuse 6:18 pm on April 26, 2020 Permalink |
That’s not hard to believe….but it will be a lot harder (if not almost impossible) for the next President to clean up the mess he leaves behind.
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Rivergirl 6:32 pm on April 26, 2020 Permalink |
I was watching that briefing live and he most certainly was not joking. It angers me beyond words that the doctors wouldn’t stand up to him that day. Birx went on Fox the next day and defended him. WTH!
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mistermuse 6:43 pm on April 26, 2020 Permalink |
Here’s another Republican who thinks some people should kick the bucket for the good of the economy. Talk about DYING FOR DOLLARS!
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/03/dan-patrick-coronavirus-grandparents
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Rivergirl 7:58 pm on April 26, 2020 Permalink
I can’t even…
😡
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Yeah, Another Blogger 6:58 pm on April 26, 2020 Permalink |
Trump’s the worst. He’s a dangerous jerk.
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calmkate 7:27 pm on April 26, 2020 Permalink |
if you guys don’t do the right thing on Nov 3rd we may ask one of his mates to nuke you!
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mistermuse 10:06 pm on April 26, 2020 Permalink |
The very thought of four more years of Trump is almost enough to make me think we’d deserve it, Kate.
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calmkate 11:03 pm on April 26, 2020 Permalink
sadly allowing such a moron to ruin your country we should have done it a while ago … saved you the humiliation!
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masercot 6:47 am on April 27, 2020 Permalink |
My worry is, through his mismanagement, Trump will end up declaring a national emergency and cancelling elections.
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mistermuse 8:25 am on April 27, 2020 Permalink |
I wouldn’t put it past him. Then the question becomes, can he get away with it?
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masercot 8:56 am on April 27, 2020 Permalink
He’s gotten away with a lot that I never thought he would.
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mistermuse 11:17 am on April 27, 2020 Permalink
Absolutely. If there were any justice in the world, he’d be in prison right now instead of in the White House.
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Elizabeth 4:32 pm on April 27, 2020 Permalink |
No words for him today. How anyone could believe him pains me, but people do and are drinking bleach.
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mistermuse 4:58 pm on April 27, 2020 Permalink |
It’s a prime example of cult-like behavior — in this case, the Cult of Trump. Some people never learn. Very sad.
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Elizabeth 7:37 pm on April 27, 2020 Permalink
But the consequences this time are pretty dire.
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America On Coffee 5:09 pm on April 28, 2020 Permalink |
Dying for dollars is the reality show today and at any cost.🤕
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mistermuse 8:08 pm on April 28, 2020 Permalink |
I heard on the news this evening that VP Mike Pence visited the Mayo Clinic and was the only one there not wearing a mask. He excused himself by saying he’s been tested multiple times for the Coronavirus, and all tests were negative. In other words, privileged people like Pence can get tested whenever they want, while most ordinary people can’t even get tested once. So, if they die, apparently that’s the cost of not being rich and powerful.
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America On Coffee 8:22 pm on April 28, 2020 Permalink
Obviously there are democratic and republican elites. 🤕
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