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Hey there! Congratulations on surviving! Living through another week in an America under siege from both the coronavirus and Donald Trumps boneheaded, homicidal, mismanagement is like fire-walking across the mouth of an erupting volcano while ogres throw hammers and badgers at you. So, nice job! Lets do the news, badger-dodgers!
(And yeah, if you want the post WITH those nifty news links, click over to: http://showercapblog.com/still-no-covid-19-but-i-do-have-one-nasty-case-of-the-mondays/)
Most of us are pretty unhappy with this whole COVID-19 thing, but to the can-we-please-start-wearing-the-armbands-in-public-now wannabe autocrats of the Wisconsin state GOP, its their wettest dream come true. Why, voter suppression is easy when youve got a global pandemic lending a helping hand! Robin Vos and his gang of anti-democratic thugs have gone to court to demand Tuesdays election take place in the midst of the outbreak, with no extended voting by mail. Oh, and because they want to have their cake and eat it too and also have your cake and your neighbors cake and honestly all the cake plus most of the pie and even your grandmas cornbread muffins that she made specially for you during the quarantine, theyve worked out a nifty little trick where they insist on in-person voting, but use public safety as an excuse to reduce the number of polling places in Dem stronghold Milwaukee from 180...to FIVE. Theres a state Supreme Court seat at stake, ysee, and opportunities to mass-disenfranchise all those, ahem, urban voters dont come along just every day.
...if you havent yet picked up on the fact that Republicans care more about their power than your life, I suggest you re-take Common Fucking Sense 101, or at the very least pull your head out of your ass.
Once again, weve been so caught up in the Tangelo-Tinted Taint Tumors deadly incompetence that he managed to sneak up on us with his power-crazed authoritarianism, firing intelligence community inspector general Michael K. Atkinson late Friday night, hoping nobody would notice. Seems Shitface McFulldiaper lost confidence in the dude who passed the whistleblower report on his Ukrainian extortion conspiracy to Congress, imagine that. Hindsight is 20/20 and all, but whoever drafted the law granting the crook the right to fire the cops investigating him really shoulda gone over that shit one more time.
And the stoogification of the federal government proceeded on other fronts as well, with Fat Q*Bert choosing one of his very own Shart House lawyers to oversee the $500 billion corporate bailout from the stimulus bill, I guess because Michael Cohen couldnt work it into his busy schedule as assistant shift manager in the prison laundromat. Id say Donnie Dotard is multi-tasking in assaulting the pillars of American democracy while dealing with a massive public health crisis, only he really isnt doing that second one, is he?
Word is, the propaganda-belching ghouls at Fux Nooz are worried theyre about to get sued into oblivion, on account of how this time, their malicious misinformation has an extremely perceptible body count. Im not gonna get my hopes up, but I will permit myself a stray fantasy here and there, of the vampiric Murdoch clan, forced into labor to pay off their debts, ideally by serving as janitorial staff in hospitals overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients. Sans PPE, of course.
And the Manchurian Manchild keeps on recklessly pimping hydroxychloroquine as a miracle drug, because after a lifetime of throwing Daddys money at every problem hes ever faced, the doddering old poosquirt is simply incapable of processing the fact that a pandemic isnt going to magically disappear just because he misses golfing. What have you got to lose? he bellows, because he hasnt bothered to learn that potential side effects include death, and wouldnt care if he knew. I guess at this point, hes either gonna get away with killing tens of thousands of us or not, so whats another pile of corpses more or less, right?
Shit, even Rudy Giuliani has emerged from whatever pit rotten-mouthed cousin-fuckers quarantine in to hock this crap. Meanwhile, our beloved Dr. Fauci has to fend off a perpetually-beclowned turdwaffle like Peter Remember the trade war, aka the multi-billion-dollar crotch-punt to the economy? That was me! Navarro in the fight over, once again, encouraging people to ingest a totally untested drug, maybe theyll die but maybe theyll get superpowers, did you ever think of that, Anthony? I mean, on the one hand, you have the expert opinion of the nations leading authority on infectious diseases, backed up by basically the entire medical profession, but on the other, youve got a well-known twit whos done nothing but fail in his chosen field, irresponsibly speculating on life-or-death issues he knows not one fucking thing about, insisting hes right because he really, really, really, really, wants to be. Ah, but which one is telling Hairplug Himmler what he wants to hear?
So, as bad as shit has been, were told its this week when shit is gonna get really bad. In the calm before the storm, a number of articles were published over the weekend documenting the Fucking Hell How Did it Come to This Administrations cavalcade of fatal fuckups, a tragic litany of mistakes currently being translated into a heartbreaking butchers bill. Naturally, theyre pouring much more energy into covering up their blunders than correcting them, but dont let these rat bastards rewrite history; remember what they did. And what they didnt do.
Anyone wondering how the old saying, no good deed goes unpunished came into being should bring a care package to Captain Brett Crozier, since hes sitting in quarantine with COVID-19 after getting fired for trying to save his sailors lives, for which the Trump lackey Acting Navy Secretary lambasted him as stupid. Crozier should take lessons on leadership from the pros, yknow? You dont fight a pandemic, you sweep it under the rug! You dont take steps to save the lives in your charge, you deny theres any problem at all, and congratulate yourself on your splendiferousness! They dont give Nobel prizes out for saving lives, yknow!
...wait.
While the lamestream media bashes him for his criminal, murderous, blundering, the truth is, Pumpkin Spice Pol Pot has actually set things up perfectly to optimize success...assuming youre a profiteer sitting on a fat pile of N95 masks or ventilators. Everybody else is pretty well fucked, though. Its not enough that hes abdicated all responsibility to coordinate efforts at the federal level, essentially tossing all 50 states into the gladiatorial arena to fight it out, no, sometimes the feds even swoop in to outbid an individual state after a deal has been struck, no doubt earmarking the entire shipment for the massive bailout Shart-Sharts boy, Ron DeSantis, is gonna need after turning Florida into a corona playground.
I see Boris Lookit me, Im rubbing coronavirus all over my dipshit body Johnson has been hospitalized due to coronavirus symptoms. Ill try to find some sympathy for you, Boris, but Im afraid youll have to get in line behind all the people you got killed with your idiotic herd immunity plan. Johnson went into the ICU as I was writing this, yet remains firmly at the back of my sympathy line.
So I guess were passing COVID-19 on to tigers in zoos now? Holy shitballs, humanity cant do one fucking thing right. Like, the fallback plan here was to die out and leave the world to the cats, right? Leave the Constitution, along with some recently developed suggested edits, in a case with a bunch of catnip mousies, so they can give democracy another try, once theyve evolved enough to read n have debates about governance n shit?
Hey look, it seems Georgia has not one, but TWO grifting scumfuck Senators, as David Perdue joined Kelly Loeffler in using his privileged access to the U.S. governments coronavirus intelligence to line his own pockets while doing not one single fucking thing to prepare his constituents for what was coming. Both of these conniving dirtbags are up for re-election this November, so Georgia, you might want to, I dunno, vote for someone who actually gives a fuck whether you live or die. Just a thought.
And President Overused Rectal Thermometer keeps on staging his Daily Propaganda Spew, gambling that theres electoral benefit in tens of millions worth of earned media featuring a demented idiot lying and passing the buck and whining and whining and whining and whining. Also, whining. Dunno what to tell you folks, if you look at this sad, broken, overmatched, old fool and see a president, well, I imagine your life is liberally littered with other fruits of your judgment.
Little light tonight, but Im booked up all day tomorrow with thrilling quarantine activities (the wallpaper in the living room has started to peel, and I dont want to miss anything good), so I wanted to catch yall up real quick. Stay safe. Stay inside. Wash your damn hands.
PS - Oh, now the Roberts Court upheld the Wisco voter suppression plot? Cool. If anybody needs me, Ill be projectile vomiting. In a socially distant way, of course. Goddammit.
Cha
(296,840 posts)dhill926
(16,314 posts)welcome back my friends, to the shitshow that never ends...
underpants
(182,603 posts)....maybe they'll get superpowers, did you ever think of that, Anthony?
Also, whining.
brer cat
(24,523 posts)flying rabbit
(4,628 posts)greatauntoftriplets
(175,729 posts)A perfect ending to another Monday in isolation. I can't muster up much sympathy for Johnson either, so thanks for saying it.
tblue37
(65,226 posts)Gothmog
(144,919 posts)Mc Mike
(9,111 posts)crotch-punt to the economy? That was me! Navarro
gambling that theres electoral benefit in tens of millions worth of earned media featuring a demented idiot lying and passing the buck and whining and whining and whining and whining. Also, whining.
babydollhead
(2,231 posts)2naSalit
(86,323 posts)sab390
(180 posts)I always read them anyway. But now, with shit all to do, it was good to have a short break with a long read. I hope you don't type this on your phone like I do. But I still say Shart Garfunkel is out of line because it's a real name. The rest of the names are classic. When I become ruler of the world I'll hire you as speech writer.
murielm99
(30,717 posts)littlemissmartypants
(22,569 posts)Kaiserguy
(740 posts)like always reading what you write bring a smile to my face and a song to my heart.