Fauxcard

It's a sad day when you get a postcard, ostensibly from the federal government, and you can't tell if it's really from the government or if it's a campaign mailing for the president, pretending it's from the government:


President Trump's coronavirus guidelines? What?


I decided after examining it, particularly the back, and the .gov URL on the front, that it probably is from the government rather than the Trump campaign, but it's still a close thing.

Would President Obama have sent out a card with a headline like this? I don't believe he would have. It just sounds wrong in my ears. I don't think the guidelines belong to the president: It's just not how we talk about things in this country.

This national and international pandemic is an extreme situation, and mailing a postcard in the first place is pretty extreme (and kind of silly, since it's in just English... have these folks seen the outreach pieces created by the cities and school systems of our country?). Turning it into something that doubles as a campaign piece in an election year is unacceptable.

It could have said important guidelines or national guidelines or CDC guidelines. Do they not know that more than half the country will do the opposite of anything that has Trump's name on it, or do they want to kill us through reverse psychology? (Kidding. Of course, we are not that stupid.)

Did you get one of these postcards? Were you happy to see your taxes at work this way?

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