Podcast: "I Feel Snitty"
Episode 49: NObamaGate
Premiere Date: 5/15/20
Length: 8:40 (1,240 words)
Link: https://ifeelsnitty.podbean.com/e/nobamagate/
Transcript:
Welcome to I Feel Snitty, episode 49, entitled, “NObamaGate.” I’m your host, Craig Rozniecki.
With 85,000 Americans now dead via Coronavirus, no real plan by Donald Trump to effectively transition the country to reopening without placing additional lives at risk, and his approval numbers dropping as a result, Trump did what he always seems to do – tweet about Obama.
According to Trump, everything, and I mean everything that has gone wrong during his 3+ years in office has been Barack Obama’s fault – in particular the Russia investigation and Coronavirus response. He’s referred to it as Obamagate.
Okay, first off, Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election. This is knowledge now as common as gravity. It’s a fact. It can’t be disputed. That’s the main issue with regard to the Mueller probe. Bob Mueller, a Republican, investigated the then alleged Russia meddling in the 2016 presidential election. During this probe, not only was it determined that Russia did in fact meddle in said election, Trump himself was found to have obstructed justice on at least ten occasions during the investigative process, and it couldn’t be determined one way or another whether he conspired with Russia to impact the election results. That’s it. That’s the ballgame. Now Trump could try to attack this from two angles – both of which are almost equally as ridiculous.
First, he could say, “Obama was behind the supposed meddling all along, so he could delegitimize my presidency.”
Of course this is nonsensical, for this would mean that Barack Obama would have been rooting for Donald Trump to defeat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election, and in essence, supporting a man bent on destroying his legacy. Also, since Trump won, does he really care how he won, so long as the public thinks his victory was legitimate? I highly doubt it.
The second angle would be, “After I was elected, O’Bummer wanted to make my life a living hell by doing all he could to ruin my destined-to-be-perfect presidency.”
Even if this were true, and it’s not mind you, what Trump misses is the fact this was all preempted by Russia’s meddling in the election. If Obama didn’t help Russia meddle in the election, but Russia did in fact meddle in it, then nothing which succeeds this event can replace the fact that Russia meddled in the election.
So what Trump is saying here is basically that the criminal act itself, of Russia meddling in our long-cherished democratic process, is of no importance. What is of import is how this crime got leaked, which made him look bad in the process.
It’s really quite striking how differently the two parties have behaved in wake of the Mueller probe and its findings. If this were Ted Bundy, here’s how I’d imagine the two parties responding:
Democrats: “It’s now confirmed Bundy killed all those people?!? Yikes! Well, yeah, he should be punished – life in prison without parole!”
Republicans: “Hey, hey, hey, wait just a minute now. Forget about Bundy. Who turned on him? Whoever it was, give them the firing squad at once! Capisce?!?”
When it comes to Coronavirus, the Obama administration left Trump and company with a pandemic response team and a 69-page set of guidelines to help during such a crisis. Guess how Trump responded to these aids from the previous administration? He let go of the members of the pandemic response team and essentially burned the 69-page document in the fiery pits of hell.
Trump likes to go after the Obama administration for their response to the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. It’s true that the Obama administration received mixed reviews for their H1N1 response, yet just 12,469 Americans died of H1N1 over the course of a year, while over 85,000 have died via COVID-19 in the span of a couple of months. It’s now all but certain we’ll eclipse 100,000 Coronavirus-related deaths in this country, so Trump may want to pretend this talking point of his never existed.
Let’s back up and think about this for a moment here. When Obama was in office, Trump loudly declared that all of the positive numbers generated during his 8 years as president were fake. This was especially true of the unemployment numbers. Trump tweeted ad nauseum that the reported unemployment rate under Obama wasn’t anywhere close to the actual number. Yet, somehow, perhaps by way of a miracle, that same unemployment number, which was fake under Obama, rang true under Trump. Those job-growth numbers, which had been consistent since Obama helped the country rebound from the greatest recession since the Great Depression, were all the result of a Trump presidency. The same held true of the stock markets. According to Donald Trump, as soon as he stepped into office, all of the accomplishments of his predecessor were now his own. Yet now, over three years into his first and hopefully last term, Trump now blames Coronavirus on Obama. Unless he has access to a time-traveling flying DeLorean, chronology doesn’t work like that. For three years, Trump can’t say, “Everything that happens is a result of my wisdom and bigly tremendous deeds,” and when something goes wrong, then declare, “Oh, but yeah, I had nothing to do with this.” Time and reality don’t work like that.
In conclusion, it’d be highly more apt to call ObamaGate DenialGate, CoverUpGate, or ScaredShitlessAboutNovember3rdGate.
For my From Snark to Finish segment this week, I will predict how Trump would blame Obama in the following situations:
Event: A line of F5 tornadoes in the Midwest
Trump: “None of these twister things would have happened if Obama had built a big, beautiful wall around Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma like I did around the horrible country of New Mexico. If Obama had done that, we would have gotten rid of the horrible winds, weather, and Helen Hunt movies, bigly.”
Event: A mass shooting at a circus
Trump: “It’s very sad what happened to all those clowns yesterday. Very, very sad. A couple of very dear friends of mine work there. Seriously, folks. I know clowns. I have the best clowns; believe me. Anyway, this only happened because President Obama failed to pass a gun law which automatically gave semi-automatic weapons to clowns. Remember, kids, the only way to stop a bad clown with a gun is a good clown with a gun. Don’t ever forget that.”
Event: He loses the 2020 election
Trump: “There can be only one way to explain this – Obama hacked all the voting machines, with the help of the president of Nambia – who’s a big fan, the biggest fan of Obama, believe me. On these voting machines, Obama and the Klingons, or whatever, made the only two options Sleepy Joe Biden and Henry the Vee, with three 1s. So of course Sleepy Joe won. This was all President Obama doing what black people always do to the whites – steal things that rightly belong to them – this time an election, and that just can’t happen, folks. It just can’t happen. Hey, Russia, if you’re listening, change the results like you did last time. Gracias. That’s how you say thank you in Russian, isn’t it? Gracias? Grace-ee-us? Grassy-ass? Anyway, thank you in Russian.”
That’s it for today’s episode. I’ll see you again next week. Until then, you can check me out on Podbean, Twitter, Amazon, and Blogger. This has been I Feel Snitty with Craig Rozniecki. Take care.
Episode 49: NObamaGate
Premiere Date: 5/15/20
Length: 8:40 (1,240 words)
Link: https://ifeelsnitty.podbean.com/e/nobamagate/
Transcript:
Welcome to I Feel Snitty, episode 49, entitled, “NObamaGate.” I’m your host, Craig Rozniecki.
With 85,000 Americans now dead via Coronavirus, no real plan by Donald Trump to effectively transition the country to reopening without placing additional lives at risk, and his approval numbers dropping as a result, Trump did what he always seems to do – tweet about Obama.
According to Trump, everything, and I mean everything that has gone wrong during his 3+ years in office has been Barack Obama’s fault – in particular the Russia investigation and Coronavirus response. He’s referred to it as Obamagate.
Okay, first off, Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election. This is knowledge now as common as gravity. It’s a fact. It can’t be disputed. That’s the main issue with regard to the Mueller probe. Bob Mueller, a Republican, investigated the then alleged Russia meddling in the 2016 presidential election. During this probe, not only was it determined that Russia did in fact meddle in said election, Trump himself was found to have obstructed justice on at least ten occasions during the investigative process, and it couldn’t be determined one way or another whether he conspired with Russia to impact the election results. That’s it. That’s the ballgame. Now Trump could try to attack this from two angles – both of which are almost equally as ridiculous.
First, he could say, “Obama was behind the supposed meddling all along, so he could delegitimize my presidency.”
Of course this is nonsensical, for this would mean that Barack Obama would have been rooting for Donald Trump to defeat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election, and in essence, supporting a man bent on destroying his legacy. Also, since Trump won, does he really care how he won, so long as the public thinks his victory was legitimate? I highly doubt it.
The second angle would be, “After I was elected, O’Bummer wanted to make my life a living hell by doing all he could to ruin my destined-to-be-perfect presidency.”
Even if this were true, and it’s not mind you, what Trump misses is the fact this was all preempted by Russia’s meddling in the election. If Obama didn’t help Russia meddle in the election, but Russia did in fact meddle in it, then nothing which succeeds this event can replace the fact that Russia meddled in the election.
So what Trump is saying here is basically that the criminal act itself, of Russia meddling in our long-cherished democratic process, is of no importance. What is of import is how this crime got leaked, which made him look bad in the process.
It’s really quite striking how differently the two parties have behaved in wake of the Mueller probe and its findings. If this were Ted Bundy, here’s how I’d imagine the two parties responding:
Democrats: “It’s now confirmed Bundy killed all those people?!? Yikes! Well, yeah, he should be punished – life in prison without parole!”
Republicans: “Hey, hey, hey, wait just a minute now. Forget about Bundy. Who turned on him? Whoever it was, give them the firing squad at once! Capisce?!?”
When it comes to Coronavirus, the Obama administration left Trump and company with a pandemic response team and a 69-page set of guidelines to help during such a crisis. Guess how Trump responded to these aids from the previous administration? He let go of the members of the pandemic response team and essentially burned the 69-page document in the fiery pits of hell.
Trump likes to go after the Obama administration for their response to the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. It’s true that the Obama administration received mixed reviews for their H1N1 response, yet just 12,469 Americans died of H1N1 over the course of a year, while over 85,000 have died via COVID-19 in the span of a couple of months. It’s now all but certain we’ll eclipse 100,000 Coronavirus-related deaths in this country, so Trump may want to pretend this talking point of his never existed.
Let’s back up and think about this for a moment here. When Obama was in office, Trump loudly declared that all of the positive numbers generated during his 8 years as president were fake. This was especially true of the unemployment numbers. Trump tweeted ad nauseum that the reported unemployment rate under Obama wasn’t anywhere close to the actual number. Yet, somehow, perhaps by way of a miracle, that same unemployment number, which was fake under Obama, rang true under Trump. Those job-growth numbers, which had been consistent since Obama helped the country rebound from the greatest recession since the Great Depression, were all the result of a Trump presidency. The same held true of the stock markets. According to Donald Trump, as soon as he stepped into office, all of the accomplishments of his predecessor were now his own. Yet now, over three years into his first and hopefully last term, Trump now blames Coronavirus on Obama. Unless he has access to a time-traveling flying DeLorean, chronology doesn’t work like that. For three years, Trump can’t say, “Everything that happens is a result of my wisdom and bigly tremendous deeds,” and when something goes wrong, then declare, “Oh, but yeah, I had nothing to do with this.” Time and reality don’t work like that.
In conclusion, it’d be highly more apt to call ObamaGate DenialGate, CoverUpGate, or ScaredShitlessAboutNovember3rdGate.
For my From Snark to Finish segment this week, I will predict how Trump would blame Obama in the following situations:
Event: A line of F5 tornadoes in the Midwest
Trump: “None of these twister things would have happened if Obama had built a big, beautiful wall around Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma like I did around the horrible country of New Mexico. If Obama had done that, we would have gotten rid of the horrible winds, weather, and Helen Hunt movies, bigly.”
Event: A mass shooting at a circus
Trump: “It’s very sad what happened to all those clowns yesterday. Very, very sad. A couple of very dear friends of mine work there. Seriously, folks. I know clowns. I have the best clowns; believe me. Anyway, this only happened because President Obama failed to pass a gun law which automatically gave semi-automatic weapons to clowns. Remember, kids, the only way to stop a bad clown with a gun is a good clown with a gun. Don’t ever forget that.”
Event: He loses the 2020 election
Trump: “There can be only one way to explain this – Obama hacked all the voting machines, with the help of the president of Nambia – who’s a big fan, the biggest fan of Obama, believe me. On these voting machines, Obama and the Klingons, or whatever, made the only two options Sleepy Joe Biden and Henry the Vee, with three 1s. So of course Sleepy Joe won. This was all President Obama doing what black people always do to the whites – steal things that rightly belong to them – this time an election, and that just can’t happen, folks. It just can’t happen. Hey, Russia, if you’re listening, change the results like you did last time. Gracias. That’s how you say thank you in Russian, isn’t it? Gracias? Grace-ee-us? Grassy-ass? Anyway, thank you in Russian.”
That’s it for today’s episode. I’ll see you again next week. Until then, you can check me out on Podbean, Twitter, Amazon, and Blogger. This has been I Feel Snitty with Craig Rozniecki. Take care.
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