"President Donald Trump berated governors during a call on Monday, calling them 'weak' and demanding they 'dominate' protesters with force after another night of uprisings in American cities. The president told the leaders they 'have to get much tougher' because 'most of you are weak.' The president repeatedly questioned the leadership of the governors, and asked them 'dominate' and target protesters, and to make use of the National Guard." MEDIAite, Trump Berates Governors as ‘Fools’ and ‘Jerks’ "People who know nothing of God and whose lives are centered on themselves, imagine that they can only find themselves by asserting their own desires and ambitions and appetites in a struggle with the rest of the world. They try to become real by imposing themselves on other people, by appropriating for themselves some share of the limited supply of created goods and thus emphasizing the difference between themselves and the other men who have less than they, or nothing at all." Thomas Merton "Everyone knows that plagues have a way of recurring throughout history, yet somehow we find it hard to believe in the ones that crash down on us out of the sky. There have always been plagues and wars, yet they always take us by surprise. When war breaks out people say it's stupid and won't last long. Stupidity has a knack of getting in the way, which we would see if not wrapped up in ourselves. In this our townsfolk were like everybody else— they did not believe in plagues." Albert Camus, The Plague
